Bill!,
You might not be among the fortunate who lived 2500 years ago, when literacy
was the exception.
The skilful ways of the ancestors might be hard for an English-Major to
comprehend!
Breadth-Requirements might have had a chance of filling you in on the facts.
No? All but forgotten?
I see no reason to disparage the roots of the Zen (Buddhist) tradition.
Remember, too, that the Indian way of teacher was / is extremely detailed,
precise, and dependent on memorization and personal assimilation. That was the
tradition, and so it continues (there)!
Mr. Suresh may correct me if I'm a century awry.
--Joe
> "Bill!" <BillSmart@...> wrote:
>
> Edgar,
>
> I agree 100% with that! Like the Noble Eightfold Path: Right Speech, Right
> Thought, Right Intentions, etc... Why do they name only 8 classes? Why do
> they name classes at all? Why not just: Live Right? And anyway the
> challenge isn't doing all the 'right' things. The challenge is determining
> what is right and what is not.
>
> I call this "The Twelve Days Of Christmas Syndrome": You know...four calling
> birds, three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear
> treeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. ;>)
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