Pudgala2, If this is your contribution to the 'potluck' I'd like to have a 2nd and 3rd and 4th, etc... helping please... ;>)
...Bill! --- In [email protected], "pudgala2" <pudgala2@...> wrote: > > > Hello to All Members of Zen_Forum, > > Posting my understanding of Zen on Buddhist forums became part of my Zen > practice many years ago and it had a profound effect on my mind. It > forced my mind to go deeper into zazen mixing Western psychological > insights with Zen insights gleaned from the The Hsin Hsin Ming of the > Third Patriarch <http://www.mountainman.com.au/hsinhsin.html> and The > Sutra Spoken by The Sixth Patriarch > <http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/bb/bb25.htm> . > > My conceit became subjugated to expressing my insights of the > BuddhaDharma in a modern Western English context and my postings are the > results of this and zazen. So my postings are self sustaining > meditations from my Zen practice and I post them on Buddhist forums as a > sort of potluck thinga gathering of people where each person or > group of people may contribute a dish of food (posting) prepared by the > person or the group of people, to be shared among the group. > > There were and are foreseeable consequences to doing this as famously > expressed by a statement attributed to Jesus, > > "Do not give what is holy [profound] to the dogs [cynics, faultfinders]; > nor cast your pearls [insights] before swine [ignorance], lest they > trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces." > > And the American mystic Vernon Howard once said, > > "The primary motivation of the average human being is to hurt someone > else in order to give himself a false thrill; so that he feels what he > calls good which is self destruction." > > Bullies are problematic at message forums. Their immaturity can destroy > a potluck partythey bring nothing to the table but disruption which > they apparently relishand intelligent guests wisely withdraw. > > Being with the immature is like going on a long trip with an enemy. ~ > Buddha > > Bullies by default 'ban' interested intelligent seekers from posting. > Who wants to watch ignorance flaunt itself and flout basic humane > communications? Those who know don't arguethey have no need to. > Those who argue don't knowif they did they wouldn't argue. > > I had posted at Zen_Forum before but my postings triggered such > resentment that I left canceling the email notices but leaving the > Special Notices button checked. I received the Special Notice Posting > and Replying - Draft from Bill! that indicates a basic change in > moderation is being implemented so I decided with this posting to try > again at Zen_Forum. > > In one of the replies Edgar said, "I also encourage all other lurker > members to post also now that they needn't worry about overly harsh > responses ." I had to look up lurker to find out what it meant and > realized I wasn't lurkingI was gone. > > But now I'm curious as to how many actual viewers/lurkers/members there > are at Zen_Forum? The Group Information Info lists 395 members when I'm > in Messages and 632 members when I click Home. I count only eight user > names in the replies to Bill!'s Posting and Replying Policy - Draft so > I'd like to request all members of Zen_Forum viewing this posting right > now to simply acknowledge this with a reply to this posting and any > comments regarding this matter. > > The appropriateness of a potluck posting is indicated by what the other > guests do with itthe message is the response you getand > there's no arguing with that! > > Thank you, > > > > pudgala2 > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
