You are correct Joe.

Suresh

--- In [email protected], "Joe" <desert_woodworker@...> wrote:
>
> 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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