For Edgar...
--- In [email protected], Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote: > > Bill, > > PS: And btw Buddha lived long before Bill was born. So how could he have even > existed if Bill's imagination wasn't around to create him since like > everything else Bill believes Buddha is a product of his imagination? Thought isn't limited by time and space. > > Not to mention the universe that Bill created back at the big bang in his > imagination! Hmmm, does Bill believe he is God? I think the DSM has a name > for that condition.... Now Edgar... these conditions are made up by deluded, very unzen people... It IS possible that Bill is God... > > Hey, I'm older than Bill. So maybe I didn't really exist before Bill's > imagination created me when he was born? Strange I don't notice any change in > my existence when Bill goes to sleep.. > > Bill's core belief is just all too too ridiculous! > > Is anyone here really dumb enough to believe they are figments of Bill's > imagination? Everyone else might be but I am not. In a very real way you are Edgar, it is very zen to think like that. Beliefs are not Zen, Edgar. Subjective wisdom is. > > Bill can't distinguish between experience and reality. He MISTAKES his > experience for reality and can't understand that his experience is PART of > reality (which every school boy knows) instead of reality being part of his > experience. > How do you know experience ISN'T reality..? How do you know, you yourself have a firm grasp of reality..? In my book Bill has a much firmer grasp of reality than you, Edgar. ------------------------------------ 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/
