Re: [Zen] Re: Explaining Alex

[AC]

I've been studying the wisdom teachings of the Tibetan Gelugpa School for 7 years and never met anyone who sounds like Alex. >>   I think Angry or Hostile would be one way to describe him. His response seem to unleash rhetoric which may make him feel empowered but the diatribes offer border on comedy.   I read one of his messages and I imagined it coming from a great comic book super-villain named DOCTOR DOOM. Dr. Doom is always on a mission to conquer the world in order to achieve Justice. Dr. Doom was a brilliant young scientist who was horribly disfigured as a result of a botched laboratory experiment; and he blames the jealousy of his best friend for the accident. Every evil deed the Dr. Doom does is therefore the fault of others; and Dr. Doom can never rest until he has proven to the entire world that he really is much more brilliant than his former best friend, Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic).   Perhaps Alex is a person whose heart was badly broken. Whose trust was seriously betrayed. A person who feels so small that he must project his personality to the size of a large wall in order to walk among others.   I am not sure, but I feel sad for Alex. I hope that someone can touch his soul and his mind and his heart.  So many of us, including me; are broken people. We have been crushed or beaten down by others, by circumstances, by accidents, or by life itself. Sometimes it is hard to understand life.   It is much harder to get up off the bottom of the floor and to try again than it is to see others and the rest of the world as being wrong. A person fails because he did not measure up to the standard or he can believe that others conspired against him. Is there anyone here who has never failed at something? Noble Eightfold Path: Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right  Action, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration, Right Livelihood Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZenForum/   To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.