From: "wai_dk" I thought it was Wetlandwisdom instead of Huggie who insulted Kapleau Roshi. Must have confused the two. > Maybe it was. Huggie was posting various remarks about various incidents that he had because he disagreed with people, rules, etc. and who could kiss his butt, etc., and I put him on Moderation. So then he posted a couple of messages and quit.
Someone else was put on moderation at the same time and he was taken off moderation a couple of days later. Moderation is not some kind of stigma. Sometimes two people start fighting about every issue and having a day or two to cool off can help everyone regain their composure. > > > A master (I think OSHO) once said that to have the idea, "I am more superior than you", is simply inhuman. So let's not get carried away. > I am perhaps the least superior to anybody. But I do not quit. There is only one thing that I am good at. It is never quitting. Perhaps I lack sympathy for people who give up. In my life, being challenged and pushed has made me want to work harder. Perhaps other people are not like that. Perhaps I do not have the right to push anyone's buttons. I was thinking about that today. Perhaps I should just mind my own business. Perhaps it is their destiny to keep being reborn and to endlessly read the same books and to quote them to other people? Why should I interfere? If they are playing the "enlightenment game" then I am just trying to upstage their performance with my own version of the same thing. In other words, I am just trying to be a bigger egomaniac than the people who are always posting their insights about Enlightenment. But isn't my very effort and pretense inherently dishonest? What do I know? Every effort towards enlightenment, just makes the Ego stronger. Thinking, talking, it is all Ego. Reading Zen books. Ego, Ego, Ego. Even on this list, I am like some kind of anonymous person. Yet my Ego wants AC to be #1. AC is just two letters and they are not even my initials. AC is me here on this list. AC is somebody! What am I? Why don't I give up? Why continue trying if the trying just guarantees that Ego will continue? But then Ego will not go away even if I stop trying. Ego is like some infinite creature that can wait for ever. As long as I am thinking and planning, Ego is there. Jung claimed that our personalities are part of a universal Consciousness. So perhaps even in death, the Ego survives. Perhaps that is why the old books claim that some people continue to work on their enlightenment for many incarnations. "Who knows? Not I" said Yoda. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/S27xlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Noble Eightfold Path: Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration, Right Livelihood 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: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
