Just a bunch of quotes in no particular order here� Fudo:
>Maybe it is due to the nature of this list but we get at least a Buddha >a week to kill. >if you call yourself a Buddha what would you expect to >have happen on a list of a tradition where "If you meet the Buddha on >the road, kill him" is an important teaching? We are not talking rocket >science here..I mean ......come on ......get a clue. If you pretend to >have the answer a Buddha would give...I would duck if I were you. You >are on a list of professional assassins assigned to smoke your ass when >they see you. Rod: > When new people come I think it compassionate to stop them before >they say something they will be ashamed of later... knowing that >later they will be their own worst critics. Fudo: >I do not consider it compassionate to coddle a whiner, to take care of >someone pretending to be an invalid, or to let a delusion of having an >anchor in a storm let someone wander into a real storm armed with only a >delusion. Sebastian: >You guys are scaring the shit out of me! I agree with disagreeing. I agree >these gals are looking for Zen Lite, but is it necessary to answer with >such bile, such venom? > >We all need the stick sometimes, but do you have to slam 'em with a sequioia? I thought the 'Kill the Buddha' admonition applied to your own self discoveries. I am obviously not sufficiently advanced on this zen path to truly understand that it involves killing others'. If I had joined a professional assassins list, i might have had a better idea of what to expect. I hoped for a compassionate correction of mistaken ideas rather than abuse and slaughter. Maybe you old hands are just fed up with folks joining and asking the same stupid questions again and again. I hope your children are treated as well. This list seems like Tough Love Zen, or EST Zen. Point me to a sutra where the Buddha did this. AC: >Tilting at Windbags: A Crusade Against Rank >Did you read his life story? Talk about the pot calling the kettle >black. He was a young windbag who left his family and joined a >University and became a professional windbag complaining about other >windbags. Is this AC speaking about himself? I don't mean to harp on my experience in Karate, but as a black belt I learned that you need apply no more force that is necessary to end the threat to yourself. No more . No less. > <http://home.golden.net/~samu> < > There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. < ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/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/
