Sebastian Ortiz Duran Gochicoa wrote: > Dear Fudo: > > You are not a milk distributor. You're the milk man! You know your > customers! You don't publish articles. You post personalized replies! > > Your first analogy gave you away: A Professional Assassin. You've been > doing this for years right? Don't tell me you haven't been able to tell > the difference by now. You KNOW when you hurt, you sadist you.
Dear Sebbie-san, Professonal assassin. Charged to kill where no one is supposed to be? So who whines when the arrow strikes? Here is a koan for you, how can an assassin kill somone who is not there? If I am the milk man, I deliver blind, I only know of my customers what they care to share. You have mistaken kindness for niceness. I am not nice, but I am kind. As a matter of fact, someone who knew me well, who worked for me for several years once said "You are the kindest man I have ever met, but you are not nice." So you think I am not nice? Join the line. I do not pretend to be nice. I have watched nice people enable illness over and over again because they were too nice to be kind. My teacher is not nice, as a matter of fact he is ruthless. I have seen him cry after striking a blow he knew needed to be struck. All the time he pushes, stresses, challenges, hoping to find one who can answer. Zen as I have seen it practiced is not a nice way. If you are looking for nice, you are looking in the wrong place. If you are looking for kind...well come to Iowa and meet the kindest man I know, he is not very nice though...well not very nice for very long anyway. Be Well Fudo ------------------------ 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/
