Alex, I see you subscribe to the adage, a good offense is a good defense. I hope you digested some of what I offered before redelivering the processed waste...
--- In [email protected], Alex Bunard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Face it -- your main problem is that you focus too > much on personalities. I'll take your diagnosis under advisement. However, it was you I was giving the prescription (and not as a "main" problem, but as an easy thing to remedy) > What's it to you, to go ad hominem on me? What kind of > perverted little pleasure do you get from slandering > me? Slander is to say things untrue about your actions. I expect you didn't mean this word. Pleasure can not be perverted, only the methods of acheiving it. And what's it to me? On this one, I'll hang by my teeth... > > Instead of going for the low, cheap thrills of > 'exposing' someone, why don't you take this chance to > learn something about Dharma? Unless you're one of > those hopelessly conventional, gray bureaucratic > types, you would sure feel the lure of the game. But isn't Dharma a buddhist term that can only be transmitted from one within the Dharma chain. If I want to learn that, I'll seek someone who is in the chain, and not a poser. Again the prescription you write for me is one you are unwilling to take. > > If you say that you don't care about the Buddhist > teaching because you're only interested in zen, it's > like saying you don't care about learning music, > because you're only interested in playing jazz. > I'm not sure how this applies. I don't recall saying anything like that. OH! I see -- you think I'm an unwilling student to YOUR teaching (which you say is more general Buddhist) and that I prefer my Zen learning. I take your point, but you miss severely. I am not largely a student of Zen, but am willing to learn of their practice to apply it in my life, and settle towards (or away) from it. And this is a Zen list, after all. If I have to choose between a teacher who is natural, and one who constructs their image from rags and glitter -- I'll choose the natural one (less "translation" to make of their actions/words). Thus, you were disqualified as being a teacher for me when you so blatantly tried pushing the river of how you are perceived here (and clumsily too IMHO:). But I've said what I thought would help -- refuted some charges and will poke at some others you've offered. I think we've exhausted this exchange -- so if you don't mind, I'll read, but not respond to any follow-up in this particular case. My best, Rod ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater? Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good! http://us.click.yahoo.com/WwRTUD/SOnJAA/i1hLAA/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/
