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From: Infernal Elk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sun 3/6/2005 3:33 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Zen] Squibble Squabble, Yin and Yang ?
Good point, elk. Thanks.
>> If only we students could enlist someone to deliver a stinging slap
>> at will. IMHO this has been the real challenge of life: how to get
>> stung on schedule, if only to take the attention off the dull ache.
>> In the absence of teachers, we slap fight passersby, secretly
>> hoping to get knocked on our ass. Or more true would be, seek to
>> find someone to deliver a more penetrating blow after we learn to
>> avoid the first style of probing.
not sure it's necessary to enlist anyone's help in getting "slapped"
so to speak. from my limited experience, in those moments when i pay
attention to my life, whatever is happening around me can be a "slap".
i know, what i just said sounds like heathen mumbo jumbo, but it's the
best i can do at the moment.
- elk (not a teacher)
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