Are you talking about lower-case shit, or Shit with a
capital 'S'?
--- kyukyo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- Alex Bunard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Are we now to expect a "shitstorm" from the
> > righteous
> > crowd?
>
>
> I always expect a shitstorm from the righteous
> crowd,
> it is my Karma for my irreverant nature. I might not
> be generating Karma, but that does not mean I don't
> have a great bit to work off.
>
> The nice thing about Buddhism is that it does not
> demand we never shit on the carpet, just that we
> clean
> it up after we do. This is Karma 101..shit on the
> carpet and someone is going to have to clean it
> up....if you don't clean it up....wherever you go
> there will be shit on the carpet. Better of course
> to
> keep the carpet shitting to a minimum..but at the
> least you are going to have to do is clean up your
> own
> mess. After one gains some control of their
> bowels..then one can start to add some flowers and
> maybe a nice piece of art.....no one notices the art
> however, if there is shit on the carpet. This is why
> I
> recommend that even if you are enlightened, if there
> is shit on the carpet that first you stop shitting
> on
> the carpet, then you clean it up, then you add the
> pretty sounding words, and the nice statues.
> Otherwise
> the best you are going to do is "Did you notice that
> nice statue on the carpet next to that shit? I can't
> believe anyone would put that there." .....usually
> the
> ones who comment the loudest are the ones pretending
> there is no shit on their carpet. This is one of the
> first stages of training...there is nothing but
> shit,
> there is no shit, oh shit..I am going to have to
> clean
> that up. Those stuck in the "there is no shit"
> stage...well..... they can be a bit obnoxious. They
> have learned a little, but they still have a long
> ways
> to go.
>
> It is a much better impression when the guests leave
> to have them saying "Did you see that guy clean up
> the
> carpet? I never knew baby wipes could get a stain
> out
> like that".....maybe we should try a little more of
> that and a few less self righteous proclimations and
> a
> few less art works. I have found no one reads a poem
> when the paper is soiled.
>
> Be Well
>
> Fudo
>
>
>
>
>
>
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