*chuckle* It Seems A Few People Missed This Point
Along The Way. The Good Thing Is As Was Pointed Out To
Me By Okumura Sensei, We Do Not Have To Go To The
North Star To Navagate By It. In Fact None Of Has Gone
There, It Would Be Front Page News If We Had. It Does
Piss Me Of A Bit When People Try And Tell Me What The
View Is Like From Polaris When I Know There Is No Way
They Can Know. It Does Not Take A Genious To Figure
Out They Are Either A Liar, A Fraud, Mentally Ill, Or
At The Least Severly Deluded. It Is Impossible To Keep
The Precepts, But That Does Not Mean We Cannot
Navigate By Them. As Soon As We Get All Holier Than
Thou About It Though We Are Not Only Breaking The
Precepts Not To Speak Falsehoods, And Not To Put
Others Down To Lift Ourselves Up, But We Are Sowing
The World We Are At Best Badly Deluded, And A Worst A
Fraud. There Is Also A Precept Against Claiming
Attainment Or Qualification You Do Not Have That Gets
Broken In There Somewhere. Cont.
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> Maybe This Is Why In Soto Practice The Vows Are
Repeated Several Times
> >> A Day..... Often In Reality They Are Broken
Almost As Soon As They Are
> >> Uttered, And Need To Be Retaken With Regularity.
>
> the vows are DESIGNED to be broken as soon as they
are uttered.
> because they are impossible vows in the first place.
>
> sentient beings are numberless... i vow to save
them.
> desires are inexhaustible... i vow to extinguish
them.
> dharmas are boundless.... i vow to master them.
> the buddha way is unattainable... i vow to
attain it.
>
> it kinds sucks that they are impossible, really, but
whatcha gonna do?
>
> - elk (pretty bad at keeping vows)
>
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