Yes, but you have met a real 'doctor' as you've said... When one is either not visited by dragons, or too blind to see the dragon's tail they stand on -- ordering a book pointing to dragon-land is perhaps consulting a map (knowing it may be a fake), in favor of wandering aimlessly. (Not to say that that wandering aimlessly is not also whole-heartedly tried intermittently).
My criticism, Fudo, is that you seem to me as though you think one automatically recognizes a teacher, and this is not my experience. What if one is so poisoned that even doctors look like fakes? When I ask anyone who is the wisest person they know, the trail leads in circles or to charlatans (or most frightenlingly back to me -- but I repeat myself :)... Let alone recognize a teacher -- I can't even recognize a teaching as more than a drugged morsel of poetry -- a small realization dressed in silk to woo my senses. What I realize today, will be seen as foolish illusion in five years (i've proven that 6 times over). At the seventh out of weariness, I seek at least a shorter circle in this repetitive game. You say 'find a teacher' and I say 'I don't know what I want to be taught and so far no one's given any good suggestions as to a subject of study'. If the question of "what do do" is always answered with a "how to do it" -- and the reflexively follow-up question of "why do it" is then labeled as pointless resistance/stalling, then humanity's condition is worse that I feared -- meaning any progress, past or future, is an elaborate fantasy, with only the most bold being left to lead. This would make Guantama the core of Zen's particular multi-level-marketing hydra. I can't recommend it, but after such thoughts, often one instead then turns to studying medicine (even via amazon) both to help oneself and help others who come after... (feeling particularly pissy, tonight -- probably unrelated to not sitting all weekend... ;) Rod Scholl ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/hjtSRD/3MnJAA/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/
