--- In [email protected], "dkotschessa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is why I think it's important for people to get out of their > houses and go meet communities of practitioners, whether at a > monastery or just a local meditation group. It's easy to play > the "I'm more enlightened/less attached than you are" game here, > because we can wear whatever mask suits us at the time. But all >bets are off in the meat world. We all have our attachments like it >or not. > > And, BTW, even awakened people are subject to kinds of attachment that > keep them from deepening their realization.
Alleluiah brother or sister. (Sorry, I don't know your gender.) I agree about the real-time (meat world) teacher and sangha, and that even "enlightened" folk still have their attachments. For example, Chogyam Trugpa drank and smoked himself to an early death. By the way, are you the one that harped that practicing without teacher and/or sangha is wasteful masturbation? On that topic, and it's relation to this one, just "masturbating" here is not enough either, but like its sexual counterpart it can play an important role combined with meat practice. Any number of sexual therapists have folks practice sex with a partner by masturbating. And/or masturbating in front of a partner to show them how you like it. It doesn't replace sex with a partner, it's an adjunct to it. Like this forum should be an adjunct to our meat teacher and community. AND keep masturbating (practicing zazen) with yourself. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/S27xlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Current Book Discussion: Appreciate Your Life by Taizan Maezumi Roshi 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/
