TurquoiseB wrote: > > (Funny too how you always complain about > > *my* quoting posts from alt.m.t, as though > > they couldn't have any relevance to anything > > going on here.) > > Yes, it is really funny - at least I think it's funny, and fun to post these old messages, just to see who has changed and who has stayed the same. The a.l.t.'ers have practically taken over the Yahoo! FairfieldLife forum, for better or for worse. But why in hell did all you informants stalk me over here - I was trying to get away from you guys! Go figure.
Here's Barry promoting the Buddhist religion: From: Uncle Tantra Subject: Re: Two simple questions for the bhakti supporters Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: March 19, 2003 In my experience, the real value of a koan, and why their value has been passed down to history but misunderstood, is that there is a power to a koan when it is *spoken* by a teacher. NOT as words, NOT in the same sense that many here believe a mantra has power, but a kind of synergistic thing, a perception on the part of the teacher that this *particular* set of nonsense words has the capability of providing a breakthrough for this particular student at this particular moment in time. And, sometimes, it does. However, the same set of nonsense words, spoken to another student, may have no effect whatsoever. The same set of nonsense words, pondered by someone ponderous, could only serve to make her more ponderous...
