Barry
Your shock is only one bit worth? Gosh, I'll have to try harder. However, I'll leave Lingam measuring to you since you must be measuring you own against everything else - even if that "else" doesn't pertain to you. So how do you quite get that done? Like a good European do you only measure in metric? What is funny is that you think Yifu needs you to protect him from what you consider criticism. What haughtiness you parade as protection by treating him as unable to speak up for himself. Believe it or not he has shown himself quite capable in the past even without needing you as his gun-slinging bodyguard. Imagine that not having to entreat you for help! But there is an alternative. I could route all my posts through you first and you could personally legitimize those you favor and strike those meeting your censure. That might actually be fun and make you feel even more like a righteous Euro. We just would need to keep proper separation of the two categories of comments. However one problem might arise - it would be more difficult for you to maintain your claims of disinterest as the anti-Corrector. Just to correct a few points from your reply - 1. I am a meat eater, living daily on the bloody pound of flesh of pitiable living beings raised for slaughter. 2. My teacher is a Tibetan (now a U.S. citizen), and a Tantric Terton. He is currently having his Terma texts translated into English. He relates to us as a friend to a friend - one of the reasons I enjoy his company. 3. I'm sorry you think of Hsuan Hua as a lesser teacher. Comparing our two posts, you obviously think less of him than I do. You obviously knew him well probably even better than Xifu! However (and in spite of your slight regard for Hsuan Hua) he was not only an important but also a great Buddhist teacher in America. He had a huge influence in emphasizing and establishing correct praxis which means proper comportment in expressing bodily actions, truthful speech and insightful mind. Oh, one last thing I'm really sorry about I just don't have time today to answer all your quite important remarks. Must be I have a life. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > Emptybill, I confess to having been a bit > shocked by this, and must follow up on it > because so *much* classic spiritual ignor- > ance seems to be encapsulated in so few > words here: > > * Elitism -- without actually saying it, you > seem to be making a case for some (ahem...you) > being better and more high-vibe than "meat- > eaters," or those damned low-vibe "Tibetans," > or "tantra," or people who studied with a > "lesser" teacher such as Hsuan Hua. >
