--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@...> wrote: > > From: nablusoss1008 > > > > "danfriedman2002" <danfriedman2002@> wrote: > > > > > > Quite understandable. A member of FFL got a hold of > > > my spouse´s email address and sent a distastful email > > > to her. I believe that spouses and children are offbounds. > > > > Could it be one of the two Buddhists here ? :-) > > Does it have anything to do with their being Buddhists? > What if you were to > ask, "Could it be one of the Jews here?"
Thanks for the thought, Rick, but it's really not necessary. As I've explained many times, I'm not even a Buddhist. Rama was not a member of any real Buddhist sangha, and I've never become a member of one at any point in my life. I never will, because I just don't "do" groups any more. Besides, I dis- agree with many of the primary tenets of Buddhism. As in the FFL credo on its home page, I take what I need from Buddhist thought and leave the rest. These days I find a great deal more inspiration in Taoist thought. As you suggested in a followup post, I think we all know that Nabby is merely acting out his hatred of Buddhists, something he learned from Maharishi. (And which MMY learned in kind from Shankara and his whole tradition.) Did Maharishi ever dump on Taoism? If so, Nabby could switch over to calling me a Taoist. :-) Others who throw around the word "Buddhist" as an epithet are trying to find some word that they can use to 1) bag me and Vaj, 2) try to get under our skin by poking at things they think we believe in because they think it'll push our buttons the way that the things we write push theirs, and 3) they like referring to people they don't like with nick- names they consider insulting. You know, like "dork" for do.rflex, or calling another poster Stupid Sal, or referring to Vaj as Vag or Curtis a "hillbilly." I don't take any of this very seriously because I don't take any of the people doing it very seriously. I doubt Vaj does, either. Truth be told, that's prob- ably the main reason they continue to obsess on us. :-)
