Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: new Pope says Buddhism is wanking

2005-04-21 Thread Llundrub





Well, ok, when you put it like 
that.

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  Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 4:46 
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  Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: new Pope 
  says Buddhism is wanking
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
  "Llundrub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]...> 
  wrote:> I hope I can be like you one day, without 
  drugs.Llundrub, you can't be serious, can you? You are already me, 
  like me, and "better than" me. You are taking (y)our Heartfire into places 
  this-I never even dreamed existed, creating whole new Universes of 
  incredibly rich (yet eerily muted) pearlescent light and shadow. You 
  are a blind seer, a crazy poet, AND probably NOLA's finest cook. What 
  a story! Dionysos lives! Rend the flesh and share it out, ye 
  wild-haired maenads! IO-EVOE! Pass the 
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[FairfieldLife] Re: new Pope says Buddhism is wanking

2005-04-21 Thread Rory Goff


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Llundrub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I hope I can be like you one day, without drugs.

Llundrub, you can't be serious, can you? You are already me, like me, 
and "better than" me. You are taking (y)our Heartfire into places this-
I never even dreamed existed, creating whole new Universes of 
incredibly rich (yet eerily muted) pearlescent light and shadow. You 
are a blind seer, a crazy poet, AND probably NOLA's finest cook. What 
a story! Dionysos lives! Rend the flesh and share it out, ye wild-
haired maenads! IO-EVOE! Pass the salt.





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[FairfieldLife] Re: new Pope says Buddhism is wanking

2005-04-20 Thread Rory Goff


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> 
> now we need Rorry to tell us that we all wanking each other, which
> is one Self wanking itSelf.

This reminds me -- I was watching all of you tonight emerging from the 
core of the Self; in so emerging, every one of you contained the full 
glory of the Creator, in infinite freedom and splendor like columns of 
sunbright fire, each of us intimately connected and each free to 
explore and discover and create whole universes of unknown riches. I 
am so pleased with Us all; we sing together and separately in ways we 
have perhaps only begun to suspect. No matter what other costumes we 
may adopt or roles we may play out, on closer look, this is how you 
are to me, and how I love you as i love myself, for we share one 
Heart. Thank you all for Being.





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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: new Pope says Buddhism is wanking

2005-04-20 Thread Llundrub





I hope I can be like you one day, 
without drugs.

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Rory Goff 
  
  To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
  
  Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 9:25 
  PM
  Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: new Pope 
  says Buddhism is wanking
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
  anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]...> 
  wrote:> > now we need Rorry to tell us that we all wanking 
  each other, which> is one Self wanking itSelf.This reminds me 
  -- I was watching all of you tonight emerging from the core of the Self; 
  in so emerging, every one of you contained the full glory of the Creator, 
  in infinite freedom and splendor like columns of sunbright fire, each of 
  us intimately connected and each free to explore and discover and create 
  whole universes of unknown riches. I am so pleased with Us all; we sing 
  together and separately in ways we have perhaps only begun to suspect. No 
  matter what other costumes we may adopt or roles we may play out, on 
  closer look, this is how you are to me, and how I love you as i love 
  myself, for we share one Heart. Thank you all for 
  Being.To subscribe, send a message 
  to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/and 
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[FairfieldLife] Re: new Pope says Buddhism is wanking

2005-04-20 Thread Rick


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

(snip)

> http://64.233.161.104/search?
q=cache:mfojIhYWKsMJ:monasticdialog.com/a.php%3Fid%3D577%26t%
3Dp+Ratzinger+buddhism&hl=en&client=firefox-a
> 
> Teasdale says that Ratzinger referred to Buddhism as a form 
of "mental
> autoeroticism." 

Hmmm, that would be mental masturbationsounds like what we do here.

Rick Carlstrom





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[FairfieldLife] Re: new Pope says Buddhism is wanking

2005-04-20 Thread Rory Goff


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > On Apr 20, 2005, at 9:19 PM, akasha_108 wrote:
> > 
> > > Ponder deeply, who is doing the wanking.
> > 
> > The hand that wanks is the hand that is empty. 
> 
> now we need Rorry to tell us that we all wanking each other, which
> is one Self wanking itSelf.

Yeah, you beat me to it (or beat yourSelf, for all i know):-)





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[FairfieldLife] Re: new Pope says Buddhism is wanking

2005-04-20 Thread Rory Goff


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Ponder deeply, who is doing the wanking.

The Self enjoying the Self?





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[FairfieldLife] Re: new Pope says Buddhism is wanking

2005-04-20 Thread anonymousff


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> On Apr 20, 2005, at 9:19 PM, akasha_108 wrote:
> 
> > Ponder deeply, who is doing the wanking.
> 
> The hand that wanks is the hand that is empty. 

now we need Rorry to tell us that we all wanking each other, which
is one Self wanking itSelf.





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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: new Pope says Buddhism is wanking

2005-04-20 Thread Vaj


On Apr 20, 2005, at 9:19 PM, akasha_108 wrote:

> Ponder deeply, who is doing the wanking.

The hand that wanks is the hand that is empty. 



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[FairfieldLife] Re: new Pope says Buddhism is wanking

2005-04-20 Thread akasha_108


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> 
> > well, just one long wank in the name of spirituality. Excuse me, I'm
> > just off to meditate, Buddhist style . . .
> 
> let me know if you need an extra hand ;]

Ponder deeply, who is doing the wanking.







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[FairfieldLife] Re: new Pope says Buddhism is wanking

2005-04-20 Thread anonymousff


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 

> well, just one long wank in the name of spirituality. Excuse me, I'm
> just off to meditate, Buddhist style . . .

let me know if you need an extra hand ;]





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[FairfieldLife] Re: new Pope says Buddhism is wanking

2005-04-20 Thread akasha_108


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > Yep, you read the subject line correctly. It appears that our new
> > Pope Ben has 
> > some odd views about Eastern religions. This is from an article by
> > Rabbi 
> > Micheal Lerner in Tikkun, a Jewish, liberal, progressive paper and
> > website. 
> > 
> > Published on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 by Tikkun.org 
> > The New Pope is a Disaster for the World and for the Jews
> > Jewish Leader Denounces Selection of Cardinal Ratzinger as New Pope
> > 
> > by Rabbi Michael Lerner
> >  
> > [excerpt]
> > 
> > While many of us agree with Ratzinger's critique of moral relativism,
> > he 
> > extends that critique in illegitimate and dangerous ways, equating
> > secularism 
> > with moral relativism and suggesting that secularism is now
> > repressing 
> > religion. Ratzinger also publicly critiques all those inside the
> > Church who are 
> > tolerant enough to think that other religions may have equal validity
> > as a path 
> > to God. This is a slippery slope toward anti-Semitism and a return to
> > the 
> > chauvinistic and triumphalist views that led the Church, when it had
> > the power 
> > to do so, to develop its infamous crusades and inquisitions. In 1997
> > Ratzinger 
> > called Buddhism an "autoerotic spirituality" that offers
> > "transcendence without 
> > imposing concrete religious obligations." Hindusim, he said, offers
> > "false 
> > hope," in that it guarantees "purification" based on a "morally
> > cruel" concept of 
> > reincarnation resembling "a continuous circle of hell." At the time,
> > Cardinal 
> > Ratzinger predicted that Buddhism would replace Marxism as the
> > Catholic 
> > church's main enemy.
> > 
> > [end excerpt]
> > 
> > So what do you think Pope Ben means by this "autoerotic
> > spirituality'? Is he 
> > nuts?  Webster's defines autoeroticism as masturbation.  So it
> > appears from 
> > our new font of wisdom in the Vatican that what Buddhism offers
> > people is, 
> > well, just one long wank in the name of spirituality. Excuse me, I'm
> > just off to 
> > meditate, Buddhist style . . .
> 
> 
> I heard a newscast that said the new pope had said Buddhism was
> "auto-robotic".  T hat seems to fit the context of his words better. 
> I am guessing what you posted was a typo.


It appears that it was "auto-eroticism" not "auto-roboticism'



http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:mfojIhYWKsMJ:monasticdialog.com/a.php%3Fid%3D577%26t%3Dp+Ratzinger+buddhism&hl=en&client=firefox-a

Teasdale says that Ratzinger referred to Buddhism as a form of "mental
autoeroticism." In fact, Ratzinger was not speaking about Buddhism as
such, but about how Buddhism "appears" to those Europeans who are
using it to obtain some type of self-satisfying spiritual experience.

http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/register.cgi/tablet-00936

In March 1997 Ratzinger offered a similarly harsh judgement on
Buddhism, calling it "an auto-erotic spirituality" in an interview
with a leading French newspaper. Buddhism, said Ratzinger, "seeks
transcendence without imposing concrete religious obligations". 


http://www.newint.org/issue327/worldbeaters.htm

As if that weren't enough, the ever-busy Cardinal has used his
privileged take on the Truth to set back inter-faith tolerance and
religious pluralism a few decades. In 1997 Ratzinger annoyed Buddhists
by calling their religion an `autoerotic spirituality' that offers
`transcendence without imposing concrete religious obligations'. And
Hinduism, he said, offers `false hope'; it guarantees `purification'
based on a `morally cruel' concept of reincarnation resembling `a
continuous circle of hell'. The Cardinal predicted Buddhism would
replace Marxism as the Catholic Church's main enemy this century.



On Eastern Meditation

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:o1Koot5mtyIJ:www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_n29_v113/ai_18792652+Ratzinger+buddhism&hl=en&client=firefox-a

  What is most striking from a broader historical perspective is not
that Ratzinger expressed reservations about Christian-Buddhist
interaction but that the cardinal prefect of the Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith accepted many basic premises of Lassalle's
practice. Ratzinger's primary aim was to safeguard the integrity of
Christian prayer to the triune God through Jesus Christ. Although his
tone toward Buddhist and other Asian methods of meditation was largely
suspicious, Ratzinger expanded upon the principle of Vatican II: "Just
as the Catholic Church rejects nothing of what is true and holy in
these religions Vatican II, Declaration on the Relation of the Church
to Non-Christian Religions, n.2], neither should these ways be
rejected out of hand simply because they are not Christian. On the
contrary, one can take from them what is useful so long as the
Christian conception of prayer, its logic and requirements are nev

[FairfieldLife] Re: new Pope says Buddhism is wanking

2005-04-20 Thread akasha_108


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Yep, you read the subject line correctly. It appears that our new
> Pope Ben has 
> some odd views about Eastern religions. This is from an article by
> Rabbi 
> Micheal Lerner in Tikkun, a Jewish, liberal, progressive paper and
> website. 
> 
> Published on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 by Tikkun.org 
> The New Pope is a Disaster for the World and for the Jews
> Jewish Leader Denounces Selection of Cardinal Ratzinger as New Pope
> 
> by Rabbi Michael Lerner
>  
> [excerpt]
> 
> While many of us agree with Ratzinger's critique of moral relativism,
> he 
> extends that critique in illegitimate and dangerous ways, equating
> secularism 
> with moral relativism and suggesting that secularism is now
> repressing 
> religion. Ratzinger also publicly critiques all those inside the
> Church who are 
> tolerant enough to think that other religions may have equal validity
> as a path 
> to God. This is a slippery slope toward anti-Semitism and a return to
> the 
> chauvinistic and triumphalist views that led the Church, when it had
> the power 
> to do so, to develop its infamous crusades and inquisitions. In 1997
> Ratzinger 
> called Buddhism an "autoerotic spirituality" that offers
> "transcendence without 
> imposing concrete religious obligations." Hindusim, he said, offers
> "false 
> hope," in that it guarantees "purification" based on a "morally
> cruel" concept of 
> reincarnation resembling "a continuous circle of hell." At the time,
> Cardinal 
> Ratzinger predicted that Buddhism would replace Marxism as the
> Catholic 
> church's main enemy.
> 
> [end excerpt]
> 
> So what do you think Pope Ben means by this "autoerotic
> spirituality'? Is he 
> nuts?  Webster's defines autoeroticism as masturbation.  So it
> appears from 
> our new font of wisdom in the Vatican that what Buddhism offers
> people is, 
> well, just one long wank in the name of spirituality. Excuse me, I'm
> just off to 
> meditate, Buddhist style . . .


I heard a newscast that said the new pope had said Buddhism was
"auto-robotic".  T hat seems to fit the context of his words better. 
I am guessing what you posted was a typo. 





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