John
At 01:38 PM 11/29/2005, you wrote:
I take it that you are referring to Christian, thus Catholic, monks here. Didn't they used to make wine in monasteries in France? It seems unlikely to me that Buddhist monks anywhere in the world would make either winre or fudge as this might be encouraging intoxication, something which Buddhist monks take a precept to abstain from. Still the apparent reference to mindful breathing at the end of your prose poem makes me wonder. This could be a completely imaginative work, in which case it doesn't matter. Nevertheless, since there are really monks in the so-called real world, regardless of how sheltered they may or may not live from that world, it causes one to wonder.wrote:
Sheila Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- Monks are making it to sell. I first wrote see, then
- frist. What is the matter with t! his morning except the
- voltage of unkindness streaming through the net. My
- fingers on the keyboard pick up messages no one
- believes were sent. Dear, Hannah,how deeply did you
- absorb? The body chemistry becomes pseudonymous with
- fibers in the hundreds in the thousands gradually
- self-multiplied. My cha is gen mai. I know the word
- for tea from JMB. When monks have finished making
- sweets they may return to cells. When monks return to
- cells they pray. The swift rays of the sun are
- measured at a speed greater than crying. When monks
- come together they enlist the services to form some
- thing to sell so they can live quietly at prayer. I am
- on the threshold of ordering five books on the subject
- of sustaining which in the vernacular means making
- something last beyond its essence possibly. Speaking
- of which, a group of ad execs were brought together to
- find something they might do with a failed heart drug.
- So they looked at what is now! Viagra and they asked
- what it could do. Then they invented terminology and
- sold that terminology. Sow's ear propped up on a
- throne. Publication might mean telling everyone what
- you will not accept. The priesthood now will now
- appear immune to love of self. Would someone kindly
- pass the fudge? Formed with full intention, breathing
- in and breathing out. Both individually and in
- community.
- Sheila E. Murphy
- frist. What is the matter with t! his morning except the
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