I think this post is right square in the middle of the zen grid...Bill!
--- In [email protected], Mel <gunnar19632000@...> wrote:
>
> This posting is going off the zen grid a bit, but I myself had no problems
> with the forbidden books as well as those things to do with any sexual
> connection between Mary Magdalene and Jesus during my try-out period of a few
> months with the Christian faith back then. The way I see it to this day,
> nothing really changes what Yahweh/Jesus says in his holy book...author Dale
> Brown, or not
>
> They(some scholars) say that Jesus and Mary Magdalene shacked up(set up
> house/love nest) together and had children afterwards, whose descendants are
> alive today. It has also been said in the past that Mary Magdalene was
> present somewhere in the picture of Jesus's PassOver with the disciples. As a
> Christian of the Quaker variety(or at least, I tried to be as so) from back
> then, I had no problem with such, because I could see that it was such an
> insignificant matter, and didn't really affect all things scriptural
>
> It's the same with the old man himself. Somebody can turn around and tell me
> today that the old fella wasn't really as holy as he claimed to be from under
> that special tree. Do I care? Must I even care? Of course not. The book Zen
> Mind Begginer's Mind is one I keep coming back to. Reading and absorbing it
> is not exactly getting it straight from the horse's mouth, but it's
> beneficial to me in my own private way. For all I know, this son of Queen
> Maha Maya could have been one of the most corrupt characters in humankind's
> history. Good...bad...which one was he? By now, do we really care as zen
> practitioners? Unlike some corrupt and self-proclaimed,
> ceremony-obssessed south-east Asian and Ceylonese Buddhists I've dealt with
> in the past I don't hold holiness to anyone in this world of ours. Zen is my
> chosen path, although I do not tag myself as Buddhist in any way, unless I'm
> pressed to declare some faith or another and I can see that explaining zen
> to the enquirer is going to cause not clarity in mind but added confusion to
> the enquirer
>
> Thanks for your time
>
> in Buddha's grace
> Mel
>
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