Mike,
Oh, yes. I don't like to see any Zen teacher -- or other Dharma teachers --
smeared by ignorant and childish ranting. Why would I sit still for anyone
doing that, when I see the victim is getting a bad rap... .
I left the Diamond Sangha a few years ago. I never met Merle's neighbor
personally.
Give a listen to any of her Teisho (Dharma talks) online? A "fortune" I rec'd
in a fortune cookie yesterday at a Chinese restaurant (celebrating belatedly
the Chinese Lunar New year of the Grey Water Snake), read:
"To Understand a Man's Mind, Listen to his Words."
Hey, it applies to women, too. ;-)
--Joe
> "mike" <uerusuboyo@...> wrote:
>
> Joe,
>
> I think there's a valuable lesson for all of us here, tho. I don't shirk my
> responsibility for being suspicious of someone who turned out to be
> completely innocent, but I see this as a very pertinent example of the
> dangers of making a living from the dharma. Charging for expenses and other
> ancillaries is one thing, but *if* it had been true that a Zen teacher was
> charging $120 an hour for purely Zen related teachings, how would you
> honestly feel about that? Again, I'm sorry that it was someone you personally
> know that was the subject of the earlier discussion, but if it had been a
> complete stranger to you, would you have been so defensive of them?
>
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