Joe, LOL! You should give me a bow for bringing out all your attachments you need to work through....
As long as you are so obsessively defensive about your attachments you can never release them... Seeing the master in all beings and the lesson he teaches is true Zen... Bridling defensively in the face of reality's lessons is the antithesis of Zen... That just reinforces the attachments and makes them harder to release... Like tough love my approach could be called 'Tough Zen'! Showing people their attachments by challenging them! Drop those attachments. You won't be lessened by the loss, you'll be further on the path you claim to follow... Loss of ego does not diminish one, it expands one... A bow to the unrealized Buddha within struggling to get out, but being strangled by the attachments of ego... Edgar On Feb 21, 2013, at 2:47 PM, Joe wrote: > Edgar, > > I'm glad you noticed that about yourself. > > There may be hope, All! > > --Joe > > > Edgar Owen wrote: > > > > Joe, > > > > Gosh what a seething mass of attachments! > > :-) > > > > Edgar > > > > > > > > On Feb 21, 2013, at 1:59 PM, Joe wrote: > > > > > Edgar, > > > > > > Thank you. > > > > > > And, right! This is why some others of your unfortunate poisonous > > > (straightenable!) bent don't appreciate other such music, either, > > > hundreds of years after the old geezers died, such as the music of Bach, > > > or Locatelli, or Tallis. > > > > > > Only the latest scrapings in front of the bulldozer blade will do! > > > > > > You're on a fast-burn, and leaving a contrail. > > > > > > I can just picture you in your hip-hop lifestyle, there in your > > > steel-frame domicile, and gangsta suit. > > > > > > Peddling antiquities. > > > > > > Not a pretty picture you paint, or figure you cut. > > > > > > Absolve it all! Take Bill!'s compassionate advice about beginning a > > > serious practice, come to awakening, and BEcome some kind of Human being > > > in the time remaining. > > > > > > The sun also rises, but hasn't yet on your Buddha Nature. > > > > > > The house is made of steel, and is oxidizing. > > > > > > This whole world of samsara is on fire. Cancel your subscription to it, > > > but come back to teach after awakening. You could be good. > > > > > > Teacher and sangha should be what your Personals Ad should be pleading > > > for, instead. "Desperately Seeking Sangha... and Shih-fu". > > > > > > Yes, listen "to what Reality is saying". > > > > > > (I didn't say "your" reality. We can hear that over HERE). > > > > > > Wishes!, > >
