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   dha.short.fat.guy   
   XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism   
   From: being@apolka.sign   
      
   slider wrote:   
   > one wrote:   
      
   >> Sounds like an evangelism failure.   
   >   
   >### - well that's exactly what the frog said too lol, and closed the door?   
      
   Not in the tale I've read.   
      
   The frog was astonished, iirc, as he listened to the turtle.   
   He was open, just as was the Lord of the River to Jo.   
   Jo went on to put his expanse into perspective.   
      
   Perspectives can be keys beyond hyperbole.   
   Both frog and river deity gained new insight.   
   They thought they'd reached a peak and then   
   suddenly were brought a new experience.   
      
   >will tell you one last story then, it's kinda true but am telling it in my   
   >own, flowery/exaggerated way, so don't take anything 'too' literally, ok?   
   >ya have to read it between the lines kinda thing ;)   
   >   
   >i.e., back in the time of the buddha not long after he'd gathered his   
   >first few students, rumours spread around locally that something weird was   
   >going-on up at this buddha-dudes camp, strange smiling people with shining   
   >eyes seen wandering around and coming and going from the place   
   >   
   >eventually, a local reporter got onto the story and decided to go and   
   >investigate, and walked into this camp looking for an interview with this   
   >buddha-cat, to ask him what's going on here...   
   >   
   >sure enough and true to the reports going around, there's a whole bunch of   
   >odd people wandering around in this camp with beatific, idiotic smiles on   
   >their faces, talking to themselves and laughing and pointing at quite   
   >ordinary things and then staring at them in awe like they've seen them   
   >before??   
   >   
   >our reporter asks everyone he passes where he can find this buddha-chap   
   >but none of them responds to him like they can't hear him or don't know   
   >what he's saying, they just stare and laugh insanely and continue with   
   >what they were doing...   
   >   
   >eventually, he comes to a little clearing and finds some old guy sitting   
   >by a pool dipping his hand into the water and letting it run out again   
   >through his fingers, and somehow he knows that this is the dude he was   
   >looking for whose running the place, and asks him what the hell is going   
   >on here and why the hell is everyone acting so strangely??   
   >   
   >and without answering him, the buddha just points to a pure white lotus   
   >flower blooming vividly above the cesspit it has its roots in and is   
   >growing up out of... and something strange happens to our reporter as it   
   >slowly dawns on him what the buddha is saying/suggesting...   
   >   
   >and then 20 minutes later he too is wandering around the place laughing   
   >and joking and smiling at everything and everybody, just like he'd never   
   >seen any of it ever before ;)   
   >   
   >the end. :)   
      
   A transformative experience, at the ashram.   
      
   Returning from the mountain, taking a form   
   of bliss back to a city, trying to tell so-called   
   others who don't care and have, important   
   matters that have captivated their attention,   
   an evangelist might fail and it may suggest   
   the experience was not complete and total.   
      
   An odd feature of hearing can be how an ear   
   might receive the same sounds, the same words,   
   over and over without a connection being made.   
   Hence there is no a-ha moment. Until there is.   
      
   - thanks! Cheers!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)