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   From: evelyn.ruut@gmail.com   
      
   "Hollywood Lee"  wrote in message   
   news:i4e093$ahb$1@news.eternal-september.org...   
   > On 8/17/2010 6:25 AM, Jigme Dorje wrote:   
   >   
   >> I was joking about Cat, of course. But there are also questions that   
   >> the mind poses about formlessness that, obviously, cannot be answered   
   >> by the mind that poses them.  This is why people who live in the mind   
   >> are continuously frustrated and, conversely, always surefire certain   
   >> about some position or other.   
   >   
   > Are you certain about that position?  And is it really certain and obvious   
   > that questions about formlessness cannot be answered by the mind that   
   > poses them?   
   >   
   > It seems to me that these claims simply draw a veil of mystery over these   
   > ideas, elevating them up as some venerated concepts instead of just   
   > letting them go or helping dissolve them along with all our other mental   
   > fashionings.   
   >   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Questions like these are parodied in a sense by koans or kong ans such   
   >> as "Does a dog have Buddha nature? Not (Mu)"   
   >   
   > Perhaps that is the nature of koans - blowing up the balloon of concepts   
   > bigger and bigger with the imagined up air of nondualism and mystery,   
   > until it pops and we hear the faint giggle of hal as he pees on your leg.   
      
      
   I do miss Hal.   He was really a cool guy.  :-)   
      
   --   
   Best Regards,   
   Evelyn   
      
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   may barter the vortex of life for boundless bliss.  - Milarepa   
      
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