XPost: talk.religion.buddhism, alt.zen, alt.philosophy.zen   
   XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   From: epsteinrob@yahoo.com   
      
   glitch wrote:   
      
   > On 09/04/2010 10:33 PM, Jigme Dorje wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Sep 4, 7:54 am, "absentia obscuria"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> "???????"  wrote in message   
   >>>   
   >>> news:b9bbfb40-6c7f-4943-970f-73470370059a@l20g2000yqe.googlegroups.com...   
   >>>   
   >>> On Sep 4, 3:05 am, Catawumpus  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> zenworm:   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>>> today Halfawakes' sword is very sharp leaving no room to wriggle   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>> He impaled himself?   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>> -- Catawumpus   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Welcome back.   
   >>> Did you bring your microscope?   
   >>>   
   >>> ^~`````````````````````````````   
   >>>   
   >>> it's attached lens to lens   
   >>> to his telescope. what a   
   >>> view!   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> It brings to mind Mister Mxyzptlk, a trickster, in the classical   
   >> mythological sense, who appears at the mention of his name. If he is   
   >> tricked into saying his name backwards, he will return to the 5th   
   >> dimension. Likewise, in the world of usenet, simply not acknowledging   
   >> or engaging his ego causes it to look elsewhere for fulfillment.   
   >>   
   >> Such an entity cannot listen to others or carry on meaningful   
   >> communication with them. It can only feed its false sense of identity   
   >> by creating a sense of specialness, separation and superiority in   
   >> comparison to others.  For such an entity to exist, others must be   
   >> "wrong" and "stupid" or otherwise inferior.  It exists in a reactive   
   >> state, completely dependent on the world of form.   
   >>   
   >> For this god is a jealous god that can bridge no other gods before it;   
   >> that is how precarious its illusory existence is.  What it requires to   
   >> survive is for the possessed person to be lost in thought, and to be   
   >> thereby rendered incapable of severing its complete identification   
   >> with it and thereby dwell in the stillness that is its very source.   
   >>   
   >> But it is a paper tiger because, while dysfunctional. it is illusory.   
   >> A simple shift in perspective from subject-object conscious voice in   
   >> the head to the observer of this trickster is sufficient to send it   
   >> back into the 5th dimension (which, fittingly enough, is an abstract   
   >> thought construct).  You can't fight fire with gasoline. You can only   
   >> starve it by no longer feeding it with fuel.   
   >   
   >   
   > what's my name bitch.   
      
   Your name was bitch, but you changed it to glitch.  Am I on the right track?   
      
   Robert   
      
   = = = = =   
      
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