XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, talk.religion.buddhism, alt.zen   
   From: oxtail@nowhere.org   
      
   niunian wrote:   
      
   > On Thu, 03 May 2012 14:03:00 -0700, Silas Dollar wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Thu, 03 May 2012 13:29:44 -0700, Silas Dollar   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>On Thu, 3 May 2012 13:23:47 -0700, "Ned Ludd"    
   >>>wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>>"Silas Dollar"  wrote in message   
   >>>>news:ltl5q7p2obpekh549tbbib2olh3rl1hdie@4ax.com...   
   >>>>> I'm posting this as a response to my own previous post on account of   
   >>>>> the  fact that I crossposted it wrong. I was going to tag   
   >>>>> talk.religion.buddhism on to the newsgroup field thing, but I left   
   >>>>> out the 'h' that goes in 'buddhism.' So the post didn't show up in   
   >>>>> that group.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I guess it just goes to show that there's still room for improvement   
   >>>>> even when you're enlightened like me.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>  Yeah.  Tell the church folks that.   
   >>>   
   >>>Thanks for the suggestion, but it's too complicated. I got to tell them   
   >>>something simple so they'll understand the situation. What did you tell   
   >>>folks when you was first enlightened?   
   >>   
   >> I should change that answer just a bit. It ain't complicated that   
   >> there's always room for improvement, but you got to understand that   
   >> these folks is Baptists. They ain't going to look at that answer in the   
   >> same way as enlightened folks like you and me. They is gonna look at it   
   >> like it means that I'm trying to tell them to follow some other set of   
   >> rules than the ones the Lord handed down. Or they're gonna see it as   
   >> like I'm trying to tell them that all rules is wrong. Before I got   
   >> halfway through trying to explain, they'd have me run out of town.   
   >>   
   >>>> Ned   
   >   
   > Actually, a person who is enlightened would pack up and run out of town   
   > like he has robbed the bank. Or he may continue to do what he has always   
   > been doing just to avoid the attention. When you see people insisting on   
   > posting to this dying internet relic called usenet newsgroup, you know   
   > no one is enlightened here.   
      
      
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