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   niunian to jigme.dorje123@gmail.com   
   Re: The supreme teaching (was Re: fear,    
   13 Aug 10 14:43:09   
   
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   From: niunian@ymail.com   
      
   On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:45:24 -0700 (PDT), Jigme Dorje   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Aug 12, 3:20?pm, oxtail  wrote:   
   >> Catawumpus wrote:   
   >> > oxtail :   
   >>   
   >> >>>> Shouldn't you be glad to be alive   
   >> >>>> regardless of whether life is full of suffering or not?   
   >>   
   >> > Catawumpus :   
   >>   
   >> >>> ? ? ?No. ?Although if you're attached to life it's only natural   
   >> >>> you'd disagree.   
   >>   
   >> > oxtail:   
   >>   
   >> >> "Compassion without attachment is possible."   
   >>   
   >> > ? ? ?Ah, but you weren't talking about compassion, were you, my   
   >> > litte eel? ?You were proposing a happy dance: ?pagan gambolling "whether   
   >> > life is full of suffering or not," not only charity to those in pain.   
   >>   
   >> You don't appear to be familiar with right speech.   
   >> Would you like to learn how   
   >> to keep an awareness imbued with compassion?   
   >>   
   >> --   
   >> Oxtail is not doing what he thinks he is doing here.   
   >   
   >Of course not. He's going to have to beg for it.   
      
   Stop feeding oxtail's ego. Can't you see he is only pretending?   
      
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