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   From: tanghuyen@gmail.com   
      
   On 8/21/2016 12:53 PM, brian mitchell wrote:   
      
   >  "Ned Ludd":   
      
   >>  Frankentang!  Get out the pitchforks and torches!   
      
   > Not at all, not at all. It's the Miracle of Transfiguration   
   > for the modern age.   
      
   I can to some limited extent remake   
   myself and reinvent myself, but only so   
   much and not any more. It is like   
   pressing an inflated doll: you press   
   some place in, and another pops out.   
   One can turn out to be a monster,   
   unawares.   
      
   "Form is not-self. If form was self, this   
   form would not lead to affliction, and   
   it could be had of form: Let my form   
   be thus, let my form not be thus. And   
   because form is not-self that it   
   therefore leads to affliction, and that   
   it cannot be had of form: Let my form   
   be thus, let my form not be thus." SN,   
   III, 66 (22, 59).   
      
   So, everything being not-self, I know   
   that I should not try too hard to bend   
   myself to what I like to be, though it   
   does work to some limited extent.   
   Given such limited malleability, I   
   hope that you folks can take me.   
      
   Tang Huyen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)