XPost: alt.philosophy.zen, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism   
   From: daletx@gnusguy.com   
      
   On 8/21/2016 6:41 PM, djinn wrote:   
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   >   
   > "brian mitchell"  wrote in message   
   > news:l6akrbdoo3i2flnm60gndq59t8rs8tlfla@4ax.com...   
   >   
   > On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 14:35:31 -0700, Tang Huyen    
   > wrote:   
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   >> 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   
   >   
   > "Out of nine lives, I spent seven   
   > Now, how in the world do you get to Heaven   
   > Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in ..."   
   >   
   > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   
   >   
   > "a drunkard's dream if I ever did see one."   
   >> up on cripple creek   
   >> the band   
      
   "Life is a carnival, believe it or not..."   
      
   DT   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)