XPost: alt.philosophy.zen, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism
From: pi65478@gmail.com
On 2016-08-22 20:11, daletx wrote:
> On 8/21/2016 6:41 PM, djinn wrote:
>>
>>
>> "brian mitchell" wrote in message
>> news:l6akrbdoo3i2flnm60gndq59t8rs8tlfla@4ax.com...
>>
>> On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 14:35:31 -0700, Tang Huyen
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
Human life is cooperation.
pi
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