XPost: alt.philosophy.zen, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism   
   From: daletx@gnusguy.com   
      
   On 8/22/2016 2:59 PM, pi wrote:   
   > 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   
      
   You're gonna have to name the tune, there, bubba, I ain't familiar with   
   your lyrics.   
      
   DT   
      
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