XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.philosophy.zen, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   From: pi65478@gmail.com   
      
   On 2016-08-23 04:54, noname wrote:   
   > 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   
   >>   
   >   
   > There are two kinds of cooperation.   
   >   
   > One kind of cooperation is submission to the group, and groups always have   
   > alphas, thus cooperation is submission to the group-alpha.   
   >   
   > Not everyone chooses to play that game.   
   >   
   > There is another kind of cooperation, that is not forced, not submission.   
   > It just happens when people are on a similar path to a similar place.   
   >   
   > One might call that kind of cooperating coincidental operating, rather than   
   > co-opted operating.   
      
   Right.   
      
   pi   
      
   Only Gods and animals are capable of living alone. -- Nietzsche   
      
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