XPost: alt.philosophy.zen, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism   
   From: daletx@gnusguy.com   
      
   On 8/22/2016 5:33 PM, pi wrote:   
   > On 2016-08-23 00:11, daletx wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Natalie Dessay: Bach Cantata, BWV 82a (V: "Ich freue mich auf meinen Tod")   
   >   
   > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlkptptY4SU   
   >   
   > I delight in my death,   
   > ah, if it were only present already!   
   >   
   > pi   
      
   Very nice, although a far cry from The Band.   
      
   I guess we're getting Bach to where we once belonged.   
      
   DT   
      
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