XPost: alt.philosophy.zen, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   Tang wrote:   
      
   >This is why I am always surprised by grooved-in   
   >practitioners of mental culture who, after studying and   
   >practicing under (presumably) reputable teachers   
   >from exotic lands for thirty, forty years or more, still   
   >blow up all over the place when confronted by mere   
   >words on the screen, which moreover may not be   
   >directed at them, at least not by name. Why don't they   
   >just go to parks and fly kites?   
      
   Brings to mind when Zz was passing by Huizi's grave.   
      
   Mention was made of a speck, the size of a fly's wing,   
   that was able to be removed by the whoosh of an axe,   
   near the nose on which the speck was.   
      
   Zz lamented.   
   Those days are gone, he said.   
      
   People wander into Usenet with specks, spots,   
   or green and orange polka-dots. Perhaps they have   
   attained some great height or understanding or   
   realization on down the line. And yet.   
      
   Unbeknownst to them, asking not   
   for whom the axe tolls and exacts its elf.   
      
   - even if not exactly   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)