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   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   noname wrote:   
      
   >  A true Master   
   >would not get frazzled enough to reply as he did.   
      
   He wasn't frazzled at all.   
      
   He was restoring an old car and needed a part for it.   
   I was being my asshole self and picking at words, as usual.   
      
   We've known each other for over 50 years.   
      
   What's your impression of a true Master?   
   Was your father one in any Way?   
   Mine was, in some ways.   
      
   From what I've gathered of people who have gurus,   
   after some initial, OMG this person is God, wears off,   
   it turns out the guru is a normal person, aside from   
   various siddhis that manifest during the course   
   of showing the initiate, or student, etc., how   
   things are at various levels of reality.   
      
   Ram Dass, once again, can be an example of that,   
   as he told his tale long ago, if you're familiar with him/it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)