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   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   Tang wrote:   
      
   >As I often say, mindfulness is hard, and demands so much   
   >that if one can fake it, one has it.   
      
   You seem to have a connotation in mind.   
      
   > Of course here on these   
   >boards we are all protected by asynchronicity, so that one   
   >can type up any, er, intempestive post, and delete it, and   
   >no one else will be wiser, but one's overall tone still bleeds   
   >through anyway, willy nilly.   
      
   I spew even more words than what appears on screens   
   sometimes before getting to the end of a message   
   it gets deleted, being mindful, of what is being written.   
      
   > Therefore one's absence of   
   >mindfulness is very hard to hide, regardless of   
   >externalities, the protection of asynchronicity   
   >notwithstanding.   
      
   Were I to be totally calm, I'd never respond.   
      
   Does a lake, reflecting the Moon, say anything?   
      
   Thus, those that know calm and are, what could they say?   
      
   Why make waves?   
      
   Other.   
      
   Then having fun.   
      
   - two play   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)