XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   Tang wrote:   
      
   >I have often accused Jigme of hiding under Evelyn's skirt.   
   >I have myself hidden under her skirt to proclaim exemplary   
   >norms and standards of behaviour on Usenet, and also in   
   >real life in the meat world. She articulates them with dead   
   >precision. Of course I also claimed often to apply them back   
   >to her.   
      
   All I know of you and Evelyn is a distortion of my own mirror-world.   
      
   When she would appear, here, in some cross-post,   
   it was good to see her and she seemed nice enough to me.   
      
   What horrors her story held in store, I only had glimpses of glimmers.   
      
   How much you helped or hurt her in the process is really   
   none of my business, except I'm a curious sort   
   of a sorter who sorts thru stuff.   
      
   Aye, prod and poke and occasionally strike a nerve   
   if not one out of the ball park.   
      
   >If I had money, I would hire you to follow me around to point   
   >out my faults and errors to me.   
      
   After I retired, people would ask me about doing stuff.   
   I'd sometimes say that my rate is $1,000 for showing up   
   and $1,000 per hour, with the first thou-   
   sand being applied as it were with   
   a grain of truth to the idea.   
      
   >The rest of the time, it would   
   >still be my plain-Jane me.   
      
   If you think you have faults then that's how you think.   
      
   Earth has her own faults and the lines drawn on maps   
   might provide a clue for such as  *that*   
   of sorts.   
      
   No one blames Mother Earth for what she does.   
      
   Why any one, ought, or, should, blame any   
   so-called other, tends to occur after an   
   uncarved block is carved.   
      
   Seeing one's own self and all things as perfect   
   can be a sort of a Shen, or sacred, spiritual, Way.   
      
   Thinking one may be able to change the world,   
   or change one's self can be how mud settles   
   and paint dries, when one has Da De,   
   without giving things a second   
   thought at any time.   
      
   - en passant   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)