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Author: K-10000K-10000 Date: Jan 6, 2007 14:04
Tang Huyen wrote:
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> K-10000 wrote:
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>> Tang Huyen:
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>>> "Christopher A.Lee":
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>>>> So many of these loonies imagine that everything revolves around the
>>>> hypothetical object of their religious belief and are too stupid to
>>>> accept that it doesn't for people outside their religion.
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>>> That's what the Buddha says about rigidly sticking to views.
>>> Not just theism of any type, but also scientistic-physicalism.
>>> Such views are purely subjective, strictly sentimental, a
>>> revenge of mind over matter, especially as they are used as
>>> ultimate boxes into which to fit everything, without mercy.
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>> You have to stay "on the fence"
>> to appreciate a really good joke. ...
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Date: Jan 6, 2007 14:26
K-10000 wrote:
> Tang Huyen:
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>> What the wisdom of Buddhism comes down to is
>> not in inane paradoxes or in whatever
>> transcendent states, but in the ability to relax,
>> be serene, keep balance and perspective, and
>> enjoy humour, irony, levity, both in the giving and
>> taking of them -- all of which come into play in
>> the ability to stay "on the fence" to appreciate a
>> really good joke.
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> It doesn't seem easy to ride a unicycle on a tightrope
> in hyperspace while an audience is screaming at you.
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> It probably pays to have a very low center of gravity?
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> hee haw
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Author: Déjà FuDéjà Fu Date: Jan 6, 2007 14:34
Tang Huyen wrote:
... it has been
> reworked to become light and not heavy, flexible
> and not rigid, adaptable and not unwieldy,
> transparent and not opaque...
Aren't you tired of presuming that people can't
read X and and assume Y? Or eating the same bowl
of rice over and over?
"What did you have for breakfast?"
"This morning, I had rice."
"What did you have yesterday?"
"Rice."
"You eat the same thing, every day!?"
"Don't be such a moron."
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Author: Déjà FuDéjà Fu Date: Jan 6, 2007 15:16
Tang Huyen wrote:
> Balance and perspective are good, but ultimately
> when one has dropped everything, one has nothing
> to balance and sees from the perspective of no
> perspective. When that happens, one no longer
> creates a self for one to carry about, one travels
> lightly and enjoys a very low centre of gravity. Even
> when one has to reactivate one's mentational
> apparatus to deal with normal life, it has been
> reworked to become light and not heavy, flexible
> and not rigid, adaptable and not unwieldy,
> transparent and not opaque. The Japanese
> realise the imagery by making a doll named
> Daruma (Bodhidharma), for the Indian monk who
> brought Chan/Zen to China. It has a very low
> centre of gravity, and when pushed, will bounce
> right and left and soon right itself.
Hahahahaaa! Yes, you can always go back to your
foolishness - "right" or not...
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