> You are banging your head against a brick wall and feeling very bruised,
> frustrated and sorry for yourself when someone comes up to you and
> says:" Shall I show you how those bad feelings can come to an end?"
>
> "Oh, yes please!" You respond.
>
> "Carefully, attentively, bang your head against that brick wall."
>
> _____
> freakyman

> Mr Freakyman wrote:

>> You are banging your head against a brick wall and feeling very bruised,
>> frustrated and sorry for yourself when someone comes up to you and
>> says:" Shall I show you how those bad feelings can come to an end?"

>

>> "Oh, yes please!" You respond.

>

>> "Carefully, attentively, bang your head against that brick wall."

>

>> _____
>> freakyman

>
> Mr Freakyman is Brian Mitchell, and
> the above was posted on 29 Jun 2003.
>
> Tang Huyen

> On May 4, 3:57 am, Tang Huyen gmail.com[remove]>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>

>> Mr Freakyman wrote:

>>> You are banging your head against a brick wall and feeling very bruised,
>>> frustrated and sorry for yourself when someone comes up to you and
>>> says:" Shall I show you how those bad feelings can come to an end?"

>

>>> "Oh, yes please!" You respond.

>

>>> "Carefully, attentively, bang your head against that brick wall."

>

>>> _____
>>> freakyman

> ...

> On May 4, 3:57 am, Tang Huyen gmail.com[remove]>
> wrote:
>

>>Mr Freakyman wrote:
>>

>>>You are banging your head against a brick wall and feeling very bruised,
>>>frustrated and...

> On May 4, 8:25 am, norbu.tra...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>
>

>> On May 4, 3:57 am,TangHuyen gmail.com[remove]>
>> wrote:

>

>>> Mr Freakyman wrote:

>>>> You are banging your head against a brick wall and feeling very bruised,
>>>> frustrated and sorry for yourself when someone comes up to you and
>>>> says:" Shall I show you how those bad feelings can come to an end?"

>

>>>> "Oh, yes please!" You respond.

>

>>>> "Carefully, attentively, bang your head against that brick wall."

>

>>>> _____
>>>> freakyman

> ...

> On May 4, 1:50 pm, Dave K yahoo.com> wrote:

>> On May 4, 8:25 am, norbu.tra...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>

>>> On May 4, 3:57 am,TangHuyen gmail.com[remove]>
>>> wrote:

>>

>>>> Mr Freakyman wrote:

>>>>> You are banging your head against a brick wall and feeling very
>>>>> bruised,
>>>>> frustrated and sorry for yourself when someone comes up to you and
>>>>> says:" Shall I show you how those bad feelings can come to an end?"

>>

>>>>> "Oh, yes please!" You respond.

>>

>>>>> "Carefully, attentively, bang your head against that brick wall."

>> ...

> Yeah, ol' Tang likes to merge posters and project all sorts of
> fantasies into them. Why, I'll bet he'll confuse me with the ghost of
> Vasubandhu or something.
>
> Btw, "Carefully, attentively, bang...

> norbu.tra...@gmail.com wrote:

>> On May 4, 3:57 am, Tang Huyen gmail.com[remove]>
>> wrote:

>

>>>Mr Freakyman wrote:

>

>>>>You are banging your head against a brick wall and feeling very bruised,
>>>>frustrated and sorry for yourself when someone comes up to you and
>>>>says:" Shall I show you how those bad feelings can come to an end?"

>

>>>>"Oh, yes please!" You respond.

>

>>>>"Carefully, attentively, bang your head against that brick wall."

>

>>>>_____
>>>>freakyman

>

>>>Mr Freakyman is Brian Mitchell, and
>>>the above was posted on 29 Jun 2003. ...

> no...i think the land of fluff is what we have usually -
>
> "I have to meet Joe and get him to sign the contract;
> I have to renegotiate the lease; I have to get the tires rotated;
> I have to file...

> DharmaTroll wrote:

>> Yeah, ol' Tang likes to merge posters and project all sorts of
>> fantasies into them. Why, I'll bet he'll confuse me with the ghost of
>> Vasubandhu or something.

>

>> Btw, "Carefully, attentively, bang your head against that brick wall"
>> might do the trick in terms of nasty habits such as smoking
>> cigarettes. Smokers have all sorts of emotional attachments and
>> conditioned patterns that are connected to the habit (aside from the
>> physical addiction) and slowing it down. Enormously helpful is simply
>> watching the patterns when one craves a cigarette and noting the
>> soothing effect of it and what emotional states triggered the craving
>> for one and what feelings were present during the smoking process.
>> Getting to know all that infrastructure mindfully may be a better shot
>> at ending the nasty habit instead of willfully struggling against it
>> and then finding that one is overwhelmed by the habit. Indeed, there
>> is a lot to be said for carefully, attentively continuing a
>> destructive pattern. And just forgiving the habit, that is, accepting ...