>Keynes:

>> On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:18:27 +0200, Bruce Pole wrote:
>>

>>> Keynes:

>>>> On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:36:23 GMT, "buddhapest" yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>

>>>>>

> Bruce Pole wrote:
>

>> Just curious. I though if I knew someone who knows what is fit for
>> others, I may find out what is fit for me. So you are as lost as I am?

>
> I have no objection to the possibility that some people
> know me better than I know myself, even if they have
> never met me. To be more specific, I allow that they
> can know what is fit for me better than I know it for
> myself, again though they may have never met me. In
> the wild world I have no way of knowing for sure that
> such is impossible, and have intimations that it is
> possible.

>
> Bruce Pole wrote:
>

>> Someone who tries to sell us what we already have?
>> Give me your attention, so I can sell it to you.

>
> Fancy results like awakening or whatever aside,
> what most spiritual regimens do is to grab the
> scattered attention of their students and pull it
> together into one relatively collected whole. In
> comes the scattered attention, out comes the
> collected attention. Of course the collected
> attention can hopefully be collected on something
> wholesome, but it can also be collected on
> killing with Prussian efficiency and total absence
> of remorse, as in Japanese Zen.
>
> Which is why I think that spiritual training can
> and should be directed to balance and ...

>
> "Bruce Pole" wrote in message
> news:f60823$mlp$4@registered.motzarella.org...

>> Tang Huyen:

>>>
>>> Bruce Pole wrote:
>>>

>>>> Back to work you! Put your apron back on
>>>> and where did you leave the feather duster?

>>>
>>> Your impression of Shantadeva is charming,
>>> dear, and I don't mean to butter you up so
>>> that you'll cease zapping me. Please keep
>>> zapping me, the more the merrier. Don't
>>> leave a single speck of dust left, so that the
>>> feather duster has nothing to dust.

>>
>> I am afraid that if i leave no speck of dust left (if i did have that
>> power), there won't be much Tang Huyen left. Art thou sure? For dust ...

> Hollywood Lee wrote:
>

>> Evelyn Ruut wrote:
>>

>>>
>>>
>>> "Robert Epstein" yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>> news:nrGgi.3618$RZ1.911@trnddc05...
>>>

>>>> Tang Huyen wrote:
>>>>

>>>>>
>>>>> Robert Epstein wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>

>>>>>> Of course, that only comes into play when the insult is purposely
>>>>>> given
>>>>>> to "test" the recipient. This controversial maneouver, something ...

> In article bignews8.bellsouth.net>,
> bellsouth.net> wrote:
>

>> "CoreyWhite" gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1183000324.132776.30460@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>> For those who do not know, the Holy Grail is the Tomb Of Jesus.
>>
>> The Holy Grail was first the plate used at the last supper, then the
>> chalice, finally spinning off into more abstract interpretations. It has
>> nothing to do with the tomb.
>>
>>

> Um, maybe he read Dan Brown and meant womb?
>
> jules

> Tang Huyen wrote:

>>
>> Bruce Pole wrote:
>>

>>> Someone who tries to sell us what we already have?
>>> Give me your attention, so I can sell it to you.

>>
>> Fancy results like awakening or whatever aside,
>> what most spiritual regimens do is to grab the
>> scattered attention of their students and pull it
>> together into one relatively collected whole. In
>> comes the scattered attention, out comes the
>> collected attention. Of course the collected
>> attention can hopefully be collected on something
>> wholesome, but it can also be collected on
>> killing with Prussian efficiency and total absence
>> of remorse, as in Japanese Zen.

> ...

>In article bignews8.bellsouth.net>,
>bellsouth.net> wrote:
>

>> "CoreyWhite" gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1183000324.132776.30460@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>> For those who do not know, the Holy Grail is the Tomb Of Jesus.
>>
>> The Holy Grail was first the plate used at the last supper, then the
>> chalice, finally spinning off into more abstract interpretations. It has
>> nothing to do with the tomb.
>>
>>

>Um, maybe he read Dan Brown and meant womb?
>
>jules

>
> Bruce Pole wrote:
>
>

>>Someone who tries to sell us what we already have?
>>Give me your attention, so I can sell it to you.

>
>
> Fancy results like awakening or whatever aside,
> what most...

> On Jun 27, 6:09 pm, Tang Huyen gmail.com[remove]>
> wrote:
>

>>Robert Epstein wrote:
>>

>>>Of course, that only comes into play when the insult is purposely given
>>>to "test" the...