thank you for your kind offer Anthony

a true zen master would not have made those posts

as I am neither pure nor defiled, let the jewels lie amidst the rubble to wash ashore or grind to sand

JD,

I thought I was doing better this time, but then there was that nagging latent anger and resentment towards one of the administrators that just had to find it's voice. My foolish agenda actually does include 'becoming like a fool'...a small success

It has been said if you don't like someone ...

oh get real antonio!
you love the limelight, and crave the attention
it shows everywhere on the forum..

retreat? yes, next week at Jukai..
from this forum? no, from my intoxication with this forum
from you? you flatter yourself

...just cleaning up the spaggheti
please excuse the mess


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Anthony,

as you wish...

Yes, it is true that i saw early in the thread you were very defensive towards a warm spirited post from MikeD, hurling invectives in every direction. Stirring up trouble was not my intent, calling your attention to your response and that it did not go unnoticed was.

I am ...

hey antonio,

there go those sheep again.. i tried to download 'em but they came out so small i couldn't read the words.. now, they're gone from the top of the forum pages.. what's a feller to do? also, what happened to my junior member status and what's it all about alfie?

In some zen circles ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>I am litterly moving through a sub-reality when I do Kata in this way. Another part of the world that is hidden from view. The expression in my kata is nothing more than that of a torch. It's like bringing a torch into a cave. that's ...

oh dorothy, don't be afraid, YOU ARE ALONE WITH EVERYONE ELSE..i recommend as an alternate, clicking your heels together three times while uttering the eternal mantra lightly under your breath, "there's no place like home"

hey Antonio!

..haven't tried knitting yet but I am getting into sewing. The practice of mindfulness takes many forms. Martial arts can be one, but for many it never becomes such. To my way of thinking, this is like eating the pit without tasting the peach.

The book I quoted from (a dictionary ...

So what is Mushin?

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote Jap., colloquial, lit. "innocence"; in Zen an expression for detachment of mind, a state of complete naturalness and freedom from dualistic thinking and feeling. (also--> Mosshoseki).

Karate guys will emphasize a ...

hey Anthony,

It's pretty handy having the option to edit our posts once the flames die down and we've had a chance to return to our breath.

I noticed this recently when someone else got a little offended and started ranting and disparaging his fellow karateka in foolish indignation...soon the ...

forgive my irreverence...

indigenous people of many cultures have special naming rites:

a native youth curiously watched a tribal elder giving the birth name to a new child born minutes before, "Grandfather, how do you decide the name of a new baby?"

Grandfather had named many children in his ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote The concept of mushin (loosely translated as "no mind") is very important in the practice of kata. The bow is meant as a ritual to prepare your mind to enter into the state of mushin. At the end of the form you mind should be in a state of ...

for Anthony: someone FW'd these, I thought of you...

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