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From: japlady@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Rebecca Radnor)
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Subject: Re: On telling if someone is a master.
Summary: On who is a master and the gum boo
Keywords: The master and the Gum Boo dragon
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Date: 22 May 91 19:17:55 GMT
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     Hmm, gum boo, I like that.  Yes, the frantic search for the gum boo
vaccine is the gum boo, thats why the zen teacher Dogen said to establish
your practice in the midst of delusion, not enlightenment.  In fact, the
whole notion of illusion vs. insight, practice vs. enlightenment is ....
As if practice, a teaching, a teacher is like a pair of glasses you put on
in order to see better.  
     There was this student who "made up his mind" to be mindful in
everything he did.  The next day he went to his teacher and said "I'm a
total failure. My mind wanders like a monkey. There wasn't even a moment of
minfulness!" 
     To this the teacher replied, "The secret to the enlightened life is to
succeed failure with failure.  You understand?  The best way to describe an
awakened person's life is ONE BIG MISTAKE." 
     So it is with the gum boo. Do you have the gum boo disease?  Go
completely with gum boo.  Eat gum boo. Sleep gum boo. Type gum boo.
Gumboogumboogumboogumboo.  Only this much!  
     So, is your teacher elightened?  gum boo
     Not enlightened? gum boo.
     Is Krishnamurti right? Wrong? A fool? Gum boo
     Is this posting a bunch of bull? gum boo
                                                    Sincerely,
					Your most ignorant gum boo man
							 J. Cha.	


-- 
Rebecca Radnor           \\ I know everything,
Northwester University   \\ I know nothing,
Anthropology Department  \\ I used to put sticks under the back porch 
			 \\      and wait for them to petrify.