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From: dogen@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Chq)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.eastern
Subject: Re: More Gomboo
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Date: 28 May 91 17:31:35 GMT
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Mr. C. N. Yee,
              Thanks for the quotes from da free john.  I've known people
who have had tremendous "awakenings", and this does not seem to make them
any "better".  Pride, jealousy, anger, have not been eradicated. In fact it
becomes worse,sometimes, because they have attained something their ignorant
bretheren have not.  At first I thought this affliction of arrogance was a
problem of the 'intellectuals',--we academicians take pride in
whatever scholarly achievments we make, aithough the most 'humble' person
I've met is a pure land priest and a Buddhist scholar who has read most of
the major Buddhist works in all four cannonical languages (Sanskrit, Pali,
Chinese, and Tibetan!)--, but it seems to afflict most people (myself
included, of course8-)].  But on those very rare occaisions when I have
observed selfishness, etc., in me arise and pass away were the times when I
was 'free' from them.  Thats why I think an emphasis on conscious living is
important.  So, am I aware of the pressure of the keys on my fingers?  Who
asks?  Yes, gomboo can run thick at times.  
justrunningthickjustrunningthickjustrunningthick,
							J. C.

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-- John Cha
"The present is always more interesting than the future or the past"
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