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what does owning (if a person can own?) a cat have to do with anything?

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I'm not quite sure, as No. 2 Son and I were in our cups when we posted it


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them: I understand but I can't quite agree. Osho writes:"...a scientist...sitting with a plant with electrodes fixed. He thought, 'If I cut this plant....Suddenly, the needle...jumped. The plant became afraid of death...recording that the plant was trembling...just a thought and the plant received it....

...think of cutting one plant, all the other plants...become emotionally disturbed...plants...are more sensitive than the human mind"

Thus one gathers that this fellow has revealed himself, like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as terribly ignorant or immensely credulous and though in other respects it's a beautiful book, he has cast some qualms about Zen


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Interestingly enough, even though Zen isn't trumpeted as a religion, if you question or criticize it in the present extreme Politically-Correct social environment you'll be called sacreligious

However, as I suggested, I think they're laughing at us, as well they might, since we imagine their approach to be far more complex than it is


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Then I grabbed a nearby metal floorlamp and with it's base I sawed his head off.

Savage! Cruel! I do not think I like you at all.

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Who, me?


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Who, me?


no, the quote is milo's, dale.


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How poisonous is a young copperhead? What would you have done?
You can't just sit and meditate it away.
I ate salad and a tomatoe (!)(slowly as recommended by the biodynamicals)
What's more cruel, to eat the salad and the tomatoe or to kill
(in the quickest way) a snake that might bite someone?

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eta, as you gather, I'm not very literate. Actually, I have 11 books going, but I read only during the tv commercials. Hence very slowly

However I'm still vitally interested in comments from anyone else who might have an insight into Zen. Evidently it's kind of obscure, as a similar thread in another site of this sort yielded only 2 responses


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Forgive me for bubbling this one back up, I won't make it a habit; but I have been wondering whether anyone with an afterthought might have further comment

Also, meantime I have encountered in Osho several more puzzling if not egregious instances. For example, on page 58 he makes reference to a Zen allegory with an illustration where a bewildered fellow "...sees the back of the ox standing in the thick forest," though the plate itself shows him observing it head-on, and not in a thick forest but across the banks of a stream

I feel bewildered too


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