tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19289966.post114886167581454649..comments2023-09-13T07:58:39.352-06:00Comments on Masochistic Perceptions, Trials and Truths: Ed Meershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079101364912241838noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19289966.post-1149365195072120902006-06-03T14:06:00.000-06:002006-06-03T14:06:00.000-06:00cockroach nodroganon again... no other comment see...cockroach nodroganon again... no other comment seems like summer vacuum. miss the max but not musch; minnie keeps busy with cheese droppings (code). looking for utne on site and found subscription, but less interested now, or in geist from left coast. i forget, was this comment on education or culture... teaching of tao also comes easy, if pretense is dropped....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19289966.post-1149006193936462072006-05-30T10:23:00.000-06:002006-05-30T10:23:00.000-06:00as cockroach in the wall, cannot leave your blog-s...as cockroach in the wall, cannot leave your blog-spot empty. i see the latest two entries as related, the reason and education. you present these topics well, especially with buddhist influence. reason was a major part of siddartha's enlightenment and teaching took up 2/3's of his life after that. simple living, reasonably, from insight of truth seem to be grounds for teaching that can be attained by any one. jesus teaching time was only 1/10 th. of life where inspiration was all-important, but the simplicity of his teaching was grasped by any one. a short life in truth is equal to a long life of faith. a word of truth outweighs all the accumulation of power and wealth. the compromises made by any one with truth and beauty, to achieve temporary, lead to death by degrees and loss of self in sand, instead of loss of self in one-ness of being. there are these neat arcs of truth in meditation and worship where the one of a measured i.q. of 75 equals the one of m.i.q. of 175. the life work of one = the other, but it is not mathematical. education in a modern, western state has included the ideals you express, which have passed into asian experience in the past 30 years, in spite of the violence expressed by state and other fearful individuals and groups, afraid to lose control over the traditional rite. so with patience and peace, as a buddhist or christian or jew or muslim, or even as a cynical atheist, wait for the changes and feel free to die while waiting; in so doing, join as one with millions of others who died waiting. when you do teach, can you make it more obvious that evolution proves the existence of the creator, an intelligent designer with oneness in mind? look at your keyboard and note a cockroach can step on shift and question mark at the same time. so, do not worry, do not be afraid, do not hope for change in the form of control over the state by the people. be quiet, or make noise, but be reasonable and be peaceful. merci and mercy are one. nodrog the cockroach, arch out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com