Path: typhoon.sonic.net!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.philosophy.zen,alt.zen,alt.religion.buddhism,talk.religion.buddhism Subject: Reading and Simple Paths References: <3E000758.841510EC@verizon.net> From: i@no.self (!) Reply-To: spam@luckymojo.com User-Agent: nn/6.6.0 Lines: 28 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 04:54:33 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.201.242.18 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net X-Trace: typhoon.sonic.net 1040619273 208.201.242.18 (Sun, 22 Dec 2002 20:54:33 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 20:54:33 PST Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.philosophy.zen:108977 alt.zen:331693 talk.religion.buddhism:248655 Robert Epstein : |# ...books are not the enemy. the pesky Mara cartoon? |# You can read without substituting concepts for reality. who can? reading my self into words, unable to get out "Anders Honore" : | I wonder if you can though. Staying with beloved externals, | Mazu said 'your own treasure house contains everything you | need. No reason to look to anything outside yourself'. backyard Buddha | You know the path, don't you? If so, what is causing you | simply not just stay with that, and trust the inherent | Prajna of your own mind? The path is as simple as we make | it out to be. evil genius bodhisattvas! | Why do you want to read those books, if not because you | are infatuated with something outside yourself (the ideas | they present)? imagination makes for tasty distraction