Path: typhoon.sonic.net!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.magick,alt.religion.buddhism,talk.religion.buddhism,talk.religion.misc,alt.zen Followup-To: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.religion.buddhism,talk.religion.buddhism,alt.zen Subject: Attachment and Personae (was Way of Bodisattva...) References: From: i@no.self (!) Reply-To: spam@luckymojo.com User-Agent: nn/6.6.0 Lines: 19 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 04:01:34 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.201.242.18 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net X-Trace: typhoon.sonic.net 1031457694 208.201.242.18 (Sat, 07 Sep 2002 21:01:34 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 21:01:34 PDT Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick.tyagi:34555 alt.magick:316862 talk.religion.buddhism:233968 talk.religion.misc:386387 alt.zen:315457 "Lu Zhen Shih" <.>: | Is it proper to speak to one another on a level of | personality or on a level of non-attachment clinging | to individualistic personality? speaking to one another dispassionately as if automatons or without affect as *if* nonattached is just plain silly and typically hides a kind of arrogant charlatanry those without attachment are flexible playmates without soft-spots to misunderstand or over-react to expression. clinging to anything that changes is improper should one seek to retain spiritual composure and function harmonically with one's sangha propriety, however, is the selection of the conditioned. doing anything *because* it is or is not proper displays the very attachment from which one may seek to distance oneself. the slide into Nirvana is tricky indeed