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Post by maddogblues on Feb 25, 2010 21:06:27 GMT -5
Great read about 'Jushua ben Adam'. Reminds me of the Soto Buddhism idea - the monk's goal is to become JUST A MAN. An 'ordinary man'. To be 'noone' - not even a monk. That's where the practice leads. Yes I practice a form, my own form, of zen by simply observing the moment. I correlate this with the under girding knowledge that the moment is merely but entirely the whole in one place. Next moment there is something else. I recognize it as the flowing of a continuum. Any attempt to hold it or keep it shows a misapprehension of what there really is. Are you familiar with this? leb.net/~mira/works/prophet/prophet.htmlI first ran across this book in 1968. I loved it so much I typed it out thinking it must not be in print any longer. It is still in print.
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Post by freelaw on Mar 5, 2010 12:56:50 GMT -5
I'm not familiar with The Prophet. What is interesting to me after first look is a question of marriage that's in there. It seems to be in favour of marriage as an unbreakable relationship.
It gets me to think about common, everyday human laws and the sens of them. It seems you don't necesarrily believe in the institutionb of marriage. Would you go with the topic?
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Post by maddogblues on Mar 5, 2010 16:58:53 GMT -5
I'm not familiar with The Prophet. What is interesting to me after first look is a question of marriage that's in there. It seems to be in favour of marriage as an unbreakable relationship. It gets me to think about common, everyday human laws and the sens of them. It seems you don't necesarrily believe in the institutionb of marriage. Would you go with the topic? I like the idea of marriage myself. I would marry again if the chance came to me. I was married 20 years and have two sons. They are in their 40's. Jesus said that Moses allowed divorce because of the hardness of mens hearts. It's quite clear from the Old Testament that the divorce laws were stacked against women from the get go.
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