Posted by SLS on July 7, 2009, at 15:29:49
In reply to Re: would I do it when I'm happy? ***triggers*** » SLS, posted by Timne on July 7, 2009, at 14:13:59
> > I think I have a better understanding of your friend's (and your) situation now. You can sure write!
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> > Your friend has no place to be.
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> > Perhaps a monastery of some sort?
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> >
> > - Scott
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> In a tribute to folk-music legend Leonard Cohen, he describes his years as a practicing, ordained Buddhist monk. "I was gracious to everyone, but I hated everybody."
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> I've found my analysis of authoritarian belief systems interferes with my integration in religious communities. Practical authority - exigencies of the day like planting, harvest and weather, that I understand.
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> "Roshi said...?" That doesn't ring nearly as true in my mind. An egalitarian community would warm my heart. Or I could use my profound writing skills to explain why they all died -- except no publisher wants to tell the story.
I was thinking more of some of the Eastern philosophies.
- Scott
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