From: Vanessa Novaeris (novaeris@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Jul 19 2002 - 20:51:20 MDT
humania wrote:
<<They say, the Dalai Lama is a very sympathetic man with a great sense of
humour. But as long as he allows his disciples and even "normal" people to
adress him as "Your Holiness", he cannot really be holy. If I were holy, and
I can tell you, I`m NOT, I wouldn`t allow anyone to call me holy. This ole
whole Holyphony about the Lama seems to be strong enough to lead you into
temptation to refrain from questioning his words.
If there are spiritual longings inside the transhuman community I would plead
for an *Abstract Spirituality* which gets rid of all superstitiousl and
religious roots, maybe something like *Zen without Buddhism*.>>
I'm actually reeeally glad someone posted this reply. It half-struck me when
I was writing my first post that the "His Holiness" part was irksome. I think
I just kind of skipped over it in my mind & continued on writing (bad! bad
vanessa!) So seeing this reminds me to really *think* through my ideas &
then think again about the words I choose to express them. I didn't even
have to read this twice to see where I was wrong (doh!) & it made perfect
sense because actually, I really agree with humania about this. So thanks for
checking me on that one :)
I think one of the best things about an open forum like this is having the
opportunity to evaluate & adjust your own ideas (whether it makes them weaker
or even stronger).
Maybe I'm just feeling very Zen about the whole Zen topic :P
novaeris
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