[Buddha-l] Pennsylvania and crying Buddhas

[jkirk]

 but
> how to be open only to crying but not to laughing, to
> be capable of depression but not joy? It's enough to
> ask which Buddhism that would be? (just wondering
> aloud), 
> 
> Mitchell
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Hi Mitchell,
I seem to have missed something. What texts claim that Buddhas 
only cry but don't laugh? or are capable only of depression not joy?
To give only one instance, many of the Japanese Zen monk poets 
were certainly capable of both and wrote about it. One of them loved
playing games with the local kids. Others loved hanging out under 
cherry blossom trees and wrote about it as an experience of joy.
And soon.....
Best,
Joanna