[Buddha-l] Teaching Zen Buddhist philosophy

[curt]

Ugh. And anyone whose ever had both a cat and a dog knows similarly 
disgusting things that I won't detail further. Obviously this all points 
to "emptiness", or something like it.
- Curt

Stephen Hodge wrote:

> Dear Curt,
>
>> What you say about pablum is also true of vomit (which you mentioned 
>> earlier). Many species make use of vomit as a means for transporting 
>> food in a convenient way.
>
>
> And, though few people know this, rabbits use the product from other 
> end of the intestinal tract as first stage of digestion -- the little 
> pellets they produce later are formed after complete digestion has 
> taken place.  It would be interesting to see how you could work this 
> into your analogy.