[Buddha-l] Re: On being androgynous

Joy Vriens joy.vriens at nerim.net
Fri Oct 21 23:42:10 MDT 2005


Richard P. Hayes wrote:

> They were on buddha-l until I kicked them off. Then they went to the
> buddhist at listserv.mcgill.ca list, which no longer exists. After that,
> they went to the insight list. At one point they admitted they were on a
> mission to "clean up" all the lists that claimed to be about Buddhism.
> They were convinced that no monk, no lama, no roshi, no academic and no
> mere practitioner understands Buddhism correctly. Eventually it became
> clear that in their view not even the Buddha had understood Buddhism
> correctly. These fellows had a lot of correcting to do.

It comes back to me now. The most striking thing about them, something 
which took me a while to realise because I didn't know whether they 
weren't tongue in cheek, was their total absence of humour. Which struck 
me again when I saw the website you refered to.


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