[Buddha-l] Re: on eating pets for meat

[Chan Fu]

On 10/24/05, Richard P. Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 23:01 -0400, Chan Fu wrote:
>
> > If and when Richard becomes serious (ie: takes himself seriously),
> > I shall do likewise and then, well, we all know what would happen...
>
> We're talking black holes, into which all wisdom would be sucked, never
> again to emerge.

Black Hole of Compassionate Ignorance -
good name for a line of buddhist vacuum cleaners.
We'll design them to be self-emptying.

> > Buddhists treat karma like religionists treat god, but both sides
> > forget to add the clown nose to that beautiful portrait of some
> > long-haired hippy martyr that they wish they'd been...
>
> Hey, I fled the country during the Vietnam war and lived with a bunch of
> Quakers (refugees from the McCarthy era) in a remote part of the
> mountains of western Canada. And I marched in a demonstration once and
> chanted some anti-American slogans in French in front of the US embassy
> in Ottawa. Don't I get a few hippie points for THAT---even though I did
> have my clown nose in the pocket of my coveralls, right next to my
> copies of the Communist Manifesto, the Sayings of Chairman Mao and the I
> Ching, and the tattered picture of Che?

packed neatly in two suitcases
down in the cellar
my ideals.

> Seriously yours,

:-)  likewise