[Buddha-l] Re: Good-bye

[Richard Hayes]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:36:12 +0200
  Benito Carral <bcarral at kungzhi.org> wrote:

>   Thank  you, but I'm not a "señorito" in any way. I'm
> just  someone  interested  in  talk about Buddhism in a
> civilized  way.  It's  just that I don't have to suffer
> Richard's (and his "friends'") speech.

Let's begin constructively. Why don't you say what exactly 
it was that you found offensive or in violation of speech 
precepts. It is possible that we disagree about some 
matters, but my disagreements with others are invariably 
cordial and in the spirit of friendship, even if they are 
sometimes ironic in tone. (The Buddha had a fondness for 
irony, too. This is the only way in which I resemble him, 
but it's a start.) In short, there is no reason why we two 
seasoned veterans of Buddhist practice cannot amicably 
discuss points on which they disagree.

Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico