[Buddha-l] Re: The mess in America

[Richard Hayes]

On Tuesday 12 February 2008 11:21, Jim Peavler wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2008, at 9:34 AM, Richard Hayes wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 17:22 -0500, Dan Lusthaus wrote:
> >> When's your birthday? I'll send you a clean mirror. Sudden or no
> >> sudden,
> >> yours needs wiping.
> >
> > How refreshing to see a well-intentioned message without any hint of a
> > jeer. Now buddha-l is back on track.
>
> Sorry. I'm going to have to call you on that for illegal defense.
> There was not even a hint of Buddhist material, except, perhaps the
> word "birthday" in Dan's quotation (which I will save for future
> reference in case this situation arises again in 6 or so months.

I thought Dan's reference to sudden and gradual birthdays was an oblique 
reference to the recently discovered Zen text entitled Platform Sutra of the 
Sixth Birthday Party Ark (so called because it was found in Arkansas). 

Now I'd be the first to admit that Zen has nothing whatsoever to do with 
Buddhism, so I gratefully receive the slap on the wrist for having 
transcended the rules of buddha-l, which stipulate that every message must 
contain either Buddhist content, evidence in support of allegations of global 
anti-Semitism or innuendos against that imaginary beast known to Republicans 
as Islamo-fascism.

-- 
Richard P. Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico
http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes