[Buddha-l] "Free and Easy" Vajra song

[Franz Metcalf]

Gang,

Thanks to Robert Leverant for Gendun Rinpoche's doha. I see how it  
flows from our back-and-forth on impermanence and attachment. How  
interesting that it caused a stir. (And good catch, Bob Zeuschner on  
the "free and easy" title!)

Commenting on Dan Lusthaus's thought experiment of a comatose person,  
Joanna Kirkpatrick asked

>> Well--under such circumstances, what good would a description of  
>> one's
>> condition do for one or for anybody else?

and Dan Lusthaus replied

> Exactly!

I'm sorry but I'm lost. It's clear that Dan is disgusted with the  
doha, and it also seems Joanna is dubious about it. But it seemed  
fairly mainstream to me, and I could make a case--I *won't*, but I  
*could*--that such an approach to experience might be liberating for a  
person trapped in a coma yet perhaps able to have coherent mental  
states. What is it about this piece that so vexed you, Dan?

Franz