[Buddha-l] Enneagram-L

[Curt Steinmetz]

This only partially answers the question. The two most important 
characteristics of cooties, as everyone knows, are:

(1) they are highly contagious

(2) girls have them

In order to distinguish cooties from siddhis we must determine the 
extent to which the state of siddhidom is contagious and whether or not 
girls are especially vulnerable. I think that answering the second 
question could fall under NIH guidelines for the inclusion of women an 
minorities in medical research:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/women_min/guidelines_amended_10_2001.htm


Richard Hayes wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 08:19 -0500, Curt Steinmetz wrote:
>
>   
>> Are siddhis anything like cooties?
>>     
>
> There is no connection whatsoever. As everyone knows, a groupie is
> someone who hangs out with groups. Similarly, a cootie is someone who
> hangs out with coots. I did this just a few days ago at Bosque del
> Apache wildlife preserve. Many of well-meaning friend has made me an
> honorary coot elder; I'm assuming that's what they mean in calling me an
> old coot. So we now see the derivational pattern. Obviously, a siddhi is
> someone who hangs out with Siddh, which is what a Jewish Buddhist friend
> of mine likes to call Siddhārtha.
>
> We're all siddhis here on buddha-l.
>
>