[Buddha-l] Jim Peavler's Experience

[Jim Peavler]

Thanks for the positive response to my experience. I don't think I  
would, personally, call it the "stink of awakening and zen". I have  
friends for whom it has all been a positive experience as far as I can  
tell. Hell I would even call my experience positive so long as I  
wasn't longing to be a monk. I turned out to be quite unmonkish.

On the other hand, some of my friends, once vibrant and amusing seem  
to have been put in shock by their ordinations and now seem "stunned  
as stoats" in the words of the immortal John Cleese.


On May 22, 2009, at 10:58 AM, Franz Metcalf wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I do not have any great insights to add to Jim's post. Mostly I am
> posting this to give Jim his own thread, richly deserved.
>
> In the Hollywood movie of Jim's life, I'm pretty sure that Sasaki
> Roshi would rise from his Roshi's platform, make the trek to Jim's
> place, and hand him his robe and staff as testaments to Jim's having
> let go of the stink of awakening and of Zen along with it.
>
> In Jim's *experience*, well, we'll see
>
> In gassho,
>
> Franz
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Jim Peavler
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