[Buddha-l] Whatever happened to buddha-l?

[JKirkpatrick]

Nice haiku...

Joanna 
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Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 1:31 PM


No mice
no table
no cheese nor beer.
Since there is nothing from the get go
why is there mouse shit on my floor?

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On Jun 9, 2011, at 3:03 PM, JKirkpatrick wrote:

> US'ers say, when the cat's away the mice do play.
> But I've observed that unmouselike mice inhabit Buddha-L. 
> 
> Buddhist mice probably would find the rice beer and have a
party.
> Joanna
> 
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> 
> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 8:20 AM
> To: Buddhist discussion forum
> Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Whatever happened to buddha-l?
> 
> Mice may differ in cultural habits. In Holland they say: when
the 
> cat's away, the mice have a party.
> I wonder what Buddhist mice might do, have a sesshin perhaps?
> 
> erik
> 
> Op 09-06-11 16:08, JKirkpatrick schreef:
>> A cat simile works just as well, in reverse:
>> 
>> When the cat's away, the mice don't play.
>> 
>> Joanna
>> 
>> ____________________
>> 
>> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 1:41 AM
>> 
>> 
>> Homo homini lupus, man a wolf to man. A dog is a civilised
> wolf.
>> The cynics apparently ascribed some civilisation to man when
> they took
>> the dog as the symbol of man living according to his own
> nature. We
>> have to remember of course that dogs at the time where not
> always as
>> nice as they are nowadays. They stole, barked and sometimes
> attacked
>> people.
>> Buddha-l is a typical example of modern dog nature: one member
> of the
>> pack howls and the others answer. This time the doggies have
> just been
>> playing some time with there own private bosses and forgot
> about the
>> pack, until one is left alone on the balcony or hears a high
> pitched
>> sound from the radio.
>> The thing I like about dogs is that they like to play and are
> very
>> serious about it, almost like Tibetan monks deal with their
> pujas. And
>> compassion is very much part of a dog's way of life:
>> licking a stranger's hands just for fun is pretty
> compassionate.
>> Even a dog's tooth can become a Buddhist relic according to a
> famous
>> story. It looks like 'dog' is just a Buddhist word for god.
> Let's get
>> rid of the rinpoches, they are much to expensive and all take
a
> puppy.
>> 
>> erik
>> 
>> Op 08-06-11 21:16, Gad Horowitz schreef:
>>> How American!   Poor doggie...
>>> 
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