BEER Ch. 4 The News from Afghanistan

[Joe Allonby]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1yiQE_aOjM


On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>    "For a couple of weeks now, Maxine has been showing up for sessions
> to find her youthful guru increasingly bent out of shape by the news
> from Afghanistan." (BE, Ch. 4, pp. 30-1)
>
>
> "news from Afghanistan"
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_%282001%E2%80%93present%29
> http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/afghanistan/
>
>
> "two colossal statues of the Buddha"
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban
>
>
> "'"Fuckin rugriders,'"
>
> derogatory term for a person of Middle Eastern/East Indian descent.
>
> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rug%20rider
>
>
> "'it's OK to kill him'"
>
>     If you meet the Buddha, kill him. (逢佛殺佛，逢祖殺祖)
>     —Linji
>
> Thinking about the Buddha as an entity or deity is delusion, not
> awakening. One must destroy the preconception of the Buddha as
> separate and external before one can become internally as their own
> Buddha. Zen master Shunryu Suzuki wrote in Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
> during an introduction to Zazen,
>
>     Kill the Buddha if the Buddha exists somewhere else. Kill the
> Buddha, because you should resume your own Buddha nature.
>
> One is only able to see a Buddha as he exists in separation from
> Buddha, the mind of the practitioner is thus still holding onto
> apparent duality.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dan#Killing_the_Buddha
>
>
> Wahhabists
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabists
>
>
> "'I slam'"
>
> http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Islam
>
>
> TAG Heuer
>
> http://www.tagheuer.com/
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