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- From: hughes@logos.ucs.indiana.edu (larry hughes)
- Subject: Re: not Meditation (was Re: more questions about meditation)
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:12:23 GMT
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- garym@ie.utoronto.ca (Gary Murphy) writes:
- > May I propose a much cheaper alternative, and save you all a lot of
- > bother in trying to sift the good teachers from the shysters? What
- > follows are the instructions for Shinjin sitting, given to me by the
- > master of practice of the Ottawa Zen center with express instructions
- > to give them out over the net to whomever wishes to try --- if you are
- > not interested, you can skip the rest of this message.
-
- Regardless of the cost of your instructions (free, which is actually
- quite nice :-) one must still decide for oneself who the "good teachers"
- versus the "shysters" are. In all fairness to us readers, we have no
- way to know if you are a shyster.
-
- I really don't believe that you are (honestly!), but I hope you see
- my point.
-
- I can't help but feel that your note (and others posted here too)
- have a bit of a religious hint, i.e. "here's the 'best' way to
- meditate."
-
- I think that we all need to experiment and investigate a little
- (or maybe a lot, like I did for 10 years) before coming to any
- final conclusions. Even then, the only conclusions we can reach
- about this matter will be personal ones.
-
- Cheers,
-
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