Right - and this was the 'acceptance' part. I know the rest of the response - I'm just saying that 'haters gonna hate' - wow, I've been on moronail too much.

No matter what you put out there, people will run it up against hypotheticals - as if they had anything to do with the actual teaching at hand.

Chet

Just goes to show that dogma is alive and well in Zen! Good to see that stupidity dies hard - if it didn't, with what would we practice?

Heya...

No matter what you say, people may cling to it. "Go with the flow." You say. Then they say something ridiculous like, "But what about the Nazis (or some other example that refutes anything you say about acceptance)."

Sometimes this, sometimes that - you'll make make mistakes - as long as they are sincere mistakes though, they're the right ones. This moment is fresh - so what's the correct mistake in THIS moment?

Ah well, as Suzuki's Dharma brother once said, "You have to say something..."

Chet