tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917557774837845021.post199325758500151730..comments2023-06-12T07:02:15.168-03:00Comments on Robe!: JUKAI & ROHATSU 2 day retreatAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14797506212265953887noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917557774837845021.post-10993995699385926022008-12-05T13:22:00.000-04:002008-12-05T13:22:00.000-04:00No need to apologize, Dirk, but thanks for your un...No need to apologize, Dirk, but thanks for your understanding. <BR/><BR/>Keep on being careless! Carelessness is a characteristic of the 4th dhyana. <BR/><BR/>Today I feel that, for me, even the 1st dhyana is a mountain to climb. Sometimes I have days like these, when, being lazy in girding on the armour of mindfulness, I spend too much time writing on blogs. <BR/><BR/>All the best,<BR/><BR/>MikeMike Crosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12712396374023835678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917557774837845021.post-45852025169630000432008-12-04T20:38:00.000-04:002008-12-04T20:38:00.000-04:00No problem Mike, I do apologize! I don't like bein...No problem Mike, I do apologize! I don't like being called mister either - or sir! <BR/><BR/>Of course please know that I meant no disrespect or slight of any kind (I had no idea there was a distinction made i assumed one was equal to the other). <BR/><BR/>I simply proceeded carelessly - as I tend to do! Again many thanks!<BR/><BR/>Gassho, DirkDirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08057871719921029545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917557774837845021.post-27090469380141608992008-12-04T16:24:00.000-04:002008-12-04T16:24:00.000-04:00You are very welcome to use my stuff, Dirk, but pl...You are very welcome to use my stuff, Dirk, but please don't call me "Mr. Cross."<BR/><BR/>Wondering why Gudo discriminates people into "Ven" and "Mr," putting me in the latter group, I asked him earlier this year to clarify his intention, which seemed to me to be hurtful. I felt being called "Mr," as opposed to "Ven," was intended as a kind of slight. <BR/><BR/>In reply, Gudo explained that no hurt was intended but at the same time:<BR/><BR/>'the title "Mr." has meaning that a person, who does not like to accept my Buddhist theory.' <BR/><BR/>In this, I felt something tragic, and something Japanese, something petty. <BR/><BR/>People who Gudo has barely or never met, because they say or write to him in his old age what he wants to hear, he calls "Ven. So and So." Whereas Gudo's longest-standing students, such as Michael Luetchford and me, who, with heads shaved and many years of service behind us, have dared to tell Gudo truths he didn't like to hear, are now called "Mr." <BR/><BR/>If you and others wish to follow Gudo's criterion, and call me "Mr. Cross," I hope that my shoulders are broad enough to cope with it. <BR/><BR/>But I am much happier not to be called "Ven" or "Mr" but to be called Mike.Mike Crosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12712396374023835678noreply@blogger.com