[joe-frank-list] Re: Jack Kornfield

[bewareofdog at mac.com]

Larry,  your ability to take any conversation and with one turn of  
the phrase make it taste sour has us all endlessly licking our lips.


On Jun 20, 2006, at 9:02 PM, Larry Dunn wrote:

> From: "Justin Kempton" <justin at kempton.com>
>
>> But just as Kornfield is appealing in his desire to
>> be a good person, one of the things I love about
>> Alan Watts, is that he allows for you to be bad. He
>> talks of a irreducible rascality in all of us.
>
> Hardly surprising in someone who drank himself to
> death at age 58.  Or, more to the point, someone who
> went from being a conservative Republican to being ...
> a libertarian.  :D
>
>> It's a morality
>> based upon the understanding that you are just as
>> capable if not more so of being evil in a given
>> situation,
>> and so you do not judge others for their action.
>
> Which of course is strictly kindergarten stuff for sthaviravada.
>
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