<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Yeah the Kornfield things are too upbeat for a good Joe Show.... (just kidding)- As religions* go, Buddhism is cool, I guess; I'm a lapsed physicist myself. Detachment is the key to release from suffering, I suppose. It can also be a release from everything grand and beautiful about being a human.<BR>
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As a pessimist - a downright NEGATIVE S. O. B., depressed to boot- I am often SUSPICIOUS of anyone who seems to be SO DAMN POSITIVE - I either suspect they are out to swindle money out of the gullible lost or that they are too low on intellect to realize how F**CKED everything really is. So in that sense, this Kornfield thing spooks me. Hinayana, Mahayana, Yo Mama- WHATEVER, I've learned not to trust people who smile too damn much.<BR>
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"The only thing the preacher's got is the key to the shithouse door."<BR>
-----Wm. S. Burroughs<BR>
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* yeah I know Buddhism is a philosophy and not a religion in the strict sense.... but Kornfield IS a preacher.</FONT></HTML>