grass_skirt's "complaints about the forum"

KeyserSozen · 1日前

There once was a monastery that was very strict. Following a vow of silence, no one was allowed to speak at all. But there was one exception to this rule. Every ten years, the monks were permitted to speak just two words. After spending his first ten years at the monastery, one monk went to the head monk. "It has been ten years," said the head monk. "What are the two words you would like to speak?" "Bed... hard..." said the monk.

"I see," replied the head monk.

Ten years later, the monk returned to the head monk's office. "It has been ten more years," said the head monk. "What are the two words you would like to speak?"

"Food... stinks..." said the monk.

"I see," replied the head monk.

Yet another ten years passed and the monk once again met with the head monk who asked, "What are your two words now, after these ten years?"

"I... quit!" said the monk.

"Well, I can see why," replied the head monk. "All you ever do is complain."

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

elbowbrunch · 22時間前

Here is the deal. Disagreement doesn't always mean you come to an understanding with someone. However, we all share this house here. So if someone comes in discussing Zen in which it is said 'No concepts is the way' and you say 'No look at it through this lens otherwise it's not Zen' then you are a fool. People know where the line is. That's my opinion, but I don't reply to every post that fits outside my paradigm and say 'You're a fool!'. Or even worse when someone comes in with a legit question and they immediately gets the obligatory, 'That's Buddhist, read the lineage texts'. Something like that would be considered harassment and definitely against the reddiquette in any other sub! If someone does this mods like /u/Temicco or /u/theksepyro or /u/truthier or whomever should consider this harassment and violation of rule #1.

Remember the human When you communicate online, all you see is a computer screen. When talking to someone you might want to ask yourself "Would I say it to the person's face?" or "Would I get jumped if I said this to a buddy?"

At least it should be discussed. If your stance is already widely known to the point where the discussion is usually about you why continue to reply to people? Isn't that spam? Let them have their threads and stick to yours. Are you worried this place will fall into Gurus talking about energy fields and magic? I think you'll find those people will get a healthy dose of skepticism and be called out. Look at this gem guy quotes the lineage texts and look what happens. I mean c'mon dude.

chintokkong · 1日前

Oh, hahaha, I believe ewk has always been trying to build his own zen 'church' here that's based on specially curated words which only he is capable of interpreting.

I suspect he's a secret admirer of dogen but he doesn't dare admit it of course, hence the frequent denouncement. Reminds me of that military guy in the movie 'American Beauty'.

That's my 2-cent impression of him.

deepthinker420 · 1日前

i really don't understand why ewk is still such a fucking big problem here. the solution is obvious and the ENTIRE mod team is too gutless or impotent to do it. it's not like he's that hard to spot when he sockpuppets

i say we need new management here

zaddar1 · 1日前

the meaning of life is to argue about it !

realmaitreyabuddha · 1日前

What complaints? ;=O

woodrail · 1日前

You are getting too caught up in this shit. This place is uncleanable by design. Don't fight it. When you fight it it rubs off on you. Just step back.

Thac0 · 1日前

+/u/User_Simulator Thac0

Sunn_Samaadh · 1日前

I think that Ewk uses very underhanded and subversive techniques to essentially just convince himself (and somehow others) of his "pwning" of other individuals. The truth is, his spam on the forum absolutely destroys freedom of discussion and freedom for ideas to be compared on an equal basis. It's because it's the perpetuation of conflict! Of which he always wants to be (and convinces himself that he is) the winner of.

It's a certain paradigm, a level of "discourse" that is of an incredibly low level. How can one tell? By seeing how underhanded, disrespectful, antagonizing and evasive ewks techniques are!!!

If anyone ever held ewk to the standard that he held others, the man would collapse like a wall of dust.

rockytimber · 1日前

Is this how you up your game? How about honestly addressing some of the real questions that have been posted about the "academic" agenda you would like to impose on r/zen? Why so threatened by any user that you can so easly block if you chose to?

some of the questions and points that you have avoided:

https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/5n4lsh/peter_gregory_on_is_critical_buddhism_really/dc9inby/?context=3

https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/5mt5lw/announcement_of_a_ban/dc8r9y2/?context=3

etc.

zenthrowaway17 · 1日前

Everything is fine then!

Perfect.

woodrail · 1日前

You could call this forum an excellent school where we are taught about words and our relationship with words. The limits of language. Reaction to words. Attachment and detachment. Stuff like that.

And /u/ewk is professor Snape.

TheSolarian · 1日前

Grassskirt...you post this shit without remorse?

Trolling.

When the subject is Zen Buddhism, however, no one wants to admit to having any kind of negative emotional response to anything.

What fuckery is this? Only complete fuckwitted ego bound dunderheads won't admit to negative emotional response to certain stimuli, and not everyone is a fuckwitted ego bound dunderhead.

Erk

"Erk" is not well and is basically clueless. Not even a dilettante, pretending to an understanding completely beyond them. Why make posts about someone? The fault lies with the incompetent clods wrapped up in their deranged delusions, not with them. "Erk" is not well.

Go and try and salvage your doctrine.

Derp.

Do chandroids dream of electric baldheads?

I really like Phillip K. Dick.

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