Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!sun!amdahl!gam From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (gam) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Open suggestion to Jeff Sargent (tao) Message-ID: <923@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Sat, 12-Jan-85 23:48:07 EST Article-I.D.: amdahl.923 Posted: Sat Jan 12 23:48:07 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jan-85 00:56:34 EST References: <252@stat-l>, <1064@houxm.UUCP> <1651@pucc-h> Organization: Blue Mouse Trailer Resort, Hellmouth, CA Lines: 23 > = Jeff Sargent > From Greg Skinner (houxm!gregbo): > > > It seems there was once a master and a student. The student asked the master > > one day "What is the meaning of the Tao?" The master slapped the student in > > face and said, "If you have to ask then obviously you do not understand." > > 2. This is exactly the kind of perfectionistic attitude that is killing me > -- the idea that any lack of knowledge or understanding is a sin deserving > painful punishment. The question is like "What does it mean to be alive?" or "Why are things the way they are?" The "correct" answer to the latter is "It just is." Get it? Let me add my name to the list of people who think a counselor would do you good. (But don't go unlesss YOU want to). -- Gordon A. Moffett ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!gam