tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9222643.post5781174365427300302..comments2023-10-10T08:33:26.926-06:00Comments on Byzigenous Buddhapalian: Henry II had a pointPaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06090720645937634051noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9222643.post-56314501229565507892009-07-28T21:44:34.548-06:002009-07-28T21:44:34.548-06:00Thanks, Rick. I appreciated your remarks. I have...Thanks, Rick. I appreciated your remarks. I have enjoyed Eliot's play and we did a reading of it at St Cuthbert's, Oakland, years ago. I love enriching discussion with wonderful sources.<br /><br />I was oblivious to the clever inclusion of "manner of life" so thanks for coming back and pointing it out to me.<br /><br />I have been known to swat flies and the earlier posts on tomato hornworms testify to my less-than-Buddhist practice. I don't really wish Rowan dead, but the phrase "will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest" keeps reverberating every time he invites us all to bow down to the golden calf of the AC. Maybe if I could just walk up to him and call him a heartless old fart to his face I could get it out of my system.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06090720645937634051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9222643.post-83606440184945205392009-07-28T21:32:26.732-06:002009-07-28T21:32:26.732-06:00Paul, I know you wouldn't hurt a fly, and I ho...Paul, I know you wouldn't hurt a fly, and I hope I wouldn't either.<br /><br />Your post prompted me to look at Eliot, and I was struck by the passage, the inexact but strange parallels, even to the phrase, "manner of life."<br /><br />'Nuf said, don't mean to quibble or quarrel. And I signed the petition upthread. Thanks for putting it up.rick allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07612435616018593956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9222643.post-50002510188308199802009-07-28T19:01:50.664-06:002009-07-28T19:01:50.664-06:00Personally, I'd like to "jerk him to Jesu...Personally, I'd like to "jerk him to Jesus"....as my former rector was fond of saying.<br /><br />Pax,<br />DoxyWormwood's Doxyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10882756844690851674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9222643.post-72075301803268196562009-07-28T18:48:00.683-06:002009-07-28T18:48:00.683-06:00Rick, I admire Becket and am very unfond of a unif...Rick, I admire Becket and am very unfond of a unified state-church situation. I do not support Henry's attempts there at all. I do not, however, admire Becket's current successor, as is rudely obvious, and am being exceedingly rude in alluding to a troublesome priest. Do I wish Rowan dead? Of course not. Do I want to slap him upside the head? Most certainly.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06090720645937634051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9222643.post-41041155316267828692009-07-28T17:20:55.178-06:002009-07-28T17:20:55.178-06:00"Had Becket concurred with the King's wis..."Had Becket concurred with the King's wishes, we should have had an almost ideal State: a union of spiritual and temporal administration, under the central government....And what happened? The moment that Becket, at the King's instance, had been made Archbishop, he resigned the office of Chancellor, he became more priestly than the priests, he ostentatiously and offensively adopted an ascetic manner of life, he openly abandoned every policy that he had heretofore supported...."<br /><br />--The Third Knight, Part II, "Murder in the Cathedral"<br /><br />[But I do agree with you on the troubling timidity of Congress on health care.]rick allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07612435616018593956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9222643.post-69009401319547775062009-07-28T10:57:49.620-06:002009-07-28T10:57:49.620-06:00As I posted somewhere else: Do we get a separate ...As I posted somewhere else: Do we get a separate water fountain with a label?susankayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15513759507628166408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9222643.post-476824704182731832009-07-28T09:57:50.954-06:002009-07-28T09:57:50.954-06:00Amen to this!Amen to this!Göran Koch-Swahnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00925549945659350649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9222643.post-65177314204030703702009-07-28T09:16:58.166-06:002009-07-28T09:16:58.166-06:00I am having to engage in all sorts of mental and s...I am having to engage in all sorts of mental and spiritual gyrations not to shout "I told you so!" to Dear Friend, who has been convinced that +Rowan was playing some masterful game of chess that would eventually make everything Hunky Dory for everyone. (He has a much-less jaded and cynical view of people than I do, which is one reason I love him so much.)<br /><br />So thanks for giving me a space to say "Rowan is a putz!" without making my Beloved feel bad. ;-)<br /><br />Love,<br />DoxyWormwood's Doxyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10882756844690851674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9222643.post-28468391366166659992009-07-27T19:58:08.818-06:002009-07-27T19:58:08.818-06:00Indeed, Jesus was not a consensus builder. Someti...Indeed, Jesus was not a consensus builder. Sometimes he commanded, sometimes he invited, sometimes he provoked, sometimes he consoled, he cast out evil and restored goodness, but he did not wait for consensus. And he DID say the reign of God was already in our midst.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06090720645937634051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9222643.post-48429130066836131532009-07-27T19:29:18.984-06:002009-07-27T19:29:18.984-06:00Well, Paul, it's a good thing Jesus didn't...Well, Paul, it's a good thing Jesus didn't say, 'not yet' to the kingdom, to wait for everyone else and all the power brokers to build consensus.... and for me, when it appears to be a Gospel imperative, like justice (and a few other thangs mixed in the mix), there can only be the example of Jesus for us to follow.<br /><br />Dear one --the Kingdom is upon us. Right now.it's margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13577280471100732619noreply@blogger.com