Claude AnShin the Zen monk was stating, about being spat upon, that is was hurtful, not helpful.
He was also speaking about the imperialism of the peace movement, which is an error.
I myself often was rebuked or ignored by various peacepeople during my hurting years, had to seek out those individuals who were responsive, but found some individuals to be unbelieveably arrogant and unapproachable.
Bonohato from Macomb County? Mercy. I grad from Chippewa Vallry HS in 1965, my sister was a Mt. Clemens Bather!
Go Bathers! Do I know you? Are you a BigRed? of course referring to the big red reefers, not i n·dig·e·nous slang.
Spitting may not be as bad as an A-bomb, but hey,
toreadora
use the cuspidora
waddaya think it's fora
I wrote a letter to our last remaining Democrat Senator Nelson, about his signing on for more nuke development, that he was a wimp and would not get my vote next time around. What's the diff? Katherine Harris will run as the next woman Republickin senator, will possibly win, but I can not conceive of these wimpy Democratic moderates really being anything worth supporting anymore. We have got to get out of our so-called nuanced fence-sitting, the barbed wires are hurting my butt.
Am I pissed, yes, I am fucking pissed, my balls are fucking burning, I want to piss on the White House lawn, I want to paint the White House the color of money, yes, if I ever meet President Bush and he extends his hand, I will fold my arms and look him straight in the face, yes, but I will not spit, I will not.
I was so pissed at one time, down and out about 1973, was hiking in the hills up in northern Nevada, half fasting, would have been a recruit for the stupid Symbionese Liberation Army, Christ, the Black Panthers were a working model for revolutionaries, but hey, they got gunned down, it doesn't work.
finally when I came into the healing, I had to accept my healers, not necesasarily their opinions. The Vet Centers were apolitical, sometimes frustrating, but the two centers I worked with, Bossier City, La, and St Pete, Fl, helped me, as did the VA psychiatrists.
Beyond that made connections with Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, Vets for Peace, VVAW, Quakers, and am now involved in some impending counter-recruitment demonstrations, have volunteered . Wanna do JuKai vows in Zen, but have not quite connected yet. Maybe with AnShin at a later date.
BOWS
