Comments on: Status Quo http://www.rustykeller.com/blog/2008/09/25/status-quo-2/ ...because everyone deserves a second chance... Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:48:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ben Tremblay http://www.rustykeller.com/blog/2008/09/25/status-quo-2/comment-page-1/#comment-22236 Ben Tremblay Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:58:30 +0000 http://www.rustykeller.com/blog/?p=376#comment-22236 "Doing good for others" (step #3 in the Soto Zen system I trained, <i>after</i> "Cease from evil" and "Do good". *grin*) is so often abstracted. "Well, I would very much love to save the world, and would actually make time to do so, but I don't see how I can actually do that." Service ... filling the gaps ... meeting the needs of those who are really near us. "The builder of the house of ego" always provides rationalizations for what is, at base, merely sloth. heh ... clehvur we iz, ohh yes! :-) Mangalam! “Doing good for others” (step #3 in the Soto Zen system I trained, after “Cease from evil” and “Do good”. *grin*) is so often abstracted. “Well, I would very much love to save the world, and would actually make time to do so, but I don’t see how I can actually do that.”

Service … filling the gaps … meeting the needs of those who are really near us.

“The builder of the house of ego” always provides rationalizations for what is, at base, merely sloth. heh … clehvur we iz, ohh yes!
:-)

Mangalam!

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