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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John B. Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Ove Interest? Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 23:15:32 +0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <8j6crjt6k859s5kn3bg5pafd7js4g14fdv@4ax.com> <3u8crj5p3umbgb1eumudsj1qpbajspj14l@4ax.com> <0vucrjd87524n3u21535lq4ufn5mrockll@4ax.com> <49rorj9rap7bjo4ov4iv7edkmcp78jarea@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:15:35 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6b35b5408c01c644ac7735ed34d8785e"; logging-data="1280471"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/Zbv7J31ublMvj830Lr+iIJ0O+YYmV5ok=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/7.10.32.1212 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ioEgh/5EF1pWfLAobw1qYukmCuI= Bytes: 2775 On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:52:16 +0100, Rolf Mantel wrote: >Am 24.02.2025 um 16:23 schrieb AMuzi: >> On 2/24/2025 8:49 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote: >>> On 2/24/2025 8:09 AM, John B. wrote: >>>> >>>> I would doubt very much that a large segment of the readers here would >>>> be familiar with the term  Zen. >>> >>> I suppose you could ask. >>> >>> Speaking for myself, it's been about a week since Zen Buddhism came up >>> in conversation with a friend, and there was a brief mention in a >>> conversation with different friends two days ago. >>> >>> Not that I'm an expert. >>> >>> >> +1 I think most people have at least a passing familiarity. >> I read this in 1967 but never achieved enlightenment. Nor was I able to >> levitate. Dammit. >> >> https://www.alibris.com/Life-and-teaching-of-the-masters-of-the-Far- >> East-Baird-T-Spalding/book/3929244?matches=181 > >Shortly after I was born, somebody wrote a famous book placing the word >"zen" firmly into the list of words people weere expected to know about: > > Interesting as early in the script it states,""it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It's not very factual on motorcycles, either." -- Cheers, John B.