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**Shemker394** · 07-07-2011, 02:02 AM

And internet communications almost by nature are prone to fostering misunderstandings because things like gesture and facial expression and tone of voice are absent. We tend to fill in the gaps with our own projections.

Sure...

For what it's worth, I've found the discussions here to be valuable even when they border on the contentious. Much can be learned through the push-and-pull of dialectic, as long as we don't take it too personally. That is nice to know Lazy; believe me, never hard feelings from here...

And in Zen one is supposed to be able to get "direct transmission from the teacher outside words"! I address that wonderful feature Zen offers. Silent learning, a quite mind.

07-07-2011, 02:02 AM	#39
Shemker394 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 416 Senior Member	And internet communications almost by nature are prone to fostering misunderstandings because things like gesture and facial expression and tone of voice are absent. We tend to fill in the gaps with our own projections. Sure... For what it's worth, I've found the discussions here to be valuable even when they border on the contentious. Much can be learned through the push-and-pull of dialectic, as long as we don't take it too personally. That is nice to know Lazy; believe me, never hard feelings from here... And in Zen one is supposed to be able to get "direct transmission from the teacher outside words"! I address that wonderful feature Zen offers. Silent learning, a quite mind.
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