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Labels are fundamental to language, communication and human understanding of the world. Every word is a label. The important thing with labelling people is not to get confused about the meaning or relative importance of the labels. So I'm a honky, Limey, Jock, Polak. Just means I'm pink and various people responsible for my existence came from England Scotland and Poland. Racism is when you assume that any of those facts tells you anything about my character.
Everything you think about involves labelling, if you stop labelling people and things then you will.. erm... probably become a zen master.
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"No one was behaving from very Buddhist motives. Then, thought Pigsy, he was hardly a Buddha, nor was he a monkey. Presently, he was a pig spirit changed into a little girl pretending to be a little boy to be offered to a water monster. It was all very simple to a pig spirit."
Last edited by John Henry; 12-01-2003 at 03:11 PM..
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