A Perfect friend never runs out of cigars!

[Guest guest]

The guy with the cigar wrote (who was that again?):

> Nor is Perfect a "state of being." > Rather, perfect is "what is,

as it is." > There is never a movement toward> or away from

Perfection, as such a> movement implies that perfection is>

"elsewhere."

There is a saying by Jesus that according to Matthew 5:48 goes:

in Greek: eseste oun umeis teleioi oosper o pater umoon o en tois

ouranois teleios estiv

In Latin: estote ergo vos perfecti sicut et pater vester caelesti perfectus est

In English : So, you just be perfect. OK? Just like your heavenly

Father is perfect.

Luke 6:36 uses the word oiktimones and oiktimoon instead of teleioi or teleios

this gets translated into "misericordia" in Latin and "compassionate"

or "merciful" in English.

I haven't found the Aramaic or Hebrew word yet... (can anybody help me?)

Interesting that the word "&&&" (whatever the original word was that

Jesus used) gets translated by Matthew and Luke as either perfect or

compassionate and is also translated in English as holy,

compassionate, merciful, generous or unstinting in generosity.

Avalokiteshvara (my dear friend of yore) must have inspired Jesus

(another dear friend of yore).

Love, Wim.

PS.

And, hey friends (of now), be perfect, whatever "it is", be generous

in it and with it, and if you or someone else runs short of it, be

compassionate about it.

PSS.

"A perfect friend never runs out of cigars!"

[Guest guest]

>(snip)

>Wim:

>And, hey friends (of now), be perfect, whatever "it is", be generous in it

>and with it, and if you or someone else runs short of it, be compassionate

>about it.

 

Sure, Wim!

Because the perception of "running short of

it" is only in the eye of the beholder,

and when beheld is beholder, there

can't be a shortage of *it* ...

 

Not in short supply,

Gene Rous