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Mubul wrote: <<Happy New Year, Pete. May your practice prosper, your
horizons expand and your mentality heal.>>

I don't know who Bojanga is, whether he is the same as Bhava (Peter
Hooper).

But Bhava showed up in a Buddhist community in Missouri in early Summer,
and was *exactly* his Usenet self, so his Usenet self was not just a
Usenet persona but was real in real life, too.

Bojanga is much more mature, flexible, light-hearted, with a much lighter
touch, and the only time he has (lightly) lost his cool was when Jan
mimicked his verse (Jan is as good at getting under people's skin as Linda
and I, and she does it with more subtility).

You, Richard, in spite of your repeated attempts, failed utterly to get
Bojanga to blow up, though Bhava didn't need much at all in that
department, he didn't even need it from the outside. (I have never tried
to get under Bojanga's skin, but doubt that I could succeed if I tried,
though, heaven knows, my button-pushing has been successful, and
repeatedly, with some presumably seasoned Buddhist cultivators who keep
flaunting their practice at me).

So, if Bhava has changed into Bojanga, I say that he has prospered in his
practice, expanded his horizons, and healed his mentality, all without
your wish, Richard, and he has done so in such spectacular manner that it
can only be called a miracle. I, diminutive Lion King, can only bow in
speechless humility to such transmutation, if it has occurred (i. e., if
Bhava has changed into Bojanga).

Happy New Year to both of you, and to you, Richard, may your practice
prosper, your horizons expand and your mentality heal.

Tang Huyen