--- In [email protected], "Jeff Fischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > "Seriousness is not a virtue." - G.K. Chesterton > > Reminds me of the scene in The Man Who Would be King: O'Toole and > Connery are in the snow covered mountains, trapped because they can't > go back but also can't go forward as there is an impassable gorge. > They begin to reminisce about their lifetime of adventures. They > recount and both start to belly laugh uncontrolably and voila, > avalanche occurs filling the gorge so they can pass.
I'd forgotten that scene. Thanks for reminding me of it. Great moment. Have you ever seen a small cult film called "Powwow Highway?" Some equally delightful "follow your folly" moments in that movie as well. (Plus it is a Road Trip movie...what is not for an Uncle Tantra to like? :-) Philbert Bono in that movie is one of my all-time favorite characters in film. He is the absolute anti-don Juan, the Native American shaman personification of uncontrolled folly, as opposed to Castaneda's controlled folly. Or "Risky Business." Sometimes you just gotta say "What the fuck." And laugh. And when you laugh, magic happens. > > In Judo, the key is balance. Seriousness doesn't > > help, and neither does strength or wanting to win. > > The person who gets so serious about "winning" as > > to lose his or her balance "loses," and is thrown > > by his "opponent." But in reality both win, because > > both have learned something from the experience. > > For me, it's playing to "win" without being attached. Another way of saying it, yep. > By playing > to "win" one does his best and becomes a more worthy opponent. > I want to play a better game: peace and harmony - which I (there's > that word again) feel is being impeded by those who are playing a > very different game. If their game is merely ignored, we may all > find ourselves playing a game we may not enjoy as much. Whatever > happens all, hopefully, will learn from the experience. > > > In Hindu cosmology, the answer given to the question > > "Why does the absolute manifest as the relative" is > > usually given in one Sanskrit word: 'lila,' or play. > > There's no "winning" or "losing" involved, only play. > > That's ultimately where it's at. Yep, as far as I can tell... To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
