>
> --- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam"
> <jpgillam@> wrote:
> >
> > Yes. Being dissatisfied with something, or its
> > extreme case of hitting bottom, is a huge
> > impetous to most of my growth. But I don't
> > credit suffering with getting me to give it up.
> >
> > The nature of life is to grow, don't you know.
> > I'm going to seek more happiness regardless.
>
> Well said. From wonder into wonder life will open,
> asid the Tao te Ching.
>
> Ever heard the crow-and-the-coconut analogy? It
> appears in many Indian and Tibetan teachings.
> The seeker is hangin' out, just Being, and a
> crow alights on a branch on the tree in front
> of him. Immediately afterwards, a coconut falls
> from a branch on the other side of the tree.
>
> Now, was there a cause and effect relationship
> between the crow landing on a branch over here
> and the coconut falling off another branch over
> there? Well, there may be or there may not be.
> We will never know. We can only make up stories
> about either the connection between these two
> events or the lack of any such connection and
> hope that the stories inspire us.
>
> Life just expands. Spending a lot of time assign-
> ing a "cause" to those moments in which expands
> a great deal seems to me like a waste of time.
> Better to just surf the wave of expansion.
>
Part of the problem I have with what I see as *reductionist*
conclusions, like the one above *...better to just surf the wave of
expansion..." is it categorically disallows the possibility that some
people, maybe many people, actually enjoy the process of thinking
about and analyzing things. If you read a bit of ayurveda you learn
about the pitta mind v. the vata mind. If you ever read Dr. Bernard
Jensen, he talks about the calcium type who is not prone to deep
analysis (can't remember which of his types are the thinkers). It's an
individual thing, don't you think? For some analysis is serious, they
need to know. For those who see analysis as silly, it's...well...silly
and they cannot figure out why anyone would bother to try to figure it
out.
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