Hi Arlo,

Yup.  Ain't life a hoot!!!

Marsha


At 01:07 PM 9/20/2007, you wrote:
>[Marsha]
>At first all things of the world are real, then all things of the
>world are illusion, then once again all things of the world are real.
>
>[Arlo]
>Hi, Marsha. If I understand correctly, this seems to resonate with
>what Ant posted a few days ago.
>
>"An infant tends not to recognise ego boundaries but that is from the
>(selfish) point of view that it _is_ the universe.  A mystic, also
>tends not to recognise ego boundaries but that is from the (selfless)
>point of view that the (static) self dissolves in a fundamentally
>Dynamic universe.  Though on the surface, both points of view seem
>similar, there is the 'full circle' of spiritual growth (of the
>individual) between them." (Ant McWatt)
>
>I have heard a similar statement (although maybe sounding inverted)
>in that the human cycle begins with seeing the world through the
>wonderment of the eyes of a child. As we mature, we lose lose this
>wonderment in seeking underlying causality and mechanics governing
>the world. But a third step, the "Zen" step, is to reach an
>integration where wonderment is recaptured. It is this cycle, if
>memory serves, that is describe by Benjamin Hoff in the Tao of
>Pooh/Te of Piglet books. Here we move from illusion to real back to
>illusion. Or maybe from illusion-based-in-ignorance to
>real-based-in-knowledge to illusion-based-in-philosophy.
>
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