Hi Marsha, Unfortunately if you shoot for the moon and miss, you are more likely to crash back to earth, drift into a dead planet or spiral into the infernal sun ... but hey ... it was a poetic thought ;-)
Seriously though, the concept is more commonly "being one's own person". Apart from the egotistical risk, (which you avoid by referring to the non-self) I think this is right. I think it expresses the dynamic freedom from cultural (social / intellectual) static patterns. Ian On 12/31/07, MarshaV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings, > > I was listening to a very interesting interview of Marc Pachter, > Director of the National Gallery. He was asked to list people, whose > portraits hung in the museum, that he would like to have dinner > with. He mentioned a few people, a few types, and then he said, "you > know, people who own themselves." I thought that was an > extraordinary comment. So my questions is: > > Do you own yourself, or non-self (however you experience it)? > > I would answer, that since I moved to this lake-cottage, a place to > paint, away from a social community, I feel I have taken ownership of > my non-self. Is this a MOQ perspective? Zen? I don't know. > > What do you think? > > > > I wish all of you a beautiful new year. > > Marsha > > > > Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars... > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
