Marsha:
> Thanks for the information on the Vimalakirti
> Nirdesa Sutra. It looks very interesting.
SA: Your welcome.
Marsha:
> You mentioned how important it is to live quality in
> action rather than from the armchair. It reminds me
of ZMM when
> RMP states the difference between experiencing the
world within the
> compartment of a car and on a motorcycle. In a car,
"You're a
> passive observer and it is all moving by you
boringly in a frame. On > a cycle the frame is gone.
You're completely in contact with it all.
> You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore,
and the sense of
> presence is overwhelming." I think the more you
understand,
> the stronger the calling to experience things
deeply.
SA: Today, being a family get-together kind of day,
the memories shared were of old and fantastic.
Amazing, the depth in feel, such as when my aunt said
that my grandmother saved an easter egg I had colored
when very, very young, and I had given the egg to my
grandmother. I don't remember this occurrence. Then
my aunt went on to say that my grandmother saved the
easter egg for years and kept it in the glass cabinet
where the more elegant decor was kept in the living
area. I was very close to my grandmother. She taught
me how to meditate, introduced me to shiatsu (which
lead into therapeutic massage, etc...) to listen, to
enjoy the quiet (my father, her son, did as well,
which isn't surprising since her influence was
tremendous upon all people she came into contact
with), and much else - she really shaped my life, my
creativeness in a way that I still dive into and pull
out something unique from her influence via
memories... such as this egg story. She really held
onto that egg, for that long - I mean it was from me,
her grandson... amazing.
Marsha:
> Still being in an upside-down, backwards
> frame-of-mind, I have
> decided to read The Platform Sutra first. "... But
> the nature of
> reality is simply your own nature."
SA: It seems these sutra's are commentaries to bring
up to date what the Buddha said, yet, still unique
unto their own for this sutra was of the last
Patriarch of China (the 6th), and then his disciples
opened many schools including the two Chan schools
(not sure of the time frame on these Chan schools)
that lead to the Soto and Rinzai sects of Zen. It's
interesting that Hui Neng was illiterate when he was
enlightened, which during these days in China, writing
was it, it was near if not more than how it is in the
U.S. now, you know, how everything must be in writing
to mean something, and so forth. He was kept hidden
by the 5th Patriarch making food, until his time came
to take over, then the 5th Patriarch urged him to
leave and hide due to some kind of jealous atmosphere
at the time in China. The 6th patriarch had followers
and he did many public speeches, but I don't know for
how long, and how far he needed to get away from the
5th patriarchs monastery.
Marsha:
> How clear can you get? Gives
> new significance to the statement originally by the
> Pythia of Delphi, and later by Socrates, "Know
thyself."
SA: Sure does.
Marsha:
> Nothing wrong with analogizing. Unless, of course,
> you have chosen
> the role of Herr Goebbels. But I sense by using the
> word 'democratic' you understand this.
SA: Herr Goebbels? Had to look that up. Do you mean
Hitler's propagandist? That seems way out in left
field, so to speak. I'm talking about everybody here,
in the forum, having the ability to be creative unto
themselves, in their own unique way. That would only
be more lively and real. Nobody is exactly the same
as the next person, even how a philosophy is to be.
The truth, not Truth, the latter would be espoused by
Hitler's propagandist it would seem. The whole, now
if I could only convince such and such a person to
follow this logic or that logic. That's garbage. As
long as compassion, empathy, and wisdom are ones
posture, then what does it matter? So, yes, my
"democracy" bit means each person has their own way.
Marsha:
> In the other thread, you state that you're schizo.
> Let see. James
> Brown was black and proud. SA is schizo and ______?
> (Fill in the
> blank.) Dynamic maybe? I think so.
SA: Thank you. AAAAA, let's see, this is fun, "SA is
schizo and..." a mumbo-jumbola, yeah, a mumbo-jumbola,
I've liked that word for years... good ole' mumbo
jumbo.
quiet with streams and dashes of bird songs,
SA
P.S. You ever watch "Little Bear" or "Franklin"?
Their so good, especially "Little Bear". Many
children cartoons are coming from Great Britain and
Canada. We all know the Japanese influence,
especially with the teenage, young adult crowd, adults
too with technology and anime (which I've heard anime
had a hard time last year, so, either it will feel the
pressure and come up with something fantastically
creative or continue to be not as attractive for some
reason - I do know it's difficult to get and expense,
so, right off the bat there's some challenges). Stuff
is made in China, Thailand, India, etc... and children
cartoons come out of these other countries, too. The
newer music on the radio is weak, but some underground
music is still lurking it seems in the U.S. Art is a
sideshow in the education system. It's significance
is not understood in mainstream U.S. culture it would
seem. Anyways, the creativity is here tap, tap, tap....
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