"Among the many forms in which human spirit has tried to express its innermost yearnings and perceptions, music is perhaps the most universal. It symbolizes the yearning for harmony, with oneself and others, with nature and the spiritual and the sacred within us and around us. There is something in music that transcends and unites. This is evident in the sacred music of every community-music that expresses the universal yearning that is shared by people all over the globe."
-His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama “I say we fill our guns full of love and we shoot for a new dream<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXg6Cm_T9fk> ” Trance Zen Dance is as cool name for a band, imo. They're a local group<http://www.trancezendance.org/home.html>that have been around a while so I've heard their names on the radio more than a few times, listened to a CD of their music once, from a friend. We went on a quick trip to Reno, again, while my eldest daughter Em is home for Spring Break. So what I've been thinking about, between hotels, shopping and eating, is my last post to Marsha, and why religious, spiritual or psychological are all inadequate terms for transcendent experience. Even though transcendent experience is in a sense, psychological, spiritual and religious. But really, what it is most of all is experience which takes us out of our static conceptions of self. Transcending our selves. The problem with labeling this experience "spiritual, religious or psychological" is that those are definitions of what lies beyond our static conceptions of self. If we fully realize and conceptualize the transcendant experience with these terms, then we block transcendance. For then, our "outside" has become part of our conceptual arrangemand we can no longer go there in seeking escape from ourselves. We can't grasp transcendance. And I think Marsha knows this well, with her embrace of "nothingness". But even nothing becomes something when it's abstracted and aimed at. So that doesn't make me all that happy either. For instance, my nothing is completely different from your nothing, since my nothing is dropping MY patterns and your nothing is dropping yours. And then there's the thing that Ron points to with his Emerson quote: Fresh truth, like the thoughts of genius, comes always as a surprise, as what Emerson calls “the newness” (CW3: 40). He therefore looks for a “certain brief experience, which surprise[s] me in the highway or in the market, in some place, at some time…” (Z: 253). This is an experience that cannot be repeated by simply returning to a place or to an object such as a painting. A great disappointment of life, Emerson finds, is that one can only “see” certain pictures once, and that the stories and people who fill a day or an hour with pleasure and insight are not able to repeat the performance. ----- I'm almost tempted to say, "duh", Ron and Emerson, but that'd be repeating a performance. Our language, Our language of creation, Language of liberation, We speak into that space That we call the now As we allow To let truth Teach us how. 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/md/archives.html
