Hi Mark, On Jul 4, 2011, at 2:30 AM, 118 wrote:
> Hi Marsha, > > On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 9:49 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Jul 3, 2011, at 11:25 AM, 118 wrote: >> >>> Hi Marsha, >>> >>> As you know, Buddha did not write anything. Neither did Socrates or >>> Jesus. So, all we have are interpretations by others of what he is >>> claimed to have said. This is important since it was claimed to be >>> recognized by Buddha that words only delimit. >>> >>> I am not quite sure what you mean by intuition. Is it instinct? >>> Perhaps intuition is shared awareness. I have sensed that something >>> was happening to someone I cared about. >> >> Marsha: >> No this is not what I meant. Mindfulness is what I meant. Where the good >> is unfolding, naturally. That is what I mean. > > [Mark] > OK, gotcha. I also call this living entirely in the present, or living in DQ. Marsha: I am reluctant to say that is 'living in DQ'; mindfulness, or awareness seems a good description. I've had what I would call unpatterned experiences, and I wouldn't even call them DQ experiences. >>> I listen to the birds every morning when I wake up. This is a form of >>> shared awareness for by listening I create. >> >> When Siegfried was able to understand the birdsong, he was in >> tune with intuition. "The woodbird now sings of a woman sleeping >> on a rock surrounded by magic fire. Siegfried, wondering if he can >> learn fear from this woman, heads toward the mountain." Don't you >> just love it!!! > > You might like the Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. It is > an intense but rewarding read. After reading that, I read all his > other books. > > Here is a link to a review: > > http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/02/reviews/971102.02jamest.html Marsha: I'll give the book a try. Speaking of music, the other day I was listening to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, and I couldn't help think of entering into the music as a river. Marsha > > Mark > > Cheers, >>> Mark >> >> >> Marsha >> ___ 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
