Hi dmb,
On Jul 22, 2013, at 7:06 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote:
> dmb says:
> ... An artful mechanic brings knowledge and experience to the immediate task
> and very much cares about doing it right. ...
Yes, and it shouldn't be forgotten that:
"Zen Buddhists talk about ``just sitting,'' a meditative practice in which the
idea of a duality of self and object does not dominate one's consciousness.
What I'm talking about here in motorcyele maintenance is ``just fixing,'' in
which the idea of a duality of self and object doesn't dominate one's
consciousness. When one isn't dominated by feelings of separateness from what
he's working on, then one can be said to ``care'' about what he's doing. That
is what caring really is, a feeling of identification with what one's doing.
When one has this feeling then he also sees the inverse side of caring, Quality
itself. So the thing to do when working on a motorcycle, as in any other task,
is to cultivate the peace of mind which does not separate one's self from one's
surroundings. When that is done successfully then everything else follows
naturally. Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right
thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions pr
oduce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the
serenity at the center of it all. That was what it was about that wall in
Korea. It was a material reflection of a spiritual reality."
(RMP,'zAmm', Chapter 25)
"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself. The machine that
appears to be ``out there'' and the person that appears to be ``in here'' are
not two separate things. They grow toward Quality or fall away from Quality
together."
(RMP,'zAmm', Chapter 26)
Marsha
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