Enlightenment; The cessation of suffering happens when you understand the necessity of suffering.
In the overcommming of suffering you feel alive, without it there is no reason for living. Kind regards Eddo 2013/8/25 MarshaV <[email protected]> > > > Greetings, > > It's always interesting to revisit this 2006 interview by Tim Adams from > the Guardian: > > > 'Yes, but then a kind of chaos set in. Suddenly I realised that the person > who had come this far was about to expire. I was terrified, and curious as > to what was coming. I felt so sorry for this guy I was leaving behind. It > was a separation. This is described in the psychiatric canon as catatonic > schizophrenia. It is cited in the Zen Buddhist canon as hard enlightenment. > I have never insisted on either - in fact I switch back and forth depending > on who I am talking to.' > > Midwestern American society of 1960 took the psychiatrist's view. Pirsig > was treated at a mental institution, the first of many visits. Looking > back, he suggests he was just a man outside his time. 'It was a contest, I > believe, between these ideas I had and what I see as the cultural immune > system. When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to > protect itself.' > > That immune system left him with no job and no future in philosophy; his > wife was mad at him, they had two small kids, he was 34 and in tears all > day. Did he think of it at the time as a Zen experience? > > 'Not really. Though the meditation I have done since takes you to a > similar place. If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at > night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to > nothingness. And you get a lot of opportunities for staring in an asylum.' > > > http://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/nov/19/fiction > > > > > > 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 > 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
