Through practice(by facing all kinds of suffering), and when i want others to notice me suffering i don't feel the need for keeping peace-of-mind but most of the time i can't hide my laughter.
Kind regards Eddo 2013/8/25 MarshaV <[email protected]> > > Hi Eddo, > > I believe the suffering that the Buddha was addressing was the > self-inflicted (gumption trap) variety? How do you maintain peace-of-mind > to best address the problem? > > > Marsha > > > > On Aug 25, 2013, at 6:12 AM, Eddo Rats <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > 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
