At 07:56 PM 6/4/2007, you wrote: > [Marsha] > > It's a strange language, I know. > > Your language. > > [Marsha] > > But I think you have misinterpreted > > what I was saying. No problem. Painting is > > calming, or exciting. Depends on the subject. I do >meditate, > > but I still can sometimes paint with great passion. > > How is mediation counter to great passion?
I didn't mean to imply that. > To be calm and alert is to know when one feels >calm, excited, angry, sad, a mixed of more than one, >etc... Without being alert to what's happening, to >not even know one is experiencing or experiences great >passion might be called not experiencing great >passion. > I would say painting is meditation for meditation >is attention to something specifically definable, even >if it is not completely definable. Zazen, what I like >to practice, is alertness, but not on anything in >particular. I hear a bird, well, when a bird is >present to be heard. Now, if I where to concentrate >on the bird song specifically, well then I've begun to >meditate, I'm focused on something specific. You sound very pleased with your practice. 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.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
