OH, THIS WONDERFUL PLACE OF NO PLACE OF TIME STANDING STILL AND US MOVING WITH GRACE - WHERE ACTION AND NON-ACTION DANCES IN UNSEEN SPACE
thanks for reviving koans in my life - toke >A little something to tickle your reflection -- > >Zhaozhou asked Nanquan, "What is the Way?" >Nanquan said, "The normal mind in the Way." >Zhaozhou asked, "Can it be approached deliberately?" >Nanquan said, "If you try to aim for it, you thereby turn away from it." >Zhaozhou said, "If one does not try, how can one know it is the Way?" >Nanquan said, "The Way is not in the province of knowledge, yet not in the >province of unknowing. Knowledge is false consciousness, unknowing is >indifference. If you really arrive at the inimitable Way, it is like space, >empty and open; how can you insist on affirmation and denial?" >At these words Zhaozhou was suddenly enlightened. > >Translation by Thomas Cleary (Unlocking the Zen Koan) > > >Harrison > > >Harrison Owen >7808 River Falls Drive >Potomac, MD 20854 USA >phone 301-469-9269 >fax 301-983-9314 >Summer Phone 207-763-3261 >Summer Address >189 Beaucaire Ave. >Camden, ME 04843 >website www.mindspring.com/~owenhh >Open Space Institute website www.openspaceworld.org > >* >* >========================================================== >[email protected] >To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, >view the archives of [email protected] >Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > >=========================================================== >[email protected] >To subscribe, >1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist >2. Sign up -- provide an email address, > and choose a login ID and password >3. Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions > >To unsubscribe, change your options, >view the archives of [email protected]: >1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist >2. Sign in and Proceed What if entering chaos is not be the end of my world.....? - could it mean the end of an old world view and the beginning of the new one ? Toke Paludan Møller InterChange Aps - at the edge of nature City office at "DAYS like this" - Mejlgade 50, st., 8000 C Århus, Denmark Ph and fax: +45 86 76 13 35. Mobile +45 2616 6919 email: [email protected] URL: http://www.interchange.dk Home office at the lake - Stengaardsvej 5 A, 8600 Silkeborg, Denmark Ph +45 8684 6919 Fax +45 8684 6908 * * ========================================================== [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected] Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html =========================================================== [email protected] To subscribe, 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign up -- provide an email address, and choose a login ID and password 3. Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions To unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign in and Proceed
