Dear all Harrison wrote > 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) Great tickling which took me back to my days in Gestalt training. I think the story of our earthly story (and perhaps our conscious movement in OS) is about the struggle of holding polarities > both/and. As OST practitioners, we have the privilege of modeling holding the space for polarity turbulence without judgment. In Gestalt, we talk of the 'creative point of no-difference' > aware of indifference, aware of urge to make a difference, both held in consciousness and accepted until some other point of action/passion emerges. The next action will again create a disturbance whose polarities can be explored, included and conscious space held for, and so on, and so on .... never ending, always so ..... Thanks for the forum to express my thoughts! Best wishes, glory ressler * * ========================================================== [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
