Hi Barry, your post made me recall and look for this famous old Zen teaching....
...."Attention, attention, attention," wrote Zen master Ikkyu many centuries ago when asked to write down the highest wisdom. "But what does attention mean?" asked his questioner. Master Ikkyu replied, "Attention means attention." Thus, attention cannot be divided into component parts. It stands whole, and does not easily permit analysis. It is an attitude and way of being rather than a method or goal. Perhaps it's just another way of exhorting us to live in the Now... Winston * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
