Bill,
With regards to a wood stove in particular it's all of the below..
Edgar
On Nov 30, 2012, at 10:45 PM, Bill! wrote:
Joe, and also RAF and Edgar...
So are your efforts to be able to produce your own electricity based on a
desire for:
complete self-sufficiency (as in
RAF,
I think Bill and I both agree with you here. I do. What I mean to convey is
that all reality itself is Buddha Nature (what I call 'ontological energy', the
reality of existence, and which others call Tao) has existed since the
beginning.
Siddhartha just discovered or realized what had
Edgar,
It rarely gets below 10C (50F) even at night. Heat is the main problem. It
does get in excess of 40C (104F) regularly.
...Bill!
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Edgar Owen edgarowen@... wrote:
Bill,
PS, of course you aren't faced with the problem of cold weather where you
are.
Joe,
Yes, a wonderful and powerful image which has been largely lost in modern
society...
Edgar
On Nov 30, 2012, at 11:45 PM, Joe wrote:
RAF,
I think the connectedness we enjoy on sesshin -- which means joining the
mind, or sharing the mind -- is what was the norm when small
Bill,
Very strange. I do essentially agree with everything in your post below except
the last part where you condemn me for NOT AGREEING WITH IT!
:-)
I can only conclude you still don't realize what I'm saying
Edgar
On Nov 30, 2012, at 11:59 PM, Bill! wrote:
RAF,
You have now
I agree, It is a powerful image and one that feels instinctively so familiar. I
can also visualise a cave scene, such as the one mentioned, where one of the
members lets one rip and you can just hear the muffled sniggers of the others.
I guess that says a lot about me.
Mike
--- On Sun,
Edgar,
Yes sir.
Some work so that this is never lost. I believe this is the most important
thing in the world. Funny!
--Joe
Edgar Owen edgarowen@... wrote:
Joe,
Yes, a wonderful and powerful image which has been largely lost in modern
society...
Edgar
On Nov 30, 2012, at 11:45
On 11/30/2012 11:45 PM, Joe wrote:
The golden glow of the low cook-fire; the golden light of Samadhi. The
identity of the Community and its lineage, and its storehouse of
wisdom and stories. It goes 'way back. This is no modern Invention.
I sense that we are all on the same page about this.
Mike,
My old tai chi teacher Da Liu (1902-2000) always began each class with his
doing the form.
He'd say, I *DO*, you WATCH.
It was a nice organic phrase, and could as well have been one word, in some
language. We came to understand it as such.
During his playing of the form, Da Liu
RAF,
There's no sloppiness of any kind, when one is sharing one's heart, and I thank
you for it. Our topic is deep and fundamental. And hard to get at. Or is it?
--Joe
R A Fonda rafonda@... wrote:
On 11/30/2012 11:45 PM, Joe wrote:
The golden glow of the low cook-fire; the golden light
RAF,
Excellent thought and poetry.
That in fact is one of the reasons I love my wood stove so much. Controlled
fire is a wonderful living force at the center of human civilization and you
say may well have been central to the evolution of human consciousness..
Edgar
On Dec 1, 2012, at 10:06
On 12/1/2012 7:53 AM, Edgar Owen wrote:
I'm surprised you don't have a wood stove instead of a fireplace with
a blower.
We live in a poorly designed faux-chalet that was built by the previous
owner, and have just made-do all these years as first we hung on working
in a hard-scrabble
Bill!,
In my far-flung time-zone last night, I was fading, and you were still Bright
and Smart.
I think you may be encapsulating in your poem for me the concern I showed for
that static fellow at the top of the 100-foot pole. Is that correct?
I've had about 8 hours now of relative
Joe,
Typical! I make a fart gag and you turn it into something deep and meaningful.
I can see we`re (flag) poles apart! Still, on a more serious EP note, ; I
wonder what epoch it was when primitive man first began sniggering at farts and
what effect this had on the development of our
Merle
www.wix.com/merlewiitpom/1
Mike,
Well, I just wondered myself -- questioned -- whether the cave people might not
have an overall different mentality from people raised in modern times and with
probably different norms of behavior in the group. And I thought of how I''d
heard that in China, after a good meal where one
Edgar,
I've been thinking for a long time that our seeming differences were only
semantic or at least not fundamental.
Maybe there's hope for us yet!
...Bill!
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Edgar Owen edgarowen@... wrote:
Bill,
Very strange. I do essentially agree with everything in
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, R A Fonda rafonda@... wrote:
In the darkness of mind
before the word or concept
Fire awakened us
In the mind's darkness,
Before the word or concept,
Coffee woke me up.
...Bill!
Current Book Discussion: any Zen
All - 1,
I'll be offline for at least a day and maybe as many as three. I'll leave you
in Co-Moderator Edgar's post-Sandy capable hands.
Y'all be good now, ya' hear?
...Bill!
Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are
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