---If there is no train what just ran over my foot? I answer in the reletive, you come back in the absolute.
I fully understand the concept of mental constructs(?). We create our universe in every moment. But it is the action we take not our understanding of the situation that affects the world around us. Furthermore good effort does not always mean good results. best laid plans of mice and men........? Just have to go with the flow, Guy In [email protected], "Robert Kirbo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:04:54 -0800, anatmanwave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > --- Just be with the smell of shit till i can get off. This is the > > reality of the situation. Maybe offer the guy a few kind words, I > > could only imagine his mortification. Guy > > There is no guy on the train. There is no train. Get it? This is just a > mental construct. > > But it could be a mental construct that is positive or good. Sure sh-t > happens. However, > because we have minds, we also have choices to make about everything we > experience > and how we choose to experience... > > On both a Zen and Quantum level, we have the power to form the > universe...when we > can select a positive choice we recreate the world of resulting changes > that are positive. > It is a gradual and ongoing process, not a singularity event. > > What we deem to be good or bad is often very subjective, very brief and in > our ignorance > we fail to see the development of character and experience that provide us > with enriched > lives and the next layer of choices, etc., etc., if in doubt, start again > with the Eight-fold > path and progress from there...this is after all, a Zen forum, and Zen is > established on the > basis of Buddhism. Buddhism addresses the essential dilemna of suffering, > duality, ignorance and > spiritual progress via the Eightfold Path. We are bound most by our > mental constructs than we are the > world itself. Liberation is a necessary step toward enlightenment, and > that comes only after we > give up our attachments to false belief and false desires. Determining > the ultimate reality of > our existence is the basic and difficult daily work. It is easy to trap > oneself in the illusion of the > world, and to spin fearful constructs based on "if." Our lives take on > greater meaning when we understand that > happiness depends less on what we think we want, and realize that it > occurs most naturally to those > without expectation who delight in the moment of here and now, and delight > in the joy or > surprise of others. > > The sound of one hand clapping sometimes is the moment when we slap our > foreheads and exclaim: > > "Oh, Jeez, I have been such an idiot -- the solution has been in front of > me all along!" > > That is why my forehead has such big creases in it. > > Cheers, > > Zenbob > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ > Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today! Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
