...then were something more... Robert Kirbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:04:54 -0800, anatmanwave 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 --------------------------------- Support the World Aids Awareness campaign this month with Yahoo! for Good
