Anthony, Nature has no goals. Evolution has no goals. Zen practice has no goals.
Your questions are the same as the koan-like children’s ditty I paraphrased a couple days ago. I'll quote it here in full: “Tell me why the stars do shine, Tell me why the ivy twines, Tell me why the sky’s so blue, And I will tell you just why I love you. Because God made the stars to shine, Because God made the ivy twine, Because God made the sky's so blue, Because God made you, that's why I love you.” I read 'because God made..' to mean 'because that's the way it is', or Just THIS! No goals, no expectations, just the way it is, Just THIS! …Bill! From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anthony Wu Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2010 5:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Zen] Positive neural changes in the brain due to meditation? Doesn't it? Then why were you born? Why are there myriads of things, instead of nothing existing? Anthony --- On Sat, 23/10/10, ED <[email protected]> wrote: From: ED <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Positive neural changes in the brain due to meditation? To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, 23 October, 2010, 12:51 AM Mark said: "Nature has no goals" The one single law that nature is (in effect) driven by is the replication and survival of living entities. --ED --- In [email protected], Mark Perew <mpe...@...> wrote: > > Chris - > > My first wife slept through much of the labor of our first child. This was > without medication. The birth of our third child was the most difficult, > painful, and traumatic. > > Nature does not subscribe to human rules of damage, loss, and harm. Nature > just is. Nature doesn't scream, it simply is. Nature has no attachments, > it simply is. Nature has no goals, no regrets, no ambitions, no sense of > this human invention of time, no life, no non-life, no death, etc. Nature > is. __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5554 (20101022) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5556 (20101022) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ------------------------------------ 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: [email protected] [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/
