I apologize if I have violated the current cultural mores, Ed. Understanding group norms has always been a thing I stumble over, I can use all the hints I can get. I do not mean to tell you Ed to sit zazen. I simply mean that thinking about things and experiencing things are different. Even experiencing thinking is different from thinking about thinking. I may have been hoping to let the lurkers know my observation that sittting zazen does make the shift in attention easier, so I notice the experiencing before it is covered up in thinking easier when I've sat recently).
I certainly enjoy the to and fro of verbal interchanges. Thanks, --Chris PS The eat the peach/scrutinize the picture of the peach is a reference to a Dogen essay, where the title is actual something more along the lines of a bowl of rice or a picture of a bowl of rice, not a peach. On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:07 AM, ED <[email protected]> wrote: Scrutinizing the peach and biting into it are not mutually exclusive choices > for different points in time. > > The 'choice' one makes for any moment in time is whatever appears to > oneself to be the most appropriate choice for that moment. > > Almost anyone here could give others repetitious advice on how to run their > lives, and their intentions, like those of fundamentalist religionists, > would no doubt be motivated by good intentions; but, guided by current > cultural mores, at least in English-speaking countries, most abstain from > such well-intentioned speech. > > > > --- In [email protected], Maria Lopez <flordel...@...> wrote: > > > > Indeed Chris. We always have a choice. > > > > > > --- On Sun, 9/1/11, Chris Austin-Lane ch...@... wrote: > > > > To eat the peach or make do with the picture of a lovely peach. It is a > daily choice we face. > > > > > > On Jan 8, 2011 11:18 PM, "Maria Lopez" flordel...@... wrote: > > > > Much, much short cut to eat the peach rather than to have the poetry and > much more often the speculation by the ones who read a lot about what look > like the taste of the peach but never tried, tasted or even see a peach in > their life. > > > >
