--- In [email protected], Chris Austin-Lane <ch...@...> wrote: > > 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.
No problem. With 'right intention' everything anyone says on the Zen Forum can be turned into an edifying conversation. > I do not mean to tell you Ed to sit zazen. Even if you did so repetitiously, my mission would be to discover even more teachings for myself in your goadings. ;-) > 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 fully endorse your and Mayka's exhortations for anyone and everyone to do as much Zazen as they possibly can. --ED > I certainly enjoy the to and fro of verbal interchanges. > Thanks, --Chris On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:07 AM, ED <seacrofter...@... </group/Zen_Forum/post?postID=R6-UfEUNgIUyRBjS8aK753KjQztIXha_aXI_zoZpbn\ ptHd-HqlEqJZO7ZObKgtDsPqH-JIcIHCaX0E8G4ckNeZE> > 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] </group/Zen_Forum/post?postID=6UwbwrNoaVMobP9kbV61ZBpUkykdPOnM5GVNMmy5-V\ eGFd6csZibd6dEBjoTfZEObHpdb8I7NHMGUOilgbLzm0hL8A> , 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.
