Beautiful. Thank you Steve. Thank you TS Eliot.
My teacher said, "..emptiness is not emptiness... there is indescribable
and exquisite existence..no form is true form.... "...
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On 3/7/2011 1:21 PM, SteveW wrote:
--- In [email protected] <mailto:Zen_Forum%40yahoogroups.com>,
Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 <chan.jmjm@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Mayka,
>
> That was trying to develop a "high-tech" parallel to the realization.
> Personally I think Steve got me beaten with his "dance" parallel. It is
> fun, real, down to earth and romantique.
>
> :-)
>
> Hi JM. I'm afraid I can't take credit for that metaphor. It is a
reference to a poem by T.S.Eliot, Burnt Norton:
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. -T.S.Eliot
When it is time, which is always now, then we rest in the still point
between breaths, between sensations, between movements, between
thoughts, and all is completely obvious! IMO.
Steve
