ED, No. None. No choice whatsoever (not unless you don't know what's good for you).
Mike, The Compassionate One ________________________________ From: ED <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 22 March, 2011 11:30:08 Subject: [Zen] Re: A bit busy Mike, Do I have a choice other than to surrender to the superior insight of a kensho-tinged nondual perception? --ED --- In [email protected], mike brown <uerusuboyo@...> wrote: > > ED, > > Well, neither the length of time one sits nor its "intensity" will determine > if > > one 'gets it', or not (the trinity of wisdom, compassion, equanimity). I > think > the problem people have with words like 'compassion' is that they interpret > the > > word from a dualitic viewpoint: 'I have to be kind to him'; 'I > shouldn't think > bad thoughts about them' etc. This problem of breaking down compassion into > the doer, the act and the object of compassion can be transcended with the > wisdom that 'I' and the 'other' are the same. How can compassion not arise > when > > we realise that our actions (when there is a 'doer'-object), and the actions > of > > others, cause the same pain and suffering we've experienced? > > Mike > Mike, > What I hear you say below is: With appropriately intensive zen practice > (with > no objective in mind), wisdom, compassion and equanimity will quite naturally > arise in the practitioner. > Yes? > --ED > > I don't see Zen as a technique to be employed in particular adverse >situations > > >to ease a troubled mind. > > > > Small 'z' zen just is - there are no qualities to it that can be talked >about. > > > > There is, however, a way to express zen and this would be thru equanimity, > >compassion and wisdom. > > > > Mike > > > Has has your Zen practice benefitted you in this stressful situation? > > > --ED
