Hi Bill, [Bill!] I don't really understand this statement well enough to respond. Why do qualify decisions with 'big', [siska] what I meant by 'big decision' is decision that have 'longer' (?) impact. Say, deciding to marry someone, or deciding to leave everything behind and go forth. I suppose we can do this by intuition, and perhaps we should. But sometimes I find that intuition is not intuition, there is still very subtle framework behind what comes up as intuition.
[Bill!] and why should they be handled differently than any other decision? [siska] I'd definitely be less concerned with this when it comes to deciding what I should have for lunch today, although I suppose this is dualism point of view? :-) [Bill!] I'm not aware of any non-attachment 'attitude' that does not come from awareness. Where would it come from? Unless by 'non-attachment attitude' you just mean disinterst? [siska] I did not mean disinterest. Now, this is a little difficult for me to describe. The mind can be very tricky. Maybe, at one point, it experienced a state where it was 'un-attached to anything' (not sure if this is the right way of describing that state). When the mind is not in this state, it adopts what it regards as being non-attached as an 'attitude'. But because the mind is not actually in that state, choices and decisions made are still based on a framework instead of real intuition. Feels like too much thinking going on in my head :-p siska -----Original Message----- From: "Bill!" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:39:38 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Zen] Why bother with Zazen? Better Orgyhouse Siska, My 'thoughts on this' are embedded below: [Siska] When it comes to decision making, we need to think within certain framework, which are, perhaps almost always, illusory. [Bill!] Yes and no. During my everyday life I make a lot of decisions. Some are based on logic and some on impulse. The ones based on logic are made within a logical framwork. The ones based on impulse are not made within any kind of framework that I can identify. [Siska} I think making big decisions with non-attachment attitude that does not come from the awareness takes a lot of courage. I wonder if it is wise to do. I'd love to learn your thoughts on this. [Bill!] I don't really understand this statement well enough to respond. Why do qualify decisions with 'big', and why should they be handled differently than any other decision? I'm not aware of any non-attachment 'attitude' that does not come from awareness. Where would it come from? Unless by 'non-attachment attitude' you just mean disinterst? ...Bill!
