Yep, we are always already there... Edgar
On Nov 24, 2011, at 9:20 AM, mike brown wrote: > > Edgar, > > As long as we believe there is a path to follow, then we'll always be in our > own way (1st meaning). > > Mike > > From: Edgar Owen <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, 24 November 2011, 23:05 > Subject: Re: [Zen] What Your Big Brother Says > > > Mike, et al., > > At least 3 combined meanings to that title: > > First he (his individual self) gets in his own way in the sense of > interfering with his own progress on the path. > > Second he is in his own individual path (way) towards enlightenment as is > everyone. He's doing it his way. > > Third he is in the actual Way, the path of Tao... Since all individual paths > lead to the one path. > > Edgar > > > > On Nov 24, 2011, at 8:54 AM, mike brown wrote: > >> >> >> I personally find that of all the writers on Zen (inter alia), Watts >> resonates the most. However, not one word he uttered or wrote will ever >> match the profundity of the simplest daily action performed by ourselves. >> "In My Own Way" indeed. >> >> Mike >> From: Edgar Owen <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Thursday, 24 November 2011, 22:42 >> Subject: Re: [Zen] What Your Big Brother Says >> >> >> Everything in the universe is always exactly right as it is in the sense >> that it is what it is and thus could not be otherwise even as it is being >> changed... >> >> I always liked the title of Watt's "In My Own Way" with its multiple >> entendres. >> >> Edgar >> >> >> >> On Nov 24, 2011, at 7:53 AM, Anthony Wu wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> Quotations from Alan Watts (This Is It) >>> >>> In Zen the satori experience of awakening to our ‘original inseparability’ >>> with the universe seems, however elusive, always just around the corner. >>> One has even met people to whom it has happened, and they are just like us, >>> and yet much more at home in the world, floating much more easily upon the >>> ocean of transience and insecurity. >>> >>> Buddhism does not deny that there is a relatively limited sphere in which >>> human life may be improved by art and science, reason and good will. >>> However, it regards this sphere of activity as important but nonetheless >>> subordinate to the comparatively limitless sphere in which things are as >>> they are, always have been, and always will be – a sphere entirely beyond >>> the categories of good and evil, success and failure, and individual health >>> and sickness. >>> >>> I find that I cannot help doing and experiencing, quite freely, what is >>> always ‘right’ in the sense that the stars are always in their ‘right’ >>> places. As Hsiang=yen put it, >>> >>> There’s no use for artificial discipline, >>> For, move as I will, I manifest the ancient Tao. >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > > > >
