Hope, is one of "those enormously long forks."
For some, hope is a dream inspiring their work. For others, a fantasy
enabling them to put off their work. Either way, hope doesn't work.
Likewise, fear can inspire both action and inaction but, fear does not act.
People believe and deny what they will (which I suppose, is another way
to say "do the best you want"! *L*). Such
self-defining/delineating/limiting acts change nothing, prevent nothing.
However this appears, it only appears otherwise from whatever
perspective is held.
'Zen' drops the "how" from however, the "hope" from hopefulness, the
"skill" from skillfulness, the "za" from zazen...
Expressions of Zen
Illusory forms remain
Ever elusive
K
On 6/8/2012 9:07 PM, Joe wrote:
K,
The hungry ghosts feed each other, we hear, with those enormously long
forks, and cannot feed themselves. Anyway, so the nice story goes. Not
a bad story, and a lesson in there. ;-)
Expression is one of the Skilful Means to develop in our practice.
Well, teachers and students consider it important.
I always say, "do the best you want". There's a hope in there, as well
as encouragement. And an incentive to drop or ignore perceived limits.
--Joe
> No matter how one serves, Dharma cannot feed hungry ghosts.
