Howdy, Merle,
I reply below in the order of some of the quotes from your post:
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It's a good dictionary WORD: "empiricist".
You've got it: in your second sentence quoted below (starts even before
daybreak).
The moonlight of Wisdom (sentence 3, below).
We have companions on the path, if we see them.
The right teacher is the best one. If needed, you can make it right.
You will not have a funeral: your successors will; just try and stop them. ;-)
Ceremonies are good for something: You find this out in Zen Buddhist formal
practice with a teacher and a sangha. Ceremonies and ritual make visible the
Invisible. Even if you are not a visual person, you will appreciate this.
I think a marriage is not to be knotted to another person; it is to be one
person (at war with itself). Something about the symbolism of the wedding ring
shows this to me, in my way of thinking. Can't explain. There are no edges to
a torus, really. Now I want a donut: I'll MAKE some edges.
Sheng Yen was a Chan monk, so he wore the monastic traditional open sandal. I
said "to boot", and then just followed train-of-thought; did not mean to
de-rail, or talk just about footwear.
The Adidas SL-72 are a long favorite shoe; the training is just running. I am
the world's slowest runner. I do it for the exercise, and for sight-seeing.
It's for Chan sitting and yoga fitness, too. It is good for belly-breathing
(100% here for the past 45 years; good preparation for Tai Chi to have this
breathing habit, for health). I do it (the running) for training so that when
I climb mountains, I can climb for fun, not for the strain of it, and not to
have to return to base-camp as you write; returning to base-camp inconveniences
others.
Clothes?: Nudist Buddhist Baloonist Flutist Parachutist, here.
Maybe the rudest, crudest; but I mustn't brag. Now you know. ;-)
Don't tell?
Why else live in Arizona!
Let me say that living in AZ naturally confers a sense of Yuma.
(or requires it)
Fun!, Cous',
--Joe
> Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote:
>
> .. when you say empiricist...can you clarify?
>
> ..at the end of the day: it's about experience
>
> Â the sunlight of zen..
> . reading and listening to others is fine however to climb the mountain one
> must do it oneself..
> . and if that means being out of breath and returning to base camp be it so..
> .one then attempts again, and again..and the realisation is you have to do it
> alone.
> Â however there are no rules no gurus greater than oneself..
> Â once you finally reach the mountain top..you realise there is was mountain
> to climb..it's an illusion.
> .. you've been "there" all the time... simple as that... and your still
> breathing.
> ..breathing the breath of life living and experiencing it as YOU
>
> Â i am not having a funeral..
> . my preference is for a traditional mongolian  event..but since that would
> not be permitted in our society.
> .i opted to donate my body to medical research...Â
>
> Â weddings..silly events..the wedding..as i believed at 21 was it needs to be
> after you've done the hard yards..maybe at 30 years of slogging at it.
>
> .after all what a  feat to be knotted to one person...is it love, was it
> love?..till death do us part....?
>
> knotted to one person...can have it's draw backs.
> ..they can overpower you with their mind set.
> .you leave the family nest..and as r.d. laing says that is an institution in
> itself..
>
> Â sandals..
> . no foot wear required..what does it matter
> ..most my days are spent in slippers..love em..love a bit of slipper and
> dressing gown  attire..
>
> . mornings at computer are with the slipper and dressing gown...(well i am
> retired..don't have to run out the door at 100 miles an hour to go do the
> treadmill run)
> hell's bells
>
> Â enjoy your training..
> for?
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