>are you a zen teacher?

If not, you should be.

Mike



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 From: Merle Lester <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> 
Sent: Tuesday, 7 August 2012, 23:38
Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: Guided Meditation with Joseph Goldstein - YouTube
 

  
kg...you hit the nail on the head every time..great insight..thanks for 
sharing..are you a zen teacher?..merle
 
  
On 8/7/2012 11:52 AM, mike brown wrote:
> ....the insight wisdom you get from the attention/mindfulness you give... 

I understand your meaning, how this appears to function, what the 
intention and expectation is, but this itself seems to continually 
reform the trap from which it seeks release.

"Give" and "get" sound an awful lot like two of 'the three poisons'. The 
third of course being the notion of a giver/getter!  Mara loves this 
sort of samsaric mindfulness - so full of intent and expectation - so 
self driven/self-sustaining/self-improving.

Such 'insight wisdom', if a hard won attainment, is just a product of 
'ordinary mind'.

Such 'insight wisdom', if a choiceless/effortless realization of 
suchness, is also recognition of 'ordinary mind' as 'Buddha mind'. 
Nothing gained, as nothing lacks.

Please, don't take my word for it.

KG



 

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