Chris, Just fix the frigging tire and drive on! :-)
Edgar On Aug 30, 2012, at 7:00 PM, Chris Austin-Lane wrote: > > Sorry, I can never tell how clearly my phrases are to others. "blessing" here > is from math or computer science, meaning to mark one thing as having special > meaning to the system. > > My point is that attachment is a mental attitude towards a mental formation, > where the mental formation is given some special status above a mental > formation , confusing "wanting x" with "deserving x", for example. > > So for example, I have a flat tire, but I would prefer that life were > otherwise. the preference is not the attachment, but believing that the > preference should be true and running from the moment of the flattire, shows > I am attached to.what I expected the current moment to be like. > > I can have the same experience of a flat tire, disappointed, and see the > disappointed feeling as just a disappointed feeling, and not move away from > the moment of a flat tire, nor fight the right action of fixing a tire. > > The difference between living as an open container for life and feeling like > a twisted up pissed off victim is not in the mental reactions, but in my > believing the reactions, or blessing them, to borrow a math term. > > The above example is not pulling the desire for a full tire towards. A > similar example could be found for not pushing away: imagine a situation > where my feelings are hurt in some relationship, and my not acknowledging > that hurt is blocking up the flow of the relationship. > > I hope I have done better in using words. > > Thanks, > > --Chris > > On Aug 30, 2012 3:35 PM, "Joe" <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris, > > Gaa-a-ck. > > Bizarrely and unnecessarily contorted. I think that definition came out of a > disaster-area, where people legitimately had better things on their minds. > > Attachment is to what you've GOT. > > Can't bear the thought of being without it?: then, you're attached. > > Like that. > > Come on; speak English. Or at least, a bona fide language of SOME kind, > Chris? Eh? > > ;-) > > --Joe > > PS And, understand. > > > Chris Austin-Lane <chris@...> wrote: > > > > Attachment, my two cents: > > > > some sort of mental blessing or investment in a mental phenomenon which > > makes the target seem more than just another mental entity; the opposite > > being something "like neither pushing away nor pulling towards." > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are > reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > >
