Thank you for that Edgar. I can follow your emails better if you give them to me a teaspoon at a time, unlike Bill! who seems to follow what you say with ease.
Bill not Bill! Find what makes your heart sing…and do it! ________________________________ From: Edgar Owen <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, September 1, 2012 6:36:59 AM Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: " dancing with the daffodils" Joe and Merle, There is no 'goal' of enlightenment to be achieved without which you imagine you are incomplete.... There is no incompleteness. This understanding is an essential aspect of realization... Wham! Edgar On Aug 30, 2012, at 11:51 PM, Joe wrote: >Hiya, Merle, > >Nonetheless, practice formally if you are able. > >If you are not able, then find some way to do it. ;-) > >It's as important as that. Life is a little bit short, nowadays. > >If you report-back that it is all B.S., then we'll understand that it is so, >for >you... once you have given it your ALL, with a good teacher, and sangha. > >But I think you'll have a more positive experience, and report. > >In fact, I worry that you may develop attachments, especially in the realm, or >area, of the Optical-sense. But when I see the paintings that afterwards >result, >coming from your studio, THAT will assuage my concerns, probably, and bath me >in >balm, I am sure. And this is what I look forward to. > >Yet, it's not selfishness, on my part. > >And, I am not attached to the possibility. But I have hopes that EVERYONE who >wishes to practice under the best conditions may have their wish, and will >awaken. Not just because I have done it, and have had the wonder and miracle >of >this chance a number of times, as many of us have, in company with so many >others throughout History, and among our intimate acquaintances: but, because >so >many others have *not*. > >I know what I'm wishing you, and others, I mean. > >Otherwise... may the veiled-life suffice! One can't disparage where we are. >One >can only either realize, or not realize. Realize means realizing where we are >already, but being the most clear about it. That's not a movement to somewhere >else, but it is a very, very big step, as momentous as the late Neil >Armstrong's. Will you trust me, about this, in this? > >I was 17 when he and Buzz landed, and walked, and Mike Collins orbited, >station-keeping for them. Life was different after that. I could write volumes >about how. > >Maybe I'm a relic. Maybe, someday, to be appreciated. ;-) > >--Joe > >> Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote: >> >> ..am i on track.????? >> > >
