That's easy! Just hit the DELETE key...Bill!
--- In [email protected], Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
>
> KG and Mike,
>
> The answer lies in the disappearance of the question...
>
> Edgar
>
>
>
> On Sep 14, 2012, at 2:35 AM, Kristopher Grey wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 9/13/2012 4:41 PM, mike brown wrote:
> >>
> >> So life is an unresolved question with "don't know" arising before the
> >> question is asked...
> >
> > What if it is, or isn't? No matter the answer, you still will/won't know
> > shit. You'll only have knowledge of some shitty answer claiming to say what
> > life is. How is this question relevant? What seeks this shit? What will you
> > do with such knowledge? Will it be life-changing? That takes care of
> > itself. *L*
> >
> > Do you really want/need a story to tell you that this is this? Maybe you'd
> > prefer one that says it's not this? That's what most want, and why they
> > 'seek'. They read the stories and imagine themselves lacking this and
> > practicing to get that. That's the seekers way/hard road/uphill path that
> > eventually (or not) leads to utter futility that forces seeing this is this
> > and has been all along. Given this is never not this, feelings of making
> > progress toward this are more often than not setbacks.
> >
> > "Don't know' is not a position, choice, or state. Its simply realizing the
> > nature of ordinary mind. Not ignorance of, or detachment from anything.
> > Honestly recognizing we don't know, and can't know - and that's not a
> > problem as it's not about knowing. Never was. "Don't know" mind doesn't
> > arise before or before or after anything. Non-arising. Unborn/undying.
> > 'Don't know' mind is 'Original'/'Buddha mind', appearing as 'suchnness'.
> >
> > Suchness is not an answer. No question can reveal this. This never lacks.
> > To ask, is to request a resolution to a non-problem requiring no solution.
> > The point of asking is ultimately to reveal the nature of the asking, not
> > to get any other answer.
> >
> > KG
> >
> >>
> >> From: Kristopher Grey <kris@...>
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> Sent: Thursday, 13 September 2012, 18:36
> >> Subject: Re: [Zen] the real world and zen power
> >>
> >>
> >> On 9/13/2012 10:26 AM, Chris Austin-Lane wrote:
> >> > I do not think it ends up as a question. Just an attempt to share the
> >> > humor of being who we are.
> >>
> >> Without question, This is so. ;)
> >>
> >> KG
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
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