Bill!, When you meet Sogyal Rinpoche, please ask him whether he really realizes a status 'free of all cares and concerns' when he is doing a sexual union with a girl. Also important to ask how much he charges for learning the technique from him. Anthony
________________________________ From: Bill! <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, 24 October 2012, 20:15 Subject: Re: [Zen] Why Meditate? Edgar, I'll mention that to Sogyal Rinpoche if I ever meet him. I think he's still alive, and about my age too! ...Bill! --- In mailto:Zen_Forum%40yahoogroups.com, Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote: > > Bill, > > "waste your life is relative". It's a false judgement. In reality nothing is > "wasted". > > Edgar > > > > On Oct 24, 2012, at 4:31 AM, Bill! wrote: > > > Why Meditate? Sogyal Rinpoche writes: "Generally we waste our lives, > > distracted from our true selves, in endless activity; meditation, on the > > other hand, is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we can really > > experience and taste our full being, beyond all habitual patterns. Our > > lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and > > aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing, and achieving, forever > > burdening ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations. > > > > Meditation is the exact opposite. To meditate is to make a complete break > > with how we "normally" operate, for it is a state free of all cares and > > concerns, in which there is no competition, no desire to possess or grasp > > at anything, no intense and anxious struggle, and no hunger to achieve: an > > ambitionless state where there is neither acceptance nor rejection, neither > > hope nor fear, a state in which we slowly begin to release all those > > emotions and concepts that have imprisoned us into the space of natural > > simplicity." --The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying pages 58-59 > > > > >
