Edgar,
Ha, ha.
Yeah, I don't get what motivates your comment.
Let's see if, no matter what mind you are in now, you can follow a logical
exposition:
The Zen adept Sumie ink artists who paint big black circles on rice paper do so
with a mind that does not move: I mean, they do it with NO mind (and hence, no
mind-motion).
I remember our Shif-fu, on retreats, teaching us how to come OUT of meditation.
He'd say, "MOVE YOUR MIND, first, then move your BODY, VERY SLOWLY, and sway
your body in ever-widening circles from the waist, first in direction, then in
the other".
That always seemed like un-necessary advice to me, before certain developments
on retreat...
...After which, I found that it was impossible to move the mind, and the body
could nonetheless move.
But the months of life afterwards with the mind not moving at all was a
continuing marvel and surprise. And yet, life was certainly possible, and
richer than ever before. "Decisions" and actions were the best I have ever
done.
And, Edgar, I found I could not only write, but I could type.
I had to type.
I needed to type because my job was to control an advanced radio-telescope from
a Tektronix terminal at the top of Pupin Hall, 120th Street and Broadway. I
discovered in these months giant filaments of cold molecular gas, constrained
and confined by magnetic fields, in the Milky Way pouring from high above the
galactic plane in the Orion-Arm, and down onto the galactic disk, where the
supersonic impact from the flow stimulated the formation of stars in objects
like Monoceros R2, and the Rosette Nebula. The Great Nebula M42 in Orion is
part of this complex.
Decades more of practice and many more retreats and more awakenings showed the
same nature and character of our empty, still, awakened state, in the midst of
no-matter-what activity. No thoughts: nothing moving. Life is a continuous
intuition: the only mind is the mind we all share, which is no mind.
I can say that the currents in the mind, or head, and the feeling or sensation
that there are thoughts, or ANYTHING moving at all, is an illusion that
pertains to the un-awakened state, and to that state only. These things are
illusions and delusions, but the awakened state does not deprecate them: they
are simply not present in the awakened state, however; not present at all.
Surely, in the un-awakened state, there is the sense of something moving, and
of something that takes TIME to pass before the awareness. This appears to
indicate that free action of the mind is dammed-up, or necked-down, in the
un-awakened state, into a bottle-neck situation, which is just what we might
also expect.
NOT in the awakened state. Nothing takes time.
Prajna is likened to LIGHTNING, for this reason, BTW.
See the Dorje lightning-bolt images at Tibetan places?
Prajna is entirely spontaneous and can not be mulled-over nor formulated.
Compassion arises simultaneously with Prajna. Compassion is not something that
you FEEL, in the awakened state, you simply respond naturally.
And so it is.
--Joe
> Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
>
> Joe,
>
> Well obviously your mind was moving when you wrote this... The mind has to
> move to write...
>
> THAT's the experience...
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