Edgar,
Let me say first how good it is to see you here again.
Everyone here has been concerned for your safety and well-being. Are you
totally OK? Did your place suffer ravages of H. Sandy or of the the Nor'easter
afterwards?
NJ and NY are my old homes, so my heart especially goes out to you and
everybody there.
I have put in perhaps 10 phone calls to your business number, Edgar, about one
a day since the storm. When we did not connect, I suspected that you may have
had a power=cut there which is lasting a long time. Has that been in fact the
case? I hope all is well!
On a much less important topic: I won't say what mind is. Taking a scientific
view is just one other arbitrary stance possible for a busy, moving mind to
take. So, let's not call it a "computational system".
But I will say this: experience emptiness, live emptiness for months at a time,
and you will know what is meant by no-mind, and by the mind not moving. In
fact, nothing moves, even while watching things in motion. I don't say this is
logical: but it is one of the paradoxical things commented-on by the many who
have awakened. You ought to be able to find such reports in the classical
Ch'an literature, even if you put no stock in modern ones such as mine.
Let's comment some more -- later on -- re: this topic if we like. For now, I
am pleased and relieved that you are able to post, because it must mean that
you are OK. I and our cohorts and friends here have been mightily concerned!
What stories have you? Any accounts of the storm? Once again, I hope you're
entirely OK.
--Joe
> Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
>
> I think you have a mistaken interpretation of what 'mind moving' actually
> means...
>
> Mind is a computational system [snip]
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