Merle,
Edgar's expression is not apt, because it is not Edgar's. It is the party-line
of genuine zen practice as transmitted through genuine zen teachers, Merle. He
can mouth it authentically, because he represents the true lineages he
practiced with, and is their refined product.
Again -- and I think I've only shared this with you Three Times, which is a
Charm -- the whole of Zen practice is for everyday life. That is the fact
which everyone who practices -- and especially those who practice formally at
the side of a teacher with a real lineage -- understand in their bones, after
not too long a time so-associated. Else, they drift away.
They drift away, ...and sadly fall into "Outer Paths". "Dark Zen". Reaching
for... "powers". Etc. There are no lineages for these paths. Their advocates
are all individualists,and renegades. They consider themselves "rebels".
You can be secure in the knowledge that those who have had -- or have made, and
taken -- the opportunity to practice formally with real zen teachers and real
sanghas are on the same wavelength as you, with regard to everyday life, and
with regard to what each moment and each impression of the mind reveals: the
Tathagata's inexpressible radiance (if we are awake).
I have no doubts about you, nor Edgar. Nor Bill!, Mike, Laughingwater1, Chris,
siska, Anthony, JMJM, and others who I've come to know in passing at this fine
watering hole. I hope they come to drink, or bring us laughingwater and Dharma
Joy.
No pigs and no troughs visible here in this desert city, BTW, Merle. And the
air is sweet and dry. Crisp, half a mile up. 80 degrees.
--Joe
> Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote:
> surely as edgar so aptly puts it..there is the REAL world that we must meet
> every day when we rise from our slumber..
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