Edgar,
I hope the house and floor vibrations are small enough to go unnoticed. Such a
very good telescope deserves stability, solid ground.
But bedrock transmits seismic vibrations, so some damping is the best. A
concrete pad in soil, if mounted permanently; or soil, if the telescope is
moved to a place temporarily. Loose sand is too shifting.
In a building, you may notice image movement if anyone walks around while
viewing, or if you move or shift your feet, even if you are seated. As an
Experimentalist, I would urge you to do the experiment. Publish the results
(at least to me). Try, for example, 400x magnification on Jupiter. I hope it
works to your satisfaction. Very nice if it does!
What you say below is not appropriate to post in a Zen echo, however, because
it is incorrect and can harm others. In our practice, in order to awaken, all
thought must be dropped, as must all ideas and information, either by an act of
will, or by the magic of the escalating effects of good- and correct-practice
when we are practicing well.
With the best of luck, after practicing a long while like this, one *may*
awaken suddenly (you're right not to be too sure about things!). Your teacher
will tell you this, too, publicly in teisho and privately in dokusan. Your
compassionate Guide, Bill!, also teaches these facts and this correct approach
here.
It's not Physics or Philosophy class anymore, Edgar!. Here, the only passing
grade is zero.
But for you, so clearly the intellect is a machine-virus running on a fine OS.
Because the virus won't quit, there's not a single CPU cycle available for the
OS to do maintenance upon itself or upon the hardware. I pity people who are
unable to awaken because of such strong and pathological, illogical,
compulsions and ego-fixation, and I pity those who are in the vicinity of these
sad and unfortunate monsters. They suffer from an ancient and modern disease.
This is just the sort of sickness that our Zen practice is meant to cure, but
you must give the curriculum a chance and leave the kindergarten blocks at
home: they're just not appropriate in our School.
With continuing best wishes, always,
--Joe
> Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
>
> Proper realization of the true nature of things depends on clear and well
> informed thought!
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