RAF,
There's no sloppiness of any kind, when one is sharing one's heart, and I thank
you for it. Our topic is deep and fundamental. And hard to get at. Or is it?
--Joe
> R A Fonda <rafonda@...> wrote:
>
> On 11/30/2012 11:45 PM, Joe wrote:
> > The golden glow of the low cook-fire; the golden light of Samadhi. The
> > identity of the Community and its lineage, and its storehouse of
> > wisdom and stories. It goes 'way back. This is no modern Invention.
>
> I sense that we are all on the same page about this. It was
> intellectually sloppy of me to refer to all that historical striving as
> "Zen", but I sense a CONTINUITY there, which leads me to the careless
> usage of the term Zen to include the whole process.
>
> I also think you are absolutely correct to identify FIRE as an important
> factor in the evolution of human consciousness.
>
> This is something I wrote decades ago:
>
>
>
> In the darkness of mind
>
> before the word or concept
>
> Fire awakened us
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