RAF, Excellent thought and poetry.
That in fact is one of the reasons I love my wood stove so much. Controlled fire is a wonderful living force at the center of human civilization and you say may well have been central to the evolution of human consciousness.. Edgar On Dec 1, 2012, at 10:06 AM, R A Fonda 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 > > > > > >
