Yes! Yes! Yes!
--- In [email protected], Charles Gee <gee512@...> wrote:
>
> Edgar (I think said)
>
> "Well to start with it's simply the way the senses and the brain work.
> Actually reality is nothing at all like the model of it our senses and
> mind constructs."
>
> Well what a great way to say nothing. My brain reports that this is a
> chair and my backside confirms this by sitting in it. Those little
> pixels of light impinging on my eyes have my brain convinced that I am
> in front of a computer screen and if I tap the right keys words will
> appear, and behold sure enough it happens. Each day and everyday this
> and thousands of other experiences take place with input verified by
> physical output. To say that this is not reality is the work of a word
> chopper somewhat overcome by a need to construct that which defies reality.
>
> Zen is the best way i have found to shut the brain off for a short
> period of time somewhat like taking a breather after hard exertion. To
> wrap something so obvious up in a parcel of words and try to create a
> mysterious esoteric rigmarole has always been the way of those who claim
> to be teachers, after all they have to make it hard to understand or
> they would be out of a position of influence etc.
>
> Just sit and shut the brain down for a time is all it takes
>
> Charles
>
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