Hi, William,
The crisis is and was the one you raised earlier, about killing some beast or
other. Thought and pondering at that scene would be inexcusable, while acting
in accord with need, informed by your intimacy and full presence and awareness
of conditions, would give you an opening to hunt another day.
Coming back to practice, practice enables habits to drop, so we can be present
fully. You can still use what you've learned, but you won't be bound by it.
That is all.
And that is the point. I won't engage in useless historicizing, not in a Zen
discussion forum, anyway. If we're not already clear about how practice works,
then the next step is clear: practice. There may be pointers on it here at the
Forum. A real teacher face to face is the best teacher though, many here would
agree.
--Joe
> Email <brintala@...> wrote:
>
> You've modified your original position from a statement of our genetic
> inheritance to surviving a crisis. That quite a bit different. However from
> your current position are you saying that the people who died from the
> bombings in Boston were "burdened and unable to act spontaneously" while
> those who survived were "acting spontaneously and were unburdened"? Or is
> there some other type if crisis?
> If two people, one who was unburdened and acting spontaneously and had never
> encountered a tiger in the wild and the other who hunted tigers daily, were
> to suddenly be faced with one, who would survive this crisis?
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