I wasn't talking about enlightenment however, was I? Thanks,
--Chris [email protected] +1-301-270-6524 On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Joe <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris, > > Except... that has nothing to do with awakening in Zen, which is "having > nothing". That's not just the experience of "Wu", ("mu"), when one > experiences it, but continues endlessly, until it's covered-up again > eventually, which always happens. > > I think infinities and epsilons in math have good applicability as > metaphors to, or of, features of operation of Zen Mind / No Mind. Maybe > best applicability. > > Just weighing-in, vis-a-vis "math". > > I wrote here already that one finds oneself doing math in a different way > in the awakened state, compared with previously. It can still be done. > But it is so, so different (an experience). I survived, somehow. My job > depended on it. And I took another (part-time) job during those eight > weeks of the continuation of the first opening. One finds space and time > for things one can help in, that's for sure. It could be good to find a > way to check (stop) oneself from over-extending, but I don't know how. > Probably a married householder parent will have no problem, thanks to > plenty of cooperative or competing influence. > > --Joe > > > Chris Austin-Lane <chris@...> wrote: > > > > The thing I like about math as a source of analogies for zen is that it > shows how two different things csn br exactly the same. > > > > Linear equations over reals are lines. Lines are linear equations. > > Numbers, points, the constituents drop away as the eternal unity is > seen. > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are > reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
