i've been away for awhile & when returning i've noticed something interesting about your posts Alex. i have an entirely different response to the things you've said when i come back to them from a break. excuse my directness, but there have been times when i felt you were being arrogant/stubborn, however, when looking at the same response again later, i don't see it that way.
awhile back i posted something that you responded to - i'm wondering if you could expand a bit on what you'd said. this is from an '>i said / you said' exchange: =============== > isn't the notion of "form is emptyness & emptyness > is form" telling us > there are no boundaries? No it's not. Boundaries are there, and they are to be used as stepping stones in our climb out of the pit of constant pain. The person who realizes how to do that realizes that the boundaries that delineate forms are nothing but the very emptiness that frees and liberates us from any possibility of pain. ================ i don't mean to be defending this notion of boundary-less-ness, simply because i understand that for life to form there had to be 'a line drawn' between the living entity & the rest of the universe (be that the cell wall, or my personal identity) & i wasn't really looking to argue that such a division isn't 'real' (altho i do have difficulty in grappling with the equally 'real' notion of sitting in an integrative sense of being - where the boundaries between self & other seem less distinct). my question is about this idea that "the boundaries that delineate forms are nothing but the very emptiness that frees and liberates us from any possibility of pain" portion of your statement. could you talk about that a bit more? thanks, j ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Would you Help a Child in need? It is easier than you think. Click Here to meet a Child you can help. http://us.click.yahoo.com/0Z9NuA/I_qJAA/i1hLAA/S27xlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Noble Eightfold Path: Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration, Right Livelihood Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZenForum/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
