Dear Ian Thank you for your post. A non-grasping mind is a mind that does not have categories, therefore does not experience life through the categories of fun or no fun, a mind that is not oriented to pleasures or to pains, but a mind without spesific or particular orientation or in other words a mind with no preferences.This non grasping mind is in perpetual contact with life -not in contact with me, which is represented by my preferences. This contact gives life its true experiential qualities. The qualities that are not categorized or taste as fun or no fun.This is mindfullness. As for the grooves I mentioned in my previous post; these are the habitual thought/feeling patterns that are due to the previous conditiong of our minds that are triggered when this conditioned mind meets life -just like the grooves of the old wax record when you use it with the old turn table and a stylus, it cannot but move along these grooves.To levell these grooves is that your mind becomes free from them then this same previously conditioned mind is transformed into Mind (with a capital M).
hsin ================================================================ In [email protected], Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear hsin > > This is indeed a discussion group. Your comments are very welcome, thank > you for sharing them. I found them very interesting. Are you saying that > fun is not experienced by non-grasping mind? Or that the mind remains > unmoved by a fun experience? I also wonder, what do you mean by "leveling" > the grooves? How does this happen? > > Ian > > >I did not mean to offend you by my post. I was under the impression > >that this is a discussion group. > >hsin ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/hjtSRD/3MnJAA/i1hLAA/S27xlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Current Book Discussion: Appreciate Your Life by Taizan Maezumi Roshi 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/
