Thank you Ian Dear Ian your question was : "Is it your understanding that this transformation is accomplished just through a deep letting go of categories? Especially the categories of self/other, mind/body, me/you... or is there another way to explain how this transformation happens?"
The deep letting go of categories - I prefer to call it "close the file of categorization"- only happens after a deep conviction that these categorizations only bring forth pain and poverty, even if they happen to give you in the begining a false taste of happiness or pleasure.Then, this man "closes the file of categorizations" and insists, deep inside himself, to experience life from a new light -a light free from these poverish and painful categorizations. This is the non-grasping mind by which man meets life. This non- grasping mind is not conditioned and it lets life modify it the way it wants. This mind becomes an integral part of life not separate from life, when this integration is complete then man has the Buddha Mind. hsin ==================================================================== In [email protected], Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you very much! That is a wonderful explanation. > > You say "this same previously conditioned mind is transformed into Mind > (with a capital M)" > > Is it your understanding that this transformation is accomplished just > through a deep letting go of categories? Especially the categories of > self/other, mind/body, me/you... or is there another way to explain how > this transformation happens? Is it stillness of mind that allows one to > become free from categories? Also, when you say "previously > conditioned"... does this mean that non-grasping mind is not > conditioned? Would it be correct to say this is the "unconditioned" the > Buddha talked about? > > Ian > > > >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 > > > > > > > > > > > >Current Book Discussion: Appreciate Your Life by Taizan Maezumi Roshi > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Has someone you know been affected by illness or disease? Network for Good is THE place to support health awareness efforts! http://us.click.yahoo.com/UwRTUD/UOnJAA/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/
