[MD] Do we experience the potential future?

[David M]

Hi Gav

My point is that the moment is rich with possibility.
I am sitting in my room full of possibility for me,
I can get up and move to any part of the room.
I may leave the room. I may talk to my partner,
or take her upstairs. I can go to another room
or leave the house.  Make a phone call, read
one of many books, place a bet on line, have
a drink, use my exercise machine, write a
poem. It goes on and on. There's a level
of quality in all these possibilities. To be
sitting in my chair is to be open to all these
possibilities. Unless you are not going to move
ever again you've got to consider and choose
between your possibilities. 

Here I go, getting up, off to the airport,
watch out Japan, here I come.

David M


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gav" <gav_gc at yahoo.com.au>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 12:57 AM
Subject: Re: [MD] Do we experience the potential future?


hey y'all,

the central point of the MOQ is that to abide in the
moment is the best advice of all. 

indeed, not being 'in the moment' pretty much captures
the problem with the west.

do we experience the potential future? yes we can
imagine it/dream it. this is necessary to appraise
various consequences. it is a function of the
intellectual level.

do we choose our path...yes we do. we are most free
when our path is in harmony with the Tao; when it *is*
the Tao. this paradox (freedom in adherence) is only
ostensible, for the Tao is without manifest form.

what is choice ideally based on? quality

when you are choosing based on quality, the choices
will seem to happen of themselves...like the master
butcher whose knife never blunts in the chuang tzu.

life is supposed to get easier as you learn from
experience and ideas...as you approach the Tao more
closely. 

a paradisical life, in harmony with nature, with the
Tao, is possible, even with self-conscious
individuals; in fact i guess that is the point: the
power of self-consciousness (reason, science,
technology)  grounded in unity with the natural world.
a relative separation/objectivity (sq); an absolute
unity/harmony(Dq).

 



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