[MD] guidebook/primer

[Gene M]

Yes. It makes sense.

It makes the most sense of anything I have read on this group since I joined
practically. This a truly beautiful thread. An actual dialogic building of
something wonderful.

Thank you both for this.

-Gene

On 10/14/06, Heather Perella <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Marsha,
>
>      [Marsha]
> > Oh, I forgot.  I think rather than 'exchange' a
> > better word, for me,
> > is 'overlap'.  For instance, I may be thinking
> > through a problem at
> > the Intellectual Level, and at the same time hold an
> > subconscious
> > attitude towards an aspect of that problem.  This
> > overlap might be an
> > excellent reason to cultivate a meditation practice.
>
>      Overlap, yes, I like that.  It keeps the levels
> together, even while we might be focused on something
> intellectually, somebody can see we are thinking about
> something.  If it is a problem we are trying to
> resolve, then our attitude towards others while we
> chew on the problem intellectually might come across
> as either being calm or disruptive.  This is how we
> participate with the universe, even while we just sit.
> Our 'result' even after a quiet meditation in a room
> all to ourselves, with shine onward, or darken the
> days of others.  How our meditation goes, will live on
> as we stand up.  This is why the idea of zazen is
> important.  Zazen is meditation while we 'just sit',
> but that experience of zazen is to continue into our
> daily practice.  Thus, we may notice zazen in our
> practice at all times and places.  It is not just
> discrete items of exchange, as you might be trying to
> say.  This is all overlapping in a continuance that
> goes on and on, circular fashion.
>
> Thanks,
> SA
>
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