[MD] The Bridge Over Paradox

[Heather Perella]

     [Platt quoted Lila; 2]
> "There's an old analogy to a cup of tea. If you want
> to drink new tea you have to
> get rid of the old tea that's in your cup, otherwise
> your cup just overflows and
> you get a wet mess. Your head is like that cup. It
> has a limited capacity and if
> you want to learn something about the world you
> should keep your head empty in
> order to learn it. It's very easy to spend your
> whole life swishing old tea around
> in your cup thinking it's great stuff because you've
> never really tried anything
> new, because you could never get it in, because the
> old stuff prevented its entry
> because you were so sure the old stuff was so good,
> because you never really tried
> anything new . . . on and on in an endless circular
> pattern." (Lila, 2)
     [Platt] 
> Probably not relevant, but I couldn't resist. 


     This reminds me of tea drinking, A... this is a
cup of tea, A... I guess this reminds me of what I was
discussing with Arlo about tea drinking as follows:

     When sit-wandering in these woods
          birds fly and land in hemlock branches,
     The tea cup passes heat into the sky,
          touches my mouth and never went anywhere.

accurate, calm, wondering, still here as the cup
pours,
SA


 
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