[MD] Everything/Nothing, or should I get a life?

[MarshaV]

At 07:56 PM 6/4/2007, you wrote:
>      [Marsha]
> > It's a strange language, I know.
>
>      Your language.
>
>       [Marsha]
> > But I think you have misinterpreted
> > what I was saying.  No problem.  Painting is
> > calming, or exciting.  Depends on the subject.  I do
>meditate,
> > but I still can sometimes paint with great passion.
>
>      How is mediation counter to great passion?

I didn't mean to imply that.

>      To be calm and alert is to know when one feels
>calm, excited, angry, sad, a mixed of more than one,
>etc...  Without being alert to what's happening, to
>not even know one is experiencing or experiences great
>passion might be called not experiencing great
>passion.
>      I would say painting is meditation for meditation
>is attention to something specifically definable, even
>if it is not completely definable.  Zazen, what I like
>to practice, is alertness, but not on anything in
>particular.  I hear a bird, well, when a bird is
>present to be heard.  Now, if I where to concentrate
>on the bird song specifically, well then I've begun to
>meditate, I'm focused on something specific.

You sound very pleased with your practice.


Marsha