[MD] mythological reflections on star wars

[MarshaV]

At 07:59 AM 6/20/2007, you wrote:

>      [Marsha]
> > Events (experience) is constant.  From your looking
> > at a sunset to my
> > writing this post has been many events.  The
> > ambiguous-type of
> > meaning I experienced from your initial five words
> > was far more
> > eventful (creative, imaginative) for me than the
> > written description
> > of your experience of seeing that particular sunset.
>
>      Yes, for the short phrase mentions an event that
>involves much more that was not explicitly detailed.
>The written description couldn't even cover all that
>happened.
>
>     [Marsha]
> >  So I'll stick with the ambiguous (yes, no & all of
>the above), and
> > I bet you will too (later in the evening now).
>
>      The question is how unattached is "yes, no, & all
>of the above" from practical reality/sense reality.
>Historically, Zen had a degenerate problem with
>nothingness.  Certain practitioners inclined
>themselves to  not think, to rid thoughts, instead of
>realizing thoughts are still a manifestation of this
>reality.  The 6th patriarch in China went at great
>lengthens to rid not-thinking, and said non-thinking
>is much different.  He became the only Buddhist
>practitioner to have his words declared a sutra
>outside of India.  Are you non-thinking or trying to
>not-think?  Do you like static quality?
>
>thanks.
>
>cool morning after the lightening struck the earth on
>different occasions nearby yesterday evening, and then
>the rain fell, oh boy, it surely fell,
>SA

Great question!   I think holding 'yes, no & all of the above' in 
your mind requires alertness, watchfulness, openness.  It's realizing 
and appreciating both ground and figure.  It is emptying the 
predictable.  It is accepting vulnerability.

Do I like static quality?  Yes, no & all of the above.

Marsha