[MD] mythological reflections on star wars

[Heather Perella]

     [SA quoted previously]
> >      This is from the 'The Treasure of the Law'
> the sutra by Huineng, the 6th patriarch, as follows:
> >      "Learned Audience, when you hear me talk
about the void, do 
> not at once fall into the idea of vacuity, (because
this involves the 
> heresy of the doctrine of annihilation)."
> >      Huineng discusses a Void/Nothingness that is
> >grounded and involves content - not annihilation.
> >      He is another quote from the same sutra as
> >follows:
> >      "Learned Audience, what the ignorant merely
> talk about, wise men put into actual practice with
their
> >mind. There is also a class of foolish people who
> sit quietly and try to keep their mind blank. They
refrain
> >from thinking of anything and call themselves
'great'.
> >On account of their heretical view we can hardly
talk to them."


     [Marsha]
> I like your explanation.  'Yes, no & all of the
above' is a strategy to 
> keep my mind open.  If I know something to well, I
may miss an  
> opportunity to discover something new.   And nothing
is as 
> incomplete as my previous conclusion.

     By this last sentence, you are keeping yourself
open-minded.  Does this strategy involve indecision
and hesitation?

blue, then gray clouds, blue, gray clouds, blue,
SA


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