[MD] an eagle

[Heather Perella]

Marsha:
> Eagles, the suit itself.  Emptiness is form? 
> Emptiness is form!  It 
> helped to still be in an upside-down-and-backwards
> frame of mind.  Land where a double negative doesn't
quite
> become a positive.  (I thought of my words to Ham.) 
And the
> heart never lies.


SA:  What words in particular to Ham?


Marsha:
> I love this book, which means I will need to
> read it again.

SA:  I will eventually put a book down and not read it
again, if, it isn't me.  First off, by me, what I mean
is the book may be saying something that teaches me,
and therefore I didn't realize the offerings in the
teachings before and I like these offerings.  I find
them to be me.  Secondly, I may find a book offering
something new, but it just doesn't fit.  I can't find
where the teachings or enjoyments of the book are
offering something that has to do with me.  Why?
         This fits in with the eagle, too.  The eagle
is offering something informational wise or something
of enjoyment that is fitting the person.  I've had
experiences such as this, and so I'll talk as if the
eagle has to do with me, for it does stir this kind of
experience that I'm comparing between how a book has
something to say that has to do with me, and how a
particular experience of an eagle has to do with me
too.  Both in the same way.  Why?
          I'm answering these why's.  Something in the
experience of the eagle and the book is familiar and
me.  It fits my mood.  The moment is offering
something that is me.  This is a kind of
pigeon-holing.  If too much of the book, or too much
of any experience has nothing to do with me and where
my path is headed, then it could be brushed aside - no
spark of interest and inspiration.  Of course, this is
where the danger of something that seems so off-beat
to me, may in fact have something to do with me, but
I'm not being open enough to accept what seems to be
off-beat and I keep pushing it aside.  Yet, these
anomalies will keep beating at me, popping up from
time to time, until somewhere along the path I may
pursue them and find out what's happening with these
reoccurring experiences.  Sometimes it may take only
one time, such as you reading the Heart Sutra once, or
ZMM once, and you know something about it is
significant for your life.  Sometimes certain patterns
may need to reoccur numerous times, over and over
again, before we realize their significance -
hopefully, for I say hopefully for we know there is a
chance that some patterns may repeat themselves in
people's lives numerous times and these patterns may
never be pursued as something significant.  They may
in fact be experienced as nuisances, enemies, and
challenges to the path we are on to be fought against,
or barricaded against in intellectual, culturally
immune ways or with real fences, stone walls, or
moats.  
      
        Drawing patterns, in the mind and in the dug
holes of the earth... shapes and sounds.


Marsha: 
> I have just started The Diamond Sutra.  Do I need to
> download 
> something by Bryan Adams?
> Not much to say.  I will go dance now.

SA:  How was the dance?


Thanks.

first light,
no sun yet,
SA
SA

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