[MD] an eagle

[MarshaV]

At 07:14 AM 4/13/2008, you wrote:

>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?

SA,

It is difficult to be serious because it is very serious.  I breezed 
through Lines 1-5, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.  I marveled at how well 
they were written.  Line six.  Form is emptiness. Yes.  Emptiness is 
form. It felt like there was a mirror facing a mirror in my 
head.  Nothing else to say.  Nothing to say.  Nothing.  -  The Heart 
Sutra is a serious book.  But after line 6, I lost my 
concentration.  I read the rest of the book, understood what was 
written, but I was still with those mirrors.  If one can choose 
patterns, I choose these.  If I am fortunate, they will choose me.


>          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.

One should gently keep watch for these patterns.

>
>
>         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
>


It turns out I wasn't ready to dance yet.  These books are warm and gracious.

Thank you.

Marsha








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