[MD] an eagle

[Heather Perella]

Dan G.,

     Don't get me wrong.  I love boredom.  It does
depend on what one means by boredom.  That's why I
brought up the emptiness example.

SA  


--- Heather Perella <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> 
> Dan G.:
> > Each time I travel into the mountains I have to
> stop
> > and stare at the scenery. I feel like such a
> > tourist. I am compelled to pull off the road while
> > traffic continues scowling by. The locals, on
> their
> > way to their jobs or whatever other hurry is
> driving
> > them, are seemingly oblivious to the Dynamic
> beauty
> > that I'm drinking in. I see it in their impatient
> > mannerisms and the unhappy looks marring their
> > faces.
> > I guess the splendor of the mountains has become
> --
> > to the locals -- a static everyday affair, just
> > another social pattern of value ... something they
> > pass on the way to work, unworthy of even a second
> > glance. Maybe that's why I know I'll never live
> > there. My senses would doubtlessly dull over time
> > until I no longer saw the beauty either. 
> 
> 
> SA:  Dan, if you don't live there you are a tourist.
> 
> They are going to work, so, they have to drive by
> and
> get to work.  I know your setting up something
> profound, and don't listen to me, but at this moment
> if I were at the mountains at would stop and stare
> too, but if I was going to work, I'd drive right on
> by
> and go to work.
>        About your "senses would doubtlessly dull", I
> don't think that has anything to do with if you live
> there or not.  It does have to do more with your
> comments below, but how to rejuvenate and sustain a
> livable pattern that is social that allows for
> automatic changes.  I say automatic for everything
> always changes.  Further north on this earth, and
> further up mountains seasonal changes are drastic
> changes.  Close to the equator the changes might
> involve flowering of certain plant life.  In
> Antarctica one would be the penguins leaving and
> returning, in the high elevation mountains it would
> be
> storms.  This goes for our very lives.  We've passed
> over this mind-terrain before, and yet it is how we
> might express our nature in creative ways that may
> change.  For example, one that we are very familiar
> with, Marsha talks about emptiness very often, yet,
> in
> the context of this forum, and were I am in my life,
> how I contemplate this emptiness changes.  This is
> the
> teaching of boredom. 
> 
> Dan:
> > I think it's good to see the wonder of the world
> > with fresh eyes, a full heart, and an empty mind.
> > Static quality would appear to be the enemy of all
> > three. When we cease to be surprised then Dynamic
> > Quality has been shuttled to the back of the train
> > instead of the front, so to speak. Expectations
> > arise, which are nothing more than static filters
> > clouding the wonder of reality. 
> > Perhaps that's the lesson of the eagle... ? ...
> 
> 
> SA:  Yes, and this is a static pattern.  Dan, you
> and
> I and many others know this already.  Simply
> knowing,
> as you well know, doesn't do anything.
> 
> 
> gray clouds,
> SA
> 
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