[MD] an eagle

[Dan Glover]

Hello everyone

> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:16:03 -0700
> From: spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Subject: Re: [MD] an eagle
>
> SA:
>
> 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.

Hi SA

Boredom would appear to be a lack of awareness in one's surroundings. I walk a great deal. Other people have confided in me that to them, walking is boring. I think they think that on account of their lack of awareness of the changes going on all around. Every day something is different. Nothing remains the same. To me, becoming aware of all these changes eliminates any possibility of boredom arising. 

For instance: I saw a tiny plant today growing in the road, in a crack in the asphalt, right beneath the path of the car wheels. This tiny plant has (apparently) learned not to grow too tall or it will be decapitated. Similar plants growing beside the road gain a height of several inches. This plant though is only a couple millimeters tall. I thought perhaps it had been run over and that is why it is so short. On closer inspection though, I found the plant is completely intact. No breakage, no sign of trauma. Very strange. How does the plant know not to grow any taller?

When such marvels exist, how can anyone be bored?

Dan


>
> SA
>
>
> --- Heather Perella 
> 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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