[MD] is-ness

[Heather Perella]

> >Marsha previously:
> > > Bo and Ham are great.  I've learned from both
> of them.  They both
> > > care.  They have a different MOQ point-of-view
> from mine.  That's
> > > fine.  I like diversity.  They both make me
> think.  And I do like to think.
> > > But that biology-thing is pretty cool too.


> >SA:  I've been pushed aside by them too much, and
> they don't try to 
> >mend events.  Even though I have for years with them. 
> I don't 
> >know.  You've softened my heart Marsha, thanks.  I
> needed that.

Marsha: 
> I doubt that you needed that from me.

SA:  Well, it may have not needed to come from you, but it did.  Depending on our orientation, if I face south, east, north, or west or towards you or somebody else, different events occur.  At this moment you softened my heart, but I still disagree with them.


Marsha:
> You wrote "love everyone you 
> meet".

SA:  I don't remember saying that.  When did I say that?

Marsha:
> Maybe that seems hard to do when you're
> looking at a monitor 
> and discussing philosophy, but it doesn't need to be.

SA:  I don't know.  I find disagreeing to be creative. We can agree, but when something fishy is happening I think it's fine to disagree.  I've kept peace at the heart of the disagreement.  It's not like I want to murder them or something.

SA previously: 
> >As to the biology-thing?  The woods provide a way for
> me to think.  The quiet woods are the diamond [aka diamond
> (quiet) sutra 
> >(woods)].  Maybe that clears this up a bit.  It's
> all about thinking 
> >for ourselves, being creative, and as we have more and
> more time in 
> >this creative spirit of the summer woods, as I pointed
> out to my 
> >wife who while on a walk, we stopped by a flowing
> stream to give our 
> >son a moment to play in the small trickling of water,
> my wife 
> >started to weave cattail leaves for the fun of it -
> spontaneously - 
> >it is wonderful indeed what we can do to keep with the 
> >beautification of this world if given a little bit of
> time.

Marsha: 
> I think you must be a writer, and I like what you bring to
> this forum.  I sometimes think you are not real, but a character
> you've invented.  That would still be you, but a created you. 
> That's my imagination.  Well, we all create ourselves.  We pull
> together many of these patterns.

SA:  Thanks.  That is a huge compliment.  And yes, we do create ourselves with a little rain, sunshine and earth to grow.  Dash a little bit of this, and that and now mix - taste good.

Marsha: 
> I haven't been hiking in a very long time.  I've
> been thinking I want 
> to get my grandson on a trail.  I've taken him around
> his yard to 
> explore the trees, plants & animals.  I taught him the
> word 'tree' 
> when he was a baby.  It was so interesting.  Tree, trunk,
> branches, 
> bark, leaves, green leaves, red leaves, insects living in
> tree, birds 
> resting in tree, birdhouse in tree, sticks from the tree,
> and even 
> peeing at tree (only once).  We learn together.

SA:  hahahahah!

Marsha:
> This is philosophy too.  I think that's what you've
> been suggesting.  Not just the mental work, living itself.

SA:  Yes.  Thank you.  That is what I've been suggesting.  "Not just the mental work", meaning, mental work included.  The whole one with nature understanding.  It's not a goal, but an understanding, meaning, one with nature is here it's our philosophies that may reject or accept such a way.

Thanks Marsha.  This has been a thoughtful, and heartfelt walk in the woods.


SA