[MD] Painting

[MarshaV]

At 04:41 PM 1/12/2008, you wrote:



> > SA's original question:
> > I'm curious.  Have you recognized the quietness
> > while you meditate?
>
> > Marsha's reply:
> > Yes.
>
>
>SA:  I guess your finished seeing if this quietness I
>was talking about is the same as yours.  I think it
>is, but you restricted it to 'mind'.  I was curious if
>this quietness of your mind is also recognized outside
>your mind.  For me, it's the same quietness, it
>lingers everywhere.  It is not just silence for that's
>an absence of sound.  This quietness I was referring
>to is a total experience of sound mixed with silence.
>You were talking about meditation, and I was curious
>about this meditation experience of yours.  I find
>meditation can be a discipline in which one sits, and
>as Sharath puts it, meditation, or experience in
>general can be everyday.  So, I began to incorporate
>our discussion with experiences not just found while
>performing sitting meditation.  Quietness, to me, is
>novel and primal.  It is ancient and ever-present now.
>  It is not just space where sound is or silence is and
>thus, the wind may pass through or a bird may sing in.
>  Quietness also partakes with events, influences
>events, and thus is involved, active, and something
>experienced.
>
>Thanks for allowing me the moment to further discuss
>quietness.


SA,

I meditate throughout the day.  That is quiet, seen, heard, smelled, 
tasted and touched.  And sometimes it should be danced.

Marsha





>in the quiet woods,
>a great horned owl is heard,
>the creek bubbles by,
>the quiet dances with;
>      and is found in -
>how this world moves...
>      quietly
>SA


SA,

I meditate throughout the day.  That is my quiet.

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