[MD] The Intellectual Gauntlet

[Heather Perella]

     And this is why we will keep on contemplating, excellent way of putting this Marsha.  Do people realize they keep coming up with thoughts and different ways of explaining something over and over again?  Baffling art.  You put this so clearly, very well indeed, Marsha!
     So... still contemplating art of wild flowers, and now, we, the family, are going away, and much to do when I return, so, until the next time comes love everybody!  I've got to let this forum go for awhile.  And the contemplating will go on...  The world will contemplate, the wind turns the leaves, summer into autumn... life!

blooming art,
lake art,
canoeing art,
woods art,
beautiful!
SA


P.S.  Walking in the woods, the deer looks over and sees the woods and I am here with the trees walking around, and the deer looks over at me and I am the woods, as when I look at the deer I see the woods, I look and experience the wind, and this is the woods, too, I feel the soft touch of the creek water ruffling through my fingers and this is the woods, I think something and this is the woods too, the squirrel runs up the tree and this is ordinary, speculator, sacred woods, and the heart beats and the chipmunk hears it, and this, too, is the woods.  Undivided, particularly interesting, all together now - woods!

--- On Fri, 7/18/08, MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net> wrote:

> From: MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net>
> Subject: Re: [MD] The Intellectual Gauntlet
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Date: Friday, July 18, 2008, 1:01 AM
> Greetings,
> 
> ". . . Strange that she'd come to Kingston on a
> boat called the Karma. It 
> was unlikely anyone aboard knew what that word really
> meant. It was like 
> naming a boat 'Causal Relationship.' Of all the
> hundreds of Sanskrit words 
> he had learned so long ago, dharma and karma had hung on
> longest and 
> hardest. You could translate and pigeon-hole the others but
> these never 
> seemed to stop needing translating.
> 
> The Metaphysics of Quality translated karma as
> 'evolutionary garbage.' 
> That's why it sounded so funny as the name of a boat.
> It seemed to suggest 
> she had arrived in Kingston on a garbage scow. Karma is the
> pain, the 
> suffering that results from clinging to the static patterns
> of the world. 
> The only exit from the suffering is to detach yourself from
> these static 
> patterns, that is, to 'kill' them."
> (LILA, Chapter 32)
> 
> 
> This is why it seems so silly to be battling over the exact
> definition of 
> the Social Level versus the Intellectual Level, or the
> individual versus the 
> collective.  It's the clinging to the static patterns
> that is the cause of 
> suffering.  When one begins to see what those patterns are,
> and what they 
> are not, they begin to die and there is a whole new
> perspective available. 
> To dismiss or undervalue the Eastern perpective and/or
> Buddhist philosophy 
> is missing something very valuable.
> 
> As Bo would say:  Enough!
> 
> Marsha
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
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