[MD] the Underground

[Marsha]

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Subject: Re: [MD] the Underground


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>
> Marsha:
>> To me that is what the descent is about.
>> No pot of gold at
>> the end, just being a more honest person.  Clearer.
>> Braver.  I think that
>> makes trying to get this emptiness thing so important too.
>> Hoping it will
>> sweep away all kinds of muck.  It has to some degree
>> already, but not nearly
>> enough.  The descent is much more personal, frightening,
>> painful.
>
> SA:  It is important to hold.  Sustaining is important.  This is where 
> focus comes in.  This is where static latching occurs.  As Huineng would 
> say, 'There is no muck'.  Quote as follows:
>
>     "There is no Bodhi-tree,
>      Nor stand of a mirror bright.
>      Since all is Void,
>      Where can the dust alight?"
>
>     This was his response to Shen Hsiu's:
>
>     "Our body is the Bodhi-tree,
>      And our mind a mirror bright.
>      Carefully we wipe them hour by hour,
>      And let no dust alight."
>
>
>     I see "muck", I see misguiding distractions.  Yet, muck and 
> misguidings are interesting, don't you think?  Aren't they static 
> patterns, if we hold to what dmb calls the status quo?  Thus, morals in 
> whose time has passed and are on their way out.
>
>


Ahh Good SA,

Maybe you can explain.  First there is muck, than there is no muck, then 
there is muck again.  What do you think?

Marsha