[MD] Instant Karma

[MarshaV]

At 06:38 AM 11/24/2008, you wrote:
> >Marsha
> >p.s.  I consider some of the work done on the forum to be pattern busting.
> >
> >Andre:
> >
> >Thank you for your confidence Marsha. Glad you liked 'my' experiencing the
> >MoQ.
>Care to untangle that?   Matrix?  Grid?  What are you talking about?
>
>Hi Marsha,
>
>First your ps: I have misunderstood and I do not know the story about the
>raft...tell me!

"Often-cited parable that occurs in the Discourse on the Parable of 
the Water Snake (Alagaddupama Sutta) in the Majjhima Nikaya of the 
Pali Canon. The parable relates to a traveller who fords a stream by 
paddling across using a coracle or raft, and the Buddha asks whether 
it would be appropriate or not for the man to carry the raft with him 
once he had crossed. The parable is often thought to mean that the 
body of Buddhist teachings and moral precepts have only provisional 
utility as a means to gaining enlightenment (bodhi) and can 
thereafter be discarded. A more careful reading of the passage shows, 
however, that its meaning is not that the teachings themselves are to 
abandoned en bloc but simply that certain teachings may on occasion 
be misunderstood or abused."

Andre,

In my case I haven't reached the far shore, but cling like crazy to 
the raft because it is so difficult to part with some patterns.  I 
might repeat an "insight" endlessly as not to allow a pattern to 
return.   Or maybe to try to go deeper.  Whatever...  Either way 
clinging is exhausting.



>Secondly,when I say; 'my experiencing the MoQ' I simply want to make clear
>that it is only my experiencing (as different from 'interpretation'/
>'reasoning') and do not want to impose this onto anyone else.
>Perhaps it is my awkward way of trying to use MoQ language.

Oh...  Yes, we all have our unique experience and 
interpretations.  After all we are all a different constellation of 
static patterns of value.  Your interpretation seems like a smile.


Marsha





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