[MD] What's Emptiness?

[ADRIE KINTZIGER]

Yes, how accurate this is , the boat, very strange but when this posting
popped in, i was just reading
"cruising blues and their cure," the congruence with what you just wrote is
incredible.
How nice and to the point, Thanks , Dave.

The need for Dhyana, yes.
greetz, adrie

2010/10/14 david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com>

>
>
> "The MOQ says that what sometimes accidentally occurs in an insane asylum
> but occurs deliberately in a mystic retreat is a natural human process
> called dhyana in Sanskrit. In our culture dhyana is ambiguously called
> 'meditation'. Just as mystics traditionally seek monasteries and ashrams and
> heritages as retreats into isolation and silence, so are the insane treated
> by isolation in places of relative calm and austerity and silence....
> This Western treatment of dhyana is a beautiful example of how the static
> patterns of a culture can make something not exist, even when it does exist.
> People in this culture are hypnotized into thinking they do not meditate
> when in fact they do.
> Dhyana was what this boat was all about. It's what Phaedrus had bought it
> for, a place to be alone and quiet and inconspicuous and able to settle down
> into himself and be what he really was and not what he was thought to be or
> supposed to be. In doing this he didn't think he was putting this boat to
> any special purpose. That's what the purpose of boats like this has always
> been ... and seaside cottages too ... and lake cabins ... and hiking trails
> ... and golf courses ... It's the need for dhyana that is behind all these.
> Vacations too. ... how perfectly named that is ... a VACATION, an emptying
> out ... that's what dhyana is, an emptying out  of all the static clutter
> and junk of one's life and just settling into an undefined sort of
> tranquility.
> That's what Lila's involved in now, a huge vacation, an emptying out of the
> junk of her life." (Lila, page 375-6)  [dmb adds: In the story line, Lila is
> below deck in a catatonic state, clinging to her "baby".]
>
> "Americans don't have to go to the Orient to learn what this mysticism
> stuff is about. It's been right her in America all along. In the Orient they
> dress it up with rituals and incense and pagodas and chants and, of course,
> huge organizational enterprises that bring in the equivalent of millions of
> dollars every year. American Indians haven't done this. Their way is not to
> be organized at all. They don't charge anything, they don't make a big fuss,
> and that's what makes people underrate them.   Phaedrus remembered saying to
> Dusenberry just after that peyote meeting was over, 'The Hindu understanding
> is just a low-grade imitation of THIS! This is how it must have really been
> before all the clap-trap got started'." (Lila, page 408)
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