[MD] The MoQ and Politics? part 3 of 3

[MarshaV]

>> 
>> I have thought the MoQ more a bridge between East & West, and pointing
>> towards something better.  -  I enjoyed reading Alan Watts, but I think it a
>> mistake to take his generalizations as representing the truth of all
>> peoples of the East, let alone Buddhism/Taoism/Hinduism.  China is
>> very pragmatic, while India is metaphysical, or so I've heard.
>> 
>> 
> Yes then, something better indeed.  I agree.  We need something better.  
> In the end, I don't think Kerouac was all that satisfied with his Buddhism
> either.

I have never been interested in reading Kerouack.  I have, though, 
appreciated the wisdom of Nagarjuna's MMK; loved it the first time I 
read it.  The first time I read it I only understood it vaguely,  I felt like I was 
home.   Have you read it?
>>> Everything is relative, Marsha.  For me, "not doing" is very easy!  And
>>> thus, something which I need to struggle against at times.
>> 
>> Sometimes 'not doing' is very difficult.  I've cut down on my posts, not
>> stopped them.  But what has been ringing in my ears are Dan's words:  
>> "We're all degenerates.  Period."   True, true, so true...
> 
> Well then, if we're going to be fair and follow the Middle Way, I think I
> ought to point out that we're all equally messiahs, then.  And to withhold
> our messiah-ship from each other is at least as immoral as foisting off our
> degeneracy on each other.
> 
> This is my main point these days, and something I am working on and
> writing about whenever I get a chance.  That is, whenever the "lower duties"
> let me spend time on the higher!

I am a student - very much a student.  Since I do not have a direct teacher 
I am a cautious, skeptical student, but one who is both grateful and loyal to 
this MoQ platform.  I know you think this is a great forum too, right?   


>> Cleaning out stuff is difficult, especially when it comes to what to leave
>> in and what to leave out. -  I'm procrastinating.  ;-)
>> 
>> 
> I still believe that the secret to happiness is storage sheds.  Lots and
> lots of external storage sheds.  I like to make them in a long line, so they
> function as fencing as well as sheds.  Linear access, and all that, with
> nothing kept in the living spaces but what is absolutely necessary.

I have way too much stuff!  I've been getting rid of stuff for the past year.  


>> It's snowing at the moment: light, Ivory flakes.  There are windows with 
>> white flower boxes filled with pine boughs and pine cones on each side
>> of the entrance to my cottage.  On the flower boxes I've hung big red bows.  
>> There are icicles dripping along the front of the house, some 5-feet long
>> and crystal clear.  When the sun hits them my heart melts.
>> 
>> 
> I dwell above the Valley Fogs, and my heart exults when I come back to
> the foothills from visiting those dreary places.  I need to visit them more
> because I could use a bit of exultation these days.  I've had to cut off my
> normal means of exultation because to get a truck driver's license, they
> drug test you regularly.  And without a little exultation once in a while,
> my heart freezes.

I've earned a halo ;-)   I don't drink, smoke or do drugs.  Whatever happens 
to me, I don't want to think it was my mind altered by drugs.  I don't judge 
anyone else, it's my choice.      

Another 10 inches of snow through the night.  It's piled so high that when I 
throw a shovelful on the pile much of it just slides back.  There's more snow 
expected tomorrow night.  


Yours, 

Marsha 


 
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