Re: Intelligent Design
- From: Bmitch <bmitch@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 03:38:40 GMT
Ch'an Fu wrote:
> But teaching is a different matter these days.
> How to do it without collecting followers,
> how to avoid establishing anything. JK
> was concerned about that, too. So what to do?
> Maybe just talk privately to those with little
> dust in their eyes? ...
His book "Explorations into insight" is transcripts of just such private
dialogues with his closest --what to call them? (And who were they? And
where are they now?) and it's almost painful to read. You can see them
not getting it in awful detail, effortfully parroting his phrases,
stumbling around. I keep wanting to shout out "No, don't ask that! Ask
this, ask this." But I know I would be just as bad in their place; I
know how it would be. The whole history of one's suffering would rise up
into one's mouth and come out as just a dumb cry for help, probably
impenetrable to any amount of Dharma skill. The cry for help doesn't
have little dust in its eye and doesn't ask the right thing.
He says somewhere, in reference to the raft metaphor, that you have to
start from the other shore, and that's probably how it is: that anyone
who could take advantage of that sort of Dharma presence would probably
figure it out for themselves anyway.
Frustrating.
Brian Mitchell
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