Re: Bahiya

Déjà Fu wrote:

stumper wrote:
Mayura wrote:

"stumper" <stumper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
Mayura wrote:

...They're just 're-formatting' existing anxiety into a more
personally tolerable 'format' (having declined to just 'come off it' and
'burst their own bubble' at any point).
Don't be ridiculous.

Who was I ridiculing? ("To feel pricked, one must first have been a bubble"-
Some 'wise-sounding' bloke.)

You just saw the losing of the self
and completely missed the gaining of the world.

You just saw the continuous recycling of your own vomit, and completely
missed the gaining of the 'free lunch'.

Probably because you are pathologically self-centered.

Read some Zen literature again.
You will see the awareness, wit, humor, vitality,
freedom, happiness, compassion and loving-kindness,

You see experience in literature?

You don't know what you are missing.

Your ability to see experience in literature?

Just wake up at least for a moment.
You are the world here and now.

"Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,
A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,
Atoms or systems into ruin hurled,
And now a bubble burst and now a world" - Pope.

Jonathan

High, high, the summit peak,
Boundless the world to sight!
No one knows I am here,
Lone moon in the freezing stream.
In the stream, where’s the moon?
The moon’s always in the sky.
I write this poem: and yet,
In this poem there is no Zen.

~HanShan

http://www.tonykline.co.uk/PITBR/Chinese/HanShan.htm

Yeah, that bubble *** happens a lot.




Smart people think they are wise.
But, usually they are not smart enough
to realize that wise people are kind.

Live well and never complain.

--
~Stumper
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