05-23-2011, 12:01 AM
Lex Silentio wrote:
finally knowing there is no special entity or anybody inside the body making things happen. Things are happening anyway. Ninth
Not only is there no entity as you put it, there is also no "inside the body" where this entity might reside. Inside and outside, internal external are so deeply ingrained patterns of this imaginary entity. The idea of this entity is further maintained by the notions of inside and out and that things are actually happening. No Ninth, things are not happening anyway, they just appear to be. I tell you you that it is a shock to the system when internal and external no longer can be found. Embracing the idea of no internal or external is easy enough but losing the actual experience of it is something else.Here again seems to be a great hard to grasp concept of no inside //outside of "deeply ingrained patterns of this imaginary entity. I take this as walking through life as the invisible man would? Does this mean since there be no distracting elements attached to the mind -where there doesn't exist borders or boundaries to the mind's eye?
"God's heart could be his heritage precisely because there was a hermitage , an unpretentious cinder-block building up there in the Kentucky woods, ten minutes walk from the monastery of Gethsemni. The hermitage could be everywhere because it was somewhere, the universal was rooted in the particular. Canon A.M Allchin. ( speaking of the tribute to Thomas Merton)
"I tell you you that it is a shock to the system when internal and external no longer can be found." Is this like the old analogy of the floating balloon filled with air inside and outside of it is in the same identical element. The balloon part with its thin shell of latex that captures the "appearance"of the air bursts!. In "hard"reality it appears to exist as in its original element- air.
I loved this this further quote from John Keats "negative capability", a not reaching for too easy or too ready rational answers when hard questions pressed down hard, but to live the questions and live them well.Implied here is that the Buddhist Christian dialogue for Merton was not about arriving at decisive answers , but calmly and passionately allowing oneself to become the questions , to be breathing koans.
Now let's get to the point of not only accepting, but embracing a "necessary ambiguity about ultimate concerns", starting with the empty tomb of Jesus.
finally knowing there is no special entity or anybody inside the body making things happen. Things are happening anyway. Ninth
Not only is there no entity as you put it, there is also no "inside the body" where this entity might reside. Inside and outside, internal external are so deeply ingrained patterns of this imaginary entity. The idea of this entity is further maintained by the notions of inside and out and that things are actually happening. No Ninth, things are not happening anyway, they just appear to be. I tell you you that it is a shock to the system when internal and external no longer can be found. Embracing the idea of no internal or external is easy enough but losing the actual experience of it is something else.Here again seems to be a great hard to grasp concept of no inside //outside of "deeply ingrained patterns of this imaginary entity. I take this as walking through life as the invisible man would? Does this mean since there be no distracting elements attached to the mind -where there doesn't exist borders or boundaries to the mind's eye?
"God's heart could be his heritage precisely because there was a hermitage , an unpretentious cinder-block building up there in the Kentucky woods, ten minutes walk from the monastery of Gethsemni. The hermitage could be everywhere because it was somewhere, the universal was rooted in the particular. Canon A.M Allchin. ( speaking of the tribute to Thomas Merton)
"I tell you you that it is a shock to the system when internal and external no longer can be found." Is this like the old analogy of the floating balloon filled with air inside and outside of it is in the same identical element. The balloon part with its thin shell of latex that captures the "appearance"of the air bursts!. In "hard"reality it appears to exist as in its original element- air.
I loved this this further quote from John Keats "negative capability", a not reaching for too easy or too ready rational answers when hard questions pressed down hard, but to live the questions and live them well.Implied here is that the Buddhist Christian dialogue for Merton was not about arriving at decisive answers , but calmly and passionately allowing oneself to become the questions , to be breathing koans.
Now let's get to the point of not only accepting, but embracing a "necessary ambiguity about ultimate concerns", starting with the empty tomb of Jesus.