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bobby1933

Generic Meditation Issues: Knowing and Not Knowing

Mar 12, 2011 21:07

In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired.
In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.

Tao Te Ching: Chapter 48
Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English. translators.,

Daily Tao - October 31st, 2009

Like the shaman in Nancy Wood's *novel, i have tried to keep one foot in the material world and another in the spiritual world. Also like ( Read more... )

personal life, buddhism, gnosis and agnosis, shaman, mystery, words, taoism, religion, generic meditation issues

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You are very fascinating. ext_459986 March 13 2011, 07:13:13 UTC

I really do like your posts they are quite fascinating. I would love to hear anything from your life that you would like to keep going any bits and pieces of wisdom. The library, which is you, is beautiful and I would like to pass on some of your wisdom to those who ask me in the future. I am not trying to be a creeper, it is just I appreciate you. Enjoy the blogs!

Sincerely,
Cory Hrycko

Re: You are very fascinating. bobby1933 March 13 2011, 11:20:15 UTC

Hi, Cory
Thank you for your encouragement. :)
For whatever wisdom i might have, i thank the Tao.

amaebi March 13 2011, 12:05:21 UTC

There are so many things that are good so long as we don't grasp a deranged certainty that they are the good.

So many wisps of positiva, with a healthy negativa enema to keep us from the prison of grasping.

bobby1933 March 13 2011, 20:57:00 UTC

Yes! Yes, and the question is perspective and balance.

I don't know if this is pertinent but your comment recalled an aphorism from the 1960s when, according to some, "the best became the enemy of the good."

baron_waste March 13 2011, 14:36:58 UTC

I wuz gonna say - This isn't the promised entry about “people talking past each other,” is it? Cuz it don' quite hit de mark, what I mean to say.

must be wordless, therefore thoughtless

Yee, that's a big fish to hook right there.

bobby1933 March 13 2011, 19:49:07 UTC

Actually, i started the post with that intention, but quickly saw that i was not going to fulfill that objective.

However, if our senses of reality are formed by different narratives, we will not only argue (which is fine) but we will miscommunicate. (I just googled "I want to have sex with Poland" to see if any American president ever actually said that while intending to say: I love the Polish people. It wasn't there so its probably an urban myth, but similar embarrassing or disastrous (and some felicitous) mis- communications.

reginaterrae March 13 2011, 19:36:00 UTC

"Like the shaman in Nancy Wood's *novel, i have tried to keep one foot in the material world and another in the spiritual world. Also like him, i lost my balance and ended up no where, in a place which does not fit in either world. I become aware of this whenever i try to explain myself to people in either world."

This, oh this.

bobby1933 March 13 2011, 20:00:56 UTC

amaebi March 13 2011, 20:55:23 UTC

Now I remember what I couldn't of what else i thought I'd say. How can humans help but live in both material and spiritual worlds?

bobby1933 March 13 2011, 21:23:02 UTC

How indeed. While life lasts the material world is a given. Whether the spiritual world is a given is still a question in my mind. For me, there was a time i almost dismissed it entirely. Now i am in the camp of those who want to see it...*given equal billing.

* I was about to say "prevail" then i thought about Sorokins cycles of Idealistic, Ideational, and Sensate cultures. I certainly would not want to see another "middle ages.(Idealistic)" Eras of balance have been short and sweet, the pendulum sweeps between Sensate and Idealistic pretty fast. Maybe we need to stop the clock.