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Recieved: 1992/10/21 09:38
Subject: Re: [K-list] Re: Too Pleasant (v)
From: Shy Person
On 1992/10/21 09:38, Shy Person posted thus to the K-list:
Dear Dave,
Your story reminds me of meditating in a zen temple in Chicago, down the
block from my home. The small temple was across the street from a liquor
store and in the midst of a pretty desperate area. I was teaching high
school at that period, and one of my students, a 15 year old boy, worked
that block as a prostitute. One time during meditation there was a big
fight outside the liquor store, lots of yelling and glass breaking. We
stayed quiet in the meditation room, but my attention was on the fight.
That experience, the confluence of extremes of human experience, between
conflict, suffering, and transcendence stuck with me. It was
characteristic of my experiences of the time--lessons for me which
eventually would lead me out the "meaning crisis", the spiritual dead end,
to which I had brought myself. (When this crisis got bad enough and I was
frozen dead in my tracks by circumstances, kundalini activity came head on.)
Jill
08:45 PM 5/1/99 -0400, Dave wrote:
> Another thing not
>conducive to contemplation is the free range the cops
>have to come in any time they want to inspect the barracks for criminals. At
>any place where one pays money, the police would have had to get
>a warrant. But if you can keep a meditative head on your shoulders in such a
>place, then you are quite an adept. I remember the story how
>Nanak, the child, would try to poke a meditating yogi with a stick. The yogi
>would snarl with irritation, and Nanak would say, "If you had true
>detachment, then you would not have felt that." The young Nanak was pretty
>mischievious.
>
>
>Love, Dave
>
>
>
>> So it's a perspective that my half of the cup is finally
>> almost empty, and the other half is full of it...
>>
>> ... that tends to give 'problems' to people
>>
>>
>> ... who see 'problems' in people.
>>
>>
>> Do you see a problem here?
>> :) love rik (true, by the way)
>>
>>
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>
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