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Posted by Butcho
on 4/8/2009, 10:55 pm, in reply to "Dull the senses, Un-focus the mind"
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--Previous Message--
: Greetings Butcho,
:
: Here we go with the words again.
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: It seems to me when, we are able to not
: focus on this and that, awareness is
: experienced with completeness.
:
: Look not for the star in heaven, but heaven
: in the star.
:
: in peace,
: gar (1949- 20??)
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: --Previous Message--
: "For adepts the principle of
: maintaining
: concentration and insight is not a matter of
: effort; it is spontaneous and effortless,
: with no particular time frame. When seeing
: and hearing, they are just so; when dressing
: and eating, they are just so; when
: conversing with people, they are just so;
: whatever they are doing; walking, standing,
: sitting, reclining, speaking, silent,
: rejoicing, at all times and in everything
: they are just so.
:
: Like empty boats riding the waves, going
: along with the high and the low, like a
: river winding through the mountains, curving
: at curves and straight at straits, without
: minding any state of mind, buoyantly going
: along with nature today, buoyantly going
: along with nature tomorrow, adapting to all
: circumstances without inhibition or
: impediment, neither stopping nor fostering
: good or evil, simple and straightforward,
: without artificiality, perception normal.
: Such is the mind of the person who clearly
: sees the Buddha way."
:
: Master Chinul (1158-1210)
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: Dailyzen.com
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gar,
The left brain has a tendency to be narrowly focused. The right wide. Both modes of focus have their place and time. The problem is most of us are so caught up in our left brains that we tend to have an overly narrow focus most of the time.
So it seems to me that most of us need to do things that increase the use of our right brains.
Butcho (1950-2040)
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"The Tao is basically utterly open. Utter openeness has no substance. It ends in endlessness, begins in beginninglessnes".
-Li Daoqun
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