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Posted by Butcho
on 6/18/2009, 9:21 pm, in reply to "Re: An Unforced Response Has Occurred."
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: For me, "allowing nature to take its
: course" requires a bit of cultivation.
:
: Let's say.......
: I wake up from a bad dream - a really bad
: dream - in a state of panic. At first I
: need to look around and see that I'm safe in
: my bed. Then I might try to psycho-analyze
: the dream. Eventually I'll fall back
: asleep. I think the whole process is part
: of cultivation. I'm not trying to improve
: the universe - just my perspective of it?
:
: I agree with you...... I don't feel a need
: to "cultivate Dao." That sounds
: like it's a plant you have to water and pull
: the weeds from. :-)
:
: I cultivate myself. Does that work for you?
:
: --------------------------
:
: 'Cultivating myself' works fine for me,
: Nina. :)
:
: Implicit in your bad-dream scenario, I
: think, is that you already knew how to deal
: with the episode. The instructions for
: dealing with it were hard-coded in your DNA,
: and that if you just allowed events to
: unfold--and avoided trying to 'control' the
: situation--all would be well.
:
: No master, no book, had to teach you what
: you already knew there.
:
:
Steve,
Fact is most people are trying to control the situation. Cultivation is about letting go and going with the flow, not about gaining control over natural processes.
Most people have lost the natural deep breaths they took when they were a small child. Most people are shallow breathers. To learn to breathe from the heals takes practice. Takes conscious effort.
Butcho
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