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To: Rambi who wrote (4729)	10/23/1999 11:42:00 AM
From: stan s.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13018

either that wallpaper goes, or I do, a dying Oscar Wilde in a Paris hotel room. Guess the wallpaper won.

To: Rambi who wrote (4729)	10/23/1999 5:18:00 PM
From: Volsi Mimir	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13018

I sat there and forgot and forgot, until what remained was the river that went by and I who watched.....Eventually the watcher joined the river and then there was only one of us. I believe it was the river. ~Norman Maclean A River Runs Through It Quoted from that book in 'Zen and the Brain' by Austin A deeply engrossing tome of 800+ pages. I have started reading it sept 30 and now only on pg 140. Some of the chapters I read twice. Its by a neurosurgeon melding the West's analytical reasoning,(and sciences-psych and medical) with the East's Way(philosophy and custom/proceedure)and his personal journey. I find it fascinating and difficult; and may take a year to finish.(or a lifetime I hope) An example: "Zen as a religion does have a certain philosophical base. These ideas may help to understand it, and to begin to put it in practice. But Zen is more." At this point, he[his roshi (the master-teacher)] takes off his glasses and says:"Here, I hold my glasses. It is one thing for me to know that these glasses have a frame. It is still another to understand scientifically how the lens focuses." Then he looks directly at me and smiles, saying, "But using glasses is to know what glasses really are." I feel I have been delivered a personal message. ~pg 137 In fact, we do not need to make conscious efforts to look into the mind. If you can be passive and very objective, then you as the subject will be absorbed into the action, the looking itself, and then it becomes easier to look, because the looking has no obstructions or resistances. ~Dhiravamsa Ah, if my brush could only catch the faint Scent of the white plum-blossoms that I paint! ~Shoha