Consolation for getting it wrong (Eden, verse, Zen)

[Scarlett Wampus]

Sometimes falling apart is really falling together and after this has been going on for long enough it simply becomes apparent that the mind that seeks Tao is no different from Tao. Not noble or knowledgeable or resplendent it is merely open, seeking completely nothing in particular and finding it always.

*rant rant* *swoon* *jumping on bed*

[Sunstone]

That's quite insightful, I think! Good post!

[zenzero]

[quote] Scarlett
finding it always.

Lets all rejoice in someone having found it.
The jouney is complete.]

Therefore the Master
acts without doing anything
and teaches without saying anything.
Things arise and she lets them come;
things disappear and she lets them go.
She has but doesn't possess,
acts but doesn't expect.
When her work is done, she forgets it.
That is why it lasts forever

Love & rgds

[Scarlett Wampus]

Heh. *blush*

End of a journey maybe but now there is the business of actually living.

[zenzero]

Friend Scarlett,
Again that duality of living a life seperate to the actual life?
When living in harmony has started, life has become a flow, when already started to live in the garden of eden, can one built a small house and a small garden to say this is the garden of eden?
That would be restrcting oneself to a small corner in the vast endless existence.
That is mind play.
Love & rgds

[Scarlett Wampus]

zenzero

If I say anything at all it could be seen to have dualities of meaning. Whose mind is it that plays these games, hmm? One can cultivate a garden in Eden and still call it the Garden of Eden without missing this.

sdgr & evoL

[Quagmire]

The Universe: "Congratulations!"
Me: "But I screwed up"
The Universe: "Don't worry about it, you're a screw up--- you're supposed to screw up"
Me: "But why do I have to screw up"?
The Universe: "So maybe you'll learn 'sumpthin"
Me: "But what am I supposed to learn"?
The Universe: "Humility"
ME: "But I don't like humility"
The Universe: "I know, that's why you're a screw up".

The Tao that can be spoken of is not the Tao.
The Tao that can be spoken to can be a real smart ***.