| Subject: Re: The Prime Minister falls down on the job |
Author:
Ben Hursh
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Date Posted: 09:01:25 04/05/01 Thu
In reply to:
Cassie
's message, "The Prime Minister falls down on the job" on 21:20:31 04/04/01 Wed
Being as the body is always operating in the form of the the bodies inherent wisdom. It's part of the package. The whole body grows and matures without conscious thought. The bodies chemistry changes when we reach the right age, we digest our food, the emune system fights off disease attacks and we fall in love, all without conscious thought. It seems to me that the "thinking mind" must ignore a whole lot to keep the illusion of control in place. If it were really a thinking mind it would be easy for it to see that it has no exhalted poition, it is only another part of the package. Life as we know it would be a lot worse if we had to consciously control all the bodies processes. The mind wouldn't have time to be such a pain in the ass and cause us such distress. I can't emagine just trying to decide when I should go to the bathroom without receiving a message from the body. The thinking mind doesn't decide to remove the hand from the hot pot. The wisdom of the body must be acknowleged by the mind. At the time that we learned of the death of our young niece on the plane crash in Aspen Janette was going through a difficult part of her shakedown. It completley went away when she got the news and she told me that the news of our niece's death had instantly brought everything into perspective. That's a hard way to end a shakedown episode but it helps demonstrate the way the body can just take over in a crises. I think that martial arts are based on training the body so that it responds with no thought. It just knows what to do. Where is the mind when we meditate. It's chatter is a disturbance to the sweet qualities the body feels if the thinking stops. In Zen meditation, Zazen, one lets the mind run but it is only observed, no energy is given to the thinking and over time the mind just runs down. We can't stop the thinking but we can just observe it. We don't have to buy every goofy thing it spits out. We can just let it run down.
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