Function?
With palms together
Good Morning Everyone,
Interesting. Yesterday afternoons Zen Discussion group seemed to be caught upon a question, what is a function? Most leaned toward presence as well as reserve as initial priorities as well as that is an distinct point of view. Many warriors, together with Buddhist warriors, as well as myself, have done this claim. Yet, today you am not so sure. It depends upon how you assimilate presence as well as safety.
More mostly than not, when you speak about personal presence as well as safety, you create an imaginary unfolding wherein someone competence attack us as well as bluster a lives as well as well-being. We mostly simplify a picture by using early man scenarios. Oddly enough, these scenarios roughly always make make use of of hunter models where weapons have been concerned as well as present in a scenario, rather than an agrarian indication where a gathering as well as growing food demands team-work for survival. Cooperation becomes a definition of insurance itself as well as presence depends upon mutual aid.
Someone always raises the, if someone punches me unfolding (as if that is a expected or imminent threat). In truth, you have only been punched once in my finish life as well as you am 63 years old. Do you unequivocally need to think about how to strengthen myself from an attack such as that? Should this be my baseline bargain of a nature? you consternation what would occur if no a single locked their doors as well as no a single had guns. Those of us who contend there would be reckless abandon, sum chaos, as well as a like, competence check their views of human inlet here. What if you knew your neighbor routinely did not close her doors? Would you hide in as well as steal? Would you hide in as well as attack her? You say, well, what about street thugs as well as a like? you say, what about them? A close will unequivocally help? And people have been distant some-more expected to make make use of! of a gu n opposite a person they know than a stranger.
The thing is, today you have been neither hunters nor have been you gatherers. We have been not people nor have been you tribes. We are, arguably, not even nation-states. Rather, you have been an measureless network of interdependent as well as interconnected beings. We have been an organic complement as well as such a complement requires open channels of energy flow. Organic systems have been contingent upon environmental conditions. Organic systems have been contingent upon cooperation. Organic systems have been contingent upon each sub-system noticing a attribute to every alternative subsystem, Changes in a single part of a complement affect all alternative parts of a system. Survival as well as reserve take upon very different meanings in such a context.
Oddly for me, in graduate propagandize where you were taught systems speculation as a indication for bargain social systems, you argued opposite it. It was not existential enough for me. But existentialism is dualism dependent. It requires a self to be defining itself in contradistinction to others.
Through my practice, you have come to realize there is no self to define as well as that any such try is an artifice of mind. A Buddhist bargain of reality is a systems bargain with a combined dimension of finish impermanence, which includes a complement itself.
So, when you speak about a function, as well as thoughts of presence as well as reserve arise, what do you unequivocally asking?
Be well.Zen knowledge for daily living.
Good Morning Everyone,
Interesting. Yesterday afternoons Zen Discussion group seemed to be caught upon a question, what is a function? Most leaned toward presence as well as reserve as initial priorities as well as that is an distinct point of view. Many warriors, together with Buddhist warriors, as well as myself, have done this claim. Yet, today you am not so sure. It depends upon how you assimilate presence as well as safety.
More mostly than not, when you speak about personal presence as well as safety, you create an imaginary unfolding wherein someone competence attack us as well as bluster a lives as well as well-being. We mostly simplify a picture by using early man scenarios. Oddly enough, these scenarios roughly always make make use of of hunter models where weapons have been concerned as well as present in a scenario, rather than an agrarian indication where a gathering as well as growing food demands team-work for survival. Cooperation becomes a definition of insurance itself as well as presence depends upon mutual aid.
Someone always raises the, if someone punches me unfolding (as if that is a expected or imminent threat). In truth, you have only been punched once in my finish life as well as you am 63 years old. Do you unequivocally need to think about how to strengthen myself from an attack such as that? Should this be my baseline bargain of a nature? you consternation what would occur if no a single locked their doors as well as no a single had guns. Those of us who contend there would be reckless abandon, sum chaos, as well as a like, competence check their views of human inlet here. What if you knew your neighbor routinely did not close her doors? Would you hide in as well as steal? Would you hide in as well as attack her? You say, well, what about street thugs as well as a like? you say, what about them? A close will unequivocally help? And people have been distant some-more expected to make make use of! of a gu n opposite a person they know than a stranger.
The thing is, today you have been neither hunters nor have been you gatherers. We have been not people nor have been you tribes. We are, arguably, not even nation-states. Rather, you have been an measureless network of interdependent as well as interconnected beings. We have been an organic complement as well as such a complement requires open channels of energy flow. Organic systems have been contingent upon environmental conditions. Organic systems have been contingent upon cooperation. Organic systems have been contingent upon each sub-system noticing a attribute to every alternative subsystem, Changes in a single part of a complement affect all alternative parts of a system. Survival as well as reserve take upon very different meanings in such a context.
Oddly for me, in graduate propagandize where you were taught systems speculation as a indication for bargain social systems, you argued opposite it. It was not existential enough for me. But existentialism is dualism dependent. It requires a self to be defining itself in contradistinction to others.
Through my practice, you have come to realize there is no self to define as well as that any such try is an artifice of mind. A Buddhist bargain of reality is a systems bargain with a combined dimension of finish impermanence, which includes a complement itself.
So, when you speak about a function, as well as thoughts of presence as well as reserve arise, what do you unequivocally asking?
Be well.Zen knowledge for daily living.
