I found it!
I found it!!
Yippee! yippie! yippie!
It was on Insight Practice! (I forwarded the digest to my soul-
sucking, non-geek [no internet connection] day job and saved the
portion of text on my l'il system to read again because it seemed so
profound)
This was a response to something that Christine was going on about
and what you wrote, spoke to me...it's about just BEING...
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once again ...
it is not about controlling ...
it is NOT about picking and choosing.
it is about accepting what is.
it is not about forcing ...
as in: 'I bid this intense anger subside'
it is about paying attention to it.
that is all.
it is this very idea of 'seeking to gain happiness"
that gets in the way of achieving it.
"do not force something to happen ...
just have a sense of openess to the
phenomena you are allowing to come
into existence."
we love the flower ...
and hate the weed.
we think happiness is better than unhappiness ...
contentment better than discontent ...
and it is this very act of discriminating
that keeps us from experiencing the happiness ...
we are seeking.
from being content.
"expecting heaven ...
is what hell ...
is all about."
or ...
"my needs
destroy
the paths
by which
those needs
could be
fulfilled."
now the actor ...
who is able to tap into those emotions ...
to lose him/herself in the character ...
isn't concerned with picking what we think of
as positive over what we think of as negative.
the actor simply embraces the part ...
whatever it may be ...
wholeheartedly.
would it not behoove us ...
as actors in this play ...
to be able to do the same?
that is what "not picking and choosing" is about.
when you are happy ... BE happy.
when you are sad ... BE sad.
it is not about "what" we are being ...
or "what" we seek ...
it's about the Being.
the losing of one's "self".
it isn't the end of the world. ;)
{or i guess we could say it is ...
there being no idea of "us" separate
from "world" at that point.)
but it occurs to me that we are
in fact ... gaining the world.
being mindful, aware, attentive ...
doesn't come from seeking happiness.
it comes from ... Being.
Being happy when we are happy ...
Being sad when we are sad.
and that ...
CAN be cultivated.
meditation is one tool to this end.
be it vipassana ...
be it zazen ...
be it sitting ...
be it walking ...
be it skipping naked through the tall weeds.
as long as we pay attention to what is ...
and stop picking and choosing.
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There is a Jester page?...where is THAT?...I NEED that. I loose my
sense of humor (humour) much too often and sometimes need a jump
start (or electo-shock therapy)...or someone just slap me silly,
hokay?
(written after a trip to the dentist and half my face is sliding off
my skull)
It is still after all,
Happy Thursday!
Lynn
--- In [email protected], "ts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ~~~
> do you remember where you saw it?
> i wite a lot of shi... er ... stuff ;) ...
> so not sure ...
>
> have you been to the Jester page there?
> you must have some good jokes.
> or perhaps a funn story ...
> there s a story or storytelling page as well.
>
> i like your sense of humor [humour for lob] ...
> and your rediness to laugh and see the funny
> side of things.
>
> let me know if you run across the spiel you
> are thinking of.
>
> -ts-
>
>
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