Maria, It worked! Your email was not classified as SPAM! Thank you for thinking of and using this alternative.
If THN is using the word ‘wonderful’ to describe that the Present Moment is ‘full of wonder’, full of ‘I don’t know’, ‘awe-inspiring’, then I agree with him and remove my objection. If, however, THN is using ‘wonderful’ to mean ‘good’ as opposed to ‘bad’, then he has missed the mark. When you are in great distress or despair and are feeling sad, the Present Moment is Sad! The entire universe is Sad! There is only Sadness, nothing else. Solemente Triste! This wouldn’t mean the Sad Present Moment is not Wonderful - full of wonder, nor preclude you from fully appreciating the Present Moment. That is my understanding…Bill! From: Maria Lopez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 6:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Zen] Question? I'm sorry to hear that whoever is the Administrator or Moderator on this website has not fixed yet the problem with the post. Perhaps we don't have anyone as Administrator or Moderator on this website!. The only way I can think for you to have my post is to write in the website and also to send to your personal email address the post. Perhaps Mike Brown could do the same meantime. Once you receive our both post throgh the group let us know and we'll stop sending you our post twice your personal email and to the group. I write to you from the website now. Mayka is in Vasque language the short name for Maria Carmen. The name written in my post will be Maria Lopez. I'm saying this so that you can identify me better and don't put me on the spam. There is not a misleading in the meditation step saying "Present moment/ wonderful moment". In order to see it, one needs to penetrate it like a diamond cutting through illusion. Years ago, I used to wonder like yourself the same question. By sitting down many times with it specially in moments in which the last thing I felt was present moment as a wonderful moment; I gradually started to tame the irritation that such a statement produced in me specially in moments of great distress and despair. Instead of trying to see the meaning of it, or allowing the intelectual, discriminative mind getting into the way. I just sit down with the "koan": Breathing in for I dwell in the present moment - Present moment Breathing our for I know it's a wonderful moment - Wonderful moment My foundings through the years have been many on this. It was and it is a wonderful moment because I felt and feel alive. I'm aware of being alive. Being alive was a miracle by itself. The part of wonderful moment helped me to choose whatever state of mind I want to be in. It helps to see, touch, smell, sense...all the many wonders of life ocurring at the present moment. This is also why the present moment is wonderful. It wouldn't be as wonderful without awareness and freedom of choosing whatever we want to be. Mayka ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
