Chris,
Can you explain? (Zenspeak fails to enlighten me in this matter.)
--ED
--- In [email protected], Chris Austin-Lane <chris@...> wrote:
>
> A day without work is a day without food. whose work? whose food?
> > Mike,
> > Pro bono work is laudable. But first, one has to earn one's keep.
Zen stories emphasize this aspect of real (illusory) existence.
> > In one religion, one of the primary duties of the father is to
ensure that his son focuses on a profession to support himself and his
future family. This is very laudable too.
> > Zen, like this religion, has it's feet on the ground, while it seeks
to realize Buddha Nature (without seeking to realize Buddha Nature.)
> > --ED
> >> ED,
> >>
> >> >Or as you have pointed out before, there is no self to turn
around.
> >> Zen Masters selling water by the river! Ho Ho Ho. But everyone has
got
> >> to make a living somehow.
> >>
> >> Don't worry, I work pro bono for those without means.
> >>
> >> Mike
> >> Mike,
> >>
> >> Or as you have pointed out before, there is no self to turn around.
> >> Zen Masters selling water by the river! Ho Ho Ho. But everyone has
got
> >> to make a living somehow.
> >>
> >> --ED
> >> > ED,
> >> >
> >> > I like my self and I enjoy being in the world, but maybe the
trick is
> >> > to not let the world turn the self around.
> >> >
> >> > Mike
> >> > Selves make the world go round.
> >> > --ED
> >> > > Chris,
> >> > > The 'Never Ending Story', apparently never ending.
> >> > > Mike
> >> > > > Have you ever encountered an individual devoid of self or
ego?
> >> > > >--ED
