Dualistically-speaking, we as the humankind cannot help but make choices in everyday life. Sometimes we come across something like....
..'The ultimate path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing'.. - Seng-Ts'an ...which can be confusing when taken literally. I just bought a medium-sized bag of chocolates tonite, and I know I shouldn't have because of my high-sugar count...but I did. I made that choice, and it's not something you and other folks around here may consider wise on my part. But...I also made the choice at this moment to rein in the dualistic devil within me, and so there will be no more sweets tonite, bar perhaps an orange or 2 What I'm saying here is that most of functioning humans have that imgaginary line which they don't dare cross for fear of some huge consequence later on, and that's also a choice In zen, books and visits at the temples teach that we don't get too discriminatory with our daily lives because such is dualistic. But..getting too obsessed and/or attached to this line of thinking may also result in unholy attachment for the 'holy', and therefore dualism..me and this, here and there, life and death, and so on Just some of my thoughts Buddha be praised Mel --- On Thu, 26/5/11, Beverley Huish <[email protected]> wrote: Is making choices, per se, such a bad thing? It can get silly, like all over-thinking, I know.
