Joe, Maybe I missed something, but is your comment below addressed to Mike about Edgar's comment - and if so which one? Or should your comment below have been addressed to Edgar about Mike's comment - which you included below?
Twirling in Thailand...Bill! --- In [email protected], "Joe" <desert_woodworker@...> wrote: > > Mike, > > I say Edgar is right, though, that coming back is a hard part. > > Especially coming back from a long practice somewhere, and making your own > (interruptable) schedule, again. It takes balance (retaining it, and, yes, > reGaining it), and grace. Grace toward others and toward oneself. > > And/but, one must keep up practice, too, else what has become clear, and what > is light and healthy in you, becomes dull, and heavy and perturbed. > > One need not even have awakened on the long practice for you to nonetheless > "have to" take these few precautions, and protect and nurture what you have > clarified to some extent. > > Another approach is to practice not at all, and watch, day by day, the > centeredness and poise erode and disappear entirely. This is educational, > i.e., pretty painful. Yet I think it is of value to any practitioner, and > maybe more to anyone who feels they may some day teach other practitioners, > and practice with them: It will help all your "students" for you to know > exactly how it feels to be a beginner again, and see, for yourself, several > or many times, just how one does and *can* make some progress toward cleaning > up the mess, and be patient about it. One makes mental notes as one does > this, and can speak in clear terms with students about how they can do it. > In other words, you're not making up the advice by the seat-of-your-pants > each time a question is asked, or a demonstration must be made, or a > suggestion offered, but you have a rich store of experience of desperately > painful times and weightlessly glowing clear times behind you, not just once, > but I won't say how many. > > Needless to say -- and I don't mind admitting -- I've taken both approaches > many times. At this point in time, I'm in a building-up phase again. Early > days of slim progress. A difficult Yoga! But the field is familiar, and > I've pitched no-hitters and hit home runs here before. > > Spring training in Arizona, > > --Joe > > > uerusuboyo@ wrote: > > > > Edgar, > > < Lose your head and gain the universe. > ------------------------------------ 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: [email protected] [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/
