is that so joe..well well well...how the hell do you plan your day's daily activities?... via remote control?...anything goes?..
you'd be a bit hard pressed to cook the evening meal without rational thought... what is it you are trying so hard to say? to survive you have to behave in a rational way if you are discussing meditation then that is a different story as the old saying goes one hand clapping..can you hear it? coupled with the golden gong in the far but near distance? i thank you for your advice cheers merl Hi, Merle, Merle wrote: "you have to be rational to survive joe" Maybe that's true. Is an amoeba rational? How about a Gum tree? Even though we Humans use and need reason for some parts of life as it is lived lately, reason is useless and a pernicious hindrance to awakening. Not everybody knows this. In a Zen forum, we do not sing the praises of reason. In our practice, we simply let it go. It's a useless activity. When you need reason, pick it up again. So it goes for me, and other practitioners of my acquaintance, and our teachers. --Joe > Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote: > > you have to be rational to survive joe...merle > > Joe, > > I agree with you about all this. > > I too was educated in and used rationality intensely in my profession - > computers/data analysis. It's very useful for making a living. > > Modern Western education is primarily about memorization and secondarily > about rationality. > > Zen is about experience.
