tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345889130053053070.post4055348295713097204..comments2023-08-20T21:14:43.398-07:00Comments on Before Nine: Reprint Heaven: Just Because, That's WhyMongo, At The Momenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00973606827337262084noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345889130053053070.post-2439748169185181402013-05-13T18:36:26.079-07:002013-05-13T18:36:26.079-07:00Both pleased in their own ways.Both pleased in their own ways.Mongo, At The Momenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00973606827337262084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345889130053053070.post-77493192129900436682013-05-10T06:13:18.727-07:002013-05-10T06:13:18.727-07:00From Chin's 33 Happy Moments:
28. To open the...From Chin's 33 Happy Moments:<br /><br />28. To open the window and let a wasp out from the room. Ah, is this not happiness?<br /><br /><br /> mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345889130053053070.post-86302012019145377312013-05-09T20:27:50.834-07:002013-05-09T20:27:50.834-07:00Insight is good. In the area of Action On Instinc...Insight is good. In the area of Action On Instinctual Principles, <a href="http://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/garchik/article/An-act-of-mercy-aboard-BART-4492882.php?t=9cdc40fc7038a6f661" rel="nofollow">I am now known as The Moth Ranger.</a><br /><br />"An act of mercy aboard BART<br />By Leah Garchik<br />May 7, 2013<br /><br />Aboard a BART train heading for Pittsburg/Bay Point on Thursday, Mona Irwin watched a passenger crouch down to grab something on the floor.<br /><br />'I look closer and see he is trying to catch a moth that has somehow gotten onto the train.' At West Oakland, she says, he shooed the moth out the door. She approached him to tell him what a kind act that was.<br /><br />' "It's probably the most important thing I'll do all day," he said.'<br /><br />So thank you, Moth Ranger, on behalf not only of moths but also of anyone who was wearing a sweater on BART."<br /><br />In many cultures, the Act Of Naming carries serious significance in the spiritual and material worlds -- so I have no idea what this portends. The moth, one would hope, abides.Mongo, At The Momenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00973606827337262084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345889130053053070.post-41166051873421142692013-05-09T11:29:41.491-07:002013-05-09T11:29:41.491-07:00Jon Kabat-Zinn's work in adapting Zen and othe...Jon Kabat-Zinn's work in adapting Zen and other Buddhist methods for use in a secular Western cultural context is discussed in "Some reflections on the origins of MBSR, skillful means, and the trouble with maps", in Contemporary Buddhism, Vol. 12, No. 1, May 2011. The abstract is:<br /><br />The author recounts some of the early history of what is now known as MBSR, and its relationship to mainstream medicine and the science of the mind/body connection and health. He stresses the importance that MBSR and other mindfulness-based interventions be grounded in a universal dharma understanding that is congruent with Buddhadharma but not constrained by its historical, cultural and religious manifestations associated with its countries of origin and their unique traditions. He locates these developments within an historic confluence of two very different epistemologies encountering each other for the first time, that of science and that of the meditative traditions. The author addresses the ethical ground of MBSR, as well as questions of lineage and of skillful ‘languaging’ and other means for maximizing the possibility that the value of cultivating mindfulness in the largest sense can be heard and embraced and cultivated in commonsensical and universal ways in secular settings. He directly addresses mindfulness-based instructors on the subject of embodying and drawing forth the essence of the dharma without depending on the vocabulary, texts, and teaching forms of traditional Buddhist environments, even though they are important to know to one degree or another as part of one's own development. The author's perspective is grounded in what the Zen tradition refers to as the one thousand year view. Although it is not stated explicitly in this text, he sees the current interest in mindfulness and its applications as signaling a multi-dimensional emergence of great transformative and liberative promise, one which, if cared for and tended, may give rise to a flourishing on this planet akin to a second, and this time global, Renaissance, for the benefit of all sentient beings and our world.<br /><br />[end of quote from abstract]<br /><br />"On a two-week vipassana retreat at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts, in the Spring of 1979, while sitting in my room one afternoon about Day Ten of the retreat, I had a “vision” that lasted maybe ten seconds. I don’t really know what to call it, so I call it a vision. It was rich in detail and more like an instantaneous seeing of vivid, almost inevitable connections and their implications. It did not come as a reverie or a thought stream, but rather something quite different, which to this day I cannot fully explain and don’t feel the need to.<br /><br />I saw in a flash not only a model that could be put in place, but also the long-term implications of what might happen if the basic idea was sound and could be implemented in one test environment – namely that it would spark new fields of scientific and clinical investigation, and would spread to hospitals and medical centers and clinics across the country and around the world, and provide right livelihood for thousands of practitioners.<br /><br />Because it was so weird, I hardly ever mentioned this experience to others. But after that retreat, I did have a better sense of what my karmic assignment might be. It was so compelling that I decided to take it on wholeheartedly as best I could."<br /><br />--Jon Kabat-Zinnmistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.com