thanks Zenbob

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Zenbob,

Yes, it gets sticky when hard cold suffering screams out.....I am

reminded of no great sage but Jack Nicholson's character in " As Good

As It Gets" who after listening to Greg Kinears character try to help

him deal with something incredibly real and immediate, says,

" Is that the best you can do? Cause I'm drowning here and you're describing the water!"

I feel like Ritzo Razo in Midnight Cowboy, but instead of yelling ,

"I'm walkin' here"....."it's I'm just talkin' here!"

Always just describing the life-preserver or the water, hmm?

Shaka

Shawn

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on 6/4/02 9:33 AM, zen2wrk (AT) aol (DOT) com at zen2wrk (AT) aol (DOT) com wrote:

Hi Shawn:

Enjoyed your comments on this topic.

Of course the lion who kills Bambi is Evil. Damn him! Damn him!

When will the madness end?

Blessings,

Zenbob

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......I am reminded of no great sage but Jack Nicholson's character in

" As Good As It Gets" who after listening to Greg Kinears character

try to help him deal with something incredibly real and immediate,

says,

" Is that the best you can do? Cause I'm drowning here and you're describing the water!"

Wonderful example...and Jack delivers these writer's jewels with such

a marvelous sense of angst, too.

I had a teacher who once said, "Stop pointing to the map as if it were

the destination," and that is also apropos, I think.

What does coffee taste like? Anyone can describe it, but gosh, if

you've never had it yourself, the descriptions no matter how vivid,

pale by comparison. And that is why the jungle of words often fails

to civilize the confusion of the mind when we seek to resolve these

contradictory issues. I think that is why I gained so much delight

out of Zen Buddhism...because it approached these apparent

contradictions as if the very stress of the contradiction was the

bright illuminating point of it all. And magically, when grasped

from that admittedly difficult perspective, entire worlds of new

understanding blossom when you can "grok" that subtle tension as the

underlying state of reality.

That tension in the contradiction is not a mistake, it is the core

reason behind existence. Without that tension, the universe would

not exist. Thoughts could not move forward and art itself would

vanish...because every drop of color needs a canvas in order to be

revealed.

Blessings,

Love,

Zenbob