Stop Pretending, stop stopping

[Guest guest]

I am not sure exactly where the quoted passages end and any other

comments begin...if any...it all seems to harmonize well.

I always think that there is that fine line between non-attachment and

nihilism. I opt for non-attachment and tend to spurn nihilism.

If one accepts the "nothingness" cause (and yes, it too is a cause

just like "somethingness" is) then it can easily lead to a sort of

disdain for all forms of thinking and logic. I in no way suggest

that this applies to you, at this time, as you seem in all ways to be

lucid and thoughtful...but that is the inherint danger of this

direction of thought.

As an experiment, I recently helped a friend who was setting up their

new mobile home for their daughter. Being spry, svelte and handy

(well, handy), I volunteered to level the trailer, and set up the

piers beneath, as well as hook up some of the basics such as water

and power.

I tried to see if by just being non-attached and introspective, if the

trailer would level itself and make my friends happy. It never

happened! Then, in a direct violation of the non-action,

non-involvement in Samsarra principle, I got to work and leveled the

mobile home, got the piers all set, and hooked up the power. The

water will have to wait, as I did not have all the pieces to run the

plumbing.

I think there is a lesson here, however. If we just leave the

philosophy and its intellectual entanglements aside for a moment, we

can actually accomplish real deeds in a real world.

The daughter had no place to live. Now she does.

Voila!

I prove that action, however illusory and ephemeral, can in fact bring

good things to people in their lives. I don't say this for the sake

of getting credit...I am just illustrating a point.

Blessings,

Loves,

Zenbob