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Is it hard?

 

Such a futile question

if pertaining to Picasso

and translated as,

“Is dipping a brush in a puddle of paint

and stroking it upon canvas hard?”

 

Or equally translated as asking Beethoven,

“Is it hard to take your finger and strike

a keyboard pad...?”

 

Why ask the carpenter

if banging a nail

requires skill?

 

Why ask the master chef

if mixing one edible ingredient

with another

in and of itself is hard?

 

Such a foolish question

reserved only for the fool

with the inability to

...see

 

...listen

 

...relax

 

...or taste

 

the very stuff of Life.

 

 

That in and of Itself

requires skill

far beyond the one consumed

by physical existence.

 

As my Master

once said to me

with regard to music

for instance,

 

Not only only is it as important

as how the single single note

is struck,

 

but also is the space between the next one

to be heard...

 

Such is the Wisdom of Everything

and Everything thereon after...

 

The only real question that

forever thereon remains is,

 

“Do you have the Eye to see?

 

the Ear to hear?

 

the Touch to feel?

 

or the the Bud to taste?”

 

Such represent different forms

of the only real and only Question

that have any meaning at all...

 

Do You have the Space

for Awareness to inquire...?

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Very nice... David

Ah so very nice...

Yes!

 

Wim

 

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You wrote:

>>> Is it hard?

Such a futile question

if pertaining to Picasso

and translated as,

“Is dipping a brush in a puddle of paint

and stroking it upon canvas hard?”

 

Or equally translated as asking Beethoven,

“Is it hard to take your finger and strike

a keyboard pad...?”

 

Why ask the carpenter

if banging a nail

requires skill?

 

Why ask the master chef

if mixing one edible ingredient

with another

in and of itself is hard?

 

Such a foolish question

reserved only for the fool

with the inability to

...see

 

...listen

 

...relax

 

...or taste

 

the very stuff of Life.

 

 

That in and of Itself

requires skill

far beyond the one consumed

by physical existence.

 

As my Master

once said to me

with regard to music

for instance,

 

Not only only is it as important

as how the single single note

is struck,

 

but also is the space between the next one

to be heard...

 

Such is the Wisdom of Everything

and Everything thereon after...

 

The only real question that

forever thereon remains is,

 

“Do you have the Eye to see?

 

the Ear to hear?

 

the Touch to feel?

 

or the the Bud to taste?”

 

Such represent different forms

of the only real and only Question

that have any meaning at all...

 

Do You have the Space

for Awareness to inquire...? <<<

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, David Bozzi <david.bozzi@i...> wrote:

> Do You have the Space

for Awareness to inquire...?

 

 

))) do we have what it takes?

 

no.

 

we will fail.

 

that's what it takes.

 

 

 

LoveAlways,

 

b

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please give me more,

hot snowflakes!

 

 

do you have what it takes?

 

 

nobody gets it

 

 

do you have what it takes?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you

Alan

 

, David Bozzi <david.bozzi@i...> wrote:> Do

You have the Spacefor Awareness to inquire...?))) do we have what it

takes?no.we will fail.that's what it takes.LoveAlways,b

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, "Al Larus" <alarus@o...> wrote:

>please give me more,

hot snowflakes!

 

 

 

 

do we have what it takes?

 

no.

 

we will fail.

 

that's what it takes.

 

however long we hold

our breath,

 

eventually we

exhale.

 

 

 

 

"In our practice, really to fail, once and

for all, to fail absolutely and completely:

that is it."

 

~ Dennis Genpo Merzel

The eye never sleeps:

Striking to the Heart of Zen

 

 

 

"That reality approaches you through

Grace.

But it is impossible to attain this state on you

own. After all, you are physical -- flesh and

blood. So ultimately, holiness is a gift. What

you can do is strive to pursue true knowledge.

Be persistent in learning how to sanctify what

you do. In the end, the Blessed Holy One will

guide you on the path that it wishes and impart

holiness to you, so that you become holy. Then

you will succeed, attaining union continuously."

 

~ Moses Hayyim Luzzatto's Mesillat Yesharim

The Essential Kabbalah

 

 

 

Ramakrishna: The roof is clearly visible,

but extremely hard to reach.

 

Narendra: Yes sir.

 

Ramakrishna: But if someone who has already

reached it drops down a rope, he can pull another

person up.

 

~The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

 

 

LoveAlways,

 

b

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