El to Melody--

[Guest guest]

El:

Melody, you missed it.Try it again.I thought you wanted to solve the Koan.

 

 

Melody:

 

I'm happy to further share with you

my observations, El, but let me offer

this one first:

 

Misunderstandings often occur when

one person presumes to know the

intent or mind of another. Not only does

it lead to misunderstandings, when offered

with the rather authoritarian tone as above

 

(and if a power relationship has not been agreed

upon....such as parent/child, or teacher/student),

 

it inspires constriction, a self-defended

stance, and tends to close down channels

of communication - no matter how helpful

the implied intention.

 

Getting back to your concern about my

response, though -

 

I was just stating the obvious, El.

 

And I'm happy to elaborate on it

a bit:

 

Absent the self-referencing "me";

hours pass by "in no time" at all.

 

A sense of time exists only when a

"me" exists to experience its passage.

 

For most, an example of this happens 'like

clockwork' every single night.

 

How many times have we fallen asleep

in the afternoon, only to awaken an hour later

.....and not know if it was morning or night?

 

This was a favorite trick of my son's during

long car rides. He'd sleep, and find that it

seemed as if we would get there much quicker. :-))

 

Of course, dreamless sleep is a rather unconscious

way of dropping the sense of 'me' ....

 

but a sense of time stops nonetheless.

 

Melody

 

[Guest guest]

Melody:

 

Good try.

 

But intellectually " getting it "

doesn't cut it.

 

 

 

" The riddle of spirituality

cannot be solved

by your intellect. "

NM

 

 

 

El

[Guest guest]

Melody:

 

Judy is my little sister.

 

El

[Guest guest]

We had a famly reunion on Jewels in January.

 

Did you miss that too?