Re: Stop Pretending, stop stopping

07-05-2002, 08:42 PM

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