From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Mon Oct 06 2003 - 22:41:09 BST
Jim, Sam and all:
Jim said:
> A man who is seeking something "better than" here and now never looks me
in
> the eye. His eye and attention are beyond this time and place where he
> encounters me who is him. A man following a "spiritual path" therefore
> hateful of me and himself. I discern nothing heroic in that.
Sam replied:
Or the spiritual path is how you remove the distractions IN ORDER THAT you
live simply in the present, and become fully present....
dmb says:
Exactly. As was already explained, the Zen-like rediscovery of intellect
only occurs after all attachments and desires have extinguished, even the
attachment to life and the desire for enlightenment. If that's not giving up
the search for something better, then I don't know what is. And that's what
Campbell says. He says that people don't really want to find meaning or the
final answers to anything, we just want to feel like we're fully alive and
fully engaged in life. Or as Pirsig might put it, we don't want to drink
life through a straw. We want to gulp it down.
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