In the psychometrics literature, the one unalloyed good may be IQ. I've always found this to be hard to believe in part because of the rarity of an unalloyed good. Many stories about the pitfalls of being just smart enough to hurt oneself.
All very interesting and the kind of discussion that the reader might become deeply involved in, endlessly analyzing, dissecting, probing, etc. But for one who simply allows life to be as it is, moment to moment, this is a more or less shallow amusement. Not that there's anything good-bad or right-wrong about shallow amusements.
There is something interesting and ironic and revelatory about your image. The lotus flower symbolizes purity, eternity, enlightenment -- anatta, non-self. But your image isn't just of the lotus flower, which would indeed be pure; rather it's of you in front of the lotus flower, very much selfing, literally placing your self front and center, the trappings of spirituality a flimsy pretense.
Your words do the same. "But for one who simply allows life to be as it is, moment to moment" -- no, this says, "I am one who allows life to be as it is". But then why did you comment, and denigrate the essay as a shallow amusement, instead of allowing it to be as it is? The answer is your image in front of the lotus flower: because you use the stage of meditation and spirituality to place your self in the spotlight.
What is the samadhi of moment by moment? Rice in the bowl, water in the pail.
In the psychometrics literature, the one unalloyed good may be IQ. I've always found this to be hard to believe in part because of the rarity of an unalloyed good. Many stories about the pitfalls of being just smart enough to hurt oneself.
All very interesting and the kind of discussion that the reader might become deeply involved in, endlessly analyzing, dissecting, probing, etc. But for one who simply allows life to be as it is, moment to moment, this is a more or less shallow amusement. Not that there's anything good-bad or right-wrong about shallow amusements.
There is something interesting and ironic and revelatory about your image. The lotus flower symbolizes purity, eternity, enlightenment -- anatta, non-self. But your image isn't just of the lotus flower, which would indeed be pure; rather it's of you in front of the lotus flower, very much selfing, literally placing your self front and center, the trappings of spirituality a flimsy pretense.
Your words do the same. "But for one who simply allows life to be as it is, moment to moment" -- no, this says, "I am one who allows life to be as it is". But then why did you comment, and denigrate the essay as a shallow amusement, instead of allowing it to be as it is? The answer is your image in front of the lotus flower: because you use the stage of meditation and spirituality to place your self in the spotlight.
What is the samadhi of moment by moment? Rice in the bowl, water in the pail.