In article <C1F07498.31748%alanb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
"Alan B. Mac Farlane" <alanb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> this is fairly good stuff Crow ...
Why, thank'ee, Cap -- one tries.
> Anyhow ... the reason why a person loves places and people here in this
life
> time as it were .. is that in previous life times you left parts of
yourself
> here with them or in that particular place you love so much or are
attracted
> to.
I'll bet that's part of it a good deal of the time; those past-time
echoes and ties, old connections and triumphs and sufferings
shared. Probably, though, you can also be drawn to places and
people that only *remind* you of those pasts, if there's enough
similarity.
> There is a reason why we live where we live.
Many reasons; if my Dad, for example, who was a Greenwich
Village artist this time and spent some other lives in England
and Europe, turns up next time (as I have dreamed it will) as
a paleontologist in Peru, it may well be not because he's had a
previous life there, but rather that that's where the job he's
interested in -- bringing to light certain as yet unplumbed
elements of early civilizations there -- has to take place there.
He could end up living his whole life there *because of the task
he has set himself* (which maybe he first means to do in
Borneo, but then there's a volcanic explosion and the chaos
prevents him so he goes to Peru instead), and maybe come back
there in an even later life because he has come to love it.
> So what you love you incor****ate ... and what you hate you incor****ate
by
> the changing of the emotional bathwater of letting go and being with it
in
> love.
>
> If you do it right ... then there is nothing of you here to come back to
and
> collect yourself.
Sure -- the "attachment" thing. For most of us, that takes a
very very long time and many lives. In fact, we spend so much
time working through all that that, IMO, we might as well
really get involved in it and do it through and through with all
our attention and all our might (until it is indeed all "done" and
we move on). That's the "Be here now" part of Buddhism, which
I have always appreciated as the best wisdom of Zen.
> It is what you get for playing around and creating energy.
Ah; but it's the only game in (physical) town.
>The Buddhist have a term ... the 'action of no action'.
Not there yet; not ready to be, either. Someday.
> Have a life, do things, that have no energy, no karma to them in that
they
> are things one does are all soliceted and requested. As Sister Theresa
says
> ... if they don't need and they don't ask .. leave them alone.
Well, you mostly do what you need to do, karma or no karma, and
learn what you need to learn. When you're ready for the completely
karma-free glide, I reckon it comes to you.
> sumbuddie on da watchtower
Always good to hear from you, brother.
C
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