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Thursday November 20 , 2008
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Mickey Mouse is 80 years old this week! My father just turned 91! Interesting. When you think about it, do you, or I, or my father have a stronger claim on reality or selfhood than Mickey Mouse? Mickey is much better known than the rest of us. It all depends on point of view, and where can we find that?  Something to contemplate!
As to the individual or self, what is that about? Seems to me I make myself up from moment to moment as I wabble precariously forward..
Some of my renditions of myself are better than others. Sometimes I notice this and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I'm full of emotions and ambitions and fears and doubts.
Wouldn't it be wonderful to be as clear minded as Mickey Mouse!
....................... Sarva mangalam! ~y~
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Reflectopix
Walking meditations in
Southwestern Ontario
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Siddhartha said: What I have learned from the Samanas (holy men), I could have learned more quickly and easily in every inn in a prostitute's quarter, among the carriers and dice players."
Govinda said: Siddhartha is joking. How could you have learned meditation, holding of the breath and insensibility towards hunger and pain, with those wretches?"
And Siddhartha said softly, as if speaking to himself; "What is meditation? What is abandonment of the body? What is fasting? What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a tempoprary escape from the torment of Self. It is a temporary palliative against the pain and folly of life. The driver of oxen makes this same flight, takes this temporary drug when he drinks a few bowls of rice wine or cocoanut milk to the inn. He then no longer feels his Self, no longer feels the pain of life; he then experiences temporary escape. Falling asleep over his bowl of rice wine, he finds what Siddhartha and Govinda find when they escape from their bodies by long exercises and dwell in the non-self."
. . . . . . .............................................. . . . Hermann Hesse in SIDDHARTHA
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