Posted: Mar 05, 2013 6:29 pm
nunnington wrote:There is the nice Zen saying - samsara is nirvana. Normally these are opposed - the daily wheel of life and then transcendence, but here it is said that one is found within the other. There is also the saying that enlightenment is found in the passions, whereas normally it is said to root them out. But Zen delights in these paradoxes - for example, that there is no distinction between enlightenment and ordinary life. But I think T. S. Eliot expressed similar ideas in a Christian vein (4 Quartets):
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement.
How have you discovered all this?
I am a student of the Perennial Philosophy. My metaphysics is mentalism - its all mental. My practice is to apply the unique viewpoint 'that its all mental' to the waking world of daily experience.