I am a repeater · Dec 21, 01:16 AM
(Off to the side: I’m a Buddha fan, like everyone else I s’pose, but I have to admit that most Buddha-stories I happen to come across in daily life leave me a little “Yeah, but so what?”-ish. This one conveyed its profundity directly to the centre of my attention and difused nicely.
Attempting the radical shift of perceptual stance from which one of us (humans, I mean) looks at all of us (ants! gods! fish out of water! eddies in the ambient material, swirled in the dissipation our sun’s heat!) is a great practice. And one at which I am solely out of practice. Up to the mountain!)
And here [blog -Ed.] I’ll try again, acting as a repeater for the repeating of Frank Boosman (Ludicorp board member and friend)’s on that aforementioned Buddha’s position, as repeated by the author of of a book about the same, as transposed to the situation of a guidebook for dealing with contemporary daily life.
(Parse that. I think I may have the worst part of Kant (the sentences) without the good.)
Anyway, this is what Frank republished:
Quote for the Day
From What Would Buddha Do? 101 Answers to Life’s Daily Dilemmas by Franz Metcalf. First the specific quote:
The real possession is life itself, and even that is only on loan.
Now the context:
What would Buddha do about material possessions?
See them floundering after their cherished possessions, like fish flopping in a river starved of water.
Sutta Nipata 777
Buddha compares us to these tragic fish, gasping in the brutal air, frantically looking for heaven-knows-what. Are we searching for deeper water? Are we struggling to snatch the last shred of food? Most pitiful of all, are we aggressively defending some useless possession in the very face of death?
We are some spectacle, I no less than the rest of us! I’ve told you about my computer—wait until you hear about my house and car. Meanwhile I age, I slowly die, but I continue to vainly thrash around. We have got to remember, the real possession is life itself, and even that is only on loan. Buddha doesn’t say we cannot enjoy the beautiful things we are lucky enough to have. He does say we should not let them distract us from our real job: awakening to our life and death.
Buddhism’s gift to me has been the ultimate, complete, unencumbered, freedom to imagine myself.
(Bonus link from Frank: The Onion U.S. Troops Draw Up Own Exit Strategy.)
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