Comments on: Moving Mountains

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:37:28 +0000

The first quote is especially relevant as I just wrote something posting tomorrow which is a reference to the Urantia Book:

http://www.theoquest.com/ubcenter/ubook/151-2.cfm

By: p

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:14:31 +0000

Let a lover of truth make use of few authors, but of the best noted and experienced truth; let him suspect things that are quickly understood, especially in Mystical Names and Secret Operations; for truth lies hid in obscurity; for Philosophers never write more deceitfully than when plainly, nor ever more truly than when obscurely.

I misremember the source of this story, but I’ll tell it:

A master held a mirror before his pupil.
Master: How many images are there?
Student: One.
M: Yes. [he smashes the mirror on the ground] Now, how may?
S: Sir, there are innumerable images.
M: No. There is yet but one.

The import should be obvious and analogous, particularly in light of other recent posts.

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:30:09 +0000

I’m reading a book called “Body of Myth” which is amazing, first off. Second, it claims that Zen koan’s aren’t unknowable riddles, designed to break down the symbolic mind, but that they actually are meant to have solutions. For instance, the sound of “one hand clapping” is supposed to be - according to him - the proprioceptive sound the ear makes when it is listening to itself, listening inside the body, which is the ground from which all other sounds ultimately are layered

By: jp

jp — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:12:03 +0000

I’ve always thought of this whole “moving mountains” thing as pretty similar to the Zen koan about the boat– There is a boat moving across the water. How do you stop the boat?