[Tango-L] A buddhist epilogue to an aesthetics

[Rick Jones]

During his first visit to England, Achaan Chah spoke to many Buddhist groups. One evening after a talk he received a question from a dignified English lady who had spent many years  studying the complex cybernetics of the mind according to the eighty-nine classes of  consciousness in the Buddhist abhidharma psychology texts. Would he please explain certain  of the more difficult aspects of this system of psychology to her so she could continue her study?

Sensing how caught up she was in intellectual concepts rather than benefiting from practice in her own heart, Achaan Chah answered her quite directly, ''You, madam, are like one who  keeps hens in her yard and goes around picking up the chicken droppings  instead of the eggs."

-Stories of the Spirit, Stories of the Heart