[Tango-L] OT: Re: A buddhist epilogue to an aesthetics

[Chanop Silpa-Anan]

Great to hear that, Rick. His visit was many many years ago.

Cheers, Tim

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> Subject: Re: [Tango-L] A buddhist epilogue to an aesthetics
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> 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