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- From: leslie@cgrg.ohio-state.edu (Leslie Bishko)
- Subject: Re: I like consciousness
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.180053.3672@cgrg.ohio-state.edu>
- Organization: OSU Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design
- References: <1992Nov20.175526.1@hamp.hampshire.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 18:00:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.175526.1@hamp.hampshire.edu> akhanna@hamp.hampshire.edu writes:
- >I like consciousness. It's nice ...
- >
- >...Know what I mean?
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- When I first read about Zen I was puzzled by the seemingly riddled
- way of describing the state of "no mind." I thought: what is this
- no mind thing - I have a complex mind full of intricate ways of
- manifesting itself - how can I clear my mind to nothingness/all-ness?
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- I am slowly doing more and more meditation through Kundalini Yoga.
- I'm into the mind/body connection this practice brings me. Meditation
- is never focused for me, though. My thoughts fly all over the place!
- So, I like to go flying with them, and I try to follow thoughts while
- meditating, instead of ridding myself of them.
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- I'm reading Memories, Dreams and Reflections by Jung - he describes
- the same desire: to experience himself fully. Perhaps this issue,
- characterizing an East/West dichotomy, is simultaneously an inner
- conflict of the duality of consciousness?
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- Your thoughts?
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- Leslie Bishko
- leslie@cgrg.ohio-state.edu
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