Intention and motivation
What is practice for you? Is it a way for you to gain more pleasure? More stuff? More praise? More good reputation? Is it to avoid pain, avoid shame, avoid a bad reputation, avoid shame, avoid obscurity? Look deeply into this? What is your practice about?
posted by Dog Hair at 7:39 AM
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"Look deeply..." you wrote.
This morning I had my second lesson in Chinese brush painting. Our teacher said that the eye will always see more than what the hand is capable of doing. When that no longer happens, we will not advance in the art of painting. This is something of what practice is for me...to become ever more aware...and then practice living into the awareness.
Ansgar (I forgot to sign my name)
Oh yes, we live into the awareness...maybe at first we are astartled, or stunned, or frightened, or we want to hide or deny or run...live into what we see...without anything missing without anything added.
I was with several friends last night and I mentioned what my painting teacher said about the eye and hand, seeing and doing. One of them said, Maybe it also means that the hand can do more than it thinks it can.
Ansgar
What is practice for me? What is it about? For me it is about being with what is. It is about looking more deeply when there is any emotion or feeling and sitting with it without immediately reacting. It is about understanding more fully how my meditation practice continues beyond the sitting period to how I experience and act in my life. All for now.
Oh that part off the cushion...oout of the zendo...bringing everything to awareness...oh yes!
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