Don't Worry About Function
You will do it your way; your function will show your fingerprints...
posted by Dog Hair at 10:16 AM
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This site is a compilation of teachings and understandings of Atisha's Training the Mind.
posted by Dog Hair at 10:16 AM
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Sometimes we worry that if we open our hearts and live an open hearted life there will be no uniqueness, no fingerprint, NOTHING at all...what seems to happen is that when we open our heart, really open it and we really appear...but we get afraid...as an example..the bell...it sits there, looks like a bell, and it holds the function of the bell...when we strike it the sound is there and every bell is unique...even though the function is the same the sound is unique...like that...the true human being function shows up uniquely...striking the bell, leaving a sound...and then waiting to be struck again...it might help to listen to the audio...
I adore this discussion around function. for some reason it had me wanting to took me the poetry of gerard manley hopkins who says so many beautiful things related to the particular sounds of things that come forth from things. perhaps this is a familiar poem:
As kingfishers' catch fire, dragon flies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same;
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying what I do is me and for that I came.
I say more: the just man justices;
Keeps grace; that keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is--
Christ. For Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the father through the features of men's faces.
This speaks so beautifully to some of the questions raised here: our finger prints, the sounds that are uniquely ours, Maryanne's doing with less thought, and the poem has such a feel of intimacy.
As for the difficulties of the audio, I shall try to burn a cd.
"particularly fitted" has an Italian association for me. When we travelled in Italy this past spring, over and over we were struck by the use of the phrase "very particular" to describe a cheese or a meat or a wine --- usually meaning unique and very particular to a location. Italians with their longer continuities with their small country and their homes and places of origin have much more sense than we do of the way life is shaped by custom, tradition, locality, land, climate. I believe they give testimony to the unique voices that come from our own individual experience.
No one sees the light through the trees as Ansgar does nor as each of us does, yet the mystery is that through the expression of this particularity we open the opportunity to connect to one another and to all experience.
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