4384  A buddhist epilogue to an aesthetics

Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 15:32:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rick Jones <rwjones52@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] A buddhist epilogue to an aesthetics
To: tango-L@mit.edu

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

Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 09:31:10 +1000
From: "Chanop Silpa-Anan" <Chanop.Silpa-Anan@seeingmachines.com>
Subject: [Tango-L] OT: Re: A buddhist epilogue to an aesthetics
To: <tango-L@mit.edu>

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

Cheers, Tim

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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