The wind and the three buddhist monks and non linear dynamic systems. How the hell does that work.or does it.

Comment by Jim G on November 29, 2009 at 11:09am

Too deep for my fishing line. But I remember seeing a horse in a large corral during a native american pow wow (the native americans were visiting, it was just a ranch in the mountains near the pow wow,) with the wind blowing. But it seemed to me the horse's spirit remembered the old days' old ways, as it seemed to be affected by the drumming and singing in a way that wasn't just because of the drumming and singing. So I would guess the horse's genes have a memory from way back when, and we call that the horse's spirit.

Comment by Jim G on November 29, 2009 at 11:11am

Well I guess my point was, does wind have a memory as well -- does wind have a spirit?

I'm just being creative and going with the yo. I don't know if there is anything to this.

Comment by James S Saint on November 29, 2009 at 11:30am

"As the story goes as I remember it one day there were two monks watching a flag carrying on a conversation."

I'm still back back at "watching the flag carrying on a conversation". ]:?{

Comment by david thurman on November 29, 2009 at 12:48pm

LOL I did write that a bit oddly, but you're a smart guy aren't you?...>D

Comment by david thurman on November 29, 2009 at 12:54pm

Well I guess my point was, does wind have a memory as well -- does wind have a spirit?
I might say what isn't spirit and what is spirit. More importantly we see divisions where there aren't any as being definitively. I again flip back into what Roman said earlier about non action as being action as well. that's a fairly encompassing view. It sort of snapped me into place just a bit, to a laughable point, it is what it is...LOL Absolutely no help in any descriptive way but, I'm taking my daughters on a walk on the beach then we are playing with stained glass later this afternoon, and probably in the schema of things these are the important things in life. Far more important that what anyone ends up concluding here.

Comment by Jim G on November 29, 2009 at 11:40pm

Correct IMHO David r.e. cover all your values. But if all of our mental gymastics, however professional or amateur they may be, just end up building relationships, that is a good thing. Regarding non action being action, I guess if you refrain from small talk, or at least from talk that is not authentically something you would say, that is a good example, a different kind of action. Kind of like fasting is action. Religion must be one of our values or we would not be here. And friendship is one of my values also. So I'm covering two values when I'm here.

Comment by Jim G on November 29, 2009 at 11:52pm

Oh I have a value of fun also. That is also covered here, as it can be kind of fun. My other values -- I had eight that I recorded last year to make sure I was spending time on my values. Friends, fun, family, spirituality, health, lifelong learning (another one I hit on here at RG.com,) financial freedom (cough, cough, doesn't seem like I'm doing real good on that one,) and I couldn't remember the eight one until I looked it up -- abundance. Abundance must have been pounded into us in the class I took at Rel. Sci.

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