tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1046534017244699300.post7928653878443776963..comments2023-10-26T04:42:27.037-07:00Comments on Cheri Huber's Practice Blog: There is nothing personal.Cheri Huberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15320136247018985021noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1046534017244699300.post-2210640410138147822010-04-12T20:56:45.359-07:002010-04-12T20:56:45.359-07:00"Fine. So there's no such thing as 'I..."Fine. So there's no such thing as 'I.' What is it then that feels so certain it exists?"<br /><br />William Wordsworth had a great line one time. Actually, he had all sorts of great lines. But anyway, it went something like this -<br /><br />"In all things, I saw one life, and felt that it was joy."<br /><br />As many have pointed out, the use of nouns and verbs as dictated by the structure of our language really reinforces that notion of "I." Every sentence has to have a subject, and even poetic expressions like Wordsworth's are usually no exemption. <br /><br />Is there really "all things?" Is there truly the "I" that sees? What is this "one life" anyway? Quite frankly, if Wordsworth had been a zen master, he probably would have just uttered a single word - "Joy." Or perhaps simply lifted a cryptic finger to the sky or something.<br /><br />But anyway, the event was simply "joy." That was its beginning and end. That was the totality of the field, as manifested through the sensibility of the poet. But again, even though we have grammatical rules in English, that doesn't automatically mean they're the rules of nature. <br /><br />It's like the it in "it is raining." Surely, the event is simply "raining." But our language doesn't allow that, even though Alan Watts argued there really are no nouns at all, only verbs. <br /><br />What "knows" that it exists is simply existence itself, as localized and expressed at the point here and now. <br /><br />Thanks for the blog, Cheri. You're amazing. Or should I simply say "amazingness," and leave it at that?Paul F. McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15752490681064648858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1046534017244699300.post-25912906805531346312010-04-11T08:29:35.944-07:002010-04-11T08:29:35.944-07:00I am finding this blog so helpful, Cheri. It'...I am finding this blog so helpful, Cheri. It's priceless having this directly from the guide. Thank-you so much. <br /> What jumped out at me in this today was the last paragraph; <br /> "We feel as happy for and as good about gifts and contributions of this human as we do about the gifts and contributions of all humans—and of all of life’s expressions."<br />To me, that perspective contains such joy and freedom! And I can also know that for me, when envy or jealously or "feeling less than" arise in relationship to someone else's contribution, it's all horse pucky! And I don't have to listen to any of it. I can just enjoy the other person's contribution because, in a sense, it's life's contribution and all of life benefits including me! <br />It kind of feels like life is rooting for all of us and wants the best for us all.Karen Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16327207884765558782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1046534017244699300.post-77629773039120120552010-04-10T19:33:51.628-07:002010-04-10T19:33:51.628-07:00I'm so enjoying this blog, Cheri-- thank you s...I'm so enjoying this blog, Cheri-- thank you so much. It is wonderful to practice with the notion of being the awareness that sees (contains) all of the "I"'s though of course it is not easy but I am amazed at the ever expansive powers of my heart as I do this moment by moment.CFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08709502091153683008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1046534017244699300.post-19876267770384604742010-04-10T14:13:29.255-07:002010-04-10T14:13:29.255-07:00Fine. So there's no such thing as "I.&quo...Fine. So there's no such thing as "I." What is it then that feels so certain it exists? That KNOWS it exists. That likes the taste of roast beef (sorry guys), and writes poems, and enjoys making love, and doesn't want to be in pain, and ... have to go now, my wife it calling. But damn, it's not so frigging easy.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05244368158824636147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1046534017244699300.post-57326835199401142992010-04-09T09:06:07.489-07:002010-04-09T09:06:07.489-07:00From being part of life, I make the move (in a mil...From being part of life, I make the move (in a millisecond) to believing I know better than life. I know when I have made that switch, but I haven't caught myself "in the act".Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13277266914188960491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1046534017244699300.post-86523337816760940252010-04-08T18:47:43.065-07:002010-04-08T18:47:43.065-07:00“This is God’s human and I am here to care for it....“This is God’s human and I am here to care for it.” <br />To me, this sentence suggests that there are 3 players: God, me, and the caring. Lately, I've been looking at the Trinity (as in Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) and this seems to speak right to it. There is God the creator, me the incarnation, and the caring action of the "spirit." All are one, inseparable, until the illusion of a separate self emerges. Through this practice, the experience of being All - of being each person of the Holy Trinity as we Christians might say - has arisen over and over. We can actually live this mystery of being not one, but all. What a marvelous gift of practice!Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18020015310220309909noreply@blogger.com