Zen and the art of filtering junk!

Dear Sir,

When i read your story, I remembered my tamil class teacher telling me the Zen Monk story when i was 10 or 11 yrs old. When i recall back he told us that we should be half glass full to receive anyhing taught to us daily.

If we go as a full class v cant receive anything coz we will be overcome by our ego. If v go as a empty glass we wont be able to capture as we dont have the basic. So,vhave to go asa half glass to observe the teaching and to analys. There are many things we can overcome in this world if we just change a bit of our thinking.

Luv,
Suzanne

 

Dear Cheeniya,
I really feel sorry for my late entry to such a thought provoking and wonderful post !! In a brilliant way ( of course you do it often ) you have connected the computer with our mind pointing out the Zen story . Only Cheeniya can do it :bowdown!
Junk emotions, such as anxiety, jealousy, anger, obsession, short-temperedness, greed, hatred, and so on. These emotions are neither good for us nor are they good for other people with whom we come into contact. These emotions need to be inventoried just like the material goods we have in our closet. It's much harder, of course, to throw these emotions out with the trash, because we've inherited them or indeed have cultivated them over our lifetimes. That's why we need to run an inventory of these emotions as often as we can; to make sure we're in control of them and don't allow them to hold sway over our behavior.

If we place our thoughts and emotions in right relation to our actions then we'll more easily fall into healthy and productive habits and become wise users of technology and material goods, rather than be their victims.Here is another Zen story which I feel is somewhat related to this post( kindly excuse me if it is not )" There was a scholar, who was full of knowledge about Buddhism and philosophy and who came to study with a Zen master. As was customary, the Zen master offered the scholar a cup of tea. The scholar was delighted and accepted. The Zen master said nothing and began to pour the tea. However, when the tea reached the rim of the cup the Zen master did not stop pouring. He pointed to the cup of tea in silence but continued to pour the tea into it. "What are you doing?" said the scholar, baffled. The Zen master looked at the scholar. "Scholar," he said. "Take up your cup of tea. How can I pour anything more into it unless you empty it?" The scholar knew everything there was to know about his religion. In fact, he was so full of knowledge that there was no room for anything else. The Zen master was teaching him, in a very direct way, that he had to empty his mind of all that knowledge in order for him to be able to get the knowledge he really needed, which was to gain enlightenment. We should stop filling our mind with trivia and junk emotions that block our path to true knowledge and happiness. We all need to empty our cups.I am sorry for my lllloooooonnnngggggg feed back.
with love
pad

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Dear Cheeniya sir,

Thanks for a thought provoking write up. As said our mind is a super computer and nobody can access it so easily. For a mortal computer an immortal human being has to do the clean up job. Similarly a man always finds or runs to the nature to get solutions to all his problems.Hence he is forced to water those herbs that will help him and must be able to destroy the other things that are weeds. If he is able to control all the weed in his life he will be a true human being. The sishyas were not able to control the inner feelings and hence stagnated while the monk was able to go further.:bowdown
nityakalyani

Thanks for the write up.

 

Hello Cheeniya Sir,

Your reply to earlier thread made me feel so wanted and so here I am (I'm not leaving this place till you are bored of my FBs

Your threads are evergreen Sir. Makes an interesting reading anytime. Can even read the same thing again and come back with different thoughts. It's absolutely wonderful really.
See how I could carry your Crossword thread in my thoughts for nearly 14 days.

now, for this thread on filtering junk - if only you could tell me how to keep things in memory for long, longer & longest time . How about
increasing the space of good memory so the junk is reduced to dust & (hopefully) vanishes completely.

Nature does play a wonderful role in diminishing our memory or we wouldn't indulge in love again and again and again. we do tend to forget the physical reactions so soon that we look fwd to renew our memories often. We tend to forget those everlasting embraces, empowering love, exulting feelings, conscious trembles, inner flutters...

Increasing or maximising the feel good factor in life shld expand the horizon of love without any strife and all we need is Memory.

BTW, what junk are you guys talkin about??? :biggrin2::biggrin2:

(wish CV reads my reply )

 

Thanks sir for telling us how to filter junk