brianf@iinet.net.au wrote:

Eternity accomodates all projections.

You dont actually know where the arrow will land, and more importantly,
the consequences thereof. No more than the artist knows where his
creation will go and with what consequence. He just "does" it.

No I don't. But I do still need to try. There is a good chance I'll miss
the
target but I still need to have a goal to try for. Even though I know I'm
fooling myself.

It's like when I'm playing interpretive jazz. There is always a
melody/harmony/rhythm implied. Otherwise the music would sound terrible
to me
so why even try? (Unless I'm just experimenting.)

If I was to think that there was no tomorrow, I think I would just fold-up
in a
cocoon and quit interacting with the world.

One doesnt develop a disregard for consequences. On the contrary.
Karmic attatchments are "very" real.

Sometimes people do ignore consequences. Like that kid that recently
killed a
woman by shooting a gun in the sky in NYC. He was excited about going
home, but
now he is extremely remorseful.

"I" have a mind, and "it" indulges in past and future.

Mentally, I'm excited about paying off mortgages, in the "mean" time. I
Love living where I am.

But living as if there was no tomorrow is taken to mean that one should
pretend
there is no loan in the first place.

Maybe that thought process is useful when there is an apparent limit of 9
months. Thinking the limit is within arms length could be an emotional
barrier
to living at all. Disregard may break that barrier.

But the rest of ones life is a different story.

All part of integration.

I was using a common analogy used by Zen Buddhists. My understanding of
Zen is
that the ultimate goal (there we go again) is to avoid all empirical
knowledge
and only use intuition when it comes to satori. While Zen claims rituals
interfere with arriving, there are people who need them to show part of
the way.

I'm just saying I can't do things their way completely.

I need to know at least
where the entrance is so I can work the rest by feeling the walls. The
hard part
here is to avoid too much reliance on rituals. I don't think I am, but it
sounds
like justification so I could be fooling myself.

BOfL

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