tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3610430154861217625.post6434410823841577538..comments2024-02-29T10:14:57.263-06:00Comments on Diaristic Notations: Al Gore's Dogma and Anger, and the limit to my intuitive wisdom.Kim Mosleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17658600791743162004noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3610430154861217625.post-29520903879808680542012-03-06T10:35:41.816-06:002012-03-06T10:35:41.816-06:00How the subject of Global Warming inspires such ex...How the subject of Global Warming inspires such extreme emotion is an interesting thing to me. I have decided for myself what I think about it, and this video helped me to see the balance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKoUwttE0BA<br /><br />We are not just vermin crawling around on the surface of the planet - we are integrated components of the universal whole. Light and Darkness together - there is no separation. The yin and yang symbol needs to spin as do electrons, planets, galaxy, all of the moving components of the whole - integrated. Separation is the illusion. Those who get so intensely emotional about Global Warming should probably get the stick. Just sayin' ha ha.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3610430154861217625.post-56771068039950563732011-12-16T14:37:18.858-06:002011-12-16T14:37:18.858-06:00I'm at work and don't have much time to co...I'm at work and don't have much time to comment, but found a couple of things that relate:<br />http://dalaigrandma.blogspot.com/2011/12/whos-to-blame-for-this-mess.html<br /><br />The ino at the SFZC, Shundo, posted this on his blog the other day (theinosblog@blogspot.com) from Suzuki Roshi:<br /><br />"Student: Roshi, what about focus? You said that the clouds don't know they're the children of the mountain and vice versa, but when we humans open and arrange our eating bowls, we focus on that without listening to the stream. It is a different activity.<br />Suzuki Roshi: It is the same activity.<br />Student: For me it is different.<br />Suzuki Roshi: That is why you get the stick. [Laughing]. When you really focus, there is light and darkness together, but when you are thinking there are two sides. Now you are asking a question. When you are asking a question you are thinking, so it is hard for me to answer your question. I may have to be very angry with you. That is the only way. If you get hit you will probably stop thinking about it" - Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness.Melanienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3610430154861217625.post-58691942148946091862011-12-16T08:07:54.156-06:002011-12-16T08:07:54.156-06:00PS - - - No, I wouldn't send money to Chevy Ch...PS - - - No, I wouldn't send money to Chevy Chase.<br /><br />KateAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3610430154861217625.post-5125730435717475002011-12-16T08:06:34.594-06:002011-12-16T08:06:34.594-06:00I do believe that anger should have no part of thi...I do believe that anger should have no part of this conversation. – Mr. Kim<br /><br />I think one of the biggest qualms I have with how I have experienced the Buddhist religion is this striving for ‘inner peace’ or ‘no anger’. It’s like wanting that euphoric high one might get from a drug only one should get it naturally by mediating until one is filled with acceptance and peace. <br /><br />I don’t really think it works like that. To me this is as much a dogma as scientist believing in the terrible end of human existence. In my experience, emotions are like breath. . . You can’t just not have emotions like you can’t just not have air to breath. Anger will happen often whether one wants it to happen or not. <br /><br />You know that stereotypical idea of the ‘hysterical or emotional woman’? Woman is sometimes viewed as that gender that doesn’t live by logic or reason but by her chaotic emotions. I’m not trying to act as if every man or even every woman believes this stereotype, but when you are the woman and you know the stereotype exist. . . It pissed you off. And you know you don’t have to feel bad about that rage because the stereotype exists in part as a means to dismiss your point of view when necessary. If you show even a little emotion, you are just a hysterical emotional woman.<br /><br />I have had conversations with other woman who sometimes point to how Obama had to cultivate that image of not being ‘the angry black man’. Because if he would have been allowed any show of anger, he wouldn’t have been able to become president as the world is not ready to accept the ‘angry black man’. I think that ‘angry black man’ stereotype exists in part as a means of dismissing one’s point of view when necessary. If you show even a little emotion, you are just an angry black man. <br /><br />Good action or bad action? Savior or sinner? --- Mr. Kim<br /><br />Angry or peaceful? Savior or sinner?<br /><br />KateAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com