beutiful vs. ugly

[Mp]

One can find beauty and ugliness in this world.

Thank you Jundo. =)

Gassho
Shingen

[Jundo]

Hi,

Some people think that Zen is about not having preferences. They are absolutely right! At the same time (timeless time), they are absolutely wrong! In our way, we encounter life from various views (including viewless views) at once! So, I have likes and dislikes, appreciate the beautiful and detest the ugly or scary or painful ... yet, at the same timeless time, "I"(the I-less I) DO NOT IN THE LEAST. Like hearing life out of the right ear one way, and the left ear another all at once ... Buddha Ear.

The result is like listening to a Beautiful, Flowing Emptiness Symphony (All Caps) which Harmoniously holds all the beautiful notes and off key noise, harmonies and disharmonies of the world, both the parts of life where our heart leaps with joy and the parts where we cover our ears and eyes and grit the teeth.

Still, in playing our instrument (the gu-"I"-tar?), we try to avoid the bad note disharmonies (small "d") and be as harmonious and "on key" as we can ... all to better hear the Harmony (Big "H") that is Never Ever "Off Key".

We think that we are a single instrument in the orchestra ... separate from all the other players and the notes on the page. One finds instead that the Orchestra is One and is Who We Are, And the Music Too! Far from being apart, WE ARE THE SYMPHONY! We truly "loose our 'self' and are swept up in the Music!" The Music has been playing us all along, not only the other way. Ernst is what is produced when the strings of the world vibrate.

That is our guitar lesson for today.

Sunday, I will be attending our local Tsukuba Symphony, and listening to the "Four Bs" ... Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Buddha.

Gassho, J

[Ernstguitar]

Thank you, just again.
I will exercise, so that I can get an idea of the guitar lesson.
So, how can I be so deaf to the Music…...

gassho
Ernst