Comments on: Beyond Action and Inaction ?

By: prem martyn

prem martyn — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 20:54:45 +0000

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Maya Angelou.

By: prem martyn

prem martyn — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 20:40:26 +0000

No one does anything from a single motive.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Highgate.

By: prem martyn

prem martyn — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 20:19:03 +0000

Tis better to do nothing
Than to waste time

By: Parmartha

Parmartha — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 18:56:26 +0000

There seems a difference to me between a choice between action and inaction, which in the best public schools (which I say tongue-in-cheek) is always seen as a matter of ‘character’ and training one’s character, and that being proactive is always better than being ‘lazy’!

Many poetry writers in those sad schools would disagree, including the famous!

This, however, seems a different type of matter to going beyond action and inaction both, which as I understand it, is the mystical position.

By: Arpana

Arpana — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 20:29:36 +0000

After moving to London in 1984 I hit a really low patch. Felt absolutely stuck and made a decision to do vipassana every day, because that seemed like the only viable option at the time, and that I would keep doing so until it dropped, no matter what I went through, and I went through hell at times, but kept going.

One of the ways I got through was that I gave myself permission to quit, but only when I was feeling ok. Wasn’t allowed to on a downer. Took a year. Made new foundations, Foundations for a life based on Kaizan if you will, rather than bull at a gate, and have never looked back since.