Fw: RE: religion and spirituality

[edwschreiber at earthlink.net]

From: edwschreiber at earthlink.net
Sent: Jan 9, 2009 10:43 PM


Although it's fun, that is to say easy - to have reactivity to the content of the Cohen and Wilbur exchange with this participant, the larger and more pressing concern being addressed (that is to say, to be addressed) is the question inherent to the exchange between Cohen, Wilbur and the participant, which is:  Is there such a thing as "enlightenment"? (which is what they are essentially talking about).  React as we will to the contect, the jibber, the words, the exchange, we are left, still, with that fundamental issue:  is there anything real to enlightenment?  Certainly HH the Dalai Lama would argue, YES, enlightenment is inherent to the nature of the human being, albeit obscured with ego, discursive thought.  That this "enlightenment" is a process - of being-present-with-enlightenment - which from the Zen teachings, is our "Original Nature" and our "Original Face".  Moreno, in this state, while writing "Words of the Father" was, from his own account, touching upon and giving expression to this enlightened nature.  My thesis during my training - is that our method offers homeopathic doses of the transcendental, that is to say enlightened nature within us, within humanity. Zerka writes about the white heat of action, the fullness of being awake in the present to the present, this from a Zen structure, is the corridor, the entry-point to what these folks, in this video, are attempting to POINT TO.  There is a Zen Koan:   Don't look at the fingers pointing, look to where the fingers are pointing. In fact our method is about this state of being, in its essence, what Zerka speaks and writes about, as our being cosmic beings.  We need not be ashamed of this, even as we adventure further into the fabric of the world of psychotherapy.  Our method has been just this:  it goes beyond therapy.

Best,

Ed