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Post by mamza on Jan 10, 2011 14:07:02 GMT -5
Why's it so dark in here? - My 3 year old sister.
LOL!
Thought I'd share that one with you guys. Somehow I knew it would fit right in over here.
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Post by teetown on Jan 10, 2011 16:19:04 GMT -5
haha right. I like the one about the boy playing hide and go seek. He asked his mom how to find a good hiding spot. His mom said, "if you can't see them, they can't see you." So the boy stood in the middle of the room with his hands over his eyes. ;D
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Post by charliegee on Jan 10, 2011 23:43:15 GMT -5
nice ... gotta love kids ...
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Post by mamza on Jan 11, 2011 0:00:27 GMT -5
Yeah, they say some great things. Later on my other sister asked me to open a toy purse for her, so I did. Then she took it, shook it around, and asked me, "Where's the money?"
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Post by question on Jan 11, 2011 12:21:44 GMT -5
I fail to see how a child's ignorance has any relevance for the inquiry about nonduality.
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Post by mamza on Jan 11, 2011 12:23:28 GMT -5
At the time I thought of it as a 'not seeing the forest for the trees' type thing. Maybe not, I guess. Sorry. The money one was of no importance whatsoever.
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Post by charliegee on Jan 11, 2011 18:23:05 GMT -5
or our own? ...
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Post by mamza on Jan 11, 2011 18:53:16 GMT -5
Yeah. She said that and the phrase came to mind right away. It was more in relation to everyone, which is probably just a projection coming from me. Just sort of lit the light bulb for a second... kicked me out of myself into seeing mode.
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Post by enigma on Jan 12, 2011 0:08:06 GMT -5
There's a story (Maybe I made it up, not sure) about a child in a brightly lit room with his eyes tightly closed, terrified of the dark. It seems an appropriate 'spiritual metaphor' for our refusal to see the light of Truth.
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Post by karen on Jan 12, 2011 0:42:15 GMT -5
Fun fact: biologists now believe that the ostrich hides its head in the sand to look like a native bush. Well, that might not be their version of things. But us humans thought they were so naive and gullible for so many years. Nice mirror in the ostrich.
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Post by enigma on Jan 12, 2011 1:18:01 GMT -5
How many ostriches did they interview before they derived that conclusion? Hehe.
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Post by mamza on Jan 12, 2011 3:04:00 GMT -5
That's how I felt about all this; I just assume others can see things the same way I do sometimes and end up being very vague/random.
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Post by question on Jan 12, 2011 11:44:13 GMT -5
Fun fact: biologists now believe that the ostrich hides its head in the sand to look like a native bush. Well, that might not be their version of things. But us humans thought they were so naive and gullible for so many years. Nice mirror in the ostrich. Wikipedia: "Contrary to popular belief, Ostriches do not bury their heads in sand. This myth likely began with Pliny the Elder (A.D. 23-79), who wrote that Ostriches "imagine, when they have thrust their head and neck into a bush, that the whole of their body is concealed." ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrich#Social_and_seasonal_behaviour ) In any case, I doubt that any serious thinker would have called ostriches "gullible" and "naive". Another theory is that the gesture is one of surrender in a hierarchical conflict. Also it doesn't really matter what the ostriches think about it, because the gesture is the result of an evolutionary process. |
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Post by enigma on Jan 12, 2011 12:40:33 GMT -5
If it's not true, we don't really need theories to explain it, so much, eh?
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Post by karen on Jan 12, 2011 12:44:14 GMT -5
True. It's the beauty of evolution by natural selection!
BTW, evolution and the simple - seemingly cosmological constants - are great koans to contemplate on. The anthropic principle is another great one to ponder.
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