[Dialogue] Faith/No Faith, Either/Or

[steve har]

Does the little guy in Ellie Stock's wonderful video have faith?
Seems to me he is being in the world whole-hearted, playing full-out,
nothing held back, no split-minded-ness.

I have a friend who is a Buddhist priest and I've heard him say something
like when you sit, sit; when you play, play...and don't wobble.

When Randy catches a fine fish, I don't think he has much in the way of
wobbles.

Seems to me faith is an interesting Q for those who have a case of the
wobbles maybe like Kierkegaard's wobbles of either/or rather than purity of
heart is to will one thing.

Some one stuck detachment and pre-occupied with knowing something in
"over-thinking" something like Descartes I think therefore I am...and maybe
one day I might do something about it.

D H Lawrence's poem seems on point
“Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own
lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love,
and they never have to seek for it.”.

The little kid being a conductor in the video clip pretty clearly loves
what he is up to...

He doesn't seem to be caught up in some faith/no faith process.

The same Buddhist teacher I know often quotes Shrunyu Suzuki: "in beginners
mind there are many possibilities, in expert's mind there are few.

Faith seems like a dis-ease of expert's mind, not a moral category, but
more like when you create  indigestion for yourself, when you fall out of
integrity...

You'all raise interesting quesitons


-- 
Steve Harrington
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