Or is it illusory?
2007-07-09 18:46:00 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Two monks were watching a flag flapping in the wind. One said to the other, “The flag is moving.”
The other replied, “The wind is moving.”
Huineng overheard this. He said, “Not the flag, not the wind; mind is moving.”
2007-07-09 18:49:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Well, I'm not quite sure what you mean, but I've certainly moved through space and through non-spatial changes in the last couple of years. Two years ago I was a rather complacent, admittedly somewhat over-paid legal secretary. I was starting to get a little nervous about how many fewer files we were getting due to a change in the state law that affected our specialty, but there was a great big case we were working on that could fill my spare time.
Now I'm disabled/retired, living 2,000 miles east of where I had that job, the love of my life is dead and his ashes are in that box over there, and on the shelf below are a bunch of books I bought all at once to restart the library I basically sold off (keeping only a couple of boxes out of some 50 boxes worth). On the shelf below those is a row of boxed sets of DVDs. I never had a DVD player, let alone the 300 or so discs, while Steve was alive.
The furniture is almost all new, and what came from California into this particular room was only the credenza previously described and the bookcase that had been in storage. And the computer acquired after Steve's death.
Way too many changes to describe adequately in this answer. I believe I have just overwhelmed myself in attempting to describe them. Is this moving on? It's certainly not illusion, unless the entire physical world is illusion. That is, of course, a theory I examined when I was back in philosophy classes.
2007-07-09 19:35:51 · answer #2 · answered by auntb93 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, the movement is illusory since time is illusory, but when you notice that the "we" is also illusory, it doesn't seem to matter much anymore. Hehe.
2007-07-09 19:46:02 · answer #3 · answered by philmeta11 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
illusory or not if a 18 wheel truck is bearing down on me--I BETTER MOVE.
2007-07-09 19:06:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is illusory , i am sure what about you. your real version is in static condition
2007-07-09 18:47:41 · answer #5 · answered by KrishanRam(Jitendra k) 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What's with the introspection? Move like a human bulldozer! Move your feet! Get in line! NOW MARCH!!!
2007-07-09 18:50:52 · answer #6 · answered by urukorcs 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Seems to me life IS movement. Change is the only constant. Sameness is the illusion.
2007-07-09 18:49:56 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
That depends on if you mean moving forward backwards on just moving on. If we stayed still we'd grow roots
2007-07-10 07:24:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are still yet moving.The soul is still.We our moving in "life" and moving ahead no doubt whether we are a bit sluggish or firm towards God
2007-07-10 00:13:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋