12-21-2012, 05:11 PM
I don't think it is true that nothing happened today. Maybe nothing happened to you. Something happened to me (see my post in the Dreams thread), although life goes on as usual. I did have an unusual experience today at 6:11am.
As for the 2012 stuff, I am generally quite skeptical about everything I read, but occasionally I get unexplainable insights and aha moments where I know there is something that needs explaining. I think of one of the 3 pillars of Zen "doubt", the conviction that there is something, and I will keep gnawing away at it til I get it. This 2012 stuff, however much nonsense or wishful thinking it is, has served, at least for me, as a means to keep my attention on resolving this doubt (this gives rise to the second pillar of Zen, effort). The 3rd pillar is faith, having faith that effort will give rise to results. Faith I have, but not in the various proponents of 2012, ascension, harvest, or satori. These just give me food to keep me hammering away driven by my doubt.
People have known about "there is joy in the moment" for millenia, if not more, so that's not the key to 2012. I don't know if there is any key to 2012 but it is clear that there has been a lot of attention paid to it, so it acts as a focal point or a marshalling point. A focal point for what? I don't know, hopefully people are more thoughtful, compassionate, and above all beginning to question the way things have been done up to now.
As for the 2012 stuff, I am generally quite skeptical about everything I read, but occasionally I get unexplainable insights and aha moments where I know there is something that needs explaining. I think of one of the 3 pillars of Zen "doubt", the conviction that there is something, and I will keep gnawing away at it til I get it. This 2012 stuff, however much nonsense or wishful thinking it is, has served, at least for me, as a means to keep my attention on resolving this doubt (this gives rise to the second pillar of Zen, effort). The 3rd pillar is faith, having faith that effort will give rise to results. Faith I have, but not in the various proponents of 2012, ascension, harvest, or satori. These just give me food to keep me hammering away driven by my doubt.
People have known about "there is joy in the moment" for millenia, if not more, so that's not the key to 2012. I don't know if there is any key to 2012 but it is clear that there has been a lot of attention paid to it, so it acts as a focal point or a marshalling point. A focal point for what? I don't know, hopefully people are more thoughtful, compassionate, and above all beginning to question the way things have been done up to now.
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