Attribution

Important note: All the posts on this blog were written by Bob Harwood (AKA 'zendancer') on the forum spiritualteachers.proboards.com. I have merely reposted a collection of them in blog format for the convenience of seekers. Some very small mods were made on occasion to make posts readable outside of the forum setting they were made in.

I'm not crazy about the word "improving"

...because it usually implies some ideation in relation to an activity, which is unnecessary. Activity happens, but there doesn't have to be an imagined "me" involved in the activity. Even in the total absence of thought, the body/mind will act intelligently and "go with the flow," so to speak.

Improvement implies that a "better" choice was made between various options, when in actuality there is activity, activity, activity and no distinct states or movements in any direction except when imagined. I don;t know if it was Holder Caulfield's sister in "Catcher in the Rye," but there is a line in some novel when someone was describing someone pouring a pitcher of water into a glass, and the person says "....it was like water pouring water into water..." or something like that. AAR, that line sort of captures the seamless isness of life unfolding in each moment.

Yes, the body/mind orders chocolate ice cream rather than vanilla ice cream, and this makes it seems as if there was a preference and a choice, when in actuality there was just THIS, THIS, THIS, if you get my drift.