File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1996/96-12-23.023, message 72


Date: Fri, 6 Dec 96 14:37 PST
From: solipsis-AT-hevanet.com (Baron Karl von Reichenbach)
Subject: Re: The Return of the Real



>>>Through meditation practice, 
>the practioner can learn to "let go" of the overlay of ego 
>interpretations (not that they disappear exactly, but they don't have as 
>much of a hold over us) and experience things directly. Just be with things.
> 
>Yes. How lovely to be not colonized by culture. And my lips illuminate this
>cup of tea.
> 
>>According to the Buddhist perspective, as I understand it, it is 
>very good to just watch your thoughts like this. Don't condemn them as 
>bad, just observe them. Its just part of walking down the street I guess. 
>Maybe its a street performance. A lot of art seems to involve adopting a 
>sort of "detached" perspective, in which we just observe everything 
>that arises without moralizing or judging in one way or the other.
>


Anyone seen Allan Kaprow lately?

or been sweeping for him.....





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