Mike Galante

Hi to All,

Loved all your posts and what a GREAT thread!

I live for this stuff.

For me, I like to simplify. In Zen they talk about big mind and small mind.
Anything which sits back and judges, analyzes, is the small mind.
The big mind is the one which the Tao and O Sensei talked about.
Stufff, like in the Tao, which cannot really be defined, or adequately described with small mind's concepts.

In Astrology, the 9th house of God, (ruled by sign Sagitarius) religion, higher mind, philosophy is ruled by the planet of wisdom, Jupiter.
The opposite house, the 3rd, the mundane mind, (ruled by sign Gemini) is ruled by Mercury, the planet of intelligence. two opposite ends of the same axis. Where is the truth? Somewhere in the middle! What is that? - the Tao!
Just as an aside, Usheiba had the moon in Gemini (a mercurial sign) and the Sun in Sagitarius (a jupitarian sign).

What great philosophies have been handed down to us all. Nothing new under the sun.

All the Best, Happy and wise new year,

Mike Galante