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Old 07-07-2011, 11:15 AM   #2
David Orange
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Re: Love as a driver for I.S. skills

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Mike Sigman wrote: View Post
I think we the idea of an emotion as a driver for actual I.S. skills (demonstrable, reproducible, congruent with traditional description, etc.) is a bit of a reach. I'm no expert on Japanese religions and variations of religions, but I know that a lot of the Shinto, etc., beliefs borrowed anciently from Buddhist thought (as did many Chinese variations of religions). Emotion is usually to be abjured in favor of detachment ("no mind"), IIRC.
Mike,

Would you speak a bit more on the concept of "heart" (xin, kokoro) in the six harmonies concept? Heart leads mind, mind leads ki, ki leads body (the three internal)?

Before you mentioned it somewhere, I never thought of "heart" as a component of the three internal harmonies. I just thought of it as a harmony between mind, ki and body, but you stated it as above.

After reading your comments and Peter Ralston's explication, I thought more about that and began to seek direct experience of xin or kokoro and, eventually I did experience that.

So can you extemporize a bit on that and the relationship of heart to love as you see it?

Thanks.

David

Last edited by David Orange : 07-07-2011 at 11:15 AM. Reason: sp

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