The other day in Frankfurt at the sesshin Brad Warner has cited this passage from master Dogen where it discourages its followers to make fun of sparks with flint. Flint is the variety of stone that team lighters, thereby igniting the wick (for antique lighters and zippo fuel) or gas (for modern lighters), it seems that in the thirteenth century, some found this feature quite astonishing for a game to worry
Although
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I've seen kids play tirelessly to turn a lighter or to make sparks when there is more gas ...
reflection that came to him, is that today, Dogen seems not to have fun on a console (Playstation or otherwise), reflecting further on the fact that, after all, a playstation, this sparks are ultimately found behind the screen operation. And just like silicon derives its name from the flint stone which is a silica, that is the loop closed.
Our greatest contemporary entertainment (and I myself included) are sparks made with flint! ...
If we are serious in practicing the Way, we must pay attention to this problem. The computer, mobile phone, game consoles are, in the end that made sparks with flint and we are mesmerized by them as they puff us a lot of time, preventing us from doing our job, to go play sports, do some exercise, go to the show, read real books (in paper printed with characters and everything!) and also to sit down, was not it pathetic that 10 minutes against a wall, facing ourselves. Can we think about and see that we tend let us enslave with more solidity than the heavier strings?
Allez hop! At zafu!
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