Auri:
"...accepted everything as it came to her, though she kept a fox's alertness: an attitude that Zen masters might envy." (p. 83)
Yes, acceptance and alertness are Zen. No, Zen masters are beyond envy!
We have been out for the evening. On returning, it has taken me some time to respond to comments and then to scan back through The Corridors... to find this one passage which has required only a two-sentence response.
Wardens and Rangers, acting behind the scenes throughout history, have brought about the religious conflicts - sea and earth goddesses against sky gods, Catholicism against Protestantism - that they already knew about! But they hope to influence their future. Lockridge learns that some ancient myths and rites will return in his future but that there will also be more for humanity beyond that. I think that Zen will survive.
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Well, Zen masters -should- be beyond envy...
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
And being only human they will not always be beyond such flaws.
Ad astra! Sean
I recently heard the point made about two types of envy or two responses to envy, in the context of sports like running.
If one sees someone do better than you are doing, one can resent that someone and try to tear down that person, or one can look at how that person accomplishes what s/he does and use those observations to improve oneself.
Kaor, Jim!
The latter, of course, is the best way to respond. Not with green eyed envy.
Ad astra! Sean
Someone once said that envy is the only one of the Seven Deadly Sins that doesn't even give you a momentary pleasure when you indulge it.
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