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Originally Posted by Hardgain
"analysis paralysis"
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It was 0311, I think, who first used that term on this board. I'm not sure if he was aware of how deep this concept is rooted in "Zen".
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Originally Posted by Hardgain
There are two distinctly different schools of thought in regard to emotion. One philosophy is to deny your self emotion and its pitfalls. By doing so you can maintain control over the mind and body, allowing for rational thought response. The other is to allow emotion to empower you.
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The first school of thought, I think, has it's own pitfalls. To attempt to CONTROL the mind, to TRY and STRIVE in this way gives rise to nothing more than intense contcentration and pointing your mind in one direction. It is, in itself, very akin to "analysis paralysis". The more you "try" to empty your mind, the less empty it becomes.
Here is the classical story:
The toad stopped on a road and asked a centipede, "How do you manage to walk on all of your feet without getting them all tangled up?"
The centipede started to consider this. How did it manage this daily activity. No sooner had it begun trying to figure this out then it tripped over its own feet and fell into a ditch.