Steve Geary

[Phantom2]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:23pm

Stumbled across this. Great audition advice from Steve Geary. Definitely worth reading. He's a wonderful actor/singer/dancer. You might remember him from Broadway Bares a few years back...total stud muffin!

http://www.wonbuddhist.org/newsletter/Vol01_Iss4/11_MonismDualism.html

Updated On: 1/14/06 at 12:23 PM

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 12:46pm

Terrific article.

I have two Zen/Buddhist Koans before me which seem related to each other to which I do not know the answer:

1) What thing comes of itself without being looked for?; and

2) I have something. When you look at it, it's there, but when you look for it, it's not. What is it?

Anybody know the answer?

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 3:00pm

Hrmph, despite the fact that I know these kinds of questions usually require humorous exact answers and mine are not the correct ones, I was asked(ooh and just now sweet-talked) to post some things I thought of anyway to encourage more thought or whatever. Suddenly I'm validating Russel's view of the value of Philosophy...:

The first one seems to refer to something not materialistic...unfortunately, I've studied some philosophy but more western than eastern. Like, Aristotle said happiness is an end in itself, not a means...so I mean happiness could come of itself without being looked for...or self-actualization, self-satisfaction something along those grounds...prob something in that realm. Makes sense to be something like that if it's all Zen-like.

The second one...hmm...I swear it sounds familiar. I almost want to say your own nose or something, like you could look at it in a mirror but not find it? Or again it could be more nonmaterialistic...like an image, mirage...maybe even an answer?

A hole is an answer to one of these, I don't think it's this specific one...maybe something like that for the 2nd one.

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 3:51pm

Is an audition mind over matter? Good planning?

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 4:46pm

Did a bit more thinking, could the second one be your own shadow? I have something...makes sense.

Updated On: 1/14/06 at 04:46 PM

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 1/14/06 at 5:25pm

I suppose you could look for your shadow and find it...

The sunrise comes up with or without being looked for.

Maybe it's like things of nature, like flowers and plants growing whether or not you look at them while they are doing it?

There may be a zillion answers to this...