Comments on: Care More and Couldn't Care Less http://www.vincenthorn.com/2007/12/22/care-more-and-couldnt-care-less/ Buddhist Geek, Meditation Teacher, Explorer Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:23:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: (0v0) http://www.vincenthorn.com/2007/12/22/care-more-and-couldnt-care-less/comment-page-1/#comment-969 (0v0) Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:03:43 +0000 http://www.vincenthorn.com/2007/12/22/care-more-and-couldnt-care-less/#comment-969 Wow, are you for real? Yesterday I was saying to a teacher that every fall I watch a new crop of grad students transvalue their values to the life of the mind. They take to it quickly and the world of consumerism falls straight into shadow. But buying in to the life of the spirit and the values that you live by is not quite so common. Why? Mabye we don't have as many encompassing institutions for this. Or a sense that it is actually (not to go straight for the ego or anything!) in a way heroic. Anyway, lovely to trip across this beautiful blog--I've been following the Geeks and the Techsattva all along. Wow, are you for real? Yesterday I was saying to a teacher that every fall I watch a new crop of grad students transvalue their values to the life of the mind. They take to it quickly and the world of consumerism falls straight into shadow. But buying in to the life of the spirit and the values that you live by is not quite so common. Why? Mabye we don’t have as many encompassing institutions for this. Or a sense that it is actually (not to go straight for the ego or anything!) in a way heroic.

Anyway, lovely to trip across this beautiful blog–I’ve been following the Geeks and the Techsattva all along.

]]> By: Mark http://www.vincenthorn.com/2007/12/22/care-more-and-couldnt-care-less/comment-page-1/#comment-968 Mark Sun, 23 Dec 2007 03:03:43 +0000 http://www.vincenthorn.com/2007/12/22/care-more-and-couldnt-care-less/#comment-968 I agree. Very nicely constructed. I feel like I can relate quite well. The way these words hit me was much like the idea of not focusing on outcomes so much as behavior. (Or, in the case of love and caring, behavior becomes 'connection', 'emanation', 'energy', 'empathy', etc.) I love this idea, or these ideas, and perhaps it unfolds in my own life with 'right effort'... Yet at times it's hard not to wonder about outcomes. What about the big issues, global concerns? How do I fit in? Do I care more about organic farming or feeding starving children in Africa via chemical fertilizers? Do I have to choose? Does someone else get to choose? Is everything happening exactly as it is supposed to happen? And if so, does this imply a sort of transcendent determinism? Should I even worry about it? Ultimately, there is no past and there is no future. There is evolution. There is change over time. And as consciousness acts on the world, it seems as though it affects its own development. A Kosmic feedback loop. Evolution arising in four quadrants. What I say and do does matter. There are 'outcomes' per se. And so 'caring' about 'what happens' is valid, worthy, and important. The trick is to not be attached to results, or to a certain state of 'this'. This is just this. And it matters. I agree. Very nicely constructed. I feel like I can relate quite well. The way these words hit me was much like the idea of not focusing on outcomes so much as behavior. (Or, in the case of love and caring, behavior becomes ‘connection’, ‘emanation’, ‘energy’, ‘empathy’, etc.)

I love this idea, or these ideas, and perhaps it unfolds in my own life with ‘right effort’… Yet at times it’s hard not to wonder about outcomes.

What about the big issues, global concerns? How do I fit in? Do I care more about organic farming or feeding starving children in Africa via chemical fertilizers? Do I have to choose? Does someone else get to choose? Is everything happening exactly as it is supposed to happen? And if so, does this imply a sort of transcendent determinism? Should I even worry about it?

Ultimately, there is no past and there is no future. There is evolution. There is change over time. And as consciousness acts on the world, it seems as though it affects its own development. A Kosmic feedback loop. Evolution arising in four quadrants.

What I say and do does matter. There are ‘outcomes’ per se. And so ‘caring’ about ‘what happens’ is valid, worthy, and important. The trick is to not be attached to results, or to a certain state of ‘this’. This is just this. And it matters.

]]> By: jason http://www.vincenthorn.com/2007/12/22/care-more-and-couldnt-care-less/comment-page-1/#comment-967 jason Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:24:33 +0000 http://www.vincenthorn.com/2007/12/22/care-more-and-couldnt-care-less/#comment-967 Beautifully put Vince. Right on. Beautifully put Vince. Right on.

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