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> Well, yes, but there are ven more mystic practices (as I see it) that just
> have people go about their daily lives. For example, my example of a
> carpenter whose mystic practice concentrates on "being in this place, at
> this time." She goes to the temples, like everyone else. She cooks and
> cleans and works wood. Perhaps she meditates once or twice a day, or follows
> some restriction (maybe she is a vegetarian, maybe she bathes in a
> particular way, maybe she wakes early to say prayers, maybe she feeds
> beggers, whatever) which might be unusual, but mostly she just lives like
> everyone else. All the time, though, she is seeking to experience the All by
> focusing on being in the place she is in at this very moment. When she
> carves wood, she just carves wood; when she sits in the temple, she just
> sits in the temple. She slowly builds up an ability "In This Place, In This
> Time." It's not "useful" for much beyond struggling with the All, which is
> the *whole point of the way she lives her life.* Maybe she can use it to
> stay calm when a neighbor is being a jerk. An aweful lt of mystics should be
> like this -- not flashy or really suitable for adventuring, just people
> going about their lives.
And that is also present in the East Isles in the teaching of
Ho Adara, whose main tenet is "do your work".
/Nils W