As evidenced in our public and private lives, when confronted by trouble, our first reaction is to do more of what we've already been doing - effecting greater control, developing and acquiring more tools, more institutions, more laws. In short, when things don't quite go our way, we either add more technical "levers' or apply force to those we already possess. In sharp contrast, the ideal Buddhist person - the bodhisattva or 'enlightening being' = is said to have an unlimited capacity for skill-in-means. Such a person is able to improvise with any situation to orient it (with a minimum expenditure of forece or energy) away from the samsaric toward the nirvanic - away from blockage, stalemate, rigidity, and strstion toward freedom, harmony, flexibility and joy.
=== see Zajonc experiments on the arousal-complexity diagram. === also relates "how do we find people who think outside of the box in NE 175 lecture 6".
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Date: 2007-11-11 05:29 am (UTC)In sharp contrast, the ideal Buddhist person - the bodhisattva or 'enlightening being' = is said to have an unlimited capacity for skill-in-means. Such a person is able to improvise with any situation to orient it (with a minimum expenditure of forece or energy) away from the samsaric toward the nirvanic - away from blockage, stalemate, rigidity, and strstion toward freedom, harmony, flexibility and joy.
=== see Zajonc experiments on the arousal-complexity diagram.
=== also relates "how do we find people who think outside of the box in NE 175 lecture 6".