Neat-o-cool - meditation super powers

[Leyla]

So I decided to try meditation with my eyes open, because it keeps me from getting that topsy-turvy feeling, I was doing this outside and got nicely relaxed, a mosquito buzzed up to my wrist, and I thought "I better swat it before I get a bite," and

HA-YA! *THWAP*

I gave myself one hell of a Karate chop by accident. It was like I had super strength! Left a welp on my wrist and the whole area felt bruised.

Also, I had lightening fast reflexes, it usually takes me three our four swats, and I often miss altogether, but I got the little blood sucker before it had the chance to move.

I was sitting there like "oooowww ! good lord!"

I see how this could be a real advantage in martial arts. I see what those fighting monks must have been up to.

Seriously, I feel like I could bust through a brick wall with this.

[Selski]

Hi Leyla

Enough about your super strength.

What of the poor mosquito, that is now an ex-mosquito? 

What of him/her?  Simply because he/she was disturbing your meditative time, you killed him/her?

Could you not have requested he/she moved to another place other than your arm?

Is it so bad that he/she takes a tiny weeny bit of your blood that you have to take his/her life?  Sheesh.

I only bring your example up to state my thoughts.  I have a theory that the total universe (including a whole lot that we don't know about yet) is so vast, so huge, that we are unable to comprehend it.  We are too tiny.

Just like a mosquito is most probably unable to comprehend Australia.  It can only comprehend what it needs to survive, for instance your back garden and that tasty arm.

Such is the human race.  We also may be so minute that some species could just swat us into oblivion.  Is this not a possibility?  If so, we should hope that our gigantic neighbours are more lenient with us.

Sarah

[Stookie]

Also, I had lightening fast reflexes, it usually takes me three our four swats, and I often miss altogether, but I got the little blood sucker before it had the chance to move.

I was hammering nails all day, which after about 2 hours straight starts to put me into a trance. A wasp landed just about a foot and a half from me and BAM!, first shot with the hammer. I felt like the Karate Kid.

These days, mosquitos can carry West Nile. It's good to eradicate places where they can breed, mostly free-standing water. I don't think they'll be endangered anytime soon.

[jub jub]

Selski,

Your post reminds me of a commercial we have on TV for a tissue. The scene plays out like this...

A monk walks through the garden, he's shown turning over a small turtle that had flipped on it's back. He places a small goldfish back in the pond that somehow jumped out of the water. He picks up a spider with a piece of paper and places it gently onto a bush. The viewers are now aware of  how "in tune" this monk is with nature. Scene changes...The monk is blowing his nose and the narrator states that this particular tissue kills millions of germs on contact! The monk pulls the tissue from his face and stares at in horror as if to say "What have I done?!" 



Just had to share! 

[Selski]

Hi jub jub

  I'm probably too sensitive for my own good at times...

Sarah