2010.10.16 The responsibility of participation?

[zenmaster]

or, due to always living in meditative state, the.....

Isn't meditation actually experiencing the present moment with intense alacrity rather than ruminating over the past or the future? In that case, trees and plants seem to enjoy a natural advantage over humans.

The difference is that plants have no identity (to transcend), while the human does. So saying there is an advantage in this case is sort of like saying the human baby has an advantage in solving calculus problems or writing poetry, over the human adult, because it is free from knowing what these things are.