that don't warrant a page by themselves
or seem to fit better here
pending poems index
chronological order is from the bottom to the top of the page
audio files can be complemented by listening to them with the eyes closed !
is
there
no
we
and
it's
just
insane
universes nattering
across
to
each
other?
is
it
just
insane
universes nattering
across
to
each
other?
universes nattering
across
to
each
other?
eileen asks
why do u really think that?
my reply
because we are each universes to ourselves : o )
eileen replies
ok try going without the illusion of my love then
see wot happens
my reply
i said basically, not entirely : o)
because we are each universes to ourselves : o )
reply to
ah, the valued anonymous (ed. hardcore zen blog) writes:
“ i have a relative who is extremely insensitive to other's feelings. she is quick to give out insults and criticism regardless of how it affects others. however, if anyone else offers even the slightest criticism towards her, she breaks down and begins to cry and moan about how they've hurt her feelings. she is oblivious to this discrepancy ”
in other words she is female aspergers syndrome just like you are male aspergers syndrome, well probably autistic in fact like you, myself and brad warner and the remainder of the morons who post here !
it's not zen but autism and autistic spectrum that explains things,
i love the voynich manuscript, it's a great work of art and brilliant paradigm for religion !
that link you put up is one of the few sensible comments on it on the web, no doubt you have seen the more schizophrenic interpretations !
i have researched it quite abit and imo it transcends forgery
it was i think, a joint effort by john dee and edward kelly (both deeply in debt at the time) and assisted i think by their womenfolk, then sold to the holy roman emperor rudolf II of bohemia, a bibliophile who only ever partly paid for it!
the earlier carbon dating of the parchment (but not the writing which is not dateable using current technology) simply means they were able to get hold of an old unused one which i don't think would have been abnormal for those times and would have helped create the appearance of authenticity needed for their sophisticated con to be successful! :o)
it is actually a unique and very special work of art, that is something crafted to look meaningful, but has no meaning !
i spent years in zen and it always puzzled me why it only ever half appeared to make sense, there were occasional kernels of insight generally shrouded in the most awful rubbish and then i finally twigged that these people didn't actually understand what they were saying, but had been trained to create voynich, that is rubbish or nonsense with the appearance of being deeper!
very very occasionally you come across the record of an authentic life in zen/ch'an and a reasonably sensible translation
poor translations are themselves intrinsically voynich and in the religious arena, i i have to say that unfortunately they are the norm !
zen is in addition bedevilled by it's reliance on dogen who, himself was a very interesting blend of voynich and authenticity !
so when you come to something like advaita or zen, you are up against thousands of years of sophistication in the creation of voynich, leavened with the occasional flashes of authenticity, tho when i look at advaita i am hard presssed to find any, i have seen one short literal translation of nagarjuna which made sense but that's about it !
UG krishnamurti is another good example of this very difficult to discern blend of the inauthentic and authentic
the basic problem is that the subject matter is intially obscure to our "normality conditioned minds" so we take this obscurity to be the "what it is", but my experience is it does open up in quite sensible and understandable ways and teachers are simply obscure or wrong or nonsensical because they have never transited to any real depth of understanding or appreciation of what this is about
modern life gives very little solitude and this in my experience again is a/the key element and actually teaching with it's constant exposure to people militates against this need for solitude!
so you end up with the usual story for teachers, poor health, broke, stupid and wrong !
i hope this makes sense of my comment to you : o )
mike cross to my criticism of his shobogenzo translation with nishijima ( he called me a “ twat ” )
brad warner to my excommunication post and shall we say the offensive “ personal hygiene ” posts most recently on warners blog by anonymouses (he's not passed any posts in the last day or two)
what alot of crap zen is that these “accredited” heavies take so much in the way of criticism and in brad's case insult to make them take any notice !
in brad's case the comments section has been costing him book and audio sales through alienating the usual morons which make up the vast majority of potential buyers
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brad warner has in fact replied to this post of mine, and my reply to him is immediately below
brad, good on you for posting that and replying !
there is something to what i was saying, the next step is to start thinking about that
and not flick it off with "was i (ed. brad) ever excommunicated ”
in fact you accepted dharma transmission from nishijima and so are claiming transmission which i revoke
i have also revoked genpo and jundo to be fair : o )
i guess at this point i am so involved i am starting to feel insane : o )
the world trade towers, it took the son of a property developer, to destroy them!
osma bin laden's father was also a native of yemen and they have an unusual mini sky scaper style of
native building there !
yemen is very photogenic and well worth a google image search : o )
religions always get caught upin voynich side streets and advaita is a religion !
is the natural state in fact a mistaken perception of ultimate reality?
does
zazen
make
people
stupid?
is
it
seems
to
answer ?
yeah they all had tuberculosis and that crimped them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
keats as well i guess, but he died very young ! : o (
faithful females who choose good providers are the key
“ moon in a dew drop” sounds good
very visually appealing
my reply :
well weirdly half assed
that's the problem with dogen
the image lacks
maybe apoor translation, but dogen is sorta there and sorta not
“ it is a great relief to realize that in this undivided happening, there is no perfection apart from the imperfection, that the light and the dark arise together like the crest and trough of the wave, that they cannot be pulled apart, and to appreciate the holiness of everything, exactly as it is, warts and all. ”
some voynich above from joan tollifson and my reasonably mellifluous re-alignment below : o )
in this divided happening, there is perfection apart from the imperfection, the light and dark arise together like the crest and trough of a wave and fall apart...............
4 billion years in the future and the expanding sun has already fried the earth at this point!
those pictures are actually what our night sky will look like as andromeda approaches and intersects the milky way !
it never ceases to amaze me, things i think i have quite a good grip on , years later i can see i was/am well off target : o )
a benefit of the net is full freedom of expression, however it is not always beneficial to use this freedom to the full : o )
a benefit of the net is full freedom of expression, but it is not always beneficial to use this freedom to the full : o )
my problem with posting in the hardcore zen blog is basically i post in good faith and it's not received in good faith
it's very damaging to ones self to be in a situation like that
what works is just to read it and not post on it at all ! :o )
beware of subsidizing everybody else with your life which is abit of a sick space to be in as i know from my own ongoing experience!!!!
brad you are a fake as a zen teacher (not that 99.99% of the rest aren't ) and i as the only ch'an/zen patriarch alive today and therefore most senior zen person am specifically sacking you out of zen, that's entirely out of zen, not even as an acolyte
excommunicated in a word!
i do feel this is in your best interest and you are better to take another direction in your life even at this late stage, i don't suppose you will, sense or realism about life doesn't seem to be your strong point !
anyway i am not going to unsack you, but you have an opportunity to show you are not a complete cotcase by not deleting this post like you did this koan i posted !!!!!!!!!!!
of course you are a F A K E like the rest so i will be surprised to S E E I T
basically you are just subsidizing everybody else with your life which is abit of a sick space to be in as i know from my own ongoing experience!!!!
the trick is to get something out of it for yourself, but you lack the smarts or ability to do that, so it's better you are out of the toxic cesspit of zen !
i suppose to be fair i have also excommunicated jundo and genpo !
ha hah ha, brad warner couldn't handle my koan and deleted it from his hardcore zen blog
he's an absolute idiot, you can make comment about him having a smelly penis and he leaves that up, but he deleted that koan i wrote, no wonder he's in the shit !
what a F A K E !
are
all
the
same
displaying
to
women
and
ending
indentured
to
alife
of
servitude !
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great master brad warner put a dinosaur toy on eBay and the bid was won by rainbowrex.
brad had made a mistake with underestimating the postage cost and asked rainbowrex to pay the increased charge !
rainbow rex was abusive and brad broke the deal
who was right
brad or rainbow rex?
verse
from
inside
the
boundaries
free
and
untrampled
brad
walks
free !
abit
ambiguous
in
the
modern
way
the beal is the best translation there imho : o )
keep ranting, i think everyone who has been in zen and then gets out (which one never does entirely) spends the rest of their lives recovering
the principle of the oxherding story is the same right across zen and any religion, that's writing some nonsense, then have everyone goo and gaa how profound it is over many centuries, so all you need is to ascribe sense to nonsense and you are home and hosed !
in earlier times you could even get martyred over sight variations in meaning ascribed to the nonsense
just remember if you talk sense no-one wants to know and if you talk nonsense they all want to know cause they all can be little priests with their own intepretation !
it's a paradigm for retards
you
masturbate
on
the
back
of
an
ox !
sleep is a very hardwired brain function and my write up is here and we will have to disagree
i notice on your web page and your general approach is to divorce any personal exposure from what you write, it's one of brad warner's strengths and to his advantage that he presents himself pretty much as he is and is not afraid to allow criticism, tho he could pay more attention..............
course it's much easier if you are single like brad, but even so, you hide too much and it's curtailing your further development
so there's this on the web, we have a common interest but my approach is physiological !
yeah rainbowrex is a total ebay pro !
there's a pic of him and his wife , you are a single man brad and from experience i can tell you, the basic equation is couples are very good grabbing machines, that's what they are evolutionarily designed to do and there's nothing benign about it !
single men are very vulnerable in ways they have difficulty perceiving !
are
single
women
or
have
senseless
husbands !
mysterion, the reality is you need dai-kensho as child
it's rare, but happens, and is pretty penal because it is life abating
suzanne foxton is the only genuine dia-kensho experience i have come across on the web, in life, toni packer
they both must have had the requisite childhood experience and some ability to think clearly on the subject!
training is a waste of time, the ox is way too formed so to speak
no-one here (ed. hardcore zen blog) has the requisite childhood experience, you just want to be less ambitious and let things develop productively
just be realistic about the limitations and actually that is pretty enlightened !
"enlightenment" if you want to use that word is not some desirable space of happiness and joy, but you have been shot through the head and survived
you are always wounded and i always say the only justice is to live and be healthy !
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suzanne foxton must have been very depressed and ready to throw in the towel, however she had been seeing a good therapist and i think she naturally had allways been thinking about questions relating to life, plus probably some lsd use when younger plus alcoholism, so being wrecked and disillusioned with life so to speak
anyway she was washing some dishes and looking at a kitchen knife she must have very very seriously thought of cutting her wrists (tho she doesn't actually say that part, maybe the knife was associated with cutting, i noticed in a video she was pulling long sleeves down over her wrists)
she had walked away from living and hope
and then infinity appeared
it's very distinct and changes one's whole approach, tho her weakness is she has somewhat misinterpreted her experience,
too much tv and video and not enough quality reading
it's just interesting cause there's so much crap around
every zen buddshit and advaita nit claiming genuine experience when they are masturbating in the car park
there's no context to such an experience, it has no comparison
for you, me or her
she's insane but not brillant
she's as thick as abrick really, but a slow steady thinker and does observe
can't say i'm the brightest and am certainly insane : o )
mysterion, the reality is you need dia-kensho as child
it's rare, but happens, and is pretty penal because it is life abating
training is a waste of time, the ox is way too formed so to speak
no-one here has the requisite childhood expereince, you just want to be less ambitous and let things develop productively
just be realistic about the limitations and actually that is pretty enlightened !
but all it's about is buddha/god/infinity/the absolute K N O W N AS I T S E L F and in life
you will have your own words then and certainty in the face of a hostile and disbelieving world
human collectives are exactly in the opposite direction to this truth !
anonymous (ed. hardcore zen blog) writes...
Andrew, how can you help me?
Best Wishes,
Mr. Corpse
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my reply
look if zazen works so well, why do you have to hide behind "anonymous"
i say smelly rancid mice because that's what you guys all are, all pretend wankers
afraid to identify themselves on this pathetic board
afraid of the FBI? or being exposed as the grey drab colourless nonentities you are?
where are the zen adepts of old who could actually reply in a coherent fashion that demonstrated facility and not these present day fakes who can only mumble the most dreadful rubbish about zazen??
a lot of you guys just excuse your complete lack of any facility or understanding with "grunt" just do zazen, well you can do that but it's not the old ch'an of the adepts !
i think the book of kells is some sort of paradigm for a wasted life, tho this pic
is good ! (5th down)
what you get is just the brain churning and digging itself in a deeper rut
there's validity to solitude and reading the pearls that world literature has to offer, but there's no validity to zazen !
can you see the book of kells as zazen? it was a big mistake for the authors !!!
- hardcore zen blog razz -
c'mon let the non corpses stand up ! it's just like being in a graveyard
can you write without spitting out maggots you zombies : o)
dogen had it right about the yellow springs !
don't you feel even a little ashamed to spend so much time getting it so wrong?
lol a fake joko ghost !!!!!!!!! ( ed. a reply to some zombie on the hardcore zen blog writing under the nick joko )
speaking of ghosts
she's really in the brad warner, lou nordstrom class
sincere, honest and almost completely mistaken !
she's a living corpse and always was
there's just something really dead about her!
that's why you believe in her i guess, matches your own deadness
people just want instant answers they can use and not have to engage in any real process of working out how it is
:
o
:
o
that
up
your
arse
you
zen
and
advaita
SHITS !
that
up
your
arse
you
zen
and
advaita
SHITS !
fuck off ! can't you leave some-one alone?
they work, i have stopped seeing thick black wavy bars across my vision when i wake up the morning which was very worrying : o )
the thick wavy lines may have been due to to much iron in the retina !
“ i had a vision in which the sixth patriarch authorised me to teach ! so i'm the seventh patriarch ”
delusions of grandeur are NOT your strong point. delusions of adequacy are not your strong point either.
stop listening to the voices.
take your medications.
dr. oz i am epileptic & schizophrenic
very insightful!
fundamental to what i say is the primacy of vision over voices, don't believe the voices but believe the visions !
: o )
the sixth patriarch appeared directly to me , i don't know that's grandeur, but given the crap around he must have been thrilled that someone genuine came to exist : o )
anon#108: sure, 'inconsistency', as brad said, is a feature of dogen's writing. so perhaps he disparaged and made use
another anonymous poster: but that view doesn't make any sense... one does not make use of things you *truly* disparage
my reply:
what about marriage?
all you little hermit crabs pulling the holy and flawed shell of dogen over yourselves : o )
pathetic stinking mice who drown when they go below the tide : o )
the japanese, such and intelligent and stupid race, born to cut everyone else's throats and their own
hiroshima and fukushima are a pair !
dogen
and
world
war
II
why
do
i
say
that ?
she's one toxic woman, a different cast on the sincere ones , murderously stupid !
very thematic, life death, love and ghosts!
ghosts are a good way, or at least a common one of looking at the reality and unreality of the imaginary and real and totality !
i think the honest and sincere ones (ed. zen teachers) are the biggest suckers of all cause they are still wrong which is the case for brad warner and lou nordstrom
i don't think genpo is honest or sincere, but he's making money and enjoying life with all the floosies thrown in free, tho he's old enough to start tiring of that i think ; o )
he's sane there's some point to what he's doing but brad and lou
they are crazy stupid without a point except our edification and entertainment about what not to do!
brad if you think you're up to it, try replying to this as a real person and not some guy who has to know what zen is and be real about the fact everything has failed !
i'm not saying i haven't failed btw : o )
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brad, why not do a sock monkey skit with genpo telling you what a failure you are and how much money he is making and how much fun he is having
can you laugh at that?
maybe he can say that he enjoys ripping hardcore zen for material to help him con the suckers
maybe you could crawl away on the floor defeated with a flash to you standing by a road offering to wash car windows?
it can be done really funny and that should help it go viral with your audience !
just don't be afraid to really lash into genpo and debase youself !
with luck he might sue for libel, that's extra publicity and in your state of finances what can he do?
_________________
you have to do something funny, yet really breaks a few bones and gets people uspet that drives you into front page zen news
if you want to see the way it's falling at the moment with jundo somehow having bought sweeping zen..........
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something slightly surreal, like sock monkey/genpo between nina's breasts !
mike cross really has a good eye for what this is about, except it's unconcious and he writes it over with what he thinks zen is about !
why translators of religious texts feel obliged to overwrite the original sense with subtle distortions of their own views i don't know, but that's what occurs in 99.99% of these translations !
now dogen really at the stage he was writing most of the shobogenzo really didn't understand what he is talking about and the following shows it !
i don't think you lot are going to understand at all, but i write to educate myself : o )/ ; o )
shobogenzo volume 3, chapter 43, section 52 (page 42)
“ zen master etetsu of sekimonzan in the great kingdom of song is a venerable patriarch in the order on ryōzan.
in the story, a monk asks him, “what is the jewel in the mountain?”
the point of this question is, for example, the same as in asking “what is buddha?” it is like asking “what
is the truth?”
the master says, “flowers in space unfold on the ground. even if we buy throughout the country, there is no gate.” ”
that's a good reply but shows dogen's weakness as a chronic plagiarizer ( tho he is attributing in this case) and always lacking his own expression and when he does trip into something himself it's always hamfisted and clumsy !
asking what the jewel in the mountain is is not the same as asking “what is buddha” and “what is truth” and dogen at this stage wasn't seeing it !
well zen is plagiarism, the step into one's own creativity is beyond the acolytes !
that is the flower unfolding on the ground !
i think you are naturally talented but you have been spread in too many directions to ever be effective !
of course this is zen in its truest sense but so is dogen's getting TB from his journey in china, one can live the truth of failure and disease but it's not actually essential and why do it if you don't have to?
it probably is actually essential, but i think the trick is to keep away from the extremes of being totally broke and chronically ill !
if you read what you have written it is full of the contradiction that “no self ” is a form of self !
you just make “no self ” another form of self
and that's actually dogen's mistake too, tho towards the end of his life he started to get it right
zazen is just a group passivation technique to keep unruly monks under control and that's all it is !
it's a pity dogen didn't live longer and corrected his mistakes instead of leaving the toxic wasteland of malfeasance he has !
my later reply to him
as i said you have created another form of self you are calling “no self ”, you can repeat any amount of voynich but it doesn't change things !
those words are not even your own, but someone else's crap, probably even the usual bad dogen translations !
you can pretend to yourself you have an understanding, millions do and this has always been the way
continue to self hypnotize yourself with zazen!
yeah you are an “eye which cannot see itself ” for sure !
we have no true being, we are born and die
just drop the clichés and write what you think and in your own words and you will be well ahead of any of these zen and neo advaita twits on the net who just regurgitate rubbish and thing they have done something real !
can you write like a human who is a real person and not a robot?
the net is a fundamentally new form of publishing that books can't touch !
my
later
reply:
it's cogency not "awareness" that matters
i have been aware of many things but it's only later in life that i could get any cogency about them
the "eastern philosophies" also tell you there's no self but you constantly speak in terms of what's right for that self !
by hypnotic insanity i mean precisely what you are doing, internal inconsistences that would rive apart what you say if you weren't enmeshed in the dogma of "mindfullness !"
what is wrong with dogen is he makes an object of “dharma truth”, something that is approached for instance by seated meditation
that lack of ability to approach in a direct way is fundamental and why soto is so screwed, people just self hypnotizing with zazen basically
now if you thought my last reply was spaced out this one is even better, it's addressed to you bernard tho i am not suzanne and hopefully you will take it (reply immediately below) in a positive spirit and not be offended !
best yet, reply “in non conformity!”
it's not that one “dissolves into emptiness” but that the absence of oneself reveals what is always there
what
is
there
more
beautful
than mist
on
astill
lake
and
...............
from
a
practical
point
of
view
what
is
the
absence
of
oneself
some
freaked
out
state
of
nullity
well
it
can
be
that
but
still
suppose
i
am
like
you
saying
how
it
is
except
i
am
correct
you
are
not
you
have
no
interest
in
going
forward
the
exposition
of
your
limited
view
satisfies
you !
lol
i
will
have
to
stop
fucking
writing !
it's absolute and brutal, not least to themselves ;o)
well things drift on and we slowly die, that’s about all it amounts to isn’t it?
i keep expecting it to be different but it never is ; o )
written earlier:
“ it took me years to understand dogen was psycho ! he's half baked and this of course is his appeal since the half baked can mean anything and will always be incomprehensible !
the giant con game that ZEN IS SO GOOD AT ! ”
a later
reply:
“ yeah, he's a very extreme mixture of getting it right and wrong and of course towards the end of his life he really starts to make sense if you take the trouble to retranslate the usual bad translations yourself ”
that's really the first step, if you don't understand something ask! so many teachers lack the essential humility to ask what they don't understand, they are just on some stupid ego trip of pretending to know what they are clueless about !
ok.
in your question you state “there's right and wrong according to your conditioned mind, but really everything just is as it is.”
now that is a cliché, just a learned rote response they
“pack out” all the time as part of the standard advaita drivel
look to your own experience, is everything “just as it is” and is there right and wrong?
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i notice this guy who thought he knew so much has clammed up like they all do
know the secrets of the universe, but the moment they start to look bad they disappear
his nick is apeacefulspecies full of crap even in the nick
eileen comments:
yeah often a good first sign i've found
flakey id flaky thinker
my reply
yeah, broadcast it loud and clear
pasting endless clichés shows which camp you are in, falsity on the other hand is entirely poor in originality
you
say
from
the
meaningless
you
live
blind
so
why
should
i
live
blind?
basic to the human condition!
what makes them breed
splat their genes everywhere !
but the real problem is is shallowness , there are natural questions that hermitage permits looking at like “what is god” or “what is infinity”
forget the computer games and start to move in a new direction, i was struck by how much like you i live, check out my “ black stream poem” video for a different perspective
it's not a contradiction to teach truth, it's just that people including teachers are like you, they think they know it when they don't !
if you just play you will start rambling about silence............
you really are adverse to the notion that there is some process to discovery and something to be discovered that is a lifetime's hard work
let's just flick off clichés eh?
my later comment
people just want instant answers they can use and not have to engage in any real process of working out how it is
any
one
wants
to
know
what
zen
or
religion
or
advaita
or buddhism
or
islam
is
really
like
it's
like
and this
caught
in
a
tar
pit !
female
aim
is
to
keep
the
male
a
not
quite
incessant
state
of
upset
everything seems sensible until you run out of health : o )
seems
sensible
until
you
run
out
of
health !
is
a
resolution
there
is
no
resolution
at
all
there
is
a
resolution
there
is
no
resolution
at
all
that's how we go through life which is sorta interesting when you think about it
it's not an easily resolvable divide!
even
resolvable
at
all !
i would
say
it's
so
unresolvable
it
is
like
the
unwritten
substrate
of
life !
that's how we go through life which is sorta interesting when you think about it
it's not an easily resolvable divide!
even
resolvable
at
all !
it
just
pays
look
at
yourself
making
a
mistake !
it
just
pays
to
look
at
yourself
making
a
mistake !
i'm really recommending this, not in terms of remedying the russian prison system,
but in terms of what a defeated life shows
if you can't see yourself in this then you need to do some thinking !
you have to watch the whole thing, well worthwhile as i say !
you may be blended with more male need for direct activity and perhaps less female manipulative social skill so you sorta feel blocked and perhaps are discriminated against a bit because you don't fit
if you read my writings you will get the drift !
society is a murderous machine, but i don't think that's a sentiment you share !
the tempest act 4, scene 1
these our actors
as i foretold you, were all spirits, and
are melted into air, into thin air :
and like the baseless fabric of this vision
the cloud-capp'd tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces
the solemn temples, the great globe itself
yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
and, like this insubstantial pageant faded
leave not a rack behind.
we are such stuff
as dreams are made on; and our little life
is rounded with a sleep.
when she first sang as a child she was considered to have a voice old beyond her years
female
philosophy
is
male ”
then
male
to
do
it ! ”
is
no
such
thing
as
death !
death
is
simply
the
absence
of
self
it
can
happen
while
we
are
alive !
you
can't
self
correct
won't
correct !
wait ”
and
indeed
it
does !
you
can't
self
correct
won't
correct !
can
wait
and
indeed
it
does !
and
forth
pulling
themselves
the
endless
masturbation
of
shoring
up
their
self
esteem
making sense of crap as
per
the
human
usual !
that
was
before
the
pseudo
translators
got
hold
of
it !
fact
he
falls
short
whereas basho didn't
basho
lived
for
that
union
with
infinity
buddha
didn't
and
in
fact
got
sidetracked
on
abstract
blather !
the cast , woolf's parents and siblings?
more photos
mike cross writes :
“ the truth of the sun and the earth, and of the moon before aśvaghoṣa and dogen got their dirty poets' paws on it. ”
my reply :
good poetry is the truth of the sun
don't disrespect your own efforts in translation!
mike cross replies
i never heard of anybody getting a tan, or vitamin d, from a poem.
my reply
on
cholesterol
pre vitamin
D
races
through
my
veins
coursing health
and
beneficially changing gene expression
change
at
my
deepest
level !
buddha is not some remote event that happens to us but the identity and synchronicity of vision with ourselves!
the buddha-carita is that identity, why do you think you are translating it
my koan for mike port
“ why does he remove from his blog comments that he can't deal with? ”
there's no such thing as a zen master, there's zen idiots for sure, both dogen and bassui make big mistakes in what they write
you just can't take the usually very poor translations of these people and step forward on that, you have to go backwards past yourself
given what buddha is, is it any problem to deliver the original content that you need to understand to you?
i write straight from buddha, does it resonate or do the vibrations seem precipitously unsettling to you?
i'm with kahlil gibran on this one.............
“ would that i were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking. ”
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the herd goes in one direction, what zen is really about goes in the opposite
the herd being a breeding machine, completely ignores that the worthwhile zen masters of old were celibate
how many years of solitude do you need to understand this matter?
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“ there is no contentment and wholeness or completion in life AT ALL!
there seems to be no shortage of idiots lapping up advaita rubbish ! ”
lol, an advaita idiot replied “so what is there?”
my reply
“ this is the usual advaita non-contextualized nonsense, try saying something meaningfull and not voynich ! ”
i'm not going to hold my breath waiting for a reply again, these vapourware flakes seem to evaporate when things get even slightly rough for them : o )
