this is work in progress or homilies or miscellaneous items
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
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if you can't be objective what hope is there for you ?
if you can't be objective what hope is there for you ?
if you can't be
objective what hope is there for you ?
if you can't be
objective what hope is there for you ?
if you can't be objective what hope is there for you ?
layman pang's children committed suicide
, comprende ! ?
layman pang's children committed suicide
, comprende ! ?
layman pang's children committed suicide, comprende ! ?
no question pot is toxic to the brain , you (ed. slackingalready on reddit) being an obvious example ! :o)
people like you are obviously so cognitively impaired it's pathetic ! :o(
the issue with drugs is the need to self medicate, unless you address the underlying causes you are fucked !
like you can take pot to help sleep but it's way better to do
this !
stopping eating when you feel a migraine coming on is very effective
it seems to force some favorable metabolic change !
it doesn't stop the migraine but you can survive it !
the problem with medications are toxicity and rebound ! :o(
I find the douglas labs magnesium taurate very helpful and also vitamin E
I have written up what I do
here and basically I went from 50% migraine to 10% ! :o)
recent research is showing that migraine is due to very deep seating problems with mitochondrial efficiency !
“ what are the dynamics of a (romantic) relationship between zen buddhas?
in your experience or if you know of anyone who's spoken/written about the topic
I ask out of curiosity ”
my
reply
buddha left his wife and new born baby which says it all !
there are so many crazy incompatiblities between the suburban life of relationships, family and children that if you mix the contemplative tableaux that zen is really about too much with suburbia it just becomes a killing ground/too literal crucifixion for everyone involved !
layman pang's family did not survive his
death , his story has parallels to job
except nothing is recovered !
zhaozhou congshen was an ordained monk who would have taken a vow of celibacy, I don't say he went through life a virgin but basically he was celibate !
so who was a zen master who got married, layman pang's life does nothing but illustrate the incompatibility of marriage, children and zen/ch'an !
layman pang's family did not survive ( his children comitted suicide! ) his death, his story has parallels to job
except nothing is recovered !
zhaozhou congshen was an ordained monk who would have taken a vow of celibacy, I don't say he went through life a virgin but basically he was celibate !
so who was a zen master who got married, layman pang's life does nothing but illustrate the incompatibility of marriage, children and zen/ch'an !
my enlightenment experience was the last thing I was expecting when it happened !
it completely changes your outlook, you are put out of synch with the world forever which is why pre meiji zen and ch'an were celibate
it's just way too destabilizing and destructive for family people !
what I like about posting here (ed. on reddit) is it constantly puts me up against the face of the absolute, that's where I am writing from, there's an energy and directness of the contact there !
my enlightenment experience was the last thing I was expecting when it happened !
it completely changes your outlook, you are put out of synch with the world forever which is why pre meiji zen and ch'an were celibate
it's just way too destabilizing and destructive for family people !
what I like about posting here (ed. on reddit) is it constantly puts me up against the face of the absolute, that's where I am writing from, there's an energy and directness of the contact there !
and what exactly is 'wisdom' except another bullshit term ?
and what exactly is 'wisdom' except another bullshit term ?
and what exactly is wisdom except another bullshit term ?
go back to sleep man, the world is wrong and hates it being pointed out !
you don't do zen, you just want to wank unmolested ! :o)(
go back to sleep man, the world is wrong and hates it being pointed out !
:
o
)
go back to sleep man, the world is wrong and hates it being pointed out !
go back to sleep man, the world is wrong and hates it being pointed out !
go back to sleep man, the world is wrong and hates it being pointed out !
d.t. suzuki's description of satori is pure bullshit because he never had satori/dai kensho !
he's just making an imaginative construction from what he has read, like almost everybody on reddit zen !
there's no disease like chasing an imaginary construction ! :o)
elena ringo
, a striking self
portrait !
elena ringo
, a striking self
portrait !
the hans christian Andersen fairy tale “ the snow
queen ”
is the source for “ frozen ” !
“ kai is engaged in the task that the snow queen gave him
he must use pieces of ice like a chinese puzzle to form characters and words
if he is able to form the word eternity
the snow queen will release him from her power ”
there's no gerda for to kiss you and unfreeze your heart and you just throw the ice pieces around like some fractal in
frozen ...............
busy is a state of mind !
busy is a state of mind !
how you can tell women are crazy ! ?
they love men !
how you can tell women are crazy ! ?
how you can tell women are crazy ! ?
they love men !
how you can tell women are crazy ! ?
“ it was reported that a japanese zen monk named kakua (1143—?)
after he returned from china was asked by the emperor about zen
responding to his question kakua merely played his flute
but this gesture of zen did not sit well with the emperor
not paying any attention to the so-called ‘zen game’ the emperor wanted an answer with words ‑ and the flute solo be damned ”
my comment
he will have been the typical zen crap artist, the playing must have been ghastly !
that's zen all over, fakes that get shown up when they try to do real creative endeavor !
“ my heart is broken ”
you never had a heart, it was a paper cut out ! :o)(
“ my heart is broken ”
you never had a heart, it was a paper cut out ! :o)(
you never had a heart, it was a paper cut out ! :o)(
“ suddenly, as if on fire, the son master sprang to his feet, clutched the microphone in a death grip, and bellowed
, ‘ I've got big
balls ! I've got big balls ! ’ ”
“ suddenly, as if on fire, the son master sprang to his feet, clutched the microphone in a death grip, and bellowed
, ‘ I've got big
balls ! I've got big balls! ’ ”
“ infant's
immune systems actually respond to infection with more speed and strength than adults, but the immunities they create fail to last ”
the closed mind (ed. ewk!) comes from a lack of contemplation/meditation/decompression
and not reading outside zen, for instance charles bukowski !
as the 7th
patriarch I am telling you what zen masters say :o)
only deluded fools teach ! :o)
see all my posting here is developing me, i'm not under the illusion that what I say is doing any good, all the good I am concerned with is being done to me and as for rest of you, what you do is is what you do ! :o)
so I am never moving in circles, but always subtly changing, that's like a real test, can you say the same ?
people may make some progress but it has to be rapid and significant, going too slow is the same as going backwards which is what I feel is happening to you ewk.....................
ewk she just delivered a
message and left rather than spend anymore time
with an inhospitable cantankerous fart !
in simple terms what zen is about is alienated from “communal gathering/feasts” , it's the solipsist individual that matters.
same meaning as the Charles bukowski
poem/koan !
when you read the blue cliff record, it's the cases that have something to say, the commentaries are usually useless confetti of the sort you seem to delight in throwing about pretending there is something undescribable of substance in them, well I will describe it, voynichy bullshit ! :o()
I don't know what to say to you, can't widen your mind for you ! :o(
ed. ewk's posting of the cleary brothers translation of the blue cliff record
, case
24
and his selection
from the commentary
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this is actually quite a good simple case saying something clear and loud and the commentary on the case is waffly voynich !
everone in zen gets trained to believe nonsense is sense and sense nonsense !
hsueh tau who wrote and complied the blue cliff record and yuan wu who added his own commentaries 60 years after hsueh tau's death were not enlightened, however the cases are of enlightened people and incidents in their lives !
so cases enlightened
commentary voynich
however in the commentaries, hsueh tau and yuan wu included plenty of other stories and sayings of enlightened people ! :o)
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the key to understanding the case is that kuei shan wasn't going to the feast !
research “ solipsism ” a bit and see how it relates !
it's basically that groups are mad and only individuals are sane !
all enlightenment is, is this ultra sane viewpoint !
paleo and the
SCD and
BCD diets are similar, but paleo doesn't avoid things like sweet potatoes, or seaweed thickeners though it does avoid grains !
the SCD/BCD diets don't prohibit dairy and permit some legumes !
the BCD is not keen on nuts !
I also think the digestive
enzymes are important !
because the BCD/SCD and paleo diets are so similar
it's quite easy to move from paleo to the BCD !
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there's no complete answers, you just try things and see what works !
that's the hard part to get, only you benefit and no-one else cares,
you have to sort it out yourself and it takes years !
an excerpt from a text found at dunhuang by jianzhi sengcan
there is only the vast depths of the one reality
ah, for the profuse diversity of the myriad forms
true and conventional differ, but their essential body is the same
ordinary and sage are divided, but the path joins them
if we look for a shore, it is vast and boundless, stretching out of sight to infinity
it takes its source in the beginningless and reaches its limits in the endless
my
reply
vast, vast, one reality is the same as vast !
the distant escarpment glows in the light !
the distant escarpment glows in the evening light
the distant escarpment glows in the evening and morning light !
vast, vast, one reality is the same as vast !
the distant escarpment glows in the light !
the distant escarpment glows in the evening light
the distant escarpment glows in the evening and morning light !
my restatement of the beginning two verses of the hsin-hsin ming
the great way is an illusion
to have no preferences is not to exist
love and hate are bindings
better understanding is a process
partiality cracks the seamless
rest in infinity ! :o)
subtle_response replies
having no preferences, I neither exist nor not exist
what's love and hate got to do with the wind and the moon?
better understanding is the patriarch's bondage
seamless and infinity are the chains he wraps himself in
my
reply
love is the wind and hate is the moon !
better understanding is the release from bondage
seamless and infinity are the rest on the road ! :o)
subtle_response replies
can you get me a good price on that?
my
reply
when you get enlightened ! :o)
my restatement of the beginning two verses of the hsin-hsin ming
the great way is an illusion
to have no preferences is not to exist
love and hate are bindings
better understanding is a process
partiality cracks the seamless
my restatement of the beginning two verses of the hsin-hsin ming
the great way is an illusion
to have no preferences is not to exist
love and hate are bindings
better understanding is a process
partiality cracks the seamless
my restatement of the beginning two verses of the hsin-hsin ming
the great way is an illusion
to have no preferences is not to exist
love and hate are bindings
better understanding is a process
partiality cracks the seamless
to a politically correct fart
you're an enid blyton book burner i suppose ! ?
to a politically correct fart
you're an enid blyton book burner i suppose !
great master charles bukowski writes
the dwarf with a punch
this is many years later
and I still can’t figure it out
but it was in New York
and New York has its own rules and
anyhow, I am sitting around in one of those
places
with many round tables
with their tough and terrible knights;
me, I don’t feel so good, as usual,
neither tough nor terrible,
just rotten,
and I am sitting with some woman
with some kind of hood over her head,
she is half crazy
but that doesn’t matter.
she has a name, Fay,
I think it was,
and we have been drinking, going from place to
place, and we went in there,
and it seemed terribly
lively
because there was a dwarf about 3
feet tall
and the dwarf was walking around
drunk
and he’d stop at a table
and look at a man
and say,
“ well, what YOU got to say ? ”
and then the dwarf would crush him one in the mouth,
only the dwarf had very good hands and
one hell of a punch.
then everybody would laugh and the dwarf would
go to the bar
for another drink.
“ keep him away from me, Fay ! ” I told her.
“ uh? whatzat? what? who? ”
“ keep him away from me ! ”
“ what? waz? away? ”
the dwarf unloaded on another guy
and everybody laughed,
even I laughed. that dwarf could punch.
he had a lot of
practice.
he danced to the bar
doing a little soft shoe
then he noticed a sailor
very blond and young and
scared.
the kid pissed in his pants
and smiled at the
dwarf.
the dwarf chopped him a
good one;
his next smile was a
bit bloody.
then the dwarf put another on his chin
knocking the sailor over
backward in his
chair, out
cold.
k.o.! all hail the
champion!
then the dwarf saw
me. the man at the table in
back.
“ keep him away from me, Fay! ”
I said.
“ lez have another drink! ” she said.
( she had a full drink in front of her. )
he came up to me
in all 3 feet of his
glory.
“ well, what YOU got to say ? ”
I didn’t answer. I didn’t have anything to say
that he would understand.
“ nothing, hah ? ”
I nodded. it came. I felt my chair rock, then
settle again on its legs. shots of red and yellow and
blue light followed, then laughter.
sitting there
I swung back.
his poor 3 feet slid along the floor like a
rag doll
and then they were down on me
it seemed like a dozen men
( but it might have been 3 or 4 )
and I caught some more
good ones.
then I was thrown outside,
I got up
and found a hanky
and tried to stop
the worst of the blood
and Fay was there,
“ you coward, you hit that little
man! ”
I walked down the street
but she was right there with me
and we went into the next place
and I looked around
and seeing that everyone was more than
4 feet tall,
I ordered 2 more
drinks.
great master pooh-bah comments
charles, you slammed that dwarf for six but the other dwarfs ganged up and beat you up ! :o(
great master pseudo pooh-bah comments
the second bar had dwarfs over four feet tall.... you didn't evade them !
how many years was it before you learnt to drink alone ?
observatater replies
getting drunk alone is one symptom of alcoholism
my
reply
he was an “practicing” alcoholic wether he drank in company or alone !
you really need to spend some time reading his poetry to understand this issue of “communal” versus “ aloneness ”
he always said that alcoholism was the price he paid for not committing suicide !
his father beat him constantly and senselessly and I think that screwed him up more than anything, but what such a wonderful genius he had for living in identity with himself and recording it !
H E E H A W W
two, three four five................ asses :o(
it's interesting that very new
research shows that tinnitus from loud sound exposure is damage to the auditory nerve myelin sheaths !
when you annoy an idiot
you are doing yourself and the world a favour !
lol, I don't expect the idiot to see it that way ! :o)
when you annoy an idiot , you are doing yourself and the world a favour !
when you annoy an idiot , you are doing the world and yourself a favour !
when you annoy an idiot, you are doing the world a favour !
when you annoy an idiot
, you are doing the world a favour !
when you annoy an idiot, you are doing the world a favour !
“ how do you feel about giving advice? ”
it's so rare for people to listen you might as well go back to sleep !
:
o
)
“ how do you feel about giving advice? ”
it's so rare for people to listen you might as well go back to sleep ! :o()
“ how do you feel about giving advice? ”
it's so rare for people to listen you might as well go back to sleep !
“ how do you feel about giving advice? ”
it's so rare for people to listen you might as well go back to sleep !
“ how do you feel about giving advice? ”
it's so rare for people to listen you might as well go back to sleep
“ how do you feel about giving advice? ”
it's so rare for people to listen you might as well go back to sleep
a bit mesmerizing with the
music !
good portrait of tennyson at 4:16
and an unusual view of his wife mary seton watts at 2:20
( 33 years younger than her husband ! )
“ what are you doing ? ”
sleeping passing the time
, what am i doing ?
“ what are you doing ? ”
sleeping passing the time
, what am i doing ?
“ what are you doing ? ”
sleeping passing the time, what am i doing ?
yeah the principia P iscordia is rubbish !
it's like ignosticism
it's flakey pseudo philosophy !
yeah the principia Piscordia is rubbish !
it's like ignosticism
it's flakey pseudo philosophy !
yeah the principia Piscordia is rubbish !
it's like ignosticism
, it's flakey pseudo philosophy !
yeah the principia Piscordia is rubbish !
it's like ignosticism, it's flakey pseudo philosophy !
it's actually very basic in zen whether you approve of anyone else !
it's easy to approve or disapprove of the dead
but the 7th
patriarch disapproves of the living !
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well it had to be done, that's why the 6th patriarch chose me, this disgusting travesty that zen today has become needs hosing out and destroying !
zen has been destroyed by neo-advaita/non duality anyway it's because this fake japanese
meiji zen that seems to have consisted of semi war criminals
fleeing to America after the war is incorrigibly polluted and the transmission system seems to have generated nothing but dull stupid retards pretending to the flaming banner of zen ! :o()
it's a sisyphean task I am afraid, but as the only authentically appointed patriarch alive and having complete seniority over any one claiming to zen today, I have “ deregistered ” just about all the so called zen teachers..........
it's actually very basic in zen whether you approve of anyone else !
it's easy to approve or disapprove of the dead
but the 7th
patriarch disapproves of the living !
it's actually very basic in zen whether you approve of anyone else !
it's easy to approve or disapprove of the dead
but the 7th
patriarch disapproves of the living !
it's actually very basic in zen whether you approve of anyone else !
it's easy to approve or disapprove of the dead, but the 7th
patriarch disapproves of the living !
b0dhidharma writes
enlightenment is for buddhas, I'm just a shit-stick
besides, I'm more interested in the algebraification of your title ( ed. 7th zen patriarch )
(L + 1)th as L --> ∞
whoops, turned into calculus!
my
reply
L = f(L) + 1
L = special f(L) + 1 = Buddha
special = quality contemplative work, inquiry and reading and D O I N G
B0dhidharma replies
take this bright pearl, dogen says to give it to a friend in times of delusion
it is the whole cosmos
my
reply
whole cosmos = whole cosmos + 1
“ Stop using massive empty space and bolded sentences.
Also, consider trying punctuation. ”
you have no enlightenment experience , and do no work , what I say
will remain ever opaque to you ! : o (
you have no enlightenment experience
, and do no
work , what I say
will remain ever opaque to you ! :o(
you have no enlightenment experience
you have no enlightenment experience
, and do no work
you have no enlightenment experience
, and do no work
, what I say will remain ever opaque to you ! :o(
you have no enlightenment experience, and do no work, what I say will remain ever opaque to you ! :o(
no enlightenment experience, no work, what I say
will remain ever opaque to you ! : o (
no enlightenment experience, no work, what I say will remain ever opaque to you ! : o (
no enlightenment experience, no work, what I say will remain ever opaque to you ! :o(
no enlightenment experience, no work, what I say will remain ever opaque to you ! :o(
reddit zen
those who argue for sudden enlightenment never had an enlightenment experience
those who argue for gradual enlightenment never do any work
if both arms are missing you are not going to lift much are you ?
reddit zen
those who argue for sudden enlightenment never had an enlightenment experience
those who argue for gradual enlightenment never do any work
if both arms are missing you are not going to lift much are you ?
“ the fruit falls suddenly, but the ripening takes time ”
it never formed at all and the tree is twisted and fruitless ! :o(
“ the fruit falls suddenly, but the ripening takes time ”
it never formed at all and the tree is twisted and fruitless ! :o(
reddit zen
those who argue for sudden enlightenment never had an enlightenment experience
those who argue for gradual enlightenment never do any work
if both arms are missing you are not going to lift much are you ?
silly.
the president is actually donald duck
the car you drive only has one wheel, not four
Jesus came to america with silver platters with text on them.
get a grip dude.
my
reply
sensible, the president is Obama, the car I drive has four wheels jesus like your imaginings on zen is fantasy and let your grip go, you ain't holding nothing ! :o)
silly.
the president is actually donald duck
the car you drive only has one wheel, not four
Jesus came to america with silver platters with text on them.
get a grip dude.
my
reply
sensible, the president is Obama, the car I drive has four wheels jesus like your imaginings on zen is fantasy and let your grip go, you ain't holding nothing ! :o)
silly.
the president is actually donald duck
the car you drive only has one wheel, not four
Jesus came to america with silver platters with text on them.
get a grip dude.
my
reply
sensible, the president is Obama, the car I drive has four wheels jesus like your imaginings on zen is fantasy and let your grip go, you ain't holding nothing ! :o)
a lot of older meditators have some form of joint/nerve/circulation damage
from sitting lotus or half lotus !
sounds like adyashanti is one of them with his double knee replacement operation !
lower leg circulation is always problematic because the venous return is under the most extreme back pressure in the body, folding the leg like that for long periods which is like a recipe for DVT is just crazy !
personally I just sit in a comfortable chair or lie down !
rockytimber writes
listen, if someone claims to be a zen teacher and is clearly a phoney, the point is can you tell?
the zen characters like mazu were not trying to roll out a red carpet to explain zen
the best explanation of zen would not be zen at all
zen has to do with seeing, and seeing through silliness
it's not verbal
if you can smell burn almonds, then go with that
why rush for attainment?
why be an expert in sutras?
my
reply
mazu daoyi is a phoney and eihei dogen is a phoney
see it's all irrelevant except your own understanding....
what is not verbal, what is verbal?
what is seen and who sees it ?
mazu daoyi is a phoney and eihei dogen is a phoney
see it's all irrelevant except your own understanding....
what is not verbal, what is verbal?
what is seen and who sees it ?
my reply to a questioner saying guifen zongmi was very critical
of mazu daoyi's “ antinomial ” approach !
horses and courses as guifen zongmi nearly got executed for being involved in a failed coup and attempted
massacre of the palace eunuchs who actually really ran the government,
you don't get more antinomial than that !
the point of the
quote was something I related to, zongmi is talking about a constant knowing which is actually a late stage development.............
mazu's stuff appears mostly nonsense to me, but it could in part be mis recording/transcription
i'm not saying zongmi is any better, both very uneven in the degree of working out what this is about
the point is not to be captured by one teacher or other as some sort of icon or paragon, but take what is useful and in one's own experience pans out.........
ah well you are always going to be right which means you will be
F O R E V E R wrong : o )
ah well you are always going to be right which means you will be
F O R E V E R wrong : o )
ah well you are always going to be right which means you will be
f o r e v e r wrong : o )
ah well you are always going to be right which means you will be
f o r e v e r wrong :o)
ewk, see you are like wickedpriest, addressing something in your own
mind and not what I wrote !
I didn't say dhyāna and I qualified meditation to mean what is really a form of decompression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
this means you are reworking and reorganizing yourself to make space for the new insights that will naturally occur in such a process..............
yeah it is serving time, when you are behind the bars of our own maladaptive realities how can it be otherwise ?
I don't give a fig about the zen lineage, my only interest is the insights that men of experience and knowledge are able to give to enable me to progress like that “ knowing ” quote by guifeng
zongmi really helped me see something that has been developing me in the last year or abit longer........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the poem is there because I loved it, it's just such a neat authentic
telling of a hermetic life around 840
, it's like a video in taking you there !
there's lot of people here like you ewk who think themselves enlightened but the reality is you are not, it's just that simple..............
I don't think meditation is any answer either but there is a combination of inquiry and “ reflective decompression/meditation ” that I think does basically advance whereas everyone goes backwards because either of those arms is not done right or even at all !
you can reply and say how wrong or covertly buddhist I am or whatever, but what is nailing you and will for the rest of your life unless you do something about it is the lack of “ reflective decompression/meditation ”
one year, five years twenty years, this step you never took..............
posting on reddit zen is like walking through a room full of broken toys, you trip over one and the battery makes a contact or the spring mechanism turns and one gets all these idiocies come out in the comments !
the bottom line is when you are enlightened and have instrumentally engaged the process of enlightenment it steers you with its own stars, feelings and judgments and creativity and that is what you go by, not blinkered schema like this is zen and right.................
your problem ewk like most on reddit zen is you don't put in the large amount of daily time needed for contemplation/reflective meditation !
without it
, you can't see yourselves and subtract the image that is projected from what is actually occurring...................
posting on reddit zen is like walking through a room full of broken toys, you trip over one and the battery makes a contact or the spring mechanism turns and one gets all these idiocies come out in the comments !
the bottom line is when you are enlightened and have instrumentally engaged the process of enlightenment it steers you with its own stars, feelings and judgments and creativity and that is what you go by, not blinkered schema like this is zen and right.................
your problem ewk like most on reddit zen is you don't put in the large amount of daily time needed for contemplation/reflective meditation !
without it
, you can't see yourselves and subtract the image that is projected from what is actually occurring...................
posting on reddit zen is like walking through a room full of broken toys, you trip over one and the battery makes a contact or the spring mechanism turns and one gets all these idiocies come out in the comments !
the bottom line is when you are enlightened and have instrumentally engaged the process of enlightenment it steers you with its own stars, feelings and judgments and creativity and that is what you go by, not blinkered schema like this is zen and right.................
your problem ewk like most on reddit zen is you don't put in the large amount of daily time needed for contemplation/reflective meditation !
without it
, you can't see yourselves and subtract the image that is projected from what is actually occurring...................
it amazes me how the mystical path continually opens up when you get wise
to the hints of infinity and reality ! : o ) (
it amazes me how the mystical path continually opens up when you get wise
to the hints of infinity and reality ! : o ) (
it amazes me how the mystical path continually opens up when you get wise
to the hints of infinity and reality ! :o)(
it amazes me how the mystical path continually opens up when you get wise to the hints
of infinity and reality ! : o ) (
it amazes me how the mystical path continually opens up when you get wise to the hints of infinity and reality ! : o ) (
it amazes me how the mystical path continually opens up when you get wise to the hints of infinity and reality ! :o)(
clickstation stomps
dude , your formatting is really annoying....
my
reply
dude your retarded aesthetic sense is annoying !
what has zen/buddhism done for you except create cultural bankruptcy
and an inflated sense of self entitlement ?
it just beats me guys like you who assiduously blinker themselves and walk in the wrong direction, then call that zen ! :o(
that would have taken me an hour and a half all up to research and write up and the poem needed some re translation......
the spacing is part of what it says
slow, measured dense...................
and what do you, ...................... ?
clickstation stomps
dude , your formatting is really annoying....
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dude your retarded aesthetic sense is annoying !
what has zen/buddhism done for you except create cultural bankruptcy
and an inflated sense of self entitlement ?
it just beats me guys like you who assiduously blinker themselves and walk in the wrong direction, then call that zen ! :o(
that would have taken me an hour and a half all up to research and write up and the poem needed some re translation......
the spacing is part of what it says
slow, measured dense...................
and what do you, ...................... ?
question
above you already said that nature on its own is
completely constant knowing
why is it necessary for the various buddhas to open and indicate it?
answer
that which is this word knowing is not indeed the knowing of evidence
it means to articulate the true nature that is not the same as the vast sky, a tree, or a rock
therefore I said knowing
neither is it like the conditional and objective discriminations of consciousness
nor like the shining essence of complete penetration of wisdom
it just is the one true suchness of nature autonomously and constantly knowing
lamenting the loss of ch'an master guifeng zongmi
a precipitous path to where it seems only the birds can go
there's snow on the ridges and peaks
the master is dead ‑ who will go up there to meditate ?
dust on his writing table has piled up since he died
the seasonal colours of the trees have changed since he died
his tiered stupa faces pines humming in the wind
you can still see his footprints by the now unused spring
i just sigh over the tiger that used to listen to his sutra chanting
arriving at the right time by the side of his dilapidated hermitage !
by jia dao (779 - 843) from the quan
tangshi /complete tang poems
that's some sort of insight or kensho
experience !
basically you went back through infinity/god/death, or maybe not quite back through
and came out sorta resolved because you asked your father !
i really can't believe this
50% of the circulating vitamin d in the body is this completely unmentioned form, vitamin d3 sulfate which is really quite different from the supplemental vitamin D3, it's been known at least since
1985 , it just blows my mind the way it has been avoided since it is obviously manufactured by the sun in the skin, the likely first step is the sun makes cholesterol sulfate then the uvb converts the cholesterol sulfate into vitamin D3 sulfate !
I might try using my broadband uvb lamp after getting some solar noon winter sun which will hopefully give the cholesterol sulphate in the skin I can then use my lamp on to give vitamin d3 sulfate !
this “ I ” that
observes is also the observation
so this like self observing self and really you are getting into zen, imo mindfulness is just a voynich brick wall designed to retain a belief in the illusion of self...............
my experience of meditation is it is best left is methodless and the main hazard to watch out for is an over engraving of the patterns of the brain default circuit !
even indian style reduces the venous return through the legs back to the heart !
i just slouch in a chair for meditation...................
basically the lotus and indian styles are exactly what can develop DVT !
“ the farmer in grant wood's american
gothic was based on his dentist ”
a man plastered a poster up on a wall !
do this (fill in here.......) and save the world it said
the man said, I don't do that
I just plaster the poster up on the wall ! :o()
a man plastered a poster up on a wall !
do this (fill in here.......) and save the world it said
the man said, I don't do that I just plaster the poster up on the wall ! :o()
“ an aglet (or aiglet) is a small plastic or metal sheath typically used on each end of a shoelace , cord , or drawstring
an aglet keeps the fibers of the lace or cord ... ”
I didn't know that and now I do and I am happy to ! o)
meditation instructions :
lounge in a chair for say 1/4 of an hour, it never changes from that !
I think essentially meditation is instructionless
which is really quite important !
I don't like the lotus or half lotus positions because of the joint damage
and circulation restriction they cause !
lying in bed, walking around and standing looking at the night sky are also meditation !
no music, reading or listening to recordings !
“ even if an iron wheel is turning on your head ”
you mean
your
head
is
an
iron
wheel
turning ?
: o ( )
your going in the same endless circles is the iron wheel turning !
“ even if an iron wheel is turning on your head ”
you mean
your
head
is
an
iron
wheel
turning ?
: o ( )
your going in the same endless circles is the iron wheel turning !
“ even if an iron wheel is turning on your head ”
you mean
your
head
is
an
iron
wheel
turning ?
“ even if an iron wheel is turning on your head ”
you mean
your
head
is
an
iron
wheel
turning ?
“ even if an iron wheel is turning on your head ”
you mean
your
head
is
an
iron
wheel
turning ?
“ even if an iron wheel is turning on your head ”
you mean
your
head
is
an
iron
wheel
turning ?
:
o
(
“ even if an iron wheel is turning on your head ”
you mean
your
head
is
an
iron
wheel
turning?
your going in the same endless circles is the iron wheel turning !
“ even if an iron wheel is turning on your head ”
you mean
your
head
is
an
iron
wheel
turning?
your going in the same endless circles is the iron wheel turning !
“ even if an iron wheel is turning on your head ”
you mean
your
head
is
an
iron
wheel
turning?
ed. the quote enclosed in quotation marks is from the commentary of case 99
, page 549
of the cleary brother's translation of the blue cliff record
there is some recent research on the topic of diabetes and hypoglycemia
and I think it goes something like this
it's basically a vicious circle of positive feedback loops between insulin resistance and damage to the pancreatic islets
so you get some insulin resistance and the islets start to pump more insulin, but the continual process of pumping high levels of insulin also involves the secretion of another substance which for some reason is toxic to the islets
so you get an unholy combination of what is effectively type 1 simultaneously with type two diabetes and low blood sugar...........
auto-immune problems and leaky gut are also compounded in here, you really would be advised to look at the dietary aspects
what sa'di and the 7th patriarch write about is the real process of “ spiritual
enquiry ” which involves in being objective, seeing things how they are and moving forward on the very difficult and slow freight train !
if I make criticisms, they are all mistakes I made when younger and took way too many years
to rectify !
real works of art are done by an individual, a writer or director or painter or whatever................... games are intrinsically a communal product like say a tv sitcom and they have an inherent low ceiling................
I do think you will have to completely give up games as you get too involved and prone to substitute them for reality and I am sure I won't be the only one telling you this!
I have made similar mistakes, one can go for ten years before the problem is perceived, will it take that long ?
you have an exceptional intelligence , why be stuck in the mediocre all your life ?
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you are just getting more compressed
, without some daily meditation/ contemplation
what I say will remain meaningless to you !
alan watts, d.t Suzuki and Buddhism =
pizza !
when you have shaken hands with the man with the scythe, sharpened his blade for him and come back
that's enlightenment ! :o)
all the fuss about the PSA (prostate specific antigen) prostate cancer test
is it is not that specific !
micro RNA is the way to go and can
distinguish between lower and higher grade tumours !
“ love is
rare , life is strange, nothing lasts & people change ”
“ love is
rare , life is strange, nothing lasts and people change ”
“ love is
rare , life is strange, nothing lasts and people change ”
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“ it's unbelievable how fast people [..change..?]
, one day you mean everything to them, but the next [..day..?] you don't mean anything so you don't exist anymore ! ”
“ love is
rare , life is strange, nothing lasts and people change ”
“ how many folks, after all, would willingly
volunteer to attend two full days of writing workshops in at the end of may, when the outdoors and other summer temptations beckon? ”
the artistically insensitive I guess ! :o()
sepehr g. writes
one can read sa'di, bukowski, and emily dickinson while also seeing artistic value in video games like planescape :
torment
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sa'di, charles bukowski, and emily dickinson wrote for love and not money !
the problem with computer games is the same as the problem with making films, they are very expensive to make and need to sell a lot of tickets or product to make a profit, so they have to have mass appeal and the masses are stupid turds !
andrei tarkovsky was always complaining about this problem and I think lars von trier includes pornography in some of his films to help sell them while still being able to impart artistic thematics !
in actual fact this message and answer we are doing is quality interactive media
games are not for the reasons I have mentioned !
any art in computer games is in writing the software and not the operation of the product !
the mass of humans are just dull stupid morons and that's just the way it is ! :o(
also I think games are too discrete, they don't have the fuzziness necessary for the contemplative mode !
my advice is always to completely ditch game playing , if you like fighting there's always reddit zen which develops real life skills and not the crippling of mentality that games do !
buddha was a tree shrine god, he got chopped down for firewood, too bad !
buddha was a tree shrine god, he got chopped down for firewood, too bad !
buddha was a tree shrine god, he got chopped down for firewood, too bad !
buddha was a tree shrine god, he got chopped down for firewood, too bad
you are angry ?
your anger uses you and not you it ! :o(
you are angry ?
your anger uses you and not you it ! :o(
my rendering
we
talked with
each
other
about
each
other
though neither
of
us
spoke ‑
we
were
too engrossed with the seconds
races and the hooves of the clock
pausing in front of our foundering faces
times decisions shook ‑
arks of reprieve he opened to us
ararats we took !!!!!!!!!!!!!
computer games are commercially driven and are necessarily
fake and not real art because the audience reacts so strongly to anything that adversely tugs their sense of identity
it's a hard switch away from entertainment to the real work of reading for example
sa'di , I don't think it really happens until one gets very thoroughly disillusioned with the direction one's life is taking ! :o)(
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the problem is not that you like this stuff (ed. sepehr g.) , but you project quality into it that isn't there !
you are just playing and can't accept there is a higher step you will not take and pretend to knowledge and experience you don't have !
I don't have any issues with what you do, but the necessity you have of continuing to fool yourself is tiresome !
melancholia is imo the greatest film ever made
, it took me along while to ʻgetʼ it !
melancholia is imo the greatest film ever made
, it took me along while to ʻgetʼ it !
melancholia is imo the greatest film ever made, it took me along while to ʻgetʼ it !
one of the points of being on a message board like reddit zen is to increase your sophistication,
not decrease it ! :o()
one of the points of being on a message board like reddit zen is to increase your sophistication, not decrease it ! :o()
thereʼs good videos of jacques derrida on you tube, really heʼs one of the greatest philosophers and heʼs much easier to understand in the videos than reading his writing !
schopenhauer is another great philosopher one can read and understand !
Charles bukowski who is some combination of wisdom literature, philosophy and poetry also is very well represented on the web
I just love this
poem of his about
“ the sharks ! ”
“ so if most people are not solipsists, are zen practitioners solipsistic? ”
the basic work is done in childhood, what might be called enlightenment is in fact some recovery and further development of that !
the adult is such a degradation compared to the open energy of childhood that any notion of zen practitioner is almost meaningless !
so really the issue is the recovery and further development of what has occurred as child and in fact I think if one thought of oneself as a zen practitioner, this means you are moving in the wrong direction
a surprisingly eventful life !
i like her take on
bitterness
something to the effect it only corrodes you and does nothing to the object ! :o)(
stephanie seneff on cholesterol
sulphate !
basically she is saying the sun's rays (blue, violet and uva?) make sulphated cholesterol and this is a necessity for maintaining a healthy cardiovascular system and avoiding problems and actually insufficient cholesterol sulphate can be a factor in autism ! : o(
i am getting some whole body sun at solar noon on warmish winter days because of this !
priceiswrong states
not sure if this is zen or not, but here is frank reynolds's view on
death , seems zen to me
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frank reynolds is a construct by scriptwriters, they, like most people are anti-solipsist which is the normative view of reality
whereas
friedrich caspar's “
wanderer above the sea of fog ” has that duality of death within life and life within death which is the true view...................
enlightenment has a lot of different avenues, what interests you, poetry, literature, art, philosophy, wisdom literature, mysticism ?
I got enlightened at age seven !
there's actually a depth and complexity to joshu that can only come from being enlightened at an early age, he may well have been a child monk !
I got enlightened at age seven !
there's actually a depth and complexity to joshu that can only come from being enlightened at an early age, he may well have been a child monk !
when you are enlightened you will know that bruce was just peeing horse piss ! :o)
he's just a martial arts dumbo, only an idiot expects him to cut it with the likes of me ! :o)
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he wasn't an idiot, but that sort of water stuff is fake bullshit to sell movies and what's more he knows it !
he had a lot of health issues including the need to self medicate with pot and died in a particularly dumb way
, from an allergic reaction to
equagesic
ADD is a structural brain developmental condition, one is it and always has been it rather than some notion of it being acquired like the flu !
some combination of blood sugar problems and poor brain nutrition as well as an underlying “ ADD'ishness ” is very common !
the problem is meds like adderall which is basically
speed , have
adverse side effects and you really want to come at this problem from a number of angles !
something to help neural health like a good quality krill oil (marine stewardship council sourced) may help give the necessary developmental brain plasticity !!
“ I have seen 3 dentists and they're all stumped
I had a root canal done 5 years ago
ever since, it's hurt to brush, and hurt to chew food on
since then, I have suffered from a myriad of health issues, stemming from sinus issues to inner ear problems to other crap ”
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rather than have a root canal, I just had the tooth pulled and left the socket empty !
I think that was the right decision !
the magically realist fox
scene from lars von trier's “ the antichrist ”
“ [...] blue-enriched light
exposure , compared with dim light exposure, was associated with an increase in hunger that began 15 minutes after light onset and was still present almost two hours after the meal
blue light exposure also decreased sleepiness and resulted in higher measures of insulin resistance
a single three-hour exposure to blue-enriched light in the evening acutely impacted hunger and glucose metabolism ”
my comment
so you could try red light in the evening as that looks dark to the circadian rhythm, or at least a dim , low ( 2700K ‑ warm ) colour temperature white
if you are working on these very white led backlit lcds, that's quite a strong blue light and messes the circadian rhythm
my write up on the circadian rhythm
here
neither reddit zen nor the world is short of lunatics ! : o ( )
neither reddit zen nor the world is short of lunatics ! :o()
neither reddit zen nor the world is short of lunatics ! :o()
“ resveratrol supplements cause pancreatic
problems in the developing fetus ”
your problem is that when you come to where you should try and answer you turn back with predictable results.............
so your dialogue here is just an endless turning back and you can see it looking through your reddit history.......................
your problem is that when you come to where you should try and answer you turn back with predictable results.............
your problem is that when you come to where you should try and answer you turn back with predictable results.............
you can fool yourself here forever, no need to wish you punishment, you mete it out to yourself so effectively !
you can fool yourself here forever, no need to wish you punishment
you mete it out to yourself so effectively !
you can fool yourself here (ed. reddit zen) forever
, no need to wish you punishment, you mete it out to yourself so effectively !
you can fool yourself here forever
, no need to wish you punishment
you mete it out to yourself so effectively !
you can fool yourself here forever, no need to wish you punishment
you mete it out to yourself so effectively !
I suppose you think the voynich manuscript was written by aliens ! :o)
I suppose you think the voynich manuscript was written by aliens ! :o)
a real zen master doesn't duck answering
evasive and disguising is not how the masters of old behaved, but again I think this has gone over your head ! :o()
a real zen master doesn't duck answering
evasive and disguising is not how the masters of old behaved
but again I think this has gone over your head ! :o()
a real zen master doesn't duck answering
a real zen master doesn't duck answering
thanx for answering, it always surprises me
that most here are unable to reveal this simple and harmless information about themselves !
( ed. reddit zennists about their real life zen experience/practice ! )
my claim to fame is being asked to leave john loori's monastery at mt. tremper ! :o)
actually they were quite reasonable, I wasn't happy and was thinking of leaving and then went to the beautiful providence zen center where I came across a talk by toni packer and it really stood out her being on a different plane so eventually ended up at springwater for two stays !
my entire experience is that staying at a center and effective retreats is mainly made fruitful, not only by your own preparatory work, but some gap in understanding between yourself and the teacher, once the gap goes or your's becomes better than the teachers understanding, involvement in the center or group becomes pointless and lacking ! :o)(
people have no concept of the amount of work required, only possible with celibacy and a full time approach, this is my criticism of the sort of suburban zen you do, so half arsed and lacking any real input of involvement and time that you just flounder in a useless and malign fashion !
having said that I think what saved me from the general stupidity of the zen centers was always having read widely of
quality what is effectively mystical literature, even though it mightn't have seemed like that !
also having dai kensho at age seven is just a divide that others can never match, but I needed the zen involvement to recover it !
but I am a new zealander and I sat with the new zealand zen society in Auckland for a few years before travelling in the usa visiting the mt. tremper monastery and the kuan um zen schools monastery/center at providence and the center in Cambridge and then staying at the springwater center by lake hemlock in the finger lake region !
I do find it interesting that for all my objections to the way things are done in these “ institutional zens ” is that the background of having “ been around ” and done retreats seems to have given something real, it's particularly the retreat experience and having been in quite different lineages which gives a lot of cross referencing and exposure to different people !
in addition there is a sort of recognition by some-one's judgment you respect that you have “ attainted ” so to speak , for all one lived a solitary and hermetic life (which I do!) , yet I have been through the social mill of zen and similar, like it's not the real life vacuum that most seem to assume zen is here !
you don't need formal approval, but I think you need recognition by a person whose judgment and competence in what zen is about, who you respect !
I don't know, but now I'm in a weird mood and have a lot of questions.
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yeah it certainly has that effect.
there's other shorts on you tube and looking at
interviews with lars von trier is helpful !
I didn't like
melancholia at first but slowly came to appreciate it as one of the all time great films !
wow, good story [
I ] [
II ]
!
wow, good story [
I ] [
II ]
!
wow, good story [
I ] [
II ]
!
a koan
there is actually a fairly simple crisp answer !
there is actually a fairly simple crisp answer !
a koan
there is actually a fairly simple crisp answer !
huángbò xīyùn is like eihei dogen, on the verge of being enlightened, but actually not, tho at their best they are enlightened !
sorta voynich, but not always, like the monkeys tapping out sir henry
Neville's plays ?
huángbò xīyùn is like eihei dogen, on the verge of being enlightened, but actually not, tho at their best they are enlightened !
sorta voynich, but not always, like the monkeys tapping out sir henry
Neville's plays?
obliviron asks on reddit zen
so what can really be done to assist in realization?
this sub is like a junkyard filled with broken glass
just as you would very carefully step to avoid stabbing your feet, here one must use words carefully or get stabbed with idiotic comments and downvotes
to those who have wise and helpful answers, how do I realize enlightenment ( discernment, unenchantment, etc ) ?
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don't be so up yourself ! :o)(
get your feet stabbed and count downvotes as infinities upvotes !
s e e y o u r s e l f a s a n I d I o t
“ apply the mind and at once there's differentiation
rouse a thought and at once there's error ”
that's just the nuttiness of a clueless idiot , you're a pop zen book reader without even the slightest bit of useful contemplative/meditative experience
as I said before the rattling of stones in a tin can !
am i better than charles bukowski ?
that's what i ask myself occasionally
pretty fruitless really
two homilies about charles buksowki from the 25th of february 2012
am i better than charles bukowski ? that's what i ask myself occasionally, pretty fruitless really
lol he turned up in a vision
“ yes you are better ” he said
he was in hell for his sins
the only real sin he made was not to spend anything like enough time in the
beauty of nature !
a dylan thomas quote
death is an insult
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well I have a lot of experience with Wikipedia entries and ignorant biased moderators or contributors is the norm, now I don't waste my time, one or two entries I really have liked and were subversive I have got in and that is that, I check back occasionally to see if they have been removed ! :o)
it's just the great wash of humanity, ignorant and hubric, just like reddit zen, people have no notion of depth of knowledge, research work, testing hypotheses and the fact that you have an opinion seems to outweigh some-one with many years of real work in an area !
in fact the better the writing and information content the more the flies buzz in seeking to obliterate what is a standing indictment of their crappy attitudinal based approach !
wow, lymes disease is at least 15 to 20 million years
old !
“ is it possible to get a tank top tan/burn in one summer
and somehow have tan lines months
later ?
even almost a full year later? ”
you can remove it with a limited exposure to a broadband UVB lamp (will make white both sides !)
, however it will occur again if you get the same sun exposure with a singlet on !
what you don't engage, you don't have to disengage !
:
o
)
what you don't engage, you don't have to disengage ! : o)
what you don't engage, you don't have to disengage !
what you don't engage, you don't have to disengage
wikipedia has huge issues with contentious/religious/health entries being patrolled by moderator status/empowered vigilantes for whatever cause......................
save your breath or just get one or two paragraphs/sentences supported by quality references
of course the vigilante viewpoints go in unsupported and uncontested ..............
wikipedia has huge issues with contentious/religious/health entries being patrolled by moderator status/empowered vigilantes for whatever cause......................
save your breath or just get one or two paragraphs/sentences supported by quality references
of course the vigilante viewpoints go in unsupported and uncontested ..............
eihei-ji is in dense sub tropical rainforest, a damp, cold, sunless hole
no wonder eihei dogen died of TB there ! :o)(
beautiful in its ways, all that water, but a health nightmare !
you won’t leave your comfort zone will you ?
DNA damage from the
ingestion of pyrogallol-like polyphenols is defended by an enzyme in saliva called alpha-amylase, the blood protein albumin, and the muscle protein myoglobin !
women are ruthless , but often not that smart about it !
women are ruthless , but often not that smart about it !
women are ruthless, but often not that smart about it !
women are ruthless, but often not that smart about it !
you have that
blend of retardation, schizophrenia, cowardice and obtuseness !
you are a dog with worms rubbing its arse on the grass ! : 0 (
you have that
blend of retardation, schizophrenia, cowardice and obtuseness !
you are a dog with worms rubbing its arse on the grass ! :o(
you have that blend of retardation, schizophrenia, cowardice and obtuseness !
you are a dog with worms rubbing its arse on the grass ! :o(
“ everywhere is just empty space ”
the inside of a tin rattle in the case of your brain ! :o)
arunachala, thou dost root out the ego of those who meditate on thee in the heart,
oh arunachala !
( ed. the above quote is the first verse of the marital garland of letters by ramana maharshi )
arunachala thou rocky hill of a limited clime
what cripples hast thou left in thy shadow?
“ a golden chick breaking out of the shell ‑
its song nakedly resounds in the empty sky ”
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reply
a deformed chick rots still born...............
no sound but the buzz of flies
faintly the name
wicked priest can be made out................
“cutting off thinking” is in fact more thinking, why do people not see this ?
foyan (p.36 instant zen) says
one sickness is speechless, formless motionlessness in the haunt of the mind-body complex, where you say , “even if the buddhas and zen patriarchs came forth, I would still just be thus” this is one sickness
wickedpriest instructs me
cut off thinking, and you won't be thinking
that's not more thinking
it's not any thinking at all
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who is it that cut off the thinking !?
where did he go ?
I quite like foyan, he says people make two mistakes
one is to look for a donkey while riding the donkey
and the other is
failing to get off the donkey !
you make both mistakes !
listen to yourself HE-HAw he-HAW ! :o)
english literature education in the USA has become a corrupt amalgam of anti-intellectuality, the spookily stupid misapplication of deconstructionist
philosophies ( I am a big fan of jacques derrida btw, just not the misinterpretation of him )
and this is the killer, they are taught to only read and like bad literature, you just can't talk them out of it, they read crap and diss the good stuff !
you can self educate on an altogether way
superior level on the web ! :o)
“ in zen there is no worship of images
zen does have images, but in the hall where the regimen of meditation is pursued, there are neither images nor pictures of buddhas, nor are there scriptures
the zen disciple sits for long hours silent and motionless, with his eyes closed
presently he enters a state of impassivity, free from all ideas and all thoughts
he departs from the self and enters the realm of nothingness
this is not the nothingness or the emptiness of the west
it is rather the reverse, a universe of the spirit in which everything communicates freely with everything, transcending bounds, limitless ”
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yeah, this idea of “ departing from self and entering the realm of nothingness ” is in direct contradiction to the palaver about imageless/no images and also is contradicted by the poetry
he quotes in the
speech !
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“ the true joy of a moonlit night
is something we no longer understand
only the men of old, when there were no lights
could understand the true joy of a moonlit night ”
yasunari kawabata
aeirsone asks
you sure seem to know a lot about who is not enlightened
so surely you must know something?
my
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well that's what I do, I know what it is about and what the effects are from experience so I can tell who is and isn't enlightened !
it actually only occurs rarely and often sorta goes wrong like there's some neo-advaita/nonduality teachers who have had genuine enlightenment experiences but gone right off the track, maybe the experience lacked direct synchronicity with infinity and was never right in the first place !
joko beck I feel went right off the rails into a bad place !
toni
packer who died last year was about the only enlightened person I met, and even she had her flaws !
poets are often enlightened
, Dylan Thomas
, Emily
D ickinson ...............
you seem interested in the question of a person being enlightened, like some sort of rock to stand on, but it doesn't work that way, in fact in terms of enlightened people knowing what they are on about, I have come back many years later to see something written by an “ enlightened person ” that then makes sense and it made no sense to me before !
zen differs from religions (as ewk keeps pointing out ! :o) , it's about engaging this personal process of opening up and understanding and living more in conformance to the true reality of infinity for oneself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so you are not proxying through the fairy tales of Buddha or jesus or through other supposedly enlightened persons like dogen, but doing the real thing yourself and just trusting to follow that, which is actually often a litany of disasters which is why I recommend the suburban “married with kids” concentrate more on the wisdom literature side
but in my observations most people do not do any real work and put all their energy into reinforcing their own erroneous views and some sort of half baked missionizing !
some people, like me for instance, have a distaste for the derogatory use of the word “ retard ”
I know, I know, it's just a word; but it's an word that has a high probability of hurting a group of people
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this is the real zen, we are all hurt and it is to be embraced ! :o)
in actual fact I can see I am in many respects quite retarded !
infinity is hurt by us.............................
I don't write to tap, I write to knock-out ! : o)(
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retarded imo carries that nexus of incapacity
, blind and willful
ignorance a sheer paroxysm of denial ! :o)(
this is the real zen, we are all hurt and it is to be embraced ! :o)
in actual fact I can see I am in many respects quite retarded !
infinity is “ hurt ” by us.............................
I don't write to tap, I write to “ knock-out ! ” : o)(
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retarded imo carries that nexus of incapacity
, blind and willful “ignorance”
a sheer paroxysm of denial ! :o)(
this is the real zen, we are all hurt and it is to be embraced ! :o)
in actual fact I can see I am in many respects quite retarded !
infinity is “ hurt ” by us.............................
I don't write to tap, I write to “ knock-out ! ” : o)(
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retarded imo carries that nexus of incapacity
, blind and willful “ ignorance ”
, a sheer paroxysm of denial ! :o)(
“ there are neurons that excite brain activity, and neurons that inhibit activity, the inhibitory neurons work by secreting an inhibitory neurotransmitter called gamma-aminobutyric acid, or GABA
the ‘ GABAergic ’ interneurons were recently shown to be
defective in the mice with absence seizures
[...] took embryonic neural stem cells from a part of the developing brain that generates GABAergic interneurons for the cerebral cortex
they harvested these cells from normal mouse embryos and transplanted them into the occipital cortex of the genetic mice with absence seizures
absence seizure activity in treated animals decreased dramatically, and the mice
gained more weight and survived longer than untreated mice ”
Buddhism is just another religion, what is zen about that makes it different ! ?
what is enlightenment ? it's actually some sort of process of being open to what we are reluctant to look at and slowly sorting out what life is really about !
am I enlightened, well I can say I am but that's your call ! ?
Alpha lipoic acid is used as a chelator, so what it does is lift an heavy metals in the body and actually causes them to re-circulate and cause more damage !
if you have mercury amalgam fillings in, the alpha lipoic acid moves the mercury around to be very destructive !
However IMO alpha lipoic acid is still dangerous even without fillings
, this
anti-chelation page will make sense if you just keep reading over a week or so !
I have seen a lot of people damaged by taking alpha lipoic acid !
shinren had six children to support and just came up with some con artistry to fool the suckers !
you just have to read his stuff to realise that, he was as enlightened as a refrigerator
“ ‘ saved by the inconceivable working of amida's vow
I shall realize birth
in the pure land ’
the moment you entrust yourself thus to the vow, so that the mind set upon saying the nembutsu arises within you, you are immediately brought to share in the benefit of being grasped by amida, never to be abandoned ”
F A N T A S Y !
“ why not pay little mañjuśrī (ed. the buddhist god of wisdom) a little visit? ”
why not pay Winnie the pooh a visit ?
zeolite is a commercial
mineral used to absorb/exchange ammonium, potassium, calcium, magnesium and trace elements
I presume it's therapeutic effect in the gut is to absorb ammonia which is a malign microbiome/biofilm product, but the loss of potassium, magnesium, calcium and trace elements is a huge counter weight to utility !
I have tried it and didn't like it !
no wonder he is tapping [
2:20 ] his head, his educated children won't want the heavy manual labour and restrictions of nomadic life
in as soon as ten years he will need their assistance and they won't be there................
that plane has taken this life away from these people.............. :o(
the tear film consists of a layer of water sandwiched between an oily layer of lipids on the outside to prevent evaporation and an inner mucous layer to spread the water over the eye
the tears climb up the eyelid and
join a column of fluid that travels along the lids
lower pressure sucks the fluid into the meniscus and away from the center, creating the black line and dry spots in the tear film that can compromise vision and irritate the cornea
the fluid would rather travel in the meniscus
it splits traveling along the upper lid and the lower lid
blinking is necessary to stop this thinning from happening
every time you blink, the tear film gets repainted
on the front of your eye
it’s important to have smooth tear film for optical quality
treatment to alleviate symptoms includes eye drops and temporary or surgical plugs to stopper tear ducts at the inner corners of the eyes and retain fluid
the
trouble is “normative reality” is basically a wrong view !
the respect of others is in fact a respect for their wrong, view, when you step out of the schizophrenia of the conventional view of life, you won't be liked at all !
increased knowledge can be an endless hunger, I have that myself
but in fact most people don't have that...............
blind fools they bump around hitting the furniture in a dark room thinking that life.................
basically the real work of zen has two halves, quality
reading and investigation
and meditative contemplation which is time alone/solitude, sitting in a chair, walking whatever, this grows your sense of yourself and infinity ! :o)(
it is also brutally disrupting of your life
, my honest advice is improve your golf handicap or something useful ! :o)
the trouble with raw milk is you can get toxoplasmosis through it, imo you need to heat it up to about 68C which still leaves the nutrition intact imo !
my reply to foyen's “ sitting meditation ”
poem
golden waves wash around
there appears the 7th patriarch
interrupting, annoying
castigating meditating
meditating
or
as he calls it “ seamless contemplation ”
not understanding
understanding
seated
unseated
nothing settles
but
insight glimmers through
an instant's turning
my reply to foyan's “ sitting meditation ”
poem
golden waves wash around
there appears the 7th patriarch
interrupting, annoying
castigating meditating
meditating
or
as he calls it seamless contemplation
not understanding
understanding
seated
unseated
nothing settles
but
insight glimmers through
an instant's turning
one midsummer ryōkan taigu announced
‘ I will air the entire buddhist canon in the five scoop hut, please come and see ’
the villagers went to the hut, but there were no books of the canon
only ryokan, lying naked
on his drum-like belly was written the phrase “ entire canon ”
the villagers were dumbfounded
my comment
ryōkan taigu had chronic gut issues all his life and meant
the canons were all shit and farts ! :o)
it's not generally appreciated that ryōkan has a huge, very sophisticated literary output and wrote poetry from an early age !
his poetry is very allusive of the poems of other Japanese poets !
he is portrayed as simple bumpkin, but he was far from that and really a lot of his life was spent travelling around camping in abandoned houses of which there must have been a few back then !
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research him and his life in detail and you start to understand the real zen, not the fake presentation, like the Buddhist canons being shit, the real zen looks very different from the what the moron fuckwits say !
reddit zen posts come and go, there's a real opportunity for those interested in improving their life skills to go into a greater level of research and understanding, what is the point of the hopeless missionizing that goes on here, why not develop real research skills, they are invaluable ! :o)(
hint: google books is very good ! :o)
“ my girlfriend has become very ill since our return from travel in southeast asia
during our first month she contracted dengue in thailand and upon arrival at the airport on our way home from malaysia, dengue like symptoms returned
they continued for 3 days, SEVERE headache, 103 fever, neck and back aches, before i decided to take her to the emergency room
my question is, has anyone had dengue twice, and if so, was the second time much more painful with longer lasting symptoms?
my girlfriend has had a headache now for 6 straight days
and finally the fever has gone down
the first time around it was headache first, then fever for 2 days followed by 3 days of feeling 75% and then 2-3 days of rash and burning skin
this time around is very different and i am unsure of other possibilities
spinal tap was done and came back negative for bacterial meningitis
and blood smear was negative for malaria ”
my
reply
depending on the strain and serotype of the previous infecting virus
dengue is much more severe 2nd time around ! :o(
depending on the strain and serotype of the previous infecting virus, dengue is much more severe 2nd time around ! :o(
actually those
kids that died were likely malign microbiome victims, it is why herbivores when they go down usually die, their digestion is almost entirely done by the gut microbiome, so when they get “ off ” or ill or otherwise severely stressed like cold and poor nutrition, the microbiome gets disastrously out of control !
b-12 injections and selenium are often given in new zealand to ill cattle and horses !
australia now has lymes disease
there's an emerging consensus that lymes disease is now in australia which requires a much more proactive approach to ticks, but generally i have to say that new zealand would be one of the very few countries in the world where you need not be so alert, for instance europe, particularly eastern europe has viral tick-borne encephalitis !
so in my view, living in or travelling almost anywhere except new zealand requires ticks to be found quickly and the only way to remove them without the risk of the tick regurgitating its stomach contents into the bite if disturbed is to remove them with a custom tool giving a quarter turn to dislodge the
hypostome as the tick is pulled off !
imo travelling with a removal tool will be a basic safety/health precaution in the future and it's well worth your while to work through the videos below !
i have no recommendation for a tool at the moment, but plan on getting one to try and keep by !
a good and rather
scary tick video ! ( tick-borne encephalitis
virus )
haku'un
yasutani remained violently anti-semitic and pro Japanese imperialist nationalism after the war and caused such embarrasment to the soto sect that he was sent to the USA as a punishment !
so we have the laughable situation of the majority of the American zen lineage ( especially those organizations of fakes the American zen teachers association and the white plum asanga ) being descended from him who was in my view a war criminal
in the same sense heidegger was , an enabler of atrocities !
that's one of the reasons I (7th zen
patriarch ) sacked most of today's zen teachers, the lineage is horrifically tainted and maybe it's one of the reasons the sixth patriarch
reestablished the old ch'an tradition in me ! :o)
d.t. suzuki was a fascism and japanese imperialism supporter !
enlightenment is a process, he was so far off that he was never part of that process !
( ed. on claims he was enlightened )
and I don't think he ever repudiated his views beyond the war was a mistake, ie they lost and if they had won, it wouldn't have been a mistake !
I knew someone who was in a japanese concentration camp in WW2 , d.t. suzuki obviously had no issue with that sort of thing !
there's heaps of more extensive criticism of suzuki on the web about his support of japanese imperialism and fascism !
self blinkered fools like his supporters deserve to be wrong forever so continue being blind ! :o(
you are such a poisonous treacherous
toad that you can't even tell the straight truth about blyth who was in a interment camp in kobe not a concentration camp which is like a holiday by the sea compared with seeing your friend's head being cut off in by the prison commandant in changhi because she (a nurse) wouldn't bow to him !
the head rolled over and came to rest up against lady alma kent's [
I II ] foot !
really slimy treacherous toads is your style, the traitors at the gate ! : o (
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I have just done some more research on Suzuki and really brian victoria has hit the
nail
binatko asks about his intractable migraines
I've been suffering intractable migraines since grade school and the only thing that has helped me is Sumatriptan 50 mg pills, but those eventually stopped
I then went to the nasal spray, thinking a different delivery method would help
but it didn't do anything either
I went through opiate based drugs, OTC medication, and amitriptyline
all having little to no effect
any tips?
my
reply
I have written up what I do
here
one very simple thing is not eating when you feel one coming on !
but i have a
stalker on reddit medical ! :o(
robo23 replies “ don't listen to this person ” and he has done this many times ! :o)
i don't post often so robo must be following me ! :o(
my
reply
yeah i'm not on Adderall and pot ! [ed. in his reddit history !]
god, get your act together man !
I don't know what you are doing in medicine, some sort of para ? but it's only a matter of time before you get the sack!
your memory doesn't seem too good either ! :o(
most people don't want to end up like you and thats why they explore non medical options !
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robo 23 doesn't deny these problems !
he's got some obessions and at this point I would say he was mentally ill ! !
too easy for him get Adderall I guess ! :o(
it actually changes the brain is the problem with it !
there's what works and what doesn't with migraines and as for current understanding, read about spreading cortical wave depression in that link
you (ed. the OP asking about migraine advice) seems sensitive on the subject of adderall and pot which is basically a speed/downer tandem !
in fact he thinks it's good cause I have seen him promote Adderall
use to a school kid doing exams here on reddit !
I take it a manic medical para (robo23) who works in surgery and does what is a speed/downer tandem is ok with you !
says lot about what is really going on with you I think ! :o(
bet you (ed. the OP) won't post your drug use history ! :o(
that's why your migraine has become so intractable (24/7) ! :o() ?
ah !
you're (ed. the OP) an intern at a family practice and no wonder you didn't like my advice on the immune response mediated aspect of migraine which would mean you were in the VERY WRONG JOB !
if i'm right you have a lifetime of misery ahead of you ! :o(
none so deaf as them who will not hear !
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you have a naive and very limited understanding of the immune response !
( ed. in response to the OP querying my saying thrombin is involved in migraine )
it's so vast and multifaceted there's no-one who really understands it, you have to take a pragmatic viewpoint and see what works !
i'm not specifically saying thrombin, rather it's some sort of related area, just really trying to indicate the area of interest and either parallel or identical mechanisms, like I think the cluster of innate immune responses is an identical migraine causing process !!
yeah so what I am saying is this constant stress of the modern infectious viral environment is leading in susceptible people to chronic ongoing migraine !
the recent research is favoring cortical spreading depression as a/the cause which ties in with the usual prodome prior to migraine of feeling sort of super well which in fact is the start of brain chemicals coming into the extracellular space in
surfeit !
even at this point migraine and its causes are not well understood and what I write is my practical experience and all I can say is I have been basically successful !
migraine is a brain structural condition, that can't be changed so you have to work around it and in health it's your getting it right that matters, not the opinions of others !
the proof of the pudding is where we are both at in three years, that's long enough for some sort of certainty to arise, but no doubt we will not be in contact then, the web and reddit being what they are!
despite your claims you have not even scratched the surface of the recent research, i'm not here to save you, as I say the situation in three years will show the truth, and actually it shows the truth now because I have always, like you been plagued with chronic migraines and now I hardly get any due to what I do !
i'm including this research
link to give you more breadth !
I have a note of your nick and if you are still on reddit in three years ( may 2017 ) and if I remember or some other happenstance I will ask you how things are going and we can compare notes ! :o)
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that's hardly advice is it ? (to robo23!) see a headache specialist, take more medications ! :o(
the op has intractable 24/7 and has had so since grade school
that also means the migraine is reflective of a structural developmental issue !
24/7 means any medication has to be taken almost continually and as you obviously don't know, migraine medications have severe side effect problems !
your stuff is just the empty foolery of speed mania !
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your (ed. robo23) issue with me is that I have successfully
negotiated my way out of similar neural/developmental issues to yourself with supplements and diet and am doing well on it, while you are in the descent of some bizzare upper/downer travesty of living ! :o)(
now australia has lymes i think it pays to take a more active interest
in quick non regurgative removal ! :o(
a good and rather
scary tick video ! ( tick-borne encephalitis
virus )
“ the average
reduction in life expectancy in people with bipolar disorder is between nine and 20 years, while it is 10 to 20 years for schizophrenia, between nine and 24 years for drug and alcohol abuse, and around seven to 11 years for recurrent depression
the loss of years among heavy smokers is eight to 10 years
all diagnoses studied showed an increase in mortality risk
though the size of the risk varied greatly
many had risks equivalent to or higher than heavy smoking ”
my comment
mutliple medications with malign synergistic side effects is a major factor in the reduced life expectancy and this multiple prescription of meds seems to be becoming the norm ! :o(
shinran wasn't enlightened, at least he was honest on that point !
shinran wasn't enlightened, at least he was honest on that point !
zen is a hermetic tradition with the requirement for extended periods of solitude, contemplative inquiry and retreat which practically no-one on reddit zen does
without this you will end up entangled
in a crazy and empty verbalism ! :o(
zen is a hermetic tradition with the requirement for extended periods of solitude, contemplative inquiry and retreat which practically no-one on reddit zen does
without this you will end up entangled in a crazy and empty verbalism ! :o(
you have no experience in retreat or solitude or hermiticity
and just waffle in empty verbalism ! :o(
you have no experience in retreat or solitude or hermiticity
and just waffle in empty verbalism ! :o(
you have no experience in retreat or solitude or hermiticity
and just waffle in empty verbalism ! :o(
well life is schizophrenia ?
just get by and avoid being hung :o)(
you just seem to be abit or rather a lot unreal...............
and act to preserve that................
. . . absorbed like the autumn moon
glinting off a deep pool
nothing can compare with it
. . . how can it be explained ?
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. . . absorbed like the autumn moon
glinting off a deep pool
nothing can compare with it
how can it be explained ?
___________________________________________________________
I am absorbed like the autumn moon
glinting off a deep pool
nothing can compare with it
you tell me how it can be explained
. . . absorbed like the autumn moon
glinting off a deep pool
nothing can compare with it
. . . how can it be explained ?
___________________________________________________________
. . . absorbed like the autumn moon
glinting off a deep pool
nothing can compare with it
how can it be explained ?
___________________________________________________________
I am absorbed like the autumn moon
glinting off a deep pool
nothing can compare with it
you tell me how it can be explained
han shan poem
