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 !
you must see it in coaching all the time, you explain something, but people need an experential background to make meaning of it
jason recounts that as he was leaving for work yesterday he brought a knapsack in with a change of clothes for soccer and all the kitchen guys started freaking out because they thought it was a bomb or something
my comment
you need to make people more comfortable around you, you frightened those nurses and paid a very heavy price !
(ed. for a minor operation they kept him another hour under anesthetic because they didn’t have a spare bed and were frightened of his possible reaction on coming out of anesthesia !)
it is damaging to be under general anesthetic !
jason replies
i’m not sure how i can make people feel more comfortable
my reply
body language and be careful what you say
jason replies
i really say some crazy shit sometimes but i’ve been holding back more
the only thing i’ve been focusing on regarding body language is keeping my posture straight, i’m not really sure how others perceive me
do think i have a virus because i’ve been sleeping a lot
?
my reply
yeah sleeping a lot is a sure sign of a virus
idiot posts a line by joshu about not deceiving oneself
and then under joshu’s words writes a comment deceiving himself
how stupid can you get ?
ewk class i’d say !
the twin pillars of zen are quality reading and contemplative solitary time, do you do either of those ?
the twin pillars of zen are quality reading and contemplative solitary time
the two pillars of zen are quality reading and contemplative solitary time, do you do either of those ?
the two pillars of zen are quality reading and contemplative solitary time
the problem millennials and the post millenial generation have is the skill bar needed to get by in life has shifted dramatically higher, to run a car economically, afford repair bills, provide a competent service to get paid for, be able to afford a relationship, not get conned in any dealings . .
also diet and sleep is more difficult . . . .
what is a fugue state of infinity ?
why not find out ?
its very unsettling to be in a relationship and the partner is plainly not happy
religion is a million miles of error
religion — a million miles of error
doko bumped into a zen master at the restaurant at the end of the universe !
he asked him, where is truth at the restaurant at the end of the universe
the zen master disappeared
and came back and gave him the bill
and disappeared again
another
actress with energy i identified from a youtube recommendation
makes me wonder about myself, my affinity for dysfunctional upbringings . .
i guess boarding school is pretty dysfunctional . .
erin lacks
tuesday’s brains
i feel for erin, she was always the outsider, wounded and left on the roadside to die . .
the sun 1909 edvard munch
i feel quietism is a political construct used by the catholic church to punish any attempt to reduce its authority which of course contemplative or meditative work would do
i don’t feel the term is coherent beyond this
a million miles of error — religion
alcohol reinforces your depression !
you need basic rules like no alcohol in the house and keep up with meditation
exercise for depression !
reading up on people’s lives breaks the stranglehold of fixed ideas on them
reading up on people’s lives can break the stranglehold of fixed ideas on them
all translations are mistranslations
!
all translations are mistranslations
!
all translations are mistranslations
pathetic is a form of emotional self abuse
!
pathetic is a form of emotional self abuse
!
pathetic is a form of emotional self abuse
!
pathetic is a form of emotional self abuse
!
pathιtique has a quite different meaning to pathetic !
musically its hard to make sense of, a sort of
fragile trauma !
pathιtique has a quite different meaning to pathetic !
inanity
insanity
inanity
insanity
you spew more crap
inanity
inanity
insanity
ewk spews more crap
is stupidity a drug ?
i feel
is stupidity a drug ?
i feel
i’m
on
it
is stupidity a drug ?
i feel
i’m
on
it
an interesting blocknet reddit
thread
Z. asks
You wrote on r/zen
this event like paul’s conversion on the road to damascus is very distinct and the true basis of the zen patriarchy !
What is your view of Paul’s vision ? — was it authentic ?
my
r e p l y
yeah, its odd to think of paul’s vision as
dai kensho , but that’s what it was !
selling at the top of market is hard to judge, but very steep rises are always followed by falls
sepehr writes
I would give Bancor one to two years. I do think it will prevail because the oligarchs are backing it, but it will take awhile to pick up. It’s still in the beginning stages
my
r e p l y
sepehr, why do you think your advice is worth a shit ! haven’t you learnt anything ?
what i notice about
Z. is his advice is right and not what i would do, so i think he actually has a grip of it !
blocknet has gone from
4.5 US cents on the
21st of february to
$31 now, ie
$1000 in blocknet on the
21st of february is worth
$690,000 now (ed.
31st august
2017 )
he was telling us, its really making me think what i am doing is totally up the chute
!
that’s one of the biggest gains in history and i spent that time arguing on message boards
i feel sick !
How do I get enlightened ?
its an artifact of an enquiry and i guess its also a gift, no matter what you do, if the giver is not inclined, you won’t get it !
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when i started zen, meditation and reading eihei dogen and the blue cliff record raised questions for me that i was unable to answer
this was despite having a good background in mystical poets like emily dickinson and sylvia plath
basically its work, you work to understand and solitary contemplation is an important part of that
people think listening to alan watts is zen, but actually that is the avoidance of it !
What got you started meditating and reading Dogen ?
What were the questions you couldn’t answer ?
i joined the local zen society which fortunately was between teachers and actually was a bit like r|zen, not a lot of agreement about what zen was !
And how did that lead you to unanswerable questions
! What were the unanswerable questions
!
its really about the ultra validity of fugue states of infinity
i am asked
Would you mind talking a little more about the problem(s) you perceive with sanghas ?
I’ve been debating going to a local one (I haven’t yet, due to some anxiety) so I’m curious to hear why others might consider it a waste of time or even harmful
my
r e p l y
zen is self taught, i have moved through several sanghas in my travels
the problem with sanghas is that zen becomes a social religious construct which its not and the craziness of this contradiction always leaks through or breaks out, its like there is always an underneath roiling mayhem and when the tornado really hits, expect to get injured !
i saw tuesday weld’s face on a you tube recommendation and felt
some energy from her that i couldn’t explain so investgated more and yes
, a way different person and
life !
about
12.45am there was loud bang on the roof and something heavy fell down onto the corrugated iron, i took my spotlight outside thinking it was a possum but one of the cats had slipped on the frost and was now playing it safe under a frostless ledge, i went to bed expecting her to come overnight down the same tree she got up and she did !
its not possible to understand what zen is about before enlightenment
i have seen it argued that you can’t do shikantza before enlightenment !
its not possible to understand what zen is about before enlightenment
everything i write takes me further, but if it doesn’t take you further ie missionizing then its superfluous
the true zen is basically the third mode
of aggripa
i’ve been on r|zen for three years now and in the end i decided that the conflict is healthier than the groupthink forums like r|buddhism and r|philosophy
i’ve never been to japan but have stayed at quite a few zen centers in the usa so i have a very practical idea of the problems with sanghas
its just a rather dull and boring dream weaving . . .
anyway it cured me of any notions of missionizing
, the failure to understand that is what drives r|zen i think
i am very careful to use my posting on it, not for the betterment of others but to improve my understanding and dealing in life
you avoided answering my question, what can i say ?
you avoided answering my question, what can i say
i ask
do you have any real life zen experience ?
he replies
Reading, meditating, some discussion with a monk in my youth
my reply
do you notice how avoidant that is, not even the religion of the monk, this is the real zen work, observation of ourselves
the machine has to be dismantled and rebuilt
!
there is a genuine zen energy in conflict that is authentic compared to the usual malign groupthink of
sanghas
the purpose of
practice is to compound their illness for the mentally ill
!
you make sloths look energetic
!
you make sloths look energetic
!
you make sloths look energetic
if something is true then several different roads will lead to the same destination
if something is true then several different roads will lead to the same conclusion
Z. says
Cryptocurrences will be like the dot com bubble — most projects will die, some will remain and will be the future’s Googles and Amazons
I look forward to the day of the reckoning
my comment
he’s been right so far, decred is doing well !
my god, i’ve seen everything, we have silk road denialists now
ed. of buddhists denying the role of greek philosophy in buddhism !
my god, i’ve seen everything, we have silk road denialists now
a poem by shofu
No dust speck anywhere
What’s old ? new ?
At home on my blue mountain
I want for nothing
my
r e p l y
dust everywhere
everything is old, not new
at home on my blue mountain
i scream insanely
people are so inconsiderate talking when you are doing something very important and needs concentration
jason writes
sold my Xbox
my
r e p l y
that is huge, don’t underrate it
sold my Xbox
that is huge, don’t underrate it
google searches are so simple yet so remote for some people
!
google searches are so simple yet so remote for some people
!
google searches are so simple yet so remote for some people
ELI5 how zen relates to buddhism ?
the platform sutra is foundational for zen and its basically trying to make sense of crap
the relation of zen is that same of mystical christianity to christianity except people like john of the cross, teresa of avila and catherine of siena always had the inquisition or other thought police breathing down their necks, in china the hazard was more getting in with the out political group and being executed or exiled, lots of exiles in zen and the odd execution, like bodhidharma may have been executed
buddhism itself is a fusion of an older religion with greek philosophy, if you believe buddha existed historically then you’ll believe mohammed existed historically and jesus christ was never an archangel !
For whom do you wash your face and apply makeup ?
for a more handsome, younger and wealthier man than you !
since i am the
7th zen patriarch, what i do defines zen
!
there’s absolutely nothing more dangerous than a failed jack short of a car or vehicle accident !
there’s absolutely nothing more dangerous than a failed jack short of a car accident !
there’s absolutely nothing more dangerous than a failed jack short of a car accident
i have noticed net stuff can be more expensive for no reason
!
i have noticed net stuff can be more expensive for no reason
!
i have noticed net stuff can be more expensive for no reason
i love it when people like you get things so wrong, there’s some justice in the world !
i love it when people like you get things so wrong, there’s some justice in the world
you’re like ewk, you pretend to intellectual horsepower you don’t have
you pretend to intellectual horsepower you don’t have
!
you pretend to intellectual horsepower you don’t have
!
you pretend to intellectual horsepower you don’t have
remain ignorant, your type is better that way !
remain ignorant, your type is better that way
Do not be quick with your mouth,
do not be hasty in your heart
to utter anything before ewk
ewk is in nirvana
and you are on earth,
so let your words be few.
A dream comes when there are many cares,
and many words mark the speech of a fool.
ewkesiastes
5
for my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways declares ewk
ewksaiah
55:8
but those who hope in the ewk approved zen masters will renew their strength
they will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint
ewksaiah
40:31
zen and buddhism are full of greek philosophy carried along the silk road from the
indo-grecian empires
eihei dogen uses nagarjuna’s methodology for handling recursiveness extensively !
jacques derrida is a very zen like philosopher
what zen is about is far wider than zen
the
7th zen partriach’s theorem of incompleteness
everything is incomplete
this theorem is complete
miaphysitism, monophysitism, desperately trying to make sense of something that is nonsensical
!
miaphysitism, monophysitism, desperately trying to make sense of something that is nonsensical
!
miaphysitism, monophysitism, desperately trying to make sense of something that is nonsensical
miaphysitism monophysitism desperately trying to make sense of something that is nonsensical
ewk writes
Gates are ways through.
Zen is the Gateless Barrier. No way through.
my
r e p l y
clichιd bullshit, you are clearly not enlightened you gross fake !
four years of pretending to something you do not understand
gate or no gate
just your endless bullshit !
drugs mangle the brain
!
drugs mangle the brain
!
drugs mangle the brain
everything you write is second hand, why people like you spew other’s crap and are so proud of it i don’t know !
what i (ed. layman pang) do every day is drive my children and wife to suicide and i was successful !
all his shit is just so full of
self-harm and pyschosis . . .
what i (ed. layman pang) do every day is drive my children and wife to suicide and i was successful !
all his shit is just so full of
self-harm . . .
conflict is
the true ineffable nature of religion !
conflict is
the true ineffable nature of zen !
conflict is
the true ineffable nature of zen on r|zen !
conflict is the true ineffable nature of zen on r|zen !
conflict is the true ineffable nature of zen on r|zen
i suppose your (ed. ewk) not reading what you reply to saves you a lot of time ?
i suppose your not reading what you reply to saves you a lot of time ?
meta does not rebuttal make
meta does not rebuttal make
meditation = prayer = contemplation
you (ed. ewk) and your clones are the only people i know who diss these in terms of contemplative mysticism which zen is !
such a position can only be sustained by outstanding hubric ignorance !
basically you and they are in denial about zen being a mystical contemplative tradition !
my advice to
some-one looking for a local zen center to practice at in northern chicago
just be aware of the bullshit, it helps to understand buddha is just a novel character and rest of what you hear are also
made-up stories
be careful what you say
what you are going for is the meditation
zen practitioners are amongst the most stupid narrow minded people you will ever meet !
video
that’s the basic form of zen in the west, an ocean away in auckland new zealand where i did zen the service is almost exactly the same though we didn’t do any of that present crap
women are all hormone, no thinking
!
women are all hormone, no thinking
!
women are all hormone, no thinking
rajneesh was the world’s leading
bioterrorist !
the alford plea he was deported under is he admits the evidence would convict him beyond reasonable doubt !
hinduism certainly has a terrorist and ultraviolent element, he wouldn’t have got off so lightly today !
751 people poisoned, he would have been executed or life imprisoned today !
jason asks
i can get ready for portugal by going to bed earlier ? they’re five hours ahead
my
r e p l y
yeah couple of days before, ideally a week
i never read or watch movies when flying !
jason replies
i must’ve done nothing on the plane when i had dai kensho
i remember once when i was younger i would go down the aisles back and forth until some lady got upset over that
i was visiting her dog too much
then i got a gameboy some time later and started using that on the plane, or listening to classical music through the armrest
° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° °
i can’t figure out why you don’t read on a plane, i could understand movies
my
r e p l y
its shikantaza
i can’t do anything about your not ever thinking your reading age is not up to par can i ?
can’t do anything about your not ever thinking your reading age is not up to par can i ?
i can’t do anything about your not ever thinking your reading age is not up to par can i
can’t do anything about your not ever thinking your reading age is not up to par can i
nup + yup =
nup + yup = ?
a prophecy is a declamatory projection completely out of touch with reality
!
: o )
a prophecy is a declamatory projection completely out of touch with reality
Dear r|zen,
What is 1 + 1 . This is actually a serious question.
what is one number added to another number ?
Often its easiest to see faults of our own when acted out by others
there’s faults and there’s hypocrisy !
jason writes
my mother would often say it’s not your fault it’s mine or i don’t know who you learned that from you learned that from your father
jason writes
soccer would only take a couple hours out of my week
my
r e p l y
its not the time so much as taking badly needed mental energy in other areas, basically you are learning a skill useless to you in life
its big plus is the exercise, but actually there are better ways of getting exercise
you seem to just make one critical mistake after another and the sands of time in terms of your ability to change are running out for you
soccer is a nostalgia of the middle class dream for you, but you may have noticed that ripping apart . .
° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° °
basically you have this huge problem with nostalgia and your father has as well
the soccer is nostalgia and therefore the wrong road
cryptocurrency, programming, botton etc you actually have to do things in a small way to see what might suit
s. made the mistake of putting up too much money and didn’t see that it was a process of years to be able to turn a dollar rather than lose it, it was years of involvement for z. who as we know was successful for instance
so instead of doing that you displace into nostalgic activities like soccer
you don’t seem to understand that you show no signs of hunkering down at all, but will procrastinate in nostalgia forever, or at least until things get really bad and you might take up heavy pot smoking then
i was looking at some old testament prophets and your (ed. ewk) debating style is very like their’s, you don’t actually deal with the reality of what is said to you, but just write your own meta on what you pretend was said to you
you never seem able to actually argue against what is said to you but resort to argumentum ad hominem or abstractions dissing what is said without actually being able to say why it is wrong !
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yeah your two phases of rebuttal
1. argumentum ad hominem
2. prophecy type meta characterising itself as true
both to cover your avoidance of dealing with the detail of what you are replying to
what i found helpful in understanding zen is to see the greek philosophy in it which came along the silk road
I II through the
indo-greek empires
!
the description of bodidharma matches that of an
indo-greek, either from persia or northern india or other indo or bactrian greek empires
where zen differs, or what i would call the real zen is its emphasis on contemplative work which is a time and life consuming simultaneous construction/deconstruction of ourselves so we align better with a truer understanding
at a certain point in this process things tip over and there will be massive enlightenment experience or dai kensho that contains more than the seeds of realignment
this event like paul’s conversion on the road to damascus is very distinct and the true basis of the zen patriarchy !
the reality is however that
99.99% of people claiming to such a thing are fools and idiots with no idea of what its about and that includes lineage approved zen masters !
zen doesn’t lead to radical nilhilism because it is solipsist !
there’s always benefit in terms of yourself, you can take quite a broad view of what is of benefit to yourself which may include concern for others !
at the
very beginning marylin munroe has some sort of tremor, the tragedy in action !
my two cents about somethings on this sub . . .
try not to intellectualize too much zen
three cents says looking at your history you have this problem in spades yet you are saving your advice for others and not yourself ?
three cents says looking at your history you have this problem in spades yet you are saving your advice for others and not yourself ?
lol r|zen is
a safe home for you
the dead have their graves, the living have their houses; but there is nowhere for us to call our home
the dead have their houses, the living have their graves, home is where we are !
see ?
the word is a sword to the throat of the living, and a resurrection to the dead
where you place yourself is how you see it, but there is nowhere to take a seat !
the weary get snared, but the strong save their foot from stumbling
a correct word lightens the hearing, the dead are beyond resurrection !
unplacing myself i take a seat
snared in my weariness i stumble the strong !
this sack of skin and bones will drop like dung, but a word will bring it back up and clean it, inside and out !
and what of the enemy ? they will set their teeth into the dirt, and spit it out of their mouths
their own word will drag them to the pit, and their own feet will be their obstacle for tripping !
the sacks of skin and bones will drop like dung in a gas chamber, no words will bring them back
their enemies essentially went unpunished
that baggage is enough to weigh down the sun !
haven’t you seen the trees spring back to life in the spring, after the harsh long winter ?
your claims to no baggage are not borne out by your
history !
a bigger pile of remaindered and lost luggage i have yet to see !
you are full of bullshit, years and years worth on reddit !
life is full of surprises, his last quote (below) was quite good
take a look on your way in the field; a predator feeding on your livestock, a poison viper biting at your feet !
foreigners living in your house, stealing in your presence
is it not a blight in the eyes ?
cast them to the vultures, or they will cast you !
diagnosis : drug induced schizophrenia !
jason writes
kim said today jason, you’ve been very quiet !
you’re so serious !
silently i was glad because some weeks ago i said to myself that i would talk less while at work to avoid all the drama crap
the world is a son of a bitch
i just don’t even want to bother
jesus didn’t either and look what happened to him !
crucifixion is a ghastly way to go
!
i’m not saying go or don’t go, just giving a perspective that’s all and i could be wrong
study won’t solve your problems either its an escape
the world is a son of a bitch
your problem is you have no skills useful to other people, in fact are a liability, you really are not facing this
!
your problem is you have no skills useful to other people, in fact are a liability, you really are not facing this
reality works different from what we suppose
you (ed. jason) are almost on the verge of schizophrenia with the way you project and don’t
test
reality works different from what we suppose
you are almost on the verge of schizophrenia with the way you project and don’t
test
i don’t know why you think you are anything like good enough to play soccer professionally, you seem not to want to be real about things
there’s a huge gap between good amateur and professional level
when linji was going to fenglins place, he met an old woman on the road. where are you going ? she asked. im going to fenglins place, replied linji. fenglin happens to be away just now said the old woman. where did he go ? asked linji. at that the old woman walked away. linji called to her. the old woman turned her head. linji hit her
that’s a meme and like the zen cartoons quite wrong minded, linji is just another know it all hubric idiot !
the old woman walked back, took out a knife from her sleeve and cut an artery on his wrist and let him bleed to death
just desserts she said !
to be honest i find places like
botton and
camphill a death trap, something dead about them
they totally consume you with other people’s needs and for what ?
jason writes
i wish my father would just give up the girlfriends
tough to do if you’ve been married your whole life
or at least keep it chill like you do, go visit them and have them visit you once in a while and just don’t live with each other
my
r e p l y
doesn’t work either
your making a statement of truth doesn’t make your other statements true !
ninotchka
laughs
there is no meaning anywhere, we are just adrift on the streams of life
what zen master was disturbed by insanity ?
what zen master was disturbed by insanity
jason writes
i saw ruth tonight, she said you’re really good looking, do you know that ? of course you don’t because you’re stupid ! if i were some years older i’d marry you !
honestly i didn’t really think of myself as good looking until you said i was
my
r e p l y
she told you two things, you are not picking up on the other because the perception of one’s own stupidity is unpalatable
your hubricity makes you blind !
life is a sobering and nasty experience
!
life is a sobering and nasty experience
what is zen ?
its a tradition of celibacy where people (mainly men) have been prepared to devote their lives to nutting
the meaning of life out !
its quite insane !
what is zen ?
its a tradition of celibacy where people (mainly men) have been prepared to devote their lives to nutting something out !
i don’t say its necessarily sane !
zen is talking about a secret that doesn’t exist and bragging about how incomprehensible it is
it’s like a self-locking door of stupidity
you won’t do the work to open it !
the lock can be picked, but the morons stand on the wrong side of it saying how right they are to be on the wrong side !
hooligans try to start
a fight with ice
sorta culture shock
found by jason
my golden rules for handling r|zen
1. don’t
OP
2. you may comment
, be wary but comments can be productive
the
mascot of r|zen
its not just the lack of appreciation of recursion by the pontificator in the last box of the comic, but the omnipresence of the hindu goddess
kali in the subreddit which may be drug use
, pot
, vanity
but those hands are everywhere throttling everything of quality in reach
like the pontificating r|zennists are trying to establish something by careless reflexivity
the reality requires poetry/homilies and life involvement
george eliot
quotes
the researchers
found that , in patients with chronic tinnitus, the precuneus is more connected to the dorsal attention network and less connected to the default mode network
you see the cartoon but you can’t see the cartoonist
you see the cartoon but you cannot see the cartoonist
r|zen is pretenders and con men whose main victims are themselves
!
r|zen is pretenders and con men whose main victims are themselves
there’s a kitten here, i buy its loyalty, friendliness and the odd scratch for bits of liver !
what i notice is that in ambiguous situations is you take that as more encouraging than it is
whereas in reality they are ambiguous because they are not encouraging
!
what i notice is that in ambiguous situations is you take that as more encouraging than it is
whereas in reality they are ambiguous because they are not encouraging
i think in ambiguous situations you are taking things as more to what you are inclined than you should
choi sangkyun has
collected 300 posters of north korean propaganda art in twenty trips to the north presumably from the people’s army art shop there !
jason writes
i was reading in essays in idleness (ed. the tsurezuregusa) how young men will go on some huge undertaking taking on so many projects only to not really accomplish anything, sounds like me
my
r e p l y
yeah i was thinking that about you because i am the same !
i think this is what being successful in life is about, choosing the right involvements that match our natural abilities and following through with them . . !
i can be stupid but she’s being more stupid
imo you are being more stupid than her, she is not you and has her own life agendas that have nothing to do with you
the retina
is pretty much the brain
!
What does it mean to be introspective ?
Is that different from looking back on your past to try and understand yourself ?
Is looking back on your past to try and understand yourself a good thing ?
Or a bad case of not being in the present ?
a lot of what zen is about is reordering the past in a more coherent way
!
you can’t be present any more than you can be not present
!
if you look at what happened you are being present to what happened, its simply a state of attention, you are never not present
the notion of presence is a toxic european and greek philosophical trope and not asian or indian in origin !
what zen is about is so simple yet nobody seems prepared to do the necessaries !
1. read quality literature that makes you think about life and yourself, beware of the intrinsically voynich nature of translations !
2. get solitary contemplative time and substantially eschew entertainment
3. write as a way of developing yourself
!
you are filling your life with waste of time books, reading junk and when you meditate you will just turn over junk
!
you are filling your life with waste of time books, reading junk and when you meditate you will just turn over junk
!
you are filling your life with waste of time books, reading junk and when you meditate you will just turn over junk
a reddit zennist asks who would like to write a verse for his favorite
nanquan - zhaozhou (nansen - joshu) dialogue
?
joshu asked : it is said that ‘ the mind is not buddha; wisdom is not the way ’
, is there fault here ?
nansen replied : there is
joshu asked : where does the fault lie ? please, master, tell me
nansen replied : the mind is not buddha; wisdom is not the way
joshu immediately left
my reply
the fakes spit the old koans
joshu died long ago
meaningless his rambles on the internet airwaves
infinity left to arrive at where we are !
if you learn to pick out the errors in others thinking, you learn to pick out the errors in your own
!
if you learn to pick out the errors in others thinking, you learn to pick out the errors in your own
!
if you learn to pick out the errors in others thinking, you learn to pick out the errors in your own
one of the armaments that women have compared to men is their emotional immediacy, men know there’s not going to be a lot of rationality if they offend them and there will be consequences
one of the armaments that women have compared to men is their emotional immediacy, men know there’s not going to be a lot of rationality if they offend and there will be consequences
this is what the modern layman pang looks like, enlightenment is not some lovely state one drifts around in but the process of understanding and empathy
the more i look at modern writers like karl ove knausgaard, thomas bernhard and
w.g. sebald , the more i realise zen has been voided by them
that is, what is called zen is some sort of artifactual and misconstrued construction of what is done for real by these people !
zen like fisherman’s flies and lures catches fish on their fakeness !
the
shurangama sutra
1:162
i often thought to myself that these characteristics (ed. of the buddha) cannot be born of desire and love
why ?
the vapors of desire are coarse and murky
from foul and putrid intercourse comes a turbid mixture of pus and blood which cannot give off such a magnificent, pure, and brilliant concentration of
purple-golden light
and so i thirstily gazed upward, followed the buddha, and let the hair fall from my head
say you don’t mean dogen and the other great masters were celibate when they could be living happy family lives ?
say you don’t mean huineng and the other great masters were celibate when they could be living happy family lives ?
say you don’t mean johsu and the other great masters were celibate when they could be living happy family lives ?
say you don’t mean he and the other great masters were celibate when they could be living happy family lives ?
buddhism versus catholicism
just another bunch of meaningless words
homilies from jason
there are many, many who are not right
some that are half right
and very few that are right
it’s just a show for a lot of women
how expensive is their dinner they were brought to, where and how often are they vacationing, how big a wedding ring, what car did her husband get her, what designer clothes are their children wearing . .
how much do people steal from me ?
a lot, they hardly notice and if they do they’re not grateful !
trappist = trapped
!
I II
trappist = trapped
!
trappist = trapped
there’s an inevitable personal transparency to writing, relatives may not approve !
there’s an inevitable personal transparency to writing, relatives may not approve
each new epoch in our lives seems to open new arenas for disaster !
each epoch in our lives seems to open new arenas for disaster !
the tension between florid schizophrenia and the attention and detail the world requires to make it work
federico borrell garcνa
,
the falling solider shot while hamming it up for robert capa !
robert would lose his fiancιe
, gerda taro ten and a half months later
he never married
i think writing is a cruel, stupid and masochistic occupation, you’d have to be crazy to recommend it
i think writing is a cruel and stupid occupation, you’d have to be crazy to recommend it
don’t watch tv or listen to the radio, they drown out the contemplative aspect !
quotes by author
w. g. sebald
it is thanks to my evening reading that i am still more or less sane
the tension between the insanity of the world and the demands of reason
while the reader may not feel inclined to break into laughter on the basis of the material presented to him, it rings out all the louder behind the scenes of the work
teenagers are naturally oppositonal and as they age
, oppositional becomes establishment
teenagers are naturally oppositonal and as they age the oppositional becomes establishment
why did you leave out the very important variable of being childless or not, so significant in that society ?
ed. some idiot constructing the
imaginary life as a zen seeker
1000 years ago in china
!
when there is an overwhelming superior force, all you can do is keep out of the way and avoid trouble
!
when there is an overwhelming superior force, all you can do is keep out of the way and avoid trouble
!
when there is an overwhelming superior force, all you can do is keep out of the way and avoid trouble
what is the likelihood
of your ever winning a literary prize
?
its anti - likely
what is the likelihood of your ever winning a literary prize
?
its anti - likely
what is the likelihood of your ever winning a literary prize
?
its anti - likely
again
?
not again
!
again
?
not again
again
not again
missionizing
ewk christian (christian ewk!) pwns jehovah’s witness [insert r|zennist here]
why is it important whether jesus was the archangel michael or not ?
what is the point of imposing bad fictions on reality ?
let alone building one’s life around them
the vast mass of the socially functional insane dancing on the shores and sands of rational reality ?
its part of your attraction to others, a broad more intelligent view of life
they can’t change themselves but can appreciate it in others
note : advice given to my ex complaining about the narrow mindedness of a boyfriend
if you are going to say what world war
2 was about, it was the tension between the nazi decimation of its middle classes that ensured its defeat and the victory by more rational parties
while russia had decimated its army leadership and the middle class had long been gone, stalin made a decision after successive disasters from his own decision making to leave the control of the war to his generals, a strategy that basically worked though they had very heavy losses
when i look at
some-one promoting meditating and they don’t meditate
i think
they’re quite insane
yeah that’s
a good point your father makes if you hang around the barber shop, you’re gonna get your hair cut, he meant that the company you keep can influence your actions
i would just be wary of getting too bound up in other peoples agendas though, your student being shot and killed and your friend being jailed for ten years are by far the major issues
!
the trouble with writing is you are in a visionary space and you have to take what comes and not be too selective about what you use !
the trouble with writing is you are in a visionary space and you can’t be selective about what you write !
it takes a mother’s love to want to raise a child
!
it takes a mother’s love to want to raise a child
!
it takes a mother’s love to want to raise a child
it takes a mother’s love to raise a child
!
it takes a mother’s love to raise a child
!
it takes a mother’s love to raise a child
the mystery of r|zen to me is, how can people prefer to be so boringly trite ?
all the energy and interest comes from fighting ?
the mystery of r|zen to me is, how can people prefer to be so boringly trite ?
all the energy and interest comes from fighting
the mystery of r|zen to me is, how can people prefer to be so boringly trite ?
the mystery of r|zen to me is, how can people prefer to be so boringly trite
in his memoir,
dmitri nabokov recalled one of his last exchanges with his father
they spoke of butterflies, and of a bucolic valley near their home in switzerland that they had always meant to explore
tears suddenly welled in my fathers eyes, i asked him why
he replied that a certain butterfly was already on the wing; and his eyes told me he no longer hoped that he would live to pursue it again
nor would he ever visit that enchanted mountain valley on the far side of the lake
but perhaps, in my father’s memory, i shall
illusion, the flipside of enlightenment
enlightenment, the flipside of illusion
Illusion, the flipside of Enlightenment
enlightenment, the flipside of illusion
an interesting
account of dmitri nabokov, the son of vladimir and vera nabokov by brian boyd
so kim says i smell
i’ve always been smelly cuz i guess it’s a biofilm problem, don’t know what to do about it . . maybe bring an extra shirt if i’m working all day ? scrub more often when i shower ?
when i was about ten one of our family friends said about me he is very nice but he often smells bad
yeah i had this problem, its only fixed by diet and supplements
in fact i don’t use soap when i shower
for men anyway, when you have the diet right and supplements then women will find your smell attractive !
i’ve been eating at work but i think i just have to say no if it involves potatoes or sausages
yeah, the worst offenders
sausages are bad because of the uncooked rice and soy flours used
learn to read the ingredients !
you can’t have sugar or potatoes or grains
alphonse duadet’s short story the old couple is the most biting indictment of old age i have ever come across !
alphonse duadet’s short story the old couple is the most biting indictment of old age i have ever come across
rata tat tat
ass in a hat
i’m so high
the moon
low
rata tat tat
ass in a hat
i’m so high
the moon
looks
low
rata tat tat
ass in a hat
i’m so high
the moon
looks low
everybody is coming from very different places and going to very different places
there is no time, everything is pointless
!
there is no time, everything is pointless
my aversion to eating humans is simply the quality of the meat
you know what the diet they eat’s like !
entertainment is stimulation without interaction
interaction taxes the brain !
entertainment is stimulation without interaction
interaction taxes the brain
you aren’t interested in reasoned argument, only in reinforcing your own view of reality
you aren’t interested in reasoned argument, only in reinforcing your own view of reality !
why do i read and post on r|zen ?
the tsar bomba of koans !
you have no point but a few sophistical arguing techniques, the main one being elliptical, acting to your perceived advantage in argument !
you have no point but a few sophistical arguing techniques, the main one being elliptical to your perceived advantage in the argument !
you have no point but a few sophistical arguing techniques, the main one being elliptical, acting to your perceived advantage in the argument
you have no point but a few sophistical arguing techniques, the main one being elliptical to your perceived advantage in the argument
r|zen, the drugged and the insane
instructive to a point
but
grueling !
another day another drug ?
another day another drug
you are unable to grasp your avoidance of the point !
you seem unable to grasp your avoidance of the point !
you are unable to grasp your avoidance of the point
you seem unable to grasp your avoidance of the point
can we get a new koan of the month ?
a monk asked joshu
give me the cheat sheet
joshu gave the monk the cheat sheet
question : what was on the cheat seat
if you want to know you never will
if you don’t want to know you never will
jason writes
i’ve had a girl come to me saying she was bulimic, another who said she thought she was a whore
this was around when i was thirteen years old, i didn’t know what to say and all i did was listen !
jason writes
older women
once younger and prettier
my reply
older women
once younger and prettier
once children themselves
if i can’t make sense of something, i look at other writing or more of the talk to make up my mind
!
if i can’t make sense of something, i look at other writing or more of the talk to make up my mind
in my view language is prior to philospophy
the flaw of the essentialist language paradigm is it reverses that view
!
in my view language is prior to philospophy
and incoherent
incoherence
funnily enough i was reading a philosophical statement about this saying that you are not saying anything different from incoherence
that is : incoherent incoherence = incoherence
however, i think that there must be special cases where incoherent incoherence = coherence
?
a bit like monkeys typing sir henry neville/shakespeare
?
it doesn’t happen
!
you can’t empty empty is another way of putting it
!
i gotta say that writing is brutal like nothing else
chews you up and spits you out at the end of the day !
i gotta say that writing is brutal like nothing else
i gotta say that writing is that brutal like nothing else
there is intrinsically a lack of definition in disagreement
!
there is intrinsically a lack of definition in disagreement
keep clear of politics, observe and keep your mouth shut
!
keep clear of politics, observe and keep your mouth shut
my
grandfather-in-law was a
jewish-american officer who oversaw nazi pows in ww
2 france
years after the war, one of his prisoners (ed. obergefreter k. roedelbach) sent him this
illustrated book depicting his time in the camp
its really
a journey , a journey into all the things that go on here, that create barriers to really being in touch, in touch with something that has no name, cannot be defined with words, but can be experienced, this stillness which exists even as the thoughts are whirling around and has resistances coming up, stillness is also there, and yet these forces are pulling us away, but that can be seen
zenthrowaway
17 replies
she lost me at cannot be defined with words
anything can be defined with words.
definitions are not the thing itself, sure, but that doesn’t mean that definitions are impossible or useless. i <3 dictionaries
my reply
hmm, i picked that phrase out as well, i think the use of defined is key
so she’s not saying definitions are impossible or useless, but that her subject matter is not definable which i agreed with !
i have more qualms with her use of stillness
zenthrowaway
17 writes that he disagrees with the idea that there is a subject matter that cannot be defined
my reply
so actually you are saying that all subject matter is defineable, ie can be described by an agreed meaning
yet we disagree
?
zenthrowaway
17 replies
that’s correct
definitions do not have to be
100% agreed upon by every person in order to be definitions
my reply
when we completely disagree and there’s no common basis, what then ?
when the definitions have glaring oppositions
you know there has to be a basic coherence in agreement for the definition to be meaningful otherwise the word is useless ?
like ewk’s scriptual buji zen versus say springwater zen which is based on personal experience and meditative observation as the priority !
there is almost no overlap and the word zen ceases to have any general meaning, but rather means different things in different contexts !
any subject matter can be defined unmeaningfully, but meaningful definition is a subset of what can be defined !
i think you have to say that definitions need to be meaningful so tautologically you are at there being definitions which are not able to be defined !
a definition is a cross association of coherent meanings, so you can say that everything that has a coherent meaning you can define, but the absolute or infinity or god or whatever you want to call it, also includes incoherence and coherent incoherence and incoherent coherence . .
zenthrowaway
17 replies
if a handful of people can use the same definition in a conversation, then it was coherent and meaningful
with a bar that low then, yes, I think that anything can be defined. Infinity, god, incoherence, whatever.
my reply
yeah, but i am saying that where there is substantial disagreement as with the word zen you have a situation where a definition is tautologically undefined which is contrary to your assertion that there is no subject matter which cannot be defined
the subject matter of zen is not defined because you cannot even compartmentalise the different stances, any discussion of any stance leads to more disagreement and even movement on the original stance !
a word can have different meanings, but not oppositional meanings in the same claimed context and remain usefully defined !
that we have words like this (eg. zen) shows there is subject matter that cannot be defined usefully, or rather is voynich
so in as since anything can be defined
, but if its not to be voynich then you have to break definition into classes of voynich and coherent or useful
to go further the nature of meaning is for cross associations of menaing to cohere into a defintion, this cross assocation has to be meaningful !
but since not everything is meaningful then there are things outside "defintion"
zenthrowaway
17 replies
i don’t think substantial disagreement is relevant to definitions
if
95% of the world suddenly got some sort of brain disease, and nobody could agree on what cat means anymore, that doesn’t negate the fact that cats have already been well defined
my reply
a brain disease that obviated agreement on what constituted a cat would also obviate agreement on anything else
so you are hoisted on your own pertard and substantial disagreement is relevant to definitions
everything can be defined, but since not everything can be defined meaningfully then we have tautologically that not everything can be defined !
zenthrowaway
17 replies
I’m not sure what you’re suggesting
do you really think, if that happened, that cat would no longer mean anything ?
cat means something now, it would mean something even if most people are idiots
my reply
read the first line of my reply please !
you are posting the idea of the objective world which is a definition at the same time as destroying the base for objective world
you are claiming for yourself a separation from this brain disease so there is some supposed outside objective view where no disagreement exists, yet the terms of your argument are themselves tautologically disagreeable
zenthrowaway
17 replies
yes, it’s irrelevant
like I said, if only
5% of people understand what words mean, those words all still have definitions
just like, right now, only an incredibly small percentage of organisms on earth understand what most words mean
most organisms aren’t that smart
the organisms (mostly humans, although I think some other animals are smart enough) that are smart enough to know what a cat is basically all agree on what a cat is
The existence of stupid people doesn’t negate the meaning of words
my reply
that
5% is
100% of people compos mentis enough to understand what words mean, if they substantially disagree on the definition, then the definition is useless and therefore tautologically undefined
what you are doing is defining definition to only exist amongst people who agree !
so disagreement is of the nature of infinity or god which gives r|zen its energy and boards where you have agreement enforced like r|zens or r|buddhism where agreement is enforced lack that energy and its proponents come here looking for energy !
zenthrowaway
17 replies
irony is a word that people can’t agree on
why ?
because many people are too lazy to learn what it means, but are perfectly willing to pretend to understand what it means
does that mean the word irony is not clearly defined ?
no
that means that some people are lazy and refuse to learn
my reply
well i think irony has, as you point out has a common area of agreement, enough to make a
quasi-definition anyway
but that’s not the argument, your position is that all subject matter can be defined and i’m going to tack my own qualification on as all subject matter can be defined usefully which is what i think you intend
but there clearly exist words where you do not have a useful definition ie agreed sufficiently
zenthrowaway
17 replies
if a word can be used in a conversation between people, isn’t it useful ?
my reply
well it can be useful, but it also can be not useful
you are continually trying to create a context of utility for your view of definition but of necessity that creates a new category of not useful or voynich or meaningless that is tautological with not all subject matter can be defined usefully
zenthrowaway
17 replies
my suggestion is that there is no subject matter that cannot be translated into a definition that is useful to at least some people
my reply
the fact that a definition is not useful to other people implies that not all subject matter can be defined usefully
whereas your original contention is all subject matter can be defined usefully
your new contention is a tautololgy all subject matter can be defined usefully to those people who find it useful which doesn’t really say anything !
zenthrowaway
17 replies
those two contentions are identical in meaning
the word useful doesn’t necessitate useful in every context
if i write a computer program that’s only useful to me, and nobody else, then it’s useful
my contention implies that all subject matters can be summarized and described by language, which the
OP is disputing
my reply
if I write a computer program that’s only useful to me, and nobody else, then its useful
no, its useful to you and not useful to others, in other words useful or useless has to have a context to be meaningful !
otherwise the program would be useless to you and useful to others !
my contention implies that all subject matters can be summarized and described by language, which the
OP is disputing
this is the same as your saying all subject matter can be defined
i don’t dispute that, but it doesn’t mean anything since the definitions may also be nonsense and given that then all subject matter can be defined !
however as i have many times gone over in this thread, if you try to make your original statement have meaning by saying all subject matter can be defined usefully then it self contradicts since useful excludes something else definitions can be, that is not useful
zenthrowaway
17 replies
and just to be clear, i’m not suggesting that some definitions will only be understood by one person
i’m suggesting that every subject matter can be defined in such a way that multiple people can understand and use the same definition to communicate
my reply
that just boils down to multiple people who agree to the same definition which runs into the same problems as i have discussed previously !
ok, back to the
OP
its really a journey, a journey into all the things that go on here, that create barriers to really being in touch, in touch with something that has no name, cannot be defined with words, but can be experienced . .
cannot be defined with words, but can be experienced being relevant here
she’s actually repeating a well known philosophical proposition which in english is that reading or writing or understanding wisdom literature doesn’t necessarily make you wise
this is the third mode of agrippa which i have posted about
previously
you are putting up quite a fight and its obvious that a denial of this third mode is important to you and i have to say most of r|zen, those inhabiter’s of armchair zen, a belief that you can have full knowledge without weaving your life into the more ultimate truth !
this third mode is also what toni packer who was susan schepp’s teacher meant when she talked about "the discovery of the light", the title of one of her books !
what would zen masters say of ISIS !
well oddly enough there is a very famous buddhist text which offers the joys and services of
apsaras in heaven as a reward for an ascetic life, though
ISIS does seem to want sex slaves in this life as well !
you can have complete social control of territories you conquer, but enemy airpower reaches past those boundaries, so
ISIS has this in common with zen, volunteering one’s life for final defeat
so i guess its some millennial doomsday sect !
its really
a journey , a journey into all the things that go on here, that create barriers to really being in touch, in touch with something that has no name, cannot be defined with words, but can be experienced, this stillness which exists even as the thoughts are whirling around and has resistances coming up, stillness is also there, and yet these forces are pulling us away, but that can be seen
susan schepp, caught in the volunteer trap . . .
not bad for a menopausal female
!
. .
o
)
a poem by jack canfield of the springwater center
given time, water works a path through stone
no wonder then that love, kept at the task
can enter even this cold heart
my
r e p l y
blood cuts a path
turning the stone
inside out
be wary of getting too bound up in other people’s agendas
i would be wary of getting too bound up in other people’s agendas
i would just be wary of getting too bound up in other people’s agendas
i would just be wary of getting too bound up in other people’s agendas though
all the great zen masters were very autistic !
zen itself is the autistic reconstruction of a more valid theory of reality than the social consensus
You’ll gain an enormous mental strength
ed. a claim for what zen or buddhist practice does
why are you such a closed minded cretin then ?
schizophrenic really, both you and the notion of practice
has your zen practice resulted in acceptance, freedom, lightness, appreciation, openness, humor, humility, courage, balance, creativity, resourcefulness, adaptability, etc. ?
it seems to just make for broke very closed minded people from years of observation
life malfunctionals because ‘ practice ’ is some weird stupidity !
it does keep some people off drink and drugs however, that would have to be its major benefit
if you look at the originals of the early texts and not translations, they don’t have a notion of practice, as far as i can see the idea comes from christian science !
western buddhism and zen is an almost total
re-invention !
waste of time going to see an eclipse imo, they’re no big deal and there will be plenty of video
the real eclipse nobody wants to know about of course
waste of time going to see an eclipse imo, they’re no big deal and there will be plenty of video
the actual poem in pale fire is very weak, nabakov was fluent in russian, english and french from an early age and i think this is a case of a jack of all trades
however having read the book much younger and
listening to it again i am far more appreciative of its genius, its
quasi-sympathetic portrayal/mockery of the homosexual charles kinbot based in part i assume on his brother sergey who was most likely executed in berlin at the end of
WWII for helping an english airman
but its main theme is how hubricity blinds us and our views of reality are a constant distortion
abstraction vladimir nabakov does not meta well, but its there in the work !
the
plot
mostly i feel that what i strive for is a complete waste of time
mostly i feel that a lot of what i strive for is a complete waste of time
mostly i feel that what i strive for is a waste of time
mostly i feel that a lot of what i strive for is a waste of time
mostly i feel that what i strive for is quite meaningless
mostly i feel that a lot of what i strive for is quite meaningless
the nabakov clan
, the dream of
ada
ada as
science fiction !
if there’s missionaries, there’s got to be
anti-missionaries doesn’t there ?
if there’s missionaries, there’s got to be
anti-missionaries doesn’t there
bitter experience has taught me that celibacy is a fruit
!
bitter experience has taught me the fruit of celibacy is . . i n f i n i t y
bitter experience has taught me the fruit of celibacy
yeah all you occultists are closet sadists !
yeah all you occultists are closet sadists
so says the goat sacrificing baby hanging occultist
!
wow, that’s a mouthful;
I am astonished you can weave seemingly coherent sentences together
!
its the slow cooked goat brains doused in lemon juice that does it : o )
i understand you people eat them raw ?
pompous ass
!
inflated hubric unreal
pompous ass
inflated hubric unreal
vitamin mk
7/k
2 doesn’t want to be too high in a single dose as you get a very high plasma peak, rather higher doses should be split into two smaller doses a day
i used to take
caruso’s 90 micrograms twice a day but now only seem to need it once a day
ah, he’s an r|awakened r|psychedelic, with his brain dribbling out his ears !
i was standing at the window which is quite large looking at the wind and rain on the farm and trees thinking how much contrast was between the warm room with a hot woodheater and the wintry conditions outside, then the glass in the window cracked and split and a broken gap appeared in it and the wind rushed in and the room became derelict like an abandoned house . .
what i have noticed with message boards is good ones become bad because they then attract a bevy of schizophrenics to take advantage of that and also people who want the board to discriminate against views they do not favour slime their way into becoming mods
so basically unless you have sole control you are dealing with huge biases and distortions from these two effects
let the crazed missionaries think the world is improved by their trying to imprint their view on r|zen
i use it for my writing and to think things through
at the end of the day what do you take away ?
jason writes
love for women
love for an unadulterated solo life
i write on the web to suit myself and
not to pander to the million amathiatics
its like your tennis posts, they develop your thinking and skill as a coach, that’s all there is to any posting and if you do that you get an immediate tangible benefit and that’s the only benefit there is !
money from this sort of thing is chasing a dog for its shit !
amathia is
the blindness that comes from being who we are ?
a good page on
dahui zonggao
the essay and translation is by miriam levering of the university of tennessee
she has a background in philosophy and the difference shows, so much better in quality than the usual politically indoctrinated translations !
well enlightenment is not some mute state for a start, if one has competence it shows in the ability to talk or write meaningfully about about how reality is !
the regurgitation of clichιs and hackneyed concepts is not meaningful !
drug taking is not enlightenment nor are running psychwards or sex clubs !
you are not consistent between replies
terminal i have to be rightitis i’d say
!
you are not consistent between replies. terminal i have to be rightitis i’d say
!
nothing worse (ed. ewk!) than a boring repetitive schizophrenic
!
. .
o
(
nothing worse than a boring repetitive schizophrenic
!
nothing worse than a boring repetitive schizophrenic
have you had any real life zen experience at all ?
you disapprove of
dahui who stated clearly that mind to mind transmission was the only authentic zen and clearly he was not talking about jokes ?
Recently there are a group of phony people who sell the Buddhas teaching retail and practice a conglomeration of quasi chan everywhere
They assure one another of each others enlightenment by uttering meaningless words, one after another, and they mislead and deceive future generations. This is causing the right teaching to decline
The teaching of our school, which is based on mind-to-mind transmission and direct teaching, will soon disappear, and so we cannot but carefully examine this problem
the thing is you are not enlightened, you haven’t had dai kenhso so you try to modify zen to fit your experience of life
what makes someone a zen master ?
well reading alan watts by all accounts on r|zen !
dahui says its mind to mind transmission which is basically the dai kensho experience
samadhi is the usual buddhist nonsense veering to bullshit term
only retards would give it the time of day and they do !
samadhi is the usual buddhist nonsense veering to bullshit term
only retards would give it the time of day and they do !
no the insane never joke do they ?
why not talk to your psychiatrist about getting
ECT for your many mental health tissues, its a lot better than it used to be and given the state of your brain what does it matter if half of it is fried, let’s hope they get the right half !
if you are not enlightened then why do you think you know
, or if you are please tell us more !
all religion is larping, zen included !
let go of questions and reality will reveal itself
as yet another question ?
a know-nothing’s awareness is of greater scope than a know-it-all’s.
this is because reality as we know it ultimately comes from nothing at all
no comment !
. .
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cut back on contact to get rid of someone
lana del rey’s weakness is not being ruthless enough with a useless entourage and so has accumulated a backing group that amplifies rather than remedies her weaknesses as a singer and writer
plus her alcoholism has left an indelible mark !
jason writes
i went to a live recording of one of those ‘ late night shows ’
, it was dreadfully unfunny
jason writes
jeeves and wooster is a very funny show, i’m a depressive too !
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p.g. wodehouse lived on long island for a while, his stories set in new york really cover the music and entertainment scene well as he wrote lyrics for shows
jason writes
well i asked my friend christine how her day went an hour and a half ago and she hasn’t responded, maybe she’s not interested
you don’t understand the social status side !
say you were dating and then she has to explain to her parents she is dating a guy who delivers pizza !
you are now past the age that is acceptable !
yeah it is sort of embarrassing
but it’s sort of good that it keeps the women away ?
it will keep the good ones away but not the very damaged ones, beware !
yeah celibacy is not so much a choice but a lack of appropriate partners
lucky for me i prefer celibacy, i think
christine texts back
I don’t not want to talk to you I just don’t like texting
And I’ve been busy working
I’m doing my own thing
my comment
I’m doing my own thing
translation, it doesn’t include you
i’d leave her alone, why intrude where you are not really wanted ?
jason replies
not me and you thing !
its very hard to project the future
!
its very hard to project the future
!
its very hard to project the future
since you are not enlightened, why do you expect what you say to have any validity ?
drugs don’t give insight, but retard it i am afraid !
drugs don’t give insight, but retard it i am afraid !
anyone who claims there are no enlightened people is justifying their not being enlightened !
anyone who claims there are no enlightened people is justifying their not being enlightened
women have been half interested in me but i was obviously too damaged
if you are childless you are looking for depth to life elsewhere and figuring that out is what mysticism/infinity is all about !
its not a voluntary situation, rather one was propelled to it by the factual circumstances of one’s life !
you are in the unusual situation of me second guessing your future from my own life experience
i have stayed at two tibetan retreat centers, i found the people nice which is a bit different from zen, but it is a cultural religion . . . its basically a bit stupid, but as i say the people are nice and the centers are in interesting rural places !
i can see why the
tolmin gorge resonated with dante !
you can say the relative is a manifestation of the absolute, but you can’t say it actually is the absolute
!
you can say the relative is a manifestation of the absolute, but you can’t say it actually is the absolute
you can say the relative is a manifestation of the absolute, but you can’t say it actually is
!
you can say the relative is a manifestation of the absolute, but you can’t say it actually is
so basically you are framing the absolute in relative terms, but the absolute is not the relative so the framing does not frame or apply to the absolute
what talk of understanding or not understanding can be made in the absolute ? those are both absent
what talk of understanding or not understanding can be made in the absolute ?
what talk of What talk of understanding or not understanding can be made in the absolute ?
absolute being a dream and
non-dream !
absolute being a dream and
non-dream
in the same sense the absolute implies relative so you understanding also implies you not understanding
?
how do you ride both those horses ?
best to forget about it and never talk of it again
that’s not enlightenment but the ignorant world view
!
in the same sense the absolute implies relative so you understanding also implies you not understanding
?
how do you ride both those horses ?
everything is
co-dependent how can you single out anything
?
that’s plain enough for you to understand
?
everything is
co-dependent how can you single out anything
?
everything is
co-dependent how can you single out anything
?
that’s plain enough for you to understand
?
everything is
co-dependent how can you single out anything
?
when women look at a man
, their first question is how can i use him
?
when women look at a man
, their first question is how can i use him
an astrophysicist is privy to how the universe works
but at home the machinations of women are unseen by him
a nagarjuna quote
i can see i am getting older, but don’t feel like i am going to die ever and that’s right
!
i can see i am getting older, but don’t feel like i am going to die ever and that’s right
so, a lot of nagarjuna boils down to this
plus and minus define each other
your’re a victim of your own projections
things slide back and forth
but you cannot catch up
he is a victim of his own projections
things slide back and forth
but he cannot catch up
ewk, a victim of his own projections
zen slides back and forth
but he cannot catch up
ewk
zen slides back and forth
infinity
arrival
infinity
infinity
arrival
departure
a ceaseless
coming
and
going
in the drug world your idiot gabble passes for something ?
in the drug world your idiot gabble passes for something
what is the ‘ doubt-filled investigation ’ dahui talks about ?
can you arrive at infinity
?
i doubt it
those that arrive are very few !
they are called patriarchs
the rabble have so little confidence in their veracity they do nothing but slander them !
what is the ‘ doubt-filled investigation ’ dahui talks about ?
can you arrive at infinity
?
What is the ‘ doubt-filled investigation ’ Dahui talks about ?
can you arrive at infinity
?
sepehr writes
You’re better off just taking more frequent walks in solitude. Just avoid the retreat stuff. If you’re in the need for social events, I think visiting book clubs are better
I recommend watching the film
Hana-bi, which captures the spirit of Zen with one subplot. How the main character’s friend, both being police cops, responded to his tragedy in the film
Hana-bi is what Zen is all about. I felt this subplot was better executed than the main plot to be honest
Basically, one of the characters becomes paralyzed from being shot by the Yakuza, and his wife and child leave him, probably due to how he spent more time at work than with family sadly — or how they don’t want to feel depressed seeing him in a wheelchair
He is in a wheelchair but still has upper-body mobility. He contemplates suicide, but the main character advises against this course of action, encouraging him to paint instead to cope. Initially, there was great pain as he aimlessly watched the ocean trying to come to terms with his plight, and even a suicide attempt with swallowing pills! He survives it, and he gradually grows to become more accepting of his circumstances and contented in his solitude
As the film proceeds, we see him starting to become more relaxed in his daily contemplating solitude staring at the ocean, trees, and flowers; however, watch catches his attention more are the petals of orchids, which provides inspiration for his own artwork of animals, children, etc.
This reminded me of Schopenhauer’s views on aesthetic experiences, largely similar to Andrew’s views on how we communicate with artists, when we read their works deeply, as a way to deal with the insanity of the world, creating our own calm ponds in the corner of the discord that is mankind’s march
I recommend watching this film and being more like the paralyzed man, after he became more contented and relaxed. Pick up an artistic craft, etc. It’s hard to do, but I feel dropping Hegel and going for the superior Schopenhauer is the first step
Hegel was a terrible thinker and charlatan whereas Schopenhauer was brilliant. My goal is to fully read The World as Will and Representation after watching this film because I was astounded by the parallels I drew between Schopenhauer’s ideas relating to the role aesthetic experiences play with that subplot
Also, one thing that astounded me about
Hana-bi is how many parallels I noticed with the artwork of some Persian miniatures I’ve seen
if there’s a simple theme its the endless work the two depressives bertie wooster and reginald jeeves, put into other people’s lives while leaving their own short
if there’s a simple theme its the endless work the two depressives bertie and jeeves, put into other people’s lives while leaving their own short
the jeeves stories are a form of surrealism, the surrealism consists of an over the top degree of
co-incidence !
the jeeves stories are a form of surrealism, the surrealism consists of an unnatural degree of
co-incidence !
podcasts drive me crazy, i don’t know why ?
podcasts drive me crazy, i don’t know why
i don’t know what it is about vipassana, bit stupid and no understanding !
heads down their ostrich holes !
my reworking of one of the homilies just below by jason
at the restaurant where i work
jason its so nice outside
!
there’s been a full moon !
a full moon
?
that explains what’s going on around here !
jason’s homilies
at the restaurant where i work
jason its so nice outside
!
me : there’s been a full moon !
a full moon
?
that explains what’s going on around here !
hardly ever feel like i’m my age
either i’m acting like a child, beyond my years, or just some years off
the world is full of fuckers
what’s most important to them is fucking
why do people like to talk about me ?
i guess they find me more interesting than their own selves
!
that you are asking for validation of correct understanding is itself invalid
you can go from a pole to a solar sea and you will never find correct understanding
some drugs like mdma are used for post traumatic stress disorder, that’s being used medicinally, ie some brain damage from the drug is acceptable given the overall context and on balance there can be considerable functional
improvement
but in the non medicinal context it makes no sense to take on any brain damage damage at all and as for a more holistic viewpoint in that context i have never seen it, it is as brad warner describes it, a wrong minded lens !
lecco on lake como, lombardy
most so called zen teachers are crazy stupid in the wrong way, there’s really nothing to recommend
!
most so called zen teachers are crazy stupid in the wrong way, there’s really nothing to recommend them
your problem (ed. anxiety and
OCD) is a paucity of worthwhile content to displace the junk
most people involved with zen read more junk to replace the junk already there !
try
reading quality
non duality is a bit of a sex club, destructive to relationships, as you (jason) are not in a relationship its (ed. a lisa cairns retreat) not going to damage you in that way
i’m sorry i have had to deal with so many hubric nutcases of your ilk !
look up hubric
, why you druggies are so aggressively missionistic is beyond me
!
ed. a lsd user in this case !
oddly, for a term (ed. emptiness ) bandied about so much, i have never ever seen a discussion on translating the term and what the original chinese is !
what would be useful is a philological approach as to what it actually means as used by ch’an and if there is any corresponding term in english, since plainly emptiness does not cover it !
philology is the actual use in the historical context which in this case is not sanskrit or buddhism, but ch’an
i notice that japanese zen doesn’t really use it !
so in action you are like the flight of a bird, and in stillness you are like open space
in action you are like a three legged dog and in stillness you play shooter games and overdose on tea
that’s why you are not enlightened ewk !
no amount of pretentious posting on r|zen or r|sangha will make you otherwise and one day you will just walk away from your insane stupidity
or go back on risperdal !
you’ve said you can tell a lot about a woman by her jewelry but i don’t think i can say what’s good looking or bad looking jewelry
its more that jewelry reflects the character of the person !
i feel your central issue is pot and diet/supps etc and unless those are satisfactory pretty much everything you do will slip away from you !
i don’t think you would be wasting your time going (ed. to the retreat)
, its more this question of things slipping past you
jason writes
my oneitis threw out her hookah and got a tattoo on her hand
i was going to like jacklyn’s new profile picture but i held myself back
my
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yeah keep your distance !
just remember
too much autism under one roof
will save you a lot of grief
you need
erica
brad warner on why drugs are not effective on the mystical path
all
the drugs did was alter reality and make everything less clear than it had been before
i kind of feel we are put on this earth, we are manifestations of the universe and the universe wants something (for lack of a better way to put it) and what it wants is to see through this lens and my main duty is to keep that as clear as possible so that whatever is behind this can see through it
the drugs never touched the core of who i was, they just kinda made a different lens through which to see that, that was a distorted sorta fun house mirror lens that wasn’t useful so i just gave up on the whole thing
rengetsu or
real life versus hagiography
if she had lived in the tang and song dynasties where the population was substantially illiterate we would have embellished saintly waffle, but since she lived in the nineteenth century we have accounts of her that give a touchingly realistic picture of a woman harassed by life !
my retranslation of one of her poems
the wind
dusts the river with snow
fragile beauty
lost to sight
zakaj asks
how does one find a little bit of respite from the robotic nature of one’s self
?
shikantaza ?
my
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meditation is to show how one’s mind works as well as problem solving so its not respite
but as i have mentioned before travelling in scenic areas or by the sea and enjoying the beauty of nature gives respite !
what interests you ?
you need that sense of fugue with infinity, where do you find it ?
zakaj writes
when I used to hop from one thing to the next this Guru, that religion it was like falling in love again and again
I was overjoyed at the freshness of the discovery of what past minds believed, what they lived and died for and I was willing to roleplay as/with them
or when I was always worried about money . . . that served to cover up what is facing me now and what is it that is facing me now ? what is this life in front of men
? it’s all so heavy
something breaks down and suddenly you can’t fool yourself anymore now the cloud of unknowing always flies overhead . . . what even is real
?
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there’s no refuge is there ?
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well the plus side is one doesn’t have to constantly chase the endless bullshit of humanity
the net is full of bombastic drug deranged idiots writing meaningless nonsense like it means something ?
the net is full of pompous drug deranged idiots writing meaningless nonsense like it means something ?
the net is full of pompous drug deranged idiots writing meaningless nonsense like it means something
a quote from
chih-kung ho-shang (418-514) followed by my retranslation
if you love the sacred and hate the secular
youll float and sink in the
birth-and-death sea
the passions exist dependent on mind
have
no-mind, and how can they bind you
!
without troubling to discriminate
or cling to forms
youll attain the way naturally
in a moment of time
sucked in by florid nonsense and despising your everyday experience
you exchange one form of passion for another
stick to your own truths and you won’t be fooled
a hypertensive, cannabis smoking, phenibut taking
semi-recovered but unrepentant drug addict/sometime dealer ?
, married with kids claims he doesn’t have aspergers syndrome
Funny thing is I’ve been married for
15 years. I have a nice sex life with my wife but she still looks worried if I joke about being gay. I’ve never had a single sexual feeling towards a male, but I do like shoes and art a lot. I also have lots of gays friends and I’m open about the fact that I like to hang out with gay men a lot more than I like hanging out with straight men
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autistic spectrum is the more general category than aspergers !
gender blurring being a signal determinant !
zen is suicide except most of those in it are not intelligent enough to off themsleves
!
zen is suicide except most of those in it are not intelligent enough to off themsleves
!
zen is suicide except most of those in it are not intelligent enough to off themsleves
zen got reinvented in the west as a sex club
!
zen got reinvented in the west as a sex club
ted hughes was absolutely not the right husband for sylvia plath, its hard to be believe she could fuck up so badly, she would have had a wide array of admirers to choose from !
I II III
her
final novel would have been destroyed by him for sure !
its just unfortunate, our worst life mistakes we make ourselves !
non celibate zen is trying to ride two horses going in different directions
!
non celibate zen is trying to ride two horses going in different directions
!
non celibate zen is trying to ride two horses going in different directions
the predominant form of zen in the west is actually a political product of the meiji era in japan and monks were required to get married since celibate monks had too much influence and effectively zen became a propaganda arm for the extreme nationalism of imperial japan
in fact historically zen has been strongly celibate and from experience i can say that
non celibate zen makes for a lot of stupidity and craziness
zen on the web is mainly some sort of refuge for the drug damaged, yet another metamorphosis !
mahasattva fu had a wife and children yet is highly regarded by yuan wu and his contemporaries
sure, he sold them into slavery but marriage didn’t stop him from pursuing the way
yuan wu wasn’t enlightened, sylvia plath was enlightened
pursuit of the way is an illusion !
all the recent research is showing that any form (even if you don’t lose consciousness) of concussion is a problem, you can’t reverse it, you can only avoid it in the future and also respect your brain by not getting drunk or smoking pot !
the degree of damage for this sort of thing you can only tell by what happens and you look back in a year !
the/an interesting thing about the
later virgin of the rocks is mary who looks a living human compared to the deathlike angel is more comfortable with john the baptist than the baby jesus
the subtle genius of leonardo !
terse Zen-like sayings are not all that helpful
why. not.
terse
Zen-like sayings are not all that helpful
why. not.
it just amazes me the intensity of schizophrenia
leo tolstoy , dillon123
, the virgin of the rocks
for what
and
why ?
it just amazes me all the energy put into schizophrenia
leo tolstoy
, dillon123 , the virgin of the rocks
for what
and
why ?
its not good for the circadian rhythm to look at a screen during sleeping hours !
i always work under a red light during those selfsame hours
another crazy
ghost story really, with zen’s usual promotion of suicide !
its a meme and far from original to zen !
its internally inconsistent, it takes a strong man to haul a coffin around, not one at death’s door
i suppose if the lid had a good seal he could asphyxiate, why not put that detail in, the choking sounds as he suffocated ?
is that why the bell rang, to cover those sounds ?
its not possible to relate philosophical notions of being and not being to laws of physics, it doesn’t work !
you can relate it in a very general sense of the development of the laws of physics and astrophysics being a never ending process with new discoveries over the very long term pushing theories through continual shifts in perspective and content
prediction effectiveness depends on a limited context !
the mystical is without walls !
what makes this episode
exceptional is it draws on p.g. wodehouse’s experience working as a lyrics writer for new york musical shows !
wodehouse never had any biological children, there’s always some sad melancholy in his stories about family avoidant men !
there’s really quite a bit of spiritual import in his stories if you care to look !
having owned many message boards my advice is basically don’t delete unless spam
i know zen_mystical has a long ban list, but its run as an edited magazine !
dillon, you are ok if you stick
to recounting your direct experience, the moment you veer off into your theoretical bullshit you are hardly effectively advertising your position !
if what you have worked out is so right, why are you using zen_mystical to promote your insane viewpoints ?
why
?
how much more of a profound difference can be between us if i can say psychedelic experiences are meaningless in terms of mystical realities and you are claiming that they are some sort of true foundational stone !
the beginning and end problem of any drug is does it do any permanent brain damage and i have yet to meet or come across anyone who has done drugs or alcohol this hasn’t happened to
the problems with psychedelics is not addiction, but brain damage !
in your case because of your seven years pot use, that is hugely significant !
dillon i can tell you this but it goes straight past you, please respect the purpose of zen_mystical which is to provide an assist for people interested in what the real mysticism is about, not some platform you can missionize your erroneous views from !
i really don’t understand this missionize thing, like ewk and the rest of r|zren, no interest in their own discovery, all just creepy failed missionaries . . why ?
zen_mystical has a tiny readership btw, you would do at least as well setting up your own subreddit !
you just don’t accept how far apart our viewpoints are, they are not compatible, strike out on your own, you will get viewers !
i don’t want to correspond with you, move to your own subreddit
!
actually reading this portion quoted just below of what you wrote, i think you were damaged by the mushrooms, you have low brain derived neurotropic factor !
_____________________________
The first time I (ed. dillon) prepared myself to do mushrooms, I had basically cut off the world for seven days, meditated for major parts of the days, and did ritual, didn’t use the computer or phone
Then I psyched myself up, and to take it, I had ground it up and put it in a
half-drunken protein drink, it was a thick substance which smelled awful and was
wretch-inducing and even the memory now triggers my gag reflexes !
I then drank it down and sat solemnly, and then had an amazing six hour experience diving through my mind !
I did it three other times, because it was the narrative in my head at the time following the events of life, and being in sync with synchronicities and my meditations and what was happening, and each time it was something I dreaded knowing I’d have to take
The fourth and final time, I had a horrible time, and I never did them again after that.
At the time, I was doubting doing them the fourth time, and when I had the awful experience, it felt like a confirmation of ‘ you learned all you can from this ’
, and in this state I received a line which said ‘ Binah is Hypnosis ’
Several years later, I decided to take a hypnosis course, and my Qabalah studies finally clicked !
There’s nothing addicting about mushrooms
, I’ve never done chemical drugs like acid
, never would want to — so I can’t speak of them, or those who do them
However, mushrooms are a death simulator
, and I think every adult should have the right to experience it in a ritual setting !
beware aztec princes and princesses they are a murderous, victimizing people and culture, mexico and south america are a reflection of their people’s genetic heritage !
jason replies
an aztec prince and princess came into the pizzeria yesterday, i can see how they’d murder me
a full moon
confused magpies
warbling
a full moon
white frost
confused magpies
warbling
virgin of the rocks
I II
i knew something profound was coming my way, i should never have played with fire and i did and i got very burnt
princess diana
talking to her speech consultant, peter settelen
my
comment
very intelligent, but prone to taking that autistic wrong turning so fatal to her happiness and eventually contributed to her death !
why did mother teresa relate to her, they were both that combination of intelligent and wrong turnings, elizabeth bishop’s
disaster !
a keyboard can generate endless worlds, i think this is more a reflection on the worlds it generates than the keyboard
or is it ?
a keyboard can generate endless worlds, i think this is more a reflection on the worlds it generates than the keyboard
i’m donating blood about three times a year now, potential health benefits are depletion of white blood cells and the invigoration of stem cells making the replacements and perhaps reducing the iron loading in the brain and flow on effects from reducing any
alzhiemer’s like action !
professor douglas kell says that supposedly sterile red blood cells were seen to contain dormant microbes, which also has implications for blood transfusions
there is incontrovertible evidence that alzheimers disease has a dormant microbial component, and that this can be woken up by iron dysregulation
removing this iron will slow down or prevent cognitive degeneration — we can’t keep ignoring all of the evidence
incidently it is bad news to donate blood if you are deficient in vitamin
A, without adequate vitamin
A you will deplete the pool of stem cells !
some
good news , i’m
O+
dillon
123 writes
Okay, well it’s not possible to turn back a clock
I also enjoy the use of pot and I had paralysis of nerves which pot restored function of with yoga and stretching and intuitive methods !
Tumeric and exercise work enough when there’s no extremes of stress
I have seven years use to blame for my schizophrenia and super wackiness, what is your excuse ?
my
r e p l y
being enlightened at an early age !
there are plenty of people who are living who smoke pot and have their wits about them
on how to fuck you up for sure !
there are plenty of people who are living who smoke pot and have their wits about them
on how to fuck you up, sure !
pot heads; happy
early alzheimers
net zen seems to be about justifying drug use, that is what you (ed. dillon
123) are using your time for, why if its such a satisfactory deal ?
It was just that in ten years I attained great awakening
each year i understood more !
then i smoked pot and lost everything !
You do realize what reading about awakenings are supposed to do right ?
yeah fill idiots more full of bullshit, there has to be some justice in this world !
basically steer clear of anything custom for vehicles
you pay considerably more and they
ALWAYS have reliability and functional problems
don’t buy what you have to modify
drunk
poles
nature
Canon 6D with a 17-40mm f4L on a sturdy tripod, nothing exceptional. You could get this kind of shot with any camera, the trick is to not push the colors too much and make sure you don’t compress too much when saving or uploading, and I think bit depth matters a lot when it comes to banding but I didn’t pay too much attention to it. One neat trick I learned to avoid banding is to add a tiny bit of noise to your image, which helps smooth out the hideous bands
Half an hour west of Bend, Oregon
if the holocaust doesn’t prove that the judaic god is a complete arsehole what does ! ?
even if it doesn’t discredit a god as such, surely you would want to be anything but close to him/her !
As for what to do with koans, find one you don’t understand and meditate on it ad nauseum
Try to understand it completely and be able to explain it to someone else
particularly find one that’s bullshit in the first place which most are and then spend thirty years trying to make sense out of voynich and when you finally fool yourself into thinking it has meaning, claim dai kensho and enlightenment !
i kid you not, zen is full of this and so called ‘ teachers ’ who have done this !
a ‘ koan ’ is a verbal puzzle with some semantic or philosophical heft !
greek philosophy transferred to the west as greek philosophy and to the east as buddhism and zen through the
indo-grecian empires
its pretty simple really, its just you have this huge fake pretense in the west now of these religions being something more than the mangled philosophy they encompass !
componentfield on r|zen generously has me tagged as insane but funny
?
it’s true
!
you
ARE funny
!
and just because you’re insane doesn’t mean you’re wrong
my
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mostly i don’t intend to be funny and people think i am funny and when i intend to be funny, people get upset !
jason asks
can you tell someone is depressed just by looking at them ?
extreme depression is obvious, otherwise i am not sure
when brought face to face with their hypocrisy, they run like rabbits
!
when brought face to face with their hypocrisy, they run like rabbits !
when brought face to face with their hypocrisy, they run like rabbits
the pali canon is as concentrated a collection of bullshit as was ever collected !
quote something that’s not bullshit from it !
you can’t !
they are just the ramblings
of loafers
well some of
these quotes are reasonable !
i like this one
the world offers no shelter
there is no one in charge
and maybe this
focus, not on the rudenesses of others, not on what they’ve done or left undone, but on what you have and haven’t done yourself
the pali canon is as concentrated a collection of bullshit as was ever collected !
the pali canon is as concentrated a collection of bullshit as was ever collected
the problem with drugs is brain damage
!
the problem with drugs is brain damage !
the problem with drugs is brain damage
you have cognitive and memory problems from drug use and r|zen seems to be some sort of repository for people like you, not much more to say is there ?
for some reason people like you are attracted to my writing while in denial about themselves making a nuisance of themselves like the unpleasant arseholes they are
what can i do ?
° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° °
your objection is to my proficiency
in other words you are just the usual drug damaged that can’t get over the loss of brain power
academic philosophy these days is just self perpetuated insanity
academic philosophy these days is self perpetuated insanity
academic philosophy these days is self perpetuating insanity
audio
ewk’s
wordless zen ?
man there’s this
huge problem on the net with drug addicts using zen for wallpaper
its so bad you might as well give up zen !
zen on the net is the drug damaged looking to wallpaper their pathetic lives with bullshit
!
zen on the net is the drug damaged looking to wallpaper their pathetic lives with contoured bullshit
!
some words are helpful
some words
are not
some words are downright deceitful
co-joint in a plot
!
some words are helpful
some words
are not
some words are downright deceitful
co-joined to a plot
!
some words are helpful
some words
are not
some words shine with their own beauty
you may love yourselves and your wives mothers girlfriends boyfriends and children may love you, but i don’t
something to remember about being human, we are the last and not the first hominin species
jason writes
i haven’t been writing publicly as much recently, just my actions have been elsewhere
i don’t know how marijuana has all these positive marijuana fallacies exist, that it doesn’t cause brain damage, that it’s
not addictive etc
i didn’t believe it then i believed it and now i don’t believe them again
jason quotes me
the blind men think
they have complete sight
and says
i go to work and all the men are so egotistical, they know it all except really they don’t
you may love yourselves and your wives mothers girlfriends and children may love you, but i don’t
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you may love yourself, your wives, your children and others may love you but i don’t
you may love yourself; your wives, your children and others may love you but i don’t
i think if you like an area you can find properties for sale even if they are not listed
jason asks if i am a true hermit ?
pyschologically yes, i don’t need people at all
jason asks if i am a true hermit ?
i don’t need people at all
p.g. wodehouse’s plots are very weak
, he uses the deus ex machina of an unnatural degree of coincidence to keep things going
however some things ring true, jeeves and bertie, a supercompetent and incompetent depressed man flailing about in other people’s breeding . .
somethings are simply endless and you have to ask yourself if you want to continue doing them
unfortunately there is no answer except the displacement of one activity by another and the judgment of later years
somethings are simply endless and you have to ask yourself if you want to continue doing them
there is no answer except the displacement of one activity by another and the judgment of later years
somethings are simply endless and you have to ask yourself if you want to continue doing them
unfortunately there is no answer
But truth keeps us steady
if we don’t keep censoring what we think doesn’t look good for us !
i think we will do anything to avoid feeling passing blank time
i think we will do anything to avoid passing blank time
My dad (with stepmom) went all over Europe this year including Germany, Ireland, Italy and a couple of others I don’t remember and Slovenia
They said Slovenia was by far the most beautiful, had the best food and the people spoke English really well and were super nice
zen is always recreated with each new competent teacher, they are so rare
the generations drift between . .
look, i’m not being nasty but you are not able to understand what i write and apparently don’t want to ! ?
zen requires post graduate level english and other skills and its all really quite different from school marm english
!
why did bodhidharma come from the west ?
he doesn’t seem to have ‘ the missionary spirit ’ so one can only assume he had some trouble at home that threatened his life
language syntax and grammar are constantly changing, if you ever read sir henry neville’s/shakespeare’s plays in their original script you will understand
ie syntax and grammar are plastic !
poetry explores deep semantic structure, that’s what its about so its always going to utilise that plasticity
stephen king writes rubbish for money, i write for infinity and love
the blind men think
they have complete sight
the blind men
think
they
have
complete
sight
moon stars sun rain
rain stars moon sun
moon stars rain sun
sun moon stars rain
stars moon rain
rain moon
feel it !
sun moon stars rain
moon rain stars
rain stars
feel it !
sun moon stars rain
moon stars rain
stars rain
feel it !
the first line is from e.e. cummings poem, ‘ anyone lived in a pretty how town ’ and ‘ feel ’ references some lines from another poem
since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
it was the
ready supply of cabin stores that enabled christopher knight’s long sojourn, he used to dose up on alcohol to get enough calories to tide over winter
christopher m
ccandless died from lathyrism from eating the seeds of wild potatoes, with more knowledge and experience he would have survived to become yet another alaskan hermit
i think they were both too inexperienced and lacked the skills to become more invisibly hermits, moving in and out of civilization as they needed to
perhaps there are some women hermits of this type, not known . .
actually now i think of it, clem gordon who had an ecumenical retreat hermitage in the
hokianga harbour where i stayed at for a while was in that mould, a scottish aristocrat raised in italy with a genuine illuminated bible worth millions in the top drawer of her desk and really old furniture like a
13th century chest from her family estate in scotland, never married and regaled me with horror stories of mad people in an asylum with syphilis across from the blood research laboratory she worked at in
WW2, was in that mould . .
sadly she is gone, but she certainly was a character and is fondly remembered !
she spent many years sailing around the baltic with a friend !
do you believe in ghosts ?
what is it that you do or do not believe in ?
what manner of the world is that it does or does not permit them ?
He quotes in
close-up from a
heart-wrenching sequence of letters between a farmhand, Emily Chitticks, and her sweetheart, Private Will Martin; five of the
twenty-three letters she wrote were returned, inscribed
KILLED
In one, she told him : I have dreamt that you were back home with me dear and the most strange thing about them, you are always in civilian clothes when I dream of you and I have never seen you in those dear . . . I hope that will come true
When he was killed, in March
1917, she began the long struggle to find the whereabouts of his body
Though bits of news raised her hopes, he was declared missing along with thousands of others in the Battle of the Somme
She asked to be buried with the bundle of their letters
my comment
the dreams were precious
fidget spinners are stripped down
gyroscopes
sorta fascinating in its pointlessness,
but hypnotic all the same !
origins of calculus
I II
roman science
the ancient greeks were quite into the atomic nature of matter
if zen has a theory, its says that theory is not adequate
‘ a flower blooms in the valley as an old man dies ’
who can argue ?
an old man blooms in the valley as a flower dies
‘ A flower blooms in the valley as an old man dies ’
Who can argue ?
an old man blooms in the valley as a flower dies
you need some aerobic exercise every day
lol
suggestion
what i really meant to say was sit on your arse and play games and comment on message boards all day and night ! :o)
what i find is you get to a certain point with brad warner, then he just walks away
and that i think is the difference between being in a relationship and celibate
he doesn’t have any spare energy, it goes to the relationship whereas a celibate has the energy to jump to the next level and move forward
you don’t listen because you are unable to listen
Ok tell me if this sounds crazy, our accusations of others are disowned thoughts about ourselves . . . discuss . . . or not i will take myself seriously if you do :o)
the thing about writing like this is you need to take it as an opportunity for
self-reflection so if one criticises others one reflects on the criticism as it also applies to oneself !
what you say is what you are !
not exactly rocket science except on r|zen !
its just that different mode from missionizing to
self-reflection
once you start to
self-reflect everything changes !
in addition you need to read quality or you never break out of your brain ruts !
brad warner is a good example of someone who gets stuck by not reading quality, he meditates which gives self reflection, but because he reads trash he just churns trash so to speak !
your question is genuine spiritual inquiry you feel you have to foil the question which says a lot about the toxic atmosphere on r|zen !
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your writing has become sorta grey, like that of a dying man beyond hope !
your writing has become sorta grey, like that of a dying man beyond hope !
zen is much better expressed in poetry so if you don’t like or have an interest in poetry you can’t ever understand zen !
buddha said i am
not made up !
no i definitely am not a crappy work of fiction !
from the sutra of the 7th zen patriarch
buddha said i am
not made up !
no i definitely am not a crappy work of fiction !
buddha said i am
not made up ! no i definitely am not a crappy work of fiction !
e.e. cummings
since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
you are consigned to your own worthless oblivion, no wish for any more contact with you and your boring stupidity !
was your reply supposed to be an effective deflection ?
you, so full of bullshit about things you have absolutely no experience of
?
buddhism and christianity are novels that are treated as real, they rely on this for veracity, otherwise you would think they were a bunch of nonsense
!
buddhism and christianity are novels that are treated as real, they rely on this for veracity, otherwise you would think they were a bunch of nonsense
the
ageless world of bertie wooster
, reginald jeeves never grows older
all modifications are little research projects about what works and doesn’t for the remaining life of the vehicle
‘ mystical inquiry ’ is an intrinsically sad and melancholy process because that’s what life is, intrinsically sad and melancholy
i reread what i wrote earlier and just about cried
you can read all the wisdom literature you like, but we still seem to make the same mistakes
i think you have the bad luck to have low
brain-derived neurotrophic factor which means you get more brain damage from pot and concussion than usual !
join r|losers, lol, i would be an honorary moderator of that, you too !
i don’t ever meditate intentionally
, just go onto red light a couple of hours before bed and you can’t do much under that light
when i go to town i spend an hour or so by the sea in the evening
a quote from r. h. blyth’s ‘ zen and zen classics ’ volume
3
one day mazu (baso) asked xitang (seido) : why don’t you read the sutras ?
xitang replied : what is the difference between the sutras and zen ?
mazu said : even so, you should do so for the sake of other people
xitang said : i think a man’s illness must be cured by the man himself. how can one do things for others ?
mazu replied : in later years you will set great rivers on fire
my re – translation
mazu told xitang that he needed to read around more !
xitang said, hey i’m the original solipsist
mazu replied that it doesn’t work quite like that !
xaitang replied really
?
mazu knocked his king over
!
° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° °
What is the difference between the sutras and Zen ?
that’s a good translation and has subtle meaning you (ed. theksepyro) won’t understand unless you are enlightened
!
do you read classical Chinese and have the source text for this ?
If you do I’d love to hear about it
!
nup.
i go from being enlightened and know what it must be
hint :
zen could be better put as
real life zen
schopenhauer put it this way
you can read all the wisdom literature you like, but we still seem to make the same mistakes
° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° °
you (ed. theksepyro) are in denial about the importance of enlightenment in zen and actually this koan is about your lack of real life zen experience making anything you try/do in zen very flawed
you and ewk and countless/many others sit before the same barrier
real life zen is just as vicious except its done more politely and on longer time scales, just like real world politics
its that money and resources are so short that things get way more vicious over nothing !
investing in idiocy really !
real life zen is just as vicious except its done more politely and on longer time scales, just like real world politics
the commonality of real world and r|zen is both are for chronic losers
real life zen is just as vicious except its done more politely and on longer time scales, just like real world politics
you got caught in a cultural shift where relatively unskilled manual labour was worth something whereas now its worth nothing
you got caught in a cultural shift where relatively unskilled manual labour was worth something where now its worth nothing
jason writes
actually i told my friend who is training to be a nurse that it wasn’t a good profession to go into and she got pretty offended, i said it like two months ago and she’s still sort of upset
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nursing is the worst they are low in the medical status hierarchy, do a lot of hard manual work, have a lot of chronic immune excitation exposure and seem to develop health problems at a far higher rate than the general population
jason replies
yeah my friend got pretty offended when i told her nursing wasn’t a great choice, maybe because she’s already five years into it !
with lots of money spent on the education
you gave her good advice and she ignored it, just sit back and see what happens
ed. of a young women going into med school in new york and being advised against it
same for Jacklyn and the smoking
nothing in a box
is unboxed
nothing
in
a box
is unboxed
nothing in
a box
is unboxed
mental illnesses exist regardless of whether or not they are diagnosed, diagnoses simply have legal and social welfare ramifications !
conditions exist regardless of whether or not they are diagnosed, diagnoses simply have legal and social welfare ramifications !
i think brad warner is mentally lazy and covers it with dishonesty
he has too much wrong shit with the right !
i think brad warner is mentally lazy and covers it with dishonesty
i think he’s mentally lazy and covers it with dishonesty
he has too much wrong shit with the right !
i think he’s mentally lazy and covers it with dishonesty
to read a translation is to read the translator and not the person or work he is translating
to read a translation is to read the translator and not the person he is translating
ewk replies
sounds like something you made up ?
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that’s the thing about great quotes, at some point
some-one made it up, me in this case !
. .
o
)
to read a translation is to read the translator and not the person he is translating
you have some bizarre agenda with me and like ewk try to twist reality to suit !
you have some bizarre agenda with me and like ewk try to twist reality to suit
it is the nature of the mentally ill that they go in circles
that’s why they are mentally ill
it is the nature of the mentally ill that they go in circles
your problem is that of schizophrenia, you don’t quite synchronise with reality in a useful manner
like you have said something, i am sure you feel it is meaningful, but is it ?
generalities are wonderful for escaping criticism but that doesn’t mean they are beyond criticism !
None that I know of
that doesn’t make it none does it, you most complacent of the ignoramuses !
i love the way maezumi roshi died drunk in a bath to cap off a career as an alcoholic and predator of young women and sasaki roshi’s spectacular life as an embezzler, geisha client and centenarian sex maniac
zen has so much to recommend itself !
joshu had to resort to outwitting his students verbally to win fruit off of them, not everyone wants to live in that degree of poverty !
when they can’t beat you verbally, they downvote
!
when they can’t beat you verbally, they downvote
well i have visited many zen centers and teachers, unlike anybody else i have ever come across !
the really hard thing to understand about zen is
99% of the people involved are clueless, this includes zen masters !
go along to a zen sit, you need some experiential background at this point !
95% of people of r|zen have zero experience of real life zen and actually deny its important !
What is dharma ?
anything you want it to be but commonly assumed to mean something like truth the way i think it should be
by and large most zennists are very stupid, seems to attract them for some reason
tobacco is a drug designed to give you cancer !
tobacco is a drug designed to give you cancer
Sepehr advises why psychedelics are bad with a story
One hobby I really enjoy doing is walking with curiosity through antique stores
There are many good ones near me, and they tend to have small compartments, like a cubicle, separated from each other in a
long-winding hall-way, but with occasional open clearings where you’re surrounded by a panorama of doodads
In most of these compartments, you find a general theme with interesting figurines, artwork, but normally, you also find trite things like pictures of Diane
Granted, since these stores tend to be big, you could meander for two hours and still find many cool things, some of which I have personally found include a tattered screen door with Victorian and Edwardian era stickers of kids frolicking with cats and dogs (can share a photo of this one)
, a Maxfield Parrish painting, cool owl and cat paintings and figurines, plates with anime artwork based on Belgium classic The Dog of Flanders & A Boy and His Rascal, and much more
It is as if each compartment has mysteries in every corner that transports you into a new world
One of mysteries, always something new and unexpected
!
I avidly remember one dream I had where I was exploring another
antique-like store
In this dream, things proceeded normally, until I found a wormhole somewhere else
In this wormhole, I saw flashes of my memories, the Cosmos, plants, and much more
It made me appreciate the diversity and complexity of life in this world more, how its a projection of my mind largely
Drugs tip you too much into the unreal
Actually contemplating your own experiences and lucid dreaming can help unreal and real synchronize, if temporally
Point is, you come to appreciate life and its mysteries more, developing more creativity in the
long-run
the big thing with plugs, nuts and bolts on automotive is not to damage the heads or strip the threads
you don’t need a torque wrench but don’t overtighten
ewk, you work at being more stupid, what can i say ?
you work at being more stupid, what can i say ?
brad, buddhism is mangled philosophy, you are
reading something into it that is not there !
now that i think about it, that’s a very soto thing, eihei dogen took upon himself the task of deconstucting buddhism and reconstructing it into something coherent from a philosophical and mystical point of view !
one thing i took from yoshida kenko’s tsurezuregusa written
80 years after dogen’s death was that an ordained buddhist monk born and living in kyoto very interested in zen type philosophical observations makes not a single reference to eihei dogen and shows no sign of any familiarity with him which says dogen had become completely obscure . .
there’s very little public appetite for this religious deconstruction/reconstruction and having read the ‘ tsurezuregusa ’ which deals with the same sort of observation and working out mode without the labour of de/reconstruction and is vastly more popular i have to ask what you are doing with your attempts to rectify a religion only too happy to pinch your intellectual efforts at the same time as rubbishing you !
brad warner replied
who rubbished me ? i couldn’t follow that part
as for dogen’s obscurity, i’ve written about that a lot
his writings essentially almost disappeared for several hundred years
very few people read them between the time he died and the early twentieth century
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i don’t think you have picked up the main points of what i wrote !
its disappointing !
i would actually go so far as to say your reply was deceitful !
brad warner gives me his usual brush off
OK.
Fine
my
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i reread what i wrote and the main point stands out to me, that you are
re-imaging buddhism in a similar way to what dogen did with rujing and buddhism
in the end its just your reimage, like dogen’s work is his reimage and is too obscure to be popular
you can’t reimage buddhism, its just an incoherent plagiaristic mass so i was wondering why you do it
?
a computer generated koan
‘ a small young master wanted a small white gnarled bowl. how can we learn and understand without study ? the young master asked a large confused master. the confused master walked from a brown hard mountain to a white soft mountain with a small red stony bowl. the confused master saw a red soft hut. the confused master wanted the hut. why did bodhidharma come into china ? the confused master asked a large enlightened student. the peaches are large
, the student answered the confused master. how can we learn and understand without study ? the confused master asked a large old master. the old master walked from a white stony mountain. the old master got lost ’
his eminence the
7th zen patriarch took pity on the small mindless program churning away seeking an answer and replied
you only ever learn and understand without study
it takes intelligence to be beaten in an argument
you can always be right
but you will go backwards !
it takes intelligence to be beaten in an argument
you can always be right
but you will go backwards
Z writes
sorry sepehr and andrew to hijack this thread; however one thing i wanted to say is that the last time i was on a psychedelic i could understand how the transmission from
6th to
7th patriarch is possible even though there are centuries in between
now i can’t understand again, but just knowing that there was a time when it made perfect sense, opens a window of possibility
as zhuangzi said — in a dream/simulations, whole centuries pass in the blink of an eye
i am getting sick of the work i am doing, i need a break. man cannot live on the quantitative alone. it is poverty; the spirit is not in its own element
i need to take a break and spend some time in
not-doing
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why not travel locally a bit, you live in a beautiful country
as a side note, you use
semi-colons very effectively, much more so than english as first language writers !
i think why i like writing poems is you can go into the poem and be free there, whereas you are not free in much else in life
that would be why charles bukowski wrote, to map out this space of timelessness and infinity !
i think why i like writing poems is you can go into the poem and be free there, whereas you are not free in much else in life
eileen i’ve done a lot for you over the years, i must say you are particularly ungrateful, you return help with dissembling . .
quality reading is various unities
, if you read trash then you will think as the hoi polloi do !
quality reading is various unities, if you read trash then you will think as the hoi polloi do !
quality reading is various unities, if you read trash then you will think as you do !
meditation makes you sane
people are naturally raving loonys
but the problem is that without quality reading it doesn’t !
people just become engraved in their own loops, you can see it on r|zen, ewk for instance has become way more diseased and now is some pathetic bot clone from engraving himself to a standstill !
the engraving of the same content is the problem, posting on r|zen or meditating
the real process is unstably and life threateningly dynamic, that’s why i say only celibates should attempt it !
what do you think of my theory ?
that zen is inherently corrosive to normal society and people ?
its actually hurtful and people do find it hurtful
that’s why all the pretence and avoidance of
contemplative time
so all this proxying into scripture on r|zen is just an avoidance device and they are so set on it they can’t be told otherwise
the true mysticism has always been like this
that r|zen is cosplay
cosplay for the druggies actually
atheists go to
non-existence
buddhists go to buddhist hells
christians go to purgatory
me, since i don’t believe in any of those i go to heaven ! : o)
° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° °
zen masters don’t understand this but patriarchs do
a moss lined brook overhung by trees sparkling in the highland sunlight
!
we don’t live so how can we die ?
we don’t live so how can we die
atheists go to
non-existence
buddhists go to buddhist hells
christians go to purgatory
me, since i don’t believe in any of those i go to heaven ! : o)
i am just being continually wrecked from one day to the next
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there’s lots of things that could be but never happen
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there’s lots of things that might be that never are
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the strangeness of being defeated by life
useless
depressing
oppressing
i would rather not have been born, but once you are, what can you do about it ?
you are locked into some arc or trajectory of minimum pain
, maximum benefit and this persists for as long as the organism can support !
i would rather not have been born, but once you are, what can you do about it ?
you are locked into some arc or trajectory of minimum pain
, maximum benefit and this persists as long as the organism can support !
i would rather not have been born, but once you are, what can you do about it ?
you are locked into some arc of minimum pain
, maximum benefit and this persists as long as the organism can support !
i had incredible opportunities
, i was able to attend to the dalai lama for a period
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convents have traditionally been sex clubs for the elite !
smoking cigarettes means you will die of a smoking related disease . .
hookah is just as bad and vaping is also problematic
you should step down off the habit over several weeks to allow the gene expression to normalize
sepehr writes
i know psychedelics can break down connections among the parahippocampus and retrosplenial cortex, messing with global functional connectivity
i never have been interested in drugs, and feel enlightenment has to be in synchrony with one’s life in order to be worked/sorted out as andrew once said
to me, that’s common sense, and too many times i see drug users fetishize their experience and treat it as something separate from life and good artwork
in fact, i think they may have mental disorders that have not quite been defined yet by the medical community . . .
Got sick of Zen, what now ?
neo-advaita and non duality are just as valid repositories for the time of idiots as zen !
why don’t you actually answer what i ask rather than paste your projections everywhere ?
why don’t you actually answer what i ask rather than paste your projections everywhere
eihei dogen was hardly magnetic, forgotten after his death
dillon
123_idiot pules
nothing to change, nothing to improve !
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so that’s what the stone says
not how human reality works though !
when you are enlightened you can see where dogen was right and wrong, that’s a big difference from the dogen is all right and all wrong people !
his emphasis on zazen is simply because he had dai kensho while in seated meditation, toni packer was the same, me i never did so just value solitude and retreats !
the puling morons think quotes and bullshit are the hallmarks of a real zen master, never understanding its the process of unwrapping that matters and if you do that, then one day . .
as dogen said :
what a pity that your eye is not yet open, that your mind is still intoxicated !
its not a pity
its the beginning of sanity !
your eye isn’t open !
how wonderful because that distance between us teaches me without penalty
your unimprovement is my improvement !
if the net closed down tomorrow, what do you take away from it ?
what do you take away from a tennis match
the real pros take their improved skill and experience so that even in tennis, so dependent on youthful vigour and agility some older players still have winning form !
you sound like you got burned by mental health professionals
?
they are pretty wrong minded !
apologetics boils down to we know its wrong but we support it anyway
suburban materialism is an hallucination
!
suburban materialism is an hallucination
actually faith is a form of extreme religious disbelief
you know the crap you believe in won’t stand up to the light of day so you have to consign it to the unknowable so it can’t be looked at !
why hallucinate
suburban materialism as some sort of real understanding ?
zen is crazy for anyone except celibates !
zen is crazy for anyone except celibates
i’m not saying the internet is bad, its just one should be careful to make it useful !
people on r|zen seem not to develop their understanding, but just missionize viewpoints
for what
that’s really really crazy !
you talk too much on the net to be any sort of quality tennis player !
teaching what you are not too good at
the zen is life is full of these sorts of inconsistencies and we should have the stomach to acknowledge them !
there’s a certain type of thinking women cannot do and are dependent on males to do it for them
it’s like a mathematical truth that you can’t utilize to leverage your subjective preference
the problem is the leveraging just about always goes wrong !
otherwise the life of zen masters would be easy street
, but actually when you look at their lives, they are often chronic disasters !
adhd is not a condition of mental health, but a developmental problem like being on autistic spectrum, its part or actually, who you are !
mental illness is something different, its a dysfunctional reality orientation that leads one to adverse consequences that make no sense at all !
the artistic world is full of talented people with adhd and on autistic spectrum and its always been this way, leonardo da vinci and albert einstein are very autistic !
houhora , we used to anchor there on our summer holiday sailing around northland
on thetis , got stuck on the mud flats once and had to take another anchor out in the dinghy and winch ourselves off, it was a serious business to be stuck on the mud flats with the tide going out !
i have no expectations of people on r|zen, i use it for writing material !
the only people that will talk to me usefully in this way are lunatics and the stupid, i don’t like it, but its all i can get !
herekino , i stopped at the end of the road and asked a nice maori woman in the house almost on the sea if i could continue a walk past their place around to the headland !
she seemed a bit bemused i would ask permission !
origin_unknown
, you don’t understand what you read and are always responding to something different
you don’t understand what you read and are always responding to something different
you are in complete denial about something that’s really basic !
you are in complete denial about something that’s really basic
infinity is around
not long or short
and a round
long
or
short
!
infinity is around
not long or short
and a round
long
or
short
!
infinity is around
not long or short
and a round
long
or
short
i can’t justify what i do at all
its not justifiable
i can’t justify what i do at all
there is energy in conflict if you care to use it, most don’t and only concentrate/focus on winning !
or on running away if they are losing !
not everybody runs away of course !
there is energy in conflict if you care to use it, most don’t and only concentrate/focus on winning !
or on running away if they are losing !
there is energy in conflict if you care to use it, most don’t and only concentrate/focus on winning !
or on running away if they are losing
there is energy in conflict if you care to use it, most don’t and only concentrate/focus on winning !
there is energy in conflict if you care to use it, most don’t and only concetrate/focus on winning
the door is open even on a
crap-arse forum like r|zen, it is never closed, its just the winds through it are a bit wuthering ’ that’s all
! !
the door is open even on a
crap-arse forum like r|zen, it is never closed, its just the winds through it are a bit wuthering ’ that’s all
!
the door is open even on a
crap-arse forum like r|zen, it is never closed, its just the winds through it are a bit wuthering ’ that’s all
ewk, your suburban materialist world view is an hallucination !
truer views are more beautiful
ewk, your suburban materialist world view is an hallucination !
truer views are beautiful
your suburban materialist world view is an hallucination !
truer views are beautiful
your suburban materialist world view is an hallucination !
a day on r|zen
my doctrine is right
no, my doctrine is right
his doctrine is right but i am such a stupid mouse too scared to say anything i will just up or downvote
i am such a hubric narcissistic twit, i will quote bad translations of nonsense and pretend my priestly pontifications mean something which of course they do, me being a brain dead retard !
ewk, examine your assumption of the internet world being trolls (people who disagree with you) and non trolls (people you agree with, umm . . )
the great way is not difficult, just avoid picking and choosing
examine your assumption of the internet world being trolls (people who disagree with you) and non trolls (people you agree with)
the great way is not difficult, just avoid picking and choosing
religion involves taking standard philosophical concepts and voynichating or muddifying them and calling this enlightenment or holiness
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religion involves taking standard philosophical concepts and voynichating or muddifying them and calling this enlightenment or holiness
!
religion involves taking standard philosophical concepts and voynichating or muddifying them and calling this enlightenment or holiness
objectivity comes with emotional distance from one’s own situation and life and there is much greater clarity in this !
however life to be lived effectively is mainly close up !
objectivity comes with emotional distance from one’s own situation and life and there is much greater clarity in this !
objectivity comes with emotional distance from one’s own situation and life and there is much greater clarity in this
rather than move forwards in the wrong direction, slowly move backwards correcting wrong assumptions !
rather than move forwards in the wrong direction, slowly move backwards correcting wrong assumptions
from the pupil
black stream purling
ink is liquid
seeming dreams
from the pupil
black stream purling
ink
is
liquid
seeming dreams
from the pupil
black stream purling
ink
is
liquid
dreaming seems
from the pupil
black stream purling
ink is liquid
dreaming seems
one of the problems with zen and that sort of thing is you lose touch with real world consequences
its part of life
we make bad decisions and have to live with the consequences
its part of life. we make bad decisions and have to live with the consequences
its part of life, we make bad decisions and have to live with the consequences
raphael captures the personalities of the women he paints well
raphael seems to capture the personalities of the women he paints well
raphael seems to capture aspects of the personalities of the women he paints well
i have no clear idea about who i am, what i do or my life
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i have no clear idea about who i am, what i do or how i have lived
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i have no clear idea about who i am, what i do or my life
i have no clear idea about who i am, what i do or how i have lived
‘ breakfast
at tiffany’s ’ never made any sense to me until i had investigated truman capote’s life !
now it makes sense, you can
see him in the dialogue and story !
the moon is slowly receding from the earth at a rate of four centimeters per year
once the moon moves far enough away, its apparent size in the sky will be too small to cover the sun completely
about
600 million years from now, earth will experience the beauty and drama of a total
solar eclipse for the last time
all the previous solar eclipses are still occuring !
whoever wrote the tempest was an extremely unusual person
it crosses the border line between imagination and reality
in the whole of english history, only one person could have written that and it wasn’t a
quasi - underworld figure from stratford !
whoever wrote the tempest was an extremely unusual person
it crosses the border line between imagination and reality
sometimes in my dreams i end up having arguments with my ex, or sometimes we’re just talking and it’s lovely
last night’s dream was the worst, i never let go of her last night, i was constantly hugging her and kissing her
she hated that stuff but in the dream she didn’t mind it so much
i was thinking about her the whole day and i honestly couldn’t say that i don’t love her anymore, but the thing i’m certain about is that i don’t want to see her or talk to her anymore
I don’t want to see her or talk to her anymore
its interesting
the
dream did that for you !
all women are very good liers by omission
all women are liers by omission
from your repeated lies and addiction
sorta go together don’t they !
and the lying by omission