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a zen koan
Sekkyo said to one of his monks, “Can you get hold of emptiness?”
“I’ll try,” said the monk, and he cupped his hands in the air
“That’s not very good,” said Sekkyo. “You have nothing there!”
“Well, master,” said the monk, “please show me a better way”
Thereupon, Sekkyo seized the monk’s nose and gave it a hard yank
“Ouch!” yelled the monk. “You hurt me!”
“That’s the way to get hold of emptiness!” said Sekkyo.
my replies
“ Thereupon, Sekkyo seized the monk’s nose and gave it a hard yank ”
lol, the monks nose came off ! ;o)
“ Thereupon, Sekkyo seized the monk’s nose and gave it a hard yank ”
lol, the monks nose came off ! :o)
Sekkyo said to one of his monks, “Can you get hold of emptiness?”
“who is asking” said the monk ?
sekkyo disappeared
the monk disappeared
the koan disappeared
Andrew disappeared
harry disappeared
what was there in the first place?
a new koan re-appeared !
my comment
re-appear might imply this koan is not so new !
a zen koan
Sekkyo said to one of his monks, “Can you get hold of emptiness?”
“I’ll try,” said the monk, and he cupped his hands in the air
“That’s not very good,” said Sekkyo. “You have nothing there!”
“Well, master,” said the monk, “please show me a better way”
Thereupon, Sekkyo seized the monk’s nose and gave it a hard yank.
“Ouch!” yelled the monk. “You hurt me!”
“That’s the way to get hold of emptiness!” said Sekkyo.
my replies
“ Thereupon, Sekkyo seized the monk’s nose and gave it a hard yank ”
lol, the monks nose came off ! ;o)
“ Thereupon, Sekkyo seized the monk’s nose and gave it a hard yank ”
lol, the monks nose came off ! :o)
Sekkyo said to one of his monks, “Can you get hold of emptiness?”
“who is asking” said the monk ?
sekkyo disappeared
the monk disappeared
the koan disappeared
Andrew disappeared
harry disappeared
what was there in the first place?
brad, your brain's gone ! you are going on
tour to promote a vacuous book with a voynich title by
a one hundred and five year old
lecher ?
it's quite interesting that the notion of being present or presence or the moment so current in popular culture, neo-advaita, non duality and buddhism is a philosophical error that goes back/traces back to the ancient greeks !
not behaving like an
arsehole is the first step which puts you way ahead of brad warner, a supposed zen master who has censored his blog simply because my comments show him up !
that is, he is “pretend competent” , but when I come on the scene, he's obviously not, having wasted his time spread over too many interests and never really got to grips with what zen is about in a functional or intellectual way !
all those posters on the hardcore zen blog have a fundamental disconnect between what they say and what they do and that's why they blather forever thinking they are doing something meaningful !
it's the closed pretending to be open blog , whereas yours, simply by being uncensored is open in fact and it doesn't take a lot of work does it?
I would say this is the major issue with zen today, highly censored and closed, all the while waffling endlessly on about whatever fluffy good characteristic like compassion happens to be in fashion
just simple hypocrisy I guess, the by far usual human characteristic ! :o)
famous events in history
on the evening of monday the 20th of may 2013, brad warner was at canter's deli in west hollywood “ and rodney
bingenheimer comes in and sits down at the booth next to us! ”
what surprised me was how bad the food was, but looking at the prices i'm not surprised, good variety but endless permutations of wheat flour and look at
these , metabolic syndrome for sure !
it's actually a meaningless question from the solipsist viewpoint !
what is zen?
the dreams of schizophrenics puled to more schizophrenics ! ?
what is zen?
the dreams of schizophrenics puled to more schizophrenics ? !
i think in terms of derrida,
poetry is la differance, is that which transcends metaphysics by being
the transcendence of metaphysics itself : o)
why is autism the ultimate paradigm?
because
it's
the
essential
deconstructed condition
:
o
(
why is autism the ultimate paradigm?
because
it's
the
essential
why is autism the ultimate paradigm?
because
it's
the
my
reply to a
post of sepehr g.
the pre-eminent modern philosopher is jacques derrida of whom there are some good videos on the web and incidently regarded himself as a friend and colleague of deleuse !
both him and deleuze are autistic as are any other decent philosophers like nietzsche,
schopenhauer and heraclitis !
the ultimate paradigm is autism and zen is essentially autistic, dogen sticks out a mile if you read some of his stuff like rolling up small balls of sand to clean one's arse ! : o)
my approach to zen teachers and religious teachers in any sect or tradition is what I call “vampire zen” which is what I did in practice which is just to gut them and take what they have to offer and move on !
he was one of the first philosophers, but today's moderns are in his shadow ! : o)
there's plenty of translations of mandelstam and just about any non-English poet now on the web, the more amateur translations can often be better than the professional because they don't carry such a burden of how things should be and can be more literal!
the final word on philosophy
meaning is a fluid
poetry is that fluid and philosophy is always a failing approximation of good poetry ! :o)
vitamin K helps
maintain retinal thickness in aging
there are two basic forms, phylloquinone (K1) found in green leafy
vegetables and brassica
and menaquinone (K2) with the subform homologues of K2, MK-4, 7, 8, 9 which are synthesized by bacteria !
MK-7, derived from natto persists much longer in the body than K1 and MK-4 and is much better absorbed than MK-4, the bulk of which imo goes to feeding biofilm !
in fact MK-7 may be a
better source of MK-4 than MK-4 itself !
a
study with post menopausal women shows that 180 micrograms of Mk-7 daily decreases bone strength and calcium loss by 70% and can delay osteoporosis by 10 to 20 to 30 years !
my shadow
(she's a thief !) : o ( )
i think mike falzone is on
speed , got that aggression and hubris that is characteristic of it !
plus no sense of humor : o()
interesting to contrast him with the other two people (steve at 6.00) in the video who are, well not exactly normal, but not on speed : o)
i finely grate fresh ginger root and cook it with the other vegetables, though you have to be careful not to overdo the quantity as it is a
smooth muscle
relaxant and can make for fatigue the next day !
it is also a blood thinner !
the “ living dead ” is not a dead paradigm, unless you happen to be a commenter on the hardcore zen blog which is zombie land in its worst aspect :o)
it's the condition of transparency to infinity and that transparency is of course in touch with the creative energies that enable one to ditch all the crap associated with zen and speak from that energy, which is an amazing thing :o)
the “ living dead ” is not a dead paradigm, unless you happen to be a commenter on the hardcore zen blog which is zombie land is its worst aspect :o)
it's the condition of transparency to infinity and that transparency is of course in touch with the creative energies that enable one to ditch all the crap associated with zen and speak from that energy, which is an amazing thing :o)
interestingly this
study says that subcondral bone spurs are the root cause of ostearthritis!
the pic is very illuminating, uneven bone building stands out a mile !...
very occasionally one sees some small portion of a translation that captures what dogen is about, he's really into the
“living dead
” paradigm which one might expect from him having TB, but this is not palatable to the refined sensibilities of the stupids who waste their time with misfiring translations of him !
the douglas labs magnesium
taurate is very helpful with migraine and heart rhythm problems !
A2 milk is much better than ordinary milk for migraine but in general i find milk from winter to be migrainey !
the ordinary (A1 protein !) milk is sucky for migraine !
also fruit should be pasturized to say 58C before being eaten to kill all the yeast and fungal spores, even 55C may do that, a good digital cooking thermometer is very helpful! : o)
loved the malcom
lowry ; what a sad life, I think it's part of being a genius. Must read under the volcano now, mexico sounds very difficult.
my
reply
the problem with mexico, south america and those post mayan/aztec/inca
cultures is they are really very violent and murderous
and it’s probably genetic !
well, is genius being unafraid to see that life is essentially sad?
the secret with learning how to use computers is when you use them, don’t just do the work you want to do, but also explore in more detail how the computer works, so you might take 25% longer to do something, but you have also learnt more about the computer !
also larger screens help a lot !
i have a 27” samsung led monitor for my comp now, the larger screens add so much value to the net !!!!!!
it wasn’t overly expensive, about $450nz?
i view it about 90cm away so you do need a desk set up for that distance, also i am a bit long sighted, smaller screens closer up might suit short sighted people more !
look what quality is
your zen that you quote a junky translation of dogen as though it means something?
dogen is full of junk anyway, but he's not as bad as what comes through in very distorted translations !
it may actually be even that the loss of cultural context means his full meaning is lost to us let alone problems with the original texts
anyway to regurgitate text
and give pure nonsense reverence means you and what you call zen is screwed up big time !
the fall in the gold price has been interesting, supposedly the mining cost of new gold is about $1300 so that establishes a lower and upper limit since if it gets too high like it did, you get huge forward sales by the miners dramatically increasing supply and if falls too low below the mining cost then they just shut the mines, cash out their forward sales and walk away with the money which reduces supply !
however i do feel that there may be a fundamental consumption shift in china and even india away from gold into the more western emphasis on property for savings
tv and films just fill the brain with trash..............
i have been on the wrong end of company politics so many times and even a zen committee, that basically i take it as a sign to get out, they were only doing me a favour !!!
fred's first
attempt at poetry, absolutely
execrable !
i grew ripe
when the daydream dieing
flowered a simple type
and opened
into infant eyes
my reply
he claims infant eyes, but what stares out?
the
cracked
eyes
of
a
ghoul
some days i just want to lie in bed and stare at the ceiling : o ) : o (
some days i just want to lie in bed and stare at the ceiling : o ( )
some days i just want to lie in bed and stare at the ceiling : o ) (
some days i just want to lie in bed and stare at the ceiling
charles bukowski's death
poem , not sure if i understand it : o ()
lol, i was just thinking
what is it about cold that i don't like ?
lol, i was just thinking what is it about cold that i don't like?
ed. in the ulverstone coles car park loading the groceries into the jackaroo 17th may, about 6.55pm in the dark with a chill wind : o()
life's short, we travel(drive?) around a lot, i always take time to stop, get out and look at the scenery !
life's short, we travel(drive?) around a lot, i always take time to stop and look at the scenery !
people in groups only behave one way : o(
:
o
people in groups only behave one way : o(
people in groups only behave one way
sepehr g. writes
hey, you once said,
“ infinity is basically a fractal of the real and unreal !
” my friend once said the same thing... he practiced with koans
what do you mean by this? another friend of mine also said, “the whole universe is one body breathing in fractal complexity” do you also agree with this...
my reply
you highlight an important point about where zen goes wrong today as exemplified by brad warner saying that zen is about realism !
the problem is that it is about totality which includes the unreal, the imaginative and fantastic since total is all :o)
so this fake zen today is some crimped episode in moronacy since it excludes the imaginative, but it is the imaginative in identity with infinity that is more real than the real :o)
the problem with this phrase “the whole universe is one body breathing in fractal complexity” is that it separates the motion of fractal complexity from itself, the motion of fractal complexity with some body called the universe that has this motion whereas there is only the motion occurring...............
this actually is illustrative of the error in the way you view things....................
which is actually the universal human mistake, that there are bodies that things occur to whereas there is just a [[[process]]] of occurrence
[[[]]] is [[[trying]]] to indicate a [[[[process]]] of infinite regress and some quasi border of an unreal and real existance [[[:o)]]]
[[[ [[[ on some quasi border of real and unreal existance [[[:o)]]] ]]]
[[[ on some quasi border of unreal and real existance [[[:o)]]] ]]]
[[[ on some quasi border of unreal and real existance [[[:o)]]] ]]]
[[[ on some quasi border of real and unreal existance [[[:o)]]] ]]] ]]]
you are all as thick as fucking bricks : o (
you are all thick as fucking bricks : o (
thick as fucking bricks : o (
:
o
(
thick as fucking bricks : o (
T. A. F. B. : o (
isn't the real point that Birnbaum's
nonsense and plagiarism is on a par with what comes out of university philosophy departments, they might snub him but he is their peer in
everysense except perhaps poverty : o()
it's what happens when you get two or more extremely talented people together, like the beatles or goons, it cuts out a completely higher/different plane of competence !
it's what happens when you get two or more extremely talented people together, like the beatles or goons, it cuts out a completely higher/different plane of competence !
we all follow our own insane illusions end
we all follow our own insane illusions
we all follow our own insane illusions ! ?
we all follow our own insane illusions ! ?
we all follow our own insane illusions
I hope it is interesting to
enzyme users !
good malcolm lowry
documentary
(author of under the volcano !)
she's a stupid
bitch (aged 37) !
all her do-gooding didn't help her get a grain of sense ;o)
within three years
this will be a standard test, there's a huge difference between some artificial medical probability and actually seeing the cancer forming !
“ ....using magnetic resonance imaging (mri) to detect pre-malignant molecular changes in breast tissue ”
in actual fact the probability will vary between 0 and 100 percent depending on other factors, like what is the precise BRCA1 gene mutation and what is the strength of other anti-tumour genes and how much iodine is in her diet/supplementation !
actors and actresses have absolutely nothing upstairs !
this abrasive comment will never go viral because the moment you mention that medical advice can be misguided or that low iodine is a factor in ovarian and breast cancer people switch off
the moron sheep want to go back to their dreams of safety and after years of experience with health advice one has seen so many prefer to get some horrible disease or continue on some slow vortex to hell via chemo or poor eating and lack of supplementation than do any thinking, experimentation or working out what can be done outside medicine !
:
o
all her do-gooding didn't help her get a grain of sense ;o)
within three years
this will be a standard test, there's a huge difference between some artificial medical probability and actually seeing the cancer forming !
“ ....using magnetic resonance imaging (mri) to detect pre-malignant molecular changes in breast tissue ”
in actual fact the probability will vary between 0 and 100 percent depending on other factors, like what is the precise BRCA1 gene mutation and what is the strength of other anti-tumour genes and how much iodine is in her diet/supplementation !
actors and actresses have absolutely nothing upstairs !
about the only time you hear of systemic issues with certain medical procedures (e.g. warfarin
always causing some degree of brain hemorrhaging) is when an improvement is come up with !
in the
case of the body's immune response to implants, one has worked it out from knowing how the body's immune system works, but one rarely sees it in print !
another one is creeping senility in diabetics !
is
“ the hunting of the snark
” really the theory of
everything ?
the problem is that theory itself is intrinsically quantum,/ uncertain, at what point does the theory meld into or separate from its subject?
just an unending travail of uncertainty and approximation that does and does not approach what it seeks to describe ?
is
“ the hunting of the snark
” really the theory of
everything ?
the problem is that theory itself is intrinsically quantum,/ uncertain, at what point does the theory meld into or separate from its subject?
just an unending travail of uncertainty and approximation that does and does not approach what it seeks to describe ?
the efficiencies of economies of scale are the overwhelming dynamic in economics, therefore free trade works best ! :o)
that the socialist economies of soviet russia and china survived at all was due to these economies of scale occuring in another way, by simplifying and restricting choice, of course the downside was a lack of competition leading to a hideous nightmare of inefficiency and incompetence !
the efficiencies
of economies of scale are the overwhelming dynamic in economics, therefore free trade works best ! :o)
depressives have an out of phase,
mashed body clock at the level of gene activity inside their brain cells !
the synchronisation of the circadian rhythm happens via the blue light in sunlight hitting non-visual photoreceptors in the retina and also i think very importantly, strong, full spectrum sunlight on the skull sutures and skull and also possibly the full length of the spinal cord and testicles, all of which have non-visual photoreceptors in !
be careful, blue light is highly energetic and can be damaging to the eye !
“ the researchers deformed mirrors in order to disrupt the regular light path in an optical cavity and, surprisingly, the resulting chaotic light paths allowed more light to be stored than with
ordered paths
”
it's not realized the extent to which diabetics can get a subtle early dementia, his behavior was
outlandish and imo he is moving into that area
an experience like that is
special, it can take a few days to process !
an experience like that is
special, it can take a few days to process
a good quote by rilke
let everything happen to you
beauty and terror
just keep going
no feeling is final
my reply/re-translation
it is always happening to you
beauty and horror
short of suicide
what can you do?
an
unending
mutation
that
always
stays
the
same
:
o
(
a good quote by rilke
let everything happen to you
beauty and terror
just keep going
no feeling is final
my reply/re-translation
it is always happening to you
beauty and horror
short of suicide
what can you do?
an
unending
mutation
that
always
stays
the
my
reply to some brad warner
bullshit on you tube
your teacher was wrong ! Buddhism is the usual complete and fatuous unreality, Buddha never existed historically and the tales about him are that of a self righteous prig :o)
brad if you are so keen on “realism” why do you ban people on your blog who point out home truths that you don't want to hear and why are you stuck in the cretinist fantasies of Godzilla, ultraman and untalented punk music?
you won't read this because you have always deal with this sort of thing by avoiding, what the hell you are doing teaching you own malfunctionality I don't know !
no reply, no reading what you don't want to see is your style :o)
disclaimer: yes genpo merzel gives me a commission on this stuff : o)
religious and spiritual people are all the same, they just take some meaningless rubbish and pretend it means something !
religious and spiritual people are all the same, they just take some meaningless rubbish and pretend it means something
religious people are all the same, they just take some meaningless rubbish and pretend
it means something !
religious people are all the same, they just take some meaningless rubbish and pretend it means something
infinity is a fractal of the real and unreal
infinity is basically a fractal of the real and unreal ! : o)
infinity is basically a fractal of the real and unreal !
the you tube hair brain ryan jofre writes
brother. i wish you no ill will but please be honest at least. your telling me that you don't believe in any god/higher power? you think the gita and other profound spiritual words are just fairytales ?
my
reply
when you know what god is you will know the gita as a fairy tale ! until then you will be just the usual religious blow-hard ignoRANT
believers are not see-ers !
belief is false and see-ing is true : o)
infinity is the border condition between reality and non-reality ! : o)
infinity is the border condition between reality and non-reality
infinity is the border condition between reality and non-reality
I'm a devotee of Sri Krishna/God...period.
my reply
god and krishna
god and krishna
god and krishna
he's putting the speed of light in some larger context relating to the density of the universe whch would imply that the speed of light varies according to the density of the universe !
me, i can't work out how to get a more liveable colour scheme in windows 8 now microsoft in it's wisdom have taken away the ability to tweak that through
changing windows colours !
if you are interested in maths, he explains very
clearly : o)
dave st. germain quotes
“ not knowing feels strangely hope-like ”
and comments
an interesting account of
depression , and the moment of wonder!
my
reply
try thinking outside the clichés, that post is the usual conventional depressed shit, fake and flake and no interest in bettering her condition which would be
HRT and the
compendium
there's endless stupid morons like that on the web, syrupy lachrymose and their million schizophrenic followers
stupid sad sack female bitch with no brains !
flick out !
you have to get into your own creative writing space and not live off nonsense like this !
she's on anti-depressants and lives a sort of moronic crippled brain half life, by far the usual way these days, potentially a great talent, but driven into this grey blunted edge world that is the slow decline past stupidity and talentless and won't do anything real to get out of that !
learn about
coumarin levels in the two different
cinnamon sources !
he got killed by his wife accidently, it's sorta fascinating when you read it all !
he got
killed by his wife accidently, it's sorta fascinating when you read it all
for those who
donʼt understand
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donʼt understand
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i think as teenagers we all have fluffy bear syndrome, that is that the world is more benign than it is, i guess teenage health helps a lot !
i think as teenagers we all have fluffy bear syndrome, that is that the world is more benign than it is, i guess teenage health helps a lot
i think as teenagers we all have fluffy bear syndrome, that is that the world is more benign than it is
god, look at the
comments of the hypocrites adam !
I don't think you are in any shape to travel and therapists are made crazy by their clients, wasted money imo :o)
you do nothing but reject correct understanding, that's the root issue and visiting centers is more a question of understanding how everybody is wrong and why people devote their lives to screwing their heads in a certain way that just continually leaves one with a dropped jaw : o)
what I have found is one needs to
eat in a way that enhances brain function and health to have any hope these days, that needs to be the focus and all else is a waste of time and dangerous in the sense that a fucked malnourished brain is in identity with the usual completely disastrous life meandering :o)
zen and Buddhism is not about Buddha, but its estrangement and the shutting off of the font of creativity that wells from it and its replacement with walls and stupid clichés in talk and in life : o)
having said that, I too travelled through centers in 1990 in the usa looking for something and found it fortunately, that is some-one who understood what it was about which was toni packer at the
springwater center near the finger lake “hemlock” in upstate new York !
if youi do travel, my suggestion is to not just look at zen, but the wide range of centers around and watch out for health problems and food quality !
having had quite a bit of experience in this area I would suggest that you engage in dialogue on my 7th patriarch
blog, but of course
you haven't got to first base yet which is to develop a sense of how wrong one can be and constantly is so will ignore my offer and flap lamely with the flock as it takes you down, but this you do not seem
to notice :o)
tick and mosquito born diseases are now a major issue that wasn't there to the same extent when i travelled btw :o)
journalists are not experts in what they report on, that's important to understand, they are generalists with a short attention span and limited brain power !
journalists are not experts in what they report on, that's important to understand, they are generalists with a short attention span and limited brain power
all the hard little lessons one has to learn over and over again
:
o
)
all the hard little lessons one has to learn over and over again
:
o
(
all the hard little lessons that one has to learn over and over again
another reply to adam tebbe the drug brain damaged hypocrite : o)
what my posts would
unmask you ban ! :o)
de-frauding oneself is not just empty blather like you do but real actions like not censoring posts on sweeping zen cause they cut too deeply :o)
of course zen and buddhism these days is just talk and fraud :o) and music video posts...
now there are today's masks, generations overwrit with media, games and music, masks people pick up constantly and put off and on and they have lost their real identity as themselves : o)
and
like
you
so
intellectually
lazy
north korea, a nation of actors ! :o)
north korea, a nation of actors !
north korea, a nation of actors