this is work in progress or homilies or miscellaneous items
that don't warrant a page by themselves
or seem to fit better here
pending poems index
chronological order is from the bottom to the top of the page
audio files can be complemented by listening to them with the eyes closed
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you closed like a steel trap catching only yourself !
you closed like a steel trap catching only yourself !
you closed like a steel trap catching only yourself !
you closed like a steel trap catching only yourself !
you closed like a steel trap catching only yourself !
you closed like a steel trap catching only yourself !
one bright pearl is one of eihei dogen's best pieces of
writing , there is a synchronicity between “ all the universe is one bright pearl ” and all the universe being one bright pearl
the problem is it is really poetry and most of eihei dogen's writing is too locked into a very idiosyncratic medieval cultural mieliu and his own hyperlexic reading
so we are reading only a portion of what he was trying /actually conveying.............
we are reading the translator and NOT eihei dogen !
this verse had a big influence on me and I wrote a
poem after reading it ! :o)
tenshon replies
we are always reading a translator, usually ourselves
my
reply
in the real world not the pyscho one you seem to inhabit , real people called translators do a heap of work trying to get the sense of some writing in one language rendered in another !
read Emily
Dickinson no translator there but mystical genius direct !
there's endless numbers of your type on the web, ignorant and unread spouting
fake profundity like there's no tomorrow !
tenshon quotes eihei dogen
the universe is one bright pearl
and asks
my
reply
it's not your understanding but his you moron !
his understanding shines as that bright pearl, you just push the dregs thinking it is you that shine but a lump of turd is more like it in your case !
let's see you front up with something original by yourself..............
can't do it can you so so like an appalling toxic mule just dump your load of shit saying it's “ the one bright pearl ! ”
you can't quote dogen expressing an understanding and then say
“ what is there to understand? ”
like the turd you are, you can't even plagiarize dogen right but screw up what he said in your so called title “ the universe is one bright pearl ” by missing the all
D I S G U S T I N G ! :o(
D I S G U S T I N G ! : o (
D I S G U S T I N G ! : o (
zen is not about living in the moment !
or
being
zen is not about living in the moment !
or
being
kaneckt asks
what is r/zen about?
my
reply
this may not seem to answer your question, but I think it answers your question better !
what is the big mistake that people make on reddit zen ! ?
it is that of people using their writing of their posts/replies to missionize a viewpoint, reinforcing themselves in error rather than moving forward to explore new horizons which is what zen is !
thinking their knowledge is right when in reality it is untested and wrong,they just dig themselves in deeper ruts !
dharmabumzz asks
can you give an example of what you mean by moving forward to explore new horizons, Sensei?
my
reply
when I first thought of a reply to this, my first thought was I don't really know enough about you to reply usefully, but then I sorta cogitated for a while and remembered that you have worked in psychiatric wards, so it then occurred to me you have lots of experience with seeing people in those wards either not opening up their horizons at all and stuck in a life loop of hopeless craziness ness and malfunction or perhaps a very few who have opened up their horizons and been able to move on ?
are you able to reply to what I wrote, you will know your own experience, I am sort of guessing............
kaneckt asks
what is r/zen about?
my
reply
this may not seem to answer your question, but I think it answers your question better !
what is the big mistake that people make on reddit zen ! ?
it is that of people using their writing of their posts/replies to missionize a viewpoint, reinforcing themselves in error rather than moving forward to explore new horizons which is what zen is !
thinking their knowledge is right when in reality it is untested and wrong, they just dig themselves in deeper ruts !
the following reply of mine on reddit zen was not liked ! :o)
in other words you take drugs and don't like the idea your life is bullshit !
julyaugustson asks
do you take any drugs ?
medication included
how about all those vitamins ? could be called drugs
my
reply
zero drugs and medications, the whole point of the compendium diet/supplement
program is to avoid the need for any form of medication !
what people don't seem to understand is zen is very demanding intellectually and your brain has to be in good nick and running well which it won't be if you medicate for various conditions like depression and anxiety !
there's people here like dota2nub with their brains half gone for whatever reason and they sink back into the “zen is doing nothing mode” which is really just matching zen to the intellectual travesty they call their brains and thinking !
so the point of the compendium diet and supplement program is to keep or enhance body and brain function to avoid the need for the toxic side effects of medications and drugs !
you guys are all going in circles and even so I am constantly surprised to be one of the only ones to use reddit zen to go forward, it benefits me, and most of you just turn in the same old rut to my advantage !
“ how about all those vitamins? could be called drugs ”
indeed, you haven't even read the supplement/vitamins page have you ?
I will concede I use vitamin E in a higher dose than normal, in a drug like way really to thin my blood because I get migraine !
but it deprecates vitamin K in that amount so I have to increase the amount of vitamin K I take !
the basic point is that if for example you are medicating for depression or self medicating with pot for sleep, what zen is about will always elude you because of the impairment of brain function with drug side effects or inherent toxicity !
however the other side is that there are issues that have to be solved and that is what the biofilm/microbiome carbohydrate diet and compendium supplement program are about...............
yeah wasted breath with you morons huh ! ? :o)(
reply to a
stupid on reddit zen
thanx for keeping up the ignorance ! :o)
keep on truckin' man, stupids like you are always needed to give more shine to the brilliant ! :o)
reply to a
stupid on reddit zen
thanx for keeping up the ignorance ! :o)
keep on truckin' man, stupids like you are always needed to give more shine to the brilliant ! :o)
with aging the energy for life itself ebbs
as you get older the energy for life itself ebbs
as you get older, the energy for life itself ebbs
as you get older the energy for life itself ebbs
bankei yōtaku is most likely like eihei dogen
, a half witted tubercular/semantic pragmatic mess of right and wrong ! :o(
alternatively through a combination of cultural loss of meaning, misrecording/mis-transcription we are reading something abit different from what he said !
bankei yōtaku is most likely like eihei dogen
a half witted mess of right and wrong ! :o(
alternatively through a combination of cultural loss of meaning, misrecording/mis-transcription we are reading something abit different from what he said !
bankei yōtaku is most likely like eihei dogen, a half witted mess of right and wrong ! :o(
alternatively through a combination of cultural loss of meaning, misrecording/mis-transcription we are reading something abit different from what he said !
it would have to be the drugs to make such a boring and
useless activity interesting !
very boundarized, very drug culture
that's why zen and drugs don't mix, drug culture is all boundaries whatever the claims and zen is essentially stepping outside the boundaries !
it would have to be the drugs to make such a boring and
useless activity interesting !
very boundarized, very drug culture
that's why zen and drugs don't mix, drug culture is all boundaries whatever the claims and zen is essentially stepping outside the boundaries !
you
found
a good quote from linji !
“ followers of the way , he who is a renouncer of home must needs study the way
take me, for example ‑ I started out devoting myself to the vinaya
and also delved into the sutras and śāstras
later, when I realized that they were only remedies to help the world and displays of opinion, I threw them all away, and, searching for the way, I practiced meditation
still later I met a great teacher
then, indeed, my dharma-eye became clear and for the first time I was able to understand all the old teachers of the world and to tell the true from the false
It is not that I understood from the moment I was born of my mother
but that, after exhaustive investigation and grinding practice
and in a single timeless moment I knew for myself ”
my
reply
homebodies like yourself should play golf and not worry about the sort of understanding zen is really about !
I was thinking about what jacob was
doing [beginning] and lisa saying it was a typical “guy” thing
, and then I thought it was a typical guy thing, he was a damaged person trying to repair the world and women don't really have that issue
being much more
narcissistic competitive and realistic ! :o)(
I was thinking about what jacob was
doing [beginning] and lisa saying it was a typical “guy” thing
, and then I thought it was a typical guy thing, he was a damaged person trying to repair the world and women don't really have that issue
being much more competitive and realistic ! :o)(
kaneckt asks “ what is your teaching ? ”
my
reply
1. forget about enlightenment experiences, if they happen they happen and if they don't they don't, it's not your problem, it's infinities ! :o)(
3. solitude/contemplative/meditative time is necessary !
4. get out in areas of scenic natural beauty !
5. talk/read with the great
minds , not the deluded hacks like the suzuki's and alan watts !
I have the 7th patriarch
blog and the ultimate reality
blog , lots of material on both !
the nature of the enlightenment experience is it carries its own certainty
which is in fact the gift
no-one can take it away from you
when you know the truth of reality which is simply it is some sort of echo..........
you will be rejected everywhere............................
the echos believe in their own reality and don't like to be told otherwise ! :o()
the nature of the enlightenment experience is it carries its own certainty
which is in fact the gift
no-one can take it away from you
when you know the truth of reality which is simply it is some sort of echo..........
you will be rejected everywhere............................
the echos believe in their own reality and don't like to be told otherwise ! :o()
my question to all the spiritual deads heads of various persuasions ! ...................
how can you get something so wrong for so long and resist any efforts to reform ?
my question to all the spiritual deads heads of various persuasions ! ...................
how can you get something so wrong for so long and resist any efforts to reform ?
my question to all the spiritual deads heads of various persuasions ! ...................
how can you get something so wrong for so long and resist any efforts to reform ?
my question to all the spiritual deads heads of the various persuasions ! ...................
how can you get something so wrong for so long and resist any efforts to reform ?
my question to all the spiritual deads heads of the various persuasions ! ...................
how can you get something so wrong for so long and resist any efforts to reform ?
my question to all the spiritual deadheads of the various persuasions ! ...................
how can you get something so wrong for so long and resist any efforts to reform ?
joshu's question to kirkirus
how can you get something so wrong
for so long and resist any efforts to reform ?
how can you get something so wrong for so long and resist any efforts to reform ?
4x medications = 16X side effects !
psychiatrists just don't
care about their clients health, shut them up is all they want !
4x medications = 16X side effects !
psychiatrists just don't care about their clients health, shut them up is all they want !
4x medications = 16X side effects !
a quote from the commentary of case 15 of the blue cliff record
an expert teaching master is like a bright mirror on its stand
if a foreigner comes a foreigner is reflected
and if a native comes a native is reflected
an ancient said
“ if you want to attain intimate under standing don't use a question to ask a question
why?
because the answer is where the question is ”
since when have the sages from past times ever had anything to give to people ?
my
rephrase
infinity reflects people as they are !
questions and answers recurve back into each other !
infinity reflects people as they are !
questions and answers recurve into each other !
infinity reflects people as they are !
questions and answers recurve back into each other !
infinity reflects people as they are !
questions and answers recurve into each other !
saying 14 of radical zen translated by yoel hoffman
a monk asked : “ a holy temple ‑ what is it like ? ”
joshu replied : “ A maiden with her hair rolled up ” (ie. a virgin)
the monk asked again : “ Those inside the holy temple ‑ what are they like ? ”
joshu replied : “ A maiden with her hair rolled up, pregnant ”
the windows pdf reader sucks
, sumatra is way better !
a true statement is twice a false statement ! : o ( : o ) : o ( : o ( : o )
depression
a true statement is twice a false statement ! : o ( : o ) : o ( : o ( : o ) depression
a true statement is twice a false statement ! :o( :o) :o( :o( :o) depression
a true statement is twice a false statement ! :o( :o) :o( :o( :o) depression
a true statement is twice a false statement ! :o) :o(
a true statement is twice a false statement ! : o )
a true statement is twice a false statement ! :o)
a true statement is twice a false statement ! :o)
a true statement is twice a false statement ! :o)
a true statement is twice a false statement !
a true statement is twice a false statement !
a true statement is twice a false statement !
a true statement is twice a false statement!
a true statement is twice a false statement
enlightenment is to see directly the flux between reality and infinity !
with that you get some quantum infusion of an understanding of how things are which is how you can tell all the fake crap artists claiming a false/fake enlightenment experience, they don't have what comes with the genuine experience !
I've looked around the web quite abit and you can see one or two of the neo-advaita, non duality people have had genuine enlightenment experiences, but they never work them through properly..............
or perhaps the pace of progress is too slow..........................
the experience is so central you can easily tell who has and hasn't had it, basically these people will see eye to eye with you and not the usual continual disagreement one gets with the endless unenlightened pushily putting forth their hubric and ignorant viewpoints
one can report about enlightenment, I just have..............
archaeoculus replies
If I disagree with you, would that make me ignorant; are you still enlightened?
my
reply
there's sorta a secret to enlightenment i'm not really prepared to talk about, it's just the endless monkeys just duplicate what one says.............
so there's another factor involved that makes your question not meaningful or almost voynich
I will say in life's course I continue to make many mistakes and disasters even
but not in this matter of infinity
and I guess that's really because of infinities favour to me,
tho it's been abit mixed i'll say :o()
it's not my conscription of infinity but a certain mutuality between us so to speak............
enlightenment is to see directly the flux between reality and infinity !
with that you get some quantum infusion of an understanding of how things are which is how you can tell all the fake crap artists claiming a false/fake enlightenment experience, they don't have what comes with the genuine experience !
I've looked around the web quite abit and you can see one or two of the neo-advaita, non duality people have had genuine enlightenment experiences, but they never work them through properly..............
or perhaps the pace of progress is too slow..........................
the experience is so central you can easily tell who has and hasn't had it, basically these people will see eye to eye with you and not the usual continual disagreement one gets with the endless unenlightened pushily putting forth their hubric and ignorant viewpoints
one can report about enlightenment, I just have..............
fa-yen's verse on infinity
when reason is exhausted, feelings and considerations are forgotten
how could there be any adequate comparison ?
wherever I go there's the frosty night's moon
it falls as it may into the valley ahead.
when the fruits are ripe, they are heavy with monkeys
the mountains go on so long, it seems I have lost my way
when i raise my head, there is some light remaining ‑
actually this is west of my dwelling place.
my
reply
the buddha told the bhikṣus
there are 8,000 continents surrounding the four continents
there is, moreover, a great sea surrounding those 8,000 continents
there is, moreover, a great diamond mountain range encircling that great sea
beyond this great diamond mountain range is yet another great diamond mountain range
and between the two mountain ranges lies darkness
the sun and moon in the divine sky with their great power are unable to reach that darkness with their light. in the gap between the two diamond mountain ranges, there are eight major hells
along with each major hell are sixteen smaller hells
the first major hell is called thoughts
the second is called black rope
the third is called crushing
the fourth is called moaning
the fifth is called great moaning
the sixth is called burning
the seventh is called great burning
the eighth is called unremitting
the hell of thoughts contains sixteen smaller hells
the smaller hells are 500 square yojana in area
the first small hell is called black sand
the second hell is called boiling excrement
the third is called five hundred nails
the fourth is called hunger
the fifth is called thirst
the sixth is called single copper cauldron
the seventh is called many copper cauldrons
the eighth is called stone pestle
the ninth is called pus and blood
the tenth is called measuring fire
the eleventh is called ash river
the twelfth is called iron pellets
the thirteenth is called axes and hatchets
the fourteenth is called jackals and wolves
the fifteenth is called sword cuts
the sixteenth is called cold and ice
[...] and as in the daily
casualties of life every man is, as it were, threatened with numberless ways of dying, so long as it remains uncertain which of them is his fate, I would ask whether it is not better to suffer one and die, than to live in fear of all?
st. augustine city of god
the magic kingdom
by kathleen graber
this morning, I found on a slip of paper tucked into a book
a list of questions I’d written down years ago to ask the doctor.
what if it has spread? is it possible I’m crazy? I’ve just returned
from florida, from visiting my mother’s last sister, who is eighty
& doing fine. at the airport, my flight grounded by a storm,
I bought a magazine, which fell open to a photograph
of three roseate spoonbills tossing down their elegant shadows
on a chartreuse field of fertilizer-production waste.
two little girls emptied their ziplocs of pepperidge farm goldfish
onto the carpet & picked them up, one by one, with great delicacy,
before popping them into their mouths. their mother, outside
smoking, kept an eye on them through the glass. after my cousin died,
my father died & then my brother. next, my father’s older brother
& his wife. and, finally, after my mother died, I expected
to die myself. and because this happened very quickly
& because these were, really, almost all the people I knew,
I spent each day smashing dishes with one of my uncle’s hammers
& gluing them back together in new ways. it was strange work
& dangerous, even though I tried to protect myself ‑
wearing a quilted bathrobe & goggles & leather work gloves
& opening all the windows, even in snow, against the vapors
of the industrial adhesives. most days now I get up late
& brew coffee & the smell rises from the old enamel pot
I’ve had to balance under the dark drip ever since the carafe
that came with the machine shattered in the dishwasher last month.
one morning I found a lump in my breast & my vision narrowed
to a small dot & I began to sweat. my legs & arms felt weak,
& my heart thrashed behind its bars. we were not written
to be safe. in the old tales, the woodcutter’s daughter’s path
takes her, each time, through the dark forest. there are new words
for all of this : a shot of panic becomes the rustle of glucocorticoid
signalling the sympathetic nervous system into a response
regulated by the sensitivity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis.
and, as I go along, these freshly minted charms clatter together
in the tender doeskin of the throat as though the larynx
were nothing if not a sack of amulets tied with a cord & worn
around the neck. but I tell you I sat on the bathroom floor for hours,
trembling. and I can tell you this because the lump was just a lump
& some days now I don’t even dread the end although I know
it will arrive. the garage is filled with buckets of broken china.
the girls chased each other & waved their arms, casting spells,
the trim of their matching gingham dresses the electric pink
of the birds’ wings. they turned each other into princesses
& super-girls & then they pretended to change back.
oh, no. you forgot to say forever ‑ they took turns repeating
with dramatic dismay, melting into puddles of themselves,
their sandals & sunburned knees vanishing beneath their hems.
I give
zaddar the award for
most creative formatting!
crawdaddy1975 replies
That's a fitting award. :o)( ;)
But no matter how hard I try
I
Can't
Replicate
it!
my
reply
that's cause the sense comes first ! :o)
it's the red queen
problem , if you are not moving forwards fast enough you are continually swept backwards !
it's the red queen problem, if you are not moving forwards fast enough you are continually swept backwards !
it's the red queen problem, if you are not moving forwards fast enough you are continually swept backwards !
you just went from one mistake to another
, crazy is as crazy does .............. ! : o (
you just went from one mistake to another, crazy is as crazy does.............. ! :o(
you just went from one mistake to another, crazy is as crazy does.............. ! :o(
“ people in countries that
consume olive and sunflower oil have the lowest rate of asthma and those that consume soybean, corn and canola oil (gamma-tocopherol) have the highest rate of asthma
when people consume alpha-tocopherol, which is rich in olive oil and sunflower oil
their lung function is better
[..] a mechanism for gamma-tocopherol increasing lung inflammation is via proteinkinase C-alpha , which binds both forms of vitamin E
alpha-tocopherol inhibits the action of the protein and gamma-tocopherol
increases the action of the protein ”
yeah it actually is like giving it to a kid and saying “ hey kid have some
enlightenment ”
your reply shows you are not enlightened, just some fool on an ego trip !
roll in your own vomit won't you :o(
you know your own fakeness that's why you are replying to me !
you don't even believe it yourself ! :o(
you are diseased ! :o(
you call it enlightenment, I call it leprosy ! :o(
----------------------------
the problem is you have screwed your brain with medical solutions to your neural issues, antipsychotics and antidepressants rather than do diet and supplements
I can certainly see the manic streak now I look............
I have these problems myself, so i'm not being dissy, but there's two roads and thank you for showing me by example that all my
work in this area was clearly a right choice !
:o)(
dude_reborn replies
haha yeah man, just insult me, I'm sure that will help your own problems
my
reply
can you see that your replies are not that of an enlightened man ?
it's like being tossed a ball that you should catch and throw back, but you drop it everytime !
you can't step out of the fake, you have constructed or synthesized some sort of nonsense out of your reading and zen contacts and it's quite insane !
I know what I am on about, a man of sense would be pumping me for useful info, but you are caught in some weird negative function space ! :o(
zen is all about autism, mental illness, schizophrenia and manic depression, but it's also the useful utilization of those to make an ultra sanity.............. ! :o)
none so stupid as con artists conning themselves is there ?
:
o
)
none so stupid as con artists conning themselves is there?
none so stupid as con artists conning themselves ?
none so stupid as con artists conning themselves . . . . .
none so stupid as con artists conning themselves
what you think about yourself as real is fake and what you think is yourself as fake is fake !
:
o
(
what you think about yourself as real is fake and what you think is yourself as fake is fake !
what you think about yourself is real, is fake and what you think is yourself as fake is fake
what you think about yourself is real is fake and what you think is yourself is fake is fake
what you think about yourself is real is fake and what you think is yourself as fake is fake
what you think as real is fake and what you think as fake is real
what you think as real is fake and what you think as fake is fake
what you think is real is fake and what you think is fake is fake
Iamnotthedalailama writes
can hearing voices be limited to just one place ?
I am have been diagnosed with schizophrenia and I only seem to hear
voices when i'm at home
is it normal for the voices to only be heard in one location
or is it normal for voices to be heard all the time.
it is only when i'm at home that I hear the voices and any other time I hear nothing
it seems strange to me to only hear the voices in a specific setting
why would this occur?
I am currently on risperidone but the dosage does not seem to have an impact on my ability to hear voices at home
only on the ability to hear voices when i'm out and about which has now dropped to no voices regardless of where I am or what time it is or what I am doing
my
reply
Well, there's far more external stimulation outside home, at home you are distracted less so basically what is called “ the default circuit ” of the brain runs more !
so the voices are some sort of apparent “ externalization ” of your “ default circuit ” tendencies, which is basically a type of daydreaming !
try the blackmores 1000mg ecokrill to help your brain/neural health !
Iamnotthedalailama replies
I performed an experiment last night where I sat there daydreaming and just thinking about random things and the voices seemed to go away
but when I would be actually doing something i.e. writing , the voices would return
so it seems when my mind is “busy” doing something the voices are there but when it's wandering they are not
this appears to be the opposite of what your suggesting or have I misunderstood you?
my
reply
thanx for the reply that's interesting !
recent research is saying that the problem is the failure of the default mode network to deactivate when you are doing tasks
so when you are daydreaming or just thinking about random things you don't get the voices because the default network is engaged properly, but when you do a task like writing the default network is not disengaging and effectively the voices are the result of some “snarl” in the brain machinery caused by the failure of the default network to disengage whilst the “task” areas are activated !
in addition I think, poorer connectivity between the different brain regions creates the illusion/appearance of “voices” being more separate from us than they are, with improved connectivity I think the brain self-organises to cancel this internally generated “chatter”
connectivity is associated with myelin sheathing quality which is why I suggested the blackmores eco krill oil!
I read your diary and you showed a lot of sense in keeping out of the institutions !
Iamnotthedalailama replies
thank you for a very informative reply
that matches with what im experiencing at home and what I was experiencing at work at the peak of my voice hearing
I would be typing away or performing a task and the voices would in effect be critiquing what I was doing
by any chance do you have any links to the research or at least some documentation regarding the research you mentioned
I find that the more informed I am about the mechanics of what is happening the better I get overall
I would hope there is some form of cognitive behavior therapy that I could undertake to sort out the improper disengaging you mention
I'll certainly be trying the krill oil as if it fixes this problem then that is the last portion that I need to fix then I am symptom free
thank you for reading the diary
it's rather long and a bit all over the place
part 2 also
devolves into an attempt at recording the symptoms of the improper disengaging rather than the delusion as a whole
I feel sorry for anyone who gets stuck in the institutions as they really are no place for a mind to get better
fresh air and freedom of self determination have been far more beneficial than anything I saw in the facility I was a patient at
my
reply
what I have written is imo a pretty good summary of the present situation with research, there's been a huge improvement in understanding in recent years due to the use of MRI's and other brain scans which can actually track what is happening in the brain and with a bit of googling I am sure you will get the hang of it and find helpful material !
when googling this sort of thing you have to skim read a very large amount of material and learn to sort the very small amount of truly salient information from the vast morass of rubbish ! :o)(
it's not as simple as the brain default circuit being active in the presence of other tasks, there's also a question about a change in its nature since you seem quite comfortable with the operation of the default circuit by itself which is a sort of contemplative or meditative mode, but then when the default circuit conflicting with other tasks creates a nuisance with voices that appear external, then it has changed the way it operates and is uncomfortable and a nuisance !
I do think I have difficulties myself with the default circuitry of my brain being overactive and basically my experience is that it's really attention to diet and supplements like the blackmores 1000mg eco krill oil that has kept me on deck!
also I eat lamb brains, not so necessary since taking krill oil, just fry them up in a fry pan, but that is an example of the sort of thing that is helpful !
you write
“ I performed an experiment last night where I sat there daydreaming and just thinking about random things and the voices seemed to go away ”
what struck me with this is you seemed comfortable with this sort of “ meditation ” and in fact every evening before bed I will spend an hour to two hours just in a chair or walking around abit, just sorta doing a bit of thinking or letting the thoughts drift by and I hadn't thought of it as being helpful in terms of the default circuit of the brain, but as a result of our dialogue I think that in fact it might be doing something in that respect !
I use a red led headlamp light on at that time so I don't disrupt the circadian rhythm, I have a write up
here on the subject !
good sleep is very important since new research shows that a lack of sleep physically damages the brain !
I have extensive
writings on diet and supplements !
I find getting a bit of strongish sun on the skin in summer helpful too !
the reality is, if you do what zen is about
seriously , it takes heaps of time !
the reality is, if you do what zen is about seriously, it takes heaps of time !
the reality is, if you do what zen is about seriously, it takes heaps of time !
a extract from yuanwu's commentary on case 14 of the blue cliff record
the monk (in this case) picked this out to ask “what are the teachings of a whole lifetime?”
why didn't yunmen explain for him in full detail, but instead said to him, “ an appropriate statement ? ”
my
reply / comment
“ an inspired statement ” is a better translation and it's the original generation of it
not the ability to hear it, that is important
otherwise we might think all the regurgitating fools on reddit zen and in real life zen might actually know what they talking about.............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you (ed. ewk) are right about the sutra's being a waste of time but meditation on a daily basis is essential !
I don't mean deliberately damaging your joints with some degree of the lotus posture, but some quiet contemplative time without the net or reading or doing anything in particular to enable some recursive sanity to assert (reassert!) itself !
then that creative font of infinity becomes more accessible and one is not relegated to copying and pasting the dribble of others ! :o)(
tiantong zongjue (1091 ‑ 1162) addressed the monks saying
across the infinite world extending and infused, unextending, uninfused above and beyond, within and without, perturbed and unperturbed .................
clouds about the mountain peaks
an ethereal light breaks through .....................
a/the silver iridescence of the lustrous moon illuminates all .......... : o ) (
tiantong zongjue (1091 ‑ 1162) addressed the monks saying
across the infinite world extending and infused, unextending, uninfused above and beyond, within and without, perturbed and unperturbed.................
clouds about the mountain peaks
an ethereal light breaks through.....................
a/the silver iridescence of the lustrous moon illuminates all.......... :o)(
tiantong zongjue (1091 ‑ 1162) addressed the monks saying
across the infinite world extending and infused unextending, unenfusing above and beyond, within and without, perturbed and unperturbed.................
clouds about the mountain peaks
an ethereal light breaks through.....................
a/the silver iridescence of the lustrous moon illuminates all.......... :o)(
you should “ cognitively
rest ”
following concussion !
“ one hypothesis is that a concussion results in the indiscriminant release of excitatory neurotransmitters and a spreading depression-like phenomenon
the brain uses adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to help restore homeostasis, but cerebral blood flow is decreased after an injury
cognitive rest may conserve ATP for use in injury recovery rather than using it for intellectual tasks
‘ if you use a lot of ATP because you're reading war and peace or going for a 5-mile jog, then there's less available to help the brain heal ’ ”
20 to 105 myo insects in
amber !
that surely brings something home !
san francisco has a chronic car break in
problem !
carter_admin writes
never leave anything in your car in plain sight ‑ not even a stick of gum
never park, get out, and put your belongings in the boot
people case the lots looking for what people are putting in the trunk
park up a few blocks before, get out and stow your stuff, then drive on and park
leave your glove box open, and empty of course, to show that there's nothing in there either
this is actually a REALLY clear sign to most criminals that you've gone out of your way to remove anything of value and they're better off robbing another car in the lot
the whole zen center system is based on healthy young men prepared to give the best years of their life for no return, it's sorta breaking down now because of that, robust physical health being in short supply the way things are now with our medically damaged populations !
i ask
what do you do in the way of meditation or solitude or retreats ?
laschow replies
I try to meditate when I have time
I'm not affiliated with any organizations that do retreats at the moment
my
reply
in other words you don't meditate, haven't done any retreats
and make no attempt to get any solitude !
basically you have no skill base and without years of work in these areas will continue to fluff around in the sort of madness you think zen is
imo, slouching in a chair or lying in bed ( 1/2 to 3/4 of an hour after waking up works well! ) are the best meditating positions, you really need to be comfortable and not inducting any joint damage !
in zen group sittings I sat kneeling with a vertical cushion under my bum !
meditation is recursive, if you read junk like the suzuki's or allan watts you will just drive deeper into the half arsed insanity they are, it's so very important to
read quality................
like you need both, quality reading and discourse and mediation/solitude/contemplation/retreats/hermitage
in terms of “meditation”
, I would do between an hour and two hours a day of “ slouching ! ” which can be in a chair in the house by the woodheater or standing or using a chair outside or even hanging off the single line clothesline, sometimes at 2 am ! :o)
urine is not sterile and the bacteria in it may be associated with an
overactive bladder
“ the bladder bacteria in healthy women differ significantly from those in women affected by OAB ”
ibuprofen/cox-2 inhibitors are
effective against urinary tract infections ?
“ immune cells, known as neutrophils, are significant contributors to repeat infections
in their eagerness to break into the bladder to fight infection, neutrophils leave tracks in the protective lining of the bladder's interior
the excessive damage may provide footholds that let bacteria grab hold of the bladder lining and begin to establish severe infection
the effect of COX-2 inhibition on the immune response in the bladder was that neutrophils still came into the bladder in large numbers but caused much less damage to the protective lining ”
ledeadhorse asks
aren't you a little attached to this whole vitamin/sacred diet thing?
my
reply
i'm attached to having good neural health so I don't have to pass it in an alcohol or pot haze to make it bearable ! :o)
ledeadhorse asks
aren't you a little attached to this whole vitamin/sacred diet thing?
my
reply
i'm attached to having good neural health so I don't have to pass it in an alcohol or pot induced haze to make it bearable ! :o)
dear wall, how many bricks do you have ?
i
don't
want
to
count
them !
:
o
)
dear wall, how many bricks do you have ?
i
don't
want
to
count
them !
:
o
(
dear wall, how many bricks do you have ?
i
don't
want
to
count
them !
beginner's mind is a load of crap !
formulas like that are the antithesis of what zen is about !
:
o
)
beginner's mind is a load of crap !
formulas like that are the antithesis of what zen is about !
beginner's mind is a load of crap !
formulas like that are the antithesis of what zen is about !
in terms of “meditation”
, I would do between an hour and two hours a day of “ slouching ! ” which can be in a chair in the house by the woodheater or standing or using a chair outside or even hanging off the single line clothesline, sometimes at 2 am ! :o)
zenparables/shingen-ohsiruko/tozen
writes
something for your contemplation :
you are a hungry ghost
what do you hunger after?
you answer me and I will answer you (ed. my asking him what mediation he does)
my
reply
your question is voynich, it's from the you viewpoint which just ends in questions (and answers!) of endless fractionation !
the ruby red
dawn is what I am, is that hunger or satiation ?
yeah eliminate sweet potatoes, potatoes and grains
but then you have to get into the
rest .................
so realistically eliminate sweet potatoes and cut back on wheat flour
unleavened bread is probably the worst !
you may get away with a very small amount of sweet potatoes, i don't ‑
this is finesse and sorting things out !
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the problem is not carbs per se, but the ease of digestibility of the carb, like grains are out but most vegetables adequately cooked, are in
eg broccoli, leeks, radishes, peppers, brussel sprouts, beans, peas, silver beet, spinach, spring onions, celery etc are
in
but potatoes and sweet potatoes are out !
dawn lights in ruby, when you bleed with that light you have attained wisdom !
a quote from “ instant zen : waking up in the present ” page 7
translated by thomas cleary
foyan qingyuan ( 1067 ‑ 1120 ) says
wisdom is like the sun rising, whereupon everything is illuminated
this is called the manifestation of nondiscriminatory knowledge
you should attain this once, and from then on there will be something to work with
and we will have something to talk about
if you indulge in idle imagination and toil over objects
then you have nothing for me to work with.
what a laugh!
when I talk about the east, you go into the west
and when I talk about the west, you go into the east!
if you could turn your heads around, when your insight opened up you'd be able to say “ after all it turns out the teacher has told me, and I have told the teacher ” , and when the head was shaken the tail would whip around, everything falling into place.
you brag about having studied zen for five or ten years
but when have you ever done this kind of work?
you just pursue platitudes and clichés !
my condensation ! : 0 )
dawn lights in ruby, when you bleed with that light you have attained wisdom !
dharmabumzz asks
do you think diet can cure hoshimotos thyroiditis?
my
reply
gee you are asking a hard question ! :o(
one of the problems with thyroid cells is they take 30 years to regrow, so basically speaking once you get the autoimmune destruction of thyroid related proteins as in hashimoto's, you don't really get recovery of function..............
with the judicious use of
iodine and
selenium from a supplement point of view and dessicated thyroid hormones and actually eating neck sweet breads which I do occasionally
I have cut literally hundreds of thyroids out of wallabies and they do make a difference, have some in the fridge actually...........
will lightly cook one up now..........
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.
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there eaten it, very young animal, not chewy ! :o)(
also ate an adrenal gland, sorta bright yellow, don't think it does much tho, but the thyroids definitely do................
but in terms of the autoimmune causes of hashimoto's, problems with a leaky gut and some biofilm/micorbiome bacteria releasing toxins or antigens exciting autoimmune action against the thyroid is something I have seen in research studies
with medical conditions like this, indeed most, you are never talking a cure but reducing or slowing or even hopefully stopping the damage, yes
diet is very important, not simply in reducing the generation of thyroid targeted antigens but in reducing the general inflammatory tableaux ! :o)(
you can't pretend with health problems, tho many do, they don't admit of that sort of pliability ! ! :o(
well shingen-ohsiruko a
parable for you
the poor want to have as much as the rich
once upon a time , there was a poor man who had but few possessions
after meeting some rich men , he wanted to be like one of them
unable to do so , he was about to throw the little he had into the river
some bystander said , “ what you possess may be little , but you can live on it for a while. why do you want to throw it into the water? ”
this is similar to what is done by the
stupids shingen-ohsiruko's of this world
lol low thyroid makes people stupid ! : o ) (
not enough blood in the brain amongst other things !
lol low thyroid makes people stupid ! :o)(
not enough blood in the brain amongst other things!
lol low thyroid makes people stupid ! :o)(
not enough blood in the brain amongst other things!
my view is that people take pot and drugs and alcohol to self medicate past various health and developmental issues like poor sleep, anxiety, depression, mania etc
I am not by any means “normal” myself and have a dietary and supplement
program that works as an alternative to
“self medication”
you are welcome to join the who_knows message
board and start to look at what you can do
QUALITY writing
deserves
QUALITY space
actually what I write is really semantically dense with layers of meaning so the spacing is partly to encourage readers to look for that !
but the spacing, grammar, punctuation and spelling is part of the semantics !
QUALITY writing
deserves
QUALITY space
darkshade_py replies
your writing reminds me of chinese paintings with some black strokes but filled with emptiness
QUALITY writing
deserves
pot smokers pass their lives in a scented dream and like the matrix only the blue pill will they take !
“ I'd enjoy reading ‘zen mind, beginner's mind’ with some other people to keep me honest and lend different perspectives ”
my
reply to the above
proposal to form a reading group of shunryu suzuki's book of the same name !
it's an appalling bunch of crap !
far from being honest, you are just another wannabe con artist on the make ! :o(
they're like fish taking lures , once hooked they will trash about in pretense for the rest of their lives !
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I got a whole
list of adequate reading, not forgetting the seventh
patriarch and the ultimate
reality blogs !
this is the number one mistake people make, this stupid con artistry by the likes of the Suzuki's and alan watts
and actually
this was my introduction to zen which was to time warp back to 1750 which is very different to this sorta
“suburban but fund the zero planes” type zen that came across from japan !
the real zen is celibate and ascetic, very very different from the self indulgent platitudinous nonsense that the mad and stupid arseholes today push out of their dirty faece smeared arses ! :o(
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people just want their dicks sucked !
the suzuki's and watts do that !
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true understanding is very very rare, you can see it in the old stories, one or two men in a generation................
if that ,
neither Suzuki nor watts was enlightened, just plain wrong
“ and for that matter what constitutes a master of zen? ”
direct mind to mind
transmission from the sixth patriarch ! :o)
I have sacked most everybody else btw ! :o)
“ is this
subreddit about zen itself or zen buddhism? ”
buddhism, like any religion is always an estrangement from its mystical tradition which in this case is zen !
mysticism is about the direct experience of the absolute/god/infinity for oneself and not proxying through the various stories and sayings of fictitious figures like jesus or shakyamuni Buddha !
in other words Buddhism, like christianity is the just the usual human inanity on steroids !
reddit zen because the moderators in the best zen spirit have elected not to “ pick and choose ” is the true zen unpalatable as that sometimes seems and destructive of any fictions that are brought up against it...........
about ourselves, what life is or how we think things should be...........
between construction and lucky identity you can get
macroscopic quantum effects !
“ [...] the observation of quantum mechanical effects in much larger mechanical structures
and that could allow the demonstration of strange quantum mechanical properties like superposition and entanglement in large objects ‑ for example, allowing a macroscopic object to exist in two places at once
subatomic particles act in quantum ways ‑ they have a wave-like nature ‑ and so can atoms, and so can whole molecules since they're collections of atoms
so the question then is: can you make bigger and bigger objects behave in these weird wave-like ways?
there's many types of seizures and imo that child is having
a seizure !
the problem is that short of drugs with bad side effects what can you do ?
such things can be a transitory part of the developmental process and can improve !
one of the things I dislike about posting here (reddit medical and actually i withrew the post, the attitude there is so bad !) is you get manic medical idiots who seem to want everyone to have to go to an emergency department and people get pumped full of drugs for every ill when my suggestion is attention to the dietary aspects of neural health like taking a good quality krill oil (marine stewardship council sourced) !
in actual fact the emergency department in this case were acting prudently, there's nothing they can really do and he may well grow out of them !
in actual fact i reposted as follows below
imo that's a seizure but most likely the neurologist will suggest that the parents wait and see if he grows out of it !
my own suggestion is to pay attention to the diet from a point of view of enhancing neural plasticity and health, for instance a supplement like a good quality krill oil (marine stewardship council sourced) may help !
when you get hurt, return good for bad
it sounds abit sanctimonius doesn't it !
(but!) it's the way of truth !
there's a chronic personal dishonesty with those who are involved in the drug scene !
there's a chronic personal dishonesty with those involved in the drug scene !
there's a chronic personal dishonesty with those who are involved in the drug scene
the problem is the developing brain considerably
amplifies the damage nootropics cause
there are two doctors/medical personnel on reddit medical and ask docs with adderall addiction problems and believe me it shows, over aggressive, unable to admit mistakes and be reasonable, hubric about their drug use, OCD, errors of judgment, the list just goes on..........
“ It now appears, however, that the short-term boost in mental performance comes at a cost to juveniles and adolescents, namely a long-term decrease in the brain plasticity required for task switching, future planning, and adaptive flexible behavior ”
it's best to taper down over several weeks to a month with cigarettes, give the body time to readjust the gene expression back !
cold turkey is not the way to go !
xyz writes
I guess I cannot be a mystic, it's just not in my constitution
why then do I feel attracted to something I cannot accomplish?
it's rather cruel!
I wish I could just ditch the whole thing and focus on “ real life ”
but I can't do that either!
my
reply
yeah but if you do it right you are focusing on real life !
nietzsche , sa'di , life smarts that sort of thing
and get some solitude and exposure to natural beauty !
that's all you have to do and that's all there is.
not the schizophrenic phantasies of zen and tozen !
methexis/zakaj writes
but for a man like napoleon bonaparte, do you think his marriage controlled his life?
a man who is quoted as saying “ women are nothing but machines for producing children ”
my
reply
actually Bonaparte was very dependent on the organizing genius of josephine in his rise to power and she strongly advised him to keep out of spain !
he was on some sort of mania about world domination or destiny at that point and didn't listen to a huge cost to france and his regime! :o(
his grief at her infidelity is extremely touching ! :o)(
marriage is a communal breeding paradigm and too strong a current against the solipsism necessary in zen/mysticism
you can be a mystic like Dylan Thomas and marry and have kids but you get killed literally or torn apart by the contrary currents !
you are asking “ where is the way out ” and the only
sound is you closing gates on yourself ! :o(
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you're clueless !
yes there is a gate !
pass_me_the_drugs replies
a gate-less gate
my
reply
do you see how it's important to you to appear to understand ?
if you can't be honest and look into what you don't understand then you are doomed to waste your time and life !
the gateless gate is the apex of the cone of non existence and existance !
the gateless gate is the apex of the cone of existence and non existance !
you are asking “ where is the way out ” and the only
sound is you closing gates on yourself ! :o(
zenparables/shingen-ohsiruko/tozen
writes
faith and conviction - - what people of today would call a “giant leap of faith” - - is absolutely essential
my
reply
that's what makes psychosis !
real life sanity is hypothesis and testing and going each step as confirmed by experience, no waltzing about in various psychoses like you do !
faith and conviction are the ropes and cleats that charlatans use to bind followers ! :o(
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you are just a narcissistic mess and have never been and will never be enlightened !
play golf instead of meandering in this Bodhi-child psychosis you have,
it would be saner ! :o()
tornadoflame writes a zen poem i made
i'm laying here on my bed
thinking of something wise to say
no, this monologue will do just fine,
for the ordinary must be zen too
my
reply
i'm laying here on my bed
solving the problems for the day
I will get out of bed
and let the chaotic play !
tornadoflame writes a zen poem i made
i'm laying here on my bed
thinking of something wise to say
no, this monologue will do just fine,
for the ordinary must be zen too
my
reply
i'm laying here on my bed
solving the problems for the day
I will get out of bed
and let the chaotic play !
i think we're both starting to die, how long does it take, 10 years? 20 years ?
diane athill reads her poem
“ [...] that during obesity, that is when mice were fed a high-fat diet, the
rhythmicity of circadian clocks in immune cells of fat tissue is dysregulated
by a prolonged rhythmic period ”
this is, in turn, is linked to the increased accumulation of immune cells in fat tissue and decreased whole-body insulin sensitivity ”
my comment
this is interesting, that excess fat accumulation (obesity !) of itself disturbs the rhythmicity of circadian clocks in the immune cells of fat tissue
which causes insulin resistance !
what zen is about is like mining a very low grade diamond mine, you have to shift millions of tons of potentially diamond bearing material to get one diamond, but that diamond is very very special and shines throughout all this and any existing and non existing universes................
the problem is that shifting this amount of ore for what is essentially nothing leaves family support in dire straits which is why it only really works for celibacy ! :o)(
what zen is about is like mining a very low grade diamond mine, you have to shift millions of tons of potentially diamond bearing material to get one diamond, but that diamond is very very special and shines through all this and any existing and non existing universes................
the problem is that shifting this amount of ore for what is essentially nothing leaves family support in dire straits which is why it only really works for celibacy ! :o)(
I am finding the plain d-alpha tocopherol vitamin E by itself is the best for keeping migraine at bay !
i must have a creeping blood coagulation problem as i age and am effectively using it as an
anti-coagulant , since i would say i am having to take about 150 iu or more a day !
you need to take vitamin K to compensate for the vitamin E mediated reduction of vitamin K in the testis, kidney and brain
youngquant asks
what does it mean when the zen master says that you already have enlightenment?
then what are you are you trying to do if you already have it?
realize that you have it?
but then realizing can be called the enlightenment itself and you still don't have it?
my
reply
which zen master ? quote?
it's quite simple, there is no self so what is no self ?
you have nothing to teach me, i know what
your sort of brick wall looks like !
you have nothing to teach me, i know what
your sort of brick wall looks like !
you have nothing to teach me, i know what your sort of brick wall looks like !
you have nothing to teach me, i know what your sort of brick wall looks like !
you have nothing to teach me, i know what brick walls look like !
you have nothing to teach me, i know what brick walls look like !
my reply to pass_me_the_drugs who claims to have been “ drug free ” for four months
you are still in denial about the basic problems that led you to self medicate with drugs !
all these little boys who want their mommies to fix everything for them :o(
poeple talk about time travel, but actually this video is a time machine
that takes you right back there !
poor woman she looks thoughtful and pained ! [ 1 : 44 ]
“ light is the most
powerful synchroniser of your internal biological clock according to professor charles
czeisler of harvard university
energy efficient light bulbs as well as smartphones, tablets and computers had high levels of light in the blue end of the spectrum which is right in the sweet spot
for disrupting the body clock
light exposure, especially short wavelength blue-ish light in the evening, will reset our circadian rhythms to a later hour, postponing the release of the sleep-promoting hormone melatonin and making it more difficult for us to get up in the morning
it's a big concern that we're being exposed to much more light,
sleeping less and, as a consequence, may suffer from many chronic diseases ”
julyaugustson asks
don't you smoke pot?
my
reply
I don't want to come across as self righteous because I have had brain damage from other sources like concussion and also fluoride tablets as a child and lack of omega 3 in the diet
the plus side was I had cavity free teeth and never a filling until about 45 :o)
but I have never smoked pot and am pretty much a teetotaler and stopped drinking coffee and tea when I was about 23 !
I understand people smoking pot to help with anxiety and sleep, but all my research is that it is toxic to the brain and curtails the cognitive activities, you have got the problem and the way I have solved it is through the compendium
supplement program
it's functional and keeps my brain sharp and I am not “waiting at the end of time” to die which is the state of almost everyone here on reddit zen !
zen
needs
a
sharp
brain
I
am
afraid
!
:
o
(
pass_me_the_drugs asks/writes
where is the way out?
trapped!!
my
reply
I assume you self medicate with pot or whatever like quite a few on reddit zen
you need to look for better
solutions to the problems
that led you to self medicate in the first place !
ramana maharshi was never enlightened
but was a deluded fool
who never touched the infinite ! :o(
ramana maharshi was never enlightened
but a deluded fool
who touched the infinite ! :o(
ramana maharshi was never enlightened
but a deluded fool
who never touched the infinite ! :o(
ramana maharshi was never enlightened, but was a deluded fool who never touched the infinite ! :o(
ramana maharshi was never enlightened, but a deluded fool who never touched the infinite ! :o(
ramana maharshi was never enlightened, but a deluded fool who never touched the infinite ! :o(
i had no idea of the circumstances of her death ! :o()
being a satellite to her father obviously didn't work !
:
o
)
i had no idea of the circumstances of her death ! :o()
a pearl from reddit medical
hey there i today i made mash potato ( and ate it all
, i'm a 19 year old boy give me a break :P ) out of 5 green potatos as i thought they where only slightly green and still safe to eat ( i always use food that other people would chuck out ) then now 1 hour later i noticed i have a headache and im seriously dizzy only to check online and turns out those are two symptoms it can cause
, question is
, is that amount of green potato bad ?
the enlightenment experience is that you see everything is inside out, that what we call/think the primary reality is in fact the secondary reality and perhaps more importantly,
that there is a true primary reality ! :o)(
the enlightenment experience is that everything is inside out, that what we call/think the primary reality is in fact the secondary reality and perhaps more importantly,
that there is a true primary reality ! :o)(
the enlightenment experience is everything is inside out
, that what we call/think the primary reality is in fact the secondary reality and perhaps more importantly,
that there is a true primary reality ! :o)(
the enlightenment experience is everything is inside out, that what we call/think the primary reality is in fact the secondary reality and perhaps more importantly,
that there is a true primary reality ! :o)(
the enlightenment experience is everything is inside out, that what we call/think
the primary reality is in fact the secondary reality and perhaps more importantly
, that there is
a true primary reality ! : 0 ) (
the enlightenment experience is everything is inside out, that what we call/think
the primary reality is in fact the secondary reality and perhaps more importantly
, that there is
a true primary reality ! : 0 ) (
the enlightenment experience is everything is inside out, that what we call/think
the primary reality is in fact the secondary reality and perhaps more importantly, that there is a true primary reality ! :o)(
the enlightenment experience is everything is inside out, that what we call/think
the primary reality is in fact the secondary reality and perhaps more importantly, that there is a true primary reality ! :o)(
the enlightenment experience is everything is inside out, that what we call/think the primary reality is in fact the secondary reality and perhaps more importantly, that there is a true primary reality ! :o)(
I still think the “ 7th Patriarch ” stuff is a result of a bipolar manic episode though
my
reply
you are basically “ anti-solipsist ” , yet the enlightened viewpoint is solipsist !
it was not a manic episode, until it happened I wouldn't have believed in the possibility of mind to mind transmission, in this case with the 6th patriarch !
and then twenty years to work out what actually happned !
you cannot believe it until it happens and really it hardly ever happens, the intensity and degree of work is so difficult !
it was in fact the second such experience of this union I had had, the first was as a child of about seven, no sixth patriarch of course, just the clouds and sky........... :o)
I do think you have some capacity for the experience but have decided to sensibly avoid it as it is way too disrupting and crucifying...............
depression gives the key to the door and mania gives the energy to turn it,
you need both ....... ! :o)
neither by itself seems to work i notice ! :o)(
I still think the “ 7th Patriarch ” stuff is a result of a bipolar manic episode though
my
reply
you are basically “ anti-solipsist ” , yet the enlightened viewpoint is solipsist !
it was not a manic episode, until it happened I wouldn't have believed in the possibility of mind to mind transmission, in this case with the 6th patriarch !
and then twenty years to work out what actually happned !
you cannot believe it until it happens and really it hardly ever happens, the intensity and degree of work is so difficult !
it was in fact the second such experience of this union I had had, the first was as a child of about seven, no sixth patriarch of course, just the clouds and sky........... :o)
I do think you have some capacity for the experience but have decided to sensibly avoid it as it is way too disrupting and crucifying...............
depression gives the key to the door and mania gives the energy to turn it,
you need both ....... ! :o)
“ throat irritation from installing some insulation
last tuesday I did some work and the next day developed a persistent cough that has gotten better since, but still will not go away
I get a tickle in the back of my throat and then feel the need to cough pretty hard
I went to the doctors on saturday but I told him that I was burning wet logs and branches for at least six hours and that's why I believed I was coughing.
but it just now dawned on me I cut and installed two rolls of insulation and (stupidly) did not use a mask as I had never handled insulation before I now think that may be the reason I am coughing (but still of course I could be wrong)
I have some shortness of breath, a rough cough and can feel phlegm or mucus in my throat but that's where it has stayed ”
ed. he thanked me for my reply saying it made him feel better about his cough !
my
reply
fiberglass insulation will eventually break into small pieces and be carted out of the body
the problem with asbestos is it only splits longways and never sideways,
so it can never be carried out ! :o(
a fart poem
zižek is sort suburban sorta
not , but not in the right echelon !
I don't read that he's anti mystical at all !
you can write all you like but you lack retreat experience and adequate reading
and having half got into what you insist on mucking up, make a mess of things !
the basic issue is you think you have got to first base so to speak, yet all I am ever saying to you is you are going the wrong direction and you don't like that because you can see that “ in a lachanian manner ” ! :o)
basically you need solitude and retreat experience to build your sense of what god might be ! :o)
no amount of philosophy and reasoning will ever overcome that deficiency !
“ you both
claim to have been penetrated by god ”
yeah so the question is, is that a fact ?
there's a huge difference between the claim and the fact !
when you know it you have that certainty, shingen obviously doesn't since he goes on to make all sort of nonsense up and treat that as real !
I will point out that
shingen /shingen-ohsiruko/tozen couldn't take the heat and has run like a rabbit/deleted his nick from reddit ! :o)
dan finds a gold
mjölnir (thors hammer)
pendant [4:20] from about 1000 ad/ce !
it's
an
exciting
and
valuable
find !
if your world is anime games, you are not going to be very familiar with what really goes on in life r u ?
when i look at my life, these words come to mind
the sadness of my own idiocy !
when i look at my life, these words come to mind
the sadness of my own idiocy !
when i look at my life, these words come to mind
the sadness of my own idiocy !
the sadness of my own idiocy !
the sadness of my own idiocy !
the sadness of my own idiocy !
more toxic food from the autistic nigella lawson !
love those speech delays don't you !
is it my imagination or does the tip of her nose look like it's lacking circulation?
unleavened/indigestible bread with a high protein food like crab meat
and yet she's made millions off of it
what are you doing with your life?
my
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what sort of world do you live in that a wealthy coke addict causing a lot of grief to people who follow her dietary advice is doing something worthwhile in life ?
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look she's just a stupid bitch who by her what is effectively very wrong minded dietary advice left a very damaging imprint !
I don't really care except that she's screwing everyone's health up
with some very wrong minded cooking
a pretty face can mean a toxic life sadly !
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there are contradictions between her autistic traiting and the phoney life style she presents and the toxic food she makes !
einstein and Leonardo da vinci were autistic so it can go both ways,
she has taken the wrong/toxic path !
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look she has big breasts and a pretty face and you think butter wouldn't melt in her mouth,
she's some sort of anime fascination made real !
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look where your anime obsession has landed you !
obsessed/infatuated with a 54 year old menopausal coke addict ! :o)(
the trouble with a nilhilist or vacant “ everything is just already as it is ” approach
, is life needs understanding or you get eaten alive
or you spend to much your time tilting at windmills like reddit zen ! :o)
the trouble with a nilhilist or vacant “ everything is just already as it is ” approach
, is life needs understanding or you get eaten alive
or tilt at windmills like reddit zen ! :o)
the trouble with a nilhilist or vacant “ everything is just already as it is ” approach is life needs understanding or you get eaten alive
or tilt at windmills like reddit zen ! : o )
the trouble with a nilhilist or vacant “ everything is just already as it is ” approach is life needs understanding or you get eaten alive or tilt at windmills like reddit zen ! :o)
zinc based nappy rash cream helps with skin yeast /
biofilm infections !
zinc based nappy rash cream helps with skin
yeast / biofilm infections !
I have had a few
accidents and in the end figured my driving was at fault so am much more careful now and am in a constant process of attempting to upskill my driving !
however I recognize (that!) I am not a naturally good driver, some are ! :o)(
one of the key things i realized is thats there's no way cutting five or ten minutes off the driving time to get to an appointment etc. is worth the increased accident or traffic penalty risk !
I have had a few accidents and in the end figured my driving was at fault so am much more careful now and am in a constant process of attempting to upskill my driving !
however I recognize (that!) I am not a naturally good driver , some are ! :o)(
one of the key things i realized is thats there's no way cutting five or ten minutes off the driving time to get to an appointment etc. is worth the increased accident or traffic penalty risk !
I have had a few accidents and in the end figured my driving was at fault so am much more careful now and am in a constant process of attempting to upskill my driving !
however I recognize (that!) I am not a naturally good driver
, some are ! :o)(
Vorlondel asks and quotes me
“ that there is something objective that can be worked through ! ”
like reality, or one's emotional problems ?
my
reply
I don't have any rules, I just follow what zen's/is about !
that there is something objective that can be worked through !
: o)(
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reality and emotional problems, oneself's and others, are both objective !
I don't have any rules, I just follow what zen's/is about !
that there is something objective that can be worked through !
self-esteem always gets in the way of seeing things as they are !
self-esteem always gets in the way of seeing things as they are ..............
self-esteem always gets in the way of seeing things as they are..............
self-esteem always gets in the way of seeing things as they are
the ultimate truth is very strange and beyond your ken ,
it is simply that we don't exist and never have
:o) :o( ! ... : o{} :o(
the ultimate truth is very strange and beyond your ken
it is simply that we don't exist and never have
the ultimate truth is very strange and beyond your ken
it is simply that we don't exist and never have :o) :o( !
the ultimate truth is very strange and beyond your ken ,
it is simply that we don't exist and never have !
the ultimate truth is very strange and beyond your ken, it's simply that we don't exist and never have
the ultimate truth is very strange and beyond your
ken
it is simply that we don't exist and never have
the ultimate truth is very strange and beyond your ken
it is simply that we don't exist and never have
the ultimate truth is very strange and beyond your ken
it is simply that we don't exist and never have
the ultimate truth is very strange and beyond your ken !
the ultimate truth is very strange and beyond your ken
zakaj/methexis writes
Andrew the 7th Patriarch bit about you is the turd in the punch bowl, if you get my drift
It's really too bad, because you're otherwise a very sane thinker and highly interesting writer
But I take it with a grain of salt
I'm guessing it's like performance art, you're trying to get a point across
I really doubt that you actually believe that a hallucination or “ vision ” as religious nuts call it, conferred you the Patriarchal robes.
And if you really do, it's hard to understand why you make fun of Buddha-Jesus faith, since you're basically creating more of the same BS!
my
reply
well this is what sorts the sheep from the goats, understanding and seeing the validity of me being the 7th patriarch !
it's not like performance art, it actually happened and is a communication across time and space, I guess I was calling loudly :o)
buddha and jesus are fictions the 6th and 7th patriarchs are not !
we have been communicating for a while and really you have not moved forward....................... just like almost everybody else, you don't do real work and just stay where you are :o(
qigong is about your level ! :o()
oddly enough in the old zen literature I do remember reading of another instance of this happening !
the truth is too strange for people ! :o)( : o()
the 7th patriarch is the diamond shine of this reality.............................
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you admit you are “waiting at the end of time” , how can you expect to understand, let alone approach the experience that is that, it's the literal union of god or infinity with oneself !
you just sit on your arse going in circles and are discomforted that you are really missing (out ! ?) on something !
in actual fact I am not criticizing you, this experience and the work is just way too hard and so against the grain to the stupid collective human morons that all one does with the criticism that arises from the disjunction is use it as an opportunity to develop some writing !
I think keeping a record that one can pass on to succeeding generations is important, it's what the old masters did, and one is dependent on them for an understanding as it's practically non-existant in the current generation of wrong minded twits, but it has always been this way ! :o()
there's nothing wrong with you, it's an autistic
trait , that's all !
even calming in certain situtations !
if you have ever seen bill gates, he rocks !
chromium made a big diff to my eye health !
no glasses changes and very clear vision now !
“ i once knew a nigger
unworthy of his father
he drifted and drifted
then he did the usual fake thing
posted a ditty about himself
then deleted himself
cringing coward that he was
“ i once knew a nigger
unworthy of his father
he drifted and drifted
then he did the usual fake thing
posted a ditty about himself
then deleted himself
cringing coward that he was
“ i once knew a nigger
unworthy of his father
he drifted and drifted
then he did the usual fake thing,
posted a ditty about himself
then deleted himself,
cringing coward that he was
“ it’s
common for people to see non-existent features (eg. in clouds) because human brains are uniquely wired to recognize faces, so that even when there’s only a slight suggestion of facial features the
brain automatically interprets it as a face ”
zen is about enlightenment so if you are not enlightened you have got it wrong !
reddit zen is just endless unenlightened people all getting it wrong in their different ways ! :o)
reddit zen doesn't differ from real life zen in this respect, all their energy goes in moving in the opposite direction they need to go to get enlightened, what can you say, if you take grief you'll be grieved and if you take amusement, you'll laugh !
“ you are too enlightened for my tiny, sheeple brain
I could never hope to be as wise as you ”
you don't know how to problem solve, fluffing around in specious nonsense when you should be investigating !
opinions and smart alecking don't get you far in the minefield of supplementation !
“ you are too enlightened for my tiny, sheeple brain
I could never hope to be as wise as you ”
you don't know how to problem solve, fluffing around in specious nonsense when you should be investigating !
opinions and smart alecking don't get you far in the minefield of supplementation !
the emptiness of religion
if you don't chase normality , it won't chase you !
if you don't chase normality , it won't chase you !
:
o
)
if you don't chase
normality , it won't chase you !
if you don't chase normality, it won't chase you !
if
you
don't
chase
normality,
it won't
chase
you
if you don't chase
normality , it won't chase you
if you don't chase normality, it won't chase you
if
you
don't
chase
normality,
it won't
chase
the orange
triad contains ALA and the life force contains ALA and NAC !
the orange triad also contains a dangerous amount of MSM !
these are heavy metal mobilizers and do a lot of irreversible damage !
this is the best known anti-chelation website by a long way and contains an awful lot of high quality research !
some have to step out of their blinkered worlds and read it !
they are the only ones hurt by wilful ignorance !
this stuff has consequences !
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anything containing sodium selenite is a problem
( it is used to blind rats for medical studies ! )
inorganic mineral forms aka garden fertiliser create digestive problems
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a serving size (4 capsules) of the source naturals life
force contains 150mg of N-Acetyl Cysteine and 40mg of alpha-Lipoic Acid & R-Lipoic Acid
if you take that amount then you are in effect doing the very destructive daily single dose chelation protocol !
the hardest thing to get used to is the creeps all over the net who have been damaged by this sort of thing and work overtime to encourage others to get as damaged as themselves !
it has already done them in :o()
you can pretend to be anything on the web ! :o(
thatdudehasballs writes
my first experience with zen (I think)
so, i was at my school's bus stop
its rained the day before and there were puddles on the ground
the air was warm and i was feeling pretty good
I was sitting on a curb and my shoes were in a puddle that was at least a finger tip deep
I looked at this puddle and for some reason i decided , “ eh, what the hell ” and took off my shoes and my socks and put my feet in the puddle
the water was cold, but my feet became warm after a little while
I played about, splashing and tracing figures with my big toe
I even got my hands involved a little
my friend eventually came and asked “ what the hell are you doing? ” I cocked my head back, a smug smile grew across my face and said , “ Having fun ” , than he just laughed and said “ whatever faggot ” and i don't think I've laughed so hard in my life
I felt whole
I felt like a full circle, its hard to explain (might sound a bit like a smarty-pants here) zen's supposed to be like a way of feeling whole
some people feel whole with hours of meditation, some people feel whole by rolling around in the mud, i felt whole by putting my feet in water
different people, different experiences
my
reply
yeah that is a real experience, not the least because you see how the moron normals react
when you go outside the boundaries !
they can get a bloody sight more nasty I can tell you !
“ if you could ask your SO one
question , that they had to answer truthfully
,
and afterward they would forget that you asked, what would you ask them? ”
why and not why ! : o ) (
“ if you could ask your SO one
question , that they had to answer truthfully, and afterward they would forget that you asked, what would you ask them? ”
why and not why ! : o ) (
“ if you could ask your SO one
question , that they had to answer truthfully, and afterward they would forget that you asked, what would you ask them? ”
why and not why ! : o ) (
“ if you could ask your SO one
question , that they had to answer truthfully, and afterward they would forget that you asked, what would you ask them? ”
the problem with ambien
“ took an ambien once and woke up with a full breakfast made
I must have made it during my ambien blackout
the problem with ambien
“ took an ambien once and woke up with a full breakfast made
I must have made it during my ambien blackout
nullcorp writes
wish me luck!
I want to develop myself and understand zen and the dao better, so I've planned to spend a week being as mindful as possible by letting go of as much as possible. today is the first day! for 7 days i will undergo ‑
no food no drugs (caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, marijuana, even things like dayquil) no sex/masturbation no facebook send no calls or texts, only answer them as they come spend no money on material things and objects watch no television/movies/media minimum one hour of zazen per day (shouldn't be too hard)
on my last night i plan on drawing an enso. and it will be masterful !
my
reply
what zen is about is very hard to get, you can't afford to screw the brain with marijuana which is definitely toxic to it !
in some contexts where people rather than get off their arses and do something like
this for sleep they will self medicate with marijuana which is less open to criticism
if you are really interested in what zen is about, you are far better to permanently stop smoking weed since you are claiming not to need to self medicate with it, also cut right back on entertainment
since you mention nicotine, then you smoke? you actually are best to step off smoking over several weeks or longer, tapering down to let the body readjust it's gene expression..............
between pot and cigarettes you have two huge issues that need working through
personally imo you are self medicating with marijuana and have deeper problems that need to be worked on !
when you look at your grandparents, you can pick your health problems
like a patchwork quilt across them
and your strengths as well ! :o)
when you look at your grandparents, you can pick your health problems
like a patchwork quilt across them
:
o
)
when you look at your grandparents, you can pick your health problems
like a patchwork quilt across them
I think to say “ before ” and “ after ” enlightenment is not to understand what it is about !
it's basically a process..........................
not some fixed stance
and it only matters to you ! :o()
I think to say “ before ” and “ after ” enlightenment is not to understand what it is about !
it's basically a process..........................
and it only matters to you ! :o()
it takes “ a blink ” to
redistribute the tear film on the eye
important if you spend a lot of time in front of a monitor !
“ the evaporated tear film on the front of the eye can't be replenished by simply supplying more new tear fluid from the lacrimal gland ”
it takes “ a blink ” to
redistribute the tear film on the eye
important if you spend a lot of time in front of a monitor !
the wind wraps a thick-corded hand around the house and hums
moving shadows ‑ must be the neighbor’s trees ‑ pass bars of light and dark over the kitchen table through the blinds
I have a pot of chili to make for a party on saturday, but what I really want to do is curl up in bed with a book and listen to the wind
but I won’t; I’ll bow to the quotidian (laundry, packing) and honor anticipation (a party!) and carve my way through the wind-thick evening
my
reply
the wind wraps a thick corded hand around my life and squeezes
what vomits out?
dreams
expectations
the clunky and coloured acquisitions so valued but worthless
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e
a
t
the wind wraps a thick-corded hand around the house and hums
moving shadows ‑ must be the neighbor’s trees ‑ pass bars of light and dark over the kitchen table through the blinds
I have a pot of chili to make for a party on saturday, but what I really want to do is curl up in bed with a book and listen to the wind
but I won’t; I’ll bow to the quotidian (laundry, packing) and honor anticipation (a party!) and carve my way through the wind-thick evening
my
reply
the wind wraps a thick corded hand around my life and squeezes
what vomits out?
dreams
expectations
the clunky and coloured acquisitions so valued but worthless
................................ d
e
a
t
important if you spend a lot of time in front of a monitor !
“ in a very deep mountain, among the
rocks , there's an orchid
which produces only half of it's scent
what does this ‘half’ mean? ”
ok.
so basically he's asking what half means !
you are caught in an endless circle of doing “ half ”
you are really not prepared to step out and do it “ whole ”
the problem is meditation can dig you in a rut via intensification of the semantic patterns of the default circuitry of the brain, unless you effectively have converse which means reading people like emily Dickinson or sa'di who really have sorted an understanding of reality out.
like alan watts and d.t. suzuki which most people on reddit zen push as standard reading are just stupid fakes and screw ups, so if you use them as guides you become a fake screw up !
“ in fact, as many as 80 to 90 per cent of people with rapid-eye-movement sleep behaviour
disorder will develop a brain disease ”
some simple things to help neural health are taking a good quality krill oil (marine stewardship council sourced) and reducing cell phone emf
exposure !
basically the acting out of the dreams is a symptom of neurodegeneration because of the failure of the brain to fully paralyze the muscles !
imo there is no medical/drug solution, but there's plenty you can do like taking krill oil and reducing grain intake etc !
now to all the medical diehards, don't get your knickers in a twist
a. because I have quoted real research and it's not personal clinical
practice and
b. I have suggested drugs are not a solution ! : o )
people try to avoid drugs because of bad side effects and a huge loss of quality of life, drugs are a remedy of last resort, that's not say they are not necessary, just in the last resort which is not the first resort ! :o)(
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it's a bit rough to come across something like that, I made some serious suggestions and in this case I don't think medicine has the answers !
I am always optimistic about the future, with the right interventions you can walk away from what otherwise might be very difficult conditions !
jewishasian writes
a koan for you all :
“ in a very deep mountain, among the rocks, there's an orchid
which produces only half of it's scent
what does this half mean? ”
this is what my teacher asked when he challenged the then head of jyogye order
who answered like this :
I don't even have the “half”
my
reply
the head of the jyogye order answered wrong, can I ask who your teacher was ?
jewishasian replies
you are right
my teacher thought it wasn't the right answer either
the dharma combat goes further and eventually the then head of jogye order offers tea.
kzle420 asks
would you be so kind as to say why it's wrong and maybe produce an answer/reply yourself?
i'm sorta new to koans.
my
reply
that's an interesting question !
I am not posting on reddit zen anymore, mainly I think because reddit zen itself is actually a question about what zen is and for most people it's just some soapbox to spew their nonsense everforth forever.............. ! :o)
...................forever more ! :o)
the actual real process of
inquiry which is what koan study really is, is a suppressed dream here on reddit, so getting tired of arguing with one hubric idiot after another I have gone back to my
blog !
the koan is interesting because it addresses the main deficiency of zen and reddit zen which is anti creativity and anti imagination, that is one half is the real and the other half is creative imagination and just sticking in the real you only get half and the head of the kyoge order is just stuck in that half..................
the abatement of self is not sufficient, there is a very proactive conceptual, intellectual and creative half that is necessary for enlightenment which in the end is just some process of improved understanding and hopefully some concordance of living with that ! :o)(
during my stays at at the springwater center in 1990 and 1992, toni packer imparted some lessons directly and indirectly that I am only making sense of 23 years later !
there's been some new
research which has changed the view on narcolepsy, well worth a read !
“ the surprising increase in wake-promoting histaminergic neurons in narcolepsy may be a compensatory response to the loss of orexin/hypocretin neurons
it also may contribute to some of the symptoms of narcolepsy such as preserved consciousness during cataplexy and fragmented nighttime sleep ”
