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  !

the amazing thing about multi-lingual speakers is they look so different, yet when they speak and you understand them, you are the same !

a bad translation will miss 90% of the original

“ when will they ever learn ”

a downvote on the OP because the translator is attributed, the r|zen way is to quote unattributed because there is a wide world out there of translators prepared to give you their time free because you deserve to have the indirect attribution to yourself  (a secret lay zen master of course who knows it all)  being such an entitled millenial and all !

the  “ hermitage ”  looks well maintained, a boyfriend somewhere ?

she’s intelligent  and autistic  and chinese cities are a pollution nightmare !

what is zen !

“ what is what ”  is zen

ewk, your mental illness is the degree to which you make up stuff dissonant with any sort of reality checking !

while you are autistic, you lack the rationality that comes with that and so are schizophrenic

schizophrenia and autism are instrumental in zen, but the schizophrenia needs to be the special case of consonant with the ultimate reality

you just flail to no effect   .   .

why consume your time so pointlessly ?

i don’t know   .   .   .

friend_lord  writes

I was on the tennis court yesterday teaching my usual group lesson.  One of the kids  (age 9)  had a caffeinated energy bar before the class  –  she was straight up off the rails.  Literally collapsing to the ground when she made mistakes, screaming at her partners when they made mistakes.  Not a cool situation

Being that my program is not that serious, its just at a tiny community park, I’m not one to come down too hard on kids when it comes to discipline

So we took a little break, I talked to her a bit about how things don’t always go how you want them to and how you gotta just roll with that as a fact of life.  Basic stuff.  She cooled off and we got back to the tennis.  It was a pretty normal interaction.  She’s a good kid, just had too much intensity for the situation.  No big deal

One of the parents who was watching commented  “ are you like a Zen master or something ?? ”  to which I replied  “ no way  .  .  . ”

my  comments

“ One of the kids  (age 9)  had a caffeinated energy bar before the class ”

unbelievable parents these days !

you handled that exceptionally well, something to think about !

jason in portugal  (23/10/17)  has an interesting, traumatic even experience

i was on my way home from my father’s wife’s house after lunch with my father, in the passenger seat

there were two women on the side of the road who waved at us and my father said  “ pull over they need something ”

so i pulled over and it was an older woman and a younger one and i recognized that they were  “ ciganos ”  the portuguese word for gypsies

so they come to the driver window which was down and they asked if they could get a ride to town and my father replied that they could

so they got into the backseat both in the same seat behind me at first and they smelled of body odor like they had been without a bath and walking for a long time

my father asks where they’re from and they say  “ here ”  and my father starts asking what’s the name of the town and they don’t respond by keeping silent after a couple previous questions

then they say that i’m handsome a couple of times and the third time i say  “ thanks ”  (in portuguese)  and my father starts telling them that i’m american and the girl squeezes my shoulder and pinches the back of my arm

the younger one asks what i’m doing later and besides saying thanks i haven’t said a word and continue not to, they say a couple more things and my father says  “ not today ”

we get to the center of town and i stop and they start asking  “ do you want to fuck ?  do you want a suck ? ”  while i continue to remain silent and my father keeps saying no, reluctantly

they ask if they can get dropped off a little more down the hill as my father has given away we live in that direction, i stop again down the hill and they ask for money to eat and so my father gives them five euros and again they ask to fuck.  i don’t respond and they start asking me if i like women and i just don’t respond

they ask to be dropped off more down the road and now we are at a park near my house and my father says they’ll find someone here who is interested but they at first won’t leave the car and my father tells them to get out of the car

the older woman does get out after being asked some times and comes to my driver window and asks again and i say  “ truthfully, no ”  the younger girl has the door open on the back passenger side and is playfully shaking my father back and forth and giving him pats and even reclines his seat back while my father laughs

after some time my father says just start driving as the younger girl still has one foot in the car and is asking for our phone numbers to call us later  “ to talk ”  my father pauses for several seconds to think if he will give her his number while side glancing at me, he gives away that we live down the road and i start to let go of the brake and the girl exits the car

i can’t remember what their faces looked like because i was avoiding looking at them, it was also a day i forgot to bring my knife with me

maybe in a different time, if i was by myself or with someone not my father, i might’ve said yes, but with STDs being so rampant i didn’t consider it

°       °       °       °       °       °       °       °       °

my father has a lot of experience with prostitutes i think, and maybe still messes with them as i’ve seen him have a  “ hilton express ”  room number card in the house even recently

the majority of people in europe don’t like gypsies, i was reading this askreddit thread about it

gypsies think toads and frogs are a bad omen so people in portugal will put a frog statue in front of their house or store and gypsies won’t enter

i felt threatened during the experience and was missing my knife

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i think it would pay to ask around about the gypsy experience, it could have been more dangerous than it seemed, i’m surprised at your father picking them up !

good pickpockets just have to touch you and they have taken your valuables without your noticing !

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there’s always men somewhere with women, concealed from you

its quite a common strategy in russia apparently for an attractive woman to ask or signal for a lift, then the driver gets jumped by concealed men and robbed and the car stolen

that young woman was touching to look for valuables

all highly professional, they know what they are doing

its been a good learning experience actually

jason  replies

i thought it was a good learning experience too but it hit like a boulder

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last week some gypsies were picked up and stole someone’s necklace

another man my father was talking to was saying  “ those people have the potential to kill ”

my father says he picked them up because he thought they were from the town

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we were driving to town today and we were at the park where we left the gypsies, across the street they were both there walking towards the center of town, the younger one was full breasted and taller, good looking over all and the older one was good looking too

i asked  “ is that them ”  and my father chuckles and says  “ yeah ”  and puts his hand on the power window to put it down to shout at them but i had to say  “ don’t talk to them, jesus christ ”  for him not to

we have all these ideas about the world that are so empty when we pursue them and open them up !

we have all these ideas about the world that are so empty when we pursue them and open them up

what is a fugue state of infinity ?

when memory and infinity are in identity

“  Are there any applicable real world examples/ benefits that a Normie such as myself could take away from zen ? ”

celibacy, childlessness, sponging !

“  Are there any applicable real world examples/ benefits that a Normie such as myself could take away from zen ? ”

celibacy, childfree, sponging !

we all have mistakes whereby we bleed to death

i look at my life and weep how i have wasted my time

i look at my life and weep at the way i have wasted my time

from a letter to charles bukowski

you tell it how it is

charles  replies

 oh, and how is it ?

its funny ,  you can be in a trap and all the other animals/people in the trap and all you have to do is walk out and leave them there

its a big mistake to try to release them as well, they actually want to be in the trap and will hurt you if you try to remove them as well

it also suits that they remain trapped there, keeps them out of your way or being a pest to you !

its funny ,  you can be in a trap and all the other animals/people in the trap and all you have to do is walk out and leave them there

if you can’t write from your own experiences

you won’t write anything

if you can’t write from your own experiences

you won’t be interesting

if you can’t write anything from your own experiences

you won’t be interesting

what strikes me is my incompetence at anything useful for life

the useless i am good at

what strikes me is my complete incompetence at anything useful for life

the useless i am good at

you can be caught up in an absurdity

see it is absurd

and still be caught in it

for some people life is bitter

i’m one of those people

for some people life tastes bitter

i’m one of those people

as an adult you can’t cry

the eyes are dry

as an adult you can’t cry

the tear ducts are dry

as an adult you can’t cry

the tears are dry

as an adult you can’t cry

dry

as an adult you can’t cry

there are no tears

the greek roots of philosophy are  “ love ”  and  “ wisdom ”  supposedly and i suspect a more complicated and textured philological history

if you meet ammit in a dream, be sure to check her dental work

if you meet ammit in a dream, be sure to check her dental work !

if you meet ammit in a dream, be sure to check her dental work

the hands  convey  something

that is so  ewkian ,  a  “ meta ”  spiel without any practical experience of what you are referring to and acting like the inaccurate meta somehow summarises accurately what is talked about and voids the need for any further investigation !

zen to the eye experienced with philosophy is full of kitschy mangled philosophical tropes and memes and in fact the origin of zen is in the indo-grecian philosophical ideas that came along the silk road and through the blued eyed indo-grecian barbarian !

“  Yes, there are going to be times when its going to be harder to find  the feelings  and while that does not mean I’m going to divorce him, it does mean I have to work on our relationship to make sure i can bring those feelings back ” 

you can’t shut the stable door   .   .

if your heart has bolted, its gone   .   .

 i think you are a bit depressed too   .   .   .

you can’t shut the stable door   .   .

if your heart has bolted, its gone   .   .

justin bieber  has screwed  his future health, black ink has a lot of nanoparticles in

10 minutes searching the internet on the health problems of tattoos would have stopped him jumping off the cliff

fame destroys in more way than one !

ewk, argumentum ad hominem ad infinitum

argumentum ad hominem ad infinitum

ewk, ad hominem ad infinitum

ad hominem ad infinitum

i  call  mackowski a passive aggressive druggie, he claims he is not passive aggressive, but violent

my  reply

well passive aggressive is violent, just resistant, avoidant and non confrontational

it recognises certain realities in life like being powerless in certain unhappy situations so your being that way is typical of drug users, but its an intelligent adaptation and you are not  “ mentally ill ”  unlike ewk who makes only the tiniest constrained adaptations !

my neighbour  (middle aged autistic spectrum female)  seems to be encouraging jehovah’s witnesses

two brick walls bashing each other !

i researched sir ernest budge as a possible model for indiana jones, but it turns out that was way too sophisticated, uncle scrooge is the strongest influence and its obvious when its  pointed out  !

hmmph !  w. h auden’s  “ as i walked out one evening ”  is modeled,   plagiarized  even on t.s. eliot’s the waste land !

btw i think ezra pound’s  advice  on eliot’s poems was misguided !

you had three children by two different men, our lives were always diverged, i don’t know why it took so long for me to see it !

who is the third who walks always beside you ?

when i count, there are only you and i together

but when i look ahead up the white road

there is always another one walking beside you

gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded

i do not know whether a man or a woman

 —   but who is that on the other side of you ?

t.s. eliot, section V of the  waste land

“ Under some fir trees Marina has found a commemorative plaque to the men killed trying to escape.  As she places two red carnations on the crumbling stone, a cloud of mist swirls through the trees and a soft rain falls

‘ Perhaps it was just a coincidence ’  she says later.  ‘ But it seemed like a greeting  from the past , and maybe those prisoners who suffered here, who tried to survive, could see that they were being remembered ’  ”

maybe its that time erodes all, even your rememberance ?

after his wife’s suicide stalin had her relatives imprisoned or killed

my god, he had his first wife’s brother and sister killed as well     I  II

And his son held hostage by the Germans.  “ Good kill him" says Joe  “ Anyone who is captured is a traitor ”

he was mindful of his own skin though, he wanted khrushschev to commit suicide to take responsibility for the staggering loss of troops in the first battle of kiev !

khrushschev of course was having none of that !

stalin may have been instrumental in the execution of khrushschev’s son  leonid  as a  “ traitor ”  during the war which would explain khrushschev’s antipathy towards him !

likely not     I  II

i have seen a scholarly opinion that what the bolsheviks were most like is a millenial doomsday cult !

after his wife’s suicide stalin had her relatives imprisoned or killed

my god, he had his first wife’s brother and sister killed as well !

an interesting  documentary  on ani’s copy of the book of the dead, what was involved in the journey in the after life to the   “ field of reeds ” ,  the book as a source of some christian beliefs and iconography and the gaining of arni’s papyrus for the british museum by the  colourful  sir ernest budge

zen has no teachings, your ramble is bizarre !

its a  “ special transmission outside the scriptures ”

what is that transmission ?

you don’t know

you are a pretender !

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you pretend to understand what zen is about and reconstruct it in, as i said some bizarre image !

same as ewk actually and the fault is so extreme it has to come from some totally complete and fatal flaw which in both your cases is no real life experience and contemplative or meditative work so the notion of being substantially wrong is alien to both of you !

zen christian scripturalists remake the old testament !

zen christian scripturalists remake the old testament

everything would be easy except for the pretending idiots

they rob

well

they just think i am an easy target

everything would be easy except for the pretending idiots

they rob

well

abortion, there’s two sides to it, i’m with malthus !

: o )

abortion, there’s two sides to it, i’m with malthus !

abortion, there’s two sides to it, i’m with malthus

mental illness is an interesting concept, there’s the mental illness of normality, the mental illness of religious seeking, those who actually are mentally ill and the sanity of true understanding which looks like mental illness !

mental illness is an interesting concept, there’s the mental illness of normality, the mental illness of religious seeking, those who actually are mentally ill and the sanity of true understanding which looks like mental illness

the indians are good at the endless repetition of meaningless philosophical tropes in their religions and their voynich conclusions

the indians are good at the endless repetition of meaningless philosophical tropes in their religions

its not wisdom, just meaningless crap to fool the suckers !

the indians are good at the endless repetition of meaningless philosophical tropes in their religions

its not wisdom, just meaningless crap to fool the suckers

the indians are good at the endless repetition of meaningless philosophical tropes in their religions

the indians are good at the endless repetition of meaningless philosophical tropes  !

the indians are good at the endless repetition of meaningless philosophical tropes !

the indians are good at the endless repetition of meaningless philosophical tropes

ewk, you must be desperate, spamming my comments that you agree with ! : o(

or maybe you can’t understand them and so unable to distinguish those for which you are pro, and those you are anti ?

you must be desperate, spamming my comments that you agree with ! : o(

or maybe you can’t understand them and so are unable to distinguish those for which you are pro, and those you are anti ?

you must be desperate, spamming my comments that you agree with ! : o(

or maybe you can’t understand them and unable to distinguish those for which you are pro, and those you are anti ?

i have noticed this with all message boards.

a successfully intelligently and liberally moderated message board always attracts the  “ offended scum ”  who then weasel their way into moderation and censor the board to suit their views, this happened with r|zen and theksepyro and his  “ ewk buji-ism ”

humility is not the word but actually being open

all zen can be summed by  “ something is not what it is ”

philosophical trope

bad

all zen can be summed by  “ something is not what it is ”

philosophical trope

bad

the genuine patriarch  speaks

ewk can’t keep silent

yet again

i am not persuaded

all you are saying

is you are persuaded

of something

mr. hyper argumentum ad hominem and hypo arguing to context  !

mr. hyper argumentum ad hominem and hypo arguing to context !

mr. hyper argumentum ad hominem and hypo arguing to context

to enter the monastic life is just to follow another illusion

the enlightened man

knows  “ genuine seeking ”  is a fraud

that’s not to say that in hindsight something can’t be seen as a genuine search

but the actual looking is never apparent

successful resolution is not  “ about ”  but actual doing

huh, santa claus is a real historical figure unlike jesus ,  go figure  !

he was a consubstantialist/ trintarian !

we sit in silence and we are open

there are different kinds of time

i hope you will understand

from ellen van neerven’s poem whole lot in her book comfort food

writing  :  where it comes from i don’t know, where it goes i don’t know

if you are translating historical documents ,  philology  is a very useful word to know the meaning of  !

if you are translating historical documents ,  philology  is a very useful word to know the meaning of !

if you are translating historical documents ,  philology  is a very useful word to know the meaning of

the trouble with back breaking labour is you can break your back !

the trouble with back breaking labour is you can break your back

the strangest man calls someone else  “ mentally ill ”  because it’s all he knows of himself

r|zen’s strangest man calls someone else  “ mentally ill ”  because it’s all he knows of himself

ewk, r|zen’s strangest man calls someone else  “ mentally ill ”  because it’s all he knows of himself

in my experience its not possible to criticize and analyse another person’s poem

all you can do is write a poem in reply if you are motivated enough !

in my experience its not possible to criticize and analyse another person’s poem

all you can do is write a poem in reply if you are motivated

‘ oyster shell necklace ’ ,  ellen van neerven  reads  her own poem

october light  (boston)  in  our lives  ?

jason  (in portugal)  writes

i think my family either attend a therapy session together or i should get us all together to have a serious conversation

i almost started crying tonight when i was talking to my godparent’s of how i don’t think my brother treats me like a brother

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you can’t change people, there’s no answers except doing things different yourself !

2am

out on the woodpile

wheelbarrow with firewood

misty night

frogs chirping

a dog barking miles away

but sounding here

boobook

rushing distant stream

not much else really

he thinks too much

he thinks too little

 he thinks too little too much !

he thinks too much

he thinks too little

 he thinks too little too much

colombian salsa

la sonora carruseles sing  micaela

he thinks too much

he thinks too little

 he thinks too much too little !

he thinks too much

he thinks too little

he thinks too much too little

addictions are not only chemical  !

addictions are not only chemical !

addictions are not only chemical

ellin anderson’s  translation  of  ‘ the bride of corinth ’  by goethe

you have a subliterary reading age and comprehension, what can i say ?

you have a subliterary reading age and comprehension, what can i say

a quote from goethe’s faust part one

when you open the first lock, you have opened them all

the above is my retranslation of  “ so open thou the first Lock and thou hast opened all ”  page 370 of john anster’s  (1835)  “ faustus, a dramatic mystery: the bride of corinth; the first walpurgis night, part 1 ”

in  google books

an  online  faust

drug wrecked brains are the cause and not an effect  !

drug wrecked brains are the cause and not an effect !

drug wrecked brains are the cause and not an effect

zen master  “ i am a the translator following the transcription following a lot of errors three hundred years after such and such a person who is three quarters legend and one quarter fact ”

your constant tone is that of an arrogant half wit, the world’s not short of your sort !

the world has truth but is not completely true !

this is why imaginary and visionary worlds are so important, they can be completely true !

What is zen ?

idiots babbling like their schizophrenia means something !

you’ve damaged your brain with drugs !

sad, but true ! :o(

you spill moronic idiocy as befits a retard

india  has changed

peninsularity writes  well

what’s north korea like ?

half crazy half sane

r|zen’s demon claims the occult is not true

well, ewk, i have to say it, what about you ?

ewk, you claim not to be a troll , mentally ill and uninformed

why then are you a troll, mentally ill and ill-informed ?

ewk, you claim not to be a troll ,  not mentally ill and informed

why then are you a troll, mentally ill and ill-informed ?

the startling resembance of north korea to george orwell’s novel  1984  is rarely mentioned in media, presumably because of the lack of public familiarity with the book ?

at its extreme is the public execution in 2013 of eleven musicians who were tied to the nozzles of anti-aircraft guns and blown apart for making a pornographic video !

“ The escapee then  recalled  how the guns were fired one by one, saying  :  The musicians just disappeared each time the guns were fired into them

Their bodies were blown to bits, totally destroyed, blood and bits flying everywhere

Afterwards, Hee Yeon said tanks moved in and ran over the pieces of the victims’ bodies

She added  :  The tracks of the tanks were run over the remains and blood repeatedly, over and over again and made to grind the remains, to smash them into the ground until there was nothing left ”

i parked up the hill a bit on stewart st., just a bit below and almost by the the video rental shop and headed off to enquire about getting a haircut, when i came back, still with my air uncut and planning to go back later, i found a parking ticket stuck ostentatiously on my windscreen !

my blood boiling at this ungracious treatment of a money spending shopper and the injustice of punishing a person who only came into devonport about four or five times a year and had forgotten the extreme vigilance of the devonport  “ meter maids ”  i was fabricating a complaint along these lines to be delivered when i paid the ticket, and then since this seemed hardly likely to extract a fair hearing moved to some suggestion of infrequent out of town visitors getting forgiven a couple of tickets a year   .   .

then knowing the fate of this suggestion, when i paid the ticket  ($25!)  about ten minutes later i contented myself with not saying thank-you when the receipt was given, thank-you is the universal social lubricant in transactional conversation here !

intellectual work is exhausting, as much or more so than manual labour !

intellectual work is exhausting, as much or more so than manual labour

“ we all  ‘ complete ’ ,  maybe none of us  understand  what we have lived through, or have enough time ”

its not until things fail that you start to unpick yourself

zen and religion are wrong in trying to do it in a constructivist way !

its not until things fail that you start to unpick yourself

zen and religion are wrong in trying to do it in a constructivist way

its not until things fail that you start to unpick yourself

yasutani was a violent japanese nationalist/fascist and never renounced his views, his successors are all quite mad imo, this is speaking as one who studied with john loori who in hindsight was the usual zen schizophrenic

r|zen, a bunch of ugly bridesmaids  !

r|zen, a bunch of ugly bridesmaids !

r|zen, a bunch of ugly bridesmaids

i am very slow to pick up when i have been done an injury

and when i have injured myself

i am very slow to pick up when i have been done an injury

its interesting that jesus, muhammad and buddha never wrote anything ,  yet were never called illiterate

very telling

 they of course were themselves stories written about by others    ̲    ̲    ̲   !

my heroes, charles bukowski, larry eigner, thérèse of lisieux, john of the cross, elizabeth bishop were all some sort of disaster area, living impaired lives !

star wars is really about  carrie fisher  who is really the only great philosophical mind of the late twentieth century !

a good post by zephyr’s cat !

Is there anything intrinsically special about the  “ stories we tell ourselves ”  (ie, our narratives) ?

I think this is the most important question facing the modern age

I have thought long and hard about this, and I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s some truth to solipsism

There is no such thing as a collective narrative

There are only individual narratives and perceived overlap, but I believe each narrative is unique unto the individual and the overlap is illusion

This is the conclusion I have come to.  We are entirely alone with the babble of our own minds and nothing more

Endless dreams within dreams, the history of civilizations dust forevermore

r|zen is a psych ward, haven’t you noticed ?

its been made worse by the  “ only dumb is perimissible ”  approach of the mods !

“ why is marriage a lose situation for men ? ”

marriage is not necessarily a lose situation for men at all, the question is whether one is up to supporting the burden which is your and my cases

jason in portugal says he is very sick, has fever, aching joints and weakness, and a stomach virus

i had a virus about two weeks ago, lasts for quite a while, always something on the turn of the seasons !

yeah that virus for sure, australia has been real bad, lots of people dying in old people’s homes bad !

rest, keep warm and germanium help

planes are infection traps for viruses, plus the disruption of the circadian rhythm by going through time zones makes you much more susceptible !

what

is

 writing ?

what

is

writing

what is writing ?

what is writing

jason  writes

if i have any kind of smarts its not the kind that makes life easy

a taisen deshimaru quote

if people don’t come to understanding, there is nothing to do about it

today, i have said only that you can lead a cow to the river, but you cannot make it drink

you don’t need to say ,  “ you have to drink ”

people are different, opinions vary

its for that reason you have to wait, you have to create the occasion

they are not mature, their life experience is immature

its the same thing, therefore you have to wait

it is not necessary to fight alone for your opinions

but in publishing, people will end up understanding

ten years, one hundred years

time resolves these questions

ed.  top of the page  post  by kirsten bayes

i didn’t  realise  taisen deshimaru was soto, he died of pancreatic cancer btw, a nasty way to go !

he disliked yasutani  (and philip kapleau)  perhaps in part because of yasutani’s unrepentant ultra-nationalism

his last words may have been  “ don’t pollute soto with rinzai ”  !   :  o  ( )

ed.  top of the page  posts  by len so so and kirsten bayes

“ he stated that yasutani-roshi was mentally ill, and that if a roshi is mentally ill, his students are lunatics, too

this would of course include philip kapleau, yasutani’s student, as one of the people taisen deshimaru calls crazy ”

we are doomed to see the faults of our parents and create new ones of our own

we are doomed to become wise to the faults of our parents and create new ones of our own

we are born to see the faults of our parents and create new ones of our own

we are born to become wise to the faults of our parents and create new ones of our own

janet frame  travelled  a lot later in life, surprising, but perhaps not ?

its fascinating how like a greek philosopher bodhidharma  looks ,  socrates in the prime of his life !

Bodhidharma and Socrates . . .  I wonder how that interaction would go ?

they could swap execution stories ?

the problems you raise about public forums, there are an overwhelming amount of entitled nits out there who think their opinion without years of experience is gold   .   .

what can you do about these people, just avoid them i guess, they do nothing but hassle dissenting opinons to theirs !

the real dogma of zen is that the oral transcribed records  (which is the case for a lot of the tang and song dynasty and later)  are accurate reflections of what was said by people who knew what they were on about and these then get used in the christian sense of scriptural surety !

so you get some-one quoting nonsense then piddling some pathetically stupid pontification on a r|zen post

there is in addition a complete failure to understand the limitations of translations, an understanding which in my experience can only come from doing your own translations, not an impossible task with google translate !

i would say the most basic zen skills are doing some translations and studying the history so when you do meditation or contemplation you don’t  “ rub in ”  biased nonsense to your  “ knowledge base ”

yeah there is  an issue  with antibiotic resistance, but there are also newer approaches in research, more funding would hurry that along !

people used to die like flies from infection, any wound was dangerous because of that !

hospitals have become a lot less safe because of these resistant bacteria

my basic position is that to create and missionize highly idiosyncratic versions of zen without a substantial amount of real life involvement in zen is characteristic of  “ criminal insanity ” ,  that is a form of insanity i have only ever seen in the criminally insane, unyieldingly rigid and dysfunctional !

personally i am solipsistic, but there is such a thing as moving too far away from public domain notions of reality, misguided though they may be !

the default mode network was originally thought to be a sort of autopilot for the brain when it was at rest and shown only to be active when someone is not engaged in externally directed thinking

continued studies, including  this one ,  suggest that the default mode network actually is working behind the scenes while the mind is ostensibly at rest to continually find meaning in narrative, serving an autobiographical memory retrieval function that influences our cognition related to the past, the future, ourselves and our relationship to others

neuro-semantic encoding of narratives happens at levels higher than individual semantic units and this encoding   is systematic  across both individuals and languages

missionaries, their research depth is in inverse proportion to their missionizing zeal

a little reading is a dangerous thing

drink deep, nor taste not the pierian spring

these shallow draughts intoxicate the brain

and full immersion sobers us again

a month old jason quote

i really say some crazy shit sometimes but i’ve been holding back more

writing is indistinguishable from insanity, its creating an idiosyncratic solipsist version of reality

i don’t think writing is distinguishable from insanity, its creating an idiosyncratic solipsist version of reality

writing is indistinguishable from insanity, its creating an idiosyncratic solipsist view of reality

i don’t think writing is distinguishable from insanity, its creating an idiosyncratic solipsist view of reality

a little reading is a dangerous thing

drink deep, or taste not the pierian spring

these shallow draughts intoxicate the brain

and full immersion sobers us again

if you understand the world too well, it will make you suicidal

one is always caught in a hurricane tearing one apart that is only avoided with the utmost care and attention

if you understand the world too well, it will make you suicidal

crowley was a practitioner of black magick, you retarded or something dillon ?

ed.  dillon  claiming  crowley didn’t promote the occult

they have the front and then behind the scenes they have the reality

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you really have huge comprehension problems, if something is a front then its going to deflect from the reality isn’t it !

you haven’t researched his life in any detail, the life is the reality !

_______________________

won’t read goethe, won’t research aleister crowley’s life

you need the license of moral illegality thelema gives, won’t tell us why ? !

i think you have something illegal morally to hide, those early days on the net and the way the whole thelema bullshit was entwined with paedophilia left a deep impression on me !

people push inconsistent fronts for a reason !

dillon replies and to be fair he may just be broken brained

Where have I been inconsistent ?

You’ve pointed at seven years of pot use and my use of psychedelics before as to say I have a brain that apparently makes communication impossible and something you don’t wish to partake in, yet here you are

Were drugs legal ?

my

r e p l y

research crowley’s life in depth, like the way ewk has crafted his own idiosyncratic version of zen you are creating your own idiosyncratic version of zen/thelema !

read both parts of geothe’s faust

this is friendly advice, you will be unable to take it of course !

zen necessarily carries an element of insanity, but it needs to be truely solipsist, not any of the trillion simulations !

unreal your avoidance !

ed.  dillon123

in the early days on the net, the  “ dark net ”  was open for all to see and crowley/thelema and paedophilia were hand in hand !

“ do what you will is the law ”

its the ideal doctrine for it !

what’s your real game ?

black magick is a cover, its bullshit, so why would people do it ?

honestly dillon123, why  post  on r|zen when you could be having seances with crowley ?

ed.  pages 100 and 110 of aleister crowley’s  “ the equinox ”  volume 1. no. 10

you’re a hypocrite to the bones with your promotion of the fake, if that sort of shit was real you could be having dinner or perhaps would be dinner with horus !

since you are not well read, crowley has just lifted that from goethe’s faust !

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you have never read goethe have you ?  aleister crowley has and just lifted the ideas, style and rhythm, you don’t even have any confidence in your beliefs and post that trash here rather than doing any  ‘ real ’  black magick !

johann goethe is a universally acknowledged genius, crowely is phantasmagorical trash !

its just so way fake to promote crowley on a zen board, like what for, zen is pale compared to the world crowley claims is real !

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you’re as crazy as ewk, completely unable to dialogue, just hostile defensive posturings and strategies that only fool yourself !

i can’t think straight

audio

its disturbing at my age to find one can’t think straight

audio

unless writing is confronting, what’s the point ?

audio

you are a sad tortured soul with limited cognitive ability, not a bad way to be

ewk, you are a sad tortured soul with limited cognitive ability, not a bad way to be

audio

i have gone so far from what i am, that i have become unknown to me

i have moved so far away from what i am, that i have become unknown to me

audio

rupi kaur

“ conceal,  don’t feel ,  don’t let them know ”

why did those lyrics prick you ?

don’t accept the proposition and you won’t have to make the supposition

don’t make the proposition and you won’t have to accept the supposition

don’t make the preposition and you won’t have to accept the supposition

jason in portugal writes  (7th october 2017)

surprisingly i haven’t been distracted by any women here really, its true that there aren’t many young people around here, seems like they’ve all moved to the city

then again at home you don’t see so many young people, my generation likes to stay indoors ?

yesterday i pulled onto the side of the road waiting for what seemed like seventy cattle to pass the bridge, a bmw coming the other direction just went with the flow of cattle and pushed through as i was still just sitting there looking over some photos i took that day and also looking at the cattle

the lady in the passenger seat was beautiful and when i looked up as they were passing by she gave me a surprised look and tried not to look at me, then surprisingly another beautiful woman passed in an audi with her husband or boyfriend.  both parties were probably going to the restaurant to eat that i was planning on going to but i headed in the other direction when my father invited me to eat at his wife’s house

jason writes in portugal

yesterday was a good day, i was in this area with a five hundred year old abandoned monastery but i followed this livestock trail and ended up on a mountain that i was walking around on for a couple hours

my reply

exercise helping with depression ?

jason’s reply

yes definitely helping

“ its interesting she’s dating a woman right now ”

ed.  jacklyn

that’s another can of worms

there’s a price to be paid when women distract you

there’s a price to be paid when women distract you

if you ask me what enlightenement is, its crying for your life every day

if you ask me what enlightenement is, its crying for every day of your life

religious people are a fraud, pretending to an understanding they don’t have !

totally crazy you’s

ewk, you’re a fraud, pretending to an understanding you don’t have !

totally crazy you

you’re a fraud, pretending to an understanding you don’t have !

totally crazy you

“ undying is the spirit of the valley.  thus we call her the subtle mother.  her door’s the root of heaven and earth.  continuously growing as if in existence, she functions without exertion

this one strip of true wind, you’ve seen it yet ?  the transformative mother continuously runs the loom.  weaving the ancient brocade, holding the sign of spring.  alas, the sun god has it leaked ”

undying is the spirit of the valley

her door

is

the spirit of the valley

 what loom ?

undying is the spirit of the valley

her door

is

herself

 what loom ?

there seems to be a consensus that the 6th patriarch was an historical person  (even jorgensen), however he may have never met hongren and in fact could be the first patriarch !

what is unusual about the platform sutra is it is a sophisticated reinterpretation of buddhism in a more zen way, that sort of interest is almost unique which leads me to the possibility that the platform sutra could be somewhat based on what he said

we are constantly in opposition to everything, but we should look more closely at what we are in opposition to

we are constantly in opposition to everything, but we should look at what we are in opposition to

the door of memory swings open and one rights oneself

one day the door of memory will swing open and you will go through righting your understanding of events

what am i

what is life

is one person the same as another ?

who can say  ?

what am i

what is life

 is one person the same as another ?

 who can say ?

what am i

what is life

 is one person the same as another ?

read junk, become junk !

read junk, become junk

read junk become junk

a  huang po  quote

“ though others may talk of the way of the buddhas as something to be reached by various pious practices and the study of texts, you must have nothing to do with such ideas

a perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious wordless understanding ”

my restatement

a perception that infinity is the source of all things

i use material from r|zen for my writing, however i am ambivalent about the return on my time !

i use material from r|zen for my writing, however i am ambivalent about the return on my time

they write about meditation but do they meditate ?

the lack of twenty or thirty hours under their belt and some retreat experience just leaves them endlessly floundering !

vitamin K needs balancing with vitamin D, the K2 form perhaps works better for depression than the MK-7, but i found it too hard on the gut !

its very distressing to deal with insane people

why ?

because they are completely beyond reason

its very distressing to deal with insane people

why ?

because they are completely beyond reason

its very distressing to deal with insane people

why ?

because they are completely beyond reason

its very distressing to deal with insane people

why ?

because they are completely beyond reason

christian and buddhist theology says  “ be selfless by working for others ”

i think that’s a load of crap, what i would say is don’t be too self-centered !

a supposed joshu quote

the one who freely walks the great way faces the gate of enlightenment

when one is just sitting, the mind is limitless

each year the spring, again the spring

my  re-translation

the one who freely walks the great way passes the gate of enlightenment

when one is in contemplation, the limitless meets us

each year the spring and again the spring

my comment

one involuntarily impelled through the gate of enlightenment

never reaches summer for that is decay

but is crucified in an eternal spring

jimmy miller  the ewk of fundamentalism

i wouldn’t say the priest talked less voynich than jimmy, but jimmy is clearly stimmed by the conflict !

just keep reading and never do anything real and never ever go to a zen sit or retreat and you will and can claim for all your posting on r|zen to understand it !

i meditate by sitting in or kneeling over a chair or walking around under red light an hour or more before bed

light colour is very important for the circadian rhythm

religion is stark raving mad !

religion is stark raving mad

there’s always something insane about religion

there’s something insane about religion

its insane to project  “ meditation ”  ,  “ buddhism ”  and  “ zen ”  with no real life experience of them !

its insane to project  “ meditation ”  ,  “ buddhism ”  and  “ zen ”  with zero real life experience of them !

lots of people waste their lives in zen without ever getting to first base !

that includes so-called teachers and zen masters !

lots of people waste their lives in zen without ever getting to first base !

lots of people waste their lives in zen without ever getting to first base

ewk, you’re hallucinating ad hominen attacks address the content of my post which is that you display a very common symptom of the criminally mentally ill, their own definition of a religion

you’re hallucinating ad hominen attacks address the content of my post which is that you display a very common symptom of the criminally mentally ill, their own definition of a religion

you cannot be awakened without reading quality poetry, its its natural tongue !

emily dickinson, charles bukowski and larry eigner are the west’s greatest zen masters !

only an insane person makes a definition of a religion completely contrary to public perception !

very  kitschy , but all buddha statues are !

“ the temple itself dates back to 725 ce, and the great buddha and 1500 other statues and carvings   were created  by the master artisan jingoro eirei ono and his army of twenty five plus apprentices in the 1780s ”

this  video gives a better impression of the size

you make a wish in front of it

nihon-jih

research shows lack of sleep literally physically damages the brain

da hui tried 49 times to solve the following koan and failed

“ the eastern mountain sails on the river ”

on the 50th he realized it was a crappy translation and it should be

“ the reflection of eastern mountain floats on the river at dawn ”

he then had this massive insight about the whole of zen being nothing but useless arseholes who don’t have a clue what they are doing, bullshitting from dawn to dusk like what they say means something and thought, well i can do this too and he did !

sometimes when i look at dante i think what  judgmental  insanity !

caring for or loving some-one can be an invitation to be crucified

you

don’t

have

to

take it

“ is deodorant unhealthy ? ”

some of the ingredients can be a bit toxic in deoderants, its a while since i have used them, but i seem to remember being affected

i got given a rather lovely home cooked fruit/christmas cake for my birthday and being easily tempted nibbled at it for a while then started to eat large hunks of it over a week or so !

what surprised me was that it didn’t cause any digestive problems, perhaps because the flour is denatured by sodium barcarbonate and has antibiofilmics in like peel

but what i did notice is i slowly began to feel a  “ brain fog ”  or lack of clarity, i presume from the biofilmic and allergenic nature of wheat which i hardly ever eat

astrology appears to predict by working from a palette of generality that in some way is applicable to us

in an earlier, more rural world there may have been some correlation between personality traits and when one was born, there is some research on this !

wot, you don’t like søren kierkegaard ?

“ life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced ”

or is the problem you can understand him whereas zen is a sea of unmeaning able to accommodate the most retarded projection ?

charles bukowski was earlier in identifying dunning-kruger syndrome !

the problem with the world is the intelligent people are full of doubts

while the stupid ones are full of confidence !

the thing about o.j. simpson i have  rarely  seen mentioned is he must be suffering some degree of chronic traumatic encephalopathy to get caught in such losing siutations

jesus

its depressing

what

an

incompetent

life

i have

lived

i could cry for my life

but i can’t

so i don’t

but

i do

rafael nadal and roger federer have kept their brains  intact  with a non contact sport !

rafael is the more personable and speaks intelligently !

if i could cry

i’d cry over my life

but i can’t

if i could cry

i’d cry over my life

my reworking of a larry eigner poem

again the dawn

the sky dropped its invisible whiteness

it passed out nowhere

emptying the velvet blue

our lovely summer still on the ground

like last night this dawn is another time

my reworking of a larry eigner   poem

again the dawn

the sky dropped its invisible whiteness

it passed out nowhere

emptying the blue of stars

our lovely summer still on the ground

like last night this dawn is another time

fragmenting

infinity, st thérèse, larry eigner me

the process

is

the

same

the results differ

lake rotoma , where i was a child on a farm on the manawahe road until going to boarding school and the family shifted to ohinewai !

i don’t know why suicidals think they have such good advice to give about avoiding suicide

the best that can be said is they are still around, however temporary that may be !

i don’t know why suicidals think they have such good advice to give about avoiding suicide

nothing dismaying

nothing disturbing

all things changing

god is eternal

st.  teresa

i think death is an inference and not necessarily a correct one  !

i think death is an inference and not necessarily a correct one

once upon a time, many years ago, before the universe or god even, there was a bucket of words and it tipped over self sorting into piles of ascending boredom starting with quality poetry and mysticism, then philosophy, then science and mathematics moving into increasing levels of drivel, stupidity with politics, religion, self improvement, golf and card games

then god came along, amazed at his being just created and thought he should flex his abilities by saying  “ i will create people for all these categories, with the masses at the most boring end and the persecuted geniuses at the most interesting ”

he walked on smugly self satisfied with what he had done, its my will he thought to himself ! :o)

what irks me about insanity, is for such a potentially exciting condition, the people are so dull   .   .

ewk calls you insane

well, i live a dull life

very dull !

what irks me about insanity, is for such a potentially exciting condition, the people are so dull   .   .

what irks me about insanity, is for such a potentially exciting condition, the people are so dull

there are other  pies  undreamt of

infinite resonances of crust, fruit and filling

all to one purpose

that taste buds make a killing !

the greek  artemis  =  the roman diana who is zeus and leto’s daughter and apollo’s sister !

supercompetence

the night is flowing into the land of mystic lights

we are here so little time and then we and it are gone

what are the pros and cons of meditation ?

it enforces some self-reflection and awareness of the content of the brain default circuitry

the cons are potential joint damage and circulation hazards and entraining and amplification of the default circuitry

on the one hand there’s  this ,  schizophrenic craziness and in the other there’s  this , they actually found something !

its difficult to make sense of what zen is about in terms of the records without having come from outside zen, the records are such a mix of nonsense and sense !

what zen is about is consonant with mystical christianity, sufism and a lot of literature and poetry, you need to have these under your belt !

narrow idiosyncratic versions of zen diagnose schizophrenia ,  a characteristic that seems to define a lot of web forums

any early development of quantum computing to real world cryptographic function would really throw a spanner in the cryptocurrency works !

there is no text but infinity !

there is no text but infinity

german  entertainment ,  the romans used to fear the women in battle more than the men !

over-exclusive ideas of zen or any religion lead to schizophrenia !

huh, the kumera came from  south america  with polynesians before colombus !

what is reality ?

that which is enabled by the real

what is reality ?

that which is constrained by the real

what is reality ?

one scenario amongst many !

what is reality ?

one scenario among many !

huygens’s  descent  to titan’s surface

national geographic’s  grand tour  of saturn and its moons with cassini

an artistic  representation  of cassini’s break up

“   this study  demonstrates that with increases in sunlight exposure, there is improvement in vitamin D concentrations and lipid profile, while, in comparison, orally administered vitamin D had an adverse effect on the lipid profile ”

“ Among the sunlight exposure group there was a significant decrease in Total Cholesterol of 9.4% and LDL-C also dropped 7.2%

A small decrease of 3.3% was also noted in the HDL-C levels for this group

By comparison, results among the group taking vitamin D supplements were very different, with a significant increase in TC of 5.5%, and a rise of 3.6% HDL-C and 3.4% LDL-C ”

this is quite a big one, wonder if it will make the news ?

everything seems straightforward until it doesn’t become straightforward

its not that you let go of fixed ideas, its that you explore the certainty of them !

r|zen

schizophrenia arguing with itself

what’s the point ?

schizophrenia arguing with itself

the more i understand women, the more frightened i am !

the more i understand women, the more frightened i am

the more i understand women, the more frightening they are !

you have to look from their point of view

they are not you looking back at you

the more i understand women, the more frightening they are !

a very good  pewdiepie , not used to seeing talent on the web after so many  toxics  !

i see meaningless voynich symbology, not even up to voynich actually !

i see meaningless voynich symbology

your  ending up in some narrow symbology only meaningful to yourself is your schizophrenia !

your ending up in some narrow symbology only meaningful to yourself is your schizophrenia !

your ending up in some narrow symbology only meaningful to yourself is your schizophrenia

your own idiosyncratic notion, a person of sense can read what i say and understand it !

your own idiosyncratic notion, a person of sense can read what i say and understand it

only  a schizophrenic  would try to pass off deranged translated crap as wisdom !

the basic point i’m making is zen says discover for yourself and develop your own wisdom !

that translation you quoted in the OP is muddled nonsense because you both lack the essential experience and developed insight to discern crap from the worthwhile

you never completed that zen retreat because of   * schizophrenia *

what have i said ?

what i mean is that you bumped into some hurdle and stepped back and forever stay in front of the hurdle !

oh   .   .  !

you are so callous, dumb and unpleasant you have to have been trained that way, you are typical of the lowest strata academic, hubric, low reading age, dumb as they come   .   .

a foyan quote

wisdom is like the sun rising, whereupon everything is illuminated

my  reply

wisdom is like a snuff movie, get out while you can !

look at how  regimented  the children are, you can see their suicide problem already there !

god ,  what a turd you are, conceited and stupid beyond belief  !

god ,  what a turd you are, conceited and stupid beyond belief  !

god ,  what a turd you are, conceited and stupid beyond belief !

god ,  what a turd you are, conceited and stupid beyond belief

you’re a sick puppy man, fuck off and hide your maggoty brain somewhere else, disgusting shit !

you’re a sick puppy man, fuck off and hide your maggoty brain somewhere else, disgusting shit

the hanging gardens of babylon were in fact  in nineva  ceated by the assyrian king sennacherib, and used three hundred tonnes of water a day raised by archimedes screws  (four hundred years earlier than its supposed invention !)

interestingly his grandson  ashurbanipal  had the mature garden pictured on a sculptured wall panel in his north palace

so that should be  ‘ the hanging gardens of nineva ’

interview  with dr. stephanie dalley

i always find the pyramids interesting for so much work doing something so entirely pointless !

article         documentary

the afterlife and gods were so real to these people that they were utterly indistiguishable from what we would regard as  “ material reality ”  !

“ we need to go ”

clay green, 24 years old tries to  run over  a woman friend at walter johnson junior high in las vegas

if a man has not given you his best years, you have no obligation to be there for his worst

if a woman has not given you her best years, you have no obligation to be there for her worst

“ if a woman will not give you her best years, you have no obligation to be there for her worst ”

the main moral of james bond  films  seems to be, don’t ever let a man out of your sight with an assumed execution !

you’re  actually schizophrenic because what you’ve done is got too far out of the public domain view of zen which involves attendance at zen sits or a zen center !

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you have found yourself to be wrong and now apparently its i who am wrong ?

ewk at least can’t be wrong because he is never wrong !

ed.  my reply to his reply dissing my advice

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 he replied again we’re all wrong and my reply was that was the schizophrenia talking !

you’re actually schizophrenic because what you’ve done is got too far out of the public domain view of zen which involves attendance at zen sits or a zen center !

zen lineage  :  alcoholics, schizophrenics, autists, war criminals and the plain dumb !

zen lineage  :  alcoholics, war criminals and the plain dumb !

i find  your photos  add more than an extra dimension, the blogs actually are more your photos than writing !

americans, just because they speak slow, doesn’t mean they think slow !

americans, just because they speak slow, doesn’t mean they think slow

buddha, jesus and muhammad where sitting around a table arguing over who was the most unreal !

buddha said i was a tree shrine god who got jumped up by the emperor ashoska and appended with a name from the murdered persian emperor gaumata !

pretty dull the others said and buddha agreed, though not without spieling some rather tedious and insane sutra on the subject !

muhammed says this is a bit tricky but i was pretty much a copy of aspects of christianity and judaism modified for promoting social control by victorious armies   .   .   .   and unlike christianity with its failed crusades islam was never really defeated  !

well we are not arguing success here the others said, as a business you did well, but so what ?

jesus hum harred and said, well i’m an archangel in a heaven with the most supreme being and thousands and thousands of other celestial beings and i got  defeated by satan  in a battle and was buried just below the moon then rose from the dead again   .   .

the others pushed their chairs back, awestruck   .   .

recollecting themselves buddha started scribbling notes and said  “ i think we can better that ”  and muhammad ran his finger over the blade of his sword and said  “ loser ”  whereupon the meeting quickly broke up and they went their separate ways !

my restatement of perennialism is that where you have a culturally enforced religion as for example medieval islam and christianity then occasionally you will get a single metaphysical doctrine or discussion come through that is true from a person or group of persons within the religion

if something is broken, ask yourself if it has simply collapsed into a more stable state ?

how the religious life is full of rot and a false fold

a quote  from thérèse de lisieux

“ another time i was working in the laundry, and the sister opposite, while washing handkerchiefs, repeatedly splashed me with dirty water

my first impulse was to draw back and wipe my face, to show the offender i should be glad if she would behave more quietly; but the next minute i thought how foolish it was to refuse the treasures god offered me so generously, and i refrained from betraying my annoyance

on the contrary, i made such efforts to welcome the shower of dirty water, that at the end of half an hour i had taken quite a fancy to this novel kind of aspersion, and i resolved to come as often as i could to the happy spot where such treasures were freely bestowed ”

of course the water would be full of bacteria from the snot (or worse !) on the hankerchiefs and she actually died of tuberculosis which is carried in airborne droplets and breathed in !

the habits, so excluding of the sun on the skin are also a recipe for tuberculosis infection !

a crazy  sad life ,  so full of wrong turns   .   .

join the club !

you are completely inconsiderate making work for me ,  its not my business to give life training to you

is the turning circle i am in sane or insane ?

they are all insane !

is the turning circle i am in sane or insane ?

david attenborough narrating  ‘ natural history museum  alive  ’  (2014)

they got gigantopithecus wrong, its not a hominin but in the same family as orangutangs and likely walked on all four limbs as it was too heavy to be supported by the legs only !

i think language is the use of memory

 that would make writing  ‘ language on steroids ’  !

i think language is the use of memory

that would make writing  ‘ language on steroids ’ 

i think language is the use of memory  !

i think language is the use of memory !

i think language is the use of memory

jason  writes

well i was about to get rid of my friend request but she accepted

 indeed she has her travel and money and i can’t provide that at the moment !

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she’s not crazy, but she is autistic !

“ too much autism under one roof ! ”

What is a thought ?

what is a thought about a thought ?

Thoughtful examination.

  more than a thought ? or less or neither or both   .   .

Still a thought. Fundamentally no different than any other thought, or so I think.

both a thought and non thought ?

who can

say what

a thought is ?

“ What is a thought ? ”

what is a thought about a thought ?

jason  writes

i don’t think i jumped into charles bukowski’s writing right away, i did background research first or jointly

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charles bukowski is hard to take until you recognise the genius !

charles bukowski is hard to take until you recognise the genius !

charles bukowski is hard to take until you recognise the genius

reading the life of st. ignatius of loyola is good value, he was always having to deal with people referring him to the inquisition or other ecclesiastical authority for punishment !

you can’t tell the crazy they are crazy can you, that’s why they are crazy

you can’t tell the crazy they are crazy can you, that’s why they are crazy ! : o (

you can’t tell the crazy they are crazy can you, that’s why they are crazy ! : o ()

you can’t tell the crazy they are crazy can you, that’s why they are crazy !

you can’t tell the crazy they are crazy can you, that’s why they are crazy

ewk, you are schizophrenic because you have hallucinated an alternate reality too at variance and ill fitting to the normative, i’m not saying the  “ normative ”  is right, but you accentuate its mistakes in your reconstruction !

you are schizophrenic because you have hallucinated an alternate reality too at variance and ill fitting to the normative, i’m not saying the  “ normative ”  is right, but you accentuate its mistakes in your reconstruction !

jason  observes

the girl’s instagram i linked for you, she doesn’t make me crazy maybe because she actually seems pretty sane

i was in the same class as her, my brother saw her when we were around eight years old and said when she got older she would be very attractive and as you might tell she has a boyfriend with money

she thought i was funny, once when i was called up to the podium to make a speech for class officer i had to shimmy past some people in my row that were sitting, i pretended to trip and she was the loudest to laugh

i just delivered to this girl who was maybe 19 and she had long fake fingernails, a piercing on her philtrum, wearing a belly shirt and yoga pants, and she made my eyes open wide for a split second cuz something about these crazy girls

his history is avoidance of what disconcerts him  !

his history is avoidance of what disconcerts him !

his history is avoidance of what disconcerts him

ewk, you are creating highly idiosyncratic personal definitions completely untrammelled by public domain use

it defines you as schizophrenic

you are creating highly idiosyncratic personal definitions completely untrammelled by public domain use

it defines you as schizophrenic

Would you people consider Zen to be a  “ mystical ”  tradition ?

in thinking about the meaning of a word, you have to consider its public domain use and  “ mysticism ”  is inseparable from  christian mysticism

therefore the question of  “ is zen mysticism ”  is not separate from the question, is zen the same at core as christian mysticism

heraclitus was a mystic ?

the problem which is that the vast majority of christianity like the vast majority of zen is crazy foolery and the public domain use encompasses those idiocies

the problem is the answer because the public fooleries of religion also necessitate the work to untangle them and sort it out yourself against the grain   .   .   .

I’m hearing a lot of problems but not a lot of answers  .  .

try reading the last line !

fakes like yourself avoid that sort of thing don’t they ?

too contradictory for a macdonald’s world !

you cannot shortcut work and experience and anything of substance usually, but not always only is accessible through those gates !

You’ve exposed me  .  .

as you write things should erode as well as reconstruct

as you write things should erode

if one day you understood what i wrote, it would be a cause for concern !

if one day you understood what i wrote, it would be a cause for concern

mysticism is inherently solipsistic because you are the only reality

mysticism is inherently solipsistic

i’m looking for a place in new zealand

one can pick up a lot from the web looking at satellite photos of advertised real estate ,  hardly any within 100 meters of a river ever mention the closeness nor do the house and property photos give any hint

inflation of value goes from  30%  to 3000

heaps of overpriced and deeply flawed properties, its depressing   .   .

its rural though, no doubt city real estate is less extreme

hieronymus bosch had been  ergot poisoned  ?

i’m not going to OP this on r|zen

it all changed when the theksepyro became a mod, its he who killed r|zen and not ewk, ewk is like his pawn to implement his buji zen agenda

if i OP i get the bully boys trying to muscle in and  “ spoil ”  the OP, that’s assuming the mods let it past in the first place and they seem to have an unerring eye for removing  “ quality ”  OP’s

anyway what i was going to OP

r|zen seems to have re-interpreted zen as christian style scriptualism !

yet what the masters say is work it out for yourself and write and speak with your own understanding, don’t regurgiate  “ scripture ”

this is a lifetime’s work

yet on r|zen they seem totally unable to understand problems for textual authenticity and accuracy and the distancing of the original from the translation !

“ despite stoicism having entirely different origins to zen ”

greek philosophy travelled along the silk road from the indo-grecian empires into china

zen is a result of the collision/fusion between this philosophical approach and buddhism and taoism !

bodhidharma was a blue eyed barbarian from an indo-greek empire, one of the few historical references to him is as a very old persian at the yong ning  temple  (ed. no. 3) in old luoyang !

jason  writes

you’ve seen  that  before

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yeah, all the same, interesting on looking again

1.  its a failing paradigm, sort of nostalgia

2.  zen/ch’an was pretty well wiped out by the cultural revolution and it now looks suspiciously japanese but i don’t know ,  maybe it was always like that   .   .   .

hard to say whether its a recovery through the japanese or was always there, just re-emerged from going underground !

adhd is not something  you have , but you are !

you just learn to come round to things again and see them a second time in more depth

and a third time !

what helps with depression are a decent diet for the brain, vitamin k2/mk-7 and exercise !

i find people rarely want to help themselves by doing anything useful healthwise; medications, drugs and alcohol seem to be the lazy human way !

nada te turbe or st. teresa’s bookmark

my re-working

all things trouble me

everything affrights

transience is the nature of things

infinity is changeless

and

patience usually wins the day

we can’t have infinity

but

it

alone

suffices

jason  writes

the more time that goes by the more i realize enlightenment isn’t some super-state

you don’t become very happy and you don’t start doing things very well

this really helped me to understand about women

The book  charts Nelson’s pregnancy, the birth of her son Iggy, and her first experiences as a mother: “ It isn’t like a love affair.  It is a love affair ”  she writes of her and Iggy.  “ Or rather, it is romantic, erotic and consuming   .   .   .   .  I have my baby, and my baby has me ”

jason  writes

i haven’t had  vitamin K  in a week or so and it’s shown itself as depressive symptoms

the cleary brothers’ translation of the blue cliff record is almost the most basic zen text !

“ its really time to remove hui-neng and bodhidharma from your lineage texts ”

john jorgensen doesn’t deny the historical existence of huineng to the extent he thinks the mummy is actually him and there is one, possibly several historical references to bodhidharma close to the time he lived

the platform sutra may incorporate elements of huineng’s teachings, its hard to say, you can’t exclude the possibly as the point of view is unique

probably most of the hagiography about huineng is myth and he may have never met hongren

i tell you what i have learnt about  “ nice ”  people

how un-nice oneself is !

“ a certain quantum algorithm, namely shor’s algorithm, breaks all cryptographic techniques that are currently used to establish secure connections on the internet

candidates for   post-quantum  cryptography can roughly be categorized into two types :   they are either very well understood and confidence-inspiring but require a lot of bandwidth or they are more convenient to use but provide more questionable security ”

the current  reality 

resident schizophrenic  (ed. ewk)  claims drinking excessive amounts of tea is meditation and then wonders why he is getting increasingly schizophrenic !

surely the justification for  “ meditation ”  is your own experience and not endless arguments over whether the lineage texts prescribe it ?

do you meditate ?

Not yet, I admit

Do you ?

actually reading your other reply, it seems to me that you have too black and white a view of  “ meditation ”  as being zazen only !

its a word that has a far broader semanticism

i probably do about three hours of  “ meditation ”  a day, the most of anyone i have ever come across, but i have only ever done zazen (seiza with an upright cushion) in a group setting and the meditation i do is more like shikantaza, lying in bed for half an hour when i wake up and several hours mucking around under red light before bed in the evening

its not just shikantaza but one can also problem solve

what really defines it as meditation in my view is there are no books or internet ,  its just yourself

if a poem or homily comes i write it down and that’s it !

jason got his Xbox back !

just showed up at his door when i saw it was just his car in the driveway, rang the doorbell and looked through the glass on the door so when we made eye contact he has to answer the door he opens the door and asks  “ yeah what do you want ? ”

so i say the Xbox, he turns around and i follow him downstairs and i watch him unplug it, he asks  “ what, did you watch me pull in ? ”  i said no

once i had everything i walked back up not saying anything and i exit out the front he shuts the door hard behind me

well my other friend who is more trustworthy is gonna buy it and if not someone at work said they’d buy it too

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he asks  “ what, did you watch me pull in ? ”

he’s an entitled arsehole, trying to make it out like you’re in the wrong !

cash first before handing over when you sell again, that way you are actually selling it and not providing credit which is always problematic !

jason  replies

he won a battle, being able to use my Xbox for free for two weeks

i won the war by figuring out who he really is

my  reply

with money you don’t want to go through figuring out people each time, cash up front solves a lot of problems !

it suprised me how like tai chi  this judo  is ,  the older man shouldn’t stand a chance but he uses the weight and balance of his opponents against them, even the speed and flexibility !

Z.  unearthed an old post of mine, november 2011, a bit strange to look at what i didn’t remember and hardly related to, but it slowly started to come back   .   .   .

the post is as follows

this evening there’s no-one within 2 km, no traffic and i can go out onto the porch, lean up against a pillar and listen to the voices of the different types of frogs, one lot is deeper and more recognizably froggish, while another lot sounds like crickets and just look into the misty dark with the gum trees standing there out across the paddocks and its naturally a meditative mode !

why would i sit ?

in cities and towns or even rural family life that’s just not available so you have problems of providing solitude in an economic way which is really what zazen and sitting is !

you should never do anything that could remotely cause joint issues or circulation problems, when i sat 19 - 22 years ago i sat kneeling with my bum on an upright cushion which never caused me problems, however i am light and of a small build !

there is nothing special about zazen or posture, its the stillness, silence and lack of distraction that is central

sitting with the opposite gender can be more of an issue, when i was in new zealand the retreats were just about all male so there wasn’t that distraction, but the retreats in springwater in the usa had a lot of women and it really ruined the sitting and i just went for walks in the beautiful rural countryside which was a way better way to go anyway !

brad warner’s  OP  and the comment thread

karl ove knausgaard  on the swedish

“ the reason for why there is so much hate among the cyclops, and so much fear, is simple, i believe

the cyclops do not want to be aware of the parts of reality that don’t accord with how they believe it should be ”

the solo violin composition  a tone testament  by crowley’s lover and striking beauty, lelia waddell, one fifth the way down the page

aleister crowley’s wikipedia entry  is very good

his life is way more interesting than what he writes

wow in his role as a double agent for the english during the first world war

“ It has been argued that he encouraged the German Navy to destroy the Lusitania, informing them that it would ensure the US stayed out of the war, while in reality hoping that it would bring the US into the war on Britain’s side ”

he wasn’t wrong !

the resident schizophrenic is bored with his own schizophrenia ?

the resident schizophrenic is bored with his own schizophrenia

buji zen may try, but you can’t deny the power of language

you can’t deny the power of language

people are a bit frayed late in the day  !

best leave them alone

people are a bit frayed late in the day  !

best leave them alone

people are a bit frayed late in the day  !

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people are a bit frayed late in the day  !

people are a bit frayed late in the day !

people are a bit frayed late in the day

now that’s  a cult leader

full  article

everything just teaches me the problems of distraction  !

everything just teaches me the problems of distraction !

everything just teaches me the problems of distraction

a quote by zhenjing

cultivating practice attached to dogma is like an ox pulling a millstone

my  re-translation

an ox pulls a millstone to more purpose than a zennist  “ practicing ” ,  at least something is ground !

more quotes by him or another zhenjing

people don’t trust the solipsist truth and rely on the reflections and echoes of the ancients and imitiate

the road to awakening they were never on

 stuck forever in believing the validity of sensuality !

basically mysticism is a dialogue between you and infinity, but you have to know what infinity is !

you don’t understand, but you won’t take my word for it !

basically mysticism is a dialogue between you and infinity, but you have to know what infinity is !

basically its a dialogue between you and infinity, but you have to know what infinity is !

you don’t understand, but you won’t take my word for it !

basically its a dialogue between you and infinity, but you have to know what infinity is !

zen is solipsist and emily dickinson and not the sort of normative reality that counselors obdude

jung while not without redemption is the wrong sort of crazy !

the mystical premise is that  99.9999%  of the population get reality wrong, therefore of necessity you are not going to get any understanding from institutions or socially approved groups of any sort !

i guess  [deleted]  is like  “ the monk got a sword through his throat ”  and moves onto the next nick incarnation ?

ed.  on r|zen

you  (ed. to jason)  are not a survivor are you, keeping a dog alive when it would rather not be here and screwing yourself up !

jason  replies

like you i’m proficient at making mistakes

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 you’re better at denial than me ! : o)

you are not a survivor are you, keeping a dog alive when it would rather not be here and screwing yourself up !

you are not a survivor are you, keeping a dog alive when it would rather not be here and screwing yourself up

As a former mental health patient I highly recommend you see a counselor to discuss your internet persona

tell us  about it, its basic to to be able reveal something of ourselves in a safe way !

i have no direct experience of the mental health system except when my parents sent me to a psychiatrist because i wanted to write and not get a job !

i got a job eventually, worse luck, but no-one in my life has ever considered me to have mental health problems which is more than can be said for some relatives and friends unfortunately !

ewk copies a lot of my material so i don’t think he  (or you)  think i am insane at all, with ewk its more the need to try to cripple my reputation since my emphasis on the visionary experience in zen and mysticism is too disconcerting to his suburban materialist world view !

my argument is that the visionary aspect is partially filtered out of the zen records, whereas real life zen with its emphasis of dai kensho, does in fact incorporate the visionary aspect as a foundation stone

the authenticity of those visionary experiences may be open to doubt, but that’s the way of highly socialized institutions like zen buddhism !

another thing is that some  “ mental health professionals ”  are quite open to mysticism and the mystical, there’s even the dialectical behavior therapy school founded on a vision by marsha l. linehan

tell us about it, its basic to to be able reveal something of ourselves in a safe way  !

tell us about it, its basic to to be able reveal something of ourselves in a safe way !

tell us about it, its basic to to be able reveal something of ourselves in a safe way

the tale  of three zeros, slashed, dot and oval !

yeah positives versus negatives  !

yeah positives versus negatives !

yeah positives versus negatives

you want to be warm over winter, cold is debilitating from a health and mental point of view  !

you want to be warm over winter, cold is debilitating from a health and mental point of view !

you want to be warm over winter, cold is debilitating from a health and mental point of view

western buddhism attempts to decouple buddhism from its asian floridity and necroticism !

western buddhism attempts to decouple buddhism from its asian floridity and necroticism

 reddit AMA’s involve measured revealing !

reddit AMA’s involve measured revealing !

reddit AMA’s involve measured revealing

the thing with zen is you can define it to mean what you like, but that leads to, or is in actual fact psychotic and you get a lot of this on the web because you can craft your own version of zen without any real life experience of it as a social institution !

this is why r|zen is a psychosis rave basically

to be anti-schizophrenic you have to temper that with real world experience so there is enough consonance with what is actually occurring to avoid that problem

friend_lord  claims  that  zen_mystical  is what i criticise

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its only your complete lack of real life zen experience that makes you think that, in reality zen_mystical is reasonably consonant with a lot of real life and historical zen

the r|zen buji zen only matches various nihilist heterodoxies in historical zen

he starved himself to death which would have contributed hugely to the good preservation, no sugars, just metabolised fat in the blood

“ in the week before his death ,  loung pordang ,  aged 79, stopped eating and speaking ”

quite a sensible approach to self euthanasia when age brings the quality of life too low, in the west he would be on drip feed !

the west seems to specialize in creating its own form of living hell with its enforcement of prolonging life when it is nothing but unpleasant !

huineng was mummified by a technique so advanced it was several centuries before everyone else caught up according to john j. jørgensen !

ewk quotes from record of tung-shan as a justification of his anti-soto campaign

after chin-shan had been doing sitting meditation together with yen-tou and hseuh-feng, the master brought them tea.  however, chin-shan had closed his eyes.

where did you go ?  asked the master  (ed. dongshan)

i entered samadhi  said chin-shan

samadhi has no entrance.  where did you enter from ?  asked the master

my  reply

why don’t you quote it in full, you unenlightened lunatic ?

chin-shan replied

samadhi has an entrance, that’s where i entered from

dongshan hit himself and said, i deserved that !

i think mk-7 gets less potent the longer its been on the shelf, especially if kept in a warm place !

you  (ed. ewk)  have this sort of root delusion stemming from your extreme narcissism that your opinion is sufficient and doesn’t need any consonance with objective reality

this condition is certainly not unique to you on r|zen, but only manic nuts so in love with themselves as to be blind could imagine to redefine something at odds with the common public perceptions of it

the platform sutra, that foundational zen document is a reinterpretation of buddhism, not complete estrangement

i was using a public toilet in town today and there were these two cartoon booklets on the handbasin, just really crazy shit, cartoons promoting the dissemination of their  “ tracts ”  with devils tempting the missionary !

in one frame, a son is telling his father a tract is too extreme to hand out, with a devil nearby showing joy that the missionary desire is being thwarted

really weird and primitive propoganda, but then these people are crippled between the ears aren’t they ?

your delusion as a psychotic is that you can alienate a word from its most common association in the public domain  !

your delusion as a psychotic is that you can alienate a word from its most common association in the public domain !

your delusion as a psychotic is that you can alienate a word from its most common association in the public domain

jehovah’s witnesses

a collection of madmen and madwomen intent on being madder

religion, a collection of madmen intent on being madder

r|zen, a collection of madmen intent on being madder

jason writes

my father suggested euthanizing our older dog

he’s still walking around but he’s getting worse every day, getting skinny and urinating/defecating where he’s not supposed to, and then we’ll be gone for at least a month and my aunt isn’t too keen on taking care of him

not much gets me as upset as my dogs

my comment

well he’s not enjoying life, look at from his point of view

jason  writes

my mother was walking by herself in portugal down a trail a quarter of a mile from where we used to stay, she happened upon a wolf and they met eyes for some seconds before the wolf ran away

from zen echoes translated by beata grant

a monk asked dongshan daoquan  :  “ a servant at the monastery does not enter nirvana, and a bhikkhu who has broken the precepts does not enter hell ” ,  what is that all about ?

dongshan replied  :  when one is completely liberated, there is no shadow left over.  then one can leap over into nirvana

miaozong’s  comment

the stone statue of jiazhou

the iron ox of xianfu

when the people are at peace

they do not complain

when the rivers are at peace

they cease to flow

my  comment

in the contained world

there is apparent peace

outside

the

roil awaits

in the contained world

there is apparent peace

outside

the

roil awaits

in a strange place, the mountains reflect the sea

the man in the moon jumps with a kangaroo

and the river spills its stars into the sky

in a strange place, the mountains reflect the sea

the man in the moon jumps with a kangaroo

and the river flows across the sky

what i am saying is no matter how much i explain it, you can’t understand because you haven’t done the work

you think you are naturally talented and don’t need to do it

what can i say ?

my viewpoints are temporary !

permanent viewpoints are things i have found to be so and will continue to be consistent with things as i find them

you are hitting walls you can’t get pass without years and decades of contemplative or meditative work

this subreddit of  “ instant zen ”

my point is that a lot of posters on r|zen make an implied claim to being a  “ zen master ”

this is sort of like a root issue in zen, that one simply is a zen master and evidence in what one says and does is not needed, the hubric identification of oneself as  “ zen master ”  is enough

yeah on topics and matters central to enlightenment or what zen is about you need to be a  “ master ” 

or patriarch actually since the  “ masters ”  seem to get it so wrong

this is a cornerstone, some shift in perspective so fundamental that there is no halfway house of semi-competence

both reddit and real life zen is full of  “ implicit ”  claims to enlightement, the fakes so scared to make the claim since they know it doesn’t stand up !

what they do however is adopt the viewpoint of speaking as an enlightened person, ewk, for instance and yourself since you both always seem to know better than everybody else !

actually what zen says is work it for yourself, use your own words and you won’t make the mistake of pissing away your time pretentiously quoting nonsense like it means something  !

actually what zen says is work it for yourself, use your own words and you won’t make the mistake of pissing away your time pretentiously quoting nonsense like it means something !

actually what zen says is work it for yourself, use your own words and you won’t make the mistake of pissing away your time pretentiously quoting nonsense like it means something

you give  yourself  too much credit !

you are very proficient at checkmating yourself and thinking you have won !

you are very proficient at checkmating yourself !

you are very proficient at checkmating yourself

the time i spend on others idiocy makes me bitter !

I feel my proficiency makes you bitter !

the time spent on others idiocy makes me bitter !

the time spent on others idiocy makes me bitter !

the time spent on others idiocy makes me bitter

ideas about right speech and wrong speech don’t work !

yet another failed  “ meta ”

ideas about right speech and wrong speech don’t work !

ideas about right speech and wrong speech don’t work

just because you are vegetarian doesn’t mean you are not obnoxious  !

just because you are vegetarian doesn’t mean you are not obnoxious

just because you are vegetarian doesn’t mean you are not obnoxious

vanguard  is from the french avant-garde

jason  writes

i’ve remembered that i used to play tackle football with my friends, no pads just pick up   .  .  i was known to hit people the hardest

my  comment

yeah the brain keeps travelling

jason  writes

my friend had a lot of sex when he was around 16, 17

then he didn’t have sex for about three years until the other week and i was joking around about stds with him and he said  “ yeah i didn’t use protection the other week and my genitals were burning ”  he says they’re not burning anymore and he thinks it might’ve been a UTI, he’s still seeing that girl

endemic herpes, genital warts  (can be horrific) ,  permanent induction of bad biofilm into the urinary tract and bladder, chlamydia

hiv/aids, antibiotic resistant syphilis and gonorrhea

its not the sixties anymore !

________________________

herpes is bad because a lot of infected people  “ missionize ”  the transmission of the virus !

a fair percentage of women have no comprehension of care in avoiding infecting others

among the saddest ones are young gay men getting hiv because of naivety

i see it all the time on reddit askdocs ,  “ i slept with this girl without protection and i have this pain on urination, this ulcer, this tingling, this wart ”

there is an std explosion occurring amongst  “ the entitled brats ”  ie millennials !

also amongst the over 50’s btw !

a little ditty i made when  “ RhinoNamedHippo ”  asked for some poems

a hippo named rhino

drove in a limo

only he couldn’t forget

 whether he was a hippo or rhino ?

bukowski’s father was an insane arsehole who crippled bukowski developmentally and mentally

bukowski’s father was an insane arsehole who crippled bukowski developmentally

bukowski’s father was an insane arsehole who crippled bukowski mentally

a bear is a  very impressive  animal

PS, what’s your opinion on ayahuasca and Zen ?

Do you think they are complementary, or do you think that they are inherently incompatible ?

I’m debating whether or not to talk to S. about it at my next dokusan, though I can imagine what he’ll say  .  .  .

i think ayashuasca helps ryushin/marchaj break out a trap he was in, the real question with drugs is do they do any permanent brain damage and despite the claims, most do !

a monk asked  :  a holy temple  —  what is it like ?

joshu replied  :  a maiden with her hair rolled up  (ed. a virgin)

the monk asked  :  those who enter the holy temple  —  what are they like ?

joshu replied  :  a maiden with her hair rolled up, pregnant

infinity, what is it like ?

from your point of view

you don’t

know

when you know what is it like ?

full of contradictions !

“ infinity, what is it like ? ”

from your point of view

you don’t

know

“ when you know what is it like ? ”

full of contradictions !

an inability to understand the insufficiency of translation is a trap because you project onto the translation what’s not there

“ i’ve got a bad habit of eating late and it really messes with my sleep ”

i’ve learnt the hard way to keep quite a wide gap between when i last eat and sleep

zen is walking injury, the question is how far one wants to be involved in it !

r|zen is walking injury, the question is how far one wants to be involved in it !

years ago i talked to a guy on autistic spectrum on the web, he had been referred to me as having a problem and it was clear that he was obsessed about this girl in high school he may never even have talked to and just wouldn’t listen to reason

several years later i happened to see a u.s. news story about some-one killing a young woman and it was him !

i couldn’t believe it and picking up the story from here in australia !

a weirder one was this english guy who went uninvited to all the local funerals of young girls

in the early days of the web it was much freer, the people more intelligent and everyone was much more unguarded about what they said and not being too concerned about the identity of who they were talking too

there were even paedophile channels on irc and it was a real education to drop into one, they really believed in their right to sexually molest children, nothing apologetic about it at all !

it’s  =  it is;  contraction

its  =  showing possession

English is strange

for sure, i use  ‘ its ’  as the contraction and  ‘ it’s ’  as possession !

“ Joshu dropping bombs ”

dreamer claiming there was any joshu, who said any such thing, that there was any such incident and what was transcribed bore any relation to any such supposed incident or dialogue all turned into some translators projection into english

you are not incomprehensible just very stupid and intellectually lazy

i’m almost certain from something he said that ewk was brought before a children’s court for a serious criminal act since the records were sealed

his behavior on r|zen with his extreme aggression and repetition, the dissociation of his persona from his real self and overweening sense of self worth is in the area of criminal insanity

it was obviously very traumatic and his unyielding rigidity may spring from a real fear of a loss of control if he outsteps social boundaries the way in which zen requires

there’s a real ewk and there’s a persona, they are totally dissociated to the extent its insanity !

occasionally the real ewk comes through and there’s this massive seething rage, frightening, i wouldn’t be posting here if i lived in the usa, anywhere is only a couple of days drive from anywhere and one guy  (michael g.!)  threatening to come over here to shoot me was enough !

he had this crazy picture on the web of him waving a pistol around near his girlfriends head !

what zen master always sounds like a spoilt child ?

why do you keep writing nonsense thinking its sense ?

pretentiousness is your heads ?

why do we keep writing nonsense thinking its sense ?

pretentiousness is our heads ?

why do we keep writing nonsense thinking its sense ?

you write a poem

it goes into the abyss

no-one replys

maybe a few read

it is always like this

you write a poem

it goes into the abyss

no-one replys

maybe a few read

it is always

like this

you write a poem

it goes into the abyss

no-one replys

a few read

it is always

like

this

all our words drop meaningless into the dark night

ewk

the dumbarse

replies

again

to see the world

to let the world see us

no

hiding

our own direct

experience

to ourselves

others

what is

there to

say

we do

What makes it a bad translation ?

it doesn’t convey the spirit or sense of the original accurately

in general, translations of religious material are bedevilled by ideological  “ frames ” 

when you read a translation you hardly ever read the author, you are reading the translators opinion of what the author said  .  .   !

So all translations are bad translations ?

you are always dealing with the mind of the translator versus the mind of the original author and some people are almost untranslatable like dogen and roykan because their  “ mind ”  is so steeped in cultural allusions and literature that are alien to us !

people seem to have so much difficulty understanding the difference between reading an author writing english as first language like  larry eigner  and reading a translation, that i suggest some practical experience of translation is needed which is easy enough to do with google translate and some research !

why not track down the japanese of what you  OP’ed  and have a go ?

brad warner is currently translating dogen and might be helpful to contact !

the  translocation  of tattoo particles from the skin to the lymph nodes

the zen experience  is universal ,  its open to everybody

except the r|zen mods trying to implement american suburban materialist zen !

r|zen is not a passive fake, but they actively reject sense and so remove OP’s on christian mysticism !

yeah i would ask the mods of r|zen to be not so reactive against christian mysticism, in real life zen its well accepted !

john loori’s mt. tremper zen monastery has a huge christ on the cross statue over its front door

if you had real life experience of zen you would know its thick with ex-catholics and catholics and there is even a jesuit zen master as well as other catholic religious zen masters such as sister elaine macinnes !

a very good  quote  from the blessed  angela of foligno 

oh my sons, cease not from searching until ye shall have found that foundation without which all works fall into ruin and none can make progress upon the way of god

this search is verily important and needful, in asmuch as without humility all other virtues are nothing worth

hearken unto the desire of the eternal king, jesus christ, who hath so ardently prayed you that ye should learn this virtue of him

rest upon this foundation and reflect upon your own vileness and nothingness

hearken unto the wish of the eternal truth and wisdom, who concealeth the value of humility from the wise of this world and revealeth it unto babes, preaching it and showing it forth in examples

my desire after which i do hunger and thirst is that ye should plunge yourselves into the depths of the divine goodness, for if ye trust in the immensity thereof and have a knowledge of yourselves, ye will possess a solid foundation in humility

then ye will not be so inclinded to strife and contention, but ye will be rather as the deaf who hear not and as the mute who do not open their mouths, and in consequence thereof ye will be true members of christ, of whom the apostle saith that they enter not into stife or in any contest of the flesh !

you can make all the claims you like, but your writing is unable to stack meanings or utilize ambiguity !

in the end you can’t pretend to skill that’s not there !

I say it like it is

why hide in ambiguity ?

good writing conveys a lot of things at once, ambiguity is necessary for that !

even the most simple of writing will be misunderstood a million different ways by morons !

you are far from accepting you have a cognitive style problem !

why do life failures so insist on promoting the rules for their life that have lead to failure ?

why do life failures so insist on promoting the rules for their life that have lead to failure

ewk is insane in not a good way  !

I know he most probs does not have a mental illness.  What do you say to that ?

i know he is criminally insane, what do you say to that ?

ewk is insane in not a good way !

ewk is insane in not a good way

If I invent an app that enlightens people, would I theoretically considered to have  ‘ made art ’  ?

its called  “ good poetry, philosophy or wisdom literature ”  none of which you will ever read

Why do you want to be alone

all we ever are is alone !

See, you and I will never agree

we will never agree because my perspective is contemplative, on r|zen they reject the necessity for this and so do you !

contemplative work would naturally bring you into alignment with what i say and you be in a more constructive process, but alas the morons are in denial !

hey moron

yeah, but its not like you do contemplative work is it ?

very defensive !

Did I not but use your catchphrase back at you ?

You were the obstacle !

“ very defensive ! ” 

do you see what i am getting at ?

btw the way i have used  “ moron ”  as a word is not a catchphrase, but a  catch-all

your generation have learnt nothing but conflict from your gaming activities and it has become your   “ modus operandi ”

do you think you could reply without being hostile

just because its your opinion doesn’t mean its right  !

just because its your opinion doesn’t mean its right !

just because its your opinion doesn’t mean its right

jason writes he saw an  “ ex girlfriend ”  tonight, delivered to her house  .   .   she knew i worked there

i made some small talk, saw she got a gecko and i was saying that’s cool and she said  “ yeah he’s upstairs ”

asked what i’m doing and i said  “ delivery ”  and she said  “ that’s all right i’m unemployed ” ,  said goodbye and walked fast away like i was busy when it was really a slow day

then i got all hyped for an hour or more when i was home, she wants to work at a zoo and i was considering texting her that she could try a smaller city zoo but i didn’t

there is  a contradiction  between there being an increasing probability of him being hanged as the week progresses from monday to friday and an increasing violation of him being unable to predict the day of his hanging !

there is nothing more pathetic than pennywise the clown, aspiring to or defending  ‘ normality ’  !

there is nothing more pathetic than pennywise the clown, aspiring to or defending  ‘ normality ’

there is nothing more pathetic than pennywise the clown, aspiring to or defending normality

plagiarism is the true spirit of zen, what could be more zen than violating copyright ?

plagiarism is the true spirit of zen, what could be more zen than violating copyright

when people ban or censor your material, you are starting to get things right !

when people remove your material, you are starting to get things right !

when people ban or censor your material, you are starting to get things right

when people remove your material, you are starting to get things right

the perspective of mysticism appears mentally ill to normality  “ mr. normal ”  !

the perspective of mysticism appears mentally ill to normality

the  elephant  in the room, the australian lamb advertisment 2017

you ask difficult questions, your art interest has made you sophisticated !

which, in the context of zen, isn’t necessarily a good thing, right ? :)

generally i find, if you ask a question, an answer comes along and that is zen !

ewk, r|zen has amplified your insanity, i guess it will just get worse ! : o(

r|zen has amplified your insanity, i guess it will just get worse ! : o(

do you think you can identify kensho through artwork like paintings/illustrations or music ?

i think there’s a contradiction in judging whether another person has had dai kensho

all i notice is that some writing or art seems to express the sort of understanding that would spring from it

“ in a public contest of bravado, clout and honor, achilles had been forced to give up a captive girl, who was his favorite spoil of war, to the greek commander in chief, agamemnon.

it was for that reason  —  the dishonor more than the girl herself  —  that he sulked off from the fight and by his absence  caused the deaths  of many dear to him ”

jason  writes

the busboy’s family lives in a nice rural setting in honduras, he says even there, there are gangs

a waiter is from el salvador and he says gangs are everywhere, that they’re like cockroaches

my  comment

yeah, dangerous for outsiders who don’t know the ropes !

even new zealand has some degree of an issue, especially in some areas

australia also

jason  replies

i’ve seen a video on youtube of a rough neighborhood in auckland

my  reply

 i think the difference in el salvador and some other south american states is you get killed !

the mystical insight is actually a form of schizophrenia, its just the correct view rather than the incorrect view

a  poem  by larry eigner

shadows, birds wake up

birch trees in the winds web

before what exposition, minutes

of mankind

stony light turned

how much the number

the vague soon again

 what change in the parts ?

i disbelieved in kensho until it happened and then over a long period of time learnt to identify it more when it happens

if ewk or anyone else had dai kensho, then their posting would show evidence of it, there is a very distinct understanding that comes with it and can clearly be seen in the poet larry eigner for instance, but in fact ewk is anti-kensho which is his real objection to dogen   .  .  .

i disbelieved in kensho until it happened and then over a long period of time learnt to identify it more when it happens

smoking pot is easier than addressing the issues that give rise to the need !

smoking pot is easier than addressing the issues that give rise to the need

the world goes around again ,  you can’t expect it to be any different  !

the world goes around again ,  you can’t expect it to be any different

the world goes around again you can’t expect it to be any different

when you get to my age and sit back and reflect on life as a cumulation of mistakes

interestingly yoda was modelled somewhat on maezumi roshi !

interestingly yoda was modelled somewhat on maezumi roshi

some people quote well known poetry, others quote obscure altered extracts from a starwars’ movie and expect it to be recognized

i cannot think of any  “ madman ”  i know or know of  whose insanity doesn’t consist of rigid ideas

larry eigner is the most zen poet i know

very minimalist based on  the impressions  of his day, yet ultra dense

you will go through life oblivious to being a boring stupid

you go through life oblivious to being a boring stupid

charles bukowski

if you can’t write the next line, well  you’re dead 

the past doesn’t matter

quite an  eye opener  about stephen king

he says he was sober no more than three hours a day from cocaine and alcohol when he wrote  “ it ”  in  1986 which has been remade yet again into another ghastly film

there’s a good scene but you have to  start  on one clip  (scene finishes at 0:43)  and pick it up again  on another

the very family oriented  bill skarsgård

microplastics  in sea salt, jesus !

study

however they do say the types and levels are not anthropogenic !

the number of people about with drug induced semantic pragmatic processing difficulties !

not afraid to waste your time and pretend themselves to be great masters of wisdom !

deception and deflection are your modes, you hide in being incomprehensible !

like ewk you can pretend there’s substance u n d e r n e a t h

deception and deflection are your modes, you hide in being incomprehensible !

it always comes back to this one thing, r|zen is a reflection of the public domain use of the word   “ zen ”  and not much else !

gibbs is  postulating  the existance of an index to make sense of his hypothesis, it may well be the case but its easy to wait a year or so and let the dust settle

i may still use the word voynich with my coining of  “ bullshit constructed to look like its profound ”  regardless

i think the unstoppable immigration in the u.s.a. has made unskilled labour almost worthless !

some cultivate concentration and others concentrate without being aware of it !

the anti-rascist confessional meme sweeping through certain sections of american society is just the trauma of the collapse of the white middle class and them getting used to the new poverty

the anti-rascist meme sweeping through certain sections of american society is just the trauma of the collapse of the white middle class and them getting used to the new poverty

i just use the r|zen subreddit for writing material or sorting my own thoughts out, i’m not a missionary

i think one needs that attitude to remain sane there !

i don’t like the moderation either, but objectively the sub works for me so i have no complaints !

  “ you always have complaints, i read them often ! ” 

that’s just for my writing and thinking

i am discomforted, but its to my benefit and i may wish for things to be different, but in fact the sub works well for me

the craziness of the mad is their rigidity !

the craziness of the mad is their rigidity

the real is a type of imagination ,  only one is left to wonder ,  whose imagination ?

the real is a type of imagination ,  only one is left to wonder ,  whose imagination

the real is a type of imagination

young men, they love themselves and their mothers love them ,  but no-one else does ?

young men, they love themselves and their mothers love them ,  but no-one else does !

young men, they love themselves and their mothers love them ,  i don’t think anyone else does ?

young men, they love themselves and their mothers love them ,  i don’t think anyone else does

the lunatic in his cage claims he didn’t build it himself !

the lunatic in his cage claims he didn’t build it himself

any list of some masters with descriptions not really stressing kensho/satori ?

i wouldn’t use satori ,  its a nonsense term, but basically zen/ch’an is founded on dia kensho

its like cracking a safe, one day you get the combination and everything opens

you cannot understand zen without having dai kensho, but like formalist and hypocrisy who climb  the wall  in pilgrim’s progress, everyone takes the shortcut and postures

why, being a fake is much much easier, isn’t it ewk, or at least you act that way !

even though the pivot of zen is dai kensho ,  what follows is a lifetime of working it though and reading widely and contemplative work are essential for this

what’s voynich ?

bullshit constructed to look like its profound

re :  on my being the 2nd/sixth patriarch

you wouldn’t object to me being a faker, its being the real thing that upsets you

you wouldn’t object to me being a faker, its being the real thing that upsets you

rephrasing  no. 4  of chapter  XV of the ascent of mount carmel

when you engage in a process of deconstruction of socialized reality there is an inward light that illumines us and this is next to the enlightened state

when one deconstructs further one’s own veils, distortions and embarassments then that leads to the divine or the absolute

people understand the first paragraph but the second they repel from like its poison, yet is so simple, just there to be done !

a quote from the ascent of mount carmel by john of the cross

the soul would then find itself in a condition of pure detachment and poverty of spirit

in english

objective and open

i don’t really care about politics, i’ve read too much history !

if you think there’s hope, don’t !

what’s the point of arguing with an insane man ?

what’s the point of arguing with an insane man

insanity carves out its own space, who am i to say its wrong ?

insanity carves out its own space

all our words drop away meaningless into the dark night

all our words drop away meaningless into the night

all our thoughts go meaningless into the dark night

all our thoughts go meaningless into the night

nicholas gibbs with an  explanation  for the voynich manuscript

podcast

“  TLDR :  its in latin, but very abbreviated through the use of ligatures

its a book of medical recipes, long on herbal baths, and borrows recognisable chunks from known manuscripts such as the trotula, ultimately from galen, pliny, and hippocrates

its nature has been obscured by cropping which removed essential headings, loss of the index, and by some sections being out of order ”

criticism

the  pahlavi  hypothesis

a real medieval medical  manuscript ,  not that different from today !

on the days with higher light intensity, people made  worse decisions  and they were more inconsistent in the choices that they made

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luminance did affect  individual’s risk attitudes

on brighter days, people were more risk averse

the study found more light made people more careful about money, but they also had a greater tolerance for unknown risks

people were asked to choose between $5 for sure and a lottery. But that lottery didn’t specify the odds of winning

those subjects with higher luminance levels acted as if they were more optimistic so they were more likely to go for the lottery

so when there was less light people were willing to take more risk, but they were more averse to ambiguous lotteries so they acted as if they were more pessimistic about the odds of winning, when the odds were not known

ewk  writes

i just don’t have the flair for misleading people

my

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 true.  your flair is for misleading yourself !

“ I just don’t have the flair for misleading people ”

 true.  your flair is for misleading yourself !

the world is a returning circle  !

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the world is a returning circle  !

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the world is a returning circle  !

the world is a returning circle  !

the world is a returning circle !

the world is a returning circle

zen is both the sane and insane

reality has no ground

 where would you stand ?

zen is both the sane and insane

a quote from carl jung’s mysterium coniunctionis

inside this grave, there is no corpse

outside of this corpse, there is no grave

but it is [to] itself corpse and grave

my

restatement

the corpse engraved in the grave

outside the engraving

no grave !

jason writes

my friend is leaving amazon to take a year long course in quantum physics in london, then he says he might apply for a phd program somewhere on the east coast u.s.

says he wasn’t happy at amazon because his job mostly consisted of fixing people’s bugs in their code, says he didn’t like having higher ups either

i’ve imagined me and him opening up our own company since about the end of high school

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r e p l y

yeah i imagine crazy shit like that, so out of touch with reality i wince when i notice it

there’s absolutely nothing you can do, the world goes around in a returning circle

there’s nothing you can do, the world goes around in a returning circle

why people throw their lives away on the boringly stupid i don’t know ?

why people throw their lives away in the boringly stupid i don’t know ?

why people want to throw their lives away in the boringly stupid i don’t know ?

why people throw their lives away in the boringly stupid i don’t know

why people want to throw their lives away in the boringly stupid i don’t know

that’s what the world is, just this big returning circle  !

that’s what the world is, just this big revolving circle  !

that’s what the world is, just this big returning circle !

that’s what the world is, just this big revolving circle !

that’s what the world is, just this big returning circle

that’s what the world is, just this big revolving circle

too much autism under one roof  !

too much autism under one roof  !

too much autism under one roof !

too much autism under one roof

yeah,  druggie dribble

 you kissed your brain goodbye long ago ! : o(

yeah, druggie dribble

 you kissed your brain goodbye long ago ! : o(

“   we observed  that groups lie significantly more than individuals when group members face mutual financial gain and have to coordinate an action in order to realize that financial gain ”

“ group members come up with and exchange more arguments for being dishonest than for complying with the norm of honesty.  thereby, group membership  shifts  the perception of the validity of the honesty norm and of its distribution in the population ”

r|zen in a nutshell

i’m right you’re wrong

no i’m right

you’re wrong

 repeated 3 billion times !

a variation

no you’re wrong

i’m right

jason  writes

i was thinking of joining a local soccer team, i heard from an old teammate that our old soccer trainer also plays on that team

he must be nearing forty if not past forty

my trainer fouled someone during a game and the young guy he fouled called him old, so my trainer decided to punch him hard in the face enough so that the young guy started to cry

nah i don’t want to get involved with that !

my  comment

sports games can be used as an excuse for assault by some people because police are relucant to prosecute !

ie violence against others is permissible in that context and sometimes it can be really damaging  !

joshu never took drugs and he wasn’t an alcoholic or ex-alcoholic with two brain cells crawling about in his skull !

drugs don’t equal meditation you toxic arsehole !

drugs don’t equal meditation you toxic arsehole

religion is psychotics telling other psychotics how to be psychotic

zen is psychotics telling other psychotics how to be psychotic

the guilty convict themselves by their sensitivity !

the guilty convict themselves by their sensitivity

ewk comes in, throws his hat and coat on the chair and flops down !

wifey comes over and says  “ another other hard day at the office dear ? ”

ewk sighs, frowns and says, yeah they have been mean to me again on r|zen

his face lights up

 “ but i’ll get them tomorrow ! ”

translation is a painting of a painting,  accuracy and fidelity varies and even whether the original is rubbish or not !

the above homily is quite allusively sophisticated, painting of a rice cake, and an ironic reference to guarantees

that’s actually what the real zen is like and its easy to see how much gets lost in translations

poetry has the same problem and you are basically reading  “ denuded ”  interpretations

translation is a painting of a painting,  accuracy and fidelity varies and even whether the original is rubbish or not !

translation is a painting of a painting,  accuracy and fidelity varies and even whether the original is rubbish or not

reddit zen is that sort of hell, you can’t tell the demons from the sinners ! : o)

its that sort of hell, you can’t tell the demons from the sinners ! : o)

what a poor disciple of shakyamuni you must be

you are a complete fantasist, shakyamuni buddha is an invention, he never existed historically and indeed the word gautama comes from the assassinated persian emperor gaumata !

i’m not the one believing an outright lie, its your problem, sort it out !

“ and i actually was sorry because i thought you actually felt hurt by my accidental lie, but your aggressive behavior has made me rethink that ”

i reserve the right to be aggressive with passive aggressive  “ concealers ”  like yourself !

ed.  he lied to me by omission

hurt indeed, blood flows from your ears and eyes !

“ and I hope you find the inner peace you seek ”

i don’t seek inner peace at all, there is no such thing, twenty minutes daily of shikantaza has just reinforced your own bullshit

congratulations !

what i notice with real christians is they don’t read the bible because you can’t read the bible without noticing how ambiguous a document it is and how much bullshit it contains !

same with buddhism !

i can never get used to the idea people are different from me, very different !

i can never get used to the idea people are different from me, very different

i can never get used to the idea people are different from me

you think you chose reddit zen, but in a previous life you did something bad and were consigned to the  “ constant trauma  –  going nowhere ”  hell which we all know as reddit zen !

as proof of this try to leave, you can’t !

why say something pseudo-profound when you can say nothing ?

why say nothing when you can say something pseudo-profound ?

Why say something pseudo-profound when you can say nothing ?

why say nothing when you can say something pseudo-profound ?

Why say something pseudo-profound when you can say nothing ?

Why say nothing when you can say something pseudo-profound ?

when you read  this ,  you know buddhism is bullshit !

ewk doesn’t seem to understand the difference between scholarship and being a student !

the difference between a scholar and a student is the student goes to a single source for material whereas a scholar laboriously cross references all the known material to create consistency and even may unearth unknown material !

“ gradual versus sudden ”  teachings are a lot of nonsense, both are relevant as is meditation !

it just amazes me that all through history so many people can be mistaken, and just like r|zen are so vigorous in missionizing really mistaken views !

huineng is an historical person, to what extent he contributed to the platform sutra is unknown but there are signs of an original voice in it that does not conform to conventional religious notions

the story of the robe is a meme and as to whether he ever met hongreng or studied with him is also unknown, but quite possibly not !

however he is mentioned as a disciple of hongren in early dongshan famen  (northern school)  texts !

i have seen an eyewitness account in recent years of a stele for a monk who claimed to have visited huineng so i don’t think he had as little contemporary reputation as the john jørgensen et al claim !

when you are enlightened you have the extra dimension of understanding what is authentic from the viewpoint of enlightenment and so are able to pick out an extra consistency to weave a more stable and true version of events !

huineng could have been the first patriarch and i am the second, however conventionally he is referred to as the sixth patriarch and hence i refer to myself as the seventh  .  .  !

youru wang    video    book

youru’s accent is hard to understand so i turned the sound off and flip though the slides which are from the book introduction !

jason was wondering about going to a lisa cairns retreat and asked for my view

you are not going to get anything more out of her than your  interview , your opening move was a checkmate, it can be difficult to see !

he  replies

it wasn’t even really about lisa, seemed like a nice place to retreat

my  reply

you retreat just by not listening to the radio when you drive

or not reading or watching a movie when flying

or going for a walk by yourself

the problem with lisa’s retreat is she has her own agendas and is toxic and you can spend the rest of your life working that shit out from just one retreat

jane carlyle possibly  died  of a cerebal haemorrhage  (apoplexy)

“ we see jane boiling worms out of a chair’s horsehair stuffing, nailing down carpets, supervising annual redecorating, and dealing with the couple’s remarkable maid of all work, helen.  a petite woman from kirkcaldy, helen had, in thomas’s estimation ,  ‘ an intellectual insight almost as of genius ’  she also had a drink problem, and during the worst sessions would have to be locked in her room until she sobered up ”

from

jason  writes

i’m sitting in the way back corner of the restaurant by myself

a waitress walks over and she sits down, i’ve known her since she was pretty young and i’ve figured she’s been half interested in me for a while

she says i just broke up with my boyfriend ,  i could tell that was going to happen because she was posting pictures of herself and of her going out on snapchat

so i said oh ?  i look back down at my book and she picks it up and reads  owls do cry  and she laughs a little

i go back to reading and look up for a second and she gives me a bit of a surprised look and says i’m bored, i’ll let you read your book

i think i’ll go tell her in going to portugal soon

“ what measurable quantities does philosophy give actions ? ”

all sorts.  ethically good, principled, justified, rational, and so on

philosophy would ask what was the context of action or its premises

i think ewk  (ed. the greyed line)  is confusing philosophy with moral systems which can be of course a product of philosophical investigation, but philosophy is more the  “ deus ex machina ”  of the moral system rather than the moral judgements themselves

the translation is lame

your words are lame

well, not everybody knows when they are beaten !

well, not everybody knows when they are beaten

you have your eyes and ears nailed shut !

can’t you read ?

how could a charlatan use zen ?

“ you’re like two or three hundred whores ”

except r|zennists are pimps that pay the johns !

only on r|zen would having an attitude and making a lot of noise pass as zen ! ?

an enlightened man doesn’t teach but what he says is in fusion with himself

a ratbag fake scum like r|zen is full of just bleats the usual sheep bullshit !

nice try

a ratbag fake scum squeaks !

i thought the toxic mice would poke their noses out of their holes !

an enlightened man doesn’t teach but what he says is in fusion with himself

a ratbag fake scum like r|zen is full of just bleats the usual sheep bullshit !

a joshu quote

brothers, if a truthful man expounds a heresy, that heresy is the truth.  if a heretical man expounds the true dharma, the true dharma becomes a heresy.  everywhere zen is hard to see but easy to know about.  where i am it is easy to see but hard to know about

“ that’s not an accurate portrayal of the meaning of the text ”

the text is not an accurate portrayal of the text !

“ that’s not an accurate portrayal of the meaning of the text ”

the text is not an accurate portrayal of the text !

what am i doing giving advice

to who and why  ?

“ you seem to understand women ”

i read mills and boon type books as a child

neanderthals could  speak  and  distill tar  !

a fo-hsing quote

even if you attain realization of the emptiness of persons and things, this does not measure up to the way of zen

even if you embody complete function and complete perception, this is still not the essential wonder of zen

you must break through the impassable barrier and get to know the opening beyond

my restatement

depressed people see life as empty, this is not a true understanding

when your life smarts improve, this is still not true understanding

to go to infinity through the visionary is true understanding

depressed people see life as empty, this is not a true understanding

when your life smarts improve, this is still not true understanding

to go to infinity through the visionary is true understanding

“ rofl ”

madman rolls about the floor insanely thinking himself a wit ?

i quote an extract of a reply by ewk and make a comment

“ Troll claims other people don’t have experiences ”

so when you read  miaozong  its obvious she had a dai kensho experience and you are doing a 180 degree turn and have decided you have had one ?

like paul of tarsus, you are off to missionize the world ?

where you go wrong is having no real life experience and consequently end up with a bizarre projection you feverishly missionize as though that means something !

ewk, where you go wrong is having no real life zen experience and consequently end up with a bizarre projection you feverishly missionize as though that means something !

where you go wrong is having no real life zen experience and consequently end up with a bizarre projection you feverishly missionize as though that means something !

web message boards are disproportionately representative of the mentally ill, drug users and the alcohol and drug damaged

yeah you are a good buddhist  !  only the disease free need apply !

“ In consequence of that and on this occasion the Blessed One, after having delivered a religious discourse, thus addressed the Bhikkhus : Let no one, O Bhikkhus, who is affected with the five diseases, receive the pabbaggâ ordination.  He who confers the pabbaggâ ordination (on such a person), is guilty of a dukkata offence ”

hmm even  excludes epilepsy

“ At that time these five diseases prevailed among the people of Magadha  —  leprosy, boils, dry leprosy, consumption, and fits ”

if buddha had leprosy, i’d believe in him !

if buddha had leprosy, i’d believe in him

why don’t the heroes and heroines in disney movies have skin diseases, or at least a little acne ?

oratory versus reasoned argument on r|zen

it really opened my eyes to read DevinD420’s  history ,  he has consistently used the old testament prophets for content in a large number of his posts, perhaps retranslated a bit, but it really struck me that there was a prophetic oratory style, over definite, extravagant, minimalist input from others  (but from  “ god ”  of course)  and how well that matched the standard debating technique on r|zen, some blustering nonsense countered by more blustering prophetic type statements, not so much predicting the future but attempting to establish something as so by virtue of declamatory volume !

your question is not meaningful because you can’t separate  “ knowledge and experience ”  from personal identity, babies have personality !

i think morality is the tricky one, one has a personal morality that derives from experience and knowledge and rejects socially superficial morality !

any morality is an objectivity about one’s own behavior !

i think where women go wrong in zen is they take on a male paradigm that doesn’t fit being a woman !

buying and maintaining a used car is teaches you about competence in the real world

even experts make mistakes, but neophytes project !

buying and maintaining a used car is teaching you about competence in the real world

even experts make mistakes, but neophytes project !

buying and maintaining a car is teaching you about competence in the real world

even experts make mistakes, but neophytes project !

ewk claiming knowledge all the while repeating scriptures

thinks he is a scholar and zen master but has no knowledge of his own

these frauds are endless but all the same he is extreme

you have to get things from a number from different points of view

you are claiming a disconnect is a connect ?

you claim a disconnect is a connect ?

you are claiming a disconnect is a connect

you claim a disconnect is a connect

all our thoughts go meaningless into the night

a million trillon zillion beings from the beginning of this universe to the end and beginning of all universes and branes ever are but a speck and mote in the eye of an enlightened man !

a monk travelled across china to visit the  “ famous ”  joshu but on arrival was shocked by joshu’s appearance and the run-down nature of the  “ temple ”  and complained how nondescript and poor he looked !

joshu asked him for $50 !

enlightenment experiences take you to a different space with knowledge that could not possibly have come from anywhere except infinity !

until they happen and you have the background knowledge not to discount them then you won’t believe they can occur !

without this being  “ with infinity ”  the whole thing is nonsensical ,  just boring drivel !

enlightenment experiences take you to a different space with knowledge that could not possibly have come from anywhere except infinity !

until they happen and you have the background knowledge not to discount them then you won’t believe they can occur !

without this being  “ with infinity ”  the whole thing is nonsensical ,  just boring drivel !

jason  writes

the  stone houses  in portugal are freezing, in the winter you basically sit around the fire and don’t go too far from there

we’d stay in my grandmother’s house, who now has alzheimer’s, it was a step up from those stone houses but still cold   .   .  we made it through with the fire in the kitchen and electric blankets

after last winter in that massachusetts barn, i’m ready for the cold

i think ambient music asks something that music can’t deliver,   this  is more what it can !

ignore the crazy video pastiche, however i liked the sound quality !

homonin footprints made 5.7 million years ago found in trachilos, western crete

I    II

i can’t say it put me to sleep, i kept thinking how bad  it was  !

just a type of noise really, typical of this ambient stuff !

the sun

sparkling on the sea

has no room for the men labouring on it’s shores

hush

and listen to the clear stream

flowing over mossy banks

you only get at the most one person in a generation understanding so if you read zen or mysticism within a generation you are wasting your time, you have to learn to discern across the generations !