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 tao


te


ching

a


quantum


computer


:


o


)
















masturbation


and


web

pornography


a


road


of


carnality


that


goes


in


the


wrong


direction !
















if


you


see


too


much


you


don't


really


want


to


do


anything


:


o


(


)
















the


world


is


just


an


unending


nightmare


of

other


people's


problems


:


o


(


)


(
















the


theories


we


have


about


the


way


something


happens


distort


the


way


we


see


it

happen !
















jill taylor actually has asperger's syndrome and her brother is probably autistic rather than schizophrenic, a common diagnostic mistake !


in fact aspergers used to be called schizophrenia


males are much more damaged for any given amount of autism/aspergers syndrome than females


as


you


all


   know !
















jill


taylor


has


asperger's


syndrome


and


her

brother


was


probably


autistic


and


not


schizophrenic !
















in


the


end


writing


is


just


work !


:


o


)


(


)


(


)

















jill


taylor


is


interesting


but


it's


buddhism


and


NOT


zen !


she


believes


the


world


can


be


a better


place


ie.


schizophrenia


in


the

wrong


way !


i


doubt


you

will


understand


this !
















a


good


monty


python

video !
















if


i


had


to


characterise


the


hardcore


zen


blog


i


would


say


it


was


a group


of


people


who


represent


themselves


as


knowing


what


they


are


on


about


when


they


don't


blow

hard


bullshitters


in


other


words


and


one


has


to


make


a


choice


not


to


be


involved


with


such

or


become


like


them


and


that


means


no


longer


reading


the


blog !
















when


i


look


at


zen


or


“ neo-zen ”


teachers


it


all


has


been


incredibly


destructive


to


them


they


are


not


stone


monkeys !


am


i


a


stone


monkey ?


yes


and


no !
















“It's really pleasing to listen to one who has discovered a new depth of humility and wonder that has transformed how  she  engages with her life and work.”


at least four “super trite” clichés in one sentence !


you win the day's most clichéd anonymous poster award !


congratulations, you face stiff competition !


    you have been entered for the world's major hypocrite competition !


i


sometimes

wonder


which


institution


you


post


from


i


sometimes


wonder


what


insititution


i


post


from


;


o


)


don't


post


and


wonder

no


more !


don't


read


and


have


no


cause


to


wonder


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


:


o


)
















the


 proud


are


such


experts


on


the


humble !
















the


proud


are


such


experts


on


the


humble !
















building


little


towers


of


buddhism


sinking


blow


the


plain


:


o


)
















i

think


gullibility


is


giving


the


benefit


of


the

doubt


on


balance


we


all


do


this


with


different


people


and

siuations


and


is

not

necessarily

a


harmful


trait


except


being


conned


and


the

loss


of


resources


and


time


this


entails !


it's


funny


you


can


be


gullible


but


still


have


good


discernment


:


o


)
















you


lot


are


only


half


smart


hence


safe !
















half


the


fun


is


working


it


out


yourself


:


o


)
















right


at


the


 very 


beginning


is


reality


rational


or


irrational  ?


it's


irrational


if


you


think


it's


irrational


you


can


side


with


schopenhauer


heraclitis


me


and


zen


if


you


think


it's


rational


you


can


side


with


any


religion


or


normative


human


reality !
















actually


everything


is


nonsense


except


for


seeing


for


oneself !
















mysterion, zen is not buddhism !


it's heavily fused with taoism


and actually


poetry


that


seeing


for


oneself and not relying on bullshit


buddha


stories


or


faith !


i


don't


know


why


you


think


these


buddha


stories


are


any


more


reliable


or


accurate


than


christian


ones !


it's


just


swapping


one


set

of


nonsense


for


another !


all


the


sutras


chants


precepts


vows


and


everything


they


are


pretty


well


nonsense !
















chanting


is


the

same


as


pictures


they


draw

a


false


reality !


not


quite

a

s


clever


as


voynich


but


close !


well

a


very



few


chants


like


the


zen


“ identity


of


absolute


and


relative ”


are

a

s


clever

a

s


voynich


not


to


mention


the


tao


te


ching !
















chanting


is


the

same


as


pictures


they


draw

a


false


reality !

















it


wasn't


until


my


late


teens/ early


twenties


that


i


realized


portraits


of


jesus


were


not


actually


historically


derived


likenesses


but


fictions !


the

painters


idea


of


what


he


would


have


looked


like !
















i

just


got


confused


you


have


to


make


that


extra


effort


to


“ unstraighten ”


the


confusion !


maybe


confusion


is


just


making


something

a


bit


“ straighter ”


or


simpler


than


it


is


:

o

)
















“realization”  is just crap, it's trying to make


sense


of


what


cannot


be


made


sense


of !
















the faith mind  sutra  is likely a cut down form of  this


what i find with these things is they are “cut and paste”, documents put together to “sell” certain viewpoints imbued with the tiniest amount of sense to give the appearence that it's not nonsense


from my own experience i have found the the xinxin ming or faith mind sutra to be particularly destructive and it has been a big stepforward for me to work out there is no  WAY ,  i.e. it's just crap !


i don't object to the following lines from the more  original  or fraternal   “ mind inscription ”


“ there is no end to coming and going, and no matter how much one seeks, one will never realize it!


when everything is inactive, then the bright stillness will manifest by itself


before one it will be like emptiness, and thereby one will know how to dispose of confused doctrines ”


some


of


the


old


documents


especially


the


platform

sutra


are


really


quite


anti


what


is


currently


regarded


as


zen !
















soft troll  writes


“ the three jewels are vows, expressions of commitment, not doctrinaire expressions of truth ”


you mean sedatives to stop people thinking ?
















soft troll  writes


“ the three jewels are vows, expressions of commitment, not doctrinaire expressions of truth ”



you mean sedatives to stop people thinking ?
















i


think


you


are


just

trying


to


join


dots


that


are


not


there !
















a


vision


unity


of

the


constructed


and

unconstructed !   (5:05)



this vision homily has a time position link on the video which is quite important to understanding the homily


when i was looking at that video at just a bit later than that time  (5:15 when she enters into the stairwell)  it suddenly occured to me that carroll's writing was in a fact a vision, but the corridor with the curtains is also very important to understanding the sense of the homily !


this 1966 alice, directed by jonathon miller is unusual but very well done with only people and no animals

peter cook, peter sellers etc

amazing selection

you can really see lewis carroll was just using autistic spectrum people he knew

















you


are


saying


there


is


an


“ i ”


in


eternity


well


there


is


an


eye


but


it's


that


eye


and


not


this


i
















if


people


live


happy


healthy


lives

with


no


substantial


developmental


injuries


they


breed

and


live


and


die


like


dust !
















if


people


live


happy


healthy


lives

with


no


substantial


developmental


injuries


they


breed

and


live


and


decay


and


die


like


dust !
















“i take refuge in the eternal”


doesn't


the


eternal


say


there


is


no  “ i ”?


who


is


taking


refuge


in


what ?


usual


voynich,


congratulations !


leave that illusion alone and you will see how brutal the whole business is !


get real for once !
















ideally


sleep


is


deep


and


long !


:


o


)
















christianity


needs


to


adjust


to


the

lack


of


an


historical


jesus


in


terms


of


god


it's


not


important !
















once


you

understand

about


women


and


sex


you


will


see


how


impossible


a


nun's

life


is


unless


they


are


cfs/ill


in


some


way


such

a

s


catherine


of


siena


or


teresa of ávila


historically there have been some very lesbian convents


and


oddly


a sort of high class prostitution for the nobility


is

characteristic


of


some medieval and later and perhaps earlier convents
















is


our


notion


of


god


or


buddha


or


whatever


defined


by


our


avoidance


of


death ?
















is


our


notion


of


god


defined


by


our


avoidance


of


death ?
















with


sleep


the


depth


is


more


important


than


how


long !
















of


necessity


the majority


is


always


wrong


why


is


this


so ?
















i


am


just


going


to


cry


and


weep


and


cry


again !
















humans


are


mad


an


endless


antlike


existance


in


repeating


cycles !
















a


more


autistic


and


altogether


not


so


silly


alice !
















there's


something


about


the


care


of


strangers !


some


illusion


or


other


being


followed ?
















there's


something


about


the


care


of


strangers !
















a


really


good


film


version


of


alice


in



wonderland


it


opens


up


your


understanding


of


the


story


to


the


huge


depth


and


maturity


of


charles


dodgson's


work !


you


can


see


the


“ eccentricity ”


of


people


of


his


experience / acquaintance !
















does


it


ever


occur


to


you


that


we


spend


our


lives


living


out


paradigms


incurred


in


childhood ?
















life


has


some


common


themes


one

woman


two


men !
















what


is

this


breeding


that


we


submerge


ourselves


in


identity


of


male


and


female !
















what


is


nietzsche


groaning


saying ?


( ed. count harry kessler's 1897 account of being woken by the long, raw groaning sounds of nietzsche crying out with all his strength in the night. )


there's


no


point


to


his


work


and


he


would


have


been


better


to


pay


attention


to


his


health !
















ed yong on the bbc talking about


what is essentially  biofilm


in


another


ten


years


they


will


be


connecting

it


to


diet


sorta


sickening

in


a


way !
















being


the


seventh


zen

patriarch


what


do


i


get


out


of


it ?


nothing


except

a


pain


in


the


arse


loss


of


time !
















being

anywhere


except


where


we


are


right


now


is


a


mistake


and


even


that


is

a


mistake !


:


o


)
















mostly


zen


kills


people


younger


than


they


would


otherwise


die


that's


my


one


comment



on


it


well


two !


:


o


)
















what


is


water ?


ubiquitous


wet


discrete


who


knows?
















zen


mountain


monastery


in


mt.


tremper


the


christ


crucified


statue


over


the


front


door


the


only


bit


of


sincerity/ sanity/insanity


in


the


place !
















where


have


i


been


and


what


am


i


doing


and


why ?
















catherine


of


siena


is


better


than


dogen!


“When I had seen in how many ways a soul might drown, a voice said to me: “Behold those who cross by the bridge of Christ crucified.” I saw many of them who ran free-footed because they did not bear the weight of self-will. These were the true children who, abandoning themselves, went forward with anxious desire seeking only the honor of God and the salvation of souls. ”


you


lot

are


about


as


capable


of


abandoning


yourselves

a

s


a


snail


it's


shell !
















zen


buddha


god


jesus


infinity


all


higg's


bosons


;


o


)
















until


you


see


dogen

a

s


a peer


and


not


a


foundation


you


won't


understand !


you


will


end


up


with


silliness


like


harry


who


won't


permit


my


posts


because


he


is


so


clearly


outclassed !
















until


you


see


dogen

a

s


a peer


and


not


a


foundation


you


won't


understand !
















anything


to


do


with


the


church


is


living


crucifixion


ask


john


of


the


cross


francis


of


assisi


and


catherine


of


siena !
















there


is


this


information


divide


people


who


use

the


net


are


really


up


to


date


and


those


who


don't


are


not !
















what i have  learnt  is people are very uneven !


you get suckered by some savant streak but the rest or most of the rest or enough of the rest as it pertains to you is just shit !


i think the only answer if there is an answer is to have a detailed look to see the overall picture and weigh up the savancies against the shit, basically to ask “what do i get out of it” and discard if the equation is negative as it just about always is !
















catherine


of


siena

to a man about to be  executed


“ you


do


not


die


we


all

die


and


you


are


about


to


live ! ”
















a



really


good


pic


of


catherine


of


siena


she


doesn't


look


thrilled


to


be


alive


it was painted 10? years after her death


but


andrea


vanni


had known her for many years so the painting is likely a good representation of her in later life !


i think


she


may


have


suffered from


staph


like


john


of


the


cross


( in


her


case


voyniched


into


stigmata )


but seeing how the


nuns


habits


cover


all


the


skin


i


wonder


if


she


became


vitamin D


deficient


poor


woman


mad


but


brilliant !
















facial  reconstruction


of a 7500 year ago 15 year old norwegian boy


looks


pretty


modern


to


me !
















a new concept  -  estrobolome 


basically gut bacteria that release enzymes that can digest estrogen !


a lot of autistic spectrum women seem to have lower estrogen levels or lose sufficient levels early in life and this may be due a malign biofilm with unbalanced preponderance of estrogen digesting bacteria


rather fascinating !


the compendium with estradiol HRT is an all time major advance for women's health, but of course, this is what some prefer to go  through !
















infinity

is


solitude !
















sometimes


you


worry


about


where


you


have


to


be


or


should


be


but


you


just


wait,


and


keep

working


through


things


and


it


clears


of


it's


own


accord
















sometimes


you


worry


about


where


you


have


to


be


or


should


be


but


you


just


wait,


and


keep

working


through


things


and


it


clears


of


it's


own


accord !
















sanity


is


a


construct


insanity


is


native

















sanity


is


a


construct


insanity


is


real

















i


could


just


lie


down


and


die


and


go


to


death


:


o


)

















having


to


unspin


what


spins


up


:


o


(

















from


a


conductors


point


of


view


an


orchestra


is

out


of


control !


you


can


only


do


the


best


you

can


do


which


is


let


it

self -

organise !
















for those who want to be enlightened it's this simple, i can tell you but you still won't get it and spend your lives in rubbishy denial !


why


is


it


so


hard


i


don't


know !




reluctant to take on basic truths



being broken enables the light



zen constructs fake seeming

















all


you


zen


guys


you


do


not


understand


you


have


constructed


some


fake


seeming


state

a

s


infinity !


or


living


in


a


ghost


cave

as


the


ancients


put


it !
















when

you


look


at

historical


stuff


after

a

while


your


sense


of


time


changes


and


these


people


like


dogen,


eckhart


wang wei


heraclitis


and


sappho


don't


seem


so


remote


at


all


time


is


essentially


dimensionless !
















reality


ever


disappears !



(ed. reply to shinji shobogenzo koan number  94  )



the trouble is that you don't understand the basic recursion harry, that “now” is a form of memory, but i give up, like mike cross you have unique savancies but are a block of wood/concrete, best left unchipped i think


:


o


)
















i


can't


expect


to


be


right


and


not


excluded


by


people


like


harry !
















life


is


a


lifetime


cycle


we


tend

to


believe


entirely


what

we


are


at


any


given


stage !
















life


is


a


lifetime


cycle


we


tend

to


believe


entirely


what

we


are


at


any


stage !
















we


all


have


specific


abilities


and


should


specialize


but


life


seems


to


call


the


generalities


in !
















it


is


surprising


what

we


think


might


be


wrong


can


be


right !
















i


wish


i


wasn't


such


a

chronic


volunteerer


and


was


prepared


to


live


more


narrowly


which


isn't


necessarily


more


narrow !
















all


this


writing


i


am


just


going


to


sit


down


and


cry


and


cry


'


'

''
















eckhart


tolle


is


a

chronic


plagiarist


you


can


see


it


in


the


name !


meister


eckhart


indeed !


he


is


not


of


“ the


eye


that


sees


god


is


the


same


eye


that


sees


me ”


stamp !


he


never


appears


on


truely


open


forums


where


criticism


is


possible


you


notice !


quite


hypnotic


tho!


but


a


neo-


advaita


upstart


on


the


make


like


them


all !
















eckhart


tolle


is


a

chronic


plagiarist


you


can


see


it


in


the


name !


meister


eckhart


indeed !

















it's


simpler


to


leave


something


if


you


have


to


stay


and


try


to


untangle


it


it


gets


very


messy


but


i


suppose


that


is


life


as


it


is

being


lived !
















years


ago


traveling


around


zen


centers


on


the


east

coast


of


the


u.s.a.


i


was impressed


by


the


health


problems


and


the

kwan um


zen


school


which


was


the


most


vegetarian


had


the


severest !
















“ i've been trying to get you to see the light on e-books, brad. ”


you have to write alot to make money on e-books, lots of new titles coming out every year like the “paranormal romance” writers do!


there's very little margin on ebooks and amazon and the like take 30% !


imoo if you are not eckhart tolle it's too difficult to make any sort of money teaching zen or that sort of thing and it's better to earn money in other ways


zen's


days


in


the


sun


have


passed !
















the


internet


is


henry


ford


taken


to


an


extreme !


:


o


)
















women


want


to


ride


the


rhinocerous !


(ed. a rhinocerous is a difficult thick skinned animal !)
















no one


wants


to


see


the


basic


truth


of


buddhism


and


christianity


it's


the


cracks


in


the


broken


that


the


light


comes


through !


not


some


vision


or


performance


of


human


completeness !
















what


happens


is

that


people


are


so


reluctant


to


see/ accept


the


basic


truths


the


main


one


being


it


takes


damage


to


see


infinity


larry


eigner !
















very


anti -


intellectual


the


americans


i


think


they


need


to


be


because


they


are

a

bit


short


on


intelligence !
















it


is


necessary


to


bleed


enough


to


be


helpful



but



not



to



death

















anything


i


do


is


a


circus


:


o


)


(


am


i


going


through

the


motions


of


effective


problem


solving


performing


as


it


were


rather


than


the


reality   ·
















it


is


not


necessary


to


bleed


to


death


to


live


however


bleeding


may


be


necessary !
















it


is


not


necessary


to


bleed


to


death !
















hated


by


the


10


buddhas


loathed


by


the


100


demons


:


o


)


(
















hated by


the


 100  hundred


buddhas


loathed


by


the


 10  thousand


demons


:


o


)


(
















brad, i would say the urethra and bladder were traumatized by that inital catheter and camera insertion in california and opened the path to the severe infection that the fever and spinal fluid tap revealed!


then the trip to europe several days after the catheter op (which had problems) exposed you to three or four days of severe immune dysfunction that is part of jet lag and disrupted circadian rhythm with plenty of viral exposure from the enclosed space in the plane and your zen talks !!


you americans are way too causal about these tests which can have very negative consequences, like some CT scans have radiation doses in the order of 1/10th to 1/20th of what people in hiroshima were exposed too!


i have seen people permanently affected by travel vaccines as well, getting them all done at once is a disaster !


the trip to europe exposed you to three or four days of severe immune system dysfunction that is part of jet lag and disrupted circadian rhythm!


so i would say it was a combination of the operation which had problems immediately followed the plane trip/ jet lag


if this logic is right you should find you get better quite rapidly as the body clock adjusts in europe and also be aware of that vulnerability when you fly back to california!


it's really quite interesting what the new research is showing on disrupted circadian rhythm like if you do alot of shift work when you are 17 to 20 you have twice the chance of developing MS


the body is full of phased and synchronised biological clocks governing every function and organ, jet lag and rotating shifts drop a crow bar in the works ! since you seem to be low thyroid a drop of iodine tincture in the mouth might be help !
















“ it's (ed. zen buddhism) often constructed to be a sort of stripped down, impoverished anti-intellectualism ”


you are so right about that, i think you have to not live in america to see it, american culture is extraordinarily anti-intellectual and a lot of what is called zen in america is in fact their own cultural biases against intellectualism which as you say is not necessarily wrong (ed. intellectualism!) but simply done erroneously for the most part !
















too much for you? (ed. this post was rejected !) i am going to offer you some serious health advice, young as you are comparatively you could benefit from the “real” hrt with estradiol, the estalis sequi hrt patches which should give the growth factors for recovery, accept no substitutes, the doctors will try to put you off onto something with estriol rather than estradiol because of the increased cancer risk !


you may be short of estrogen receptors in the brain!


regarding the cancer risk of course, one can't provide any extrapolation except say that a drop of iodine tincture onto the inside lip occasionally will help with the thyroid issues and keep the breast and uterine risk down for the HRT and new analyses of the famous nurses cohort hrt study relates a lot of the risk to starting hrt over about 55 when the background of mutated cells is already quite high


you are the nearest thing to a genius i have seen and it has been dismaying to watch your health decline, but i find there's hope if you give something adequate attention, i don't know wether you know minna mettinen-kekalainen but she made the same mistake, looked for succourance to “community”, the conventional medical model and not well thought out dietary and exercise approaches but it backfires as it must because that view is based on a mistaken communal view of reality, ourselves as sole and arbitrary universes is how things are and we need to think outside the box and help ourselves !


i am sure you will ignore this and consign this expenditure of futile effort on my part trying to assist you to the “too hard pile” or box or outright antagonism, but you can't consign the way reality works to any such place, it's not friendly to spectrum taking refuge in “normal” approaches !


your high grain diet, especially wheat is killing you too !


i don't know why i do this, but then, i don't know why i am alive, nothing i have ever done adds up and neither will this !


it's better to write and have it ignored than leave it undone i think !


and


after


all


it's


only


useful


advice !



some people write to bleed to death, i wonder why i do that?
















the


taliban


are


sorta


like


an


enemy


that


needn't


have


become


an


enemy !


the


last


flares


of


an


archaic


culture


is


all


it


is


about !


it's


dying

song !
















how


many


lives


and


interests


is

it


all


just


meaningless ?
















there's


no-one


just


   nuts !


:


o


(


)
















there's


no-one


just


nuts !


:


o


(


)
















to


be


a


hairdresser


you


need


a


good


immune


system !


there


is


alot


of


“ breath


to


breath ”


mutual


contact !


some


hairdressers


and


barbers


are


noticably


virally


contagious


i


avoid


them !
















yeah i was brought up in a very remote area until about 7 , then packed off to boarding school!


i don't think that feeling for the sufficiency of remoteness ever leaves you if you are lucky enough to have been brought up like that !


can i just mention that looking at where you have lived that there is a lot of new research showing that vitamin d and good sun like you would have had in your earlier life is essential for health and oddly keeping weight down !


ed. the above is a reply  to
















i


don't


think


death


is


particularly


grand


they


are


just


no


longer


there


and


remain


longer


in


memory


anyway !


maybe that's


what


life


is


the


formation


of


memory


and


when


it


stops


we


notice and


that's


called


death ?


memories


can


continue


to


be

formed


but


there's


a

sort


of


stasis


through


lack


of


new


input


except


very


occasionally !
















the


whole

problem


with


unskilled


labour


is


you


are


being


replaced


by


machines


and


it's


an


increasing


and


not


declining


trend !
















the


modern


audience


escaped


the


vast


amount


of


quality


classics


the


only


way


it


could


the


downsizing


of


musical


intelligence !
















it's


sorta


sad


benny


goodman


loved


peggy


lee


but


she


never


liked


him


that


way


and

he


never


had


her !
















cancer


is


a


systemic


disorder


of


cells


that


occurs


well


before


the


tumour


i


think


you


can


feel


that


disorder !
















zen's


dead


it


may be


a


reason


the


6th


patriarch


gave


me


transmission


to


bring


back


some


life


to


it !
















you


can


tell


the

psychologists


and


pyschiatrists


who


work


with


“ clients ”


because


they


have


that


disease


of


overconfidence


which


comes


from


imposing


their


own


opinions


too


much !
















peggy


lee


shines !


:


o


)
















i


have


to


say


women


don't


make


good


moderators


of


message


boards


too


concerned


with


something


i


don't


know


what


:


o


)


(
















peggy


lee


the


link


between


diabetes


and


autism !
















i


can


tell


you


something


about


research


you

don't


form


pre-


judgements


about


the


source


of


information


richard


feynman


derived


his


most


important


work


from

a


tossed

spinning


plate


in


a


cafeteria !   (3:38)


einstein


just


lay


down


thinking !


what


do


you


do ?