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 !
“ when you look at me, what do you see ”
ed. an imagined conversion between the interviewer and jaques derrida
in the video
just previous ! : o )( : o()
“ i see an attractive young woman with with reproductive heft and the burden of brains configured to support that : o () ”
“ each time that i am writing something and it feels like i am advancing into new territory.... ”
can't say i am ever bothered, tho i have one death threat or maybe two and several pro-chelation parents who would have liked to see me locked up : o)
telling people what they don't like to hear in an unrefutable way is dangerous tho : o )(
messengers telling generals and kings of defeats have been executed :o(
of course that sort of attitude is why they lost : o(
nice
photos of the coast west of auckland taken by tim
gordon
sepehr g. asks
What books by Toni Packer do you recommend, and is Kusan Sunim's The Way of Korean Zen good?
my reply
“ the work of this moment ” by toni packer i found very useful and i liked “ the way of korean zen ” (translated by martine batchelor)
hmm, I see
you have had a holiday,
holbox island no less : o)
you have experienced too much freedom, have fun being ripped apart by what is a phony Japanese nationalist construct :o)
be a bit honest with yourself, you are playing..............
you, your wife and the san francisco zen center are on a collision course and who is going to come off worse?
kogen replies !
30 blows if you do. 30 blows if you don't. Who holds the kyosakyu?
my reply !
you are a writer and have spent time as a hermit in Alaska ! surely you know the difference between some trite zen cliché and the real contact of infinities originality ! shame on you ! :o(
30 blows if you do, 300,000 blows if you don't.....!
a schizophrenic psychotic holds the kyosakyu and can be surprisingly persistent :o)
I think the diet at green gulch is fucking your brain, vegetarian diets in the monastic setting have their origins in the need to reduce the sex drive of monks and are not suitable for married couples, being low in
zinc
for a start !
also organic farms that use kelp as a fertiliser can end up with arsenic in the soil !
it occurred to me that both you and your wife have a drinking problem and the attraction of green gulch is it doesn't permit alcohol.................
people who need to drink like that can need chromium.............. they are self medicating anyway, the diet at green gulch with sorta salad and wheat flour approach is going to be contrary to your real nutritional
needs
the Philips broadband uvb lamps we
use have hardly any uva comparatively, one of the reasons I chose them : o)
I think these lamps are basically hormetic (possibly including hormesis for melanoma !) except for being potentially inductive of keratosis and basal and squamous cell carcinomas on already sun damaged skin
“ Mechanism by which UVA contributes to
photoaging of skin ”
usual,
patent the air, but informative !
I don't think their vitamin D generation rates are any higher than my Philips broadband UVB lamp, they are doing it the expensive way, but maybe suitable for mass production ?
patenting the air goes like this :
if you think a claim for generating vitamin D in mushrooms with a xenon strobe is an outrageous abuse of the patent process try this !
since air transmits uv and sunlight has uv and mushrooms in sunlight make some degree of vitamin D, then we claim any use of air (inside and outside) to transmit uv (includes all uv, visible and infra red sprectra !) as our patent ! : o)
harry writes
“ I am not too precious about zazen as some perfect reified 'state', but I do find myself noticing and waking up from snoozing and dull mind-states (as described) from time to time, which I think is an important part of doing zazen ”
my
reply
actually
i
think
one
of
the
few
positive benefits of zazen (as opposed to its contraries of creating potentially dangerous impaired/thrombotic circulation restrictions in the legs, joint damage to the knees and hips and disruption of the circadian rhythm)
is you learn
to wake up again as the head drops/nods off which is very useful for driving when you are tired
when i lived in auckland (ed. new zealand!) and drove out to the west coast beaches i was always nodding off at the wheel when coming back in the dark and it was very dangerous but my weekly zen sitting with the auckland zen society at the leys institute had made me very aware of this nodding off and snapping back so it think that may have helped reduce the possibility of falling asleep at the wheel for any longer than a second !
(years before as a teenager i had abad accident possibly nodding off at the wheel and there may have been alcohol in a punch at dance i had just been to and i certainly wasn't used to it !)
now if i think there's any danger off nodding of like that i just pull over, tip the seat back and snooze for a while ! :o()
oddly dogen is a complete paradigm for zen, not just because he was good at writing volumes of meaningless nonsense that you can pretend means something useful, but his health was a disaster and you can see several instances in his life where he completely missed the boat health wise (sundried mushrooms contain vitamin D !) and i am sure that zazen contributed to his early demise (from TB !)
brad warner and the hardcore zen blog, retirees with stuffed health, damaged brains and a contrary sense of what zen is about
the hardcore zen blog commenters, second and third and sixth rate musicians with the most ghastly tin ears and godawful sense of music
the hardcore zen blog, second rate musicians with the most ghastly tin ears
famous last words
where did my life go wrong that i died in company ?
famous last words
where did my life go wrong that i die in company ?
where did my life go wrong that i die in company ?
“ Body and
mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.
If you want to attain suchness, you should practice suchness without delay ”
body is an image of mind, what is mind an image of : o)
when you see the absence of image, you won't be fooled by crap
such as “suchness” : o)
“ Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.
If you want to attain suchness, you should practice suchness without delay ”
body is an image of mind, what is mind an image of : o)
mistakes make you think more carefully about what you are doing !?
mistakes make you think more carefully about what you are doing !
mistakes make you think more carefully about what you are doing
who are you, who am i, who is the sky ?
who are you, who am i, who is the sky
lol, not
hate mail and i am not a fan of chiropractry
but you do yourself a disservice by not taking a more balanced view of vaccination, when you know people and children who have been unequivocally damaged by vaccines one's views change !
vaccines are complex in effect and potentially extremely beneficial in most, but not all cases, hardly a radical viewpoint is it, but you article comes across as naive ! : o(
did you notice the problem with the recent vaccine given to children having to be withdrawn because of adverse reactions ?
the AMA had to publically
criticize doctors who continued to use that vaccine !
the usa has a compensation system for vaccine damage and currently pays hundreds of millions of dollars a year out for it, very quietly tho and always with the condition of no publicity !
the newspapers are failing, not simply because of competition with the internet, but the very poor quality of writing and investigation that unfortunately your article is typical of !
it's a complex world and modern medicine with its advantages and disadvantages needs paring for the best and even adequate results and avoiding big potholes, our sliced bread mentality, so unfortunately amplified by journalists the wrong way, needs remedying : o()
fred, the sort of shit you write, i suppose it's better than being a serial killer ?
or
is
fred, the sort of shit you write, i suppose it's better than beinga serial killer ?
or
is
fred, the sort of shit you write, i suppose it's better than being a serial killer ?
or
is
fred, the sort of shit you write, i suppose it's better than beinga serial killer ?
or
is
I think Andrew’s thoughts have been unduly influenced by language, myself.
my reply
pure voynich mark, your father should have flushed his sperm down the toilet ! : o)
the proof of the pudding is you zen farts are brave enough on censored forums where the owner or moderators rush to protect you from anything real, mice may make claims to be lions, but hiding in a mousehole rather points to the opposite
doesn't it :o)(
mark foote writes
I think Andrew’s thoughts have been unduly influenced by language, myself.
my reply
mark, your father should have flushed his sperm down the toilet ! : o)
the proof of the pudding is you zen farts are brave enough on censored forums where the owner or moderators rush to protect you from anything real, mice may make claims to be lions, but hiding in a mousehole rather points to the opposite doesn't it :o)(
semonidies describes how women are fashioned from eight animals - sow, vixen, bitch, ass, ferret or weasel, mare, monkey and bee !
lol, go semonidies : o ) (
hmm this is from the 7th century BCE,
misogyny has been around a long time :o)
soto zen tries to get around the never ending open ended complexity of life
(especially modern life with all it's technological marvels : o () ! by focusing almost exclusively on personal recursion through it's meditative sitting practice
but the flip side of that recursion is the over development and embellishment of our unwanted and lacking life balance characteristics and interests...............
bard warner and the hardcore zen blog and its commenters are good example of this.............
brad, sitting may have given you the opening you had on the sengawa river bridge, but it also locked you into a life futility of inept music, acting and personal relationships.......... too much you and notenough the world i am afraid :o(
doesn't it bother you your life has become a useful scource of homiles for me in a very negative way ?
but of course you never read what puts your nose out of joint, let alone reply : o(
bussing the restaurant tables in august at tassajara is not a retreat i am afraid, just a poorly paid and fed working holiday :o(
for god's sake have some pride ! :o( !
much as i criticise you, your understanding is better than most and certainly better than what passes for zen at the san francisco zen center, they should treat you better ! : o ( )
soto zen tries to get around the never ending open ended complexity of life
(especially modern life with all it's techological marvels : o () ! by focusing almost exclusively on personal recursion through it's meditative sitting practice
but the flip side of that recursion is the over development and embellishment of our unwanted and lacking life balance characteristics and interests...............
bard warner and the hardcore zen blog and its commenters are good example of this.............
Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller
different and similar, miller had the intellectual
edge tho :o)
oh my god, no wonder dylan thomas had bronchial
problems
he and his family lived for nine months in ahouse made of asbestos and wood
“ a shack at the edge of the cliff, where my children hop like fleas in a box ”
he
lived where the views and seas were tho, but you have to be so careful, what is gorgeous can also be toxic :o)
interestingly dylan and caitlin
stayed a short while in april 1938 at castle house in laugharne with richard hughes, the outstanding author of “ fox in the attic ” !
his daughter
areonwy has somewhat his cast of mind, intelligent anyway :o)
caitlin and colm
autistically visual ! : o )(
“ Low in the East now lighting gorgeously
He saw the last sea-serpent iris-mailed
Which, with a spear transfixèd, yet availed
To pluck the sun down into the dead sea. ”
the poems and homilies come fully formed into my mind, I almost never alter them
most of the trouble comes when I can't remember them properly usually because I don't write them down quick enough
somethings I sorta look at and think are they true and try and test them with examples and if they are not then I usually drop them
I can't even really conceive of making up a poem from scratch : o )
in a way this is quite
funny , sorta reminds me of myself, the way i do things
in a way this is quite
funny , sorta reminds me of myself, the way i do things
“ if someone shoots you in the foot, don’t pick up the bow and shoot yourself in the foot again ”
my
comment
what is meant, if some-one injures you, don't compound the injury : o ( )
“ if someone shoots you in the foot, don’t pick up the bow and shoot yourself in the foot again ”
my
comment
what is meant, if some-one injures you, don't compound the injury : o ( )
“ Now, as if quoting myself wasn't pretentious enough ”
you are writing, your own words and it's original, that's so much more than any zen hack :o)
see this space of creativity is really what zen is about, it's infinity and when you write what comes through, you don't know where it comes from, but infinity/Buddha wants to express itself :o)
reading good poetry you will start to write yourself and it's just important to do it and not worry about what people think :o)
it's funny how we have come to worship literalism, but this
piece really wants rearranging and doing on a synthesiser
the pianos now differ hugely from beethovens day which were far more harpsicord-like and the audience had a different hearing expectation........
so the renditions can never be literal anyway, far better to go for the feeling that beethoven was looking for :o)(
valentina
lisitsa's version does improve on a second listening and she's certainly dexterous :o)
she's a cossack, they were a rough tough lot and i think the women had to be quite masculine to survive
probably abit of jewish there as well : o) !
“
evaluation of antimicrobial activities of commercial herb and spice extracts against selected food-borne bacteria ”
celery, cloves, oregano, rosemary and sage appear to offer the strongest anti-microbial action by quite a wide margin over the rest !
this must be the modern trend, a highly opinionated, factuously erroneous
article !
with the wonders of the web you would think the reviewer (mark o'connell) could have spent a couple of hours researching the highly, but subtlely political jorge luis borges !
the reviewer has talent and an interesting view point, but needs to do more researching to give a more interesting, balanced , sympathetic and objective view !
i'm going to live to one hundred and on my 100th birthday i am going to drop dead having previously been in perfect health : o)
god
we
fool
ourselves
don't
we
:
o
)
i'm going to live to one hundred and on my 100th birthday i am going to drop dead having previously been in perfect health : o)
god
we
fool
ourselves
don't
i'm going to live to one hundred and on my 100th birthday i am going to drop dead having previously been in perfect health : o)
god
we
fool
ourselves
don't
what you never
see ................
landfill harmonic - musical
instruments made out of rubbish ! : o)
actually kogen , i think doing hard physical work/manual labour for something that doesn't further your own interests is one of the biggest mistakes you can make (ed. working at the green gulch farm !) because it sorta guts you and crimps your future : o ( )
“ [ Later I ] stayed at the entry hall of the Husheng Monastery on Mount Damei. At that time I had an auspicious dream that ancestor Damei came up to me and gave me a branch of plum blossoms in full bloom. This image of the ancestor was worthy of great respect. The branch was one foot tall and one foot wide. Aren’t these plum blossoms as rare as an udumbara blossom? This dream was as real as being awake. I have never before told this story to anyone in China or Japan.”
ed. the above from eihei dogen's “ Shobogenzo Document of Heritage ”
my comment
more real than being awake, it was the TB you picked up in china eihei :o()
sepehr g. writes
I wish Chan temples still existed where everyone is celibate. I want to leave behind this current life-style in society, and I want to become celibate in a temple with a genuine teacher. I don't aim for enlightenment or whatever, but I just feel the corruption of this current life-style and society...
my reply
freedom today paradoxically requires a good income ! :o(
there's only so much creative energy in a life !?
right ?
it's not unbounded in all directions............!
for most people it's their children, i'm not criticising that, but the problem of celibacy and childlessness is also the solution to finding the meaningful use of one's life,
that is the appreciation , understanding and identity of infinity : o) !
you will notice in zen that the phrase “ to lose one's descendants ” is used alot, they were looking for something in a society with ahuge social weight put on having children :o)
there's only so much creative energy in a life !?
right ?
it's not unbounded in all directions............!
for most people it's their children, i'm not criticising that, but the problem of celibacy and childlessness is also the solution to finding the meaningful use of one's life,
that is the appreciation , understanding and identity of infinity : o) !
can a computer think ? if it's
simulating a neuronal network imo it's thinking!
that simulation, while only 1% of a human brain size and 2400 times slower indicates human like thought processes within 50 years in computers imo !
let's hope it doesn't read eihei dogen : o()
“ [....] succeeded in simulating a network consisting of 1.73 billion nerve cells connected by 10.4 trillion synapses ”
i got some capsaicin in my right eye from touching it with my hand after cutting chilli's, apparently it's in an oil which is why it hard to remove, but what i do is bathe the eye in warm water to remove what capsaicin i can and just blink as much as is feasible to wash it out and the pain is gone in about 8 minutes !
will try adding salt to the water next time, milk is supposed to work as well ! : o ( )
funny thing is i have done this several times before, but i don't seem to remember : o(
dylan thomas,
killed by new york doctor milton feltenstein !
being an alcoholic and smoker didn't help of course : o (
a lamb among/st the wolves :o(
at least being an ex-catholic you should understand the strength of celibacy, john of the cross, Catherine of sienna, Teresa of avila and even mother Teresa !
you quote and snivel and fuck the face of dogen but you overlook he was celibate !
that is, he wasn't a great brain and writes a lot of confused nonsense but he did make progress and
towards the end of his tuberculosis shortened life showed a much better understanding
you lot, (dodo port, brad porner, kunt franz etc. etc.) muck around like fragmented frogs in a lsd doped pond : o)
flop ! :o)
what you call zen is a political artifact of the extreme and violent nationalism that was starting to engulf japan in the meiji era and of course terminated in the disasters of WW2 and Hiroshima
that is, zen priests were forced to marry, and to survive and feed their families became nationalist and government propagandists !
you want understanding yet you also want the continuity of life with a partner and kids despite the needs of understanding zen and the demands of a wife and children being directly contradictory !
so you wank about pretending and avoiding ............
john Moriarty, dylan thomas and james joyce understood, you and zen don't................
i'll give you one thing harry, you don't censor and remove posts like brad warner, adam tebbe, franz koun and dosho port, if they are real zen masters or whatever, why do they need to do this?
they are fakes and in fact by simply not censoring you are more real than any of them, you must be a chronic depressive to so put yourself at the service of these shits :o)
nishijima was an officer in the imperial japanese army for gods sake !
i think you would find it productive to look at the blend of depression and egoism you are, as it stands it leaves you vulnerable, you don't have enough feeling or won't allow yourself to feel and see the absolute aspect of life enough which just bleeds everywhere, you have pickedup the cardboard cereal approach of zen and use that to blank out your own observations and and feeling and seeing.............
what can i say ?............................
i'm not really saying celibacy is an answer either, but it does give the freedom for more untalented mortals like ourselves to nut things out properly, brad warner is a beautiful example of some-one who got too distracted and look at the result, a warning if there ever was one, poor fellow, dead broke, early dementia and hooked onto his one glimpse of infinity : o()
you have to face you are only ever going to have a limited understanding and could you accept this, which observation must surely tell you, then that is sufficient for it contains the true wellspring of enlightenment which is humility and that will breathe it's welcome freshness into all you do : o ) (
harry replies
catholic
celibacy
john of the cross
Catherine of sienna
Teresa of avila
mother Teresa
dogen
his tuberculosis
extreme and violent nationalism
WW2 and Hiroshima
partner and kids despite
john Moriarty
dylan Thomas
james joyce
Nishijima
Brad Warner
That abbreviated history of the world in several insults is fascinating in its own way, Andrew, but I'm afraid the urge that you give into (automaton-like) to insult with violent (including sexually violent) language devalues for the reader any valid point you *may* have.
This is quite interesting:
"i think you would find it productive to look at the of depression and egoism you are, as it stands it leaves you vulnerable, you don't have enough feeling or won't allow yourself to feel and see the absolute aspect of life enough which just bleeds everywhere, you have pickedup the cardboard cereal approach of zen and use that to blank out your own observations and and feeling and seeing............."
...But, since you are really talking about yourself here, it would be most interesting and useful if you could actually apply this to yourself rather than give into the safer and rather predictable (at this stage) thing of projecting your self/other loathing at others.
As usual, you miss, and/or avoid, the point where it is all happening and create, as Kubrick had it in Full Metal Jacket, a 'world of shit'.
Be braver than this. John Moriarty,
Dylan Thomas, and certainly James Joyce were braver in the face of their brokenness.
Regards,
Harry.
my reply
yeah you are on the right track harry, I am talking about myself, a blend of idioacy, mania, depression, schizophrenia and straight enlightenment ! : o)
the problem with that little list of yours is nishijima and porner don't fit on it, they are not even hacks , just mistaken stupids : o)
do you see how you react, unable to accept that you too are broken and have a malfunctional (in terms of what zen is about ! : o ) blend of egoism and depression ? : o )
don't we all, but married with kids? you are not free to move into more adaptive expressions of that or at least think you aren't because your family may suffer or you may lose the motivation to support them ..........
which may happen...........
having been through various mills myself I can say that the celibate and married approach has to be different because you cannot sacrifice your family and yourself in the way required to make sense of zen
you can claim otherwise but you doomed to never make any real sense of what you are trying to get involved in because you are taking a road quite different from what can yield to you :o)
how many years will it take you to flick out?
I have seen so many like you and kogen waste their lives in terms of what zen is about, it's obviously the way things should be :o)
you have replied, you have let my posts remaim up and your little list was semi-creative so tho you don't know it, you are making progress : o)
one day you mightn't be too traumatized by thinking and noticing yourself as ablend of egoism and depression : o)
kogen replies
Dear Andrew,
Zen priests didn't just start marrying in the 1870s because the government said they should; they just started to explain why there was a few women temple “helpers” and where all those young “disciples” were manifesting from.
A wife and kids is understanding. You're looking for “true” celibate monks? Look no further than to the Nisodo, where there is any number of celibate female monastics, as today it's not very popular for female monks to marry.
Without the wife and kids and work you have a practice that is a leech on society and dependent on the economy. Where is Buddhism in India? It died when war erupted and the monks weren't supported by the laity and they couldn't support themselves
Facing others is facing the self. Your approach reeks of religious zeal and belief. You should wash your face
my reply to kogen
kogen, yeah a wife and kids is understanding and more than that, a very substantial maturity not available to celibates or the childless :o(
being childless I see this immaturity in myself all the time and a good example is the time I am sinking into replying to you, to those with families it looks insane and a waste of time arguing with reprobates :o)
however if you were familiar with the history of zen , it is a tradition of “realized celibates” because it takes the energy that goes goes into maintaining a relationship and the children's welfare and puts that into understanding what it is all about !
looking at your
blog one can see a blend of understanding (hey I cook with a pressure cooker too!), but also the usual zen glass wall where you use ceremonies, the usual buddhist legends and fictitious nonsense to isolate yourself from making the realchanges necessary to progress further down this road of infinity :o)
however congratulations on replying and not slinking back to the usual hole that zen mice are so good at, out of “harms” way and any real dealing with what zen is about : o)
harry replies starting with a quote from my previous post to him !
“ do you see how you react, unable to accept that you too are broken and have a malfunctional (in terms of what zen is about ! : o ) blend of egoism and depression ? : o ) ”
Hi Andrew,
Oh, I fully accept and admit that I am damaged goods, that I have depressive tendencies (not a great failing, or a thing to 'accuse' someone off in my book really), and that I am egoistic... however, it doesn't seem to me that you have much of validity to say about 'what Zen is about', so I would query that assertion.
If you could readjust your focus away from the failings of others and on to your own considerable failings (and accomplishments, of course) I might be more inclined to open my ear to a word or two from you about Zen. As it is, you come across like just another crazy internet hater person, not some inspired Zen genius... and your violent use of language is letting you down as a poet and as a person, but surely you realise that. I wonder do you realise why you do it?
Regards,
Harry.
my reply
harry, the point of being “damaged goods” is that normative reality is more damaged since it functions by the exclusion of infinity !
it's the insane and developmentally disordered that see infinity/god/buddha best since the blinders are broken !
you are starting to see for yourself, that's all it is and the weight and feeling of infinity infuses and speaks and is the identity of seeing.........
don't proxy with half formed malcontents like nishijima, warner and dogen :o)
kogen replies
Dear Andrew,
When I decided to become a zen person the other choice was Dungeons and Dragons! I'm not kidding. I still have the Dungeons and Dragons books, they're just under the zen books. Zen master means Dungeon master to me. I take them equally as serious. The only reason I switched to zen is because I had already put in 15 years into D&D. It was time for a change. Despite my disbelief, there are actually more books about Zen and Buddhism than there is about D&D. However, I don't think one is more real than the other. One is just more fun. And I still get to wear a medieval costume.
Deep bow,
Kogen
my reply
kogen, I really enjoyed reading your blog especially your earlier entries which have something that the very latest ones lack, more your own experience and real I guess !
actually the deficiency is so pronounced I wonder if the diet at green gulch is feeding your brain properly, no doubt you are acquainted with the endemic diet and health problems in zen centers :o( !
in one of your early
posts you write about turning a young woman away from Robert livingston's temple in new orleans and it was an ambiguous experience for you, something went awry
or at least you weren't sure !
what I think the issue was , was that she had good abilities in the semantic area and it remedied a disability you struggle with, that is getting a sensible overall view of things, like me you have a certain sort of gullibility to the nonsense promoted in zen !
her words were “I get kicked out of everywhere.” and that is your paradigm and mine and is Buddha in life ! :o)
dungeons and dragons amplify this “ semantic-pragmatic ” weakness we have but alternatively reading widely with the quality thinking and literature available remedies the error, it doesn't have to be dungeons and dragons !!!
inquiry is basically solitary and not communal and i understand what you are saying about dungeons and dragons, i have the same problemwith TV, but by reading quality and not the second rate nonsense pushed in zen you can talk directly with people in the past who actually know what it is about and not be suckered by the blind mediocrities like reb anderson who are so puffed up with their self importance that they can't see they piss sugar loaded urine :o()
be careful of green gulch, being still young you don't know the value of good joints and your physical strength, that ability to labour hard physically goes soon enough and when you lose your value to these places they just spit you out !
basically there's alevel above what you have regarded as valid, one rarely sees these people on it in one own's own lifetime so you are confined to read them, but they are your peers not the maudlin twitism of conventional zen and green gluch : o) (
my reply to harry (decided not to post as abit much !) who was trying to claim some utility and sense to dogens “records”
but you never read dogen, you read some opinionated person's version of some text that may or may not bear some resemblance to what dogen actually wrote or said !
dogen has many more textual issues than appears, we see a combination of copies and text in his own hand, copies get changed by copiers as is shown by comparisons between them and the original hand and the translations give no indication of the state of the text they are working off !
in addition to textual and translation problems we have a man with severe cognitive issues slowly grafting a better understanding over many years............!!!!
his “teacher” Tiāntóng Rújìng had a much better understanding, unfortunately, most of what we know about what he said was very altered by those who recorded him, this was a complaint that dogen made !!!
dogen is really into the living dead paradigm but of course the mousey zensters write that out !!!!!
the big attraction of dogen is between his half understanding and naturally off target recursion and the translators and the copiers bowdlerization and misdirection is we have a beautiful example of voynich that can mean anything you want and still look ineffable, but basically is apile of crap and I challenge you (don't be avoidant harry) to come up with something meaningful from him with a reasonable degree of exegesis of the source documents and translation !!!
harry, you are supposed to be interested in truth, but all that seems to matter to you is what you are impressed with !
F A I L !
you really need to try a little translation yourself, once you do that in a meaningful way you will understand that what you read in trnalsation is always some distance from what the original author wrote and see that the quoting of dogen thrown around like confetti on the web is just so much waste paper (photons : o) !
you don't have to know the archaic japanese and chinese involved at this level and in fact most translators don't.
but that's work and it's easier to be ignorant ?
btw i done have several very small translations (re-translations as they are not from the source text?) of dogen or replies to passages that actually make sense !
if you look at mike cross's
blog , he goes back to the sanskrit of the saundarananda and reasons his translations through with comparisons from other translators, it makes it clear how large the amount of intpretation and opinion there is and how much is lost through time and cultural and word association changes !
my collection of comments and translations on dogen (list to be extended as time permits!)
translations
comments
anon 108 on the hardcore zen blog i felt had a good translation talent, but he's very anal about it, thinks he should be making money from it or something but he gives a meaningful insight into nagarjuna which is way more than the other translations around with their overdoses
of florid verbiage do ! :o)
Wei Ying-wu
This morning my quarters were so cold
I suddenly thought of my friend in the mountains
gathering firewood down by the creek
lugging it back to boil white rocks
I wish I could bring him a gourd full of wine
to drive off the wind and rain at night
but fallen leaves cover the deserted slopes
and how could I find the trail
extracts courtesy of amazon of bill porter's (red pine) book “ in such hard times ”
it's interesting that we have sucha comprehensive biography of wei ying-wu from the discovery of his, his wife's, son's and his son's wife's tombstone epitaths in 2007 by grave robbers digging in the wei family cemetery ! (location unkown !)
at the end of the book is a touching reproduction of the epitath written by wei ying-wu for his wife and the only example of his handwriting which is absolutely gorgeous !
so magnificent, it must have been a factor in his employment as a civil servant !
When Priest Yaoshan was sitting in meditation a monk asked
What do you think about, sitting in steadfast composure?
Yaoshan replies
I think not thinking
The monk asked
How do you think not thinking?
Yaoshan replied
Non-thinking
my recovery of the above piece of voynich garbage
yaoshan was by himself gazing at the distant mountains !
a monk followed him to his pozzy and asked him what he was doing !
flicking aside his annoyance at being disturbed yaoshan replied
“ looking at the mountains ” !
When Priest Yaoshan was sitting in meditation a monk asked
What do you think about, sitting in steadfast composure?
Yaoshan replies
I think not thinking
The monk asked
How do you think not thinking?
Yaoshan replied
Non-thinking
my recovery of the above piece of voynich garbage
yaoshan was by himself gazing at the distant mountains !
a monk followed him to his pozzy and asked him what he was doing !
flicking aside his annoyance at being disturbed yaoshan replied that he didn't know !
the monk asked what he didn't know
When Priest Yaoshan was sitting in meditation a monk asked
What do you think about, sitting in steadfast composure?
Yaoshan replies
I think not thinking
The monk asked
How do you think not thinking?
Yaoshan replied
Non-thinking
my recovery of the above piece of voynich garbage
yaoshan was by himself gazing at the distant mountains ! a monk followed him to his pozzy and asked him what he was doing ! flicking aside his annoyance at being disturbed
yaoshan replied that he didn't know !
the monk asked what he didn't know
woody allen is more intelligent than he knows, but the
movie is done from the wrong perspective, it's like things are controllable or steerable, potentially anyway, but in fact a combination of the modern dysfunctional diet, loss of hormones (HRT denied to her by the ignorance of doctors) and today's infamous abundance of chemical stressors have destroyed jasmine's brain and all that happens simply reflects that, a functioning brain normalizes and copes and adapts non-traumatically !
bet this review doesn't make the media : o )(
the moon was ejected from the earth by a nuclear
reaction !
makes hiroshima, chernobyl and fukushima look a little pale :o()
who am i, where do i come from and where am i going to?
who am i, where do i come from, where am i going to ?
who am i, where do i come from, where am i going to ?
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who am i, where do i come from, where am i going to ?
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who am i, where do i come from, where am i going to : o( : o ) : o) : o (
helping everybody else at your own expense is a form of depression !
helping everybody else, at your own expense, is a form of depression !
helping everybody else at your own expense is a form of depression !
to help everybody else at your own expense is a form of depression !
if you eat shot game be careful of lead from the bullets, they can break up into small particles and travel everywhere in the carcass, that's why solid copper bullets are the only way to go imo, but will the hunters listen ?
no ......................................
i always use disposable latex gloves when gutting and since the meat is very tough with most game (very young animals are much more tender), i mostly eat the offal which is more nutritious anyway
thyroids and testicles give a real boost and the brain (if you are in a country without stock or feral brain diseases like new zealand and australia) really helps your own brain work better !
toxoplasmosis tissue cysts are killed at 67C and -10C for 3 days, you need to pay attention to the minimum internal temperatures that need to be reached which i generally take to be say medium - medium rare !
if you eat shot game be careful of lead from the bullets, they can break up into small particles and travel everywhere in the carcass, that's why solid copper bullets are the only way to go imo, but will the hunters listen ?
no ......................................
it's hard to put my finger on exactly but i am fairly certain that canola oil causes shortened sleeping times and an overall innervation that is not quite pleasant ! :o(
a very very small amount in the diet maybe beneficial, but once it gets above a certain point (tiny in my case !) then one sleeps a shorter period, like an hour less a day !
the other big area i think that is aproblem is ethoxyquinin, which used as a preservative in some dried herbs, it's a brilliant preservative in maintaining colour (dried chillis, paprika, tumeric?), but again reduces sleeping times :o)
so i just stick to fresh herbs, chillis with the occasional coriander/cilantro mainly !
the fat soluble preservatives appear generally to cause sleep difficulties, i am thinking of TBHQ, BHA and BHT which are used to preserve cooking oils !
there must be an issue with the fatty acid compostion of oils genernally having an ennervating effect on the brain, like i can tolerate fish oil almost right on bed and olive oil maybe an hour or so before, but sunflower oil really has to be only taken in the morning : o ()
yeah, just been reading up on
it, i think they are talking quite large quantities and the study ran from 2002 to 2013 and i think that fish oil has improved a lot in quality in the last couple of years
but there is an issue, however the brain does need those DHA and EPA building blocks that fish oil provides
so i guess it's a balance thing depending on one's personal situation
women have the advantage in this case because fish oil
reduces the chance of breast cancer !
a small oral dose of testosterone
remedies muscle wasting !
it may also be a way to “ tickle ” the liver into doing more in terms of other functions, not just protein synthesis :o)
a relative comments
Big news here a few weeks ago that fish oil contributes to prostrate cancer
my reply
well, one of the issues is how oxidised the fish oil when you take it and things have improved greatly in the last year or two and that study ran from 2002 to 2013, so there's quite abit of lag !
you do have to be sure of using quality!
however there is an issue and no doubt we will see a clearer picture over the coming years, there's alot of confounding factors
the trouble is fish oil provides basic building blocks in the brain and it simply does not develop or work properly without them and the effect transfers through the generations !
i personally take quite a large quantity of fish oil a day, a dessert spoon and don't think i have any problems, in fact my prostate has never been better, but i supplement also from an anti cancer viewpoint e.g. germanium sesquioxide, iodine and use 35% hydrogen peroxide topically and have a homemade uvb lamp to get adequate skin vitamin d over winter (i also irridate shitake and oyster mushrooms with that lamp to get vitamin D2 in them !)
shitake mushrooms have an anti cancer action and i think oyster and button mushrooms also :o)
so between dietary factors and some intelligent supplementation you can dramatically reduce your cancer and metabolic disease risk, i was hopeful that fish oil was a stand alone no complications supplement i could recommend but it looks like this is not the case : o(
i think men can gauge the state of their prostate reasonably well by urination difficulty (i love getting older, all this stuff that was not even a thought when one was younger : o)
my observation is an increasing gap in health between those locked into the conventional medical approaches and those taking a wider more intelligent view of diet and suppplementation, a very simple example is people with diabetes who won't supplement chromium......................
there's very good recent research tying in iron supplementation to
salmonella and mobile phones to severe
oxidative stress in the salivary glands and hence by implication the head and by further implication, an increased cancer risk; but people only seem to ignore this sort of thing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
at a society level you can see there is a sort of collapse in health occuring and an increasing rate of developmental disorders in children but flexibility or any interest in thinking straight and avoiding problems before they occur is not a human strong point ! : o(
shakespeare was an underworld figure ?
wow, william shakespeare was an underworld
standover/hardman and prostitution rackeeter !
unbelievable !!!!!
given the involvement of theaters at that time with prostitution it's possible to see how he could have become involved with sir henry neville and may even explain the source of sir henry neville's syphillis
so shakespeare was actually a fairly notorious underworld figure ! : o )
no-one would ever have assumed him as the authors of those plays, some of which were politically dangerous, yet he was never pulled up for that, it being assumed he was fronting for some-one else and probably given sir robert cecil's (secretary of state) harping on about sir henry using alot of paper when he was ambassador in france, the true authorship may have have some currency in certain circles !
there has been a fascinating world of elizabethan culture closed off to us by the necessity sir henry and his agents saw to disguise the true authorship of his works !
well he knew the value of his writing : o )
this would all weave into a brilliant film script : o)
if you have ever seen or read “ the tempest ”, you realise that whoever wrote it was an extremely unusual man and had lived a life of extremities and suffered some severe disappointments, shakespeare was not that unusual ! : o )(
sir henry neville was ! : o()
if you have ever seen or read the “ the tempest ”, you realise that whoever wrote it was an extremely unusual man and had lived a life of extremities and suffered some severe disappointments, shakespeare was not that unusual ! : o )(
Shakespeare versus Sir Henry Neville
it's rather amusing to compare the
timelines of what is known historically about them of william shakespeare and sir henry neville :o)
the academics are just waiting until brenda james dies and they can then give lip service to her discovery and claim the glory for this infinitely more interesting author :o)
while shakespeare the money lender was chasing debtors in courts for six pounds, sir henry neville (a heir to the fabulous gresham fortune) had to pay five thousand pounds ( a fabulous sum in those days, and would have been equivalent to three and a half million pounds now !) to escape the death sentence for his role in the essex rebellion !
3 years in the tower of london with his friend and patron the ex earl of southampton who also ratted/made a scapegoat of neville to the authorities ! : o)
elizabethan politics was amazingly incestuous, the earl of essex was an ex-lover of elizabeth the first ! :o)
a good
page if you are interested
ed. to convert sir henry nevilles fine of £5000 i have used a multiplier of 700 as per alan robinson's
estimate ( in the “values” paragraph on page 1! )
a mystical thing for me, these books in the identical covers were always in the family bookshelf
i was always concious of them, but never read them but they hinted of more.............:o)
henry miller and lawrence durrell discuss
suicide (2:10)
fred writes
On transcending or transmuting from the I thought.
The Universe slowly woke up and remembered itself
my reply
another “ i thought ”
you are absolute fucking scum fred
and brain damaged beyond the slighest ray of hope : o()
HI,
you won't know me, but i thought you would be interested in this new
study
i think modern research is showing that these conditions are not simply biochemical, but developmental in nature, that is, the brain has formed differently and by virtue of structural differences, works differently so actually cognitive/drama therapy (and diet/
nutrition !)
are more valid than medications : o)
look at this
timeline and make your decision, shakespeare was a moneylender ! : o ()
look at this
timeline and make your decision, shakespeare was a moneylender !
look at this
timeline and make your decision, shakespeare was a moneylender
brad, you got to first
base , but never got to second base.
the grocery bag got lifted off and you saw what it was like and it's the work of a lifetime to keep it lifted off because you know what it looks like off and that's what you steer by !
between, music, sex, failed relationships and a stupid narcissism it never really lifted which is why you waste your time with a moronic form of zen and your half arsed books and acting etc. : o(
a good
page outlining the case for sir henry neville being the true author of the “ shakespeare plays ” : o)
if you want a good laugh, look at the timeline (6/10ths of the way down) comparing known historical events about the two men !
a good
page outlining the case for sir henry neville being the true author of the “ shakespeare plays ” : o)
if you want a good laugh look at the timeline (6/10ths of the way down) comparing known historical events about the two men !
scroll down to the comments, they are a gem : o) (
what about this pearl?
serena writes on september the 22nd, 2007
“ His teeth are horrible jagged and crooked and brown, and he's goofy looking and downright ugly...........Now here I am with this dog-faced gross horrible person who I'm not friends with, and stuck because we bought a house and a car together, and we've been trying for a baby for over a year now. I want a baby and a house and a car more than I care who they're with. I like those things but can't stand sharing even the same floor with this guy ”
well dear, try caring who the father of your child is, that child will be half that creep ! : o()
spirulina is not the vegan wonder food after all !
it mostly contains b-12
analogues rather than b-12 itself and these analogues may intefere with b-12 function in the body, rather than help !
tempeh may also have this issue !
spirulina is very high in iron tho ! :o(
but what i think spirulina does help with, is building the gut wall !
an interesting insight into a
cause for fibromyalgia !
“ HHV-6 is unique among human herpesviruses; during latency, its DNA integrates into the structures at the end of chromosomes known as telomeres
Furthermore, this integrated HHV-6 genome can be inherited from parent to child ”
complaining, but not complaining (!) :o)
actually there is some suggestion the photo is
posed and that's not rain but hose spray !
the frog may even be injured
lars von trier, the ending
scene of melancholia
“ i've done some really strange things ! ”
“ such
as... ”
“ having sex with a very nice cherry tree in full bloom in a stranger's garden about midnight : o) ”
“ i've done some really strange things ! ”
“ such
as... ”
“ having sex with a very nice cherry tree in bloom in a stranger's garden about midnight : o) ”
“ none of you have the fundamental insight ”
“ what is the fundamental insight? ”
“ the absence of self is infinity ! ”
“ none of you have the fundamental insight ”
“ what is the fundamental insight ”
“ the absence of self is infinity ! ”
or a sham of old decayed men, their energy gone and a mindless audience lost in nostalgia ?
yup concerts are a form of mental illness : o ) /:o()
eileen replies
Not all older musicians are decayed that much that they don't still have something worth listening to or watching (some are I agree) and not all audiences are “mentally ill” although I notice you haven't added that bit here (ed. not on her facebook page) broadbrushstroking Andrew tsk tsk
my reply
not being able to see you tube you have the disadvantage of not having seen the very lacklustre and “decayed” recent performances of Fleetwood mac ! :o)
it's the nature of an audience to be mentally ill, they are just consumers and the lack of ability to feedback and so put one in touch with the reality is what makes for the insanity : o)
or a sham of old decayed men, their energy gone and a mindless audience lost in nostalgia ?
yup concerts are a form of mental illness : o ) /:o()
or a sham of old decayed men, their energy gone and a mindless audience lost in nostalgia ?
( ed. the 2013 fleetwood mac tour of australia )
1938, the
strings are very good, the eternal zero sum of life, quality playing but poor recording technology, today they can't play but the recording is superlative : o(
1938, the
strings are very good, the eternal zero sum of life, quality playing but poor recording technology, today they can't play but the recording is superlative : o(
“ abnormalities in both the circle of Willis and blood flow were most prominent in the back of the brain, where the visual cortex is located. This may help explain why the most common migraine
auras consist of visual symptoms such as seeing distortions, spots, or wavy lines ”
