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How could you be where you are if you hadn't been where you were?
The question trips lightly off the mind's tongue, together with the implication that since there is nothing that can be done, why worry about or extol it? And there are a hundred sage approaches to pride and regret.
But seriously, how could you be where you are if you hadn't been where you were?
Every smile flows from every tear; every tear is nothing but what once was smiling. And only an intellectual would say that such things are endlessly interlocking: It takes more than one thing to 'interlock,' and how many things are there, really?
How nice it is to be happy!
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Here and There Make You Happy, eh?
ReplyDeleteThis kind of thinking reminds me of the courses I took in college. The course about ancient Greek Philosophers and what they had to say.
Zen expressions that are just tangential to logic always seems somehow connected to some of what the clever old Greek boys had to say.
Here's a favorite I Iifted off Wikipedia by one of the lesser know of that crew, Gorgias the Sophist:
Nothing exists;
Even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and
Even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.
Even if it can be communicated, there is no incentive to do so.
This is how the guy was making a living expounding this to the bewildered.
Funny, right? I love it! Anyone can take a soapbox and say anything and they might given get paid for it LOL!
Then there's my beloved Zeno. Try some of his paradoxes on some of your Zen student buddies:
For example
"That which is in motion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal."
Suppose Hector wants to catch a horse. Before he can get there, he must get halfway there. Before he can get halfway there, he must get a quarter of the way there. Before traveling a fourth, he must travel one-eighth; before an eighth, one-sixteenth; and so on.
Therefore, since there is an infinite number of halfway points he can never catch the horse, Yet he does... sometimes.
Then there's the arrow:
"If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless."
But it does move!
Go figure!
Oh, Sariputra, form is not other than emptiness and emptiness is not other than form.
Form is precisely emptiness and emptiness precisely form.
So also are sensation, perception, volition, and consciousness.
Gate, Gate, Paragate, Parasamgate, Bodhi Svaha.
Anyway....
It all winds up giving me a headache.
Counting the breath now that's more like it!
i was playing my nintendo wii yesterday and halfway through a soccer match the console froze and beeped and i had to press and hold the power button. Then i turned it on again and played another hero game called super mario.
ReplyDeleteIt was dumb. The last time i played a game called The Matrix, I chose to sacrifice the whole world to save the Trinity, my sweetheart, even though i knew that Trinity would die anyway. When I exited the world 'i' had no trinity, no darling, no form, no formless, but 'i' was 'saved'.
In my new mario game the plot is incredibly stupid. A bad guy kidnapped my princess in flipworld and i need to kill turtles to save her. And i get to be with her forever.
So incredibly boring....
Heh,
Ricebowl
but u know u know????
ReplyDeleteSex with the Trinity was the most liberative 'thing' I ever experienced. Everybody should ask Genkaku for tips.
He's a good man. Keep a lookout for him alwiz.
Ricebowl
there is no problem, but
ReplyDeletethey all see me as an employee
i am forced to believe that i an employee, i.e. i act as an employee.
i cannot take the acting.
i want to quit acting.
why do i want to quit acting?
the self cannot be found.
it is a problem. a perceived problem.
i searched all over for truth, visited teachers, friends, parents, dates, people younger than me, bosses, but i could not find the self.
i have an impression of what i used to be.
i took photos, i liked girls but i don't flirt, i blogged alot, i was lazy at school until the exams came, i loved to help classmates pass their exams, i did not really care much about money except to be thrifty and money is useful to donate to charities. i did not buy alot of material goods. i like muslim food, and i liked to visit my neighbourhood monastery. i didn't like to sit still. i didn't like naggy mothers.
i can continue acting. i can quit the actor's job and return to solitude, since what's an actor for if there are no longer audiences.
somebody said, where the leg brings me, there i go and it's what i will do too.
but i just want to go for a holiday, a cruise, watch the ocean waves and bake under the sun without a goddamned care in the world.
i just want to enjoy life.
but everything is already enjoyable.
i just want some directions before i say bye to genkaku :)
_/|\_
ricebowl
" think " found the software bug.
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there is no problem, but
they all see me as an employee
" am forced to believe that " an employee, i.e. " act as an employee.
" cannot take the acting.
" want to quit acting.
why do " want to quit acting?
the self cannot be found.
it is a problem. a perceived problem.
" searched all over for truth, visited teachers, friends, parents, dates, people younger than me, bosses, but " could not find the self.
" have an impression of what " used to be.
" took photos, " liked girls but " don't flirt, " blogged alot, " was lazy at school until the exams came, " loved to help classmates pass their exams, " did not really care much about money except to be thrifty and money is useful to donate to charities. " did not buy alot of material goods. " like muslim food, and " liked to visit my neighbourhood monastery. " didn't like to sit still. " didn't like naggy mothers.
" can continue acting. " can quit the actor's job and return to solitude, since what's an actor for if there are no longer audiences.
somebody said, where the leg brings me, there " go and it's what " will do too.
but " just want to go for a holiday, a cruise, watch the ocean waves and bake under the sun without a goddamned care in the world.
" just want to enjoy life.
but everything is already enjoyable.
" just want some directions before " say bye to genkaku :)