April Zen

Posted by: harlan

April Zen - 04/02/07 10:02 AM

4/2:

'One who understands truth is wu-nien (without thought),
wu-i (without memory),
and wu-chao (without attachment).'

-Hui-Neng
Posted by: butterfly

Re: April Zen - 04/02/07 02:01 PM

So...we should all be comatose? A night of hefty drinking will bring you to this state of no mind...and never no-mind....
Posted by: harlan

Re: April Zen - 04/02/07 02:05 PM

Somehow I'm certain that the 'truth' of a hangover is qualitatively different. But then, I'm not zen.
Posted by: butterfly

Re: April Zen - 04/03/07 03:08 PM

You could be right Harlan, but what if you are wrong?
Posted by: harlan

Re: April Zen - 04/03/07 03:32 PM

Ask the Zen calendar that I'm pulling these ditties off of. Frankly, I've experienced various states on non-thinking, from stoned to what might pass as 'gnosis', and didn't think enough of any of them to want to repeat it.
Posted by: Ronin1966

Re: April Zen - 04/03/07 03:37 PM

Hello Butterfly:

<<You could be right Harlan, but what if you are wrong?

Butterfly Neither right nor wrong... both at the same time and still more too!

Jeff
Posted by: butterfly

Re: April Zen - 04/03/07 03:42 PM

One's convictions lie on the floor if you are both sick as a dog and giddy as a school girl at the same time. Now, if you take pleasure before the pain, you pay the piper for the song after he's given it to you.
Posted by: harlan

Re: April Zen - 04/03/07 03:43 PM

A timeless mistake, and repeated often.

Quote:

Now, if you take pleasure before the pain, you pay the piper for the song after he's given it to you.

Posted by: harlan

Re: April Zen - 04/04/07 08:51 AM

4/4:

"To be or not to be" is not the question -
because you can't have one without the other!

-Alan Watts
Posted by: butterfly

Re: April Zen - 04/04/07 03:11 PM

You...at your Ying-Yangiest best.
Posted by: Ed_Morris

Re: April Zen - 04/05/07 01:00 AM

“So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time”
- William Shakespeare
Posted by: butterfly

Re: April Zen - 04/06/07 12:02 PM

Eddie! Now that is cool!
Posted by: harlan

Re: April Zen - 04/09/07 08:52 AM

4/9:

The field of consciousness is tiny.
It accepts only one problem at a time.
Get into a fistfight, put your mind on
the strategy of the fight, and you will
not feel the other fellow's punches.

-Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Posted by: butterfly

Re: April Zen - 04/09/07 03:39 PM

Obviously said by one not concerned with a groin kick. Even though he only mentioned fist-fights.
Posted by: MAGon

Re: April Zen - 04/09/07 07:00 PM

Quote:

Obviously said by one not concerned with a groin kick. Even though he only mentioned fist-fights.



Brad, wadda you expect from a guy that writes a book about a little prince who lives under a baobab tree in the sky?
Posted by: harlan

Re: April Zen - 04/10/07 10:49 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Saint-Exup%C3%A9ry
Posted by: Ed_Morris

Re: April Zen - 04/12/07 07:34 AM

Kurt Vonnegut 1922-2007 RIP


- Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.


- Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.


- Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

- All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

- Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.

- Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
Posted by: butterfly

Re: April Zen - 04/12/07 11:47 AM

Yeah...heard about it this morning. Well, I hope he rests in peace...and another WWII vet gone.
Posted by: harlan

Re: April Zen - 04/13/07 10:44 AM

4/13:

The path of the enlightened one leaves no track -
it is like the path of birds in the sky.

-The Buddha
Posted by: butterfly

Re: April Zen - 04/13/07 03:55 PM

Or like David Carradine in the opening credits of Kung Fu where he was walking on rice paper.....
Posted by: Bushi_no_ki

Re: April Zen - 04/17/07 01:03 PM

Or like me when I reclass to a new MOS: Super Sapper Combat Ninja.
Posted by: Ed_Morris

Re: April Zen - 04/19/07 07:03 PM

“Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words, a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate. On the other hand, he lives with an awareness of tragic fate. This is a paradox.”
- Imre Kertesz
Posted by: harlan

Re: April Zen - 04/30/07 09:35 AM

4/30:

Trying to get rid of an illusion,
and seeking to grasp reality -
sophistry and lies.

-Yung-Chia
Posted by: butterfly

Re: April Zen - 04/30/07 12:25 PM

I have problems distinguishing between what's real and what's not and what I should be concerned with. Sometimes those lies hurt worse than the truth..or reverse that.
Posted by: harlan

Re: April Zen - 04/30/07 03:36 PM

What is 'truth'?

http://www.fightingarts.com/ubbthreads/s...2&fpart=all
Posted by: butterfly

Re: April Zen - 05/01/07 11:31 AM

Ah...therein lies the problem.
Posted by: harlan

Re: April Zen - 05/01/07 11:35 AM

(Pssstt...it's May, and time for a new thread? )
Posted by: butterfly

Re: April Zen - 05/01/07 11:46 AM

Ahhhh...a fool that I am.