Zen for the Day

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 10/23/05 at 11:55am

The fundamental delusion of reality is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

Yasutani

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/23/05 at 12:08pm

"I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I’m crying." -- John Lennon

[Plum]

Posted: 10/23/05 at 12:11pm

Now that's a koan. You could spend all day contemplating how much sense it doesn't make.

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 10/23/05 at 12:16pm

Everything you see is maya, or illusion, but we are stretching into other areas of Buddhism with that...

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/23/05 at 12:33pm

It's the "I'm crying" part that gets to me every time. I'm crying as I type.

[Plum]

Posted: 10/23/05 at 12:34pm

Goo goo ga joob?

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 10/23/05 at 12:36pm

We can always count on Plum to seek out the original in its native language.

Namo, did Lennon write that after Kent State?

[Plum]

Posted: 10/23/05 at 12:38pm

Lennon wrote that to puzzle the hell out of anyone who tried to interpret it, so don't bother. :)

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/23/05 at 12:39pm

He was in his Lewis Carroll phase and the song first appears on Magical Mystery Tour, which was, I believe, 1968. Oddly prescient of Kent State.

I'm still crying as I type.

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 10/23/05 at 12:40pm

What is the sound of one finger snapping?

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 10/23/05 at 12:42pm

sekishu no onjo

[Plum]

Posted: 10/23/05 at 12:45pm

What is the sound of one finger snapping?

*crunch*

Just saying...

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 10/23/05 at 12:45pm

Aw, Namo. Sentiment is a lovely thing, even melancholy...

Where would true artists be without melancholy?


There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear

Jefferson Airplane

Name of the song?
Updated On: 10/23/05 at 12:45 PM

[Plum]

Posted: 10/23/05 at 12:53pm

"For What It's Worth"

Or was that the album? I don't remember. Updated On: 10/23/05 at 12:53 PM

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 10/23/05 at 12:56pm

One of those Vietnam era masterpieces...
Updated On: 10/23/05 at 12:56 PM

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 10/23/05 at 1:04pm

And another Zen:

Above the saddle, no rider.
Below the saddle, no horse.


[reminds me of an ancient Mongol saddle in a museum exhibit]