#1
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
Yasutani
#2
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
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I’m crying." -- John Lennon
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#3
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.
#4
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...
#5
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.
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#7
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?
Namo, did Lennon write that after Kent State?
#8
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. :)
#9
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.
I'm still crying as I type.
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#12
Posted: 10/23/05 at 12:45pm
What is the sound of one finger snapping?
*crunch*
Just saying...
*crunch*
Just saying...
#13
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?
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
#14
Posted: 10/23/05 at 12:53pm
"For What It's Worth"
Or was that the album? I don't remember.
Or was that the album? I don't remember.
Updated On: 10/23/05 at 12:53 PM
#15
Posted: 10/23/05 at 12:56pm
One of those Vietnam era masterpieces...
Updated On: 10/23/05 at 12:56 PM
#16
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]
Above the saddle, no rider.
Below the saddle, no horse.
[reminds me of an ancient Mongol saddle in a museum exhibit]
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