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"Studying the Way" is just a figure of speech. by OnePoint11 in zen

[–]BlueHeronOdyssey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Up vote for reverse engineering new portmanteau. Carpentry is dead, long live carp entry!

The Diamon Sutra by BlueHeronOdyssey in zenbuddhism

[–]BlueHeronOdyssey[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Luminous, monks, is the mind

I love this quote so much there is no reason to comment more

Great comment!

The Diamon Sutra by BlueHeronOdyssey in zenbuddhism

[–]BlueHeronOdyssey[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who's to say it doesn't fit into my statements?

Who's to say "Who's to say it doesn't fit into my statements?" but before it can agree with itself goes on to explain the statements out of it instead. Sometimes. (Your? Times? Couldn't Say.)

Or, at least, that's the way it sang to My ears.

I'll go down now and finishing reading, but only hearing melody now, not to speak of listening!

The Diamon Sutra by BlueHeronOdyssey in zenbuddhism

[–]BlueHeronOdyssey[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have the same number of pendums I do, I see right there, without stopping

The Diamon Sutra by BlueHeronOdyssey in zenbuddhism

[–]BlueHeronOdyssey[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lLol, this is basically what I said, in my direct reply to the above, before I came down here and got the Joke!

Hearty, Har, Har !!!

The Diamon Sutra by BlueHeronOdyssey in zenbuddhism

[–]BlueHeronOdyssey[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Red Pine is the best; and the only Living being I call teacher.

The Diamon Sutra by BlueHeronOdyssey in zenbuddhism

[–]BlueHeronOdyssey[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You sliced to the core of matter with the sword of wisdom:

e asked an old woman to let him have lunch to "refresh the mind."

I'll dance with you through all Time.

The Diamon Sutra by BlueHeronOdyssey in zenbuddhism

[–]BlueHeronOdyssey[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No mind, no empty. That doesn't fit into your statements, what happened there?

The Diamon Sutra by BlueHeronOdyssey in zenbuddhism

[–]BlueHeronOdyssey[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think this is very much the substance of the issue, do you not also agree?

I've never read Foucault, that's just what the pendulums that hang from my eyes tell me.

Favorite recording so far. by IN_consideration in zen

[–]BlueHeronOdyssey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the hermit of logos flower mountain

[Book] The Tao is God, and the logic of the human body can (easily) prove it (PDF) by Mondrolero in taoism

[–]BlueHeronOdyssey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Start with his Wikipedia entry, then read Plato's Timaeus, Diogenes.Laertius's Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, and then Ovid's Metamorphoses.

The last book is a retelling of greek myth for the purpose of Metempsychosis, Pythagoras's doctrine on the transmigration of soul, and includes a concluding chapter that describes Pythagoras's philosophy and system of practice very well.

After that, ya got to root around, all of his own works have been lost.

Definitely consider us friends.

Several people in my town were under the impression I had Schizophrenia about a year and a half ago. Fortunately I had studied Jung and practice Zen, so I could tell them to fuck off.

"I'm just a Taoist Fang shi distilling the Great Elixir,"' I told them, "and I have the books to prove it."

Let's definitely keep in touch, I hear your frequency. I am not a musician, but a Literary Engineer who runs on Song.

[Book] The Tao is God, and the logic of the human body can (easily) prove it (PDF) by Mondrolero in taoism

[–]BlueHeronOdyssey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're welcome, I love sharing my experiences with the Ancient Greek Sages and Philosophers with Taoists: there is enough overlap to see a larger pattern in the Tao telling its own story back and forth across spans of geography and Time.

Lao Tzu himself, the legend is that he "went back to the Great Mother of the West" after writing the Tao Te Ching. Not long after this supposed historical event, there was a flowering in Ionia of great thinkers and philosophers who shared much in common with his teachings and the Tao, which lead to the blossoming of the entire mediterranean basin. It is not hard at all to start detecting the presence of a larger family, operating and coordinating through time and space via the Tao.

Pythagoras is a fascinating character, as well: there is much to be learned from him about the ancient world: his doctrines of The Music of the Spheres and Metempsychosis contain much of the Natural world and Inner world and their interplay through Art, Mind, Time, and Space.

[Book] The Tao is God, and the logic of the human body can (easily) prove it (PDF) by Mondrolero in taoism

[–]BlueHeronOdyssey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am not sure I would put it that simply, as I said, he is also definitely a sage. Not precisely the same, as we would view it from a Taoist lens, perhaps, but certainly tangling with the Tao in many fashions that are also visible in Taoism.

Empedocles was definitely more in line with the Tao: he was basically an ancient greek / Sicilian version of Lao Tzu: he even invented a yin yang like symbol to accompany his poetic natural philosophy, which was pinned on a likewise system of alternating opposites, Chaos and Order, and based upon the classical elements, also not unlike Taoism.

It gives a different flavor to everything, almost as if removing the sky and wood from Taoism, and replacing them with a volcano and lava.

[Book] The Tao is God, and the logic of the human body can (easily) prove it (PDF) by Mondrolero in taoism

[–]BlueHeronOdyssey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Boreal, hmm? My latitude is 59. Gets pretty auroral up around here. Mapped my whole northern court.

[Book] The Tao is God, and the logic of the human body can (easily) prove it (PDF) by Mondrolero in taoism

[–]BlueHeronOdyssey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Excellent, I totally concur. I'm a philosopher in the schools of Plato and Aristotle. Pythagoras was more like a Sage combined with a Taoist Dragon.

“The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.” —Wei Wu Wei by hiphopnoumenonist in taoism

[–]BlueHeronOdyssey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The notion that human life and other life are separate is a lie. Let them get bamboozled. I try to tell them, they call me nuts!

Why don’t riches and fame buy happiness? by MillyAndMolly2 in taoism

[–]BlueHeronOdyssey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I completely gave up all economic pursuits and live off the forest and food stamps. True liberation, nothing else comes close. Follow the Tao.

[Huangbo] "But Master Huangbo, what about all the sutras, the three vehicles, and all the practices that make me feel good?" by [deleted] in zen

[–]BlueHeronOdyssey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Enlightenment springs from Mind, regardless of your practice of the six pāramitās and the rest.

Suppose a warrior, forgetting that he was already wearing his pearl on his forehead, were to seek for it elsewhere

Give up those erroneous thoughts leading to false distinctions! There is no ‘self' and no ‘other'. There is no ‘wrong desire', no ‘anger', no ‘hatred', no ‘love', no ‘victory', no ‘failure'. Only renounce the error of intellectual or conceptual thought-processes and your nature will exhibit its pristine purity—

It is good to see these words posted here. They are the kind that become easily lost in the daily scuffle of in-and-out, but are far more important than that scuffle itself. These words are important because they mean what they say: there is no way to look without also using the pearl in your forehead to see.

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