Platelet count: 22
Told you it was a fluke.
For the past couple of weeks I've been reading Shogun because it's HUGE and really, really involved and it takes my mind off of many things. But it's not boring or overly historical or filled with famous cameo appearances ("Look everyone! It's Will Rogers!"), so it's keeping me from movie watching because I can't wait to get home and pick it up again. I like it much, hai!
Read this part the other day and it pleased me:
"Now sleep. Karma is karma. Be thou of Zen. Remember, in tranquility, that the Absolute, the Tao, is within thee, that no priest or cult or dogma or book or saying or teaching or teacher stands between Thou and It. Know that Good and Evil are irrelevant, I and Thou irrelevant, Inside and Outside irrelevant as are Life and Death. Enter into the Sphere where there is no fear of death nor hope of afterlife, where thou art free of the impediments of life or the needs of salvation. Thou art thyself the Tao. Be thou, now, a rock against which the waves of life rush in vain..."
Oh, and just so's you know (and all's you know is), I plan to start ending all sentences with neh? As in: "Fuckety bye, neh?" I guess it won't work all the time, but I'll give it a go anyway, neh?
Friday, June 25, 2010
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JOSHU asked the teacher Nansen, "What is the true Way?"
Nansen answered, "Everyday way is the true Way."
Joshu asked, "Can I study it?"
Nansen answered, "The more you study, the further from the Way."
Joshu asked, "If I don't study it, how can I know it?"
Nansen answered, "The Way does not belong to things seen: nor to
things unseen. It does not belong to things known: nor to things
unknown. Do not seek it, study it, or name it. To find yourself on
it, open yourself wide as the sky."
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