Zen Rain Bows

sevens · Post by **sevens** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 12:39 pm

Please present your Zen sayings here:

(And take a mango)

sevens · Post by **sevens** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 12:45 pm

"A tear is a rain drop, without a beginning or an end."

David Quinn · Post by **David Quinn** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 2:18 pm

A Zen saying is meaningless without a context, so this thread is useless. It's just an excuse for poetic wannabies to preen themselves. The brothel is thus where it belongs.

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sevens · Post by **sevens** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 2:37 pm

That's where you bring your own, to the table.

MKFaizi · Post by **MKFaizi** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 2:57 pm

God, I love a good mango. Don't give a fuck about Zen sayings.

Faizi

Diebert van Rhijn · Post by **Diebert van Rhijn** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 11:08 pm

Q: How many Zen Buddhists does it take to change a light bulb?

A: Hundred: one to change it, and ninety-nine students that contemplate the suspected wisdom of such deep teaching.

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There's no single thing in any Zen saying that can help you. Don't even bother!

Matt Gregory · Post by **Matt Gregory** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 1:13 am

I don't understand.

Diebert van Rhijn · Post by **Diebert van Rhijn** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 1:40 am

Matt Gregory wrote:I don't understand.

That's because it's meaningless without the context, which is mostly Sevens here.

DHodges · Post by **DHodges** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:06 am

"Make me one with everything!"

Oh, wait, that's a hot dog, not a mango.

David Quinn · Post by **David Quinn** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 12:16 pm

Setting up a seperate thread for Zen sayings is very deluded. It makes the same mistake as those Zen religions that create fixed rituals out of beating people with sticks, or handing out cliched Zen koans to meditate on. It robs Zen of its very essence.

It's a bit like setting up a thread for punchlines. A punchline is nothing without the rest of the joke, and in the same way, a Zen saying is nothing without the intellectual foundations which have been set up beforehand. The religion of Zen has made a ludicrous religion out of worshipping punchlines. We don't have to perpetuate that madness by doing the same.

A genuine Zen master introduces his Zen sayings informally and unobtrusively. He slides them into a situation unexpectantly, shocking the listener and stimulating his mind into greater insight. He doesn't loudly announce beforehand, "Attention everyone! I am about to introduce a Zen saying". It is the novelty and unexpectedness of the skilfully-introduced Zen saying which unsettles the mind and does its magic.

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Matt Gregory · Post by **Matt Gregory** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 12:52 pm

Can you give me such a saying? I want to see this magic.

Matt Gregory · Post by **Matt Gregory** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:27 am

Say, that was pretty good! Thanks!

sevens · Post by **sevens** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 10:25 am

And to think,

One's own predujuces can blind.

If only this thread were aloud "the room to slide..."

sevens · Post by **sevens** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 10:28 am

We! Me! He! She!

Gabulldee!

Gook.

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