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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :

[ 07. August 2009, 18:20: Message edited by: Firenze ]

Posted by Paul M (# 37) on :

That's easy for you to say!

Posted by fletcher christian (# 13919) on :

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Zen garden = Heaven

Posted by Stoo (# 254) on :

What's the sound of one hand slapping Ariel upside the head?

Posted by Mamacita (# 3659) on :

Re-opened with thread title fixed because the original title was giving me cognitive dissonance in a very un-Zen-like way.

[ 10. May 2009, 04:01: Message edited by: Mamacita ]

Posted by Timothy the Obscure (# 292) on :

MU!

Posted by mousethief (# 953) on :

!UM

Posted by Banner Lady (# 10505) on :

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Posted by Robert Armin (# 182) on :

If posters post on a closed thread can anyone read them?

Posted by Hazey*Jane (# 8754) on :

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Posted by John Donne (# 220) on :

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[I am appreciating the moment. And it is fine indeed]

Posted by Miffy (# 1438) on :

o
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000!!! \o/
[Angel]

Hmmm
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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :

koan koan koan
koan koan koan
KOAN KOAN KOAN
have a cup of feckin' tea!

Posted by Qlib (# 43) on :

Tea. Here. Now. [Cool]

Posted by Miffy (# 1438) on :

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Posted by Otter (# 12020) on :

Oh-Wah
Tagoo
Siam

Posted by kankucho (# 14318) on :

ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmG!!!1

Posted by Beenster (# 242) on :

Fish

Posted by AristonAstuanax (# 10894) on :

"What is enlightenment?"
"The sound of the evening sunlight falling on the distant mountains."
"No you fool! Have you learned nothing in these last years? Begone from my sight!"
"But master, what is enlightenment?"
"The sound of the evening sunlight falling on the distant mountains."

Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:

To edit is to ameliorate. Discuss with reference to the above.

Posted by Arrietty (# 45) on :

<bangs head rhythmically on wall and is instantly enlightened>

Posted by Athrawes (# 9594) on :

<Drops bundle and is immediately enlightened>

Posted by Campbellite (# 1202) on :

If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.

Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :

I thought that was supposed to happen at the cross, as Christian reaches the end of his journey...

Hold on, wrong thread.

ETA: terrible crosspost! [Killing me]

[ 12. May 2009, 23:28: Message edited by: Lamb Chopped ]

Posted by Arrietty (# 45) on :

<sound of one brick hitting Lamb Chopped on the head>

Posted by MiceElf (# 4389) on :

%( '.')%

Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :

If a troublemaker falls on her keyboard, does anybody hear?

Posted by kankucho (# 14318) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Campbellite:
If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.

You'll be wasting your time: he'll be back again in an instant.

Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :

The rain is on the roof
Hurry high butterfly
As clouds roll past my head
I know why the skys all cry
OMMMMMMMMMMMMM,
OMMMMMMMMMMMMM,
Heaven,
OMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

.

Just as new life will come from death, love will come at leisure.
Love of love, love of life and giving without measure
Gives in return a wonderous yearn of a promise almost seen.
Live hand-in-hand and together we'll stand on the threshold of a dream.

.

Man, the Moody Blues came up with some good shit back in the day...

Posted by Leaf (# 14169) on :

This is not a post.

Posted by Yorick (# 12169) on :

☼

Posted by Jahlove (# 10290) on :

<opens Third Eye. Applies mascara>

Posted by saxineno (# 735) on :

I'm posting by not posting...

...I'm not posting by posting

Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :

Oh Fly,
why die,
when winter
is nigh?

(with apologies to Chas Munford in whose profound literary work this reflection on life and death was first published)

Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :

I have made five non-posts to this thread.

The threads I have not started are as the first flakes of winter snow on Fuji-no-Yama.

The words of those who have not posted contain sublime infinity.

In the silence of the night, a night bird cries; bamboo shoots unfurl, green ideas sleep furiously. Behold! We contemplate the universe, and the universe stares back at us all, a bemused look in its eye.

Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :

42

Posted by Barnabas62 (# 9110) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:

Man, the Moody Blues came up with some good shit back in the day...

Why do we never get an answer
When we're knocking at the door
Because the truth is hard to swallow
That's what the war of love is for

Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :

Posted by Gill H (# 68) on :

This post intentionally left blank.

Posted by The Great Gumby (# 10989) on :

Please do not read this post.

Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :

Lean but do not fall.

Posted by Arrietty (# 45) on :

If this is the answer, what is the question?

Posted by fletcher christian (# 13919) on :

Many look for the Ox
but few have ever seen him.
Has the herdsman found him on the north side of
the mountains or on the south?
The one way of light and darkness, along which
each thing goes and comes.
If the herdsman finds himself on such a path
everything is all right.
Grasp the reign harder, do not let go of the Ox!
Many, and the most subtle, faults are still not yet overcome.
Even when the herdsman cautiously draws him by the nose with the reign,
the Ox occasionally turns around and wants to go back to the wilderness.

Posted by Pax Romana (# 4653) on :

Are we back in the 70's again? If so, how did we get here? And why am I still as old as I am?

Pax Romana

Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Pax Romana:
Are we back in the 70's again? If so, how did we get here? And why am I still as old as I am?

Am I mad, in a coma, or back in time?

Posted by Qlib (# 43) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:

quote:
Originally posted by Pax Romana:
Are we back in the 70's again? If so, how did we get here? And why am I still as old as I am?
Am I mad, in a coma, or back in time?

Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.

T.S. Eliot Burnt Norton - Four Quartets

Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on :

Where could the thread with no beginning, end?

Posted by Arrietty (# 45) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
Am I mad, in a coma, or back in time?

<sound of one flare flapping>

[ 14. May 2009, 23:20: Message edited by: Arrietty ]

Posted by mousethief (# 953) on :

The thread that can be spoken is not the true thread.

Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :

[Confused]

Posted by Athrawes (# 9594) on :

There is no large, pink rhinoceros on this thread.

Posted by amber. (# 11142) on :

"Elephant in the room: Figment, metaphor, or reality?"

Next week, the question, "Is there an existential meaning to elephant manure and what IS it doing in the middle of my room".

Posted by Dal Segno (# 14673) on :

OM

Posted by Campbellite (# 1202) on :

quote:
Originally posted by piglet:

Ah! You have been enlightened!

Posted by The Weeder (# 11321) on :

The sound of one hand clapping
slapping
your head
Very hard.
[Votive]

[ 15. May 2009, 22:45: Message edited by: The Weeder ]

Posted by Arrietty (# 45) on :

quote:
Originally posted by amber.:
"Is there an existential meaning to elephant manure and what IS it doing in the middle of my room".

The sound of one elephant crapping.

Ommmmmmmmm

Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Campbellite:

quote:
Originally posted by piglet:

Ah! You have been enlightened!

Good God! Have I really? [Yipee]

Posted by saxineno (# 735) on :

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to post on this thread and remove all doubt. [Smile]

Posted by Campbellite (# 1202) on :

quote:
Originally posted by piglet:

quote:
Originally posted by Campbellite:

quote:
Originally posted by piglet:

Ah! You have been enlightened!
Good God! Have I really?

If you have it all figured out, then you do not understand.

Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :

@#%^ !!!

[Snigger]

Posted by AristonAstuanax (# 10894) on :

A tree reading the ocean backwards.

Posted by saxineno (# 735) on :

quote:
Originally posted by AristonAstuanax:
A tree reading the ocean backwards.

Before we start separate zen denominations I think we need clarification, which of the following do you mean?

A tree reading naeco eht

or

naeco eht gnidaer eert A

Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :

to denominate is to miscreate

Posted by Campbellite (# 1202) on :

There can be only One.

Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :

One what?

You're absolutely right, Campbellite, I do not understand.

Posted by Qlib (# 43) on :

To know you do not understand is the beginning of understanding, O piglet.

Posted by Athrawes (# 9594) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Zappa:
to denominate is to miscreate

Or to procreate.

Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :

Procreating is pleasant. Recreating is passé.

Posted by Leetle Masha (# 8209) on :

Zap!

Posted by Pooks (# 11425) on :

I:AM

Posted by Wesley J (# 6075) on :

0943AM GMT

Posted by Scarlet (# 1738) on :

I did not want to be and therefore am not

Posted by AristonAstuanax (# 10894) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Wesley J:
0943AM GMT

Time is a falsehood
The day of cherry blossoms
The truest of lies

There is only mind
Hidden like earth beneath snow
Holding up today

What is it that is
Red of autumn's falling leaves
Here now but now gone

Writing in haiku
During summer's horrid days
Makes me seem more wise

[ 18. May 2009, 16:08: Message edited by: AristonAstuanax ]

Posted by Athrawes (# 9594) on :

Is Haiku allowed?
Why was I not told before?
Haiku can be Zen [Yipee]

Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :

Now that we're in verse
It's likely we will forthwith
Circus-wards be sent

Posted by Jahlove (# 10290) on :

Ker-ching or Book of Loose Change:

The words of the foolish poster are like the black economy; they give no credit but are always in cache.

Posted by Gort (# 6855) on :

A napkin soaks Guinness from keyboard.

Anonymous petition for union of genetic code.

Posted by AristonAstuanax (# 10894) on :

Only prose is zen
Poetry hides the idea
Like illusion clouds the mind of man
Three £ of flax on the road
From the tent of nuts

Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :

the thread that can be read
is not the eternal thread

the post that can be made
is not the eternal post

the edit that is made
is lightning on the autumn leaves
a forest swallowed up!
gone! devoured in seconds!

Posted by RooK (# 1852) on :

A stiff breeze blows from the East, bringing with it a smell like saffron and thoughts of nothing. I take great swooping swings with my butterfly net, trying to snag the fairy-quick bubbles of whimsy.

But they burst at my touch.

I am a Hellion.

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