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Yes this is what acid can do for you

Usually I can remember the title of the book and/or short passages and what they are about - sometimes they make sense but not always. All the time we know things that we block out and sometimes we use dreams etc. to tell ourselves. I have gone through phases of having a lot of premonition dreams which come true - quite often the same day if its early morning half sleep stuff - sometimes its quite specific like meeting someone unexpectedly I haven't seen for a long time. Some of the book dreams are the inner/higher (whatever) communicating something.

people who claim to be teachers ... more than disappointing.

you would expect more.... but you're never satisfied head full stomach void.

And me. I have read through pages and pages of ancient texts in dream and semi-dream states.

I think I just became PC. Reading this thread is depressing me.

Of dhow coconuts. 'I should coco, really I should'. 'You coco cannot!' (no idea either ) (driven nuts by KAP bickering )

Chew, munch, chew, munch...burrrp! I love to listen to cows Farting greenhouse gas.

Hi, A close friend of mine was a member of this order: Nimatullahi Dr. Nurbakhsh who died last year was one of the most impressive people I have met. He wrote several books which explain Sufi practice and he also wrote beautiful poetry. A7. PS. watch the video on the site of his last interview (he was ill but its still really interesting).

pass the crackers 'round though we do not have crackers we still are crackers! (if this haiku chain should last for three thousand posts, they will still say - this was their finest hour)

Would you like to borrow our Queen - I don't think we have a lot of use for her?

John Surman - Winter Wish tsGThM1NUAc&feature=related

Listen to Silence... the liquid air is humming a green sun rises.

Lazy winter sun Over-ripened apricot My breath is like steam.

I'd give my last cent cos we're on page one hundred of this haiku chain.

Marblehead posted his definition of Daoist meditation on another thread I think. I would be interested to discuss this - and I think I would start as follows. There's a difference between meditation and meditation techniques. If you ask about meditation or read about it most people will tell you techniques. Like watch the breath, or count the breath ,or concentrate here, or visualize something. These are tricks or toys to get your mind/being into a certain state e.g calm, relaxed and so on. They are probably almost universal although the form will vary system to system, like what form is visualized for instance. Beyond this is the non-technique stuff - just sitting Zazen and so on - where you go stop actually trying to do anything and just be (or however you want to put it). Again this is fine and stops you obsessing with the technique (cos there isn't one). This is all geared to give you a breakthrough (that's what I call it) when you start to have a genuine relationship with your own mind/being -call it what you will. This is where meditation really starts for me. You begin to dwell with yourself in a way which is not about thoughts and is not about not-thoughts. The thing for me about Taoism (and I mean what I get from TTC and Chuang Tsu) is that it kind of goes straight to this way - like a 'wu wei' of sitting. You are not doing and not not doing meditation. Does this make any sense? Answers on a postcard

Thanks - I enjoyed the 10 Bulls video. This I agree "Quite unnecessary, but a 'cross' most have to bear nonetheless." That's very kind - but it's your wise words which sparked this debate! Ninpo usually challenges me to a duel at this point ... and as a scholar warrior I am ready.

You know what they say, you can take the man out of Buddha-nature but you can't take the Buddha-nature out of man. Cowtao, I like the way you put this very much. I think that there is a sense that you arrive at wisdom, you become wise. What I would suggest though is that even if this wisdom arises because you have let go of notions and labels - you would first have first had to have taken them up and learned how limited/worthless(?) they are to become wise. You have gone through a process i.e. life ...a journey (to use that over used expression) to arrive at wisdom - even if that wisdom consists in a kind of return to what is your original nature. ? Maybe ? A7.

To me wisdom means that you have soaked up all the knowledge and experience so that your understanding of things is instinctive or innate. You don't have to think things through. Its more than knowing. Mind you some people seem to be born wise - I suppose this could be explained by previous lives and all that or maybe some people have this extra ability to absorb what's going on.

My basic instinct is that it's Bunny Boiler herself.

Just how many old men has Bunny lured down her dimly lit corridors?

could tell you, but won't not until I've finished school how special to learn. (fix number one ) Nice Paul but it needs to be 5,7,5 syllables, so : Democracy means I get to vote now and then for another clown.

Taomeow, I am genuinely interested in your view - but I still don't understand what it is. This phrase 'pattern of space-time configuration' makes sense literally but I don't actually know whether what I think it means is what you mean (If you see what I mean). Explain more if you will. Ta. A.

scoop up some heartbeat, stir in a gentle lentil food for the belly.