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the zen of love and disillusionment
ireland & the phallic continuum
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Standing in front of the
smile
on the face of a boiled pig's head
- you be as generous !
- Ko Un
The powerful are ever more lonely.
All the time I am praying to the Buddha
I keep on killing mosquitoes.
- Issa
Insects on a bough
Floating downriver,
Still singing.
- Issa
Zen:
Seeing into one's own nature.
- Hui-neng
We are here and it is now.
Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
- H. L. Mencken
Being is what it is.
- J-P Sartre
To see what is in front of
one's nose needs constant struggle.
- George Orwell
Break the legs of what I want
to happen.
Humiliate my desire.
Eat me like chocolate.
It is spring and finally I have no will.
- Jalaluddin Rumi
We fire clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside that holds what we want.
- Lao Tzu
Those who think they're sane
are merely arrogant.
Death is the sum of
what it steals from us.
- from the film "Tous les Matins du Monde"
It is there, right where you
are;
If you seek it, obviously you do not see it.
- Muso Kokushi
So little time - so little
to do.
- Oscar Levant
Calm in quietude is not real
calm;
when you can be calm in the midst of activity,
this is the true state.
Happiness
in comfort is not real happiness;
when you can be happy in the midst of hardship,
then you realise your true potential.
- Huanchu Daoren
To ask the hard question is
simple.
- W. H. Auden
There is no beginning to practice
nor end to enlightenment;
There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.
- Dogen
If you really desire peace,
be ready to sweat blood.
- Hakuin
The human soul's as deep as
emptiness.
we’re lost where the mind can’t find us utterly lost
- Ikkyû
After
Ikkyû
Anthony Weir
Cirrus caressing the sky.
Old man ejaculates alone.
Life by numbers.
Long life.
Sequoias too.
torpid
now nearly eighty
I offer my little hard turds to the Buddha
Avoiding shame.
What I say
and what I think
are (I think I hope I think)
the same.
Flowers are silent
Silence is silent
My mind is a noisy flower with the corpses of insect-thoughts sticking
to it
Half-dissolved gravestones
can, if you're desperate, be used for grinding coffee.
The painful path is
beautiful
and leads to beautiful painless nothing
Memory is a bramble-patch
scratching your every thought
and producing drupelet-scabs
Value-laden words
Dirt too is beautiful
and the swirly spiral flush of turds
Blind donkey stumbles
over stones into walls and ditches
Pain, no words, no hope
Covid-19
just a drop in the ocean a neutral
drop in the bitter
ocean a tiny drop in
the viral sea
Wholesome
dog-shit can teach you more
than the writings of the holy wholly unholy
fakers of wisdom
I have never seen my brain
constant life constant
death
wearisome
the moon is so attractive
plagiarism
is just another kind of inspiration
ANONYMOUS ZEN SAYINGS
If you do not get it from yourself, Where will you go for it ?
If you try to aim for it, you are turning away from it.
Zen
Zen
