ARTS: The Craft of Writing

[Angel]

May I ask how Zen Buddhism has made you a more authentic writer...or if it has at all?

Yes, you may. Years ago, I would have clicked 'post quick reply' after those first three words. Today, I understand that you believe that you already have asked.

I have an answer, but not the words. I shall return when I have them.

sat

Rather than begin a new post; I've decided to add to this one. This is what arose:

Zen introduced me to the stillness from which my words arise. I find the stillness and rest in it, allowing it to burn away everything that isn't truth. Whatever is left gets written.

Angel - sat

[Tai Shi]

I wear my rakusu now. I have added this word to my personal dictionary in spell check. So important is my garment of the Buddha, I shall wear this into the nwxt world. When a man comes close to death, much becomes clear. What we see, what we know and do not know. I am 70-years -old. In my mind. I am 25 and finally solving the solving my personal. Zen has taugh me modweation in my spendingg. I have an outstanding balance of money. This month I will owe $75 on my credit card. Next month it will be paid in full. At one time, this card had a balance of $5250, with money from my Social Security, now I don't. My Brain Surgery showed me sevral imedite things. Truley there is no bith no death. My body will be dust soon. When I was 25, life meant very little. Then 5 years I married, then 5 years later sobriety, 2 years became a proud father. All my life from 37 on. I look at the errors in this entry.
Gassho
sat/ lah

[Hensho]

Tai Shi, friend: gassho.

How nice to see you on these pages. I have been waiting for you.

Thank you for reminding me of the beauty of expression. It is all just so.

Deep bows,
Hensho

Satlah

[Tai Shi]

Hensho, Onkai, Angel. Geika, and all women and all the women who wish to sit for other women and for the men who so often for get the women of all our world, for such as me. I forget so often women and men with sensitivity, Jishin, Kokuu, for all men, and for Kyousui, my dear friend who found my life in a comment that caused my wife to drive me to the hospital, for JiminBC, for my wife who has as others given over to some men so that those men might live in hope for some equality who cannot have same ever, for all of us who live in hope of each other, and yet equality which the Buddha himself so wanted, yes what we can offer, and those who cannot believe in equality, may you yet find long writing here recognizing that we have ruthlessly taken from women what they only ask for in our life--love. That also men only long for quality of life, and give over what women wish-- control, equally in any relationship, or if they chose no relationship, what each sex is only suited for, what we alone wish of ourselves. May we ever find in peace some attitude we cannot understand, what we long for what is right and good. Schikantaza. For me as I wish in sorrow that our life together quality, and equality, could it be ever so in our old age, more so, let us be alone if we wish is it we long for--solitude.
Gassho. sat/lah
Deep Bows.

[Tai Shi]

I have sought new civilizations, new men and women. Landed into Planet eternal, laughing why we wish for alien introduction to knowing human beings are not alone in this universal overtone. We know this Buddha nature is true because they land with their space machines warp in one Science Fiction, in another inter dimension, races mingled evermore together, and we soar, and we fly not without we are not angry, so flight becomes easy as we mindfully since from mind all memory of death and destruction gone, all is union, all is pyre of death eternal to let flow up and on. For all the women who have been hurt by me and in ignorance, in beginning less greed, for all women to hear to see, to understand. To humanity now together living as one, as interdependent.

Gassho
Deep bows
sat/lah

[Tai Shi]

Please dear women friends light here and to hear songs of poetry, words in song, lyric, and wistfully we dissolve into meditation which is different just sitting ill meditation gone even so with the WORDS gone is sickness as Jishen helps men to see that error is eternally not repented not necessary except in Verse of Atonement. Four vows eternally we cannot see all reality, we cannot know all verses of poems we sing high and winged up, up, up and away. Dastardly presence gone evermore, tranquility in wings, of doves landing baptism of fire, of shirt eternal flame of wise intersections of no wonder we cannot flame, that we cannot exclaim. Realm of Glory road, up to another life of alien people who live in the world of earth, who have always been hearing the giving bright tone. Women, men asexual, men women mingled together. Men, women alone.

Gassho
sat/lah