Floating

[arthus]

Success and failure are your journey."
~ Chogyam Trungpa


The days flow, varying, from rapids to a trickle, and back. Looking endlessly at the bank, the stream of thoughts cease. Just a moment, here. A moment, needed to right ones mind in the torrent of sensations and reflections, ideas and impressions. In flowing water keeping one's feet becomes difficult. Every wave and swell is death incarnate, or is it the ego-death? Trek ever forward, with refuge, everywhere once found within.

Green branch, summer born,
Ride water, ever changing,
Beyond, it's just this.


Greetings Sangha,

Yet to greet, yet to meet. Hello all and thank you.

Mu,
Arthus

[Juki]

Hello, nice.

Gassho,
William

[alan.r]

As Fugen says: Hi.

[Nameless]

Beautifully said Arthus! As it's been said, don't just go with the flow; be the flowing

Gassho,
John

[Kyonin]

Welcome

Gassho,

Kyonin

[Kokuu]

Green branch, summer born,
Ride water, ever changing,
Beyond, it's just this.

Your haiku, Arthus? Is lovely.

Welcome!

Andy

[arthus]

_/\_

Came across a quote today by a less studied philosopher.

"To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainty which means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil."

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Wowie Zowie

[Jundo]

We sit beyond true and false. Drop all judgments of "true" and "false", "good vs. evil". Here 1 = 2 = XYZ.

And yet, like the other side of a no sided coin, we sit right as true and false, because 2 + 2 will never equal 5, and the sun does not circle the earth. Good and Evil truly exist, as the news reports demonstrate each day in Boston, Syria and many places.

Buddha was more Super than Nietzsche's Superman!

Gassho, J

[arthus]

For my afternoon sit, after Deshan's "Neither Asking nor Not Asking".

Many thanks,
Arthus

[Jundo]

For my afternoon sit, after Deshan's "Neither Asking nor Not Asking".

Many thanks,
Arthus

Why not before instead of after?

I hit you.

Gassho, J

[arthus]

Deshan asked, 'What difference would it make...?'

Kowtow

[Jundo]

Yes, well, I am going to leave the "Dharma Combat" right there. I stink at it.

Gassho, Jundo

[arthus]

Laughs. 'Combat' portends purpose. No purpose, no not-purpose eh?

This one thanks you and Deshan in the same way.

Gassho Sensei,

Arthus

[Jundo]

Laughs. 'Combat' portends purpose. No purpose, no not-purpose eh?

This one thanks you and Deshan in the same way.

Gassho Sensei,

Arthus

No, I just meant that I stink at "Dharma Combat", that "this one" is really bad at it.

Gassho, J

[arthus]

If that was combat, consider the sword sheathed. Though this 'combat' makes for fun Wittgensteinian language games, "words are wind."

While the form of thanks is sitting, the mud fights stress-test my dharmic tenacity (open invitation).

Nothing but thanks for all you do teacher.

~arthus