Monday 11:12 p.m.
Sitting was so easy today. Such feelings of peace and contentment arising, it was indeed like the start of this holiday. Everybody needs longer holidays. Your holiday takes two weeks before you're really on holiday. By then most folk's holidays are over, but what a fortunate creature I am to have another four weeks left.
With the weekend over, most deities go back to their more static places and there is less chaos, more peace and quiet. It's Monday. You can pause and consider how you are getting on. Today felt like a turning point. I recognise this. It's like after you've been meditating at the Samye Ling for three days. Then it becomes exactly the thing you should be doing. There's a satiation in just sitting.
Is this the ninth day since I last had a drink? I did a murderous shadow boxing session tonight. You're still a fat basturn, Hotboy! Thanks for that, Jack.
Been in and out of my head all day that story about the emperor and the wee fat baldy guy. So the emperor says to the wee fat baldy guy the stuff about will he gain merit from all the monasteries and temples he's built, and all that. And the wee fat baldy guy says no.
With the grinding cogs of karma still crunching round ... well, factoring that in with the wee fat baldy guy's response ... you don't really need much more buddhisty stuff than that.
What with the cannybliss yogurts and the wee fat baldy guys, who could ask for anything more? I forgot to tell yous about ra bliss. Some other time.
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7 comments:
The particular wee fat baldy guy you're referring to is Bodhidharma, founder of Zen, ya Bellshill heathen.
That dialog continues with the emperor asking him, "Then what is the Buddha Dharma?"
Bodhidharma said, "Vast emptiness. Nothing sacred, nothing profane."
The emperor said, "Then who are you?"
Bodhidharma said, "I don't know."
Your last blog had something nasty in it that used to set off my spyware detector thing. Are you letting statcounter in here too? NPD claims another victim. I'm in recovery since I dumped them.
Like MM, I assumed the L was for learner. Provisional drivers in Australia have to display a P-plate. You'd be RaBadBoyPissheid.
Revsei! Was he the start of the zen boys? Did he hava a big stick?
Albert? Is it you? NPD? Is it another disease? Us lapis lazuli dudes have decided not go get any more diseases. Hotboy
Yeah, Bodhidharma went from India to China and started the Zen tradition there. It was called Ch'an, which means "meditation." "Zen" is the Japanese pronunciation of "Ch'an."
The stick came later. Zen teachers need to take their frustrations out on flatheids somehow.
Speaking of flatheids, Bodhidharma was so sick of them that after his conversation with the emperor, he went off to a cave for nine years.
Revsei! You need a bit stick if you're going to get flatheids to sit quietly doing bugger all. No whistles or bells! No sweeties! Dearie me! Hotboy
Albert? What's spyware. Trust you to have a detector thing! Hotboy
If you haven't got one that would explain a lot. Dearie me, you need more than a hut manager.
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