Duck’s Neighborhood

25

He would not join

the contest

for the most humble

and so, won.

He immediately

hid his face in shame.

26

Seeing without illusion

is too often

another illusion.

27

The full moon effects the tides

in our brains.

28

We are each a group of

vibrations/electrons

that have become ego protrusions

in the great vibrate.

29

Humans as ego protrusions

are anchor points in the chaos of the

levels of vibration in

all dimensions.

30

Only situated, contingent reality

can be meaningful

to languagized, culturized, linear thinkers.

Merry Christmas, all!

Bits, pieces, parts, fragments, aphorisms, and hiaku

16

Zen is not Buddhism!!

There; I have killed the Buddha.

17

I see/perceive out of an object that is a

 Perceiver of objects;

Out of a subject which is part of all

objects: a contraption of meat in which

the subject-made-object by locating it is

located.

18

We are only accountable to whatever

brought us here to this tavern at this

carnivorous carnival; but remember

that it brought everything else AND

we are only single ego histories of each

of our bodies.

19

Some think magic must pop and splutter

and amazingly stick out in reality, but

reality is the magic.

20

The mind with language

freezes the world;

 and the mind, keeping it,

steals the moment

from reality.

21

Be careful that the accouterments

of religion do not mask

the vastness of

spirituality.

22

Six AM, I don’t want to get up, but my mind

is full of metaphorical ideas which don’t seem

to distort reality.

23

Keep your higher, observing self, as a

constant companion.

24

Trimmers trim the sails to eventually

move in the direction they want;

Some others don’t understand that the in-betweeness

is not vacillation.

From:  Aphorisms, fragments, bits, parts, and haiku

2

Thoughts which my mind

thinks are worthy

keep me awake in the night

3

About the possibility of dropping

grief and trauma:

Empty holes are hard to drop.

4

The “I” is merely a naked

point of memory

of the biological

entity in which

it resides.

5

We must be for

spirituality as

against religion

just as we should be for

humanity and freedom but

against the idea of

nationalism.

6

Religion exists only

to make humans constantly

and consistently refer to their

higher self.

7

Thinking takes intention away from the senses;

the senses take intention from thinking;

one dies when the other enters.

8

Linear, contingent, languagized

thought cannot contain

spirituality or reality; and yet

we are the lyres of the

physical world by use

of this gift.

9

Hanging on to

your freedom

shackles you

10

Are we all idiot savants

who obviously know how to live

but don’t understand?

Logic is useless.

11

We distribute our egos along

the flowing shore of time and beach-comb

things-phenomenon perceived

and reified

again and again.

12

The local Zendo opens at

5:30 AM (read: O-dark-thirty).

Well, I used to get up then to go fishing.

As then, I don’t expect what I catch to be fish

13

Fishing:

Might as well talk in Etruscan.

I came to this for

all the wrong reasons;

directions are always relative to

the map.

14

Words cut the world into parts;

Who would want real enlightenment?

To succeed you must fail.

To know you must not know.

And you must stop running

with words like scissors

toward reality.

15

Every morning on awakening, the self, the

history of this entity is brought back together

from notes in the mind,

and the text of the matter; the vibrations

around are continued.

Have A Merry Riot

Quite the entertaining piece in this Sunday's Boston Globe, about the early origins of Christmas and its eventual taming over the years. Sounds like it was quite the wild time in the good old days, complete with drunkeness and debauchery:'

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/12/20/christmas_was_a_riot/

Religion is the crutch that many people seem to need to enable them to treat each other the way they should.  It's too bad that it seems to require belief in things for which there is no evidence.  It need not be so.  We could all lead an ethically proper and moral life without ever professing belief in things for which there is no evidence.  We could start by living the golden rule.  Just remember, in all your dealings with any person, to treat them just the way you would want them to treat you.  It's so simple.  All you need to do is think before you speak or act.  Think first THEN speak or act!  Things will happen at a slower pace but you will be much happier with the results.

Cold enough for ya?

Windswept

Now that I'm back on my feet and well fed, it's time to return to my Christmas Cookie baking. Yesterday and today were chocolate-dipped coconut almond macaroons and pecan tassies (which look and taste like miniature pecan pies). I've still got to finish the chocolate Grand Marnier truffles, but hopefully will do that tomorrow.

Still have to wrap presents!

Macaroons

Pecan Tassies