listening to the kinks sing about a "plastic man"


i thought about you

Those who seek liberation for themselves alone cannot become fully enlightened.

Though it may be said that one who is not already liberated cannot liberate others, the very process of forgetting oneself to help others is itself liberating.

Therefore those who seek to benefit themselves alone actually harm themselves by doing so, while those who help others also help themselves by doing so.

~ Muso Kokushi (1275-1351)

@kewpie said
I didn't really expect to find anyone, it's a rare obsession I've found. 🫠

even after i did the google thingie i did not understand what it was yer talking about
so i very nearly wrote a stupid rhyme, but didn't

yer welcome

If you want to freely live or die, go or stay, to take off or put on your clothes, then right now recognize the one who is listening to my discourse.

That one is without form, without characteristics, without root, without source, and without any dwelling place, yet is brisk and very alive.

As for all manifold responsive activities, the place where they are carried on is, in fact, no place.

Therefore, when you look for that one, it retreats farther and farther, when you seek that, it turns more and more the other way: this is called the “Mystery.”

~ Lin-chi (d.866)

@divegeester said
I’m lookin’ for him…

Who knows where he is?

i heard he was dead

The saying
"By three methods we may learn wisdom:
First, by reflection, which is noblest;
Second, by imitation, which is easiest;
and Third by experience, which is the bitterest"
is credited to whom?

tornados and cicadas
and falling airplane parts
the moon needs a timezone
another random collection of junk

As long as you are subject
To a life bound by force of habit,
You are not free from the
Burden of the body.

~ Kuei-Shan (771-854)

@hand-of-hecate said
https://www.weremember.com/timothy-nimmo/6w9y/memories

he cast many stag sculptures in bronze
when i did the facebook thingie, i enjoyed watching the processes he documented

Baby Sabreen saved from dead mother's womb in Gaza dies

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68903591

Mike Pinder, keyboardist co-founder of Moody Blues, dies at 82

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/04/25/mike-pinder-moody-blues-death/6731714090109/

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome;
if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent;
if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

~ Lord Salisbury

Like the little stream
Making its way
Through the mossy crevices,
I, too, quietly
Turn clear and transparent.

~ Hakuin (1686-1768)


You should know that your own mind’s aware essence is neither finite nor eternal, by nature neither defiled nor pure. It is still and complete; it is the same in ordinary people and saints, responding effectively without patterns, apart from mind, intellect, and discriminating consciousness.

~ Shih-t’ou (700-790)

https://www.dailyzen.com/

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.

~ Herman Melville
US novelist & sailor (1819 - 1891)

Just don’t seek from another
Or you’ll be far estranged from the Way.
I now go on alone
Meeting it everywhere
It now is just what I am
I now am one with it.
You must comprehend in this way
To merge with thusness.

~ Dongshan Liangjie (807-869)