enso unhinged kyozan (814-890) in the keitodudento-roku zen circle bright full moon great round mirror 'neither large nor small, neither wide nor narrow, neither good nor bad, neither transient nor eternal.' 'a circle like vast space, lacking nothing, nothing in excess.' teaching tools a mirror some perfect some lopsided some bold some one some two thick and massive thin and delicate whatever the teacher decides that day 'in heaven and on earth i am the Only Honored One' mu zero nothing honrai muichi motsu (originally not one thing!) 'my heart is like the autumn moon' 'within the ever revolving circle of human passions, things come and go, come and go' 'this is your parents' face before they were born.' 'is this the moon? a rice cake? the top of a bucket? or maybe just the bald head of a monk!' in broad daylight everything comes together in a circle and bears fruit 070913 ... iron ORE people can only learn truth from primary experience, no book is going to show you the true smell of a busy china town or the taste of a pigeon pancake. No youngster is going to have a better knowlege spending their money going to Cambridge rather than going round the world on your own for a few years...........who comes back wiser and less ignorant ? it's not a difficult question. You want to read books and be marked for your so called intellegence, i say you are a mockery to yourself. Have some REAL pride for once don't boss your waiter around as if you are queen of the desert, you are useless if you don't respect water and you so called slaves. 070913 ... iron ORE i mock my self because i can't even spell intelligence correctly ... oooohhhhh, what you gunna do about it? mock me, shoot me, position me, chop me out of a job opportuntity, ohhhhh sounds exciting. 070913 ... unhinged i've read plenty of books that have shown me The Truth. and then i went out into the real world and it was changed. all of these books were books i chose to read on my own however. 070913 ... unhinged and actually i don't read books to be marked with intelligence, i read books to know. 070913 ... iron ORE did i say there was somthing wrong with reading a book? i didn't say so, i just said it is better to have an experience, and if you can meet an interesting person that has a good story to tell, it is better to hear it from their lips. 070914 ... ? know what? 070914 ... unhinged it sure felt like you were attacking me dude. i know what you mean though. i've seen people read certain things to add to their image. a lot of the scenester_bitches around here are into kerouac and bukowski (sp?). i notice it at the coffee shops especially. the way people hide behind their books to watch people, not really reading, with the title prominently displayed. i read to know whatever it is i want to know. the dharma, acoustics, beauty, the little fictionalized world someone else created just for me to know. i've always loved books since i learned how to read them. i eat them up. czeslaw_milosz i buy books like other girls buy shoes college made me forget for a second how much i actually like to read. 070914 ... unhinged . (almost all i do now is read, when im not working anyways) 160802 what's it to you? who go blather from