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Flesh and Bones
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Flesh and Bones And they lived Above the clouds, Birds spoke in tongues, The laws of cause and effect Were like raindrops Fractals trembling On imaginary wings Forged in arid catacombs Somewhere in the depths of Time her skin- a fragrant flesh, She slipped through my eyes, Riding a ray of light into Farthest edges of a Mysterious world inside my bones. Down through my Eye, her soul Became a pattern Of pulsating photons, Dissolving at the speed of light The universe buried deep inside. I heard a trillion Universes born in smiles When she laughed. It echoed from the ceiling To her teeth, like Michelangelo's flesh upon the brush... Spinning in the Sistine Chapel. Miraculous -- One hundred million Light years away, A noisy penny whistle Blows to sleep her heavy bones.       |
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ah. no no, MT, I meant - I don't know where my teacher's comments came from - he was referencing something else, an else I wasn't familiar with. but more deeply... where do my comments come from? Clearly, utterly me - but where before that? Where do thoughts that precede speech come from? Where do perception and consciousness that precede thought come from? Not just an idle wondering - a question worth its while, to me. Reminds me of the "show me your original face before your parents were born" koan. "The greatest worth is self-mastery ..quality is seeking to serve others ..precept is continual awareness ..medicine is the emptiness of all ..action is not conforming with the world ..magic is transmuting passions ..wisdom is seeing deeply"
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how seemingly, falsely, coincidental! The title of this post drew me, since there's a collection of zen and pre-zen writings called "Zen flesh, zen bones." And Leanard Cohen was part of the beat generation that got some influence from some of the greats of american zen: joshu sazaki (now 102, living on a mountain in california still, I believe) and dt suzuki if I'm not mistaken. Hmm. The entirety of the book is posted online at 101zenstories dot com. I enjoy them. Sometimes my teacher quotes them during teisho, the spoken teaching time, during longer meditation intensives. I had some minor personal epiphanies during some teisho at my last sesshin at two casual interjected comments by the teacher during these stories. I had been working on the koan "who?" for some time, and also holding the question of : "What is practice?" Deeply in that space of questioning, he made two comments during a talk. The first, he interrupted his story to say, "Which reminds me: zen is likened to a burglar at the door of an empty house." The second, ".... This is like the teacher who was asked what death was like, who replied, 'how badly do you want to know?'" Those comments seemed particularly helpful to me. And hilarious. We are not to speak except during private interviews with the teacher, but I could not help but laugh long and hard at both unexpected moments. Appreciative of your writing, mike I do not know where these comments came from and can't find them in the "literature." They utterly come from you. But then, they don't because...who is to say what your 'youness' would say to an entirely different blog? Musingly, MT
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how seemingly, falsely, coincidental! The title of this post drew me, since there's a collection of zen and pre-zen writings called "Zen flesh, zen bones." And Leanard Cohen was part of the beat generation that got some influence from some of the greats of american zen: joshu sazaki (now 102, living on a mountain in california still, I believe) and dt suzuki if I'm not mistaken. Hmm. The entirety of the book is posted online at 101zenstories dot com. I enjoy them. Sometimes my teacher quotes them during teisho, the spoken teaching time, during longer meditation intensives. I had some minor personal epiphanies during some teisho at my last sesshin at two casual interjected comments by the teacher during these stories. I had been working on the koan "who?" for some time, and also holding the question of : "What is practice?" Deeply in that space of questioning, he made two comments during a talk. The first, he interrupted his story to say, "Which reminds me: zen is likened to a burglar at the door of an empty house." The second, ".... This is like the teacher who was asked what death was like, who replied, 'how badly do you want to know?'" Those comments seemed particularly helpful to me. And hilarious. We are not to speak except during private interviews with the teacher, but I could not help but laugh long and hard at both unexpected moments. Appreciative of your writing, mike I do not know where these comments came from and can't find them in the "literature." "The greatest worth is self-mastery ..quality is seeking to serve others ..precept is continual awareness ..medicine is the emptiness of all ..action is not conforming with the world ..magic is transmuting passions ..wisdom is seeing deeply"
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Beautiful! Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies. For vilest things Become themselves in her, that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish. ~~ from Antony & Cleopatra
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