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Guru Id's World of Wisdom

Guru. Hierophant. Philosopher. Mystic. Introspector. Sage. Thyme. Tarragon. Allspice. Oldspice. Mark of a man. Or a women. Hang on, I've lost it at some point, where the f**k was I?

Quotes of Master Dogen #2

Right then. I have got it this time. Great Master Gensho of Sozan mountain on one occasion is asked by a monk, "I have heard it said in the teachings that 'the Great Sea does not accommodate dead bodies.'What is meant by 'the Sea'?" The Master says, "It includes myriad existence." The monk says, "Then how can it not accommodate dead bodies?" The Master says, "What has stopped breathing does not belong." The monk says, "Given that [the Sea] includes myriad existence, how can what has stopped...
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Quotes of Master Dogen

For today's lesson I shall read an illuminating passage from Master Dogen's seminal work on Zen Buddhism; his master work "Shobogenzo". This passage is from volume two of the Cross / Nishijima translation: "Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And onto this...", oh wait that's Conan. Sorry everyone. I'll try again tomorrow. ...
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The external & the internal: the same but different

The elders often speak of the need to consider the unity of opposites; the outside and inside, the exterior and the interior or, to use the terminology of graphic design, the stroke and the fill. One cannot have one without the other just as light cannot exist without the dark. They exist together in one mutually-arising entity. That being said there is a massive difference in the pain levels experienced when one unwisely applies Voltarol to both internal and external haemorrhoids. So although a...
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Every day is a revelation

Let is be known that the numbers on a toaster dial represent the minutes the bread is heated and not some abstract level of "toastiness". This was made known to me a few weeks ago and has ended 47 years in the dark vale of Toast Ignorance. 47 years FFS! ...
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