zen thread

[Elidor]

[SoDesuKa]

1. How Long

How long do I have to keep contemplating?

[Elidor]

2. Until you stop asking question, grasshoppa

:D

[Stew225]

3. I TOTALLY disagree with your unstated

premise/promise.

[Elidor]

4. You know much, grasshoppa, but yet so little

What if you gave a thread, and no one came?

[librechik]

5. you trouble your mind with unnecessary questions

one has only to accept the way.

[Stew225]

7. You mean the

dough? I'll accept it! It better have acceptable SAT scores, though.

[librechik]

10. yeah, the Tao. It's a town in Nueva Mexico. It's on the way to

Santa Fe.


www.zenpsycho.com

[Nlighten1]

9. What is the sound...

of one hand clapping?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. ~

[baldguy]

8. white square

[Elidor]

11. Nice

[baldguy]

12. black circle

[baldguy]

13. Zen Koans

http://www.ibiblio.org/zen/cgi-bin/koan.pl

[Elidor]

15. A young man begs the guidance of a spiritual practitioner

The advice given is to begin by exercising himself in concentration of attention. "What kind of work do you do?" he asks the young man. "I keep the yaks on the hills," says the young man. "All right," says the yogi, "concentrate on a yak." The novice in his cell finds himself in a cave in the hills and begins to practice. After some time, the master goes to visit his student. Near to the cave the master calls for the student to come out. Hearing his master's voice, the student leaps to his feet and rushes to the entrance, but is unable to leave: He cries out, "I am sorry master, but my horns won't fit through the door!"

In that moment, he was enlightened.

[baldguy]

17. "Yaks"? He didn't keep yaks.

They were box turtles.

[SoDesuKa]

18. They Were Yuks

He was practicing his Las Vegas standup comedy act. I just flew in from Cleveland, and boy! My arms are tired.

[Duncan Grant]

14. Those who know, do not say -

Those who say, do not know.

[Dukkha]

16. from my album remnants of zen

Grandview

[Elidor]

20. I like that

My SO and I have been sitting here this morning, blissing out on it.

What's the album?

[Ivan Sputnik]

19. The Zen Master

is visiting New York City from Tibet.

He goes up to a hotdog vendor and says, "Make me one with everything."

The hot dog vendor fixes a hot dog and hands it to the Zen Master, who pays with a $20 bill.

The vendor puts the bill in the cash box and closes it. "Where's my change?" asks the Zen Master.

The vendor responds, "Change must come from within."