[Zen] trees

2013-06-10 Thread Merle Lester


 trees are my friends too joe..merle
  
Bill!,

Fine enough.

But trees have always been Friends.

My ex- also used to sleep up in trees when she was a child.  Remarkable: it 
could have gone badly!

Even though I butcher trees to make things for Buddhist temples and teachers, I 
have trees as friends, everywhere.  North and South.

But I plant trees assiduously to make up for what I cull.

It's not just Buddhist temples and teachers who like what I do / make, it 
should also be everybody.  The carbon in my sticks, etc., is sequestered, until 
somebody thinks to burn these artifacts.  Some of my things may last hundreds 
of years, my vanity, prejudice, hope, and expectation suspects / expects.

I sign my stuff.  But no one knows me.  Nor, will know me in 300 years.  Unless 
someone speaks up.

No comment about drugs.  Done; done.  Did I say, done?  Done.

Trees are blameless.  Only drug-takers implicate trees, in any funny ways.

Not wood-butchers.

--Joe

 Bill! BillSmart@... wrote:

 But it is related to a recent thread concerning drug usage.
 Anyway I thought this one was just too good not to share...


 

[Zen] Trees

2012-10-09 Thread William Rintala
You all have a lot of words for a group of zen practitioners.  How many 
different ways can we all say the same thing about this moment?  From the 
volume 
of posts it would seem that the sole concern of Zen is defining time. 

Here's another avenue of approach to just this.

 Recently I read a story that contained this fragment (paraphrased) -  My 
introduction to Zen was when a Marine Corps Captain pointed to a group of 3 
trees standing side by side on a hill. The Captain looked at me and asked 'what 
is the purpose of the middle tree?'.  


Personally I am weary of this discussion of defining the Now. You are a clever 
bunch. Delete, delete, delete...
B 




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