Friday, February 26, 2010

Show Bar Ersheinung

 
Apparently appearing manifestly surface show, all part of a phenomenological experience involving self-transcendence, I mean, so much talk about hog virus turned out to be a lot of hog wash. Somebody got rich off the deal, selling all that vaccine. 2009, swine flu, an extraordinary popular delusion.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Meditation

 
After confusion intensified to breaking point in the life of Reverend Red Gunn (Red is short for Fred), Red stumbled across a copy of the Zen classic translated by Thomas Cleary, The Blue Cliff Record, and opened it at random to Case 87, "A clear-eyed fellow has no nest..."

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Bread Face

 
Two sides of the dream, awake and sleeping, mind divided, subject object, observer and that which is observed, thing in itself (some sort of essence, primal force or whatever word could be invented to try and put into words what existed before language attempted to squeeze experience into the confines of grammar) and manifestation of the thing, the riddle of the universe nobody has or ever will be able to answer. It's an unanswerable question.