tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756920.post5670710364829659121..comments2024-01-08T06:21:35.864-08:00Comments on Notes in Samsara: On not having much to say...or being older...Mumon Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01116967568502451788noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756920.post-79428246795008856432012-05-17T17:37:41.757-07:002012-05-17T17:37:41.757-07:00please continue ... however intermittently. i am ...please continue ... however intermittently. i am no expert or roshi, genpo, guru, etc. ... i have spent most of my years just slogging along doing my meditation alone, sans teacher or sangha (though i do have a community of recovering folks that seems to work). i've looked for teachers, but in my very rural locale, the distances have been prohibitive. Then i think, perhaps a reliance on my own experience internally is better for me. <br />i enjoy your perspective and information, expertise and wisdom. i keep thinking that i will blog one day, though i don't have that much to say.<br /><br />jj~JJ Runnionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16884922495219366103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756920.post-66486150380814718972012-05-14T05:54:30.825-07:002012-05-14T05:54:30.825-07:00Angulimala:
Nice quotes. I might read that book ...Angulimala:<br /><br />Nice quotes. I might read that book by Faulkner...Mumon Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01116967568502451788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756920.post-34866752930819219812012-05-13T23:05:27.678-07:002012-05-13T23:05:27.678-07:00Bob:
Now I wish I could write you a melody so pla...Bob:<br /><br />Now I wish I could write you a melody so plain<br />That could hold you dear lady from going insane<br />That could ease you and cool you and cease the pain<br />Of your useless and pointless knowledge<br /><br />Of late I have been easing no mind in the rereading of one of my favorites:<br /><br />William Faulkner ~As I Lay Dying~<br /><br />"In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, you are not. And when you were filled with sleep, you never were. I dont know what I am. I dont know if I am or not. Jewel knows he is, because he does not know that he doesnt not know whether he is or not. He cannot empty himself for sleep because he is not what he is and he is what he is not. Beyond the unlamped wall I can hear the rain shaping the wagon that is ours, the load that is no longer theirs that felled and sawed it nor yet theirs that bought it and which is not ours either, lie on our wagon though it does, since only the wind and the rain shape it only to Jewel and me, that are not asleep. And since sleep is is-not and rain and wind are 'was', it is not. Yet the wagon is, because when the wagon is 'was', Addie Bundren will not be. And Jewel is , so Addie Bundren must be. And then I must be, or I could not empty myself for sleep in a strange room. And so if I am not emptied yet, I am 'is'. <br /><br />How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home."Angulimalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12222562600696219867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756920.post-58784820807013944942012-05-12T07:49:27.604-07:002012-05-12T07:49:27.604-07:00Petteri: I should do another sutra series myself. ...Petteri: I should do another sutra series myself. I too am bored about the drama & the fluffy new age stuff. And I'll definitely check out those two blogs.Mumon Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01116967568502451788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756920.post-78094580394193239602012-05-12T07:42:44.840-07:002012-05-12T07:42:44.840-07:00I haven't had all that much to say about thing...I haven't had all that much to say about things Buddhisty lately. I'm not qualified to say anything much about the dharma, and I've gotten heartily sick of the drama. Perhaps I'll get inspired to do some reading of the classics and blog about that at some time, like I did with Vasubandhu's seven works (I never did blog about the very last ones, although I did read them). But not so much now. So I blog about coffee, or Europe, or whatever else I happen to be dabbling in. There might be something about saving the planet with LED lighting, or housework.<br /><br />I've also gotten increasingly jaded <i>reading</i> Buddhist blogs, the few that remain that is. Most of it is fluffy New Age pap. Most of the rest is terribly self-absorbed, or drama, or just very trite and clichéd or Establishment, or just relatively unoriginal.<br /><br />A couple I do enjoy that aren't featured in your blogroll:<br /><br /><a href="http://meaningness.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">Meaningness,</a> David Chapman's cluster of blogs about tantra and criticizing "Consensus Buddhism"<br /><br /><a href="http://sujato.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">Sujato's blog,</a> by Bhante SujatoBrikoleurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01318706625291447339noreply@blogger.com