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My Interests

Olympic Fever... No, Really!..
Chinese Officials: Deadly Virus Sweeping China Is Just Olympic Fever

I'd like to meet:

Those Laughing out loud. Having laughed, those seeking Self-Realisation. Having found Self-Realisation, those seeking NoSelf-Realisation. Having found NoSelf-Realisation, those Realising. Having Realised, those Laughing out loud.

Music:

Captain Beefheart - Philip Glass - The Dubliners - Martin Grech - Erik Satie - Yann Tiersen - Tom Waits - Kifu Matsuhashi - Keith Jarrett - The Edgar Broughton Band - Yungchen Lhamo - Bert Jansch

Movies:

In The Mood for Love by Wong Kar-Wai - Apocalypse Now by Coppola - Paris, Texas by Wenders - Donnie Darko by Kelly

Television:

Lobotomy anyone?

Books:

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig - Bring Me the Rhinoceros by John Tarrant - Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse - Time by Andy Goldsworthy - Tunnel Visions by Christopher Ross - The Monk and the Philosopher by Revel & Ricard - The Big Book of Hell Cartoons by Matt Groening - Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu - Werner Erhard by W.W. Bartley,III - The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Matsuo Basho - The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain De Botton - The Book by Alan Watts

Heroes:

Where?

My Blog

Wittgenstein Zen

Words are but shadows of reality,throwing darkness upon experience.Descriptions revealing cold substitutiondesperately seeking warm truth.ThereIsNoSelf (Jan 08)
Posted by ThereIsNoSelf on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:00:00 PST

Fundamentalism

The question of fundamentals.Who Am I?Glimpsed fleetingly thro' silence.You cannot answer it,but you can dance it.ThereIsNoSelf (Nov 07)
Posted by ThereIsNoSelf on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 04:28:00 PST

Shikantaza

Day after day,he sits and sits.Lotus releasingthe eternal Now.Being breathed intoshikantaza.No time.No space.No self.ThereIsNoSelf (Oct 2007)
Posted by ThereIsNoSelf on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 05:14:00 PST

The Way Out

He experienced seeking as frustration,asking as humiliation,yeilding as defeat,battling endlessly with the ordinary.Victims of themselves,overcome by common obstacles,unable to find freedom out there....
Posted by ThereIsNoSelf on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:06:00 PST

The News

It is difficultto get the news from poemsyet men die miserably every dayfor lackof what is found thereWilliam Carlos Williams
Posted by ThereIsNoSelf on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:29:00 PST

The Crows of Reality

Last august, i sat in zazen (meditation) cross-legged in the zendo, along with other monks and lay zen buddhists. It was just after 6 in the morning; outside and inside there was deep silence, and the...
Posted by ThereIsNoSelf on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:51:00 PST

Zhenying at Mount Emei

Freed by his virtue, this old friend of mineTrusts in the Way and delights in woods and streams.While sitting in meditationHe journeys to the land of no more doubts.While living in the discipline of p...
Posted by ThereIsNoSelf on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:06:00 PST

Xiaolu

For those of you who like intelligent art... my very good friend, xiaolu guo, releases her latest book tomorrow "A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers" and her latest film "How Is Your Fish ...
Posted by ThereIsNoSelf on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:07:00 PST

Matsuo Bassho

Matsuo Bassho was the poet who lifted the 17-syllable haiku out of the earlier - and longer - forms of waka and renga poetry to make of it a genre in its own right. Bassho was trained as a Buddhist mo...
Posted by ThereIsNoSelf on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:42:00 PST

Standing Still in Copenhagen

I have been lucky to travel many cities in our world, both on business and pleasure. More significant, in my zen practice, I have been able to find my Self in many of these cities.Copenhangen Enlighte...
Posted by ThereIsNoSelf on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:21:00 PST