...

While everyone else
Is so busy striving,
The lone traveler
Is at ease by himself.

He’s been living outside of convention
For a long time now;
In his pouch there is nothing at all.

When he walks,
He takes a cane for a companion;
When he talks,
He has the rocks for an audience.

If you ask him what his religion is,
When hungry it’s a bowl of rice.

~ Wen-siang (1210-1280)

@rookie54 said
The ancient masters slept without dreams and woke up without worries.
Their food was plain. Their breath came from deep inside them.

They didn’t cling to life, weren’t anxious about death.
They emerged without desire and reentered without resistance.

They came easily; they went easily.
They didn’t forget where they were from; they didn’t ask where they were going ...[text shortened]... th without fear.
They accepted life as a gift, and they handed it back gratefully,

~ Chuang-tzu

@rookie54 said
Let go of all your previous imaginings, opinions, interpretations,
worldly knowledge, intellectualism, egotism, and competitiveness;
become like a dead tree, like cold ashes.

When you reach the point where feelings are ended, views are gone,
and your mind is clean and naked, you open up to Zen realization.

After that it is also necessary to develop consistency, ...[text shortened]... ages or of ordinary people,
then you are like a bird freed from its cage.

~ Yuan wu (1063-1135)

You need not seek the real,
Mind originally is Buddha.
The familiar becomes remote,
The strange seems familiar.

Day and night,
Everything is wonderful.
Nothing you encounter confuses you.
These are the essentials of mind.

~ Han Shan Te Ch’ing (1546-1623)

Independent of material existence,
Which is ever an obstruction,
Do not cling to deluded thoughts.
These give birth to illusion.

Attentively contemplate this mind,
Empty, devoid of all objects.
If emotions should suddenly arise,
You will fall into confusion.

~ Han Shan Te Ch’ing
(1546-1623)

@rookie54

In summary, you have been posting some poems by solitaries with avoidant tendencies as some kind of cover or attempt at balance for your more pungent and sewage-fragranced personal attacks elsewhere.

[/end of thread]

This body’s existence is like a bubble's
May as well accept what happens.
Events and hopes seldom agree,
But who can step back, doesn’t worry.
We blossom and fade like flowers;
Gather and part like clouds.
Worldly thoughts, I forgot long ago
Relaxing all day on a peak.

– Stonehouse

@rookie54 said
This body’s existence is like a bubble's
May as well accept what happens.
Events and hopes seldom agree,
But who can step back, doesn’t worry.
We blossom and fade like flowers;
Gather and part like clouds.
Worldly thoughts, I forgot long ago
Relaxing all day on a peak.

– Stonehouse

@Arkturos said
Chuang-tzu was full of guff.
The nerve of him to imagine this or that
and present it as a "teaching".
How the hell could he know?

@Suzianne said
Could you not attempt to destroy every good thread?

The post that was quoted here has been removed

@Suzianne said
And you wrote the dozens and dozens of other harassing posts in other threads.

Rookie doesn't go around making himself into a pariah everywhere, as you do.

I don't see how you get away with it.

Downvotes are so easy, aren't they.