-- "Are you still afraid of this?"

The Forth One, Dao Hsin, went to the mountain Head of Taurus to visit Fah Rhongh, a saint whose hut was protected by tigers and wolves. Also, birds were bringing him flowers every day. When Dao Hsin saw those beasts he pretended he was terrified, and grinning he raised his hands as if he wanted to avoid being harmed. Noticing Dao, the saint asked him:
-- “Are you still afraid of it?”
Later on, Rhongh visited back Dao, who greeted him and told him to sit, pointing towards a seat made of stone, on which he had the word “Buddha” carved. The saint refused to sit there, and Dao asked him:
-- “Are you still afraid of it?”
After his immediate satori, the saint never saw again the beasts that used to protect him. And never again the birds brought him flowers
😵

Originally posted by black beetle
The Forth One, Dao Hsin, went to the mountain Head of Taurus to visit Fah Rhongh, a saint whose hut was protected by tigers and wolves. Also, birds were bringing him flowers every day. When Dao Hsin saw those beasts he pretended he was terrified, and grinning he raised his hands as if he wanted to avoid being harmed. Noticing Dao, the saint asked him:
...[text shortened]... saw again the beasts that used to protect him. And never again the birds brought him flowers
😵

Is this the prequel to "Hidden Tiger, Crouching dragon?

Originally posted by sonhouse
Is this the prequel to "Hidden Tiger, Crouching dragon?

Some are workers, some are not😵

Originally posted by black beetle
Some are workers, some are not😵

Let us speak in cryptic ways. The ones that accept and build on it, are of our own kind, and we can rely on them. The ones that make fun of it, or dismiss it as gibberish, are not of our kind.

Or did you just say this?

That's about the weave of it.

Originally posted by divegeester
That's about the weave of it.

But we still have to look on 'both sides the tweed'.

Flourish both sides the tweed, Dick Gaughan and Emmyou Harris:

YouTube

I think our band did it better🙂 Except they had Jerry Douglas, a genius on the dobro!

Originally posted by JS357
Let us speak in cryptic ways. The ones that accept and build on it, are of our own kind, and we can rely on them. The ones that make fun of it, or dismiss it as gibberish, are not of our kind.

Or did you just say this?

There is no thing "to be accepted". Each preposition is just another brick in the wall of the delusion whenever it is used in order to back up a so called "absolute truth" or the so called "objectivity". Map and territory are not the same; And there are levels of awareness. When you understand, you start acting. When you don't understand, you start thinking. Thus some are workers, some are not.
Now, regarding "the ones that make fun of it or dismiss it as gibberish" and thus "are not of our kind", oh well, the sole one who is pulling constantly my leg is that miserable atheist black beetle, not our sonhouse😵


Would you say that Greek language is "cryptic" just because my Greek (OK, my English) is Greek to you? The information is always perfect, but you have to calculate; otherwise avoid the Royal Game.
Are you still afraid of this?
😵

Originally posted by black beetle
There is no thing "to be accepted". Each preposition is just another brick in the wall of the delusion whenever it is used in order to back up a so called "absolute truth" or the so called "objectivity". Map and territory are not the same; And there are levels of awareness. When you understand, you start acting. When you don't understand, you start thin ...[text shortened]... ve to calculate; otherwise avoid the Royal Game.
Are you still afraid of this?
😵

LOL See post on The evolutionary value of religion.

Map and territory
are not the same—

And yet so many wars
are fought, just
in the name of “The Map”!

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So many maps have I carried
in the various pockets of my mind—

Whenever I stumble, they spill out.
I look around:

How incredible! That lovely face
was not on my maps!

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Never repudiate the territory
because you find
it does not fit your maps . . .

Thank you for that koan!

Originally posted by vistesd
Map and territory
are not the same—

And yet so many wars
are fought, just
in the name of “The Map”!

______________________________________

So many maps have I carried
in the various pockets of my mind—

Whenever I stumble, they spill out.
I look around:

How incredible! That lovely face
was not on my maps!

________________________________________

Never repudiate the territory
because you find
it does not fit your maps . . .

Oh your cat is roaming free for good everywhere in your veranda😵

Originally posted by vistesd
Thank you for that koan!

I thank you, vistesd; no koan is a match to you anymore, not even you.
Me wanna dance😵

Originally posted by JS357
LOL See post on The evolutionary value of religion.

No Religion😵

Originally posted by black beetle
Oh your cat is roaming free for good everywhere in your veranda😵

All is revealed at

http://www.knowyourcat.info/getcat/indoorcats.htm

Originally posted by black beetle
I thank you, vistesd; no koan is a match to you anymore, not even you.
Me wanna dance😵

Oh, man… Now I have tears in my eyes. I have wandered so far—

—and lost became
within these and those
horizons whose circles
encircled my mind
before I knew—hemmed in
by my own echoes,
echoing echoing echoing
down canyons that are not
real—and now
in a hammered silence
no echoes at all, only
this dance…

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It was not you, but I, who left the dance, old friend. Now I remember…