Here’s a short, 5 minute audiobook reading of this very short case: Book of SerenityCase 45.
It’s a sunny day here. Finally. After like 15 days of rain or something. Absolutely horrible.
Some of you r/zen users were not happy with the results, either. (Long posts and comments are one of the symptoms to rain physiological states. Storytelling as energy tactic, I guess.)
But anyway today was sunny. And some of you seemed like you wanted to argue with me, or fight or something, last couple times out. But you can never figure out how to ask questions—so boo hoo. Try again this time. I won’t make a long post at all. Nothing to confuse your Freud-bewitched psychological motors.
From the Case:
Verse:
Magnificent, clearly outstanding;
Serene, at ease.
Clamor pierces the head;
Quiet is where to tread.
Underfoot, the thread breaks, and I am free;
The spot of mud on the nose is gone—you don’t have to chop.
‘Don’t budge’—
On a thousand-year-old scrap of paper medicine’s compounded. There’s great miraculous effect.
I actually had to take out Wangsong’s interpolated comments when moving it over from kindle edition. The paper book format is much better, because it gives you Tiangtong’s verse on their own, first—and doesn’t clutter it with Wansong’s interjections (which you can find at the end instead).
Tiantong describes “clamor piercing the head”, says “…tread”, and then “underfoot the thread breaks and I am free.”
Yep, sounds just like walking to me.
I believe Wansong’s comment was “walking freely to the land of Immortals.” (Funny how you can get blocked around here for referring to the same literature Wansong refers to, isn’t it?)
Wansong also (I know you didn’t listen to or read the case, don’t lie) quotes The Biographies of Wizards.
I bet there was some hysterical buddhist priest in Wansong’s town, desperate to cling to authority, that called Wansong a heretic and said he believed in magic for quoting such texts. Sounds about right, doesn’t it? Buddhist instituions under the Mongol military dictatorship? Bet those had to be de rigueur from toe to topsail, didn’t they?
Questions? Challenges? Insults?
And please, don’t ask me to define basic terms if you can’t read.1 It is berry picking season and I’m not going to pass up on thimble and blueberries just because internet users are too lazy to use a dictionary.
Do you compound your medicine on thousand year of scraps of paper? Or on Reddit?
Golden Eyebrow
Year of the Tiger
PS: I still haven’t seen anyone else who makes comments as good as Green Sage’s. So all of the rest of you who think you’re enlightened—what gives?
1 Like “Ch’an”, “literati”, and “outlaw”, for example.
Submitted July 27, 2022 at 12:47AM by golden_eyebrow https://ift.tt/JsSLAtD
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