Another long road trip. As far as the ocean, but no shallower. Buckle up, and enjoy the ride.
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I have a riding lawnmower that the man said wouldn't start
I cleaned it up and brought it home and took it all apart
Having done this work before I know each part by name
.
The broken piece cost nearly the least of any on the frame
The solenoid is a switch that is operated by another one
It sends power to the motor which starts a chain reaction
Motion and heat in a dance governed by vacuum pressure
I use it to cut grass
.
The part didn't take long to arrive
I let it sit in the box all winter
Now in springtime the grass comes alive
And threatens to swallow my house
.
So fix it I must if I don't want to bust
my back all summer scything through
I do keep it sharpened and won't let it rust
just in case the thing breaks down again
.
The guy that gave it to me had checked into it
And found it not worth fixing it up
He offered to pay me to dispose of it for him
If I would help him pick a new one that's tough
.
He said that the salesman had swindled him
You see he doesn't know much mechanical stuff
But this one was obviously garbage he said
Or he just hadn't paid quite enough
.
It shocked him when I suggested
That he buy the very same brand
Parts are available and cheap
But he wanted to spend more
To get what he paid for
And justify bringing me out
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The spiritual body has three kinds of sickness and two kinds of light; when you have passed through each one, only then are you able to sit in peace. In the Heroic Progress Discourse, furthermore, Buddha explained fifty kinds of meditation
sickness. Now I tell you that you need to be free from sickness to attain realization.
In my school, there are only two kinds of sickness. One is to go looking for a donkey riding on the donkey. The other is to be unwilling to dismount once having mounted the donkey.
You say it is certainly a tremendous sickness to mount a donkey and then go looking for the donkey. I tell you that one need not find a spiritually sharp person to recognize this right away and get rid of the sickness of seeking, so the mad mind stops.
Once you have recognized the donkey, to mount it and be unwilling to dismount is the sickness that is most difficult to treat. I tell you that you need not mount the donkey; you are the donkey! The whole world is the donkey; how can you mount it? If you mount it, you can be sure the sickness will not leave! If you don't mount it, the whole universe is wide open!
When the two sicknesses are gone, and there is nothing on your mind, then you are called a wayfarer. What else is there? This is why when Zhaozhou asked Nanquan, "What is the path?"
Nanquan replied, "The normal mind is the path." Now Zhaozhou suddenly stopped his hasty search, recognized the sickness of "Zen Masters" and the sickness of "Buddhas," and passed through it all. After that, he traveled all over, and had no peer anywhere, because of his recognition of sicknesses.
One day Zhaozhou went to visit Zhuyou, where he paced back and forth brandishing his staff from east to west and west to east. Zhuyou asked, "What are you doing?" Zhaozhou replied, "Testing the water." Zhuyou retorted, "I haven't even one drop here; what will you test?" Zhaozhou left, leaning on his staff. See how he revealed a bit of an example, really quite able to stand out.
Zen followers these days all take sickness for truth. Best not let your mind get sick.
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if you fall off a rock
and brake your leg
binding it might be the cure
if you can not brake the tree
that you bind it to
you still can not walk out.
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edit: Lest any of you captives believe this is only flowery language; here's a picture of The faulty part.
Submitted March 14, 2022 at 10:14PM by eggo https://ift.tt/hAkZ6Pw
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