“Mountains are not meant to be conquered: one must approach them as a lover who has too long been mistreated by others; one must be gentle and always present for the lover’s voice to guide them.
Dance with the mountain,
sing with the stones,
make love with the ascent.”
(From: The Tzayings of Tzu © by C.W. Tzu)
For All of my fellow Fraughtlings....the latest from the mindlessness of Tzu...
"Often, I hear the question 'are you enlightened?' I am never frightened for, fortunately, it is never asked of me."
(From: The Tzayings of Tzu © by C.W. Tzu)
With hopes to be slapped with a stick held by someone other than Elviz....
Tzuly Yerz,
Tzu
"As more rain cannot wash away the flood,
we cannot think our way out of trouble
that thinking got us into.”
(From: The Tzayings of Tzu © by C.W. Tzu)
Despite this internal wisdom, which arose after meditation several months ago, I continue to find the process of "thinking" an intrigue; one of the more eclectic thinkers of our age is Douglas Hofstadtner whose Pulitzer Prize winning Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid: A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll, recast every notion I held for the first forty years of my life. I recently re-read it in the 1999, 20th Anniversary edition. A few quotes here from the author regarding what I consider to be a pollination of the Lotus Sutra having taken root in oddly fertile soil.
As the author states: "I realized that to me, Gödel and Escher and Bach were only shadows cast in different directions by some central solid essence. I tried to reconstruct the central object, and came up with this book."
"GEB is a very personal attempt to say how it is that animate beings can come out of inanimate matter. What is a self, and how can a self come out of stuff that is as selfless as a stone or a puddle?"
"What is a self...?" Worthy contemplation for anyone seeking to achieve non-dual awareness.
Seeking commentary, I remain,
Absurdly connected to Mynd
C.W. Tzu