Yuan Wu said, “I asked the meaning of ‘Having words or wordlessness, both are like clinging vines on the tree.’ Wu Tsu said, ‘Describe it and it can’t be described completely, depict it and it can’t be depicted accurately.’ I also asked, ‘How is it when the tree falls and the vines wither?’ Wu Tsu said, ‘It comes along with it.’” At these words, Ta Hui was released, saying, “I understand.” So then Yuan Wu brought up several particularly difficult cases in order to question Ta Hui, who replied to them all without getting stuck. Yuan Wu said, “At last I know I haven’t been deceiving you.” After this Yuan Wu accepted him as the heir to the true school of Lin Chi. SWAMPLAND FLOWERS
February 14, 2006
The writings of the twelfth-century Chinese Zen master Dahui Zonggao (Ta Hui) are as immediately accessible as those (Text sourced from https://www.organism.earth/library/document/swampland-flowers) of any contemporary teacher, and this book, which introduced them to the English-speaking world in the 1970s, has become a modern classic—a regular feature of recommended reading lists for Zen centers across America.
Some other places to visit online to pass the time.
https://www.organism.earth/library/
Civilized people, whether Western or Eastern, need to be liberated and dehypnotized from their systems of symbolism and, thereby, become more intensely aware of the living vibrations of the real world. For lack of such awareness our consciousnesses and consciences have become calloused to the daily atrocities of burning children with napalm, of saturation bombing of fertile earth with all its plants, wild animals, and insects (not to mention people), and of manufacturing nuclear and chemical weapons concerning which the real problem is not so much how to prevent their use as how to get them off the face of the earth.
Alan Watts. Does It Matter? 1970
For an investigation into the Nag Hammadi codex
http://mountainman.com.au/essenes/Author_Nag_Hammadi_Scribes_Index.htm
This is VISUP, dedicated to exploring the vast Fortean realms of mind control, deep politics, sacred geometry, onomatology and synchronicity; occult film and music; the supernatural, the extraterrestrial and the multi-dimensional; high weirdness in all its many forms. https://visupview.blogspot.com/2015/05/propaganda-due-strange-and-terrible.html
THE RHODES ~ MILNER ROUND TABLE.
https://watch.pairsite.com/roundtable.html
While researching the origins of the Religious Right for this series, we came across an obscure but significant passage in an obscure but highly significant document titled "The Belmont Brotherhood". This report is an expose of the John Birch Society, whose founding members were discovered to be, in the main, high-ranking Freemasons and members of other subversive organizations. The authors intended to develop the Belmont report into a book, but did not do so for reasons that remain unknown but should become apparent to the reader upon discovery of the various connections of the JBS founders. Since the John Birch Society successfully laid the foundation for the exploitation of Christians through the ultra-conservative movement, the Belmont Brotherhood is must reading for every Christian: http://watch-unto-prayer.org/belmont.html
The passage which intrigued us is found under section #5 -- a profile of former JBS National Councilman, J. Nelson Shepherd, who belonged to the very elite Newcomen Society. This mysterious society was to be exposed by authors of The Belmont Brotherhood in their book which never materialized, and there is scant information available elsewhere. The president of the Newcomen Society for some length of time was Charles Penrose, Jr. who was also a member of two high-level, subversive and one-world societies in the U.S. known as the Pilgrim Society and the English-Speaking Union. We have already posted two reports by Eric Samuelson about these societies, which have their origins in the Cecil Rhodes-Milner Round Table Group of Great Britain, which purpose was to reestablish the British Commonwealth of Nations and, ultimately, to bring the world under the domination of a restored British Empire.
What Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Milner had in mind was the formation of a master/slave society based upon the principles of eugenics as derived from Plato's Republic. Malthusian Eugenics is the philosophy of depopulation through the reduction of inferior races --"human weeds"-- and the selective breeding of "a race of thoroughbreds" as described early in this century by Rockefeller-funded, Planned Parenthood founder, Margaret Sanger. When Thomas Malthus' theory of population was later coupled with Charles Darwin's evolutionary model, the result was known as Social Darwinism.
And now, as Monty Python says, for something completely different——
https://craterhunter.wordpress.com/comets-and-the-bronze-age-collapse/
High Strangeness
https://angelsinnature.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/cellular-consciousness-and-the-chonyid-bardo-like-a-prodigal-child-i-had-run-away-from-my-macrocosmic-home-and-imprisoned-myself-in-a-narrow-microcosm-paramahansa-yogananda/
And last but not least——
https://allenginsberg.org
We’re proud to present complete transcriptions of many of Allen Ginsberg’s lectures at Naropa University, Brooklyn College and elsewhere.Greyhound bus, 1965.
https://genius.com/Allen-ginsberg-wichita-vortex-sutra-3-annotated
This text was first composed in a tape recording made by Allen Ginsberg while on a bus traveling towards Wichita in the early 1960’s. In reference to the recording, Ginsberg stated that “Wichita” was him “talking to [himself], except with a tape recorder.”
Ko-fi.com/thejournaloflingeringsanity
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There's plenty of information, and maybe you are correct that different ways of thought are required.
Unfortunately I fail at Zen thinking and all it does for me is feel like a waste of time and it's demoralising in its supposed superiority.
PS: I think it's a con. Like rock n roll and flower power.
I dunno, now that I learned how the whole 'acid' revolution was brought to universities by the gov agencies, to disrupt society.....I have had more trouble taking the Learys and Ginsbergs seriously...babies and bathwater, yes, but a sheet of Escher (the tower that goes up and down design...) did change my life rather profoundly. It was the last chemically synthesized drug I ever took....