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Saturday, September 3, 2016



why are people afraid of asking questions ?























so i went to the festival today, obviously h.c. was playing .. at first i just walked by with dave and his girlfriend going to the foodstands, i think she noticed me though but i didn't look at the stage
about half an hour later i watched from a distance and i don't think she noticed me, then dave and kate came by standing 20 feet in front of the stage looking for me so i caught up with them, she definitely noticed me then and when i looked at her she exchanged a look with me but then started looking away and around
i came back maybe in 15 mins and sat down in the chairs in front of the stage, we looked at eachother pretty deeply maybe three times in one song, then she sang one more and said her thank you's and i walked away
later they were watching a presentation on tiny houses and i wanted to walk around and also see if i could catch her alone, well i saw her walking around with her boyfriend and as i passed them i just looked away, she definitely saw me and i don't know if she said "seriously .. " or if i was imagining things


[–]from zaddar1 [+109] sent 
walking around with her boyfriend
now he is doing you such a big favour you should give him some money !

[–]from zaddar1 [+109] sent 
if h. said "seriously" then she's telling you, 'why be interested you already know my problems'
she's not stupid, she's self aware !




















laying on the picnic table's bench

above light pours through fall changing leaves

the occasional leaf falls

behind the cows sniff

to my right a beautifully shaped tall tree

with a strong gust all of its foliage shakes




a constructed poem ? not sure how i feel about those

well it was a wonderful scene, i was thinking of taking a video but decided against it


















music is usually just racket in my ears

















andrew :

love is a boundary condition of one self and another !




















i remember the rumors of usain bolt going to the nfl !

nice to see he's too smart for that !


















I think the freeze dried brain is doing something, a bit early to tell but I think positive so far, have been having this minor headache for the last two days

I've been taking it just with water not heated, but these last two days I've been taking it in hot milk mixed with a spoon, huh I guess those two things are probably related

















I was doing some haying today at work and i was thinking about her every so often, the machine is a wrapper that wraps these large round bales, it was really dangerous that i'd lose focus

the bales weigh up to 800 pounds and if it span off and landed on me i could die in short time !



















soccer is definitely not helping my fatigue, you're right too much exercise



















i often think of goethe's travel diary in italy where he hires a boy to paint him landscapes on his travels with him, goethe comments on how the boy will benefit from being around him, and i think goethe benefited too as to me he seemed sort of delighted to his progress in his painting
the boy in the end separates from goethe with a pretty girlfriend, that is not likely for me it seems !






















i was just thinking about how i'm the only one doing the work for myself as much as i don't want to be, maybe wanting a relationship is me not wanting to realize that




















i wonder why you thinking carrying her will break me
well i think it's partly because i'm so new in making sense of anything that to try and make sense for someone else would be very difficult



















blogspot can be so unreliable

went looking for something i typed the other day and it's no where to be found because this site has trouble saving

yep, did it as i was trying to save this

the writing in question :

" reddit zen is basically a gathering of idiots that all scream " i'm right, i'm right "

well possibly that's it as i'm going on memory !

















$350 dollars to fix a window and that's doing it myself, not including the tools i need to get to do it

shit like this makes me realize how broke i really am


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i switched out the battery, it was really easy, albeit expensive costing $180














it's easier not to care and tougher to care










































with r/zen you can leave and come as you like with a mouse click and keyboard types

it's not like the old days traveling possibly hundreds of miles and risking your life with thieves and wild animals















[–]to zenthrowaway17 sent 
why do you want words to be defined ? why do you crave conversation so ?
[–]from zenthrowaway17 sent 
I just feel like talking to people is the most efficient way to enlighten reality.
[–]to zenthrowaway17 sent 
I just feel like talking to people is the most efficient way to enlighten reality.
that is such bullshit





















[–]from zenthrowaway17 sent 
A group of people working together to build houses
Is very different than each member of that group building their own house.
[–]to zenthrowaway17 sent 
are you talking about communal zen versus solipsistic zen ?

















[–]from zenthrowaway17 sent 
Out of curiosity, is there some reason you want to understand him?
Do you simply enjoy it or is there something you're like, getting out of it?
[–]to zenthrowaway17 sent 
helps me get more out of his writing, which I would say yeah I'm getting something out of
[–]from zenthrowaway17 sent 
Could I ask what you're getting?
I can't really say I get much out of anything lately beyond companionship.
[–]to zenthrowaway17 sent 
my mind is being expanded, and I think that's done by reading good writing aka Andrew's writing
don't you think companionship is illusory ?















[–]
from zenthrowaway17 sent 
You and zaddar just strike me as the kind of people that have gone in deeper than... something or other.
You've seen so much that you have trouble bringing it back to an "ordinary human" perspective.
Like, I'm not going to say that anything you see is inaccurate. Almost the opposite.
But it doesn't really matter to me how much you've seen if you can't explain it to me.
I have that trouble with zaddar a lot. He'll say things to me, and I get the impression that they make sense somehow, but I don't get the message.
I suddenly think about the Theravada vs. Mahayana approach.
One of them focuses on personally understanding reality more.
The other focuses on spreading your understanding to as many people as possible.
Zen strikes me more as ... well, not either of those.
[–]to zenthrowaway17 sent 
i still don't fully understand zaddar, I'm not sure that will ever be possible, I can only understand him more and it's taken a lot of reading his writing, he has to be the most interesting person I've ever met or read of
his writing is dense























[–]to zenthrowaway17 sent 
I like the stories you bring to r/zen, I've basically been reading zaddar's posts and yours !
[–]from zenthrowaway17 sent 
My immediate reaction is to say, "That probably means you should read more of ewk's posts!"
Somehow I get the impression that those two are polar opposites. I'm not quite sure where I fit in.
My self-aggrandizing self tells me that I'm a perfect balance between the one's Yin and the other's Yang.
So naturally you would love me, and appreciate zaddar because he shares your affinity, and avoid ewk because he's your shadow.
But we all need our shadow too!
But I'm... borderline psychotically depressed lately.
So my full-of-my-own-opinion tends to get out of hand.
Take that with a mountain of salt.

[–]to zenthrowaway17 sent 
I'll take it with all of the sands in the Ganges , lol, as I don't see ewk or zaddar to be any extreme, what would the scale even be ? lol, I don't love you, you seem pretty nice though and well we can have a pretty good conversation !

[–]to zenthrowaway17 sent 
I'm in the belief that zaddar is the 7th patriarch, and his understanding is way past your's or ewk's, basically I don't see them on the scale that you're seeing !
when I first got on Reddit zen about three years ago now I actually listened to ewk pretty much exclusively ! he sort of had a club of young guys who'd listen to his every word, luckily I realized he wasn't as intelligent and definitely not as 'spiritually' knowledgeable as he believed himself to be
[–]from zenthrowaway17 sent 
Yeah, I'm not surprised you'd get that impression.
I would say you're seeing "enlightenment"
zen isn't just about enlightenment. That's only like... half of it at best.
[–]to zenthrowaway17 sent 
I realized that you don't have much, or maybe anything, to teach me so I don't mind being frank and saying I think you're 'wrong'
I don't even know what enlightenment is, and I'm not sure I believe in it, I do think some people can see reality and can also use their imagination to a benefit










I actually find very little joy in posting on r/zen, it actually hurts to post on r/zen in a way, I can't handle all of the idiocy









maybe there is more than reality that flows it's course ? in fact there is and Andrew has succinctly pointed out that it's seen in dai kensho !













a king of nothing in particular




























andrew :

had dai kensho as a child, nothing ever made sense




that's a good a sum up !





















my mbti personality type

reminds me of horoscopes










































my question to reddit zen



[–]mackowski indispensable metalayer 1 point  
lol what a psycho
























laying here

doing nothing

that's what i love































a man down the road was diagnosed with leukemia a few days ago, he had to get a bone marrow transplant done today

it was the big gossip at work today, my supervisor was commenting as we were all standing around " it's incredible how this can come out of nowhere ! '

well i reminded her that it can happen to any one of us

she said " jason, always a ray of sunshine ! "









































society, it's a sea of madness !





















this guy's driving is impressive !






















i'm a slow learner, but once i get it i do !
















jason
w r i t e s
youʼve helped me tremendously, answering questions, it leaves me with room to figure out other things on my own
i know youʼve gained something from helping me too !
my
r e p l y
yeah thatʼs important otherwise it gets too one sided !
it actually upsets me when some-one usefully applies my advice, i think theyʼve got something at my cost !
that surprisingly is one of the big benefits of reddit zen, no-one listens when it would be very/quite productive for them to do so !































iʼve been posting lately to the insane
they look normal
but to speak to them
is like untangling the gordian knot
a twisted tangled mess roping in their self identity
which can never change
apparently
like a hydra they fling their ropes around
entangling all who come near /they can
mainly themselves actually /as it happens !
























Jason Dafonte
8:10pm
Jason Dafonte


" and daughter, i want you to give up your praying of many beads, and think such thoughts as i shall put into your mind. i shall give you leave to pray until six o'clock to say what you wish, then you shall lie still to speak to me in thought, and i shall give you high meditation and contemplation. "



the book of margery kempe



















[–]to zaddar1 sent 
you don't have a good sense of self preservation is your problem, that's always something you will have to work with
hillary, the furnace mountain zen center in kentucky and now this
i have a serious ' slow suicide ' problem





















regarding soccer, the future joint problems rings in my head and the concussions blare



























i've seen the fakeness of faux brotherhood growing up and being on teams where most teammates weren't friends
































a pond 5 minutes walk from dave's woods, and his work in progress !





















the dumb get dumber ?














a holden to no one

that's reality

the zerg will do anything to have you think otherwise !

























well, today at soccer i avoided doing headers, there was a deflection though and it thumped right off my head

after these 8 weeks i guess i'm going to give it up, i'd say soccer has been part of my life seriously for about 18 years, other years just playing once in a while

i see these 40+ guys playing and i just want to say " give it up ! ", guess i should first

pretty cool that jacques derrida was a fan of playing , for a while anyway !






















the girls at the registers

the one in the stands

in the aisle

the girl exiting the toll booth, she was the prettiest




i guess it's really about the girl who shows up to the soccer games, she comes with her boyfriend but every time I look up into the stands she's staring at me

as I was leaving she was giving me this half eye closed look and walking this certain way, only thing I could do is look down and away !
























some words cross barriers
















soccer would be a near perfect sport minus headers !























i am always thinking to no end

well that's what makes my thinking aphoric and not logocentric
















the house is made of concrete

and the walls are thick with lead paint

the metal doors have big keyholes for big keys

and they screech when closed

throughout the house there is a mist of something old past

and the bodies of dead flys on the long kitchen table





[–]from zaddar1 [+108] sent 
the concrete house poem is very good !
[–]to zaddar1 [+108] sent 
it's actually my grandmother's house, poem came to me while I was reading Breece pancake
[–]to zaddar1 [+108] sent 
it's sort of about this farm too i guess
here's the paragraph from pancake :
i reach the high barn and start my tractor, then drive to the knob a the end of our land and stop. i sit there, smoke, look again at the cane. the rows curve right, but around them is a sort of scar of clay, and the leaves have a purplish blight. i don't wonder about the blight. i know the cane is too far gone to worry about the blight. far off, somebody chops wood, and the ax-bites echo back to me. the hillsides are baked here and have heat ghosts. our cattle move to the wind gap, and birds hide in the caps of trees where we never cut the timber for pasture. i look at the wrinkly old boundary post. pop set it up when the hobo and soldier days were over. it a locust-tree post and will be there a long time. a few dead morning glories cling to it.














van gogh's meekness

' vincent's chair and his pipe '

7 comments:

  1. she wants to fuck you, they all want to fuck you

    but you already knew that...

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  2. last monday i was hanging out with some older folk and we went for a drive

    apparently a man they all knew was diagnosed with leukemia recently

    we met his some of hisfamily on the road and stopped to talked to them

    they were awaiting word on what stage it was

    ...

    i found out that dude passed away a few days ago


    i was wondering where those older folk went, i was going to visit them

    i guess they went to the services


    not too sure but i think this all took place within 2 weeks, from the diagnosis to the funeral

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  3. that'd be a crazy fuck hole if there was such a place

    ewk would have andrew killed lol

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    1. there would definitely be more physical violence, which is the pro of Reddit zen that you can say pretty much say what ever you want


      the con imo is that there is something to meeting someone irl

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  4. reddit zen is basically a gathering of idiots where they all shout " i'm right, i'm right! "

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