[lit-ideas] Re: to lurk or not to lurk, that's the question -"AMEN!"
- From: John Wager <johnwager@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 08:13:00 -0500
From ZEN FLESH ZEN BONES:
Learning to be Silent
The pupils of the Tendai school used to study meditation before Zen
entered Japan. Four of them who were intimate friends promised one
another to observe seven days of silence.
On the first day all were silent. Their meditation had begun
auspiciously, but when night came and the oil lamps were growing dim one
of the pupils could not help exclaiming to a servant: "Fix those lamps."
The second pupil was surprised to hear the first one talk. "We are not
supposed to say a word" he remarked.
"You two are stupid. Why did you talk?" asked the third.
"I am the only one who has not talked," concluded the fourth pupil.
(#71 of Zen Stories)
Torgeir Fjeld wrote:
>phatic remarks, while twisting on his dancing shoes (which also serves as
>his work shoes -- phatic is a poor dancer) that it seems that a post
>declaring it's own status as lurking is inherently paradoxical. It almost
>makes me feel alive, phatic says, with an implicit nod to McEvoy.
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