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choshi
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0 posted 2004-01-10 12:06 PM



Inkgoddess wrote:

"bumping this
we could use a bit of zenthought now and then
like to see more from you here
nice succinct and zenlike, just how i like them"


You are very perceptive, so here is one for you, dear inkgoddess,  more explicitly about my orientation:


Enlightenment!
Throw it away...
after thirty years practice:
arthritis knees,
black crows at dawn.



Gassho!
~Choshi


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passing shadows
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1 posted 2004-01-10 02:10 PM


this may not be for me, but thank you for sharing
DavePage
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2 posted 2004-01-10 02:25 PM


Can't agree with the words
30 years myself
wandered off to do the side-kicks, punches, balance
No - quietness and meditation frighten people because you have control over yourself, and someone in control of themself are dangerous to those who dream of controlling everone.

Managers are not control freaks only those who can not even Team Lead are the frightened vigilantes of politics.

Dave
Dave

choshi
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3 posted 2004-01-10 02:29 PM


Dave wrote:
Can't agree with the words
30 years myself

Do you mean your knees don't hurt?
or, you have not heard the crows at dawn?


choshi
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4 posted 2004-01-10 02:32 PM


"...this may not be for me, but thank you for sharing."

Thank you Passing Shadow...~C

inkedgoddess
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5 posted 2004-01-10 08:15 PM




Enlightenment!
Throw it away...
after thirty years practice:
arthritis knees,
black crows at dawn.

after enlightenment........back to doing the dishes
thanks for sharing truly

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