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Dried Shit Zen
DSZ Roshi
Clear Light Yoga
Location: Americas
Bio: Starry Sky Mind
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Chronological order - reverse of twitter - 9/25/2009 and 9/26/2009
- Anyone who offends you, arouses a searing flash of blind rage, is your great benefactor. Will you demand an apology for this precious gift?
- Produce for me, right here right now, the "you" that "I" so grievously offended, and I will both apologize and take your place in Hell.
- It's like dream-jackals stealing the kills of dream-lions.
- It's like walking uphill on a steep cobblestoned street in Montmartre wearing a brand new wool scarf.
- Most people when they're happy grasp at being happy, or when sad cling to being sad. It becomes "who I am." Hey. It's not.
- Never is. Never was. Never will be.
- My feeling, @qjohn, is that he hasn't dissolved into silence, but gone deep.
- Initial Stages of the Clear Light Yoga: Commitment, Purification, Focus, Cutting Through, and Absorption. Why not try?
- A Clear Light yogin uses social rules and graces merely as "cover." He's like an insect that can resemble a twig.
- I intend to devote the rest of my tweets to outrageous and deeply offensive personal attacks, on every last one of you.
- I'd like to start with that sneaky @jellykish.
- No it isn't, @nickmattos I know Tantric when I see it, and you are.
- You, @kyotoghosts, are far too kind to me. You remind me of my sainted grandmother.
- dried tiger-scrotum for you, @TerrorTV, served on a sparkling white lotus blossom. That's what I calls some good eatin'.
- The only Buddha I ever knew died a few years ago. And it was my fault.
- I received Mind to Mind transmission -- totally unasked for -- courtesy of a homeless Mahasiddha who wore a rope for a belt.
- This Clear Sky charlatan had to gaze into my eyes only once, for an instant, to make his point.
- He didn't even stick around long enough for me to shower him with flowers, wash his dirty, sunburnt feet, or give him my clean shirt.
- I was working on a ridiculous koan at the time. My mind was totally intent on it. Who knew the answer would be a man? Ecce homo.
- When it hits you, it hits you out of the blue, and you can't stop it. The Lifegiving Sword cuts you in two before you can murmur Om.
- "When the wind stops blowing in the big pine tree, where does the sound go?" That was the koan.
- There is an obvious intellectual answer. But an intellectual answer isn't an answer from your whole being.
- This was the very koan that drove Friedrich Nietzsche crazy in Turin around the Christmas-New Year season of 1888-89.
- Buddha regretted ever opening his mouth about Dependent Arising.
- The koan had personal meaning for me because I saw that the "sound" was me, and the wind and the pine tree were my "causes."
- Causes and conditions like my parents ever meeting, there being food for me to eat and air to breathe, and so on.
- Like a spoiled brat, I was trying to resolve the whole question of life and death. What lives? What dies? Where does the sound go?
- That's the koan. "When wind stops blowing in the big pine tree, where does the sound go?"
- If you can resolve it, tonight I'll picnic with you in the dark. I'll bring the wine.
- That last string of "notes" was directed at the few people who are interested in that wild kind of stuff. And now, back to your local news.
- In late-breaking news, a Bengal tiger ate a child at the local zoo. Ouch! That's got to hurt. And now to the weather. Beverly?
- Dan, I think the tiger is going to be very happy with tomorrow's weather. It's going to balmy, just like India. Same through the weekend.
- In the extended forecast, a big asteroid is going to smack into the earth, but not before the next solar flare fries us like chitlins. Dan?
- Well, Beverly, it looks like the little tyke that got eaten today won't miss anything special! Just kidding. Stay tuned for "Nash Bridges."
- May I clear up a little problem for you? It has to do with Dependent Arising, the Buddhist teaching.
- Some very big fat tomes have been written on it, and lamas and tulkus have plunged into bitter and complicated disputes on just this.
- However, DriedShitZen is going to clear it up for you in the next three tweets, max.
- Hold a finger up in front of your face. Shut one eye, then open it while shutting the other. Do this quickly about twenty times.
- The logic of Dependent Arising is that the cause of your finger "moving" is opening and shutting your eyes.
- But this is the "relative" teaching. The absolute teaching is that your finger didn't move, not at all. Apply that principle to everything.
- Don't get all excited about enlightenment, man. It's pretty boring.
- Loving the Dream, bitches.
- RT @Zen_Guy: Boredom doesn't describe my meditation.>>Then you're not enlightened. Keep cracking 'till the egg slips out of the shell.
- Fuzzy wuzzy was a Nondualist.
- A Chinese fortune teller once told me I was going to fuck up bigtime. "You fuck up bigtime, Dryshitzen!"
- Nothing is more ludicrous for a yogin than to have ideas about friends or enemies, let alone who is truly "enlightened" and who isn't.
- All beings are intrinsically enlightened just as all stars are in the sky.about hours ago
- Getting pissed off at me is the same as getting pissed off at Yourself.about hours ago
- "We're all in the starry sky," as @kyotoghosts, my Grandmother Coyote Guardian Spirit, says.
- If you feel your life is boring, or you're hurt, or trapped, or depressed, go up onto a mountain and meditate all the time. Do shugyo.
- Pour ice-water on your head every morning. Shout.
- Sit in a cemetery at night and do Zen.
- When you feel the possibility of malign "spirits" or rapacious ghosts breathing down your neck, you'll know when you're doing Zen "right."
- Zen masters have gone up the mountains for 0 day retreats eating only pine needles and drinking only rainwater. Why couldn't you?
- Stop intellectualizing. Shatter thought. Develop clear perception. Let go and be absorbed into the inner "light."
- But the Mind-hunt has to be intense, total, with nothing held back, not fearing that you are "ridiculous" nor losing yourself in thoughts.
- Your attitude has to single-minded, like a samurai hunting through a chaotic battlefield for the enemy general.
- Or like a cat in the middle of the night, crouched low, waiting for a mouse to venture out of its hole.
- Don't think you're enlightened when you have a concept in mind. Pursue it to the end. It isn't touchy-feely and fuzzy. It IS shattering.
- The very thought of "nonduality" can be a supremely frustrating and difficult obstacle to real direct mind realization.
- As long as you're thinking "but is this nondual? would my teacher approve?" you can't possibly break through. No way.
- Be "dualistic" if you feel it will help in your Mind-hunt. Try it. Go all the way through. At least you can shatter duality.
- Nonduality has nothing in it to shatter, so you're likely to just slip into a comfortable blankness, go to satsangs, smile a lot.
- The original nature may be intrinsically enlightened, but in your case it's covered up by a ton of shit.
- Forget Advaita, Gurdjieff, Zen, breathing-rituals, meditation, classes, gongs, incense, Master Po, Eckhart Tolle.
- Your deeply compassionate task is to save all beings from suffering. Completely. Are you living up to that?
- If you can't feel drunk "Here and Now" with the brilliant glory of all This, ablaze with gratitude, you've still got to smash through.
- Everybody talks to me about being "depressed" and I cannot contain my amazement anymore. It no longer seems natural. "What? In all This?"
- People insist on getting acclaim for the infinite specialness of their suffering, and became enraged when you will not give it to them.
- My Tibetan teacher (not my "root-guru") kindly began instructing me with the words: "You must realize you are not a very special person."
- I must say, this approach dazzled me a little. I think I even choked up with joy.
- All my life I'd been told by droning fools that I was as special as a snowflake or a unique crystal dog or something.
- Here, now, was perhaps the kindest person I'd ever met telling me I was a pretty mediocre piece of work. At last, the truth.
- What I'm getting at here is that your suffering is pretty dull and ordinary, but your Enlightenment will be one-of-a-kind.
- I wish I could be there to see it!
- Eat the banana, toss the peel. Attain the boundless clear light mind, throw away words.
- Try getting some energy in your body before you do Zen. Otherwise you're just another blank-minded corpse on a cushion.
- Zafu zombies.
- Fear energy, desire energy, anything. Feel it. Direct it. Intensify it. Make it a whirling torrent.
- Thought is energy. But it is very weak energy. It's a wavering shadow of ki. People who get too engrossed in thoughts become sad.
- Thoughts are twilight. Then the starry sky appears, naked, shining in all directions. Why were you born if not to behold This?
- Shakti wants to leap to your forehead and light up your sky with suns.
- Shiva is Shakti's adoring slave. Do anything for that seductress, even forget his clear true nature.
- Today is the only day. Every other day is but a distant dream. Resolve the great matter today. Do you proud. Make Shakti smile. Okay?
- Today is the day to shatter all doubts. To go beyond thoughts. To attain unexcelled direct mind realization of your original state.
- It's easy. It could not possibly be easier. It's so simple it's laughable. Just try to find anything at all that could be called "mind."
- You can sit, stand, walk, lie down, do qi gong, fuck -- whatever helps you in this all-out hunt for the real essence of your awareness.
- But the Mind-hunt has to be intense, total, with nothing held back, not fearing that you are "ridiculous" nor losing yourself in thoughts.
- Your attitude has to single-minded, like a samurai hunting through a chaotic battlefield for the enemy general.
- Or like a cat in the middle of the night, crouched low, waiting for a mouse to venture out of its hole.
- Don't think you're enlightened when you have a concept in mind. Pursue it to the end. It isn't touchy-feely and fuzzy. It IS shattering.
- The very thought of "nonduality" can be a supremely frustrating and difficult obstacle to real direct mind realization.
- Nonduality has nothing in it to shatter, so you're likely to just slip into a comfortable blankness, go to satsangs, smile a lot.
- The original nature may be intrinsically enlightened, but in your case it's covered up by a ton of shit.
- Forget Advaita, Gurdjieff, Zen, breathing-rituals, meditation, classes, gongs, incense, Master Po, Eckhart Tolle.
- Your deeply compassionate task is to save all beings from suffering. Completely. Are you living up to that?
- If you can't feel drunk "Here and Now" with the brilliant glory of all This, ablaze with gratitude, you've still got to smash through.
- Everybody talks to me about being "depressed" and I cannot contain my amazement anymore. It no longer seems natural. "What? In all This?"
- People insist on getting acclaim for the infinite specialness of their suffering, and became enraged when you will not give it to them.
- My Tibetan teacher (not my "root-guru") kindly began instructing me with the words: "You must realize you are not a very special person."
- I must say, this approach dazzled me a little. I think I even choked up with joy.
- All my life I'd been told by droning fools that I was as special as a snowflake or a unique crystal dog or something.
- Here, now, was perhaps the kindest person I'd ever met telling me I was a pretty mediocre piece of work. At last, the truth.
- What I'm getting at here is that your suffering is pretty dull and ordinary, but your Enlightenment will be one-of-a-kind.
- I wish I could be there to see it!
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