Koan


from the ABC set The Long and the Short of It...

The master proposes
irrationalities:
the student supposes
answerability.

A question. To merge
the introspective
with a look backward:
a retrospective
at the navel behind you,
perhaps.

This is the sound of one line rhyming.

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Comments

valiswaverider | December 24, 2008 - 11:40

Brillant!! Do you like the writings of Alan Watts ?

Ewan | December 24, 2008 - 11:42

I don't know many writers at all in the grand scheme of things, I'm just going to google the name now.

Thanks for commenting.

Ewan | December 24, 2008 - 11:47

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4

I think I'd like to read some of his work...

valiswaverider | December 24, 2008 - 12:15

I,am reading one of this books right now and their is a website called Alan Watts theater which is fantastic. Plus lots of stuff on you tube.

chuck | December 24, 2008 - 15:34

'This is the sound of one line rhyming.'

Brilliant seems inadequate.

FTSE100 | December 24, 2008 - 16:20

What are you lot doing hanging round here on Christmas eve? Don't you have a tree to decorate or something?

Ewan | December 24, 2008 - 16:26

What do you mean? Can't you tell I'm a Buddhist???

LOL

mykle | December 24, 2008 - 18:06

What's zis zen, Zen again? No :O)
As Chuck says "Brilliant...

Bradene | December 24, 2008 - 18:16

Thank you Gents you may not realise it but between you, you are educating me, I just had to look up Koan (-; Val

FTSE100 | December 24, 2008 - 19:28

I always thought it was a snake. Or a breakfast cereal.

mykle | December 25, 2008 - 07:26

Nah, FTSE, it's something to do with traffic, deffo.