29 Mar The Way Of The Way 384
We cannot choose our future, but we can choose how we remember the past which frames how we experience the future....
28 Mar Kotodama 33
The inside of a circle is a hole; the inside and outside, a whole....
27 Mar Koan 34
Enjoy your self, otherwise it might make you miserable....
26 Mar Sexual Identity Idenifiers
With sexual pronouns abounding, it's hard to keep up with new and changing sexual identity groups. Perhaps a better approach would be punctuation marks. Everyone could choose whether they were visibly a colon (:) or a semi-colon (;). The dot on top is the anus and the dot or comma at bottom is a vagina or a penis. This general identifier could be tailor-made with people choosing whether they were a top or a bottom by changing the size of their anus relative to the size of the dot or comma. Moreover, those who are dominant or submissive would put an apostrophe before or after their punctuation mark accordingly. Those who are into a weird public appearance would put a quote sign before their punctuation mark. Those who are weird in their secret lives would have the quote sign behind the punctuation mark. Those who are weird every which way and need lots of attention would have quotation sign front and back. And, finally, those who don't know who they are would have the quotes but nothing between them. Of course, other modifiers (exclamation points, asterisks ampersands and currency symbols, etc.) can create additional sexual identity groups. However, the number of groups and the descriptions/meanings of their identities could make things complicated. This complexity could be addressed by having everyone enroll in re-education camps which would in turn help swell the ranks of teachers whose union dues would allow increased spending by union bosses. Clearly, many would benefit from the adoption of a punctuation-based sexual identity system; but for the average citizen who would ultimately pay its cost through higher grocery bills. Yet, costs could be reduced by fines on those who can't wean themselves off addressing those implementing the system as "fucking assholes" or "fucking pricks." If fines are not a sufficient deterrent for people so expressing themselves, prison time would be justified. That would create additional court/prison jobs and related benefits for the political class....
25 Mar Haiku 68
Earth breathes the air, fire eats the Earth, water drowns fire, air evaporates water. The "classical elements" are but one thing breathing, eating, drowning and evaporating simultaneously....
24 Mar The Way Of The Way 383
Courtesy of Marc Faber, in a cartoon of a college class a professor asks the students: "Who hates the rich?" Everyone in the class raises their hands. Then, the professor asks: "Who wants to be rich?" Everyone raises their hands. Those who hate the rich, and yet want to be rich, hate themselves as they are not who they want to be. The truly rich are those who gratefully accept who they are and make the most of it....
23 Mar Koan 16
Love makes all things one thing....
23 Mar Kotodama 31
We see the sea, not the vast ocean beyond what we see....
23 Mar Kotodama 30
With only a self-identity, consciousness makes us self-conscious. With a soul-identity, we are calm, spontaneous, and uninhibited....
22 Mar Kotodama 25
All ways lead to the always....