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   liaM to someone   
   Re: A Koan for our atheist friends   
   13 Oct 24 14:16:18   
   
   XPost: alt.support.depression, alt.support.schizophrenia, alt.bu   
   dha.short.fat.guy   
   XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: cuddly@mindless.com   
      
   On 10/13/2024 1:51 PM, someone wrote:   
   > Ned wrote:   
   >   
   >> I don't know what to say,   
   >> I don't know what to do.   
   >> My words have flown away,   
   >> My thoughts have left me too.   
   >>   
   >> I don't know what to do,   
   >> I don't know what to say,   
   >> I've nothing fresh or new,   
   >> To offer you today.   
   >   
   > Day after day returning   
   > Reminds me of a mirror   
   > Without any dust on it   
   > Reflecting simply being.   
   >   
   > Suddenly there is not one.   
   > No reflections. No mirror.   
   > No nothing two speak of.   
   >   
   > Being full of emptiness Way   
   > more than half a bottle or can   
   > could mean it's time for an other   
   > going round after round and then.   
   >   
   > What did he say about nothing.   
   > A koan for our atheist friends.   
   > When a deity created them.   
   > Before they were born.   
   >   
   > Their minds were nebulous.   
   > Like Chuang Tzu's wife.   
   > She returns to me now again.   
   >   
   > - thanx! Cheers!   
      
   She returns to me now again..   
      
   Unless I'm mistaken, that's all wrong..   
   Hadn't Chuang Tzu let her go?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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