XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen, alt.philosophy.taoism   
   XPost: alt.zen   
   From: tanghuyen@gmail.com   
      
   On 7/25/2016 8:59 PM, Ned Ludd wrote:   
      
   >  I disagree entirely.  Over the years and decades, I've noticed   
   > that Tang often returns from a usenet absence (and often in late   
   > summer) very reinvigorated, feisty, even zen-like.  It dissipates   
   > afterward, but it is quite noticeable when it happens.  THIS Tang   
   > is very much overboard in that direction.  I've looked at headers   
   > from old messages and compared them to his current headers.   
   > (That's how different I find this.)  Anyway, enjoy it while it   
   > happens. I think Tang might be a useful,  if not universal, constant.   
      
   How do "overboard" and "zen-like" jive together?   
      
   All proportion kept, God squirts into us past   
   the brim, in abundance, and yet he and we are   
   always in the eye of the storm, in unison,   
   stable like a rock? He creates us by that very   
   act, and yet inserts no distance or stretch   
   in between? So that there is no distinction or   
   discrimination to breach, and the two sides   
   make a perfect ball, in which not a pin can   
   slip? He and we pump each other up, enriching   
   each other, ebullient and emollient separately   
   and together, so that no proportion need to be   
   kept, can be kept anyway? No detachment, and yet   
   no attachment, for lubrication makes all slide   
   off like water off a duck's back, better than   
   Teflon? A contact sport all the way, yet   
   nothing bumps into anything else, no concussion   
   or percussion, for all is swimming in oceanic   
   oneness? No equability, yet fullsome equability,   
   for in utter equality, no high and low can be   
   separated?   
      
   All is well that ends well, on both sides?   
   Slapping each other's back, in mutual   
   recognition, even if there is no mark to make   
   out, therefore no actor and acted on?   
      
   Tang Huyen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)