XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   noname wrote:   
      
   >The world does need fixin.  Why does the world need fixin if it's perfect?   
   >It's continually generated by a perfect machine.  Its operators don't know   
   >how to run the thing so they've brought it around to where its product,   
   >called the world, needs fixin.  How do you fix that?  Show folks how to   
   >work the machine so their fingers don't get cut off and the present is   
   >better than the past, for a start.   
      
   Sounds kinda like the living Master pickle jar in a way.   
      
   As for me, personally, when I see what needs fixin   
   and I can fix what my needs tell me it needs, I fix it.   
      
   A living Master once told me, when I asked him   
   about something he said he needed, if he needed it,   
   or if he wanted it, he said he needed it cuz he wanted it.   
      
   Some folks want the world to be fixed   
   cuz they see it as needing fixin.   
      
   Perhaps they are attached to some desire.   
   And that's what gets them their pickle of the day.   
      
   Prehaps they were born that way,   
   indoctrinated in to a system knot of a sort.   
      
   I tend not to see the world as needing to be fixed.   
   It's in the fix it's in as far as the fix is in.   
   Assuming there is a fix it's fixed in.   
      
   When I see the world, as a perfect whole,   
   with a center on its surface that can be anywhere,   
   as an unbounded sphere, with a center within it,   
   on which and around which it spins, it's fine.   
      
   Just as it is. Just so. Simply so.   
      
   When I begin to carve it in some fashion of thought,   
   to see what is bad or good or could be better,   
   the more things change the more I see   
   how they've always been as such.   
      
   Suchness can be simply simple.   
      
   Up and down, round and round, this/that,   
   in the center of all that, a point of emptiness is.   
      
   - ore cans be full of   
   lotsa waze two sea to sail -   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)