XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   brian wrote:   
   > {:-]))) wrote:   
   >>   
   >>Yesterday, brian presents a story and asks about its meaning.   
   >>I say, it's your story, you can have it mean as you prefer it to.   
   >>Maybe the point is too subtle. His present was not his present.   
   >   
   >The point was not too subtle; too useless. To have anything mean   
   >anything makes discourse pointless.   
      
   I am going to generalize a statement now, and sew.   
   To say all people bring their own meanings to a story.   
      
   In a garden of innocence, children are known to play.   
   All involved, they go on and are their characters and may.   
      
   Dance to the tunes of their own making.   
   As the characters they are, on any given day.   
      
   Growing up, having learned right from wrong.   
   Leaves them left as if falling from a tree.   
      
   Not knowing what went wrong.   
   They feel as if there are the right things to do.   
      
   After a while, lost in the woulds, they sense.   
   Something else is going on.   
      
   Some turn to find being a monk.   
   Key of the kingdom to unlock locks.   
      
   Found within.   
   Their toy chests of sorts.   
      
   Their leader gets up and dances for them.   
   He says a few words and leaves them in wonder.   
      
   What did the dance mean.   
   Was there a step missed.   
      
   One of them forgets the meaning.   
   Of the tree from which they had left.   
      
   Leaving and falling in, the Great Fall.   
   After the Great While, recalling how all.   
   Things were in the garden.   
   When as innocent children.   
      
   - at play were   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)