Knotweed Waters 蓼水

Interviewer: Can you explain this empty space in your resume? Nagarjuna: There is empty space. There is not empty space. There is both empty space and not empty space. There is neither empty space nor not empty space. Interviwer: ...

Interviewer: Let's try again. I meant this particular empty space, right here. Nagarjuna: Since all existents are empty, what is finite or infinite? What is finiate and infinite? What is neither finite nor infinite? Interviewer: ...

In retrospect maybe bringing mercury elixir to the interview was actually a bad idea.

"So Pukkusati went out in search of an alms-bowl and robes, but was unfortunately savaged by a cow and died." - Rahula 28

allpoetry.com/poem/1262925... "When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds."

15 Things to do Before Reading Zhuangzi (1/3): 1 Transform into a giant bird 2 Rise skyward on a typhoon 3 Get lost in the brambles 4 Decline to rule the kingdom 5 Consider the cicada 6 Ride the winds for 15 days 7 Strap giant gourds to your feet 8 Plant a tree in not-even-anywhere villiage

15 Things to do Before Reading Zhuangzi (3/3): 15 Become uncertain: are you a human being dreaming you are a butterfly? Or are you a butterfly dreaming you are a human being?

15 Things to do Before Reading Zhuangzi (1/3): 1 Transform into a giant bird 2 Rise skyward on a typhoon 3 Get lost in the brambles 4 Decline to rule the kingdom 5 Consider the cicada 6 Ride the winds for 15 days 7 Strap giant gourds to your feet 8 Plant a tree in not-even-anywhere villiage

Faye Wong / Wang Fei 王菲 singing the Heart Sutra 心經 Philharmonie of the Nations Conductor: Justus Frantz

Dao De Jing 19: 見素抱樸，少私寡欲。"Viewing unadorned (nature), embracing simpilcity." Zhuangzi 4.5: 人皆知有用之用，而莫知無用之用也。" Everyone knows the use of the useful, but none know the use of the useless."

Ibn Sina (Avicenna) on Aristotle (1/n): "I was now a master of Logic, natural sciences and mathematics. I therefore returned to metaphysics; I read the Metaphysics, but did not understand it and was baffled by the author’s intention; I read it over forty times until I had the text by heart.

Continued (5/n): "I rejoiced at this, and upon the next day distributed much in alms to the poor in gratitude to Almighty God."

Ibn Sina (Avicenna) on Aristotle (1/n): "I was now a master of Logic, natural sciences and mathematics. I therefore returned to metaphysics; I read the Metaphysics, but did not understand it and was baffled by the author’s intention; I read it over forty times until I had the text by heart.

Continued (3/n): "However he said to me, 'Buy this book from me; it is cheap, and I will sell it to you for four dirhams. The owner is in need of the money.'”

Ibn Sina (Avicenna) on Aristotle (1/n): "I was now a master of Logic, natural sciences and mathematics. I therefore returned to metaphysics; I read the Metaphysics, but did not understand it and was baffled by the author’s intention; I read it over forty times until I had the text by heart.

Continued (2/n): "Even then I did not understand it or what the author meant, and I despaired within myself, saying, 'This is a book which there is no way of understanding.'"

search.worldcat.org/title/113802...

#Dealbreaker “Not all literal artifacts are social artifacts.”

Author gives an example: “Whether something is a gun, or a chair, depends on whether it serves a certain function, and each has been invented by humans to serve those functions (to kill something in the one case, to provide a seat in the other).” What do you think “functions” are?!

道沖而用之或不盈。 Dao infuses (all), but using it, it never overflows.

Infusing works well: Dao as both the source of life and the expression of life. To view the source and the expression as separate is to divides Dao into duality.

道沖而用之或不盈。 Dao infuses (all), but using it, it never overflows.