Quite a very lot much has happened since my last post. I’ve kept meaning to come back and catch up on posting again, but something kept distracting me.
In fact, I’d planned to post a happy new year and begin again on the 1st, but again, got sidetracked and didn’t. It started to bug me, but then I remembered an exchange I’d had with someone a couple years back about something that bugged me:
Me: What upsets me most is how much this bugs me. If I was a better buddhist it wouldn’t bother me so much.
Him: If you were a better buddhist, it wouldn’t bother you that it bothers you.
[Edited for attribution… 😉 ]
Not to worry! If you were a really good Buddhist, you would turn off the Comment Feature on your Blog just as the associated site of the Dalai Lama does. Because there is really nothing to say after all as presented by this exchange between a ZEN Master and his Student. Even my own Blog has become fairly repetitive after less than one year…
“Student?”
“Yes, Master?”
“Where are you?”
Realizing that no reply was possible to such a question, the student bowed his head.
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Thanks muchly for that thought! Yet if I truly believed there was nothing to say after all, I wouldn’t have such a wordy blog. But then it was a figure o’ speech mondo in itself, cause in truth I’m not really much of a buddhist at all. I’m more a zen taoist kinda thing — a fae taoist, I’ve just been told!
At the end of the beautiful day, I think what I believe in most of all is nothing.
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