Walk Softly Live Gently

Happy New Year!

Here’s a synapse twister from Wei Wu Wei. Picture is mine. Text taken from “Ask The Awakened” by the aforementioned guy with the funny name.

“It is necessary to understand that I Am,

In order that I may know that I Am Not,

So that, at last, I may realize that,

I Am Not, therefore I Am.”

Wei Wu Wei

A mind that is stretched

by a new experience

can never go back

to its old dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Physics and Metaphysics
A river has a name, a character,

a personality;

it is liked or disliked as an entity.

This is due to a variety of factors:

its rapidity or sluggishness,

its breadth, depth, length,

its form and course,

its smoothness,

number of islands,

and the vegetation

and topographical character

of its immediate environment.

But it flows;

from whatever angle you may look,

it is never the same for two consecutive seconds.

It is just passing water,

each ripple, each drop,

resembling its predecessor

and its successor

but never the same ripple or drop.
There is no river.

There is no man.

Another attempt at playing the painter guy….

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How about a little abstract piece?

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My impression of the impressionists. Nothing too exciting here, just practicing brush strokes, mixing colors, etc.

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Testing new artwork. have not done this for a while. Still a little rusty.

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The practice of meditation is represented by the three monkeys, who cover their eyes, ears and mouths so as to avoid the phenomenal world.

The practice of non-meditation is ceasing to be the see-er, hearer or speaker while eyes, ears and mouths are fulfilling their function in daily life.

Open Secret by Wei Wu Wei

TEACHER: Maria, go to the map and find North America.
MARIA: Here it is.
TEACHER: Correct. Now class, who discovered America?
CLASS: Maria.

TEACHER: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor?
JOHN: You told me to do it without using tables.

TEACHER: Glenn, how do you spell “crocodile?”
GLENN: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L”
TEACHER: No, that’s wrong
GLENN: Maybe it is wrong, but you asked me how I spell it.

TEACHER: Donald, what is the chemical formula for water?
DONALD: H I J K L M N O.
TEACHER: What are you talking about?
DONALD: Yesterday you said it’s H to O.

TEACHER: Winnie, name one important thing we have today that we
didn’t have ten years ago.
WINNIE: Me!

TEACHER: Glen, why do you always get so dirty?
GLEN: Well, I’m a lot closer to the ground than you are.

TEACHER: Millie, give me a sentence starting with “I.”
MILLIE: I is…
TEACHER: No, Millie….. Always say, “I am.”
MILLIE: All right… “I am the ninth letter of the alphabet.”

TEACHER: George Washington not only chopped down his father’s cherry
tree, but also admitted it. Now, Louie, do you know why his father
didn’t punish him?
LOUIS: Because George still had the ax in his hand.

TEACHER: Now, Simon, tell me frankly, do you say prayers before eating?
SIMON: No sir, I don’t have to, my Mom is a good cook.

TEACHER: Clyde, your composition on “My Dog” is exactly the same as
your brother’s. Did you copy his?
CLYDE: No, teacher, it’s the same dog.

TEACHER: Harold, what do you call a person who keeps on talking when
people are no longer interested?
HAROLD: A teacher