"For the last seventy years, I have masturbated after drinking sake."
-Kodo Sawaki

row row row your boat empty down the dream, merrily merrily merrily merrily life is but a stream

Whenever you are absent as "you," You are present as I. So you may say "My absence as 'me' is My presence as I."
Of course I am always present as I, but when I appear to be present as "you" (or as "me") I seem to be absent, i.e. My presence appears to be an absence ( Read more... )

When the beetle sees, it is I that am looking ( Read more... )

Plato was discoursing on his theory of ideas and, pointing to the cups on the table before him, said while there are many cups in the world, there is only one `idea' of a cup, and this cupness precedes the existence of all particular cups ( Read more... )

silence!

One: Good Morning. How are you?
The Other: I am. And you?
One: As cross as two sticks.
The Other: Who is cross? And how can there be two sticks? Is one not enough?
One: Who is cross? I am, of course.
The Other: Impossible. Of what are you speaking?
One: My ego.
The Other: Your whatOne: My ego ( Read more... )

every so often i suddenly become aware that twhe greatest gifts i receive come from a part of my self that i have never been directly aware of the mind of, or perhap ( Read more... )

i think everyone i know is in here somewhere

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