A poem on suffering

Leftius

This is a great poem by W.S. Blunt. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfrid_Scawen_Blunt):

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/mockery-life

If this is fully understood, a serious spiritual practice and lifestyle may commence. Yet my laziness holds me back. Remember Four Noble Truths:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Noble_Truths

Life is mostly suffering. It is hard to overcome suffering. And even saints die.

Brian

Eating the Blame

Circumstances arose one day which delayed preparation of the dinner of a Soto Zen master, Fugai, and his followers. In haste the cook went to the garden with his curved knife and cut off the tops of green vegetables,  chopped them together, and made soup, unaware that in his haste he had included a part of a snake in the vegetables.

The followers of Fugai thought they had never tasted such great soup. But when the master himself found the snake's head in his bowl, he summoned the cook. "What is this?" he demanded, holding up the head of the snake.

"Oh, thank you, master," replied the cook, taking the morsel and eating it quickly.

Brian

https://books.google.co.th/books?id=7nt8S3fJzSAC&pg=PA161&lpg=PA161&dq=scawen+blunt+nazi&source=bl&ots=y16FxrunHZ&sig=B1O0kANL9mJuj3DiENRThKZUTEw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjG2caCr7XLAhVCA44KHbThDfUQ6AEIIDAB#v=onepage&q=scawen%20blunt%20nazi&f=false

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The realm of thought and emotion is NOT the realm of true spirituality.

Leftius

Jews are scapegoats. Hitler said that if the Jews didn't exist, they should be invented.

Blunt a racist?

Leftius

Well, my next life was a German soldier. Just a coincidence?

Leftius

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/pound-yeats-ate-peacock

Brian

The Scapegoat