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The teacher of Zen has been called someone who 'sells water by the river,' while the student looking for Zen is 'like a man in the midst of water, crying in thirst so imploringly.' It is an absurd and crowded situation: the teacher hawking water by a river, while the student, in the middle of the stream, is dying of thirst. Each one of us is immersed and permeated by buddhanature: It hears and tastes and breathes, yet we're looking to 'get a life' because something is missing. Turn a corner in the street, and a whole new world opens up. You listen, and all these sounds come to you. But we're still asking, 'What's the meaning of this? Why? What's the secret of Zen?'

--Jiro Osho Fernando Afable, vice abbot of Dai Bosatsu Zendo.

Reminds me of the Rage tune, Wake Up.

Rice for Peace -- pass the meme, please

I saw this in Jerry's NDH this evening. I'm going to set mine up tomorrow. I have a nice new bag of basmati which I'll share with Dubya.

In the 1950's, tens of thousands of people sent small bags of rice to President Eisenhower to encourage him to send food to then-enemy China during a famine. The campaign helped dissuade Eisenhower from attacking China during two distinct international confrontations. Now a nationwide effort has been launched to send a similar message to President Bush about Iraq. If we are going to send something to Iraq it should be food, not bombs.

http://www.riceforpeace.org/