Wednesday 20 November 2013

the usual nonsense

7 comments:

  1. Can I have your opinions on fermented foods, such as kimchi, kefir, kombucha, or etc. I remember you said to eliminate fermented foods in your BCD diet. May you please explain why?

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  2. well they basically have uncontrolled cultures in, for example kefir can be quite high in ecoli !

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  3. Hey, an3drew, I'm trying to find a youtube video of Derrida you once posted. In it he talks about how a statement contains within it the seed of deconstruction. Like it deconstructs itself into some kind of recursion automatically, or something to that effect. I don't remember it well, but I want to study more into Derrida and am interested in you giving the youtube video again.

    I think you're definitely pointing to a lot of cool things on your blog. There's definitely a big "link" between Derrida's philosophy and the Blue Cliff Record, I think.

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  4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xyYGFhPDHo

    its actually quite an interesting problem, life has so much error that if you spend your life deconstructing it, you know it's like a pin hole in the sea and fills immediately again so what do you do?

    the sort of meiji zen attitudes current today tries to deal with it by being anti-intellectual and basically ignoring everything, blinkers basically

    I think my own conclusion is that there is no answer or resolution and like charles bukowski said, one just writes f o r e v e r

    in Buddhist terms that life is literally suffering with no resolution..............

    this what I like about brad warner actually he's be about the only zen teacher to accept this "everything is failure" underpinning to life...............

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  5. Andrew, do you want to read a book together and discuss it?

    I think you're a very cool person, and I want to do an activity with you online. Choose a book that we can read, and choose the dates where have discussions on what we have read.

    From my experience, most old people tend to be very close-minded, but you are well-read and have lots of experience with things. I think it will be cool to read a book together where you can convey your interpretations on key passages and stuff.

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  6. I was thinking the book I find most useful, or author rather is sa'di because he's very practical, had a hard and dangerous life, been a slave to the crusaders, a difficult marriage, that sort of thing !

    I read both " the orchard" and "the rose garden", you really have to understand the culture which is medieval and the sufi conventions in terms of the way they express themselves

    there's a lot there..................

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  7. My dad has read Sa'di in the native language.

    I wish my Farsi were as good as his, haha...

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