Taijitu
City Center => Acropolis => Zhao Huo Si => Topic started by: The Master on June 30, 2007, 09:03:05 PM
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*The Master lifts the tea tray.*
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The pupil takes the tea tray and drinks.
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Good'day, lads! Mmh, nice place. Can a tired traveler get some cold tea and perhaps some fortune cookies around here?
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There are fortunes, and there are cookies.
*The Master lifts the cookie tray*
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PoD! You're fraternizing with the heathens!
/me lifts the beer and pizza tray.
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*The Master takes the beer and pizza tray.*
Your donation is accepted. The Master appreciates your hospitality in this place of meeting and discussion.
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:D :D Myro don't be a tweet! I'm a Pha Phater, for Pha's sake! I'm not 'fraternizing'...it just so happened I was in the neighborhood and thought it was a nice gesture to say 'Hi' to our Asian neighbors...
*takes the cookies from the Master* thank you mate, you can keep the fortunes.
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Yeesh.
/me sips delicious tea.
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*nods*
Pupil Eluvatar, the Master asks of you, is tea delicious? Answer with your mind, not your tongue.
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Tea is nothing and nothing is delicious.
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The Master believes Pupil Eluvatar has proven himself a fool.
The Master will answer through a story.
Tozan went to Ummon. Ummon asked him where he had come from.
Tozan said: `From Sato village.'
Ummon asked: `In what temple did you remain for the summer?'
Tozan replied: `The temple of Hoji, south of the lake.'
`When did you leave there?' asked Ummon, wondering how long Tozan would continue with such factual answers.
`The twenty-fifth of August,' answered Tozan.
Ummon said: `I should give you three blows with a stick, but today I forgive you.'
The next day Tozan bowed to Ummon and asked: `Yesterday you forgave me three blows. I do not know why you thought me wrong.'
Ummon, rebuking Tozan's spiritless responses, said: `You are good for nothing. You simply wander from one monastery to another.'
Before Ummon's words were ended Tozan was enlightened.
Now that this story has been read, answer the Master's question: What is its title?
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*chews some more rice cookies and whacks a fly with a bamboo stick* mmmh...delicious! The title would be...uhm... Tozan and Ummon?
Aren't these those two, the wild boar and the mongoose from the Lion King? *helps himself to some more cookies*
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By The Master asking one question, he has asked none. Phather Myroria is reminded of an ancient parable:
Manson and the Beer Hall
Once, as Charles Manson was walking through his jail cell, he saw a hole in the stone leading to the Beer Hall of Pha. Excited, he ran to the wise Phather Myroria, who was sleeping in a bathtub nearby.
"Phather, I have seen perfection! What must I do now?"
Phather Myroria stared at the kidney lying on the bathroom floor and replied, "Go back to your jail cell."
"But Phather, surely I may be permitted to be in this Beer Hall?"
"There is no Beer Hall. Go back to your cell, and hear it's drunken calls and women's moans."
"Is that manly, Phather?" To that, Myroria did not reply.
Manson returned to his jail cell and cleaved his bed in two. He leaned his ear toward the bed, and heard it's metal springs squeak. Phather Myroria beat Manson with the kidney on the bathroom floor.
"Now you know manliness."
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What is the sound of no hands clapping? The Master hears it now. In emptiness, there is wisdom, but what wisdom can there be in non-wisdom?
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You know, Master, I'd say Phather Myro got you there, no doubt about it. *puts some huge wool mittens on, takes up some distance to the Master and starts clapping* the sound would be this one, glad you can hear it. ;) *turns to Phather Myro* If he can hear this from 100 feet, he's better than Sam!!!
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Oz walked into the room bowing and slipping his shoes off at the door. He took a cup of tea from the tray and took a sip and bowed to the Master, "Master, I have returned as Sun leaves by night and returns by day. We are the grass and you are the wind that sways me to the correct way."
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"But what of the tea?" the Master asks.
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"What Tea, Master?"
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*knocks full teacup onto Oz*
This tea, Disciple Oz. Do you deny that you drink of the tea?
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Oz drys himself with his robe, "I neither deny or accept for it is not confirmed."
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Hello, can I have some tea and cookiepie, Master? I just got back from legislation. *places down tray of pie and cookies*
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* sits in empty corner of empty teahouse. Observes teahouse, then corner, then returns to observing emptiness*
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Open your eyes. The emptiness will not show itself through darkness.
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The excavation is undying.
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I don't understand.
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I miss the Tea House. But the Master has been dormant for a long time. Perhaps he is dead?
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That is not dead which always lies.
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The Master can never die, Wast. I think. I'm not sure what to make of what our holy book says.
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More Tea! More Taijitu! More Democracy! More cities built on rock & roll!
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Hm, I've been watching far too much Avatar. When I saw the tea house, the first thing I thought of was Iroh and jasmine tea.
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The student came to the Master's Tea House and said, "I heard a man tell me 'This sentence is false.' What does this mean?"
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Jin Wen Gu once asked the Master, "Why do you drink tea eight times in a day? Is this your secret to enlightenment?"
The Master answered, "Mu. (Nothingness)"
"Mu?"
"Without Tea I am constipated and full."
At that moment Jin Wen Gu became enlightened.
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The student dropped the tea pot and it shattered.
Woe is me, said the student, for I will not have tea.
You have tea, now drink it, said the Master.
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The student sits at the feet of the Master, awaiting wisdom.
When no wisdom is bestowed, the student asks the Master, "What must I cease to attain enlightenment?"
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Master, I ask for guidance. I have given away all of my earthly possessions and dedicated my life to one of wandering. However, I feel strangely fulfilled inside. How do I empty my soul of this warmth?
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A new pupil enters
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:tai: :tai: :tai: :tai:
Wu is nothingness, emptiness, non-existence
Thirty spokes of a wheel all join at a common hub,
yet, only the hole at the center allows the wheel to spin.
Clay is molded to form a cup,
yet, only the space within allows the cup to hold water.
Walls are joined to make a room,
yet, only by cutting out a door and a window can one enter the room and live there.
Thus, when a thing has existence alone, it is mere dead-weight.
Only when it has Wu, does it have life.