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Zen or gibberish?

Posted on November 13, 2011 By Liquid Egg Product 15 Comments on Zen or gibberish?
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So there’s this calendar with a whole bunch of Zen sayings. While many make some sort of sense, others sound like they were uttered by a dude on magical mushrooms who wanted to sound wise.

Some of these quotes are actual Zen statements (per the calendar), others are meaningless crap that I made up. Can you tell which are which?

1. The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in dewdrops on the grass, or even in one drop of water.

2. To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

3. Wind, water, mind. One who masters the heart can no longer take harm.

4. Wanting nothing with all your heart stop the stream. When the world dissolves everything becomes clear.

5. An Autumn night…don’t think your life didn’t matter.

6. To one who waits, the tree gains existence.

7. Generally, faith is like spring mist at first. Be brave at the vanishing point.

8. Hollowness can only result from existence.

9. Neither stone, nor water, nor the sky raises the forest.

10. If the greatest cold does not penetrate into our bones, how will the fragrance of the plum blossoms pervade the entire universe?

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15 thoughts on “Zen or gibberish?”

  1. Anonymous says:
    November 13, 2011 at 11:44 pm

    When he says, “So there’s this calendar,” what he means is “Katrushka bought this Zen calendar because she likes nonsensical pseudo-meaningful gibberish.” >:-(

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    1. Donnie says:
      November 14, 2011 at 9:56 am

      Plus the pictures were pretty!

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  2. Robert says:
    November 14, 2011 at 5:39 pm

    I think you made up 3, 4, 6, 7, and 10. But I am a materialistic Western Man. I have read Illuminatus! seven times, however.

    “A Zen master and a Western philosopher jumped off of a tall building together to test their thoughts of Being and Nothingness. There was no difference, except the Western philospher was a Pragmatist, and had packed a parachute.”

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  3. Blunderprone says:
    November 15, 2011 at 9:03 pm

    Frickin 7 at least… but 3,4,5, 9 and 10 are suspect.

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  4. annie says:
    November 16, 2011 at 12:20 pm

    i say 3,5,6, and 8 are donnie. the dewdrop one actually struck me a bit. the others just make me miss being drunk.

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  5. Donnie says:
    November 18, 2011 at 3:54 pm

    And the answers are…………………………..
    ………….spoilers……………..

    3, 6, 8 and 9. I thought 3 and 9 were the most obvious.

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    1. Robert says:
      November 21, 2011 at 5:42 pm

      I scored 50% and that really screws my nerd creds. I thought for sure 4 was made up. It sounds like a John Lennon-on-acid lyric run to Chinese and then back English on Babblefish.

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      1. Donnie says:
        November 23, 2011 at 10:18 am

        Actually, it was Steve Jobs on acid.

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  6. Anonymous says:
    November 18, 2011 at 6:51 pm

    Annie did the best. Yay, Annie, you win at being Asian.

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  7. annie says:
    November 18, 2011 at 10:03 pm

    my prize should be a calendar with gibberish ALL made up by donnie.

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    1. Katrushka says:
      November 19, 2011 at 8:53 pm

      I’ll get him on that.

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      1. Donnie says:
        November 21, 2011 at 10:38 am

        Brilliant idea. I’ll gather up the Eggs and we’ll get something together.

        Reply
  8. annie says:
    November 21, 2011 at 2:27 pm

    no geometric porn from the mascot, please. but gems such as “forsooth, sucka!” are welcome, welcome welcome. 😉

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    1. Donnie says:
      November 23, 2011 at 10:19 am

      I will make sure there is no pr0n. Tentative title: Zegg, the Eggish Art of Zen.

      Reply
      1. annie says:
        November 25, 2011 at 12:38 am

        Oh mylanta georgia. I am on tenterhooks.

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