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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: ~submergence < > sound < > mountain radio < > emergence~
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 11:52:01 -0500 (EST)
~ submergence < > sound < > mountain radio < > emergence~ don't get anyone upset when speaking to other people, saying things like a green mountain can't walk (can't get up and walk) and an eastern mountain can't travel on water. when you don't understand anything, when your understanding is beginner's understanding, you doubt everything, the phrase 'green mountains are walking' means nothing to you. when your studies are just beginning, you're troubled by everything, by 'flowing mountains' and 'radio' for example, you have uneasy dreams at night, your face is shallow and troubled. you don't even know that water flows, that air flows, that rocks and mountains flow, that the radio sings everywhere, your drown in your understanding, drown in everything. for mountains are mountains and alive like the dust you walk in, everything is a mountain and a mountain is everything. there's understanding and not understanding, there's listening and not listening, and not listening listening, everything forms everything else, nothing forms everything, buddhas are formed everywhere, buddha appear just like that, there wasn't anything before, there was everything. when you don't know, speaking is painful whatever you say, nothing negates mountains moving here and there, walking everywhere, crossing water and valleys, even skies where radio is there above and below. your views are pools among them, and they support you when you are right, and when you are wrong you can't hear the difference, you can't see the difference. nothing and everything is knowing and knowledge and there is no knowledge here, aren't you amazing, sesshu's mountains flowing like radio, you don't need sesshu, you don't need flowing mountains, you don't need radio. such mountains aren't understood by everyone, one moment to the next, they're walking among radio. we'll talk about mountains here, we'll say nothing, it's just a word, this mountain, holding everything together, one word or another, why not a word, why not silence. they move and flow like radio, these mountains. they give birth, they're just there, they move, they're flowing, open your eyes, there are buddhas all around you, there are mountains and valleys, there's radio all about, open your eyes, your ears, open your mouth, silently speak, speak silence, listen. paraphrasing from dogen's sansuikyo http://www.alansondheim.org/akkad1255.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/radio.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/gravel.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/forpt.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/akkad1237.jpg "For their other foreign-language broadcasts the Nazis have a strange assortment of hired Balkanites, Dutch, Scandinavians, Spaniards, Arabs, and Hindus. Once in a great while one of these speakers turns out to be 'unreliable.' Such a one was the Yugoslav speaker who began his broadcast the other night: 'Ladies and gentlemen, what you are about to hear from Berlin tonight is a lot of nonsense, a pack of lies, and if you have any sense, you will turn your dials.' He got no further, for there are 'checkers' sitting listening at the Propaganda Ministry at the other end of town. The last seen of the fellow was when the S.S. guards carted him off to jail." - from William Shirer, Berlin Diary, 1941 (thanks to paul thayer's Steal This CodeArt, 2017) +++