Comments on: Zen and the Art of Being Chris Braak

By: braak

braak — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:49:02 +0000

This is the truth: there are no states of being, only habitual action. There is no virtuousness, only virtuous action. There is no health, only healthy action. There is no wisdom, only wise action. There is no sadness, only the practice of sadness. There is no joy, only the practice of joy.

The purpose of meditation is to return the movements of the soul to the actions of the mind, so that sad actions can be discontinued, and joyful action can be practiced.

By: Moff

Moff — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:56:42 +0000

Dude!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:23:27 +0000

Thank you V.I.P. Referee, whoever you are…

By: V.I.P. Referee

V.I.P. Referee — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:08:45 +0000

Don’t let Braak Philoso-bully you, Amanda! He’s trying to lull us into his command with a weapon-laden, smoke-and-mirrors show, while he wrangles (like a cyber-cowboy) the awesome power of the ‘net into obeying his every frivolous whim. He once posted a blog about how the internet has evolved into a living, thinking thing that builds a primer based on our interactions with it. Then he caught himself before saying anything more about it. He was afraid we’d know too much…

Moff – You wear pants while typing blog entries? What’s the point?

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:23:29 +0000

Well it seems like a good site. I just thought it was funny how I happened to find YOUR posts out of the 200+…And I found them by randomly scrolling too. Ha….

By: braak

braak — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:14:12 +0000

@Amanda: Suppose you’re thinking about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly someone’ll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate of shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in looking for one, either. It’s all part of a cosmic unconciousness.

Actually, TQP and io9 have a long history of good relations. Not only did they link to some of my early columns, but both Moff and Hsiang here are regular or irregular freelance columnists for it.

By: Moff

Moff — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:44:43 +0000

@Amanda: Coincidence? More like: STOP E-STALKING US. I FOR ONE AM MARRIED. SO NO I WILL NOT TAKE MY PANTS OFF FOR YOU.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:21:13 +0000

I am writing this comment on this thread (even though it’s OT) simply because all involved parties have commented on this blog. But I just wanted to give and example of what a small world it is:
This morning my co-worker emailed me a link to a review of T: RoTF from a web site called io9. Well it was a fabulous review and I went to comment on it and then wanted to read some of the 200+ comments. Well I did sort of a chance spin-of-the-wheel thing and clicked on the scroll bar to stop at some random spot to start reading (since I obviously couldn’t read ALL of the comments) and who’s name do you think should appear but Braak. Now I don’t think anyone else could possibly have such a unique name So I expanded to read all of the replies to his comment and who else should appear but you, Moff. And then of course I was certain that the commenters could be none other than the Threat Quality Press gang.

Now what are the odds that I would have randomly scrolled to your specific comments? I tell you, it’s fate. We are probably all connected by the great zazen spirit.

By: V.I.P. Referee

V.I.P. Referee — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:32:34 +0000

How do you know that the cat is stupid? What is a cat, really--how would you define "cat"? What if cat intelligence is measured as superior to human intelligence, from the perspective of a ferret?

By: sfauthor

sfauthor — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:41:34 +0000

Nice posting. Do you know about these yoga books?

http://www.yogavidya.com/freepdfs.html