Re: Bahiya


"Advaita Bob" <advaita.bob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
Mayura wrote:

Is that an Official Zen Story?

I don't know. It's an Indian fable (pancatantra?)

OK. 500 of anything seemed a bit 'many' for anything Zen.

Yes, although on the other hand they tend to go on and on about the "ten
thousand", but I think they stole that from Taoism.

Yes. But that's so 'many' it's just 'loads'... like "there's no need to
start counting them... well, it was about that many... well, we don't
actually have to check exactly how many... exactly how many is not really
the point... yes, there's a point... but exactly how many is really just a
side-issue completely subsidiary to the point... yes, I'm sure there is only
one point... well, I suppose I can't be entirely sure, but if we get to that
forst then we can worry about any others that there might be later..."

You could always start slowly by borrowing Peter Bergwaldheimhausen's
lederhosen :)

It's not like that I aspire to be one, it's simply that I find the
whole
male female thing a bit tiring. You know that as a Dutch person I tend
to stare through their eyes straight in their soul.

:) I've found that in my latest phase, I seem to keep eye-contact for
longer
for no obvious reason. (But not that long... I mean, that's just
odd... )

I just try to keep it to the strict minimum, otherwise I am afraid
people start noticing that I am downloading their whole harddisk and you
want them to keep at least a bit of their dignity.

:) Well, if you wore the lederhosen while downloading their whole harddisk,
maybe they would feel that evened things up a bit.

I haven't seen a hairdresser for years. I cut my hair myself with a
hairclipper and Mrs Advaita...

There Can Be Only One Advaita... flesh of your flesh... jiva of your
jiva...
or something...

Yes, during our better moments we can come out with things like that. At
other times, we are more like Purusha and Prakriti (sp?)

In some translations there doesn't seem to be a penultimate 'i' in prakr-ti
but I don't know how 'letter-for-letter' they are so I sometimes stick one
in there depending on my mood.

I admire your thrift.

I am quite proud of it. If I spent another year without buying shoes or
cloths I give myself another pat on the back. The other day I found a
lovely piece of furniture in the street, a comfortable armchair of
carved wood (real wood, not any of that Ikea surrogate)

Excellent! It reminds me of one of the most erotic passages in Shogun where
he says, in disgust about something and looking forward to his own rule,
(approx.) "There will be no waste in my Kingdom." My shopping for stuff like
that is more spread over the year because I have a big list of things I want
but only for next to nothing and grab them opportunistically when I see them
frather than being bounced by necessity into paying the nomal price when
something falls apart.

Here it used to be about football. I learned the necessary names and
facts, so I can at least get through approximately fifteen minutes on
automatic pilot and a pretty high depersonalisation level.

!!!:-(

Yes that seems to be an unavoidable phase, but it doesn't last too
long.

Yes. I only have to go through this emotional trauma each autumn.

Each autumn? Does you hair grow that slow?

I stay the short side of the woofiness zone all spring and summer so I only
have to go through it once a year in the autumn if I want something on my
head by the time it's freezing in the winter.

:) I'm shocked by your awareness of the 'hair-technical'.

One has to if one is too thrifty and lazy to visit a barber every two
months.

:) I ought to buy some clippers but I don't have anyone who I would want to
let loose on the back. When my grandmother had to have daily insulin
injections, my father and I hid behind the metaphorical sofa and my mother
volunteered but she's averse to gadgets and my father is a farmer.

(I can't believe I go to a place called "Funky
Chunky")

They usually are very creative. Their name has to reflect some of their
creativity, so the client knows what to expect.

(Like "Curl Up and Dye" etc.) Yes. The last person was just The Hairport for
some reason but she emigrated to Thailand last year.

and "are you sure?ish"
if the numbers are too different from each other... and says stuff like,

Perhaps you ought to try various sorts of combinations and then finally
say, no of course I meant ...

"Well I suppose I could *try* and fade it in..."

:-) Many people don't realise the importance of a good haircut and what
it tells others about one. I feel you are in good hands at Chunky Funky.

:) I hope it doesn't just tell them that I don't want to pay more than a
fiver (which is all it is if they only use the clippers).

I'm frowning at myself from
a great height for discussing haircutting on a Buddhist ng but pressing
on
regardless, one thing I found is that supposedly, cutters of men's and
women's hair are trained marginally differently. With women's they
mentally
'quarter' the head or something whereas with men's they don't.

Something must be different, because the tariffs are so different.

Yes. Theirs are outrageous. My mother was spending weekly more than I was
once every 10 weeks or so just for some kind of rearrangement or
rescaffolding or something.

And men generally just do what they're told whereas women tend to have
these
surplus ideas about compensating for your various physical handicaps.
Like,
if they decide that you've got a long face, then they want some hair to
dangle over your ears to compensate for this deformity.

Yes any self respecting hairdresser in France has a sign saying that
s/he is also a "visagiste". They make your hair fit in with your face
so that both reflect your personality at their best.

Good God! I didn't realise it had an 'official status'. I thought it was
like our 'unwritten' constitution or something.

It's the same with
clothing up to a point. E.g. we get these makeover shows where they
strip
people off and insert them into a 360 degree mirror device and then
throw
away all their old clothes (that the friends and family hated which is
why
they nominated them for the makeover) and start again trying to
compensate
for all these deformities.

I better watch it then.

:)

Whole colour ranges are deemed off limits, pretty much for life if the
deformities don't change. "But I like purple..." or whatever doesn't
come
into it. There's a similar thing with this dopey American (?) thing
called
"Color Me Beautiful" or somesuch where they decide what 'season' your
'colouring' is and then give you a colour pallete to match it and a
banned
list.

How did we manage without them?

:) I wonder what happens when they join the army (or the Buddhists) and see
what the 'Springwear Collection' and matching hair will be like... "with
this oval face... and this colouring... and these thighs... ?" It's a bit
like the first foundation of mindfulness. 1) Chop your body into bits. 2)
Become mindful of the lumpiness of this and the unsymmetricality of that and
the misshapen nature of the other. 3) Blame men for reducing you to an
'object'.

I have to teach my father the meaning of 'inopportune' moment because
yesterday, he decided to run the 20 year old picj up down the field to
collect up the remaining black plastic silage-bag wrappers so he could
burn
them before the ban (and getting caught on satellite) on Monday. So he
decided he wanted help rescuing the pick up 5 minutes before the F.A.Cup
final that I'd been waiting ages for and had money on.

A cruel interruption of your for-ishness...

Indeed. Although the match was great and went the right way for my wallet. I
messed up on the Champions League backing this computer geek in the Times
and having no money on Barcelona who are likely to win next Wed. So I hit on
this scam to try and retrieve my position including a fourfold bet on
Seville (UEFA Cup) Liverpool (F.A.Cup) Barcelona (Champions Lg. final on
Wed.) and Argentina (World Cup). £10 becomes £280 if I get all four and the
first two are in the bag so if Barcelona do win on Wed. I have a bet on
Argentina yielding £280 that only cost £10 and I can defer defending that
and analogous bets involving Barcelona in a few months time.

Jonathan





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