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"What a man is, contributes much more to his happiness, than what he has, or how he is regarded by others."
[Schopenhauer]
 
 
'Carlthepirate'
aka
Richie.
 
This is just a site for crazy stuff, shirts, words, people  and anything else.
You are welcome! want to post something?
 
email;carlthepirate@oldsoger.com.

Mind at Peace

When the mind is at peace,

the world too is at peace.

Nothing real, nothing absent.

Not holding on to reality,

not getting stuck in the void,

you are neither holy or wise, just

an ordinary fellow who has completed his work.

P'ang Yün ( Hõ Un) (The Enlightened Heart 34)


 
A Hard Rain's -a gonna fall!
 
 
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son ?
And where have you been my darling young one ?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, what did you see, my blue eyed son ?
And what did you see, my darling young one ?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin'
I saw a white ladder all covered with water
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, who did you meet my blue-eyed son ?
Who did you meet, my darling young one ?
I met a young child beside a dead pony
I met a white man who walked a black dog
I met a young woman whose body was burning
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow
I met one man who was wounded in love
I met another man who was wounded in hatred
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

[Robert Zimmerman aka;Bob Dylan]
 
 
Enjoy looking!
[ but don't take anything too seriously!]
 
 
 

The jewel under
the black dragon's jaw
is not easily obtained

More difficult yet
to find a like-minded friend

Alone.
Savoring the flavor of leisure

White haired
I face the green mountain

[Jakushitsu]