[MD] Painting

[MarshaV]

At 06:31 AM 3/12/2007, you wrote:
>Hello Marsha.
>
> > I'm reading a little book by Shunryu Suzuki, 'Not Always So:
> > practicing the true spirit of Zen'.  It's such a different point of
> > view.  His words, for me, are worth serious consideration.  But, you
> > know, they can seem a little frightening.
> >
> > Damn!  Can I trust a dor mouse?
> >
> > Does that last sentence make sense to anyone?
>
>Suzuki's word's are like a dormouse's words?  As in,
>
>      "'Once upon a time there were three little sisters,' the Dormouse began
>      in a great hurry; `and their names were Elsie, Lacie, and 
> Tillie; and they
>      lived at the bottom of a well--"
>


Kevin,

Sorry to be so confusing.  The dormouse said, "Feed your head."

Suzuki's words are, "Although we have no actual written 
communications from the world of emptiness, we have some hints or 
suggestions about what is going on in that world, and that is, you 
might say, enlightenment.  When you see plum blossoms or hear the 
sound of a small stone hitting bamboo, that is a letter from the 
world of emptiness."

Are they saying the same thing, or the opposite?   What is reading the book?

m