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  1. MetalTao MetalTao

    The night is beautiful. I SHALL GO OUTSIDE AND DRAW!

    Tuesday, 22-Jul-14 03:24:07 UTC from web
    1. loveydoe loveydoe

      @metaltao That is a plan fit even for Han Shan, the taoist who wandered in the mountains he is named after!

      Tuesday, 22-Jul-14 03:26:00 UTC from bti
      1. MetalTao MetalTao

        @loveydoe I am outside right now! :D
        And who is this Han Shan? *looks up* any sources you might recommend?

        Tuesday, 22-Jul-14 03:26:47 UTC from web
        1. loveydoe loveydoe

          @metaltao http://www.hermetica.info/hanshan.htm

          Tuesday, 22-Jul-14 03:28:06 UTC from bti
          1. MetalTao MetalTao

            @loveydoe This is my favorite! Ryokan! "Ryokan a Zen master, lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the foot of a mountain. One evening a thief visited the hut only to discover there was nothing to steal.
            Ryokan returned and caught him. “You have come a long way to visit me,” he told the prowler, “and you should not return empty-handed. Please take my clothes as a gift.”
            The thief was bewildered. He took the clothes and slunk away. Ryokan sat naked, watching the moon. “Poor fellow,” he mused, “I wish I could have given him this beautiful moon.” "

            Tuesday, 22-Jul-14 03:36:36 UTC from web
            1. loveydoe loveydoe

              I've never heard that. Excellent story. A similar tale of generosity is the one of the Buddha, who in one of his lives was said to have seen a starving lioness and her cubs, and, seeing their hunger, he threw himself off a nearby cliff to provide food for them.

              Tuesday, 22-Jul-14 03:47:37 UTC from bti
              1. MetalTao MetalTao

                @loveydoe O_O; That is... wow.... That is incredible...

                Tuesday, 22-Jul-14 03:53:15 UTC from web