Comments on: 40 days (and 40 nights) http://beyondmetamora.net/blog/21.html Cross your fingers. Let's go. Fri, 23 May 2008 00:03:59 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: mwkelley http://beyondmetamora.net/blog/21.html/comment-page-1#comment-10 mwkelley Wed, 24 May 2006 00:17:53 +0000 http://beyondmetamora.net/blog/21.html#comment-10 <em>"A monk asked Tozen when he was weighing some flax: 'What is Buddha?' Tozen replied, 'This flax weighs three pounds.'"</em> It's not karma, dude, it's practicality. Heck, it's basic physics. The more you've got, the harder it is to move it. Ergo, my car got lousy gas mileage driving out here, because it was 300 pounds heavier than usual. Traveling lighter = traveling cheaper = more more money to buy stuff later. “A monk asked Tozen when he was weighing some flax: ‘What is Buddha?’ Tozen replied, ‘This flax weighs three pounds.’”

It’s not karma, dude, it’s practicality. Heck, it’s basic physics. The more you’ve got, the harder it is to move it. Ergo, my car got lousy gas mileage driving out here, because it was 300 pounds heavier than usual. Traveling lighter = traveling cheaper = more more money to buy stuff later.

]]> By: Jeriel http://beyondmetamora.net/blog/21.html/comment-page-1#comment-7 Jeriel Tue, 23 May 2006 11:59:32 +0000 http://beyondmetamora.net/blog/21.html#comment-7 you know, some people manage to exist without karmic degradation, and more then one car's worth 'o stuff, Yan. you know, some people manage to exist without karmic degradation, and more then one car’s worth ‘o stuff, Yan.

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