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Alex — just finished getting ALL of Ed Steele’s stuff in my audio archive (never too early to beat the Net-killers to the punch, eh?) and had a few thoughts.

In a former life-time I was a Zen buddhist monk. Yep, big burly round-eye with shaved head and black robes. One of the ko-an we studied was “What was your original face before you were born?”. Now YOU probably know what a ko-an is, but if not, it’s a mind-twist question that you can’t answer without WAKING UP to something. That “something” is what’s REALLY going on here … in this “life thing”.

As you’ve said before, once one starts down “the path” of WN awakening one finds oneself peeling off layers of conditioning one NEVER EVEN REALIZED WERE THERE. Shockin’ ain’t it? Kinda like the stuff that bubbles up when you work on a Zen ko-an.

Now, let’s put 2+Jew together and make ourselves a very UN-kosher Ko-an ….

“What was your original (f)race before it was be-joo’d?”

Is it time for Euro folk to set up monasteries, get tonsured and begin contemplating their “original face”???

Well maybe not in the traditional sense, but I think the answer is still “Yes” because we seem to have a problem visualizing “the way we are” sans kosherized overlay. Until we can visualize that “original face”, we quite literally Don’t Know What To Do Next. No Knowledge –> No Vision –> No Future.

Hmmmmm, a monk-cut kinda looks like a SKINHEAD ‘do, don’t it?

And BLACK outfits and accessories DO have a snappy tradition ‘mongst Euros.

And maybe the “Monastery” is of a VIRTUAL sort, with a RED BLACK & WHITE motif and a pesky little ‘pecker as a mascot.

And perhaps a complete set of WN WAKE UP Ko-an is under construction by Roshi Linder ???

Here’s an easy one to take home with ya: “What’s the sound of Yoo Lips Flappin’?

“Bro” Ezra