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Thelonious Monk - Introspection (Take 4) |
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since i was like 13 or so i have been interested in musashi. it wasn't unitl years later that i read eiji yoshikawa's novel musahsi. it was good, although, being over 1000 pages, i learned way more about yoshikawa's view of japanese society of old than i bargained for. if you have the patience and time i really recommend the book.
there is an underlining theme to the whole musashi "myth" and that is of choosing a path and sticking it out to the end. there is also an implied and sometimes stated idea that all paths are the same and yet personal. so just pick one and stay the course. well sort of, anyway that's not the point.
there is this one scene in the book where musashi wants to learn from this _master_ swordsman, but the master refuses to even see him. so musashi prepares a letter and encloses flowers in the letter. but before he sends the package off he cuts the flower stems with his sword. (*note here i may have who cut the flowers backwards it has been a while, but it doesn't hurt the point or anything ;)) once the master got the package he took a look at the flowers and immediately knew that the person that sent him the letter was a _serious_ student of the way of the sword. he just got it.
eventhough i am doing it in this entry, as  bram says, assuming a lot of context, (see the title for an example. get it? oh well) i am trying to explain what it is and why it is. i am on a path. in choosing the path that i have chosen and in traveling this path i have transformed in a number of ways. needless to say there are other people that can relate in a bunch of ways. whether it is because they too are on _a_ path or whether their path is similiar to the one i travel.
so the path i travel is not a destructive one. this being the case you pick up all kinds of neat tricks along the way. people on wavelengths other than myself may or may not get what i am sayingand /or doing. since i communicate a lot in double and triple+ meanings you may get it, but you may not get _it_. don't get me wrong, there are lots of things i don't get myself, and a lot of times i am aware of it, at least it appears that way. ;) either i acquire the knowledge, experience, wisdom, or know how to get it or i just leave it be.
so most of my entries are like the flowers musashi cut. shit most of what i say and do as far as interaction w/other people can fall under this category unless we have already connected and then the interaction itself takes on a life of its own (what beautiful children that are created!). it's jazz, calligraphy, kung fu, shit it is even sports. not everyone is just going to "grok" it. different people have different talents. some things some people can master just by being exposed to them, that same person may have to study, work real hard, or just keep at it for years to master something. so much in between the lines with me, and i just pack more and more there. makes it hard to communicate and i was already a poor commnicator. i try, and thus this entry. anyway everyone is _actually_ on a path regardless. you either choose one yourself or one chooses you. remember the float or manuver entry?
even in these various overlapping psychic zones there are even more and more zones. some you may acquaint yourself with and some you may not. i tend to _really_ gravitate towards people that i relate to a lot but differ from in ways that give me the impression that i can learn from them and/or them from me. every now and again i try someone so far afield just to keep myself honest, but that is another entry. now i have run into the problem that i am rambling on about in this entry, i am tired of trying (or actually) to explain things. like anyone cares anyway. 8) in life as in coding, specific questions work best. and usually recieve the better repsonses. i better hit that post button before i change my mind.
if i sent you flowers would you get it?
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