bashos buzz-wurds

dharma: is everything to everyone and therefore nothing to no one or as a wag was once heard to say form is emptiness -- emptiness is form, or some such absurdity.

emptiness: fullness, in the sense of, -- not the antonym of emptiness.

enlightenment: the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, or so it is thought to be. and just as illusory, or so it is thought to be.

karma: the name given to the events and circumstances, that do not fit into the remembered version of experience. karma is broadly differentiated into good or bad depending on the perception of the perceiver.

killing-the-ego: the unpremeditated forgetting to remember who you think you are.

letting-go: an interesting sleight-of-hand, performed, at lightning speed, giving the perceiver the impression of truly letting-go, while in reality one hand is always securely anchored.

master: master ===student. the experience of which, does not alter the ===..

meditation: the joy of knowing less and less about more and more, or is it the other way around?

non-attachment: the finely honed ability to insulate oneself from anything that causes dis-pleasure, usually accompanied by a dollop of smugness.

practice: delusion transforming delusion, delusion-ally.

re-incarnation: a convenient concept, the belief in which numbs the mind and allows one to put off until the next-time-around whatever one should be about this-time-around. this concept presupposes the concept that there is a 'next-time-around'. does anyone know? oh well, maybe the next time around.

(the) teaching: the cookbook approach to getting what we wish to get -- at the moment.

training: a delusion where practice (see above) is practiced to perfection.

wheel-of-life: it's what is rolling over you while you are waiting for re-incarnation.