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Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective)
#7507374 - 10/10/07 10:32 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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"How will you jump off a 100 foot pole?"
Think about it. Its a life changing saying if you realize what it means. We all know what it means, however once i viewed it like the saying, its really a cool and happy way to look at it. Just thought id share
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: Spiritual Seeker]
#7507397 - 10/10/07 10:41 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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By jumping onto a 99 foot ladder....?
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: PhanTomCat]
#7507432 - 10/10/07 10:56 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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By jumping onto a 99 foot Czechoslovakian... 
Sorry to steal your joke.
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#7508072 - 10/11/07 08:26 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I must be pretty fucking stupid because it's meaning is evading me.
My only answer is: Climb a 100ft pole and jump off it.
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: Boots]
#7508107 - 10/11/07 08:44 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Seeker, I'm at a lost for what this means. Closest meaning I can come up with is not to get girls pregnant.
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: mushroomplume]
#7508188 - 10/11/07 09:25 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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This is a classic zen koan. I think a more accurate translation is how do you climb above or step up over a 100 foot pole. That this makes no sense is the whole point. It is impossible to give a rational answer. These and other koans like "what is the sound of one hand clapping" are meant to frustrate and confuse the rational intellect until all of the sudden the mind slips out of a rational way of thinking into purely unconstructed form of intuitive apprehension. This usually results in some level of awakening. So its pretty simple, keep that question in mind all day everyday and eventually you'll realize true reality. Okay maybe its not that simple.
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#7508471 - 10/11/07 11:03 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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It's all good, my second answer was to jump off holding 99 red balloons filled with helium....

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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: PhanTomCat]
#7508648 - 10/11/07 11:50 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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LOL people think about it.
How are you going to jump off a 100 foot pole? YOUR NOT GOING TO SURVIVE. There is absolutly no way to survive a 100 foor drop. It basically means that we are all going to die. No matter what religion, no matter how powerful, or smart you are.....Every last one of us isnt going to survive a 100 foot fall.
Everyone is going to have to take the leap someday...."EVERYONE". So how will you jump off the pole? Pissed off and afraid that your human fate involves death? Or accept it and smile about it.
Best answer i can think of. Actually my friend pointed out that it involes death. Just thought id share.
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: Spiritual Seeker]
#7508655 - 10/11/07 11:53 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Its a life changing saying if you realize what it means.
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: Spiritual Seeker]
#7508881 - 10/11/07 01:07 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Spiritual Seeker said: LOL people think about it.
How are you going to jump off a 100 foot pole? YOUR NOT GOING TO SURVIVE. There is absolutly no way to survive a 100 foor drop. It basically means that we are all going to die. No matter what religion, no matter how powerful, or smart you are.....Every last one of us isnt going to survive a 100 foot fall.
Everyone is going to have to take the leap someday...."EVERYONE". So how will you jump off the pole? Pissed off and afraid that your human fate involves death? Or accept it and smile about it.
Best answer i can think of. Actually my friend pointed out that it involes death. Just thought id share.
Yea, but the question didn't state anything about surviving or not surviving.
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: Boots]
#7509061 - 10/11/07 02:05 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yea, but the question didn't state anything about surviving or not surviving.
Its a "Zen" Saying. It doesnt have an answer and could be taken a lot of diffrent ways. But if you view it in the aspect of death it makes alot of sense.
Or at least i thought
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: Spiritual Seeker]
#7509924 - 10/11/07 06:02 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
Spiritual Seeker said: How are you going to jump off a 100 foot pole? YOUR NOT GOING TO SURVIVE. There is absolutly no way to survive a 100 foor drop. It basically means that we are all going to die. No matter what religion, no matter how powerful, or smart you are.....Every last one of us isnt going to survive a 100 foot fall.
Sir Richard Brandson dropped further than 100 feet the other night and only hurt his wrist and ripped his pants.... 
It seems like a pretty fucked up and dysfunctional "Zen" saying if the only answer is to commit suicide, and then be happy about it....!? 
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: PhanTomCat]
#7509949 - 10/11/07 06:08 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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It's inzenity!
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#7509977 - 10/11/07 06:16 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Any of these answers would get you smacked in the head with the Zen Master's cane!
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: jonathanseagull]
#7509996 - 10/11/07 06:20 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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If he was man enough.
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: Spiritual Seeker]
#7510094 - 10/11/07 06:43 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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By jumping off the 100 foot pole?
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: Spiritual Seeker]
#7510116 - 10/11/07 06:48 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
Spiritual Seeker said: LOL people think about it.
How are you going to jump off a 100 foot pole? YOUR NOT GOING TO SURVIVE. There is absolutly no way to survive a 100 foor drop. It basically means that we are all going to die. No matter what religion, no matter how powerful, or smart you are.....Every last one of us isnt going to survive a 100 foot fall.
Everyone is going to have to take the leap someday...."EVERYONE". So how will you jump off the pole? Pissed off and afraid that your human fate involves death? Or accept it and smile about it.
Best answer i can think of. Actually my friend pointed out that it involes death. Just thought id share.
What proof do you have that the pole is vertical? It might be 100 feet long, lying on the ground.
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: hummermania00]
#7510223 - 10/11/07 07:11 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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yea spiritual, I think your little mystical saying doesn't have much grounds in reality. like one poster said about some guy who did survive a 100ft drop. plus, the quote doesn't make much sense either. you should start reading about other religions that make more sense than this one.
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: mushroomplume]
#7510240 - 10/11/07 07:15 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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such as taoism (daoism), read the tao
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: Spiritual Seeker]
#7510327 - 10/11/07 07:34 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
Spiritual Seeker said: "How will you jump off a 100 foot pole?" . Its a life changing saying if you realize what it means.
OK, I have to agree, I get it.... It would be pretty life changing if you jumped off a 100 foot pole and died.... 
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: PhanTomCat]
#7510355 - 10/11/07 07:38 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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i think the reason of most zen questions is to realize that the answer is simple and not let your mind jitter?
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: Arp]
#7510386 - 10/11/07 07:42 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I think this is just a bad example of a "Zen" saying.... I immediately thought of LOTS of answers, and had to pick from them....
An actual good Zen Koan, leaves one thinking: 

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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: PhanTomCat]
#7510483 - 10/11/07 08:01 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Hogen, a Chinese Zen teacher, lived alone in a small temple in the country. One day four traveling monks appeared and asked if they might make a fire in his yard to warm themselves.
While they were building the fire, Hogen heard them arguing about subjectivity and objectivity. He joined them and said: "There is a big stone. Do you consider it to be inside or outside your mind?"
One of the monks replied: "From the Buddhist viewpoint everything is an objectification of mind, so I would say that the stone is inside my mind."
"Your head must feel very heavy," observed Hogen, "if you are carrying around a stone like that in your mind."
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: AlteredAgain]
#7510521 - 10/11/07 08:09 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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i'd slide down.
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: justin340]
#7510797 - 10/11/07 08:59 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'd just start chewing on the pole. Eventually I'd chew down far enough where I could jump safely.
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: Spiritual Seeker]
#7511003 - 10/11/07 09:59 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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only once hahaha
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: jonathanseagull]
#7511016 - 10/11/07 10:03 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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jonathanseagull said: I'd just start chewing on the pole. Eventually I'd chew down far enough where I could jump safely.
DOOOOD, he forgot to mention that it was a 10 foot diameter pole made out of solid oak.... 

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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: Spiritual Seeker]
#7512263 - 10/13/07 02:37 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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the answer that came to my mind as to "how im going to jump off a 100 foot pole" was, im not going to. so i guess id better get used to standing up top there and kill my desire to leave that perch.
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: Archemetis]
#7514290 - 10/14/07 12:26 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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David Blane already did this. Fucking magicians. He landed in precisely stacked cardboard boxes, yo. It was in some square, somewhere.
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: PhanTomCat]
#7514298 - 10/14/07 12:29 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I would slide down it.
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: Walter1496211]
#7514301 - 10/14/07 12:30 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Like a fire drill??
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: backfromthedead]
#7514303 - 10/14/07 12:31 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Exactly...
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: Walter1496211]
#7514312 - 10/14/07 12:34 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Arson in the police blotter.
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: backfromthedead]
#7514323 - 10/14/07 12:36 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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backfromthedead said: Arson in the police blotter.
Very Clever ..
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Re: Zen saying.......(Changed my perspective) [Re: Walter1496211]
#7514373 - 10/14/07 12:54 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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