Answers to my interview
The Rules:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. Or not so creepy/personal.
3. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
1. What is the worst physical torture you can think of? Describe it.
Okay,...
The room is dark. Not completely dark, but dark enough where shapes are fairly indescernable. You try to move, but find that your hands are bound at the wrists a little out from your sides. Your hands are palm up in what seem to be some sort of solid metal gloves. The legs are likewise bound at the ankles with the feet in similar devices to the hands. You hear the voice of a loved one telling you that it will only hurt a lot as they begin to manipulate the glove devices, slowly seperating the bones in your fingers and toes at each joint. I'd continue, but there's not really enough space.
2. What is the worst emotional torture you can think of? Describe it.
Being removed from all my friends.
3. What is the last book you read? Did you enjoy it?
Full Book: Something on Heraldry. Yes.
Comic Book: Nextwave Issue 3. Yes.
4. What was the last dream you can recall?
This is fairly difficult as I don't often recall my dreams. If I remember properly, I was driving down to OR, but ended up in FL. I stopped at my friend Kat's house, only she didn't live there, my friend Wes did. The inside of the house looked exactly like my apt when I lived with Wes. When I stepped outside, I was back in MO and late for work. I woke up to the sound of a car blaring its horn outside my window.
5. What is the sound of one hand clapping?
What is the Sound of the Single Hand? When you clap together both hands a sharp sound is heard; when you raise the one hand there is neither sound nor smell. Is this the High Heaven of which Confucius speaks? Or is it the essentials of what Yamamba describes in these words: "The echo of the completely empty valley bears tidings heard from the soundless sound?" This is something that can by no means be heard with the ear. If conceptions and discriminations are not mixed within it and it is quite apart from seeing, hearing, perceiving, and knowing, and if, while walking, standing, sitting, and reclining, you proceed straightforwardly without interruption in the study of this koan, you will suddenly pluck out the karmic root of birth and death and break down the cave of ignorance. Thus you will attain to a peace in which the phoenix has left the golden net and the crane has been set free of the basket. At this time the basis of mind, consciousness, and emotion is suddenly shattered; the realm of illusion with its endless sinking in the cycle of birth and death is overturned. The treasure accumulation of the Three Bodies and the Four Wisdoms is taken away, and the miraculous realms of the Six Supernatural Powers and Three Insights is transcended.
From p. 164, Yabukoji, in The Zen Master Hakuin: Selected Writings, Translated by Philip B. Yampolsky, Columbia University Press, New York and London, 1971.
To me, it's a soft thud. :)
-rav
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. Or not so creepy/personal.
3. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
1. What is the worst physical torture you can think of? Describe it.
Okay,...
The room is dark. Not completely dark, but dark enough where shapes are fairly indescernable. You try to move, but find that your hands are bound at the wrists a little out from your sides. Your hands are palm up in what seem to be some sort of solid metal gloves. The legs are likewise bound at the ankles with the feet in similar devices to the hands. You hear the voice of a loved one telling you that it will only hurt a lot as they begin to manipulate the glove devices, slowly seperating the bones in your fingers and toes at each joint. I'd continue, but there's not really enough space.
2. What is the worst emotional torture you can think of? Describe it.
Being removed from all my friends.
3. What is the last book you read? Did you enjoy it?
Full Book: Something on Heraldry. Yes.
Comic Book: Nextwave Issue 3. Yes.
4. What was the last dream you can recall?
This is fairly difficult as I don't often recall my dreams. If I remember properly, I was driving down to OR, but ended up in FL. I stopped at my friend Kat's house, only she didn't live there, my friend Wes did. The inside of the house looked exactly like my apt when I lived with Wes. When I stepped outside, I was back in MO and late for work. I woke up to the sound of a car blaring its horn outside my window.
5. What is the sound of one hand clapping?
What is the Sound of the Single Hand? When you clap together both hands a sharp sound is heard; when you raise the one hand there is neither sound nor smell. Is this the High Heaven of which Confucius speaks? Or is it the essentials of what Yamamba describes in these words: "The echo of the completely empty valley bears tidings heard from the soundless sound?" This is something that can by no means be heard with the ear. If conceptions and discriminations are not mixed within it and it is quite apart from seeing, hearing, perceiving, and knowing, and if, while walking, standing, sitting, and reclining, you proceed straightforwardly without interruption in the study of this koan, you will suddenly pluck out the karmic root of birth and death and break down the cave of ignorance. Thus you will attain to a peace in which the phoenix has left the golden net and the crane has been set free of the basket. At this time the basis of mind, consciousness, and emotion is suddenly shattered; the realm of illusion with its endless sinking in the cycle of birth and death is overturned. The treasure accumulation of the Three Bodies and the Four Wisdoms is taken away, and the miraculous realms of the Six Supernatural Powers and Three Insights is transcended.
From p. 164, Yabukoji, in The Zen Master Hakuin: Selected Writings, Translated by Philip B. Yampolsky, Columbia University Press, New York and London, 1971.
To me, it's a soft thud. :)
-rav