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#1 2007-02-19 06:43:47

Harry
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Rule Book?

once in the box

every one of them is equal -

the chess pieces

                             (Issa, 1763-1828)


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Harry.


"As God once said, and I think rightly..." (Margaret Thatcher)

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#2 2007-02-19 19:29:55

jamesnyman
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Re: Rule Book?

In chess the actual pieces are irrelevant, only the outcome...checkmate...matters.


"The means are the ends in the making."  Mohandas K. Ghandi

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#3 2007-02-19 20:18:51

dstone
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Re: Rule Book?

jamesnyman wrote:

In chess the actual pieces are irrelevant, only the outcome...checkmate...matters.

Without (unequally) ranked pieces, an outcome of checkmate cannot be achieved.  Can it?

So I think a Zen chess game might play out as:
1) Players look across room at board and box of pieces.
2) Players turn to each other, knowingly, and nod.
3) Tea is served.

-Darren.


When it is rainy, I am in the rain. When it is windy, I am in the wind.  - Mitsuo Aida

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#4 2007-02-19 22:17:04

edosan
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Re: Rule Book?

Harry wrote:

once in the box

every one of them is equal -

the chess pieces



Besides (and it pains me to say this):

In the box: They are equal...

On the board: They are not...


Zen is not easy.
It takes effort to attain nothingness.
And then what do you have?
Bupkes.

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#5 2007-02-20 05:43:09

Harry
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Re: Rule Book?

I'm not sure he was overly concerned with chess. He was a poor, wandering poet who had a far from easy life, yet his poems often empathize with those worse off than himself:

drizzling...
tapping a large rice bowl
deaf-mute beggar


a withering wind -
seated in the falling dusk
a street minstrel


heat shimmer...
lingering in the eye
a laughing face


The last one is particularly poignant when we consider that all his children died in infancy, and that he outlived all his wives.

Oh, and a particularly astute one:


oh, don't swat!
the fly rubs hands
rubs feet*


(*i.e. it prays twice as much; with both hands and feet)


Regards,

Harry.

Last edited by Harry (2007-02-20 06:10:23)


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#6 2007-02-20 07:18:37

D.J.
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Re: Rule Book?

Zen in Zazen - Fly Rubs feet.
Zen in Zazen - Rook to defeat
Zen in Zazen - Mind in retreat

Zen in Zazen - This is boring, let's eat.


"Manifest great deeds by breaking the rules."
Awa Kenzo - Zen Archery Master
"If you think that you are a teacher, then you have failed to realize that learning comes from the student."
Kiko Aratsu

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#7 2007-02-20 07:39:49

Harry
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Re: Rule Book?

Nobly, the great priest
deposits his daily stool
in bleak winter fields

                          (Buson, 1716-1784)

Ah, elusive nobility.

Regards,

Harry.


"As God once said, and I think rightly..." (Margaret Thatcher)

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#8 2007-02-21 07:09:30

Harry
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Re: Rule Book?

I heard the unblown flute
In the deep tree-shades
Of the temple of Suma.
(Bashó)


"As God once said, and I think rightly..." (Margaret Thatcher)

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