Tuesday, June 9, 2015

seriousness and solemnity

Perhaps the difference between seriousness and solemnity is that solemnity is willing to place the responsibility elsewhere whereas seriousness is "all you."

2 comments:

  1. Dear Adam,

    Solemnity took place over the past week or more when the earthquakes struck Nepal then Sabah in Malaysia.

    Seriousness, is when moments ago I found myself staring point blank at a girl's photo young enough to be your granddaughter, and I realised that it may mean something that the elders of two parties talk about marriage on my behalf.

    Liberty is beautiful, yet it is less about a lack of preference, more so that preference may have gotten Mahakasyappa somewhere yet he was without a son despite being offered proper marriage by his parents and his in-laws. Even if the zen patriach had starved himself to death, he still owed his parents and in-laws a grand-offspring. Even if he hid in the mountains till Maitreya appears as a Buddha, he still owed his parents and in-laws a grand-offspring. Part of the reason why I kept coming back as a zen student was less about your spiritual attainments, but more so because you bothered having sons and daughters.

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  2. Here's John Cleese on the subject...

    http://www.videobash.com/video_show/why-laughing-during-something-serious-isn-t-disrespectful-1217292

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