Word Zendo

[scarletannie]

Buddha has requested I provide a list of acceptable and unacceptable words.

Forgive an inexperienced Master who has had to commune deeply with the Buddha to properly translate his meanings; I will have to decline tooters as too discordant.


Buddha's Butterflies

banner newspapers internet accommodation coffee tea tigers coffer popcorn camel coffin feathers Browning copper

Buddha's Flies in the Ointment

tooters room elephants chicken quiche slippers boots locker ice-cream drink food mule locket stripes fathers persist Byron person


Buddha's Honey Bees

Bunnylump
Scurra
kingsley
SparkOut x 2
evilkeen
Cenwulf

[Bunnylump]

Mistress, although I am pleased to have suggested appropriate offerings, I must admit that it was a fluke. I will therefore tender some nice comfy slippers in preference to some hard uncomfortable hobnail boots.

Gosh this is hard!

You're doing a sterling job, all colours and everything!

[Scurra]

Never, ever say that it was a fluke, Bunny.

Could I ask if the Master likes to store things in a coffer rather than a locker?

[scarletannie]

Esteemed Bunnylump, the Master prefers to go humbly barefoot, shunning both slippers and boots

Brother Scurra, you are correct in surmising that a stout coffer would be preferable to a locker.

[kingsley]

Does the budda prefer popcorn to ice-cream when he visits the cinema?

[scarletannie]

Novice Kinglsey, you are correct in your suggestion that His Noteworthiness would prefer popcorn to ice-cream.

[evilkeen]

Well master, perhaps I could suggest that the Buddha prefers drink to food?

[SparkOut]

Good mistress, may I ask whether although both are stubborn and recalcitrant, that the Buddha would prefer to entrust his burden to a hardy camel, in preference to the obstinate mule?

[scarletannie]

Dear novice evilkeen, at his most austere the Buddha shuns both drink and food existing on nourishment from the inner soul.

Indeed, worthy SparkOut, your question is correct; though stubborn the useful camel finds favour and the obstinate mule does not.

[evilkeen]

I would proffer a further suggestion then, namely that the Buddha would prefer to be buried in a coffin to the idea of preserving his ashes in a locket.

[scarletannie]

Buddha prefers to take each day as a precious gift but if he was to choose he would indeed prefer burial in a coffin to having his ashes preserved in a locket.

[SparkOut]

Gracious mistress, I note that chickens are unworthy, while the Buddha appreciates tigers. Would the enlightened one feel that chickens are distasteful on account of their feathers, and tigers honourable because they have majestic stripes?

[scarletannie]

Revered SparkOut, strangely the opposite is true. The feathers of chickens are pleasing to Buddha, useful as they are in bedding comfort for those who have little, whilst the stripes of tigers, whilst attractive to the eye, serve no other purpose than adornment.

[SparkOut]

Gracious mistress, could it be said that while being revered himself, the Buddha encourages us to respect our fathers? Also that another of his lessons may be to accept that we cannot always overcome the impossible, and not to persist with the futile?

[scarletannie]

Perverse as it may seem, O SparkOut, and wishing no disrespect to our fathers, under this law the word is displeasing. However you are correct in your observation that to persist is to be undone.

[Cenwulf]

Does the Buddha prefer the poetry of Browning to that of Byron?

[SparkOut]

Good mistress, would the Buddha appreciate a copper dropped into his begging bowl - the more so because it has the Queen's head on it, not just any old person?

[SparkOut]

Mistress, you are surely communing a long time. Would the Buddha have any wisdom to impart to these unworthy students yet?

[Bunnylump]

Maybe the Buddha is Christmas shopping?

[scarletannie]

The humblest of apologies, O worthy students.

Christmas shopping?????

I was unavoidably detained - oh how i yearn for the days of the scribe, the stylus and the parchment. Blinking computers!!!

Worthy Cenwulf, you are indeed perceptive. Your far seeing mind discerns that Browning is acceptable to the Buddha whilst amoral Byron is not.

Good SparkOut, indeed Buddha would appreciate a copper in his begging bowl. The word person certainly has an impersonal connotation not pleasing to Buddha.
Indeed, dear SparkOut, your approved word has particular relevance to the rule.