Word Zendo

[kathlyn]

Reading this dear enlightened one has certainly made me laugh this day but I am still totaly mystified by your teachings

[Scurra]

Student kathlyn, no-one should be mystified or baffled or flummoxed. However, they may be puzzled.

Update:
Buddha-boom:
abyss acceptable apples Babbage buddy cabbage Caravaggio drubbing eggs Fraggle foggy gaggle geese giggle glass giraffes grubber paddles puzzled rubbing skinny tabby tubby

Buddha-bust:
arsenic bananas bacon baffled Buddha Canaletto Constable camels carafe cauliflower Clown cold commune creek della Fransesca flummoxed gelignite hellebore hemlock Hood hot laugh loose mango misty mystified rabbit rabble raffle reading rubber Saffron salmon school scrabble Siamese shallot tight tombolla Turing whales writing

Budda-knows:
giraffe
kathlyn
LAT x3
MBH
SparkOut x2 (who inadvertently got missed out before!) xlots

[LAT]

Enlightened one, I am still struggling to understand the way our esteemed and beloved Buddha's mind works and would like to make another enquiry.

Having just been attempting to improve my mind with the study of art in the Puzzletown gallery I would love to know which artists the Buddha prefers. Is the work of Canaletto considered superior to that of Constable? And that of Caravaggio more beautiful than that of della Francesca?

[Scurra]

The Buddha definitely likes Caravaggio, but he's not so keen on Canaletto, Constable or della Francesca...

However, you have earned another right to a guess. Just as a reminder, people who have the right to guess may do so at any time. If they are wrong, then the Master will post a pair of words that are valid but disprove the guess.

[SparkOut]

SparkOut x2 (who inadvertently got missed out before!)

Uh.. well I had x3 on the last page, too!
(not that it matters, I'm not in a position to make any predictions as to the nature of the Buddha words anyway!)

[LAT]

I must admit that I am fnding the way very confusing too. I wonder whether the Buddha would call it a rather foggy path, though perhaps not misty?

[SparkOut]

Master, still confused as I am, I shall enquire whether the Buddha is fond of games such as scrabble or that he believes it is played only by the rabble?

[Scurra]

Is student LAT really so unsure about the way? For it is true that the path is foggy but not misty.
But student SparkOut still seems confused; the Buddha dislikes both scrabble and the rabble...

[SparkOut]

Absolutely so, Master. If the Buddha dislikes scrabble, then would he prefer to do gardening and be a grubber in the vegetable patch, rather than play a rubberof bridge? Or perhaps it is that he would he fear a drubbing and rather take a brass rubbing?

[Scurra]

While it is true that the Buddha would prefer being a grubber to a rubber, he would like both a drubbing and a rubbing.
I feel that student SparkOut, for all his protestations, may be near enlightenment?

[kathlyn]

enlightened one would you prefer a gaggle of geese to a school of whales.

[Looby]

Esteemed master, as a total novice, should I seek enlightenment by reading and walking to commune with nature or would it be better to sit at home watching TV

[Scurra]

Student kathlyn, you are indeed correct to deduce that the Buddha would prefer a gaggle of geese to a school of whales.

Student Looby, however, seems to be lost - the Buddha does not like reading, walking, or watching, or even to commune with the mysteries of the world.

Do my students really still find themselves baffled? Surely one of them is willing to step out into the abyss?

[Laura]

Do my students really still find themselves baffled?

Erm, yes.

[SparkOut]

This student certainly is not confident of making such a leap, Master.
I do wonder though, would the Buddha like to kiss a miss rather than a lass or one of the gals?

[Scurra]

Adjusted Update:
Buddha-Boom-Boom-Boom!
apples Caravaggio eggs Fraggle foggy gaggle giggle
Buddha-not-quite-so-boom but still OK:
abyss acceptable Babbage buddy cabbage drubbing geese glass giraffes grubber paddles puzzled rubbing skinny tabby tubby

Buddha-ever-so-nearly-boom
baffled Buddha Canaletto commune creek della Francesca flummoxed hellebore Hood loose rabbit rabble raffle rubber Saffron school scrabble shallot tombolla
gelignite laugh mango misty mystified reading Turing writing

Buddha--completely-bust:
arsenic bananas bacon Constable camels carafe cauliflower Clown cold hemlock hot salmon Siamese whales

[SparkOut]

Master, I'm assuming then that the Buddha would goggle at Google in preference to submitting his enquiry to Live Search?

[giraffe]

Master I thought you had lost me entirely on this one, now I realise I was mistaken. I wasn't completely lost until you revised your list, now I'm speechless with despair

[Looby]

Most elegant giraffe, may I join you in your pit of despair

[Bunnylump]

In the truest spirit of community, peace and love, could I humbly request that I may snuggle up with the giraffe and rag doll in the pit of despair and confusion?

..warm in here, isn't it?

Perhaps as I climb in, I could just casually toss an old Lloyds bank card and an Abbey cheque book in the direction of the Master's mounting heap of discarded suggestions? (Maybe we could make them into a pyre later)?