Zen and the Bible

over the past year or so, i have been slowly but surely been reading my way through the Old Testament... Christians keep telling me to read the new one, but hang on, first things first!

Anyway, i have always been a fan of Zen Bhuddist philosophy, which goes perfectly with my Kung Fu training. We have a Christian friend at my Kung Fu club, the other day as she was leaving i says to her, "Bhudda bless you" and she says, "I hate Bhudda!"

there are no accidents or coincidences, which is why this is perfect timing with where i'm up to in the Bible, a chapter called "Ecclesiastes". Its my favorite part so far. Check these quotes, they are so Zen:

1:2 "Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless".

2:15 Then I said to myself,
the fate of the fool will overtake me also.
What then do I gain by being wise?
I said to myself, "this too is meaningless".

4:4 And i saw that all toil and all acheivement spring from one person's envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind

and my favorite:

4:6 Better one handful with tranquility, than two handfuls with toil...

so if you're wondering, what exactly is Zen? Here's a quote from some guy Alan Watts who seems to get it:

"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."

mmm potatoes!

what happened?!

hey! what a slack dude ay... shocking even! Well, i been busy away from the world of blogging, spending too much time learning Kung Fu at a new club uptown.
I'll post info up soon about joining cos its well worth it, in fact it has changed my life!

anyway i lost my camera which is another great excuse for not posting in a while... i'll get a new one this week so this blog will be re-invigorated like my chi flow :)

castle with sattelite dish

Phat1 let me paint another background for him... what a great guy! I been hanging out to do a fairy tale castle scene for a minute, and Deus shared my vision and flamed up this wonderful muscle man character
LOL

go shorty

lil' commission painted on the weekend...

Alien vs Predator

Phat1 on the wildstyle... OD from Tauranga on the Predator portrait, and me on the background scene. and what?

double click on it ok

Matakana

Matakana is a rural town north of Aucks thru the flash new tunnel...
I went there for the weekend to get way from the rat relay race and hang out with the ol' homie Dr Roberts. This is the wharf, across road from his tattoo shop:


looking down from above the road to Leigh:


Went to the beaches, the pub repeatedly and the renown farmer's market:

they had a Speights party at the pub which featured horses, hot rod burnouts, free pork roast feed, a tractor tug-of-war and a Speights poetry contest... this was the entry by Dr. Robs mates lol

got back to town late last nite, today went out south and painted a fun concept wall with Phat1 and Odee.. they didn't get quite finished, oosh wait til u see the fliks in a day or two. meantime here's a sneak preview of part of the wall...

some lil pictures i painted

why not? another DJ and a piece for south-of-central neighbourhood Onehunga


Its been a busy week, b-balling, rapping, training, teaching, drawing, painting, kung fu, yoga... so i'm heading up north for a couple days to catch my breath. will post evidence on my return :)