common zense?

I do feel that this whole Zen thing is just catching up too fast. According to me "Zen" was the precursor to blogging in the east.

You see the far east can get pretty cold in the winters, and often conversation was halting. There was also the fact of your words getting lost in the harsh winds of the season.

But as we have bloggers today, there were people in those times too who had a penchant for making others suffer by subjecting them to their non-stop banter. However taking into account the harsh climate and the winds, not all of that which was spoken was heard.

The result was phrases like, "Don't use Canon ball to kill mosquito."

the orginal sentence would have been more like this.

"Don Quixote? never heard of the guy. Can you pass me some tea please? I found a better use for chopsticks today! Did you know that it works better if you hold it in one hand? I think that in the future people will come up with stupid names like Canon to brand themselves.that makes two of us. you know that girl down the street, she's got looks that could kill. You know confucious, the mosquitoes might stop biting if you shut up!

Coming back to life in this century.....this zen thing has caught up with me too. So you have me doing the "Zen routine." You know take a bath everyday, levitate for 2 hours, talk to the spirits of the Zen master in Shambala once a week...( OK .....so i was kidding about the bath!)