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Good sirs and madams, here are some knafs I am re-posting for my end of year purge. As is the way, YOLO trumps all, will ship today for PayPal GS in CONUS with no comments. Not looking for trades at this time except for maybe a Rockstead Higo Ironwood.

SOLD Fallkniven IDUN SV $300 (A) Bought new at BladeHQ. ML5 Northern Lights. Absolutely mint condition, never cut or carried. Travesty, this blade should be used! Really beautiful work. Guess I’m more of a folding knife guy. Video

SOLD Benchmade Bugout SV $210 (A) 535-3 I bought new at Blade HQ, special carbon fiber with S90V. Never cut or carried. Super light and great for EDC but I have a modded mini I’ve grown used to. Comes with packaging and pouch. Video

SOLD Shiro F3NS SV $850 (A) Bought new from Recon1. Never cut even a slice of paper or carried. Comes with COA, all packaging and cloth. Stunning action, absolutely pristine condition. Carbon Fiber scales with M390. Safe queen from day one. Video

SOLD Rockstead Hizen DLC SV $700 (B+) Bought new at Recon1. Never cut or carried. Comes with all packaging. Pristine condition and scalpel sharp. Absolutely stunning. Action is stiff as it’s never been used or adjusted. This was my “grail” safe queen so it was registered, that’s why I’m calling it a B+, but is LNIB. Caveat emptor: this could be your gateway drug to Rocksteads. Video

SOLD Rockstead Chou DLC SV $275 (B) Catch and release I bought her so at least 2nd owner. Looks to be perfect without any usage. It comes with pouch and Kydex sheath but no COA or other paper and I presume has been registered (I got this for my daughter but blade is too scary sharp for her) Video

Thanks for having a look see. May your best knives of 2021 be your worst knives of 2022!

>Someone asked, "During each hour of the day, for twenty-four hours, how should I apply my mind?"
Joshu said, "You are used by the hours. I use them. What is this 'time' you are asking about?"

no need to wish the likes of Joshu with any happy new year jive.

hny.

Hadji's Chou was kinda underrated like he was the one who swings the momentum when Blacklist is losing, like he can deliver 1 good kick that can destroy the team in any position and remember he was Core and called the "KDA Machine" in the MPL PH

i am a proponent of the "fake it until you make it" approach. fakers don't fake. gambler's don't gamble

POINTER

So, so; not so, not so. In battle, each occupies a pivotal position. That is why it is said, "If you turn upwards, then even Shakyamuni, Maitreya, Manjusri, Samantabhadra, and the myriad sages, together with all the masters in the world, all suck in their breath and swallow their voices: if you turn downwards, worms and maggots and everything that crawls, all sentient beings, each and every one emits great shining light, each and every one towers like a wall miles high." If, on the other hand, you neither face upwards nor downwards, how would you deal? If there is a principle, go by the principle; if there is no principle, go by the example. To test, I cite this; look!

CASE

Mu Chou asked a monk, "Where have you just come from?"^(1) The monk immediately shouted.^(2) Mu Chou said, "I've been shouted at by you once."^(3) Again the monk shouted.^(4) Mu Chou said, "After three or four shouts, then what?"^(5) The monk had nothing to say.^(6) Mu Chou then hit him and said,^(7) "What a thieving phony you are!"^(8)

NOTES

1. A probing pole; a reed shade.

2. An adept Ch'an traveller! But don't pretend to be enlightened. Still, he does know how to act like this.

3. A trap to fell a tiger. Why is he making a monkey of the man?

4. Look for the horns on his head: he seems to be (a real 'dragon'), but actually isn't yet. I'm afraid he has a dragon's head but a snake's tail.

5. A wave against the current. There's never been anyone who could stick his head out (in front of Mu Chou). Where will (the monk) go?

6. After all, he searched without finding.

7. If we let Mu Chou carry out his mandate to the full, then all the plants and trees on earth would be cut into three pieces.

8. He lets go the first move and falls back into the secondary.

wizard commentary:

pointer:

anything can be what you want it to be. adapt as the situation demands

case:

> "Where have you just come from?"

where did you study zen?

> The monk immediately shouted.

avoiding picking and choosing

> "I've been shouted at by you once."

offering a crossroads

> Again the monk shouted.

avoiding picking and choosing

> "After three or four shouts, then what?"

hammers and nails

> The monk had nothing to say.

only hammer

> "What a thieving phony you are!"

masters use more than hammers

prompts:

• how d

Quick question for anybody who took Econ 201 with Chou. Was the textbook worth buying for this class?

Sixty-Fourth Case

Case

Nan Chu’an recited the preceding story to question Chao Chou. (1) Chou immediately took of his straw sandals, placed them on his head, and left. (2) Nan Ch’uan said, “If you had been here, you could have saved the cat.” (3)

Notes

1. They must be of like hearts and like minds before this is possible. Only one on the same road would know.
2. He does not avoid trailing mud and dripping water.
3. Singing and clapping, they accompany each other; those who know the tune are few. He adds error to error.

r/zen comment:

My previous post may have been on shaky ground, since one moderator commented, “Please note that the person you quoted is not related to the original source,” while another moderator tacitly accused me of using alt accounts for vote brigading purposes. Okay. So I am getting back to basics for a minute. But some serious questions arise: What defines related in this case, and what is the meaning of original? Yuanwu was born 300 years after Nan Ch’uan. Is that original? Statement two says, “Not based on the written word,” yet the written word is the only basis of our discussions in this forum. The mods are doing fine, actually, considering the paradox of the task they are assigned.