The OMASTERS - lLetters to the lLama by Chico Carboneri
As I sit this night before the IBM, with PINK FLOYD
on the Dark Side of the Moon: DAWA.
I'll see you on the dark side of the MOON.
You make the change. LOCK DOOR...KEY...IN MY HEAD
ALL THE DHARMA
ALL THE SANGHA
ALL THE BUDDHAS (inside)
ALL THAT YOU:
And before that, Al, we heard SUN RA in a Pleasant Mood
Well, the changer operates, and we once again return via 7th chakra MUSICAL programming, into the civilized air of the Italian Baroque, when the gold began flowing first across the ocean toward the Rising Sun, amassing for a mere century as the Inca plates are melted down and return as wages to the violinist. Ah, Suzie Lautenbacher..too bad you're not so rich and famous as Frank Zappa: Which do you prefer? LOCO OR LOCATELLI?
We might as well get this started, Chief.
OMAGE TO THE GURU
With the grace of all the manifestations of the COM/PASSIONATE AVALOKITESVARA, however HER name may be called. And born from that VOID called Nirvana in highest sense, with KARUNYA, COMPASSION, AMAZING GRACE,
OMAGE TO MANJUSRI
And to you, my most Dear, Reverend LIama Al Paca, whose crown is the color of the MOON. AH! You might well arsk at what TIME? Because, IT'S ABOUT TIME, isn't it Llama? And yet (yet, yet!--Have to be some kinda NOO YARK JOO to UNDERSTAND that) we know that time comes well along in the SPACE GAME, from the LAWS OF FORM.
AMIDA AMANITA AMITABHA
Precious AMRTA, Elixir of Divine Bliss, DEW of eternity. To all with names Beginning with A.
Time was, Amanita arrived with the setting of the Moon. Some chose the Golden Buddha, Ratnasambhava, Midday Sun from out of the record-rack under the Huichol yarn paintings on the Northwest wall. Coyotl. Tail hanging, and the gig in the sky comes once again from the Pink Floyd in the most remarkable of sequences. As Marcel Proust ought to have said, if he didn't, to set down just the last fantastic five minutes, with all their reverberations of consciousness
---AND HERE WE ENTER A SELF-REFERENTIAL MODE ::
Because, it is a matter of form. A meditation on the bondage of the Lord of Form, as the name is called by Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, VISION OF TILOPA. Roaming through foreign jungles, THE TIGER (RABBIT), in ON CUTTING THROUGH SPIRITUAL MATERIALISM.
Lardene Komzquick Gruntzalot and Teuton Sturmgale arrive with the Glebperln, Golda Lachs, as a small golden-haired celestial ray from some star as our sun, reflected in the pearlescent purity of the clear light of the moon. Golda, now three, and well on the way to three and a half, enters the kitchen of the Tea House of Necessity. There is giggling and a vision of the Greet Gig in the Sky appears to Shakuhachi Unzen, who recedes to the the presence of a strange Tibetan Thanka, bathed in the radiance of about a 150, maybe 200 watt spot. Before him on the Oaken table, from some library in some educational institution's library HUMs the IBM. An eye to FORM--The page TOP COPY, and the carbon and the carbon page are inserted. Shakuhachi's mind wanders into the KRYPTOCOSMIC realm, blending with the spirits of Dr. Jose Que, Primo the Fool, Z-Number (first of the cardinal states, with all appropriate deference to the form of the face of the void, being given a name which may be called: VOID, ZERO, THE WHOLE, THE ALL, ALLAH, BUDDAH.
Shakuhachi sets the page into the carriage, which, as if in premonition of His Holiness, the Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, is sixteen inches wide (not, of course, to suggest for a second that His Holiness is any thinner than an elephant). On the Thanka, the representation of the Buddah sits on a White Elephant.
PUERQUITA IS LEFT BELOW AS THE GRAVITY GRACEWARPSHIP ADAMANTINUS FLASHED OFF WITH Record # ME-7009-B from the MOON EARTH RECORD CO., LTD., approximately two thirds of the way throu (like about 2/3 of the way through that word before Shakuhachi had to stop typing and press the RETURN button). There were very crazy UNZEN rules for space about which Shakuhachi was beginning to weave some gossamer (about that word, can it be used? about "webs?" by itself, as a sunburst, a vision, a fog, a golden cloud?), which, reticulating in the void of his skull, perhaps out of ennui, began to coalesce into a net of self-supporting cross- and self-references, manifesting as KNOWLEDGE--a broad-side swipe with the Sword of Gnosis undoing every knot in his net of semene bound to lexeme, reverberating as a string in the golden lyre of Hermes (later traded to Apollo as part of what the younger god apparently took to be an understanding about sources of oracular information. Apollo, however, WELSHED, in his appropriately Hyperborean manner, refusing to deliver the teaching about time and the stars, geometricizing the periodicities of sun and mood/moon, but sent him packing down by the riverside to listen to the murmur, bubbling and assorted such fluvian mantram, the Shepherd god deriving his oracle from Chance, Agatha Tychy (DOUBLE MISCHANCE THERE:), shd. read: AGATHA TYCHE.
TRANSFORMATIONS: "Gruntzalot" becomes "grunsalat" to "green challot" through the Mad Woman of Chaillot to Booker T. and the MGs' "Green Onions"--PEARL ONIANS, or ONIONS. That is, into the Shorter Oxford Englishe Dictionary or The Origins of European Thought.
Thus the threads separate and reweave in the logic of tree associations, branching networks of lineal, Right Cortical Hemisphere activity--the "time factoring" and setting in order of selections from the sea of affect and perception. As in the braiding of the three hairs plucked from the tail of his wild Night Mare by the 1-eyed hunter and horseman, Kulturtrager into Northern Europe--Wotan, Odin. Lu: The Wanderer, in the I Ch'ing, Number 56.
Chico played back the Kryptocosmic tape transcript of Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica to *56, much in the form as published by Cambridge (the Syndics of the University Press, first in 1910) And that section *56 deals with "The Ordinal Number 2.
The Yellow Pearl pointed to the Lama, red-robed upon white elephant riding in the Ling Chi clouds of the deep blue sky among green mountains in the Thanka. "BUDDAH!"
Chico however, in the image of crystal confusion regarded the vision of AGATHA TYPO. If "orthography" is right writing (scratching), perhaps sinography indicates comfort, security and pleasure. Our highly organized and technological society reflects our preoccupation with manipulating physical surroundings so as to shield ourselves from the irritations of the raw, rugged, unpredictable aspects of life. Push button.
Chico pushed three buttons. The point. Period. Thrice:. Through the application of an applied theory of sinography, Chico began to forge "wrong-writing" because as incidentally significant as the co-rect form that is the setting into form that has beeen presumably agreed upon before as "right " Now this may seen a simple matter to the average layman who are permitted to note, by way of experience, seldom concerns himself with such an order of distinctions. But see the left and the right, the right and the wrong, the Sun and the Moon. Your T'ai if you will and your Chi. He could, he reasoned. go along writing reasonably sequential manuscript polished on the surface and yet containing within its fine structure of meaning and associations indications of both a tree and a net. The little rootlets of the oak grown to produce the great slab upon which The Green Machine with 43 buttons making marks, and the key to the unnameable Tao of the spacebar on the IBM. (There were 8 more buttons and additionally RIBBON POSITION, TAB CLEAR, TAB SET, pressure control according to the decimal principle of the Ten Bhumis of The Bodhisattva Path and ON/OFF. (An essay into Sinography, or "Following the Left-handed Path Principle while writing in a Right-handed Universe.")
Why is the right-handed double-helix, single macromolecule of DNA regarded as RIGHT anyway? Bookkeeping convenience? Written or unwritten conventions: The Constitution of the United States of America as generated by 55 Freemasons meeting for a few months in Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, precisely on the fortieth parallel North vis-a-vis the unwritten tradition of English common law, well up to Richard in the Holy Land associating with Soofis and Robin Cock Redheart in Abraham Green jerkins like $5 bills. with Longbow and Eros making Marion (sure would!) while the contract at psychic level 6000 cartelized under the quill of the OAK KING John.
Chico buttoned another Kryptocosmic tape, setting the dial at skim/scan. He plugged in flipped OFF / ON. It was by Stephan Themerson, Cardinal Pölätüo (The Life of Cardinal Pölätüo: with notes on his Writings his Times and his Contemporaries. Gaberbocchus Press, Ltd, 42A Formosa Street. London, W9. 15s net. 1st ed. 1961.)
Chico opened to the interface of pages 32/33, on which:
However
To perform the action of writing down
THE PHILOSOPHY OF POLATUOMISM
WHICH IS BASED ON DIRECT KNOWLEDGE,
demands the previous cognizance of all that can be
taught by
Indirect Knowledge
Kurt von Meier
Circa 1974