A monk asked Yueh-shan, "What does one
think of while sitting?"
"One thinks of not-thinking," the Master replied.
"How does one think of not-thinking?" the monk asked.
"Without, thinking," the Master said.
-- ZEN MONDO¹

According the The Little Zen Companion² the term Mondo is defined as: "a dialogue about Buddhism or an existential problem among Masters, or between Master and student"³.

Vital Statistics:

Names:
I have written, done work as, or published using the following names:

• L. Christopher Bird
• Christopher Michael Bird Cain (no longer used)
• Tadhg Christopher Bird Cain
• Tadhg Christopher Bird (most current use)
• Johnny Fusion =11811=
• KeltBoi
• Anakin Starkiller
• ZenMondo

My Life Online

My cobweb-site is located at http://www.MacroWerx.com/~tadhg Here you will find links to my poetry and other websites of mine. This is extremely out of date. H2G2 was blogging before blogging was blogging, but now I use a real blogging site, livejournal, and my journal can be found at http://zenmondo.livejournal.com
I am on many IM clients thanks to gaim. Here is a list of where you can IM me:

• AIM: ZenMondo 0
• ICQ: 4177241
• Yahoo!: keltboi
• MSN: zenmondo @ hotmail.com
• Jabber:ZenMondo @ jabber.org

Diamonds in the Rough

Funny thing happens when you submit an entry for approval: It ain't yours no more. Here are my submitted entries before the editors got their grubby lil' paws on them. Compare them to the approved entries and see which YOU like better!

• Stockton, CA, USA
• Mongolian BBQ
• Metropolis, a film by Fritz Lang
• A Practical Definition of Pagan

Places of Interest

Here are Entires I especially like and I think you should visit:

• The Seti @ Home Project
• The Freedom From Faith Foundation
• Haiku Challenge!!!

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¹ The Little Zen Companion, by David Schiller 1994 ISBN:1-56305-467-1 (PBK)P 45
² The Little Zen Companion, by David Schiller 1994 ISBN:1-56305-467-1 (PBK)
³ Schiller, p 100