I can't forget but I don't remember what

General discussion about Leonard Cohen's songs and albums
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heyjudah
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I can't forget but I don't remember what

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I can't forget but I don't remember what
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Re: I can't forget but I don't remember what

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The Covenant of Alast
Everything being said to you is true; Imagine of what it is true.
Steven
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Re: I can't forget but I don't remember what

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heyjudah wrote:I can't forget but I don't remember what
Heyjudah,

This is the language of trauma. I don't know if Leonard was using these words,
though, in that language. Could be, though.
lazariuk
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Re: I can't forget but I don't remember what

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lazariuk wrote:The Covenant of Alast
I don't think that I am the only one who thinks that this is what we might have forgotten. Where Leonard has a house in Montreal he lets a Zen center use some of it's space. The center is a branch of the Mount Baldy center and the abbess there was trained by Roshi. On their web site when you look in the area that you would go to to find out what Zen is about you find a very short piece which ends with
You like to talk about the problems of the world, even though you've forgotten the fundamental union of the embrace of God..."
http://www.dsuper.net/~czenmain/buddhism.htm

the fundamental union of the embrace of God
The Covenant of Alast

I had the opportunity to speak to the Abbess there and asked her about that page and she said that she was personally responsible for it and that she was very careful.
Everything being said to you is true; Imagine of what it is true.
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I do love that song.
Now you've got the gist of what my lettuce meant.
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