I wonder, do you want thoughts here or on the page or both places?

It is similar to the stories of Zen, about the teachings being a boat to take you to the other side of the river. Once you reach the other shore, you shed the boat. The poem hints at the true reality experience, but it cannot provide it, no words can.

My interpretation:
The foundation of thought and language is categories and pattern matching; every word/thought is meaningful only in that it includes some parts of reality and excludes other. Thus, the true unity of reality can never be named, only experienced if you are really, really quiet.

A thing, like the late Alan Watts so eloquently put it, is really a think - a unit of thought. Words are phonetic reflections of thoughts and they are the mother of all things.

But all of reality is a unity, everything springs from the same source. But even so, all the different things, and the experience of them, are all within that said unity.

Fun experiment: Putting it in different clothes (and please don't put too much of your pre-conceived notions of what the words mean into it, use it instead to try to see these old words in a new light).

The name of God can never be mentioned, and none of the named gods are real.

God is the creator of Heaven and Earth, The devil is the father of 10000 lies.

In virtue, you can approach God. In sin, there is only the Devil.

The Will of God is mysterious but both virtue and sin lie within it

Look within and all shall be revealed.

Cool — hope things stabilise a bit more now!

nothing new to see. but server was having odd cpu spikes for the last 4 hours so I fully restarted everything..

Glad to know the site works! Yep, it'll be great seeing what you make of the text.

Great idea, I look forward to reading it!

Cheers! It's not for everybody. The thing is, more electronic music is so much easier to produce when you've only got one microphone, and lack a studio!

The intent is well done :-) though it's not my style. I mean the electronic part of it.

This sounds like a cool community project!

I think I'll be using the Feng and English one. As the final aim is to turn it into a really great interactive web book I decided to go for that one as I felt it balanced substance with prose the best. Although I'm open to suggestions if you have a particular fave?

What translation?

I have another contact in Totnes, too, a good online friend for many years, and have seen photos of how great it is there :)

Ooh, nice looking wood! Do you have some pictures you could post? I'd love to see it.

Nope. Just a guy who has never done woodworking before, but made two of the nicest guitars I have ever played, at Sergei Dejonge's school (http://www.dejongelutherie.com/) in Quebec. I used Ziricote for my rosette. Some of my classmates used it for their sides and back, but it's really hard to bend.

Yep, the guitar I'm making (at the Totnes School of Guitarmaking) is sitka/mahogany, but I had some brazillian scraps that I'm using for soundhole decoration. Are you a commercial luthier?

Will do :) been fun so far, here's a UI demo: http://waterpigs.co.uk/patterns Eventually will be my take on tutorial sites, but focused on being concise and genuinely applicable to anything - teaching design patterns and best practises instead of procedures.

Enjoy your coding!

Cheers guys — both of those look great! I've decided to go for CI for my current project, but I'll be sure to give Yii and CakePHP a go in future projects.

See, here I could have done with being able to take out the typo on the first line (blame the iPad keyboard). But then again, I should really have read it through before posting ;)

Hey, it didn't work at all! Can we have emoji support please? I think it's part of Unicode now…