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CLOWN YOUR ZEN A FEAST OF FOOLS
COMING SOON
JULY 5&6 2008 in MONTAGUE, MASS
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Experience what has been called "a breathtaking approach that smashes all labels and layers". Embrace directly "The Big Dummy Within, the wondrous and stupid essence of all that is and all that isn't". Become "En-Lightened". Why not?
Meet Master Idiots Moshe Cohen and Mr. YooWho who will join Roshi/Bernie to offer a clown workshop, "Clown Your Zen". These teachers have trained for millenia with profound fools who trace their lineage directly back to The Primordial Jerk, the original cave dwelling teacher of the shmegegge hermits, inventors of breathing. Join us, become one with yourselves if you dare, you fool. Workshops will include laughing at self and others, freeing your inner idiot, and advanced lolly gagging for beginners. Separately, and delicately interspersed with this somber effort, will be the OD Un-Convention, A Feast of Fools. July 5&6 at The House of One People in Montague Massachusetts. |
BRING ONE, BRING ALL, NONE EXCLUDED
SEE OUR PROFESSORS
Mr YooWHO? and Moshe CoHEN singing in Chiapas, Mexico:
LOVE IS A ROSE
isn't it?
- - - THE ORDER OF DISORDER is brought to YOU by the INBRED OUTCASTS of THE ZEN PEACEMAKER SANGHA who SCREAM:
DON'T BE HERE NOW!
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PRECEPTS OF THE ORDER OF DISORDER: TheThree Treasures- The Three Tenets- The Ten Guidelines- 1. Don’t kill anything by taking it seriously 2. Don’t steal anything unless you can get away with it (and you can't) 3. Don’t worry about promiscuity; no one would look twice at you- you clown 4. Don’t lie by pretending to know anything 5. Forget about intoxicants, you are already a mess 6. Laugh at yourself at least as often as you laugh at others 7. If someone makes a fool of themselves, pay your respects and join in the fun 8. If you can, smile. If possible, giggle. Whenever there is a chance, laugh with all your might. 9. Have fun. 10. Don’t laugh at Bernie, Yoowho, or Kuku…. |
The Order of Disorder honors Mother and Father:
Zen Peacemakers Sangha & Clowns
without Borders
which is witch?
i.smacc (Institute of Sacred Mischief and Contemplative Clowning)
celebrates Buddha's BIRTHDAY (liturgy here)
OUR VISION:
OUR MISSION:
To hold ourselves lightly and play with ourselves, publicly, whenever possible.
FIVE RANKS OF KUKUSHI 1. Disorder found. When you stub your toe, or fart in a crowded elevator- suddenly there is a weightless feeling, as if someone pulled the rug out from under you- “Wish you could get away?” This is disorder, which is hidden beneath the surface of all phenomenal existence. Disorder is completely incomprehensible and not very relevant, but it can be as fun as hell, so drop all your fears and leap in. A disclaimer- there can be an angry aspect of having the inherent meaninglessness of yourself revealed (to whom?), and this needs to be worked through. Disorder without compassion is just more of the same shit that humans have always fallen into. So, although it is not always nice, pure disorder is never mean.
2. Honoring the disorder in your life. Once the underlying disorder is seen, you can’t just run around naked and screaming, at least not all day long. So you go back to folding the laundry, and working, and talking to people as though they weren’t insane, but always with your eyes wide open to manifestations of disorder within the apparent order, like dust bunnies and open zippers and children’s eyes and banana peels on the stairs.
3. Getting real. This is getting in touch with the disorder in you. It is one thing to see how goofy everyone and everything else is, but where it gets real, and the rubber hits the street is when you start seeing what a mess you are, and coming to terms and loving that about yourself. Bet you hadn’t thought of yourself as a phenomenal existence, you dope.
4. Mutual deterioration. With the grime of the world smeared all over you, you smile and laugh amidst the ashes. As you become familiar but not too comfortable with disorder, you start letting loose and allowing the disorder to reveal itself through and as you. Whoopee cushions and red noses and clown horns are considered expedient means for reminding the disorder within phenomena-dressed-in-suits, and caught up in being serious, that it is still there and hopefully bringing it out to dance. 5. Disorder attained. Finally, there is no allowing, controlling or manifesting and things just get goofy as all get up, and completely out of control. This is one hell of a party, and just don’t worry about who you wake up next to so long as you wake up laughing. |
(bowing backwards):
LONG LIVE eCcentriCs,
absUrdists, NONSensiCs,
levitYnistiCs, and eXuberostiCs
FROMAGE
TO THE MISHUGGENAHS:
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(commentary from YOU)
GRAND POOBAH:
n O c A N dO
n o c and o
n O c a N d O
nO CaN Dooooo
N O C A N D o
n O c a N d o
n o c a n d oooooo
n o c a n d o
- n o ca n do
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OUR VALUES:
• Being odd by being uneven
• Irreverence
• Irrelevance
• Inconsistency
• Laughing and crying
• Fear of failure unknown
• Jumping off cliffs, or tripping off stoops
• laughter without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, or social
class
• Revealing inherent Disorder with twisted logic
• Questioning everything