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Subject: JasonL - Donovan's "Dumb" Lyric
Regarding the submission under Dumb Lyrics from JasonL - Donovan's, "There is a Mountain" The Dumb Lyrics: First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is. Why They're Dumb: WTF? First, there's a mountain, now it's gone, now it's back? What kind of drugs was he on? ... those lyrics are just silly to be Donovan's.
I am not a fan, but Donovan obviously drew this from the Zen teaching about enlightenment being a childlike quality. The teaching (paraphrased) is that as a child (i.e. First) life is simple (a mountain is simply a mountain). But when we begin to think with conscience and logic, we complicate everything in life unnecessarily (i.e. a mountain is no longer simply a mountain). However, for those who reach enlightenment, they return to a childlike simplicity and mountains again become simply mountains.
Therefore, these lyrics are not "just too silly to be Donovan's" but just "too deep" to be understood by JasonL at this point in his life. We must be very careful when criticizing other's creativity without having the same knowledge the creator had. Very un-Zen-like!