RZA's Tao of Wu

[richard sloan]

Nicely done Gene!

Like how you slipped in the I...

I have two very crystal clear memories as a dj- one is slipping RZA records to play after asking me if he could get on the decks, he goes feed me, and I laced him with a whole old skool set including every banger from Run DMC I had in my crates, and praying to God on high that he did not reject any of the 12s I was passing him, lol, and two...dropping Sizzla's Solid as a Rock and having RZA come ask if he could get a reggae mix after I cut out of it...

Well, three...the Ong Bak premiere was pretty sick too.

I'm looking forward to reading this.

[richard sloan]

Now when you see the Islamic revolutionaries of Muhammad's time went and burnt down statues and blew up places - to this day - it's because of the images that they are trying to get rid of. And that goes back to the Bible taught us. It says "don't make any graven image." It ain't that that decides that the image is a problem to me. It's just that when the image stands there long enough, man forgets who made the image and starts worshiping the image.

It's like the Statue of Liberty. It sits there as a symbol of something and it remains there. But to some people, maybe a thousand years from now, it could be worshipped as some kind of god, as some kind of form or deity. But it was nothing but a statue that represented something. So the same thing goes with Jesus. Jesus says "don't make no images of that which is heaven or earth" because you don't want man to start worshiping the images. We got big pictures of him hanging on the cross and pictures of him hanging on our wall every day. So you got to remove the image because if you get stuck into the image, you're missing the message. And that's why my book, I got this line that says I study all these different religions and forms - I remove who the messenger was and I accept his message. If I go into who the messenger was, then I got to go into his character and his problems.

this struck me, on account of the infamous story of Dan Xia's firewood Buddhas.

[GeneChing]

Thanks for catching that, richard. It makes it all worthwhile.

[richard sloan]

yeah man, props!


ps. I also frakking LOVE that flick master of zen.

[GeneChing]

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