“Does a dog have Buddha nature?”, someone once asked a Zen Master “Mu,” was his only reply. That is, you’re not consciously aware of seeing or being led by this motivational carrot, but it’s still there, pointing its way down the path. I’ve already written in depth about transparent dangling carrots, so here I’ll just offer my summary of that discussion: a transparent dangling carrot is something that motivates you to do something, even though you can’t see the motivational device. How ’bout them transparent dangling carrots I found that story long after I wrote this article. Morissette discusses her eating disorder (her battles with binging and purging).
In either case, you are required to eat everything you have taken.Īugust, 2015 Update: See the link at the end of this article, where Ms. I can’t speak for all communities, but at the Providence Zen Center you’re only allowed to fill your plate (bowls, actually) one time, so you have to be careful not to take too much, or too little. When you live in most Zen communities you eat in complete silence, paying strict attention to your own eating, and nothing else. For instance, a lot of people eat while watching television, and as a result of not paying attention to their eating, they keep eating past the point where their stomach is actually full. This may refer to stress-related eating, or it may be about not paying attention while eating, of not being aware that her stomach is already full. Morissette’s personal life, I’ll take this line literally.
Thank you alanis morissette full#
How ’bout stopping eating when I’m full up Morissette uses the word “frailty” just a few lines down from this line.) In regards to this first line, it may be that she needed to take shots during her travels, or, it may mean that in her life prior to traveling to India she was constantly sick due, maybe as a result of the way she dealt with stress. All I know about this song is that she wrote it after traveling to India with her mother. I don’t know too much about Alanis Morissette’s background, so this first line is a tough one to start with. How ’bout getting off all these antibiotics As a quick note, the first two lines are hard for me to interpret, but it gets easier after that (or perhaps I get better after that).
Thank you alanis morissette series#
The lyrics are shown in a bold, italicized font, followed by my discussion in a normal font following each line (or series of lines) from the song. My longer interpretation of the song lyrics My extremely short interpretation of the song lyrics is that they are about enlightenment, the “Big E.” Please read on for my detail interpretation of the lyrics. Thank U is featured in one of my favorite movies, The Way.
To get started, if you haven’t heard the song in a while - or have never heard it - here’s the song and the official video:
If you’ve read some of the personal entries on this website, you know a lot of what I know. I don’t claim any special knowledge about the song this interpretation of the lyrics is just based on my understanding of Zen, Buddhism, and also my practicing of yoga, specifically Iyengar yoga. This is my interpretation of the meaning of the Alanis Morissette song, Thank You (also known as Thank U).
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