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Post by Reefs on Feb 23, 2014 8:30:31 GMT -5
Stay away from those funny mushrooms, Earnest!  That cloud looks comfy 'dash! It's a sofa.  |
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Feb 23, 2014 9:29:34 GMT -5
Stay away from those funny mushrooms, Earnest! That cloud looks comfy 'dash! laughter, bring back Raylan, best program on TV ........ :-) ........... |
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Post by laughter on Feb 23, 2014 12:01:49 GMT -5
That cloud looks comfy 'dash! laughter, bring back Raylan, best program on TV ........ :-) ........... Now that I would be so inclined as to concur with your opinion does not justify so rapid a change of costume in this particular milieu, as the customs here lend themselves to a certain absence of expectation that some might mistake for an expectation of no expectation. |
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Feb 23, 2014 15:44:33 GMT -5
laughter, bring back Raylan, best program on TV ........ :-) ........... Now that I would be so inclined as to concur with your opinion does not justify so rapid a change of costume in this particular milieu, as the customs here lend themselves to a certain absence of expectation that some might mistake for an expectation of no expectation. Sure......just giving you a nod......didn't figure anybody else here would know who that was....... '-) .......... sdp. |
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Post by laughter on Feb 23, 2014 15:46:51 GMT -5
Now that I would be so inclined as to concur with your opinion does not justify so rapid a change of costume in this particular milieu, as the customs here lend themselves to a certain absence of expectation that some might mistake for an expectation of no expectation. Sure......just giving you a nod......didn't figure anybody else here would know who that was....... '-) .......... sdp. I know man ... that was just my best off-the-cuff impression of Elmore Leonard dialog  ... go back and read it in Raylan's voice .. better yet, Boyd's!  |
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Jul 2, 2023 7:44:37 GMT -5
...bumped for laughter... This is partly a response to a current thread. Take a clean white piece of typing paper. This essentially represents our primordial nature, pure, clean, unconditioned, attentive, aware. Everything that enters the brain/body through the five senses is recorded in the neural structure of the brain. For each impression that enters, each sound, each touch, each taste, each image and each smell, draw a line on that clean paper. Eventually that clean paper gets completely covered over, no white showing. This represents our ego. Now, the clean white paper still exists under all that ink and lead, in and of itself, it's unobstructed. That clean white paper represents our true self, variously called Buddha-Mind, no-mind, no-self, Self, the unborn or who you were before your parents were born. So, what happens between birth and about six years of age? We forget our real nature and tie our identity to the contents of our neural structure, we become our ego. Thomas Merton called this mistaken identity, false self. Most people live the remainder of their lives through this false sense of self. What happens to all the energy that enters the organism after ego is formed? It goes into keeping ego alive, ego takes everything, ego takes all our attention, all of our awareness. The question on the table is, Is there a way to get back to living through our uncorrupted nature? sdp |
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... go back and read it in Raylan's voice .. better yet, Boyd's! 