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have you ever noticed how buffet bars are constantly changing their menu.. on a whim...

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[quinn]

Taken last week by a friend of mine:

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Oops - Pictures (talk) - got it!

[silver]

I was driving around today when I spotted a line of parked rr cars with some graffiti and got a quick shot of this one but I don't know how to enlarge the picture to get a better look at the actual artwork (the phrase "you can't win" are to the left of the fingers):

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Jul 10, 2015 1:19:56 GMT -5 silver said:

I was driving around today when I spotted a line of parked rr cars with some graffiti and got a quick shot of this one but I don't know how to enlarge the picture to get a better look at the actual artwork (the phrase "you can't win" are to the left of the fingers):

I can win though can't I? It's just you that can't.. ? 

[silver]

Jul 10, 2015 2:26:44 GMT -5 @wren said:

Jul 10, 2015 1:19:56 GMT -5 silver said:

I was driving around today when I spotted a line of parked rr cars with some graffiti and got a quick shot of this one but I don't know how to enlarge the picture to get a better look at the actual artwork (the phrase "you can't win" are to the left of the fingers):

I can win though can't I? It's just you that can't.. ? 

I thought it was rather Zen or Buddhist...I'm reading a book right now that is helping me immensely, to understand ego, and the mystifying notion of self and all that sort of thing.  In the book, The Iron Cow of Zen, talks about me-as-center and me-as-periphery and while it starts out confusing, is clarifying these things for me (thanks, Laughter, for mentioning the book a while back). 

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Jul 10, 2015 11:07:16 GMT -5 silver said:

Jul 10, 2015 2:26:44 GMT -5 @wren said:

I can win though can't I? It's just you that can't.. ? 

I thought it was rather Zen or Buddhist...I'm reading a book right now that is helping me immensely, to understand ego, and the mystifying notion of self and all that sort of thing.  In the book, The Iron Cow of Zen, talks about me-as-center and me-as-periphery and while it starts out confusing, is clarifying these things for me (thanks, Laughter, for mentioning the book a while back). 

Ok, cool. Yeah I noticed his reference to that book as well. 

Yeah being honest about what the me-as-centre is involved in can quieten it, and can give the space for me-as-periphery to start to have a clear look around. If it's possible that it really is all, rather Zen or Buddhist.. as in, the view from me-as-periphery is inherently beautiful. Then me-as-centre will accept this. Quite honestly.

Then a few months later, me-as-centre and me-as-periphery are not even necessary anymore. Though a bow of gratitude is offered to them nevertheless.

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Jul 10, 2015 14:36:51 GMT -5 @wren said:

Jul 10, 2015 11:07:16 GMT -5 silver said:

I thought it was rather Zen or Buddhist...I'm reading a book right now that is helping me immensely, to understand ego, and the mystifying notion of self and all that sort of thing.  In the book, The Iron Cow of Zen, talks about me-as-center and me-as-periphery and while it starts out confusing, is clarifying these things for me (thanks, Laughter, for mentioning the book a while back). 

Ok, cool. Yeah I noticed his reference to that book as well. 

Yeah being honest about what the me-as-centre is involved in can quieten it, and can give the space for me-as-periphery to start to have a clear look around. If it's possible that it really is all, rather Zen or Buddhist.. as in, the view from me-as-periphery is inherently beautiful. Then me-as-centre will accept this. Quite honestly.

Then a few months later, me-as-centre and me-as-periphery are not even necessary anymore. Though a bow of gratitude is offered to them nevertheless.

Low gives the mind no place to retreat to and then offers the prescription: "arouse the mind without resting it on anything" -- as a 16/7 walking/waking practice. For me, personally, this was devastating.

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Jul 12, 2015 3:09:45 GMT -5 laughter said:

Jul 10, 2015 14:36:51 GMT -5 @wren said:

Ok, cool. Yeah I noticed his reference to that book as well. 

Yeah being honest about what the me-as-centre is involved in can quieten it, and can give the space for me-as-periphery to start to have a clear look around. If it's possible that it really is all, rather Zen or Buddhist.. as in, the view from me-as-periphery is inherently beautiful. Then me-as-centre will accept this. Quite honestly.

Then a few months later, me-as-centre and me-as-periphery are not even necessary anymore. Though a bow of gratitude is offered to them nevertheless.

Low gives the mind no place to retreat to and then offers the prescription: "arouse the mind without resting it on anything" -- as a 16/7 walking/waking practice. For me, personally, this was devastating.

It's neat that you continued with it until it became that devastating. 

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Jul 10, 2015 11:07:16 GMT -5 silver said:

Jul 10, 2015 2:26:44 GMT -5 @wren said:

I can win though can't I? It's just you that can't.. ? 

I thought it was rather Zen or Buddhist...I'm reading a book right now that is helping me immensely, to understand ego, and the mystifying notion of self and all that sort of thing.  In the book, The Iron Cow of Zen, talks about me-as-center and me-as-periphery and while it starts out confusing, is clarifying these things for me (thanks, Laughter, for mentioning the book a while back). 

The book has arrived. What page are you on? 

[silver]

Jul 14, 2015 12:15:04 GMT -5 @wren said:

Jul 10, 2015 11:07:16 GMT -5 silver said:

I thought it was rather Zen or Buddhist...I'm reading a book right now that is helping me immensely, to understand ego, and the mystifying notion of self and all that sort of thing.  In the book, The Iron Cow of Zen, talks about me-as-center and me-as-periphery and while it starts out confusing, is clarifying these things for me (thanks, Laughter, for mentioning the book a while back). 

The book has arrived. What page are you on? 

I've made it all the way to page 196. 

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Jul 14, 2015 12:29:36 GMT -5 silver said:

Jul 14, 2015 12:15:04 GMT -5 @wren said:

The book has arrived. What page are you on? 

I've made it all the way to page 196. 

"Then our journey has begun at last."

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Jul 14, 2015 12:36:25 GMT -5 @wren said:

Jul 14, 2015 12:29:36 GMT -5 silver said:

I've made it all the way to page 196. 

"Then our journey has begun at last."

kuhl 

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Jul 14, 2015 12:41:22 GMT -5 silver said:

Jul 14, 2015 12:36:25 GMT -5 @wren said:

"Then our journey has begun at last."

kuhl 

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