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Jul 14, 2022 11:03:03 GMT -5
Post by sree on Jul 14, 2022 11:03:03 GMT -5
I am always in it. Every waking moment, I am trapped in a space/time reality. I need to send my car in next Friday. Elio is dead. Fred has taken over. After Fred has serviced the car, it has to get to the detailing center for wash and polish. There is always something coming up and has to be attended to. Then there is my neighbor's damn "Celibration of Life" event on Sunday, July 17. I won't go and will have to brave the evil eye from him.
Don't you have bills to pay, jury duty appointments to keep, etc. Do you live in an assisted living senior facility or what?
How about 'in it, but not of it?' (Jesus quote I think). In time but not of time? Come on, andrew. Get real.
Your body is a goddam clock constantly telling you time. Line up all the photos taken of yourself from the moment your body was born and place them side by side. Can you see how that body register the passage of time? You are a walking clock, buddy. Timeless state, my ass. You guys had better wake up.
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Jul 14, 2022 11:37:55 GMT -5
Post by sree on Jul 14, 2022 11:37:55 GMT -5
Just now, as I am figuring out how to reply to you, I saw Martha's daughter sitting alone on her back porch. She is a very pretty young woman in her mid-thirties. She has a beautiful voice. So, had her mother, Martha. The two of them would break into a duet every so often, and their singing could be heard from where I am right now in my back garden writing to you people. Those were the days when Martha would light up even my life. She was a wonderful person, always cheerful, with so much to say to me about her writing. Yes, she was an aspiring writer of novels and we would discuss excitedly how to create a "hook" early in the storyline to keep the reader engaged in the plot. Ok, is this good enough as a tribute to Martha? I could even share it with everyone as an eulogy delivered by me, with tears running down my eyes, from the podium at their "Celebration of Life" event next Sunday. Right? But I won't. People are such suckers for a life of pain and suffering. Even you and abscissa, who are supposed to be spiritually enlightened, feel that I should participate in an affair of the ignorant.
It is not easy for me living in this world among people who are conditioned as psychological beings. They see me as one of them. Their way of life of celebrating births and mourning deaths include fighting wars. There are nuclear missile silos all over the damn country; in them are deadly weapons all armed and ready for launch against Russia, China and God knows who else. Are you listening, zazeniac?
It's really too bad you're not going to share that. Their loss. Funerals and wakes are for the living, not the dead. A story like that can help people more fully appreciate how blessed they were, which is, of course, how anyone who truly loved you when they were alive would want you to remember them. Exactly! And the living are all crazy.
Martha is not dead. The body - that was moving around and doing all the things it was doing - is dead. That body was called Martha just as yours is called laughter. Look, I don't want to make fun of people. If you want to bow to a Buddha statue, it's your business. Asking me to join you and bow to a block of stone is to compel me to affirm your sanity. You are not sane. Your feeling of loss comes from a consciousness that can kill and maim. Do you think that the mass shooter that you view as mentally ill is cut from a different cloth? Given the right circumstance, you would be him. He also can feel the kind of loss you are talking about. Different body, Same consciousness. |
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Jul 14, 2022 11:47:05 GMT -5
Post by zazeniac on Jul 14, 2022 11:47:05 GMT -5
I walk my dog late morning. After folks have run their sprinklers. The earthworms escape drowning by squiggling to the sidewalk. A brutal choice, because if the sun gets too high before the ground gets dry, they fry, crispy. My dog eats them. Occasionally, I find one moving, still alive, and pick him up and set him in the grass, a dry area. Strange how the body reacts at having to pick them up. Some of it, I think, is fear of crushing them with my clumsy fingers. I see my path clearly now. I am the bodhisattva of earthworms. This morning two tiny dragon flies, the color of blue crystal, danced for me on the grass, such an honor. I'm still dazzled by the memory of their beauty. You walk your dog. You fear crushing the earthworms with your fingers. But you are all out for the war in Ukraine. You don't fear getting people dying there at the rate of 500 a day with your tax dollars. Me, I watch robins hopping about in my garden picking up and gobbling the earthworms that crawl out of the ground after the rain. "The wise do nothing and everything is done. The foolish have much to do and everything is undone." (Tao Te Ching) So, what are you doing after the earthworms saving and people killing? Do you also do baby showers and bachelorette parties?
Right action. This is what spirituality is about.
I'm the bodhisattva of earthworms and robins.. I save them so the robins won't go hungry. War is a necessary evil, but an evil none-the-less. I'm for not gloryfying it. "The wise do nothing." I like that. It comes to them. You seem to want to stop the world. Quite unwise. Have you stopped paying taxes or is it just bluster? |
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Jul 14, 2022 12:59:21 GMT -5
Post by sree on Jul 14, 2022 12:59:21 GMT -5
We are not done. I would never give up on you or anyone over a point of view or two. Where is the love?
I am just telling you that we can figure life out our way. We don't have to go Yin Yang. Frankly, I don't believe the Chinese can either. They have gone west wholesale lock,stock and barrel. Look at their cities, infrastructure, and national grid. They are like us. All technological. Look at their women's fashion and style. It's Revlon and Gucci and Victoria Secret and Louboutin. Try talking to a Chinese in Hong Kong, Taipeh and Bejing about Yin Yang. He would laugh at you. There's no willingness, and you're too lazy and busy making assumptions about who/waht you're talking to. I took the time and gave you honest answers specifically based on your posts. You do not even consider the feedback and immediately jump to assumptions about me. I have no existential questions with respect to what's being pointed to by JC, K, or whoever. Am I curious how IT's manifesting or do I enjoy playing in the currents and waves? Yes, sure. The Eastern/Chinese medicine text sure seemed very aligned to several of the ideas that were part of the discussion, and I even stated them for you. But, I guess it fell on eyes and a mind blinded by what they see. In the text, there's even some non-dualish feeling sense of Wisdom. Perhaps you didn't even give it a read, and just jumped on the yin-yang stuff because it is considered so mainstream. I've seen this before... a lot. Just like the rest of the terminology of such studies, very few are aware of the substance that it refers to. I never went deeply into the study of that medicine system, but it held my attention to some degree, enough to respect it and use it at various times. Are you aware of how many Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Taiwanese actually do go to Eastern medicine doctors... like daily? I don't remember ever having a convo with any of them about Eastern medicine in which they laughed, except maybe at themselves for not knowing much about it. But having helped a doctor in Kyoto edit his presentation for an international conference, I was impressed by the extent to which he was so dedicated, knowledgeable, and even philosophical on the topic. Good times. If I ever see any willingness to really engage, rather than deflect or project, I might consider it. But honestly, there are better things to do with my time besides fight your battles for you. Until then, we're done. Peace, man. No, we are not done. I have not had a chance to address your many questions in multiple posts you fired at me like ammo from an assault rifle. I have not dismissed them at all. They are are all worthy of examination. At least, allow me to them justice.
What you have written above tells me that you are into natural medicine. This is a good thing. In principle, I don't like western medicine. No finesse. Our approach is mechanical with no consideration for the organic aspect of life. Still, western medicine has contributions we cannot dismiss. On this note, I must condemn our approach to contain the Covid pandemic the cause of which is a matter that demands our call for investigation. But we won't. We prefer to protect earthworms.
My mechanic, Elio, dropped dead in the prime of his life. He was in the middle of the age range of 25 to 45 year olds for whom the death rate had alarmingly spiked as reported by insurance companies. A neighbor across the road, is bed-ridden. She suffered a stroke after getting her booster shot. I am not making conclusions. The rest of the world can do as they damn well please: funerals, vaccinations, whatever. I am no longer a part of conventional life and am willing to pay the price for it. I gave up travel and have been self-isolating since December 2019.
My response to your Yin Yang clip was knee-jerk. My forte is in the Chinese Classics which I can read in the Chinese language. This doesn't mean I can divine the correct meanings in those Scriptures. It is not possible. At best, they can be divined like oracles. At worse, they are unintelligible even to native scholars in China.
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Jul 14, 2022 13:04:57 GMT -5
Post by andrew on Jul 14, 2022 13:04:57 GMT -5
How about 'in it, but not of it?' (Jesus quote I think). In time but not of time? Come on, andrew. Get real. Your body is a goddam clock constantly telling you time. Line up all the photos taken of yourself from the moment your body was born and place them side by side. Can you see how that body register the passage of time? You are a walking clock, buddy. Timeless state, my ass. You guys had better wake up.
well that's the 'in time' aspect. Would you say that existence, or life, has an eternal aspect or quality at all? Then again, perhaps that's irrelevant whether it does or doesn't, and what is relevant is that it's possible to experience an eternal aspect. And then it's a case of experiencing both aspects together. Though I'm pretty darn sure I'm not saying anything there you haven't heard before. |
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Post by someNOTHING! on Jul 14, 2022 13:05:57 GMT -5
There's no willingness, and you're too lazy and busy making assumptions about who/waht you're talking to. I took the time and gave you honest answers specifically based on your posts. You do not even consider the feedback and immediately jump to assumptions about me. I have no existential questions with respect to what's being pointed to by JC, K, or whoever. Am I curious how IT's manifesting or do I enjoy playing in the currents and waves? Yes, sure. The Eastern/Chinese medicine text sure seemed very aligned to several of the ideas that were part of the discussion, and I even stated them for you. But, I guess it fell on eyes and a mind blinded by what they see. In the text, there's even some non-dualish feeling sense of Wisdom. Perhaps you didn't even give it a read, and just jumped on the yin-yang stuff because it is considered so mainstream. I've seen this before... a lot. Just like the rest of the terminology of such studies, very few are aware of the substance that it refers to. I never went deeply into the study of that medicine system, but it held my attention to some degree, enough to respect it and use it at various times. Are you aware of how many Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Taiwanese actually do go to Eastern medicine doctors... like daily? I don't remember ever having a convo with any of them about Eastern medicine in which they laughed, except maybe at themselves for not knowing much about it. But having helped a doctor in Kyoto edit his presentation for an international conference, I was impressed by the extent to which he was so dedicated, knowledgeable, and even philosophical on the topic. Good times. If I ever see any willingness to really engage, rather than deflect or project, I might consider it. But honestly, there are better things to do with my time besides fight your battles for you. Until then, we're done. Peace, man. No, we are not done. I have not had a chance to address your many questions in multiple posts you fired at me like ammo from an assault rifle. I have not dismissed them at all. They are are all worthy of examination. At least, allow me to them justice.
What you have written above tells me that you are into natural medicine. This is a good thing. In principle, I don't like western medicine. No finesse. Our approach is mechanical with no consideration for the organic aspect of life. Still, western medicine has contributions we cannot dismiss. On this note, I must condemn our approach to contain the Covid pandemic the cause of which is a matter that demands our call for investigation. But we won't. We prefer to protect earthworms.
My mechanic, Elio, dropped dead in the prime of his life. He was in the middle of the age range of 25 to 45 year olds for whom the death rate had alarmingly spiked as reported by insurance companies. A neighbor across the road, is bed-ridden. She suffered a stroke after getting her booster shot. I am not making conclusions. The rest of the world can do as they damn well please: funerals, vaccinations, whatever. I am no longer a part of conventional life and am willing to pay the price for it. I gave up travel and have been self-isolating since December 2019.
My response to your Yin Yang clip was knee-jerk. My forte is in the Chinese Classics which I can read in the Chinese language. This doesn't mean I can divine the correct meanings in those Scriptures. It is not possible. At best, they can be divined like oracles. At worse, they are unintelligible even to native scholars in China.
Better. You're just saying you didn't understand what some of them may have been pointing to. That's fine. We'll see what happens. Heading out for a few days into some stream-fed mountains with the wifey. Peace, man. 🔥 |
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Jul 14, 2022 13:48:53 GMT -5
Post by sree on Jul 14, 2022 13:48:53 GMT -5
You walk your dog. You fear crushing the earthworms with your fingers. But you are all out for the war in Ukraine. You don't fear getting people dying there at the rate of 500 a day with your tax dollars. Me, I watch robins hopping about in my garden picking up and gobbling the earthworms that crawl out of the ground after the rain. "The wise do nothing and everything is done. The foolish have much to do and everything is undone." (Tao Te Ching) So, what are you doing after the earthworms saving and people killing? Do you also do baby showers and bachelorette parties?
Right action. This is what spirituality is about.
I'm the bodhisattva of earthworms and robins.. I save them so the robins won't go hungry. War is a necessary evil, but an evil none-the-less. I'm for not gloryfying it. "The wise do nothing." I like that. It comes to them. You seem to want to stop the world. Quite unwise. Have you stopped paying taxes or is it just bluster? No taxes. Not a cent. I am all in cash. Painful? Very. But I need a quiet mind. No cat and mouse games with the Government. Last resort, give up the passport and join satch in paradise, Thailand.
Why is war necessary? Seriously. I am an American. Our nuclear weapons are armed and ready for launch. The two countries capable of attacking us with nuclear weapons are Russia and China. China is our largest trading partner and has been for the last 40 years. We may not need them but the Chinese need us economically. Why would Russia attack us? Please ask these questions. Give your heart to find out, as Krishnamurti would say.
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Post by someNOTHING! on Jul 14, 2022 13:50:13 GMT -5
Regarding your last question, I seem to be in the minority here, insofar as I don't really do 'what I am'. And I don't expect to be changing the world either, at least this time around. You might think that’s defeatist, but I consider myself a realist. I'm still working through some stuff. I'm not really drawn to JK, but wanted to mention that some of your discourse on the forum conjures a quandary I've seen raised, about personal versus collective enlightenment. One school promotes and focuses on the idea of personal liberation. Another posits there can be no true and lasting Peace while beings in the world continue to suffer, aka the role of the bodhisattva. Thus, the role is to delay the culmination of personal liberation (death and the end of rebirth) and try to improve the world at large. So another disconnect I suppose. Both positions raise myriad questions, but it's why I asked whether you consider some things would never change. I mean, if that were the case the role would pretty much be moot, right. Or at least perpetual. Society has a tough balance to strike between the desires of the individuated and the good of the collective. It's a tough gig, so it makes sense any improvement is slow. For me, society seems to have lurched from the pitfalls of religion to the pitfalls of secularism in recent times. Although there's still a lot of both. But perhaps in time it may settle between those by embracing the spiritual. I say, whether it knows it or not, science is already grappling with the prospect. I walk my dog late morning. After folks have run their sprinklers. The earthworms escape drowning by squiggling to the sidewalk. A brutal choice, because if the sun gets too high before the ground gets dry, they fry, crispy. My dog eats them. Occasionally, I find one moving, still alive, and pick him up and set him in the grass, a dry area. Strange how the body reacts at having to pick them up. Some of it, I think, is fear of crushing them with my clumsy fingers. I see my path clearly now. I am the bodhisattva of earthworms. This morning two tiny dragon flies, the color of blue crystal, danced for me on the grass, such an honor. I'm still dazzled by the memory of their beauty. If I had to choose a favorite insect, I'd probably go with the dragonfly. Not because they hunt and eat anything they can get with there amazingly agile selves, but just because of their mesmerizing ways. I've spent hours watching them at watering holes, and look forward to every chance. Reading about their evolution and lifespans is amazing, too. For the sake of world peace, I will endeavor to become the bodhisattva of dragonflies, while the wifey is focused on sea turtles! 🤟🏽😇🤘🏽 |
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Jul 14, 2022 14:37:11 GMT -5
Post by sree on Jul 14, 2022 14:37:11 GMT -5
In time but not of time? Come on, andrew. Get real. Your body is a goddam clock constantly telling you time. Line up all the photos taken of yourself from the moment your body was born and place them side by side. Can you see how that body register the passage of time? You are a walking clock, buddy. Timeless state, my ass. You guys had better wake up.
well that's the 'in time' aspect. Would you say that existence, or life, has an eternal aspect or quality at all? Then again, perhaps that's irrelevant whether it does or doesn't, and what is relevant is that it's possible to experience an eternal aspect. And then it's a case of experiencing both aspects together. Though I'm pretty darn sure I'm not saying anything there you haven't heard before. Of course, it has. Do you know what "eternal" means? The word means "lasting or existing forever; without end or beginning". This is the conventional meaning. This is endless time.
The true meaning of "eternal" is timelessness. No time. It never was, never existed. It is an illusion. And the ending of that illusion is the state of nothingness. Death. Is this possible? The body is still there, right? As long as the body exists, time exists because the body goes on aging till it drops dead. But can time disappear while the body is still alive? This is real meditation, as Krishnamurti would say.
The ending of time, its disappearance when the consciousness is still operating and the bodily senses are acutely functioning, is possible. I am making a statement here. It is not a testimony of a fact. It would be a fact if I were experiencing that timeless state now and telling you: "andrew! time doesn't exist! I swear, this is it!"
You might ask, "If you are so sure of yourself, why don't you take it to the top physicists at Princeton University?" Do you know why I won't? Those guys are incapable of processing what I have to say. I need to translate it into a mathematical language to enable them to grasp the concept of the timeless state. I would need to create an abstraction, a stick man, as Reefs would say. At any rate, those scientists wouldn't listen to weirdos like me, and you, and ouroboros.
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Jul 14, 2022 15:20:31 GMT -5
Post by andrew on Jul 14, 2022 15:20:31 GMT -5
well that's the 'in time' aspect. Would you say that existence, or life, has an eternal aspect or quality at all? Then again, perhaps that's irrelevant whether it does or doesn't, and what is relevant is that it's possible to experience an eternal aspect. And then it's a case of experiencing both aspects together. Though I'm pretty darn sure I'm not saying anything there you haven't heard before. Of course, it has. Do you know what "eternal" means? The word means "lasting or existing forever; without end or beginning". This is the conventional meaning. This is endless time.
The true meaning of "eternal" is timelessness. No time. It never was, never existed. It is an illusion. And the ending of that illusion is the state of nothingness. Death. Is this possible? The body is still there, right? As long as the body exists, time exists because the body goes on aging till it drops dead. But can time disappear while the body is still alive? This is real meditation, as Krishnamurti would say.
The ending of time, its disappearance when the consciousness is still operating and the bodily senses are acutely functioning, is possible. I am making a statement here. It is not a testimony of a fact. It would be a fact if I were experiencing that timeless state now and telling you: "andrew! time doesn't exist! I swear, this is it!" You might ask, "If you are so sure of yourself, why don't you take it to the top physicists at Princeton University?" Do you know why I won't? Those guys are incapable of processing what I have to say. I need to translate it into a mathematical language to enable them to grasp the concept of the timeless state. I would need to create an abstraction, a stick man, as Reefs would say. At any rate, those scientists wouldn't listen to weirdos like me, and you, and ouroboros.
Okay. Yes. (I agree those scientists are unlikely to listen to weirdos like me (and you and others here). Do you think one can experience some of 'in time' state, and some of the 'no time' state simultaneously? I like the way you talk, sort of reminds me just a little bit of Hercule Poirot  That's a good thing. |
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Jul 14, 2022 16:06:44 GMT -5
Post by zazeniac on Jul 14, 2022 16:06:44 GMT -5
I'm the bodhisattva of earthworms and robins.. I save them so the robins won't go hungry. War is a necessary evil, but an evil none-the-less. I'm for not gloryfying it. "The wise do nothing." I like that. It comes to them. You seem to want to stop the world. Quite unwise. Have you stopped paying taxes or is it just bluster? No taxes. Not a cent. I am all in cash. Painful? Very. But I need a quiet mind. No cat and mouse games with the Government. Last resort, give up the passport and join satch in paradise, Thailand.
Why is war necessary? Seriously. I am an American. Our nuclear weapons are armed and ready for launch. The two countries capable of attacking us with nuclear weapons are Russia and China. China is our largest trading partner and has been for the last 40 years. We may not need them but the Chinese need us economically. Why would Russia attack us? Please ask these questions. Give your heart to find out, as Krishnamurti would say.
Read up on the Moriori people. China will invade Taiwan. If you were Taiwanese, I guess you could move to Thailand. I don't buy your story about taxes. |
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Post by sree on Jul 14, 2022 17:46:23 GMT -5
No taxes. Not a cent. I am all in cash. Painful? Very. But I need a quiet mind. No cat and mouse games with the Government. Last resort, give up the passport and join satch in paradise, Thailand.
Why is war necessary? Seriously. I am an American. Our nuclear weapons are armed and ready for launch. The two countries capable of attacking us with nuclear weapons are Russia and China. China is our largest trading partner and has been for the last 40 years. We may not need them but the Chinese need us economically. Why would Russia attack us? Please ask these questions. Give your heart to find out, as Krishnamurti would say.
Read up on the Moriori people. China will invade Taiwan. If you were Taiwanese, I guess you could move to Thailand. I don't buy your story about taxes. Why won't you buy my story about taxes? I was on another discussion forum and a guy there said I was lying and did not believe that I have two passports. Do I come across as a braggart because I am not a typical member of a spiritual forum, someone in your demographic? Reefs thinks I have never seen the inside of a university classroom. I bet you don't believe that I have seen the inside of an offshore private bank holding my stash of cash either. But that's ok. I have not come here to sell myself. My personal circumstance is a matter of fact that comes out in the course of candid discussion. I still remember those early days when I was swept away by Krishnamurti who was long dead by then. I drove up to Ojai and was received by the top honchos running the Krishnamurti Foundation of America. I went without a prior appointment; and yet, I was shown around the school and was given a copy of their annual accounts when I asked for a look at it. Why would they do that? Was it because I was passionately interested in the teaching or was it because I went there in a $70,000 BMW 745i?
The spiritual world is full of decrepit minds starting with the Pope and the Dalai Lama. If we want to change the world, we must storm it with the psychic power of a thousand Force 5 hurricanes.
China will not invade Taiwan. If the US doesn't stop messing around with China the way we tried wrecking Hong Kong by agitating unrest among the Chinese, Taiwan will be blockaded and US warships will be sunk in the South China Sea. I guarantee it.
This is a spiritual forum. Geopolitics is very much a part of our reality. But we must stay away from political arguments. We need solutions of the spiritual kind.
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Jul 14, 2022 18:43:22 GMT -5
Read up on the Moriori people. China will invade Taiwan. If you were Taiwanese, I guess you could move to Thailand. I don't buy your story about taxes. Why won't you buy my story about taxes? I was on another discussion forum and a guy there said I was lying and did not believe that I have two passports. Do I come across as a braggart because I am not a typical member of a spiritual forum, someone in your demographic? Reefs thinks I have never seen the inside of a university classroom. I bet you don't believe that I have seen the inside of an offshore private bank holding my stash of cash either. But that's ok. I have not come here to sell myself. My personal circumstance is a matter of fact that comes out in the course of candid discussion. I still remember those early days when I was swept away by Krishnamurti who was long dead by then. I drove up to Ojai and was received by the top honchos running the Krishnamurti Foundation of America. I went without a prior appointment; and yet, I was shown around the school and was given a copy of their annual accounts when I asked for a look at it. Why would they do that? Was it because I was passionately interested in the teaching or was it because I went there in a $70,000 BMW 745i? The spiritual world is full of decrepit minds starting with the Pope and the Dalai Lama. If we want to change the world, we must storm it with the psychic power of a thousand Force 5 hurricanes. China will not invade Taiwan. If the US doesn't stop messing around with China the way we tried wrecking Hong Kong by agitating unrest among the Chinese, Taiwan will be blockaded and US warships will be sunk in the South China Sea. I guarantee it.
This is a spiritual forum. Geopolitics is very much a part of our reality. But we must stay away from political arguments. We need solutions of the spiritual kind.
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Jul 14, 2022 19:16:42 GMT -5
Post by zazeniac on Jul 14, 2022 19:16:42 GMT -5
I walk my dog late morning. After folks have run their sprinklers. The earthworms escape drowning by squiggling to the sidewalk. A brutal choice, because if the sun gets too high before the ground gets dry, they fry, crispy. My dog eats them. Occasionally, I find one moving, still alive, and pick him up and set him in the grass, a dry area. Strange how the body reacts at having to pick them up. Some of it, I think, is fear of crushing them with my clumsy fingers. I see my path clearly now. I am the bodhisattva of earthworms. This morning two tiny dragon flies, the color of blue crystal, danced for me on the grass, such an honor. I'm still dazzled by the memory of their beauty. If I had to choose a favorite insect, I'd probably go with the dragonfly. Not because they hunt and eat anything they can get with there amazingly agile selves, but just because of their mesmerizing ways. I've spent hours watching them at watering holes, and look forward to every chance. Reading about their evolution and lifespans is amazing, too. For the sake of world peace, I will endeavor to become the bodhisattva of dragonflies, while the wifey is focused on sea turtles! 🤟🏽😇🤘🏽 You are hereby officially given the title of bodhisattva of dragonflies. I love them too. Never seen the little blue ones before. |
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Jul 14, 2022 19:20:16 GMT -5
Post by zazeniac on Jul 14, 2022 19:20:16 GMT -5
Read up on the Moriori people. China will invade Taiwan. If you were Taiwanese, I guess you could move to Thailand. I don't buy your story about taxes. Why won't you buy my story about taxes? I was on another discussion forum and a guy there said I was lying and did not believe that I have two passports. Do I come across as a braggart because I am not a typical member of a spiritual forum, someone in your demographic? Reefs thinks I have never seen the inside of a university classroom. I bet you don't believe that I have seen the inside of an offshore private bank holding my stash of cash either. But that's ok. I have not come here to sell myself. My personal circumstance is a matter of fact that comes out in the course of candid discussion. I still remember those early days when I was swept away by Krishnamurti who was long dead by then. I drove up to Ojai and was received by the top honchos running the Krishnamurti Foundation of America. I went without a prior appointment; and yet, I was shown around the school and was given a copy of their annual accounts when I asked for a look at it. Why would they do that? Was it because I was passionately interested in the teaching or was it because I went there in a $70,000 BMW 745i?
The spiritual world is full of decrepit minds starting with the Pope and the Dalai Lama. If we want to change the world, we must storm it with the psychic power of a thousand Force 5 hurricanes.
China will not invade Taiwan. If the US doesn't stop messing around with China the way we tried wrecking Hong Kong by agitating unrest among the Chinese, Taiwan will be blockaded and US warships will be sunk in the South China Sea. I guarantee it.
This is a spiritual forum. Geopolitics is very much a part of our reality. But we must stay away from political arguments. We need solutions of the spiritual kind.
Ramana said the best thing you can do for anyone is to see the truth. That's my solution. K.I.S.S. |
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