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KarmaKarma

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Posted: Mar 7, 2021 - 3:00pm



 Ohmsen wrote:


 KarmaKarma wrote:


 Ohmsen wrote:
islander wrote:


 Ohmsen wrote:
Beyond
meditation practice,
there is attitude. A beginner
must learn to cultivate what is called,
“the poise of a dying man”. What is this poise?
It is the poise of knowing what is important and what
is not, and of being accepting and forgiving. Anyone who has
ever been at the bedside of a dying man will understand
this poise. What would the dying man do if someone
were to insult him? Nothing. What would
the dying man do if someone
were to strike him?
Nothing.

As
he lay there,
would he scheme to
become famous or wealthy?
No. If someone who had once offended
him were to ask him for his forgiveness would he
not give it? Of course he would. A dying man knows
the pointlessness of enmity. Hatred is always
such a wretched feeling. Who wishes to
die feeling hatred in his heart?
No one. The dying
seek love and
peace.

Hsu-Yun
(Empty Cloud)

 

You forgot to add < random oddly annotated picture > to make it look like you are not a shill.
 
Thank you kindly, and let me guess...... I am shilling for Trump, again?! - Yer so sharp! Must be!!
The good folks in this forum will have to thank you for eons to come, I'm sure... because you keep giving them your heads-up, even unasked. What a thalassophile guy... roaring applause! When are ya gonna jump into the water? Now might just be the right time for ya sea-loving dude, right on your home-shore. 

Sorry for having to leave my "dying man's poise" for a minute, y'all (rest of you folks reading this), seriously.
 

So you're the one who took my gig here.  harumph
 
The lack of self-reflection in some is simply saddening. Maiming for words... but the cliché of 'Ignorant Americans' as viewed through other nations' and peoples' lenses oftentimes seems hard to overcome, very, very sadly. Thought police is still standing strong, unfortunately. It always seems to be about me and my, and us vs. them. As some have already mentioned in other threads, ghosh... stop these false images, please. 

Finally, posters expecting others to have an agenda making others "shills" in their view, mostly neglect the view into their own mirror. Always pointing fingers at others, they forget that pointing an index finger away from their body leaves three fingers pointing back at themselves. 

God, have mercy, please!
 

"as viewed through other nations' and peoples' lenses"

Bingo.  They don't understand that this is in fact their reality check.

Now there's a concept.  Until  someone has personally had the revelation of comparing their daily reality to some other POV, they'll never firmly grasp whether or not 'their view' has actually become twisted and distorted to fit reality.  Twisting facts until they support a predisposed view.

Instead, they dismiss anyone outside their perceived realm of expertise as "not having any skin in the game".  That statement right there reveals how little they understand how the world works.

It's a real shame that the American presidential term is only four years.  Eight or ten years of the leftist progressive agenda should be enough to be remembered by two or three generations of voters.
KarmaKarma

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Posted: Mar 7, 2021 - 2:01pm



 Ohmsen wrote:
islander wrote:


 Ohmsen wrote:
Beyond
meditation practice,
there is attitude. A beginner
must learn to cultivate what is called,
“the poise of a dying man”. What is this poise?
It is the poise of knowing what is important and what
is not, and of being accepting and forgiving. Anyone who has
ever been at the bedside of a dying man will understand
this poise. What would the dying man do if someone
were to insult him? Nothing. What would
the dying man do if someone
were to strike him?
Nothing.

As
he lay there,
would he scheme to
become famous or wealthy?
No. If someone who had once offended
him were to ask him for his forgiveness would he
not give it? Of course he would. A dying man knows
the pointlessness of enmity. Hatred is always
such a wretched feeling. Who wishes to
die feeling hatred in his heart?
No one. The dying
seek love and
peace.

Hsu-Yun
(Empty Cloud)

 

You forgot to add < random oddly annotated picture > to make it look like you are not a shill.
 
Thank you kindly, and let me guess...... I am shilling for Trump, again?! - Yer so sharp! Must be!!
The good folks in this forum will have to thank you for eons to come, I'm sure... because you keep giving them your heads-up, even unasked. What a thalassophile guy... roaring applause! When are ya gonna jump into the water? Now might just be the right time for ya sea-loving dude, right on your home-shore. 

Sorry for having to leave my "dying man's poise" for a minute, y'all (rest of you folks reading this), seriously.
 

So you're the one who took my gig here.  harumph
islander

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Gender: Male


Posted: Mar 7, 2021 - 1:29pm



 Ohmsen wrote:
Beyond
meditation practice,
there is attitude. A beginner
must learn to cultivate what is called,
“the poise of a dying man”. What is this poise?
It is the poise of knowing what is important and what
is not, and of being accepting and forgiving. Anyone who has
ever been at the bedside of a dying man will understand
this poise. What would the dying man do if someone
were to insult him? Nothing. What would
the dying man do if someone
were to strike him?
Nothing.

As
he lay there,
would he scheme to
become famous or wealthy?
No. If someone who had once offended
him were to ask him for his forgiveness would he
not give it? Of course he would. A dying man knows
the pointlessness of enmity. Hatred is always
such a wretched feeling. Who wishes to
die feeling hatred in his heart?
No one. The dying
seek love and
peace.

Hsu-Yun
(Empty Cloud)

 

You forgot to add < random oddly annotated picture > to make it look like you are not a shill.
ScottFromWyoming

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Gender: Male


Posted: Feb 25, 2021 - 6:57pm



 Red_Dragon wrote:
And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then, lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it."

~The Book of Armaments, chapter two, verses nine to twenty-one (abbreviated)
 


Red_Dragon

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Posted: Feb 25, 2021 - 4:22pm

And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then, lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it."

~The Book of Armaments, chapter two, verses nine to twenty-one (abbreviated)
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Posted: Feb 25, 2021 - 3:16pm

Uncle Lomax: 5150
oldviolin

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Posted: Feb 25, 2021 - 11:09am

Matthew 24
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Posted: Feb 18, 2021 - 1:18pm

John 9
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Posted: Jul 26, 2020 - 3:54pm

 black321 wrote:

Given the pandemic and its interrelated crises, there is so much bad news out there that a new term has been coined: “doomscrolling.” Doomscrolling is when we move from one news feed to the next on the various formats on our devices that proclaim doom and gloom.

Our current realities, not just that there is a global health crisis, but that leaders in various settings are making choices to make matters worse, bring to mind words of one of the stanzas of Martin Luther’s hymn, “A Mighty Fortress is our God.” The first line of stanza three goes like this in translation: “Though hordes of devils fill the land all threatening to devour us….”


The challenge and opportunity for me, for us, in this season of doomscrolling seemingly relentless bad news is to trust in the hidden power of God working in, with, under, and often in spite of our circumstances.

Here again, I invoke the encouraging words of Paul in today’s second reading: “The Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.” (Romans 8:26ff.)

 
Nice thoughts, for those that doomscroll and seek out ways to upset their personal apple carts.

I guess that I am ahead of the game because I do not do news feeds.  Never have and likely never will.

I suppose that I will pray for those of you who do ... if that is still allowed.
black321

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Gender: Male


Posted: Jul 26, 2020 - 11:15am

Given the pandemic and its interrelated crises, there is so much bad news out there that a new term has been coined: “doomscrolling.” Doomscrolling is when we move from one news feed to the next on the various formats on our devices that proclaim doom and gloom.

Our current realities, not just that there is a global health crisis, but that leaders in various settings are making choices to make matters worse, bring to mind words of one of the stanzas of Martin Luther’s hymn, “A Mighty Fortress is our God.” The first line of stanza three goes like this in translation: “Though hordes of devils fill the land all threatening to devour us….”


The challenge and opportunity for me, for us, in this season of doomscrolling seemingly relentless bad news is to trust in the hidden power of God working in, with, under, and often in spite of our circumstances.

Here again, I invoke the encouraging words of Paul in today’s second reading: “The Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.” (Romans 8:26ff.)

jahgirl8

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Posted: Apr 6, 2020 - 6:29pm



 bokey wrote:
This thread is pontificationist.
 
John 11:35 - Jesus wept.

oldviolin

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Posted: Apr 6, 2020 - 10:26am

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

C. S. Lewis


oldviolin

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Posted: Oct 1, 2019 - 8:35am

“Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.”

C. S. Lewis
Isabeau

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Posted: Sep 30, 2019 - 2:44pm



 sirdroseph wrote:
 Lazy8 wrote:
In honor of Rumi's birthday:

"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."
 
Wow is that one timely.
{#Meditate}
 


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Posted: Sep 30, 2019 - 8:57am

 Lazy8 wrote:
In honor of Rumi's birthday:

"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."
 
Wow is that one timely.{#Meditate}
Lazy8

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Posted: Sep 30, 2019 - 8:38am

In honor of Rumi's birthday:

"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."
Isabeau

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Posted: Sep 29, 2019 - 8:40am



 oldviolin wrote:
An old Grandfather said to his grandson, who came to him with anger at a friend who had done him an injustice...   "Let me tell you a story."

"I too, at times, have felt great hate for those who have taken so much, with no sorrow for what they do. But hate wears you down, and does not hurt your enemy. It's like taking poison and wishing your enemy would die. I have struggled with these feelings many times. "

"It is as if there are two wolves inside me; one is good and does no harm. He lives in harmony with all around him and does not take offense when no offense was intended. He will only fight when it is right to do so, and in the right way."

"But...the other wolf... ah! The littlest thing will send him into a fit of temper. He fights everyone, all of the time, for no reason. He cannot think because his anger and hate are so great. It is helpless anger, for his anger will change nothing."

"Sometimes it is hard to live with these two wolves inside me, for both of them try to dominate my spirit."

The boy looked intently into his Grandfather's eyes and asked, "Which one wins, Grandfather ?"

The Grandfather smiled and quietly said, "The one I feed."


 
This one has been in my head for a week or so. Resonates, particularly now.  
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Posted: Sep 28, 2019 - 12:46pm

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

Kahlil Gibran
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Posted: Jul 24, 2019 - 12:42pm



 buzz wrote:

yesterday or tomorrow?
 

plus both
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Posted: Jul 24, 2019 - 12:41pm

THE FULL MOON

The full moon rose in glory upon the town, and all the dogs of that town began to bark at the moon.

Only one dog did not bark, and he said to them in a grave voice, “Awake not stillness from her sleep, nor bring you the moon to the earth with your barking.”

Then all the dogs ceased barking, in awful silence. But the dog who had spoken to them continued barking for silence, the rest of the night.

Kahlil Gibran

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