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  • DavidDavid A human residing in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Ancestral territory of the Erie, Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, Mississauga and Neutral First Nations Veteran

    @Shoshin said:

    Hmm perhaps I am really nothing special ... :)

    I don't really know what "special" means really but you are unique. That makes you quite useful as far as I am concerned.

    Sometimes to figure out a problem or to see more objectively it helps to have more than one perspective.

    All these little "I" s running around... We've hit the jackpot.

    Shoshin
  • TsultrimTsultrim Hawaii Veteran

    We are all one in emptiness
    So let all the i ams gather
    To be cleansed of concept in the river
    And washed of ownership's sins.

    How easily the baptized bob to the surface
    Up from the depths of original sin.
    How they gasp when dripping they arise
    To see the light of unbiased awareness.

    Let's all gather in a ring of i am nots
    Hold hands and sing the praises of freedom.
    Let's look lovingly in each others eyes
    Freed from the deadly stain of mys.

    Yes, it's a grand revival of what we have always been
    With ancient verses recited and candles lighted
    In remembrances of the ancestral land
    And of the language we once found difficult to understand.

    Let's sit and share a friendly repast
    And talk of times without a past
    When only now lasts, through eternity,
    And the bread and wine don't substantiate.

    Hosanna in the highest and good will to men
    And a solemn closing Amen.
    Let's spread the word to the world
    Emptiness and awareness are unborn again.

    Shoshin
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator

    Here's the Iams you wanted...

    Special delivery!!

    KundopersonShoshin
  • ShoshinShoshin No one in particular Nowhere Special Veteran

    I don't really know who I AM .. for I change from one moment to the next
    The aggregates that seem to make up ME are somewhat complex

    One moment I AM happy...Life's great....in fact a box of birds
    The next moment shit may happens and I AM covered in turds

    From one moment to the next I AM changing all the time
    I guess I AM a state of flux... a composition of life's rhyme

    paulyso
  • TsultrimTsultrim Hawaii Veteran

    @Shoshin said:
    I don't really know who I AM .. for I change from one moment to the next
    The aggregates that seem to make up ME are somewhat complex

    One moment I AM happy...Life's great....in fact a box of birds
    The next moment shit may happens and I AM covered in turds

    From one moment to the next I AM changing all the time
    I guess I AM a state of flux... a composition of life's rhyme

    I know for sure that i am not, things change, but i remain completely absent
    Like a house painted and furnished every year that never has an occupant.

    Any moment i can feel anything, fatigue, elation or a painful toe
    But what feels is gone now, like the passenger pigeon and dodo.

    My body consists of changing components, that have now become time's food
    It is life's rhythm that i feel, and also that nothing that knows remains unmoved.

    paulysoShoshinlobster
  • paulysopaulyso usa Veteran

    @Shoshin said:
    I don't really know who I AM .. for I change from one moment to the next
    The aggregates that seem to make up ME are somewhat complex

    One moment I AM happy...Life's great....in fact a box of birds
    The next moment shit may happens and I AM covered in turds

    From one moment to the next I AM changing all the time
    I guess I AM a state of flux... a composition of life's rhyme

    i am--in context to the topic--grateful for that lucid dharma present . it flows.

    is not the dharma that way?
    yes!
    we be the dao
    we be the dharma(buddhist context)
    we be the spirit(breath to breath)
    that's the spirit.
    i hope for us,
    as we talk and walk along the way.

    Shoshinlobster
  • seeker242seeker242 Zen Florida, USA Veteran

    "'I am subject to aging, have not gone beyond aging.' This is the first fact that one should reflect on often, whether one is a woman or a man, lay or ordained.

    "'I am subject to illness, have not gone beyond illness.' ...

    "'I am subject to death, have not gone beyond death.' ...

    "'I am subject to grow different, separate from all that is dear and appealing to me.'...

    "'I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that will I fall heir.' ...

    "These are the five facts that one should reflect on often, whether one is a woman or a man, lay or ordained.

    JeroenDavidShoshinlobster
  • kandokando northern Ireland Veteran

    @Shoshin said:
    I don't really know who I AM .. for I change from one moment to the next
    The aggregates that seem to make up ME are somewhat complex

    One moment I AM happy...Life's great....in fact a box of birds
    The next moment shit may happens and I AM covered in turds

    From one moment to the next I AM changing all the time
    _I guess I AM a state of flux...

    Blown leaves
    Like living things
    Dance
    Erratically

    Reflections
    And the strands
    Of mist
    So easily
    Broken

    Only words
    And the flickering
    Yellow leaves
    Are constant
    In the end

    And always

    Thank you for this thread :)

    ShoshinlobsterHozan
  • ScottPenScottPen Maryland Veteran

    what I am
    is what I am
    are you what you are
    or what

    Hozan
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
  • ShoshinShoshin No one in particular Nowhere Special Veteran

    At times .....
    I am Self-ish
    I am Egotistic
    I am Conceited
    Other times
    I am Selfless
    And in my younger years..
    I have (on the odd occasion) been somewhat legless ;)

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