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Re: Saint Anthony of Padua preaches to the fishes
Writing here unearths my conditioned responses of the past, which can then be compared against the less habituated versions of the same that occupy this present moment.
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Re: Being fed up with all things spiritual
Spiritual and mundane are not separate.
Your spiritual journey is necessarily interconnected with your day to day real world of just living. Your spiritual practice can be seperated from your mundane, worldly affairs but each will none-the-less affect the other. In melding the mundane, the material, with the spiritual, you grow and advance. In separating mundane from the spiritual, you will reach stalemate.
Lionduck
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Today is Bob Marley's birthday and Waitangi day (The signing of the treaty of Waitangi between Maori and the crown)...The new corrupt coalition government (the three um egos) received a cold welcome onto the Marae at Waitangi by Maori elders...
Many Maori tribes are attending the ceremony and voicing their distrust for the government who want to take away their rights...
It's a public holiday hence why the Auckland Amada has arrived in many of the bays around the island
Shoshin1
Re: Experiences
Experiences
From my personal 'experience'....
"One is simply one's experience.
One's ego is the abstraction from these experiences
One's ego should be viewed as a convenient analytic device."
Shoshin1
Re: The Other Elephant In The Room
Gabor Maté, Naomi Klein, and Simone Zimmerman....Interesting discussion relating to the documentary "Israelism" ...
Shoshin1
Re: Bringing light into the world
I like that.
My fundamental purpose these days is to "be a light unto others".
To do that, I must "be a light unto myself" first.
A work in progress.
“Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love." Gandalf (Hobbit movie).
marcitko
Re: Bringing light into the world
Bringing light into the world
The light I try to shine onto the world stage....
Don't take life too seriously, for things are never quite what they seem
life's just a mind-made simulation - a make believe adlib dream
This is not to say that one should take the suffering of others as not real
for in this somewhat lucid dream, actual pain we really feel
Take things as they come, but never for granted should one take
the suffering of other sentient beings, for their suffering is not fake
I guess what I'm trying to say is I may know my life's a dream
but I take the suffering of others seriously, for theirs like mine can be extreme
Sadness is just the joy of what might have been...
Shoshin1