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Re: Engaging with Freedom
The greatest bonds on freedom are in the mind...and freedom itself is all in the mind...an unfettered mind...
"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose"
Shoshin1
Re: Engaging with Freedom
Freedom is an illusion. We are always under constraints, and there are always more things we can't do than things we can. When we incur a new restraint, then we notice it and think, oh damn, we are no longer free, whereas we were actually not free in the first place. Yet sometimes a new restraint means at the same time we have acquired a new freedom, no?
Freedom is relative, a conditioned state, always changing.
Fosdick
Re: Which Wolf Are You Feeding ?
What if what you see are mere empty reflections?
The body is the Bodhi Tree,
the mind is the stand for a bright mirror -
at all times diligently polish
to remain untainted by dust.Shen Tsiu
Bodhi is originally without any tree;
The bright mirror is also not a stand.
Originally there is not a single thing —
Where could any dust alight?Hui Neng
So long as there is a wolf, you'll have to keep feeding it.
What if there was never any wolf in the first place?
Re: No Buddhist Quotes
"If discomfort and danger be always at hand, why adventure? Something in mankind leads folks to such foolishness, and the rest of us benefit by the riches and knowledge and dreams they bring us. Why else tolerate such dangerous idiots?" ~ Ed Greenwood Spellfire
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Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Want some of mine @Shoshin1 ? I've been hittin' the wifi long enough. For real though, is it an issue the service provider is taking care of or is it something left to you to troubleshoot?
Re: Which Wolf Are You Feeding ?
Finding inspiration..
"Restraint with the eye is good,
good is restraint with the ear.
Restraint with the nose is good,
good is restraint with the tongue.
Restraint with the body is good,
good is restraint with speech.
Restraint with the heart is good,
good is restraint everywhere."
Dhp 360-361
"When I pushed forward, I was whirled about. When I stayed in place, I sank. And so I crossed over the flood without pushing forward, without staying in place."
SN 1.1
Re: Lobsters latest website/microblog
Projects leading toward more decentralized models of doing things are starting to have bigger and bigger impacts on people's lives. Seemingly for the better. Kinda cool to see more of these things go mainstream.
Re: Lobsters latest website/microblog
This is kinda like what I'd hoped reddit would be more like. I could binge on this all day and feel less bad than just a few minutes on any of the other well known service.