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Re: Sitting comfortably
Slapping oneself with a wet fish sounds eminently suitable for a crustacean. 😂
I’ve not yet tried an app of such a type, I’m sure they are available for the Mac though, I might have a look. I’m somewhat light sensitive but it makes me sneeze, it doesn’t make me go into epileptic fits.
Jeroen
Re: How to Teach?
Sramana Johann from cambodia says..
Watch out for 'Buddhist' teacher who...
...tell that one, having found good teacher, to seek out for other...
...tell that no strong faith is required to learn...
...tell that strong "love" toward one's teacher is wrong...
...tell that no strong bond in a disciple-teacher relation is required...
...tell that to be taught, teaching, is for free, free, does not bind...
...have no firm faith in the Gems, but relay on other teacher and what they call "common sense"...
...don't make their living independent form their disciples...
...use not given third part means and power to share...
...make use and take what's not given to them...
...are after agendas in the world...
...have no shame in wrong doing...
...are not able to abound useless views and stands...
...think in terms of rights...
...avoid to let one know all of their ways and habits...
...seek privacy...
...have no gratitude toward goodness, but just toward gains...
...like to appear equal or lower...
...offer, suggest, that they will do your work...
...encourage one to seek ways to do not fulfill one's duties...
...don't praise generosity, service for people of goodness, going forth...
...suggest one to be "free and independent" where one isn't, being "worthy" where one isn't...
...make one fear firm dependency toward the Gems, giving up common refuge...
...call out for ingratitude and revolt...
...instead of Sublime Dhamma, relay on science, trends, common views...
...don't give leave when asked for...
...don't eager encourage one to abstain from unwise...
...fear lose of disciple (and disadvantages by it) more then wrong ways of disciple...
...accept wrong for gains...
...encourage to think like thieves...
...because once one has traded into a relation pleasing for defilements, like the unshakable bond toward real goodness, it's hardly ever possible to change, even if wishing, one owes debts to what one desired to be feed with.
May one not buy into lure of Mara, and such "Krabat" are common, where Mara, together with allNivaranas, appears as liberator, as common sees the low as high and the higher as low, total bind toward the unbound.
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
There will be many posts coming up soon....!
Hooray!
“… let's have a heated debate” - Mrs Merton
lobster
Re: Funny Stuff
I just wanted to share this, a friend said it to me this morning…
Jeroen, many spiritual people are not sceptics, they are septics. Existence has been playing with them by giving them brain rot. One of the symptoms of this debilitating disease is that it often prompts its victims to speak in tired spiritual cliches that actually mean very little. The sad thing about it is that the brain rot victim is in such a sorry state they are fooled into believing they are speaking highly original words of wisdom.
You know, like “Existence is working on you”. “Existence is playing with you” is similar. It is all recycled bunkum and strictly for the dummies.
I laughed-out-loud, really, it hit my funny bone.
Jeroen
Re: Funny Stuff
A woman is having an affair during the day while her husband is at work.
Her 9-year-old son comes home unexpectedly, sees them, and hides in the bedroom closet to watch.
The woman’s husband also comes home so she puts her lover in the closet not realizing that her son is hiding in there.
The little boy says ”It’s dark in here”
The man replies ”Yes, it is”
Boy – “I have a baseball.”
Man – “That’s nice.”
Boy – “Want to buy it?”
Man – “No, thanks.”
Boy – “My dad’s outside.”
Man – “OK, how much?”
Boy – “$250”
In the next few weeks, it happens again that the boy and the lover are in the closet together once again.
Boy – “Dark in here.”
Man – “Yes, it is.”
Boy – “I have a baseball glove.”
The lover remembering the last time, asks the boy,
“How much?”
Boy – “$750”
Man – “Fine.”
A few days later, the father says to the boy, “Grab your glove, let’s go outside and have a game of catch.”
The boy says, “I can’t, I sold my baseball and my glove.”
The father asks, “How much did you sell them for?”
Boy – “$1,000”
The father says, “That’s terrible to overcharge your friends like that… that is way more than those two things cost. I’m going to take you to church and make you confess.”
They go to the church and the father makes the little boy sit in the confession booth and closes the door.
The boy says, “Dark in here.”
The priest says, “Don’t start that again!’
Shoshin1
