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Re: Funny Stuff
My therapist says I have an obsession with vengeance. We’ll see about that!!!
Bunks
Re: "Mean" jokes and Right Speech?
Lighten up, Buddhists have sense of humor, too.My fundamentally protestant friend could say she has a sense of humor too but she'd probably consider a 'dead baby' joke pretty un-Christian, so it's fair to be considered about 'un-Buddhist' lines of thought or humor, right?
It's going to sound weird, but one of the biggest things stopping me from trying to walk a more Buddhist path in life is the thought that I'd be a terrible Buddhist. /facepalm
Re: Bunk up
Hi there @lobster - thanks for the shout out.
Life’s been busy as usual. Between work, kids, sport and my partner not much time for anything else.
I did have five days with Ajahn Brahm at Newbury for Vesak a couple of weeks ago. That was nice.
My practice is on life support these days. Always telling myself I should start meditating again blah blah. Just another stick to beat myself with!
Bunks
Re: No Buddhist Quotes
“I discovered for myself and by myself that there is no self to realize -- that's the realization I am talking about. It comes as a shattering blow. It hits you like a thunderbolt. You have invested everything in one basket, self-realization, and, in the end, suddenly you discover that there is no self to discover, no self to realize -- and you say to yourself "What the hell have I been doing all my life?!" That blasts you.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti
Jeroen
Re: No Buddhist Quotes
"Be the empty welcoming abode where all manner of states of being are greeted warmly"
— I don't remember
Re: How do you find the end of the mind?
@Jeroen said:
This is a very particular image, I’ve come across it before but I forget the name of the artist. It is usually held to be a pointer that we are not the body, that what comes in through the senses and through the body is going to the consciousness.
Oh thank god, that makes way more sense than what I had going. I could have sworn it was pointing to the hidden polar bear in the coat pocket.