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Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Well it looks like Spring as sprung early ...Today has been a warm Spring like day...
And I've just booked my flight over to Europe via Guangszhou (Canton) China ...leave 8th Oct back on the 7th Nov...
I have a 20 hour stopover in Guangszhou , arriving early morning (around 5.30am).
So I'll have plenty of time to explore the city and practice my Cantonese ...Yee haw nǐhǎo China here I come...
Shoshin1
Re: The Art of Happiness
Did the Buddha teach anything more than how to awaken from such dreaming's.
Nope! It was those pesky Bodhisattva's that introduced Gunk-Buddhism...
I have until recently only regularly ever practised just sitting, vipassana and very minimal visualisations.
However we all start with fantasy Buddhism or whatever initially, rings our fly whisk, bell etc.
Anyway I am off to save the world for the Maitriya... 
Happy or knot.
lobster
Re: The Art of Happiness
The thing is, pretty much all spirituality involves some imagination. Gods, myths, heroes, the hereafter, all are imagination-heavy processes. You can place your trust in the Buddha, that he saw the cosmology correctly, but that is about as far as it goes.
Jeroen
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
An acquaintance of mine has adopted the Google Gemini chat AI as his guru, and is now continually spouting quotes from the cyber-guru. It’s getting so that I think the poor man had his mind taken over.
Jeroen
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Owners are like their dogs. Fortunately, all dawgs are very friendly around me. Even malevolent ones. Maybe because I consider them potential stir-fry? 
Have i dunz gone wrong again? 
lobster