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Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Joined a group of other e bikers for a 75K ride through a circle of trails and quieter streets on this island yesterday. Today I have wobbly legs.
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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
