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Re: Talking to other Buddhists
I think we need a new "Bamboozled" button specifically for @lobster 
Bunks
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
@Shoshin1 said:
Aussie carpet snake found on Auckland building site .... Bloody Aussies
Haha! Well you guys whinge that we claim your stuff as our own (think Phar Lap, pavlova, Russell Crowe, Crowded House....) so it's time for us to give a little back.
I must admit it took me a while to get used to being able to walk around in long grass in NZ in summer without looking where each and every step landed 
Bunks
Re: Is it desirable to free the mind?
As @Shoshin is prone to reminding us, there's Mind-full and there's Mindful.
Makes one 'L' of a difference...
federica
Re: Is it desirable to free the mind?
Nicely done. Except for the part where I snorted and coffee almost flew out my nose.
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Today's lunch
Who forced you to eat this?
Was it this person?
I have a stew just for them ...
lobster
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
I likes them wasps. In the UK most bees are solitary, we don't have hornets yet 
Is a Queen WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) known as Karen? 🤪
... have I got it all wrong again? 🙏🏽
lobster
Re: Is it desirable to free the mind?
Is it desirable to free the mind?
Yes
desire is no substitute for a free mind
https://sufi-tavern.com/sufi-stories/a-sufi-tale-without-a-name/
lobster
Re: Buddhist quotes
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.
It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.
Once we truly know that life is difficult - once we truly understand and accept it - then life is no longer difficult.
Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.
M Scott Peck
Bunks