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Re: Funny Stuff
One of the new sights in this area that I've moved to has been a senior citizen bus line run by an outfit called Sustainable Housing for Active Seniors. So we have these buses running around that with their nickname plastered on the bus with their motto prominently displayed underneath: SHAG where your friends are.
For those of you on the other side of the pond...it would be impossible to shag somewhere without at least one friend around, would it? 
yagr
Re: Meditation Journal
@lobster said:
add your own entries ...
Seems like a plan
Meditation Journal (Stardate 2218)
- Woke up asleep.
Errmmm...neat trick!
- Did moving meditation Qiong sequence
Qiong interests me, but I'm not patient enough to learn it..
- Solved all the worlds problems with a Zoom call
Good for you. Someone had to
Rob_V
Re: The tension between poetry and truth
@lobster said:
I don't know that poetry
has any particular
claim on
verity or insists
on
the truth of it's claims.
Poetry in my mind is simply
the clever
rendering of idealistic, oftenfantastic thoughts.
ONE of us is a terrible poet...
Rob_V
Re: Covid Cabin
Morgan Freeman narrates ALL of 2020 in 6 minutes!
Maybe we are the virus...
Shoshin1
Re: Meditation Journal
Had a best friend for much of my life who was a Dharma brother. He was committed to a daily meditational journal recording as part of his means of addressing some heavy karmic demons but worried that if his wife ever read them, that his marriage would be irreparably damaged. He asked me one day if some of what he wanted to privately journal about, could be attributed as my thoughts instead of his, to mitigate that possibility.
I said if those journals were private then sure.
8 years later he died. One of the last things he asked from me was to check in on his wife after the dust settled from his death to make sure she was ok.
That visit occurred after she took his journals out on a solo wilderness camping trip to burn them.
That visit put me in the presence of someone who surprisingly now not only viscerally hated my guts but apparently seemed to revel in that hatred.
I am guessing that some of those journals got read before being burned. I said nothing.
how
Re: Funny Stuff
My mother who has Alzheimer's moving into dementia, today exercised doing qiong. She thought she had finished after three out breaths, the first 30 seconds ... 
Eventually after much coaxing she managed about 7 minutes - totally exhausted her. 
To show what a really exhausting routine was actually like put the below video on ...
To my utter amazement she immediately revived, got up and managed to do 2 minutes. I could not stop laughing.
Maybe she thought he was the prize if she finished the routine ... ? 
lobster
Re: Out of curiosity; what school do you follow?
@Kerome said:
In the end I consider myself only half a Buddhist
I try not to consider myself but fail more than half the time.
The rest of the time I like to spend free of labels.
However my favourite schools are fish schools 
lobster