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from ass to bonzai tree..

TheFoundTheFound
edited June 2012 in Buddhism Basics
Moods perpetuate through our lives...
good and bad -and i guess neutral

What moods should I have? I assume it's either good or neutral moods..bad moods wouldn't make sense....
but i feel in a bad mood... and it perpetuates through time and through me..
should correct it to get more enlightenment done..yes.
remove bad moods like cleaning a nasty crust off the wall..


Wouldn't you have to be grown in a farm or a laboratory to have no outside and inside crust on your mind?
I feel like I would have had a better chance at buddhahood if I was tended to like a crisp fresh bonzai tree for years and years..
instead I'm like a wild horses ass.. dumb and gross, bouncing around stinking up the place wherever i go..

I don't understand how the budda could do it.. once ur a dumb stinking bouncing horses ass, how could u ever get pure enough to become a bonzai tree? you would have to die first... but that ruins the plan of becoming pure yourself.. ...

should I ultimately clean.. MYSELF off of ...my face for the benefit of giving birth to a new bonzai tree? lol struggling for a metaphor..


Comments

  • lamaramadingdonglamaramadingdong Veteran
    Your metaphor works... Mood is one of those things that is very much a manifestation of the effects of dhukka. We usually see a bad mood ourselves as being caused by outside influences ("he did this to me, it's not fair, I never get a break") when it is, in reality, completely caused from within us. Awareness of this fact is the first step in caring for the bonsai.
  • SattvaPaulSattvaPaul South Wales, UK Veteran
    From wild horse's ass to bonsai: pretty impossible transformation if you ask me.
    Maybe you can make friends with the horse? Then you can ride it. But give it a good wash too! :D
  • PrairieGhostPrairieGhost Veteran
    edited June 2012
    ***disclaimer, the following is an affectionate pastiche and not intended to offend anyone***

    ...And the Buddha waved his thousand jeweled fingers, and great rays shone from their tips to the hearts of all the Buddha fields, lasting for as many kalpas as there are sand grains in the river Ganges, though it seemed only to take a moment for innumerable bodhisattvas and buddhas to cross the now-solid bridges of gold, silver and lapus lazuli, and to stand before the buddha and honor him.

    The Buddha smiled at the first great bodhisattva, and a billion arhats became buddhas upon witnessing this smile. Finally he spoke:


    What is your name, wise bodhisattva?

    I am Great Hope Bodhisattva. I teach great hope to the beings of hell, earth and heaven.

    And what is your name, valiant one?

    I am Eternal Courage Buddha. I teach unwavering courage to all beings.

    And, um, hello there. I don't think I've seen you here before? What's your, er, name?

    The great bodhisattva was silent for a moment, and looked at his shoes, which were rather dirty.

    They call me Wild Horses Ass.. dumb and gross, bouncing around stinking up the place for all beings wherever I go.

    And the Buddha looked thoughtful for a moment, and then whispered into his collar microphone.

    Hello, is that security? Yes, I think there's been some kind of mistake with the guest list...



    Extract from The Golden Rainbow Sutra of Incomparable Administrative Errors
  • PrairieGhostPrairieGhost Veteran
    edited June 2012
    P.S. I love your opening post, TheFound. I bet your friends think you're well worth knowing. You'll be fine, you don't need to be anything special for this stuff to work out.
  • Floating_AbuFloating_Abu Veteran
    @TheFound

    It is in the mud that the lotus grows. Everything you need for Buddhism, you already have.

    Now get to work.

    Abu
  • BonsaiDougBonsaiDoug Simply, on the path. Veteran
    Not to pick nits, but it's bonsai not bonzai. Bonsai literally means "tree (growing in a) tray." Doubt that was what the Kamikaze pilots were shouting as they dive-bombed their targets.
  • Floating_AbuFloating_Abu Veteran
    :)
  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    The found, what about just staring at the question 'what is enlightenment that I am wishing for? I think it is a body feeling and a clarity. I sense clarity in your talk of a crust, I smoke a pipe and there is always crust that has to be scraped off. It's just part of the deal, warts and all. Your experience isn't the wrong one.

    Work during THIS life. We tend to think when we get some clarity that we have to figure it all out. I don't think it's like that. We are already in the right place and it's not as serious as we think. I'm not saying to just laugh at life. It's just that we have this opportunity in THIS life.
  • justsheajustshea Explorer
    You are not your mind.
  • TheFoundTheFound
    THE FOUND HAS COME TO THE ULTIMATE CONCLUSION.
    behold the jewel in the horses ass.

    THE FOUND also apologizes for mispelting "bonsai"
  • ownerof1000oddsocksownerof1000oddsocks Veteran
    You mean you FOUND a jewel in a horses ass? Was the jewel LOST?

  • PrairieGhostPrairieGhost Veteran
    edited June 2012
    You mean you FOUND a jewel in a horses ass? Was the jewel LOST?
    Not to the poor horse. Ow.
  • ownerof1000oddsocksownerof1000oddsocks Veteran
    Just think of all the carrots and apples the horse would have if it knew anything about trading precious stones!
  • PrairieGhostPrairieGhost Veteran
    image
  • PrairieGhostPrairieGhost Veteran
    THE FOUND also apologizes for mispelting "bonsai"
    THE FOUND caused no offence.
  • TheFoundTheFound
    lol i love u guys
  • TheFoundTheFound
    and prairieghost...
    ..YES
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