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lobsterlobster Crusty Veteran
edited April 2013 in General Banter
We weirdos (OK talking to myself again) are outsiders. Weird comes from wyrd, an old word meaning wise (phew glad to be praiseful again). A healthy sense of self, a healthy ego is essential. After all if too fearful, discombobulated and generally 'bewitched, bothered and bewildered' by others, how we gonna find and travel the Middle Way. Remember how the Buddha, after years of strange antics, had a reasonable meal. Sat quietly and hey presto - acceptance, enlightenment, Dharma etc.

Lucy_BegoodpommesetorangespersonVastmind

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  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    edited April 2013
    Hardly 'Hey Presto'.
    It took 6 years of practice and '40 days and nights' of sitting.....

    (Without talking, I would add. ;)
    lobsternenkohai
  • VastmindVastmind Memphis, TN Veteran
    :clap:

    Yes, they were wrong. I made it.
  • howhow Veteran Veteran
    lobster said:

    We weirdos (OK talking to myself again) are outsiders. Weird comes from wyrd, an old word meaning wise (phew glad to be praiseful again). A healthy sense of self, a healthy ego is essential. After all if too fearful, discombobulated and generally 'bewitched, bothered and bewildered' by others, how we gonna find and travel the Middle Way. Remember how the Buddha, after years of strange antics, had a reasonable meal. Sat quietly and hey presto - acceptance, enlightenment, Dharma etc.

    @Lobster

    The ego prevents you from being unduly swayed by others because it creates a fence around you that keeps everyone else out.

    Selflessness prevents you from being unduly swayed by others because it leaves no you to be swayed.

    You still running for that Buddha bus?

    Jeffreyblu3ree
  • lobsterlobster Crusty Veteran
    You still running for that Buddha bus?
    They have bus loads of Buddhas? Hooray. My kind of stop. :)
    howLucy_Begood
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