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@DhammaDragon said:
Life would be so much simpler if we were all so simple to figure out, @lobster.
Bruce Lee was a complex character and I guess therein lies the fascination and the legend.
He had a strong, dark personality and grew up among gangs where you had to impose yourself by force if you wanted to survive.
Ip Man, his teacher, taught him to tap into the lighter hues of his soul.
And so he was till the end: a man constantly swerving from one side to the opposite of the spectrum.
Like we all.
Forever wrestling with our yin and our yang.
Bruce Lee was not a fake.
He did not pretend to be wise and perfect.
He had a deep core of wisdom but did not fear to show his most human side when he felt like it.
I agree with your assessment of Bruce Lee @DhammaDragon . Speaking of Ip
Man what do you think of the martial arts skills of Donnie Yen who portrayed Ip Man in the films?
@DhammaDragon said:
I love Donnie Yen, @Hozan❤
Hubby and son too.
I gave a special boxed set edition of the Ip Man films to hubby for his birthday.
We love to watch them?
Have full Bruce Lee and Donnie Yen collection too. Great martial artists, both.
I was at work this afternoon when a young French girl walked in wanting some information, she had just arrived on the island, here to visit some friends... She had her backpack,(which she carried in front of her), a trolley bag and an unusual large round shaped backpack on her back...Me being a nosy parker asked her what was in the round shaped backpack.....She said it was called a Handpan drum... I have never seem one before (I don't get out much ) so she gave a demo... I was mesmerised by the sounds...A Swiss guy was the original instrument designer, however the one she had was made in France..
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federicaSeeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubtModerator
It's reminiscent of the Jamaican, Trinidadian and Caribbean kettle drums, but using the hands gives a far more muted and appealing sound.... lovely....
@federica said:
It's reminiscent of the Jamaican, Trinidadian and Caribbean kettle drums, but using the hands gives a far more muted and appealing sound.... lovely....
Yes, that's what I was thinking when I first heard it...The steel drums of the Caribbean
Ms Autum's been messing with my mind ....
I thought I had my last skinny dip of the season around two weeks ago when we had a cold snap...
Well surprise surprise, it was a beautiful warm 'summer's day today, so I took off to the beach....and for a while I had the beach all to myself, well apart from some gulls keeping me company ...
I left when it started to get crowded ( four people arrived)...On the way back up the track, I stopped to admire the sun's tiny rays which had formed a sparkling path...A path leading across the ocean of Samsara...
We received a new bookcase and I have been transferring my surplus of books there.
I came across this beauty that I have not seen in years: Coomaraswamy's "Buddha and the Gospel of Buddhism" (1928 edition).
This book was responsible for the conversion to Buddhism of Christmas Humphreys.
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federicaSeeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubtModerator
Today is well advanced into Springtime. I have been wishing our scarf-hat-gloves-and-coats clad customers, a very Merry Christmas....
Today whilst seeking an experimental pop up bus service, the cmx1, I discovered this 'magical' public garden ... opposite Waterloo Station on the side of St Stephens ...
Next may be diagonally seeking Diagon Alley ... and asking Muggles for directions ... to the CMX2
I have just bought this absolutely cute little Buddha pendant from a Scottish antique dealer.
It is from 1922 and I love the British humour touch with the inscription "Tsokay" at the bottom.
At the same time, I think it makes a pun with the Tibetan term "Tsok." http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Tsok
I can afford to rejoice in my latest find until hubby checks the credit card account...???
To clarify above its awesome you are like Florence Nightingale and using matcha and ginger. Not awesome about the flu. I had one flu as a child and never again had one after. It was horrible. Not to be confused with a cold. I still remember it
federicaSeeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubtModerator
Did you know she spent the final years of her life in extreme physical and mental discomfort...?
Poor thing....
...From 1857 onwards, Nightingale was intermittently bedridden and suffered from depression. A recent biography cites brucellosis and associated spondylitis as the cause. Most authorities today accept that Nightingale suffered from a particularly extreme form of brucellosis, the effects of which only began to lift in the early 1880s. Despite her symptoms, she remained phenomenally productive in social reform. During her bedridden years, she also did pioneering work in the field of hospital planning, and her work propagated quickly across Britain and the world. Nightingale's output slowed down considerably in her last decade. She wrote very little during that period due to blindness and declining mental abilities, though she still retained an interest in current affairs.
Florence reporting back from the battlefield, with hubby slightly worse than yesterday -when will ALL that matcha kick in, pleeeaase??
He has whined and complained all morning because, elementary dear Watson, I had forgotten a male flu is considerably more unbearable than a female birth pains...?
@DhammaDragon said:
Florence reporting back from the battlefield, with hubby slightly worse than yesterday -when will ALL that matcha kick in, pleeeaase??
He has whined and complained all morning because, elementary dear Watson, I had forgotten a male flu is considerably more unbearable than a female birth pains...?
Not all guys though. I have a high pain/suffering threshold. An xray a few years back revealed I had cracked 3 transverse processes in my cervical vertebrae (neck) and that they had self healed. Looked about 10 years old which links in with a bad fall I had.
The ideal I guess is a balance. Get on with it with colds and flus and minor stuff. Probably better to see a doctor when you crack vertebrae in your neck though. ( i didnt realise i had at the time obviously).
I walked around the Esplanade this afternoon, I hadn't been around there for quite awhile , it had been closed due to some major slips ...Well it was still officially closed, but I walked around anyway...
Slips galore...This was one of them and others were just as big or bigger...They are going to keep the council workers busy for quite some time...
I just bought a keyboard for my tablet, but the silly thing has no emojis and the Ctrl-Alt does not work.
Is it normal or maybe I have to return it?
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federicaSeeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubtModerator
@DhammaDragon said:
I just bought a keyboard for my tablet, but the silly thing has no emojis and the Ctrl-Alt does not work.
Is it normal or maybe I have to return it?
On my walk after work...I was struck by the blend of colours ...Ms Sea couldn't make up her mind of which colour to wear to the party...Blue. Green.Brown.Grey she was looking for something to match the Blue Grey sky....
But then I'm a little awestruck most of the time.....Thanks eye-consciousness
Now and then, there are two couples of ducks who swim up the brook in front of our house.
This morning, only the boys went for a swim....
Maybe the girls went on retail therapy elswhere...
@DhammaDragon said:
So Gaudí left his trace in Waterloo Station and we never knew...
How magical could that be, @lobster?
Very.
My sister goes on guided walks to visit Londons history, magic and buildings.
I get there by serendipity and not having my snout buried in a stupid-phone (not a smart phone as usually reported) ...
Magick is all around. Ducks in a stream. Smells in a market. Peace in ones Heart. Food to cook. Cars with dicks in them - Sorry @Walker ?
For example today photographed this common peacock - Aglais io
which we were able to point out for others to photograph on their smartphone and share https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglais_io
Sorry for interrupting the idyllic bucolic conversation, but I must absolutely sidetrack our chit-chat to the joys of moderation.
I bet @federica never had to deal with this sort of problems on this site ever -though we have seen many freaky posts...
Last week I had to ban a man from one of the groups I administrate on IT because he had stalked several female members with private messages for... masturbation sessions.
Tonight, one of the moderators flagged a post where a male member volunteered for yoga, massage and orgasmic meditation sessions, and added at the end the measures of his... member (mind the pun).
How much is 10 inches, by the way...?
Spiritual sites and apps are no longer what they used to be...
??
@DhammaDragon said:
Sorry for interrupting the idyllic bucolic conversation, but I must absolutely sidetrack our chit-chat to the joys of moderation.
I bet @federica never had to deal with this sort of problems on this site ever -though we have seen many freaky posts...
Last week I had to ban a man from one of the groups I administrate on IT because he had stalked several female members with private messages for... masturbation sessions.
Tonight, one of the moderators flagged a post where a male member volunteered for yoga, massage and orgasmic meditation sessions, and added at the end the measures of his... member (mind the pun).
How much is 10 inches, by the way...?
Spiritual sites and apps are no longer what they used to be...
??
@DhammaDragon said:
Sorry for interrupting the idyllic bucolic conversation, but I must absolutely sidetrack our chit-chat to the joys of moderation.
I bet @federica never had to deal with this sort of problems on this site ever -though we have seen many freaky posts...
Last week I had to ban a man from one of the groups I administrate on IT because he had stalked several female members with private messages for... masturbation sessions.
Tonight, one of the moderators flagged a post where a male member volunteered for yoga, massage and orgasmic meditation sessions, and added at the end the measures of his... member (mind the pun).
How much is 10 inches, by the way...?
Spiritual sites and apps are no longer what they used to be...
??
I'd like to assure everybody here that even though I am in this IT group it wasnt me! It couldnt have been....i'm not a yoga practitioner!
JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
My father got taken to the hospital with cardiac arrhythmia... signs that he is getting a bit older despite being only 68... it set me to thinking about the mortality of loved ones and how our time together is limited and often even many years seems too short. It also made me think about all the things I might have left unsaid in our relationship... there seem to be a few big things left for us to discuss.
@Kerome said:
My father got taken to the hospital with cardiac arrhythmia... signs that he is getting a bit older despite being only 68... it set me to thinking about the mortality of loved ones and how our time together is limited and often even many years seems too short. It also made me think about all the things I might have left unsaid in our relationship... there seem to be a few big things left for us to discuss.
I hope you are able to have the chance to discuss those things, @Kerome.
Real life relationships are not always perfect and endings are not hollywood-like either.
Our beloved ones mortality is the hardest issue for me to grapple with.
Much metta to you??
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Wrestling keeps us active. It's when we give up the fight and become indolent, that the danger is exposed....
Passive Resistance is the key.
Or Active Acceptance.... one Yang, the other Yin, yet meeting the same end....
I agree with your assessment of Bruce Lee @DhammaDragon . Speaking of Ip
Man what do you think of the martial arts skills of Donnie Yen who portrayed Ip Man in the films?
I love Donnie Yen, @Hozan❤
Hubby and son too.
I gave a special boxed set edition of the Ip Man films to hubby for his birthday.
We love to watch them?
Have full Bruce Lee and Donnie Yen collection too. Great martial artists, both.
I was at work this afternoon when a young French girl walked in wanting some information, she had just arrived on the island, here to visit some friends... She had her backpack,(which she carried in front of her), a trolley bag and an unusual large round shaped backpack on her back...Me being a nosy parker asked her what was in the round shaped backpack.....She said it was called a Handpan drum... I have never seem one before (I don't get out much
) so she gave a demo... I was mesmerised by the sounds...A Swiss guy was the original instrument designer, however the one she had was made in France..
It's reminiscent of the Jamaican, Trinidadian and Caribbean kettle drums, but using the hands gives a far more muted and appealing sound.... lovely....
Yes, that's what I was thinking when I first heard it...The steel drums of the Caribbean
Occasionally, I come across a man who plays this pan on the street.
It has a wonderful sound❤
Ms Autum's been messing with my mind ....
I thought I had my last skinny dip of the season around two weeks ago when we had a cold snap...
Well surprise surprise, it was a beautiful warm 'summer's day today, so I took off to the beach....and for a while I had the beach all to myself, well apart from some gulls keeping me company ...
I left when it started to get crowded ( four people arrived)...On the way back up the track, I stopped to admire the sun's tiny rays which had formed a sparkling path...A path leading across the ocean of Samsara...
We received a new bookcase and I have been transferring my surplus of books there.
I came across this beauty that I have not seen in years: Coomaraswamy's "Buddha and the Gospel of Buddhism" (1928 edition).
This book was responsible for the conversion to Buddhism of Christmas Humphreys.
Today is well advanced into Springtime. I have been wishing our scarf-hat-gloves-and-coats clad customers, a very Merry Christmas....
Today whilst seeking an experimental pop up bus service, the cmx1, I discovered this 'magical' public garden ... opposite Waterloo Station on the side of St Stephens ...
Next may be diagonally seeking Diagon Alley ... and asking Muggles for directions ... to the CMX2
So Gaudí left his trace in Waterloo Station and we never knew...
How magical could that be, @lobster?
I have just bought this absolutely cute little Buddha pendant from a Scottish antique dealer.
It is from 1922 and I love the British humour touch with the inscription "Tsokay" at the bottom.
At the same time, I think it makes a pun with the Tibetan term "Tsok."
http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Tsok
I can afford to rejoice in my latest find until hubby checks the credit card account...???
Rejoice Rejoice! Meet the postman early and burn the bill.?
Beautiful pendant!
If it were that simple, @Hozan ...
Hubby checks the accounts online...?
But I trust I am still within budget, so no chance I get scolded... yet...???
I am playing Florence Nightingale today.
He's down with an awful flu.
I am giving him litres of matcha, ginger and lemon teas...??
Rejoice Rejoice! Drop the laptop!!
Florence Nightingale has unlimited credit. Make that card platinum
Maybe my services can be rewarded with a gorgeous silver Buddha pendant...??
Tsokay...???
To clarify above its awesome you are like Florence Nightingale and using matcha and ginger. Not awesome about the flu. I had one flu as a child and never again had one after. It was horrible. Not to be confused with a cold. I still remember it
@SpinyNorman ...
Did you know she spent the final years of her life in extreme physical and mental discomfort...?
Poor thing....
From her Wikipedia page.
Florence reporting back from the battlefield, with hubby slightly worse than yesterday -when will ALL that matcha kick in, pleeeaase??
He has whined and complained all morning because, elementary dear Watson, I had forgotten a male flu is considerably more unbearable than a female birth pains...?
Not all guys though. I have a high pain/suffering threshold. An xray a few years back revealed I had cracked 3 transverse processes in my cervical vertebrae (neck) and that they had self healed. Looked about 10 years old which links in with a bad fall I had.
The ideal I guess is a balance. Get on with it with colds and flus and minor stuff. Probably better to see a doctor when you crack vertebrae in your neck though. ( i didnt realise i had at the time obviously).
On the complex subject of man flu....some food for thought...
I walked around the Esplanade this afternoon, I hadn't been around there for quite awhile , it had been closed due to some major slips ...Well it was still officially closed, but I walked around anyway...
Slips galore...This was one of them and others were just as big or bigger...They are going to keep the council workers busy for quite some time...
Mother Nature's wrath...Shit happens I guess...
At least we can drive....
Yeah, you're bad at parking though, because you think 6" is a whole lot longer than it really is.
Trust me on that one.
Men come in three sizes, small, medium and LIAR.
Not without your balls
^Some guys bring along a spare pair...
I just bought a keyboard for my tablet, but the silly thing has no emojis and the Ctrl-Alt does not work.
Is it normal or maybe I have to return it?
I dunno... check this link:
http://ccm.net/faq/37167-how-to-send-emoji-on-your-android-tablet-or-smartphone
Hubby knows how to tap the @ sign, after all.
But I'll have to make do without the emojis, it seems
On my walk after work...I was struck by the blend of colours ...Ms Sea couldn't make up her mind of which colour to wear to the party...Blue. Green.Brown.Grey she was looking for something to match the Blue Grey sky....
But then I'm a little awestruck most of the time.....Thanks eye-consciousness
Now and then, there are two couples of ducks who swim up the brook in front of our house.
This morning, only the boys went for a swim....
Maybe the girls went on retail therapy elswhere...
Very.
My sister goes on guided walks to visit Londons history, magic and buildings.
I get there by serendipity and not having my snout buried in a stupid-phone (not a smart phone as usually reported) ...
Magick is all around.
Ducks in a stream. Smells in a market. Peace in ones Heart. Food to cook. Cars with dicks in them - 
Sorry @Walker ?
For example today photographed this common peacock - Aglais io
which we were able to point out for others to photograph on their smartphone and share
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglais_io
Sorry for interrupting the idyllic bucolic conversation, but I must absolutely sidetrack our chit-chat to the joys of moderation.
I bet @federica never had to deal with this sort of problems on this site ever -though we have seen many freaky posts...
Last week I had to ban a man from one of the groups I administrate on IT because he had stalked several female members with private messages for... masturbation sessions.
Tonight, one of the moderators flagged a post where a male member volunteered for yoga, massage and orgasmic meditation sessions, and added at the end the measures of his... member (mind the pun).
How much is 10 inches, by the way...?
Spiritual sites and apps are no longer what they used to be...
??
Pffff....tell him he's dreaming!
I'd like to assure everybody here that even though I am in this IT group it wasnt me! It couldnt have been....i'm not a yoga practitioner!
My father got taken to the hospital with cardiac arrhythmia... signs that he is getting a bit older despite being only 68... it set me to thinking about the mortality of loved ones and how our time together is limited and often even many years seems too short. It also made me think about all the things I might have left unsaid in our relationship... there seem to be a few big things left for us to discuss.
I hope you are able to have the chance to discuss those things, @Kerome.
Real life relationships are not always perfect and endings are not hollywood-like either.
Our beloved ones mortality is the hardest issue for me to grapple with.
Much metta to you??