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Just curious...

IawaIawa
edited December 2006 in General Banter
When you read:

"We can't touch with all this stuff dividing us, choked by our own emissions."


Was your first thought macrocosmic or microcosmic?

Comments

  • 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 December 2006
    Macro.....
  • buddhafootbuddhafoot Veteran
    edited December 2006
    Actually, my first thought was

    WTF? Did I miss something? Hmm... I'd better scroll up and re-read the title of this thread.

    Hmm... oh!, wait there something at the bottom.

    Macrocosmic or microcosmic?

    Wow... ole S must have been hitting the bong again this morning.





    That's actually what I thought.

    -bf
  • IawaIawa
    edited December 2006
    LMAO

    Quote for the Day (Buddhism)
    A Primary Cause of Suffering
    A primary cause of suffering is delusion: our inability, because of subtly willful blindness, to see things the way they truly are but instead in a distorted way. The world is in fact a seamless and dynamic unity, a single living organism that is constantly undergoing change. Our minds, however, chop it up into separate, static bits and pieces, which we then try mentally and physically to manipulate. One of the mind's most dear creations is the idea of the person and, closest to home, of a very special person which each one of us calls I: a separate, enduring ego or self. There is "I"-- and there is all the rest. That means conflict--and pain, for "I" cannot control that fathomless vastness against which it is set. It will try, of course, as a flea might pit itself against an elephant, but it is a vain enterprise. --John Snelling, Elements of Buddhism

    Tao For the day
    Verse 16
    (as selected by my kindergartener at home today)
    Verse 16

    Allow the heart to empty itself of all turmoil!
    Retrieve the utter tranquility of mind
    From Which you issued.

    Although all forms are dynamic,and we all grow and transform,
    each of us is compelled to return to our root.
    Our root is quietude.

    To fully return to our root
    is to be enlightened.
    Never to experience tranquility
    is to act blindly,
    a sure path to disaster.

    To know tranquility is to embrace all.
    To embrace all is to be just.
    Justice is the foundation for wholeness.
    Wholeness is the Great Integrity.
    The Great Integrity
    is the Infinate fulfilling itself.
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