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Good Company
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Dear Friends in The Dharma,
I try to be a companion on the way. It means I share what I know in a way appropriate to the situation to the best of my ability.
Others here do the same. It is why other social media are often noise and here we have focus. Just as a Buddhist retreat is more dedicated and attuned to our emancipation.
The world, like our heads, emotions and other clutter is devoted to inherent and endless distraction and dissatisfaction.
Good company is for us to benefit others and ourselves. That is where we are. As we advance more opportunities of the nature and potential of all experience arise ...
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Every now and then you find a pearl in a lobster.
good one, @Shak!
...All through the years
In the end it appears
There was never really anyone but me
Now I'm old I puff my pipe but no-one's there to see
I ponder on the lesson of my life's insanity
Take care of those you call your own and keep Good Company
Brian May - 1975
Dis is what I call Sangha.
Sangha, community, good company is a privilege.
One of the first things we realise when recognising wisdom, experience and depth in others, is what a monkey mess we are. That of course takes humility and integrity.
Some of us, me for example, have rhino tendencies:
http://www.hermitary.com/solitude/rhinoceros.html
However here we come together - across time, space and the interweb ...
If we have the capacity we learn from what is on offer. We can not expect others to learn in the manner we proscribe for ourselves, that is fantasy dharma.
We haz plan ... who said drop the plan?
Good plan!