His_Highness
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
Out of all the lies I've told 'Just kidding' is my favorite......
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EveryDayAmnesiac
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"Exercise your body. Exercise your miiiiiiiiiiind."
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omg , gonna site this over and over
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His_Highness
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. Voltaire
arf777
No longer dogless
Shenxiu asserted:
This body is the Bodhi-tree,
The soul is like a mirror bright;
Take heed to keep it always clean,
And let no dust collect on it.
To which Hui-neng (the future Sixth Patriarch) responded:
Bodhi is fundamentally without any tree;
The mirror bright is nowhere shining;
Fundamentally there is not a single thing —
Where could any dust be attracted?
This body is the Bodhi-tree,
The soul is like a mirror bright;
Take heed to keep it always clean,
And let no dust collect on it.
To which Hui-neng (the future Sixth Patriarch) responded:
Bodhi is fundamentally without any tree;
The mirror bright is nowhere shining;
Fundamentally there is not a single thing —
Where could any dust be attracted?
arf777
No longer dogless
I can beat that with this CLASSIC science fiction quote about fear. Quoth Frank Herbert:
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing....only I will remain.
And the quote from the Will Smith movie is a rip from half a dozen serious philosophers (not blaming you- whoever wrote that movie stole it). Here's Chanakaya
"We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment."
Thich Nhat Hanh-
"Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones."
The Buddha "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." "The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed." The buddha has a lot more like this.
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Very Cool... I surrender!
Wait, I'll see you bet, and raise you....
Polonius:
My liege, and madam, to expostulate
What majesty should be, what duty is,
What day is day, night night, and time is time,
Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time;
Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief. Your noble son is mad. . . .
Hamlet Act 2, scene 2, 86–92 Shakespeare
When this dang TBreak is over, am gonna get ripped and come back to reread all this --- DDave
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One quote that always makes me think:
"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the Weather." - Bill Hicks
"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the Weather." - Bill Hicks
grokit
well-worn member
Rome lived upon its principal till ruin stared it in the face. Industry is the only true source of wealth, and there was no industry in Rome. By day the Ostia road was crowded with carts and muleteers, carrying to the great city the silks and spices of the East, the marble of Asia Minor, the timber of the Atlas, the grain of Africa and Egypt; and the carts brought out nothing but loads of dung. That was their return cargo.
– The Martyrdom of Man by Winwood Reade (1871)
– The Martyrdom of Man by Winwood Reade (1871)
momofthegoons
vapor accessory addict
arf777
No longer dogless
Some Hegel:
The real is the rational and the rational is the real.
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
Education is the art of making man ethical.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
And some Nagarjuna (who Hegel ripped off a lot). For those unfamiliar, Nagarjuna was the founder of the Madhyama school of Buddhism, the most influential strain of Mahayana, and is considered the founder of Mahayana itself by many scholars. He definitely wrote some of the Mahayana sutras- almost certainly the Prajnaparamita Hridaya Sutra (aka the Heart Sutra), sections of the Lotus Sutra, and others credited to Avalokitesvera. He is the source of the teachings on emptiness (sunyata):
From Mulamadhyamakakarika-
If nirvāṇa were both an existent and an absence,
then nirvāṇa would not be nondependent, for it would depend on both.
Whatever is dependently arisen is
Unceasing, unborn,
Unannihilated, not permanent,
Not coming, not going,
Without distinction, without identity,
And free from conceptual construction.
By a misperception of emptiness
A person of little intelligence is destroyed.
Like a snake incorrectly seized
Or like a spell incorrectly cast.
And his best, IMO- the core of Heart Sutra - this is a recent new translation by Thich Nhat Hanh (the sutra is in the form of a speech Avalokitesvara made to a disciple named Sariputra):
This Body itself is Emptiness
and Emptiness itself is this Body.
This Body is not other than Emptiness
and Emptiness is not other than this Body.
The same is true of Feelings,
Perceptions, Mental Formations,
and Consciousness.
Listen Sariputra,
all phenomena bear the mark of Emptiness;
their true nature is the nature of
no Birth no Death,
no Being no Non-being,
no Defilement no Purity,
no Increasing no Decreasing.
That is why in Emptiness,
Body, Feelings, Perceptions,
Mental Formations and Consciousness
are not separate self entities.
The Eighteen Realms of Phenomena
which are the six Sense Organs,
the six Sense Objects,
and the six Consciousnesses
are also not separate self entities.
The Twelve Links of Interdependent Arising
and their Extinction
are also not separate self entities.
Ill-being, the Causes of Ill-being,
the End of Ill-being, the Path,
insight and attainment,
are also not separate self entities.
Whoever can see this
no longer needs anything to attain.
The real is the rational and the rational is the real.
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
Education is the art of making man ethical.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
And some Nagarjuna (who Hegel ripped off a lot). For those unfamiliar, Nagarjuna was the founder of the Madhyama school of Buddhism, the most influential strain of Mahayana, and is considered the founder of Mahayana itself by many scholars. He definitely wrote some of the Mahayana sutras- almost certainly the Prajnaparamita Hridaya Sutra (aka the Heart Sutra), sections of the Lotus Sutra, and others credited to Avalokitesvera. He is the source of the teachings on emptiness (sunyata):
From Mulamadhyamakakarika-
If nirvāṇa were both an existent and an absence,
then nirvāṇa would not be nondependent, for it would depend on both.
Whatever is dependently arisen is
Unceasing, unborn,
Unannihilated, not permanent,
Not coming, not going,
Without distinction, without identity,
And free from conceptual construction.
By a misperception of emptiness
A person of little intelligence is destroyed.
Like a snake incorrectly seized
Or like a spell incorrectly cast.
And his best, IMO- the core of Heart Sutra - this is a recent new translation by Thich Nhat Hanh (the sutra is in the form of a speech Avalokitesvara made to a disciple named Sariputra):
This Body itself is Emptiness
and Emptiness itself is this Body.
This Body is not other than Emptiness
and Emptiness is not other than this Body.
The same is true of Feelings,
Perceptions, Mental Formations,
and Consciousness.
Listen Sariputra,
all phenomena bear the mark of Emptiness;
their true nature is the nature of
no Birth no Death,
no Being no Non-being,
no Defilement no Purity,
no Increasing no Decreasing.
That is why in Emptiness,
Body, Feelings, Perceptions,
Mental Formations and Consciousness
are not separate self entities.
The Eighteen Realms of Phenomena
which are the six Sense Organs,
the six Sense Objects,
and the six Consciousnesses
are also not separate self entities.
The Twelve Links of Interdependent Arising
and their Extinction
are also not separate self entities.
Ill-being, the Causes of Ill-being,
the End of Ill-being, the Path,
insight and attainment,
are also not separate self entities.
Whoever can see this
no longer needs anything to attain.
momofthegoons
vapor accessory addict
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste it, to experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
— ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Wheresoever you go — go with all your heart.”
— CONFUCIUS
— ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Wheresoever you go — go with all your heart.”
— CONFUCIUS
arf777
No longer dogless
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.” Siddhartha Gautama Buddha
A DDave-Original quote:
"One day I will be assimilated by the borg. And in doing so, they will make me more human."
Aspies and those on the spectrum, you may understand... may even identify.
Trekkies or SciFi fans, you have a frame of reference with which to work towards understanding...
NT's (neuro-typicals or normals).... with research and compassion, there's hope to one day understand...
"One day I will be assimilated by the borg. And in doing so, they will make me more human."
Aspies and those on the spectrum, you may understand... may even identify.
Trekkies or SciFi fans, you have a frame of reference with which to work towards understanding...
NT's (neuro-typicals or normals).... with research and compassion, there's hope to one day understand...
