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This thread is like a broken pencil: pointless.
Akima:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 09 Oct 2020, 23:20 ---Are you ready?
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I'm working on it. "Come now, monks, for I tell you all conditioned things are subject to decay. Strive on with heedfulness!" - The Lord Buddha's last words to his disciples.
hedgie:
Out of context, that'd make a really great battle cry.
cybersmurf:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 09 Oct 2020, 23:20 ---Are you ready?
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No, I'm not. But I guess I'm as ready as I'll ever be.
--- Quote from: Akima on 12 Oct 2020, 15:36 ---I'm working on it. "Come now, monks, for I tell you all conditioned things are subject to decay. Strive on with heedfulness!" - The Lord Buddha's last words to his disciples.
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That is one profound quote. Sounds like I should familiarise myself with Buddha and Buddhism ...
I definetly wasn't ready for that.
Morituri:
Gotta say, I like the way the Buddha rolls.
My interpretation of it anyway. I'm looking at this from a background in a different culture, and I don't know the traditions associated with the teachings elsewhere, so I may be interpreting it differently than Buddhists in any orthodox tradition have.
But a substantial part of my interpretation of it, is to be every bit as serious as you really need to be about everything, and not one bit more serious than that. That takes discipline, but that's how to be your best self. My attention tends to get caught by the big loud thing (I guess everybody's does) and I need the reminder to not obsess on the big loud thing to the point of neglecting the smaller things that I can do or neglecting the relationships and relaxation that gives me the energy to do them.
I'm not pretending that's the whole of it. Even my limited interpretation sees a lot more than that. But that's the thing that I personally need to remember, because the way my attention works does tend to default to an obsessive mode that doesn't help much. Gotta relax that white-knuckled grip on enormous things to the point where I can actually maintain my life and do what's in my power.
LeeC:
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