TSCLT 12.0: The pantheon hates a pussy 2.0

[Brains_N_Boobs]

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Happy Monday!!!


The Four Noble Truths

1. Unenlightened life is full of suffering, pain, and difficulty.

2. This pain and suffering is caused by our ego-based desires and attachments.

3. These desires can be overcome and we can lead lives of wisdom, compassion, joy and equanimity.

4. The way that leads to the cessation of pain is right views, right thought or intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration.

~ Buddha

 

[Wat_Tyler]

you haven't lived until you've been in a flophouse,
with nothing but one light bulb and 56 men
squeezed together on cots with everybody snoring at once
and some of those snores so deep and gross and unbelievable—
dark
snotty gross subhuman wheezings from hell itself.
your mind almost breaks under those death-like sounds
and the intermingling odors: hard unwashed socks pissed and shitted underwear
and over it all slowly circulating air
much like that emanating from uncovered garbage cans.
and those bodies in the dark
fat and thin and bent
some legless armless
some mindless
and worst of all:
the total absence of hope
it shrouds them
covers them totally.
it's not bearable.
you get up
go out
walk the streets
up and down sidewalks
past buildings
around the corner
and back up the same street
thinking:
those men were all children
once
what has happened to them?
and what has happened to me?
it's dark and cold
out here.

~ Charles Bukowski

 

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Happy Tuesday!!! Slept okay, but up a bit early still. We did get rain last night as the t-storm blew through. It dawns on me that as of yesterday, when there used to be an assload of post office traffic, that there probably isn't any more because electronic filing. I hope that the postal workers don't get all lonely because of this, because that would be sad.P-PTSD, as it were.


Coffee . . . .


Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

~Buddha

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Happy Wednesday!!! Slept okay. The cat chase #1 is already done and they're quiet for the moment. Got some stuff done yesterday. Got some more stuff to get knocked out today.


Always after coffee, of course.


As a tree with strong uninjured roots, though cut down, grows up again, so, when deep craving is not rooted out, suffering arises again and again.

~ Dhammapada


Love watches for any sign of strength. It sees how far each one has come, and not how far he has to go.

~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (thanks Bill C.)


Life is full of unsatisfactory things, we cannot avoid them. The only thing that can be done is to change the perspective of it.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Happy Thursday!!! Decent night's sleep. Kids are quiet. It's trash day and the first half is already out by the alley. There're a pile of tidbits to do today. Looks to be a decent day but we may get t-storms tonight. Then again, the Weather Rock may have a different idea.


Coffee doesn't care one way or the other.


A questioner asked the Buddha: "Life seems a tangle-- An inner tangle and an outer tangle. This generation is hopelessly tangled up. And so I ask the Buddha this question: Who will succeed in disentangling this tangle?" The Buddha replied: "When a wise one, thoughtful and good, Develops a greater consciousness, He will understand the tangle. As a truth follower, ardent and wise, He will succeed in disentangling the tangle."

~ Samyutta Nikaya

 

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You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

~ Dan Millman

 

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Happy Friday!!! Slept okay. Weather looks cooler. Tractor is running now, so it'll get loaded today. The hellions are quiet - for the moment.


Coffee!!!


Before enlightenment, I chopped wood and carried water.
After enlightenment, I chopped wood and carried water.

~ Zen saying


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[thør]

The weather is warmer, here. That's all relative, of course.

The studded tires are off the Sube so we might get an unplanned dump of snow in the next few day. No matter, the other tires have the mountain snowflake on them and I'll get by just fine. The Cruiser tires will be changed over the weekend and there will be some chuck roast cooked low and slow in smoke in the kamado for Sunday family dinner. I hope to get enough done at the JOB today so I don't need to be here on Saturday.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I'm planning a road trip for next week.


Or is that plotting?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Out. In. Fed. Off to read.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Happy Saturday. Could have slept more, except. Coffee's going, cats have eaten, sun is making its appearance, and breakfast will happen in a little while.


Having enjoyed a sweet delicious taste,
And having sometimes tasted what is bitter,
Do not greedily enjoy the sweet taste,
Do not feel aversion toward the bitter.

When touched by pleasant contact, do not be enthralled,
Do not tremble when touched by pain.
Look evenly on both the pleasant and painful,
Not drawn or repelled by anything.

~ Buddha

 

[Wat_Tyler]

One door closes. Another door opens.


Announce your plans and hear Allah laugh.


Explain your expectations and he'll piss himself laughing.


You, however, will think that it's raining . . . .

 

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[riverj]

Nice bunch of curves

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Happy Sunday!!!


Contrary to what some people might believe, there is nothing wrong with having pleasures and enjoyments. What is wrong is the confused way we grasp onto these pleasures, turning them from a source of happiness into a source of pain and dissatisfaction.

~ Lama Thubten Yeshe


If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is
keep on walking.

~ Buddhist proverb

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Home. Went out to see a few folks. I let them do the talking. It's good for them and it helps to build their self-confidence.


Tomorrow is one of those roll-the-dice kind of days, or at least the plan for it is. We'll see what happens, but it looks like the opportunity to go in a slightly different direction. Anyway, if it comes up a 7, I'll take it.