TSCLT 12.0: The pantheon hates a pussy 2.0

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Happy Saturday!!! May the with be force you.

"One of the most compelling things about the Buddhist view of suffering is the notion, inherent in the Wheel of Life Image, that the causes of suffering are also the means of release; that is, the sufferer's perspective determines whether a given realm is a vehicle for awakening or for bondage. Conditioned by the forces of attachment, aversion, and delusion, our faulty perceptions of the realms -- not the realms themselves--cause suffering."

 

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Happy Sunday!!! Hot yesterday, hot again today. Maybe some rain tonight. That would be nice.


"Selflessness," Mark Epstein and HH Dalai Lama in Thoughts Without a Thinker

"Selflessness is not a return to the feelings of infancy, an experience of undifferentiated bliss, or a merger with the Mother -- even though many people may seek such an experience when they begin to meditate, and even though some may actually find a version of it. Selflessness does not require people to annihilate their emotions, only to learn to experience them in a new way." (pg. 96)


Practicing Buddhism is a clever way to enjoy life. Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

 

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Happy Monday!!! Wee respite between very hot days. A wee threat of a pop-up t-storm later today. We'll believe it when it happens.


"Selflessness is not a case of something that existed in the past becoming nonexistent. Rather this sort of "self" is something that never did exist. What is needed is to identify as non-existent something that always was non-existent ... "It is not ego, in the Freudian sense, that is the actual target of Buddhist insight, it is, rather, the self-concept, the representational component of the ego, the actual internal experience of one's self that is targeted."


The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.

~ Chinese proverb

 

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Happy Tuesday!!! Up a bit too early, but that seems to happen here these days. This time of year, this is the best time of day - as cool as it's going to be.


We need help on the spiritual path to guide us finding the right way. Obviously the best person to accompany us as a tour-guide is someone who has already successfully traveled the path. This person can help to quicken our progress and avoid obstacles.

~ Dalai Lama


"Selflessness," Mark Epstein and HH Dalai Lama in Thoughts Without a Thinker

"Conceptual thought does not disappear as a result of meditative insight. Only the belief in the ego's solidity is lost. Yet, this insight does not come easily. It is far more tempting -- and easier -- to use meditation to withdraw from our confusion about ourselves, to dwell in the tranquil stabilization that meditation offers, and to think of this as approximating the teaching of egolessness. But this is not what the Buddha meant by Right View." (pg.99)

 

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Looks like it's official next door. They've laid out for the foundation for that ugly-ass no imagination house to build on the vacant lot next door. On the other hand, it may drive values, so it could be good timing.

Dairy for cuntz . . . .

 

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Happy Wednesday!!! More heat, maybe t-storms. Must be summer. Who knew?


What people expect to happen is always different from what actually happens. From this comes great disappointment; this is the way the world works.

~ Sutta Nipata

 

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Happy Thursday!!! There was a wee bit of rain last night or in the wee hours. Just enough to raise the humidity index several thousand percent. Clouds for most of the day. Stuffy, too. Meh.


When the Journey becomes your Destination you have reached Enlightenment.

~ Chinese saying

 

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Swear to Allah, the cat is the best thing in the opening scene of The Godfather. And when Brando stands and sets the cat on the desk, he makes himself at home, sitting on the thing like he owns the place.

 

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Happy Friday!!! A bit cooler, but it's still summer. Gotta make an emergency run for kitty kibble here in a bit. Alpha Bitch will be angry if I don't, and she can see the bottom of the bowl. There is no refill - yet.


Real peace will arise spontaneously
When your mind becomes free of attachments,
When you know that the objects of the world
Can never give you what you really want.

~ Theragatha

 

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Life is good when you never see the bottom of the food dish.

 

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I try to prevent it. It saves on listening to bitching.


And it helps to keep my flesh whole.

 

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Parts of this place are very quiet today. Kinda makes a body wonder . . . or not . . . .

 

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Happy Saturday!!!


Paradox of the Essenceless Self by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

But how, if the base of the individual is pure, empty awareness, can a conventional self and a moving mind exist at all? Here is an example based on experiences we all have: when we dream, an entire world manifests in which we can have any kind of experience. During the dream we are identified with one subject, but there are other beings, apparently separate from us, having their own experiences and seeming as real as the self we take ourselves to be. There is also an apparent material world: the floors hold us up, our body has sensations, we can eat and touch.

When we wake, we realize that the dream was only a projection of our mind. It took place in our mind and was made of energy of our mind. But we were lost in it, reacting to the mind created images as if they were real and outside of ourselves. Our mind is able to create a dream and to identify with one being that it places in the dream, while disidentifying with others. We can even identify with subjects that are far different than we are in our life.

As ordinary beings, we are in the same way, identified, right now with a conventional self that is also a projection of mind. We relate to apparent objects and entities that are further mind projections. The base of existence (Kunzhi) has the capacity to manifest everything that exists, even being that become distracted from their true nature, just as our mind can project beings that are apparently separate from us in a dream. When we wake, the dream that is our conventional self dissolves into pure emptiness and luminous clarity.

 

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Happy Sunday!!! Rain is on the way!!! It's been awhile . . . .


In reply to the question, 'What is the best that people can possess, what brings them truest happiness, what is the sweetest of the sweet, and what is the pleasantest life to live?' the Buddha answered:

'Trust is the best that people can possess; following the way brings happiness; truth is the sweetest of the sweet; and the practice of insight is the pleasantest way to live.'

~ Sutta Nipata.

 

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In terms of pure workmanship, personally I don't like Harleys. I ride them because I'm in the club, and that's the image, but if I could I would seriously consider riding a Honda ST1100 or a BMW. We really missed the boat not switching over to the Japanese models when they began building bigger bikes. I'll usually say "Fuck Harley-Davidson."

~ Ralph "Sonny" Barger, Hell's Angel

8 October 1938 - 29 June 2022


Last picture I saw of him on a bike, it was a Victory.

 

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Happy Monday, and happy July. Year is half gone. Or, it's just another day.


Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

 

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Happy Tuesday!!! A bit cooler today, and that's a boon in July. Hot AF for Independence Day. Go figure.


You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

 

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Happy Wednesday!!! Heat is returning. Back to the a/c. I'd prefer fresh air, but i'd more prefer not to roast.


The point of the teachings is to control your own mind. Restrain your mind from greed, and you will keep your body right, your mind pure and your words faithful. Always thinking of the transiency of your life, you will be able to desist from greed and anger and will be able to avoid all evils.

 

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Happy Thursday, and Happy Independence Day as it may apply. Sleep was iffy last night. It happens sometimes. Gonna be a hot one today and that will continue for a few more days. Oh well . . . .


The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
A person does not have to be behind bars to be a prisoner. People can be prisoners of their own concepts and ideas. They can be slaves to their own selves.
~ Maharaji Prem Rawat