Wat’s Carbon Water-N-Stuff Thread - Concepts In Iron And Wood!!!

In the same way that someone in the midst of a rough crowd guards a wound with great care, so in the midst of bad company should one always guard the wound that is the mind.

~ Santideva



Be honest. This applies to every area of your life. Sketchiness is not an attractive trait. No more trying to cover up your baggage, sweeping things under the rug, withholding truth, blatant lying, or even telling seemingly ‘harmless’ white lies or half-truths – release the need to lie completely! Start NOW.

~ Alaric Hutchinson



We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does not feed ego's needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn't knowingly bear such reduction, so we've tricked ourselves into the same path but call it writing.

~ Natalie Goldberg
 
I really need to go into business selling lives. I should be able to find lots of customers. Of course, the neediest ones hate me the most. Go figure!
I normally encourage folks to "follow their dreams".

I feel compelled to remind you, though, that both pimping and child sex trafficking are against the law.
 
According to Buddhist psychology, most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for, attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities. The pursuit of the objects of our desire and attachment involves the use of aggression and competitiveness…These mental processes easily translate into actions, breeding belligerence. Such processes have been going on in the human mind since time immemorial, but their execution has become more effective under modern conditions. What can we do to control and regulate these “poisons”—delusion, greed and aggression? For it is these poisons that are behind almost every trouble in the world.

~ His Holiness the Dalai Lama



I must go there today - Tomorrow the plum blossoms will scatter.

~ Ryōkan
 
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