TSCLT 12.0: The pantheon hates a pussy 2.0

. . . and cuss that I didn't build it big enough.


Happy Tuesday!!! Lovely day here. Might be good for riding the bike.


The manner of thinking that creates a problem, cannot be the means by which to solve it, In simple terms, when spinning out, the only thing to do, as hard as it seems, is to get off the mental-merry-go-round .,, Confidence and love and the light of the world wait below all the labors of our mind.

The Book of Awakening



A buddha is one who does not seek. In seeking this, you turn away from it. The principle is the principle of nonseeking; when you seek it, you lose it.

~ Pai-chang

Focus on the gap between thoughts, and that is where truth lies, unencumbered by ego. Tough to do but a good exercise for deep meditation. For it is in this space that we are truly at peace, were no outside influences disturb us.


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Coffee is the silent victim in my house, it gets mugged everyday.
 
Happy Thursday!!! Slept okay, basically the night through, if you don't mind waking up a bit early. That Damned Kitten is in the window looking at Allah knows what. It gets a bit warmer today, and a lot warmer tomorrow. Basically, the nights stop cooling quite as much. Anyway, they grass got cut and looks good, the coffee is on, and the one piece of Yesterday Business that didn't get done was just postponed to today, so we'll see how that goes.


One of the major aims and purposes of religious practice for the individual is an inner transformation from an undisciplined, untamed, and unfocused state of mind towards one that is disciplined, tamed and balanced.

~ His Holiness the Dalai Lama
(and I suspect that he uses the term "religious" very loosely.)


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I've been doing some reading on the Ravings and their Spring gatherings and what the press has to say about it/them. Balmer team and Balmer press. Still stuck on the KC game from last year, which also happens to be their next game this year. I concluded somewhere during the last season or two that Mahomes is smarter than Jackson and that that has an effect. This Spring, I'm beginning to wonder if Reid is smarter than Harbaugh.


Ravings might make it interesting to win 10 this fall.


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Happy Tuesday!!! Best wishes to you and yours. Summer arrives on Thursday but the temperature seems to think it's already here. Piffle!!!


This is the very perfection of man, to find out his own imperfections.

~ Saint Augustine


He who treads the Path in earnest Sees not the mistakes of the world; If we find fault with others We ourselves are also in the wrong.

~ The Sutra of Hui Neng


Praise and blame, gain and loss,
pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind;
To be happy, rest like a great tree in the midst of them all.


~ Buddha's Little Instruction Book


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Happy Wednesday/Juneteenth. Second year in a row off for it, but I really hate a mid-week holiday. Long weekends are better.


If you want to know the past, to know what has caused you, look at yourself in the present, for that is the past’s effect. If you want to know your future, then look at yourself in the present, for that is the cause of the future.

~ Majjhima Nikaya

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

~ Confucius

By teaching about Mindfulness, All-Knowing and Nirvana, Buddha teaches us how to awaken and free our souls from the cycle of suffering. Read the following quotes to free ourselves by learning to accept, let go and live peacefully. Buddha's teachings are an endless source of inspiration, a guiding light for souls searching for the meaning of life. Buddha pointed out that suffering exists in life because of greed, anger and ignorance. By living simply and without pressure, we can free ourselves from the cycle of desire and samsara.


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A gold Buddha can't get through a furnace, a wood Buddha can't get through a fire, and a clay Buddha can't get through water. The real Buddha sits within: enlightenment, nirvana, suchness, and Buddha-nature are all clothes sticking to the body.

~ Chao-chou


The butterfly silently returns when the winds blow free.

~ Chinese proverb


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Happy Friday!!!


In my own experience, the period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life. ...Through a difficult period, you can learn, you can develop inner strength, determination, and courage to face the problem. Who gives you this chance? Your enemy.

~ His Holiness the Dalai Lama


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


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"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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