At first I wasn't going to post this as everyone has their own beliefs. However, it is my blog and nothing that I say is meant to be hurtful. Buddhism is not a religion per se, but a way of living life. In the Buddhist philosophy nothing is permanent. It is our attachment to the things and our cravings that cause suffering. The less attached you are, the less you suffer. Every day try your best to have compassion for others less fortunate than you and I. Most monks only own a bowl from which to eat and one robe. They are some of the happiest people you will ever meet. Shaza is lucky to have been near so many of them as of late.
I have always believed that life (as we perceive it) is merely an illusion. We are all one and that...
May you find peace and joy in all that you do. Try not to judge others or events or hold on to anything too tightly lest it will slip through your fingers. Be Here Now as tomorrow never comes.
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13 comments:
A fine post.
Don't worry, be happy.
Today I heard on the radio there was an internbational mass sing-a-long to Bob Marley's "One Love" to set a new Guiness Record for the most number of people singing. It was at 4:20 local time of course.
That sounds wonderful GAW. Is that 4:20 EDT? I haven't found any news about it yet. As the valley girls say Marley is narley.
GAW the way you live life you could easily follow the path. I find much of what you say "enlightening."
Also just because I don't update this blog as much it does not limit what you can comment on. As I said I have sold out of the market and I am in property, cash and PMs. I am living in the now and I feel fine.
When the day comes that Obama calls me and asks me what we should do about the economy then I will concern myself about it. I will not drop out and continue to read and listen. Being informed is still important. On a sad note since China has taken over Tibet the current Dalai Lama may be the last. I applaud Obama for not bowing to the Chinese government and allowing him to visit the White House last year.
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/04/12/john-cleese-on-creativity-1991/
Classic lecture on video there!
great website, thanks to BigPicture Blog for the linky!
http://www.brainpickings.org/
Awesome brain expansion site.
I could love life a lot more, if I only had the time. LOL.
The Dalai Lama is a wise man.
This working long hours stuff is tiring. But bills have to be paid, and money has to come from somewhere.
Damn capitalistic society, they actually expect you to pay for things.
Imagine that. LOL thanks for the website.
I have sold out of the market and I am in property, cash and PMs. I am living in the now and I feel fine.
In keeping with the vibe of your recent posts, what are those "investments" in the market, anyway? Pieces of paper, or electronic representations of pieces of paper. Stock certificates. Bonds. Notations on a ledger, glowing electronic pixels that disappear when the power is turned off. They are not reality; they are derivatives of it.
We sneer at ancient natives of the New World, or Australian aborigines, who were amazed when Europeans brought them items that were simple to us like glass beads or metal ax heads. But these were like magic to Stone Age tribesmen -- from technology they had no concept of. At least they could hold those things in their hands, though.
Our stocks, bonds and other financial instruments are not even as real as those glass beads that wowed the Indians. They are nothing but promises. They have the power to be traded for real things, even glass beads, but only as long as everyone agrees to play the game by established rules. When powerful entities bend the rules, the game breaks down, as it seems to be doing now.
I wonder whether, 500 years from now, in whatever form of civilization that exists, our successors will look back at us and consider us as foolish with our reliance on imaginary derivatives as we consider tribesmen who were awed by glittering trinkets? Anyway, good onya for exiting the game, QB.
As far as no longer having the urge to alert us to articles we could have Oogled ourselves, I can sympathize. I get tired of talking to people, trying to bring them up to speed on things that I consider important, but which they have no desire to comprehend. And the stuff I'm talking about is demonstrably real, as opposed to religious fairy stories, psychotic delusions by paranoid schizophrenics or the latest story line being hyped by the mass media hologram.
The oil really IS running out -- look a production rates from the Uthmaniya field in Saudi Arabia. The climate IS changing -- look at photos from space of how much of the Arctic is covered by ice during the summer now, as compared to 50 years ago. The financial system IS a fraud -- look at what prices real estate bonds would sell for if actual business entities wanted to buy them, instead of reserve banks accepting them at full face value to back up the pieces of paper we carry in our wallets.
People don't want to hear it if they don't already know it. On blogs like yours, QB, your writing to the choir. When I read comments on some blogs, especially ZeroHedge, I occasionally see people saying "Wow, my eyes have only recently been opened." But I think the bulk of those are younger folks who have graduated from college or otherwise had to start taking adult life seriously. I wonder how many people who have made it through 30, 40 or 50 years of life in blissful ignorance are now realizing what's going on? My gut feeling is that those who do not know, will never know, because they don't to, so continued blogging will not lift the overall level of awareness.
That said, it's good to have small talking shops like this where similar minds can sit around the electric campfire swapping stories. We COULD find the articles to which you link. But many of are off doing different things. In Greek mythology, there was a beast called the Argus, that had 1,000 eyes that could see everything. The Internet is like that Argus. What you see, I might not, and vice versa. Our experience is richer, the more we share of it.
That also said, chattering around keyboards is no substitute for real-world human contact. We lose something when we're always communicating on devices. It's a more pure intellectual experience, with no irritation because we don't like the tone of someone's voice, or how they have long pauses in their sentences, or we're focusing on that mole on the other person's left cheek. But only getting together in the real world will achieve anything. The Internet can be as much of a barrier to that as ignorance.
Thanks for the comments Bukko. My threads will become less and less. I thought it would be once a week and then it was every other day. I doubt you will see more than one this week.
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