Pilgrim

I am still waiting for a PM with winning lottery numbers.

My Step Father taught me to take a person at their word until proven wrong. Telling other what they really mean is asinine and rude. If you want to impress me with powers of perception please PM me with the winning lotto numbers until then we’ll yeah whatever. Diareah of the post gains no traction here.

Oh! now you just had to go there............... Sorry just can't resist the temptation on this one.... Crom's Bones Man!

This is the most challenging of all and good strong hard often bitter medicine. The only real medicine. One has to be very strong to take it and be prepared to fail time and time again and tear up and throw away a life sometimes in favor of what the medicine reveals. Often the medicine is more than I can stand and I spit it out, then somehow the medicine finds a lingering taste in my mouth and this calls me back for another taste. I think it is like this for all of us to some degree or another. We should be careful how much medicine we take at once, the cure can be too much to bare all at once.

I read this and wish I did not understand what you have shared. This can be difficult. Being a human being is very complex and difficult and takes on as many permutations as there are different lives being lived. I appreciate what Stosh has written and agree it is very good. The point of view you have expressed comes from awakening to the inescapable reality of Buddha Nature. Living in the realm of Buddha Nature means dying as a small being moment after moment. Buddha Nature is perfect balance and is the backdrop against which all Dramatis Personae play out. We as human beings live in a constant state of imbalance this is how we live, and grow that which looks beautiful and that which does not, does not, and that which does, does so and does not so, for the very same reason, because it is out of balance and ever changing against a backdrop of perfect balance and background harmony. Consider this once upon a time you we were all small children, the background that our childhood played out upon is the same today as it was then. Where is the child now? When we have lived some more years we are going to die, then the movie the drama of our lives as human beings will be over, yet will not the screen the background upon which our dramas played out not remain? Was it not present for our Grand Parents and their Grand Parents as well? It can be considered most people we meet are ignorant of what we perceive yet at the same time know fully well, as well. This is a difficult stage for everyone who arrives at it, it is very hard, as one no longer has the choice of just pretending because the pretending is now harder and this is the stage of waking up and staying awake and struggling against falling back to sleep yet needing to. Throwing oneself into some meaningful mission is a way to feel value and I think that is very good and constructive even though it too is always fleeting and impermanent. This is the conundrum. The problem is what you can perceive of reality is still limited but you know there is more, What Is It? Join the club. In those moments when you connect eye to eye it is not your I which is connecting it is Buddha nature connecting with Buddha Nature and in that moment you are not two but one, yet at the same time two and one. Here there is trouble because of all the things that make up the small being ( YOU or I ) and this is where we project more drama upon the screen in a knee jerk reaction to it becoming so blatantly obvious to out limited perception. I have often considered we as small beings have no choice but to create against the backdrop of Buddha nature so it is really interesting to be aware of doing so and not aware of doing so and purposely trying not to recognize doing so. I think that until the small being is ready to become a swinging door that it is uncomfortable with recognizing it is creating against the backdrop of Buddha nature but the ones that are and do are more like good Movie Directors that enjoy making shows for others to watch. For some in those moments the Play of the theater becomes dreadfully apparent and less real than the continuum of Buddha nature. This is because of the small being is not fully realizing the background of Buddha Nature and I do not mean this as an intellectual exercise either. How can I say such things? It is from living like this a lifetime from infancy and coping the best I can. When I was 17 I was given my big experience Buddha Nature. The Opening the living experience was so much that words can not express the true realization, unity of all things is just the tip of the iceberg. This changed me forever but was not a state I had fully realized but rather a 12 hour experience of reality as the ability to be, to be , constricted back down to the small being and the small being has been growing gradually, very slowly into Buddha Nature for some 32 years now. It is unlikely I will ever know this reality of being again as I did that day in this life time as the integration into it is such an inexorably slow process. The trick is you have to play your part in this world and take it seriously with sincerity and be and give the best you are and love and live in the face of and in-spite of the impermanence. You have to give yourself permission to create a drama and share a drama with others as interrelation with others is very important to ones own growth. You really have no other choice the alternative is to make yourself miserable and the span of a human life time is very short anyway so make the best of things and learn to appreciate the insincerity of it all and the impermanence with a smile as often as you can remember to.

I am kind of fond of this one with the extra bling what do you think? https://www.amazon.com/Tigerdoe-Fez-Hat-Turkish-Moroccan/dp/B0753HJK29/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1545095872&sr=8-2-spons&keywords=fez+hat&psc=1

I happen to like that episode quite allot, thank you very much.

We do? That sounds very good to me. You know I used to Practice ZaZen a decade ago since then practiced Kriya of different lineages and learned from different teachers higher levels of Kriya. It took duelistic practices to raise the energy and awareness to such high levels that all that was left was unity which defies words. Now after a decade Zen makes far more sense, and time flows from present to future and from past to present so in the view of big mind time is an illusion of the universal activity and we are but swinging doors.

I believe it springs into existence each and every moment now prove me wrong.

Whhhhhaaaaaaaaat are you saying?! I just saw him in a picture with my Niece of course he exists.

Ah that would answer why the mass changed.

Years ago Living in Cocoa Beach Florida when allot of the original Cape Engineers were still around I had this very discussion with them. Most were retired or entering retirement at the time and all without exception confirmed we did indeed go to the moon as I was quite skeptical about it. They also confirmed there were and are things which were and are best left unspoken and that the general public has no knowledge of. They did not go into details and left it at that and I think the only reason they even went that far was because they were in their 70's and 80's and knew they would not be around much longer and we were in the privacy of their own home. It was pretty easy to see some of them carried the burden of some pretty heavy secrets a long time. All of them were pretty much WW2 era Vets and were very patriotic as well and would never reveal anything requiring security clearance. It was there sincerity and the feel coming off them and the look in their eye that convinced me. I have seen many things in the night skies over the cape and can tell you either we have technology which is never openly shown on purpose or there are other civilizations with advanced technology either working with or observing the cape. Either way whatever that was all about in the night skies was important enough that my downstairs neighbor got a visit from the men in black and his high speed telephoto cameras and film confiscated. From all of this it is pretty certain we not only went to the moon but it would not really surprise me if we have continued unknown to the general public and there is a base present there. Do not know for certain but won't rule it out either.

MU

The whole thing was pushed through to satisfy the Insurance companies, Mandating citizens buy health insurance or the IRS will charge you is a mafia strong arm tactic. They used to call it a protection racket, where a shop keeper got a visit from the enforcers (IRS) and you either coughed up the dough or got beat up. For that matter income tax is not constitutional either so here we have a really fouled up thing.

The easiest way is to watch your breath. let your sense of ” I “become a swinging door. When you breath in the door swings one way when you breath out the other. You have no choice but to breath so as long as you will live this will remain with you reliable till the end. While watching your breathing pay attention to the field 4 finger widths below the navel. Put a little tension there. Do Not try to locate a specific point rather let the feeling remain unfocused and take its own form as a field not a point. Breath from there, feel from there, hear from there, think from there, be from there in each moment as much as you can. At first you will will probably need to either sit on a chair but before long you can do this anywhere and everywhere. Try to do this for only one minute at first and gradually do more as it feels comfortable and watch yourself. When a stray thought or feeling comes ask your self hey (whatever your name is) Hey Jeff where are you , then answer yourself here I am, or I’m right here. Better do it mentally around others, it can be fun to say out loud when no one else is around.

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Alan Watts was a favorite of mine long, long ago. "Each Ruby Moment" He helped me put my experiences into perspective somewhat.

Zen Mind Beginners Mind, By Shunryu Suzuki - Roshi

Oh nothing other than abject hypocrisy, when Cook and Apple made the decision to make a big deal out of it years ago. Honestly I could care less and do not understand why they had to spew their opinions in the first place. I mean really who cares anymore anyway? The problem with it is Mega Corps deciding what is politically correct and what is acceptable, what is moral, what is forbidden. Let us not forget it was not so terribly long ago that the entire LGBT and now Q ( I looked it up and was shocked that a derogatory term was now ok) would have been considered an abomination and forbidden. It is the parents job to watch over their children and all Apple products have the ability to limit what children can do and there have been net nanny programs for other platforms as well for the last 15 years. We must never cede our rights to the mega corps nor allow them to dictate our morality let alone raise our children. So hypocrisy and mega corp social interference / engineering is what I am against. Besides that since Steve Jobs passed away his successor has constantly raised prices and cut features making the products more cheaply built and have purposely made them difficult to service as well, to the point where the value is no longer what it once was. I work in the industry and have done so for a very long time now and have seen many Apple hardware failures. There is nothing special about Apple Hardware whatsoever at all nor is their operating system as secure as they would have people believe. As a matter of fact getting ready to reload MAC OS today for a client, Their iMac is chock full of Malware. As a further aside do not rely on Solid State Hard Drives as being more bullet proof than the older mechanical counterparts I am seeing more and more failures as they become more and more in use. Backup, Backup, Backup and pray you do not have to replace on in an overpriced Apple Product.

No it was our souls, waking me to be a better man. She is so much better than I at being a human being, I need more time in the oven of compassion and tolerance. She is more fully baked and very good bread.

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Hey that’s what I’m doing 😃

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Confuse us says: Rule number 1. Wife is always right. Rule number 2. When in doubt remember rule number 1. Rule number 3. Remember long after you have forgotten whatever it was she has not, and was probably right anyway so remember rule number 1. If your woman be wise and smart, If she be fair and kind. You should bow.