Apech

... my husband and I, would be very pleased to accept back our North American Colonies ... even though the rebels seem to have made a bit of a pig's ear of them.

Reunification of what???

... you are right GrmP should be hermeticism ... going back to my shell now.

Kind of ironic that the OP wanted to discuss yeshe in everyday terms and we end up debating the meaning of rigpa using long quotes again ...

We each have our own path but we all need plastic flip flops to walk it.

My parents were in wedlock I tell thee. ... awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust, for the dew of herbs is thy dew.

I can show you fear in a handful of dust.

I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.

They have crossed into another dimension as six legged reptilian lifeforms. But this is only a guess.

We seem to have a gap in the 30 - 40 YOes ... mysterious.

That would make you 80 .... Yo!

By the way do we have to say YO! after our age

...depends whether you are looking back in anger or forward with hope.

I don't think enlightenment is conditioned on anything ... but some traditions work very strongly in the guru/disciple interaction in which progress on the path is made by way of it.

In the room women come and go speaking of Michaelangelo?

I'm an old bastard too but not as old as Marbles.

Brasil 2 Columbia 1 Good game .... this is more like it.

I recall the OP produced his own answer ... but it didn't really satisfy anyone else.

Nein.

I see that Germany have won ... again ....*sigh*

If you read my post which you quoted above, in context you will see I was talking about how to communicate your deepest inner realisations and not how to interpret written text. usually ... in fact always in my experience a textual transmission is accompanied by an oral teaching and the 'lung' authority to study. So something is being communicated beyond the words on the page.

Madness is divine.

God Bless Good King George.

... just to clarify the difference between American football and real football.

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