Apech

Grammar Nazis: HO! Put a full stop to my life they did, period.

You cant start with "and"! and you can't finish with and and, and, or and and.

http://thetaobums.com/topic/4535-haiku-chain/

In this haiku chain thread we are supposed to start with the last line of the previous haiku .. don't mess it up its been going on for 342 pages till now.

don't believe your eyes! they lie through your teeth, they say, and cheeky ears too. (I'm ignoring that squiggle stuff )

It's great with fries and a side salad. Wash it down with Chi-anti ... that's my dinner.

I am whole in one... would be true for a golfer in a non dual sense.

snake eats its own tail... Ouroboros ... ok then ... A bus eats its tail.

Who is this?

No because we compassionately recognise the wilful not-wanting-to-know of others and respect their right to know or not-know ... we are kind, in other words so temper our truth to meet the needs of the situation. Is it hypocrisy to keep silent? I don't think so ... the confection we present is our kindness, though perhaps we might from time to time test the barriers a little to be helpful to others. Authenticity means we are authors of our own book of knowledge ... what we have to say and the care with which we say it is a mark of our growing maturity. The extent to which we have woken ourselves is precious and not a pearl to be cast before swine. This is what I think.

I think maybe its something that you have to be a bit mad/crazy to even want to try to see it ... easier to stay asleep ... the joy of ignorance ...

I agree and I think we should be wary of critiques between different paths/systems ... cos its usually about terms and often ones that are not defined properly to start with. But there is of course a difference between good 'stuff' and B/S.

yes ... but also the philosophers stone ... or to put it Buddhist-wise your liberation is possible because you have Buddha-nature ... all else, your master, your deity ... whatever, reflects this back to you ... or to put it another way you look with two eyes. With one eye you see your teacher is an ordinary being who does ordinary things but with the other eye you recognise his shining perfection ... which is your shining perfection too. If you ask fro blessings from the ordinary side you get ordinary blessings, if you ask from the other side you get true blessings ....

I heard a Buddhist story about a student who regarded his master as a living Buddha and through his devotion, on death he attained enlightenment ... but when in his enlightened state he looked back at his master he saw that he had still many lifetimes to go.

Thonks.

Stuck in Hod ... I like that phrase and shall use it now

I think maybe the problem is that New Age is so mixed .... from charletons (sp?) to genuine people including some who are genuinely awakened ... as its not an orthodoxy its hard sometimes to see the wood for the trees?

.... changed my mind ... I was ranting ...

can't break illusion cos its broken already by careless people.

But waht are your qualifications (so to speak) for doing this? If you are collating material as a resource that's one thing but if you are giving your own opinions ... then that's all they are.

wintery's cool too. too cool for nudist bathing though it breaks the ice.

... it would have to be a very bad poem.

I think a Kundalini sub is a good idea. But it would have to be fairly closely moderated especially if its giving out any health advice. If we had an active Steward on it then that would be good ... but its definitely true that a lot of people come here with 'strange things are happening is it K?' sorts of questions. A directory of internal and external links to good threads and sites would be a good start. BTW all advice should start ... go and see a doctor to make sure you're not ill first .... a kind of surgeon general warning ...

Try posting about practice and cultivation then the threads will stay out of the basement.

14.7% from Hungary! is that a proxy site?