Wayfarer64

Even Lawyers?!- I am aghast at such an assumption, even lawyers... I just don't get that concept...Everyone? My god what are you thinking? you do mean everyone, right, even lawyers...?! naw it just couldn't be so...

A wig not the way but many ways are wiggy Follow hares down holes

The last few years have been rife with anger for me... Anger at watching my mother die, losing lovers, having a lot of money stolen from me by crooked lawyers, having crappy jobs and stupid bosses, losing many friends to death and more due to not being able to live as I had been used to due to financial problems... (not real friends anyway I guess huh?) Then there is the incredible idiocy of my Nations' political situation, and having to be "led" by moronic liars and corporate shills -known as members of congress etc etc... there seemed no end of reasons to be angry... ( Also, I tend to get angry not depressed when things go awry in my life...So angry I was!) but meditation, yoga, hung gar, lots and lots of walking and a indefatigable sense of humor have kept my head cool enough to laugh off most of my anger... AND THE GIANTS ARE IN THE SUPER BOWL!!! So now, its all good -'cept the lawyers need to die of course but that goes without saying. All lawyer jokes are actually kindnesses as that lot deserve no quarter or misguided empathy...I mean it! Humor offering them a modicum of humanization is just wrong !! - And i say that knowing there are some good lawyers in the world, but being rid of them all would be such a boon it is perhaps an acceptible proposition - a modest proposal as it were...to drown them all in their own bile.... thanx for that opportunity to vent - It was nice for me to be able to show my love for my fellow beings in a laser beam light of understanding.

Hello Mr. Kennedy- & Affenbrot thanx for the etymology... and I don't think we need to watch our steps over every wordy dropping that we each make -the testyness is rife 'round here these days - reading of old tripe has me nostolgic for England where I lived at one time (near St. Albans)... The spirit of good will is nurtured and language is just words anyway...Sifu S has lent an ear and learned something as I did too... this sharing what we know thing may still work out for us... namaste

Balance is the Way a razors edge is just right For spliting that hair

I work nine to five I, eleven to seven I also want work

Somewhere else not here I always find what I seek the last place I look

cutting off fools doesn't work. They can always just come back with new names and the same old BS... It seems to be the price we pay for expansion at a fast rate, as has been the case over the past several months... I think kindness and sarcasm and anger and all the rest just serve to foster and encourage some fools... The ignore function will at least provide a buffer, that will take the offending folks off yr own radar... It may be that when a member gets several members putting them on the ignore lists , they become marginalized anyway, as few will see the old tripe in the first place... But things have become somewhat unwieldy 'round here. It may be that we can transcend the current influx of negativity with "flying colors"... I do trust this community will grow and prosper dispite the rancor and trials of our sometimes painful growth spurts. So please do not give up - this has always been a place to share and learn. We just need a bit of time and readjustment to sort out how to move forward... Sean has offered us a place to reside in our many realms of thought and searchings. A real blessing for many, where sharing works and thrives.... Bumps in the road aside, we are on a collective path through our communications with eachother... Contentions are strong right now. Not only here but in the wider world as well -the year of the Rat can belike that...

fearing what they fear Turtles hide within themselves Seekers cast off shells

Ian... I just can't bring myself to express how off the wall your assertions are !!! You have one hell of a nerve ! Buddy Has shown a direct link to GOD ALmighty and we can never ever assume our world views are valid as long as they differ in any which way from his... Now do you understand??? The guy IS infallable, the Pope in Roma comes to him on bended knee to learn the rules of infallability, throngs of warriors and sages are even now suplicating themselves at his door step and pleading for audience -or just to touch the hem of his garment...(he is undoubtably an impeccable dresser as well, dontchaknow???) Now get with the progrom out there... der Buddyness has pontificated truth for us to adjust to, or just as our meager abilities allow... Get a clue -this presence here is a great blessing to all who seek wisdom in cyberspace...

my granpa once told me that if you are to criticize a man; first walk a mile in his shoes.... then, you are a mile away, and you have his shoes...

I miss Father Paul at times like this. He could quip us into a wonderment of what the...s? scattering the foibles of our egos and still make a ripple of giggles roll through cyberspace, because we are just as dumb-ass foolish so much of the time ...then if we weren't seekers of greater wisdon, esoteric knowledge and super-duper powers ... as the case may be. But we can get it right, making it easier to find the heart of each other and the god-head within us that is shared... Namaste-in a word... Remembering Papa Paul helps me to be a little bit cooler of head and kinder of word...

I was very young when in Conn. 2-3 yo... I had two semi-feril cats as my protectors and we sat in the woods together -they were hunting... until my baby-sitter or mom would find me, but I "ran away" to the woods as often as I could ... until there was a normality to it that even my mom began to accept... in that I could go what seemed to me then a long ways from the house... I guess it wasn't so very far, but it was in the woods and the cats could hunt as I sat quietly... My happiest times are still when out in old growth forest- which there is still some of near where I live...But it is going fast and the animals are squeezed more every month...into smaller and smaller areas in which to live. The strength I gleen from deep meditation in those woods is greater than if I were on my carpet at home, or so it seems to me. Connecting to the Earth is where I get my strength. I feel it deeply and I don't really care what I call it or where it resides within me...The energy of the Earth is qi to me and that is the only sense of having been given/lent power that makes any real sense to me. I am not powerful, but my connection to the Earth offers me actual strength...

laughing with the dust Bison pile up under cliffs When prayers were said

SJ- I'm not sure that my 2 cents will find a bankable situation in yr mind-set, but i offer a slight critique that is meant to help you see yrself as others ( well -just me actually ...) - may see you... You pontificate and make assumptions that you can teach us something. There is no lack of hubris, only a lack of self-awareness in how you come across. I just ask that you tone it down and try to take stock of the situation rather than assume that you know anything whatsoever... start blank... as if fresh from emptyness meditation. In other words heal thyself, before throwing around whatever it is that you throw... I care very little for others' opinions in general ... until I hear/see/feel some true merit in them to follow what they say. There is just too much BS in our world to spend any time with fools... I trust that it is not a permenent condition. I wish you well and do not preclude a friendship or real sharing in the future. For now I shall forebare and hope that healing can take place for us all...

circle of firing Trump that silly TV world We giggle in glee

I too had a part in the anger and lack of compassion that arose, and do not regret all of my participation as such... TaoMeow WAS misconstrued as I read it, and the rudness level was totally out of normal bounderies... I chose to put the offending (to me) party in the ignore pile... Now that once again seems to have failed in its purpose... We each have our own baggage. My first ever post here was a response to Ron Jerimy doing his damndest to be an ass... I have been part of notorious flames with Denty etc etc... most of these were my attempts to gain some control of situations that disturbed me and or attempts at righting what I thought were real wrongs commited by another here in cyberspace... Why did I think I could make a difference for the better or just make sure no one thought I went along with what I felt was reprehensible? It May be some of each... Generally I just never back away from problems that disturb me. I go at them. I have softened some, but I hope I will always go at them. I also have to hope that I am in the right when I do so! This forum was a very new thing for me when I joined; as I had had very little experience on line. I hope I have grown some since then. When i read what was flung at Taomeow I felt provoked and responded with suggestions of prayer that later changed to swatting of the gnat -like pest etc & then a suggestion of acceleration as recomended by the Dalai Lama, that was a great softening for me and I felt better for it in some ways... yet now I think my old way is more honest. I am a swatter of mesquitos. My Buddhist (Cambodian), lover once chastized me for killing actual mosquitos in Asia, I likened them to communists and she said with some conviction that Buddha liked mosquitos but not communists... So we will each have our views to see through and those views will change... But if this crap forces the likes of TaoMeow off this great site we may need to look at our rules once again and pay some attention to our language -there are so many here now that things have changed, maybe I need to change my attitudes as well but that is within me to do... I trust the strength of this community to pass through such BS and grow stronger not weaker... I am at a lose for more to say just now (relief)...

right now grasp your chance Strong vine, full pen, or open door make what happens yours hey Dbum.. why did ya ignore this?

As I've related here before - I feel deeply connected to both wild & tame "animal" life forms, and have since childhood... Over the past few weeks flocks of geese have been grazing in a field that I crosss on my way to work. I tend to walk around them rather than short-cut through them, the last few days they have been moving away from my path and allowing me to short-cut the field... granted the droppings have made this a mine-field of sorts but I can sense the intent of community growing... A just today the flocks were gone and a falcon flew down from a high circle to "buzz" me -just a few feet above my head and I sensed he had become aware of the communal intent of my being as well... Just as i had felt as a child in the woods of Connecticut 50 years ago...My belonging to the natural world has not been deminished by my years in NYC... I can go home again as it were... peace-Pat

A bluebird, a worm hungry eye sees the wiggling Each turns to the other

Hagar - if yr A troll- Then I'm a hob-goblin... I must piss off scads of bums, & so what? Often enough, Being "nice" is an insult to our shared humanity and I say that with the fullest sense of humilty. If we can respect ourselves and eachother then being nice is just so much fluff... Reality is tough enough without obfuscation and a facade of bs to wade throough, and you my cyber friend are always real and truthful and can even shine some real light on things around here so if thats being a Troll stay with it bro.

voiceless cosmic dust back amongst joni's garden no yellow taxi

wingiing it once more pointed like no arrows' flight Formations of geese

I studied some Hung Gar ShaoLin with Grand Master Bill Chung... who did a bit of work with Bruce Lee in Hong Kong some time in the late sixties as I remember... He has a wonderful sense of humor and taught me quite a few interesting things as one of his "Inner desciples" back in the late 70's early 80's... I still am learning and will always stay open to new ideas and techniques... None is better than another each system has merit for those who can glean something from them... Whats the beef?

What does "Speak of the pompitous of love"... mean?