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i don't even have a portable tv at home. booboo...

flip flops that connects to earth energetics. ya, be a trendy, step-ahead taoist, and go buy a pair for yourself. bet they cost the earth too.

who stormed the castle? asked Bartholomew the Bard haha! how silly!

i'd venture to say the Sage is afraid of routine, even to the point of detesting it. just a feeling i had.

Tolle's writings cater well to the masses who are looking to re-ignite a certain feel-goodiness which, in most people, comes and goes, but also, where the hope is strong that this factor could, perhaps thru some formulae, become an increasingly stabilizing/mesmerizing feature in order to lift themselves out of the grinds of daily routines. Judging from how popular his writings and talks are, i would say there are heaps of directionless people looking to cling onto any new director to lend direction to their life-script.

yagety yak, Jack boom's all bad, so said the lad a rhymer's rascal...

so then i won't cry but sob with utter delight to see a flat wheel...

nvm.

shines through, unrestrained a barren, passionless field unutterable.

"Being natural" -- it has 3 layers, i think. Outer, inner, and innermost. Some like to focus primarily on the outer aspects, some on the inner, and a few on the innermost. Most esoteric traditions direct the adept towards a process which yield fruits from the innermost layers (or at least that's the main intent). A lot has to do with one's motivation. If the primary motives are pure and altruistic, then it follows that excessive focus on the self will drop away eventually, since the practice is mainly to help others 'reach the other shore'. Once the tightness of grasping on to a self becomes loosened, spaciousness and expansiveness follows, and in this ease, naturalness will flower. There is no need to consciously try to become natural, cos this will often be counter to that noble aspiration. Just try to help others, or at least try not to cause distress or bring harm to other sentient beings. This will bring about an eventual shift in motivation. How can wishing others to be happy not produce the fruits of profound inner peace? And, inner peace is the stepping stone to complete naturalness. just some thoughts.

maybe its a more drastic version of darshan, heh?

without the optics see with the whites of the eyes awake in these dreams...

write my life sentence why would you want to do that? better play scrabble...

orbiting madness twirling round and round and round trapped in giddiness...

Thanks to all who made the reversion possible. Pretty sure this means a lot to a few (or a good few) members. Personally, not too bothered, as i hardly edit content once its been laid out and put out.

so dead in its tracks this clandestinian ninja miso soup in hand...

Truly wonderful shanlung! Thank you for sharing all the bits of your travels in Penang and Langkawi, courtesy of which i found myself on a trip down memory lane... i too had done some of things you did back in the days.

regrettably fight well into the deep of night with a foe unseen...

one day you will fly let no storms deter your quest to the post-office...

why do I ask, why? feeling more than inspired rise spontaneously...

well said.

post-meditation head feels like a million bucks heart goes oom pah pah!

Till today, there are still staunch believers who argues that he is in fact still alive, in permanent retreat somewhere in the mountains of China. They are of the firm stance that the body in the coffin was in fact a dummy, or some dude who happened to have died around that time and bore a slight resemblance to Bruce. These folks say that Bruce Lee became 'enlightened', and no longer wished to be 'in the world' of materialism. I dunno... maybe they are right, maybe not, who can say for sure? Stranger things have happened.

Yes, but how does one awaken to the point of seeing things as they really are? Anyway, since all things are empty, where is this ignorance to be found, where is the need to destroy it, and where is its root? In my post, 'an evened mind' was a reference to having reached the point of complete and unceasing equanimity, which is what all buddhas have (supposedly). For me, thats an ideal, a reminder to keep practicing, but for one who have attained to the lofty heights of union of wisdom and compassion, its effortless. Why is it effortless? I think its from the final realization of sunyata.

brushing fear aside let me roam Tiger Mountain before i go bald....