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Duh We're supposed to add to the list I think.

I hope other 799 were as useful as this one

All right let's see uhhh... Once upon a time there was a farmer who lived alone. When it was almost winter, his only horse ran away. The villagers thought he was cursed and wont survive the winter. A few days later his horse returned and brought more horses with it. Villagers said that he was blessed but he just replied, "Good luck bad luck, I don't know." The farmer and his son worked on the farm one day and one of the horses kicked the son and he wasn't able to work. Villagers said he was cursed. Later on a war started, all the young men were taken to war except farmer's son who was too hurt to go to war. The villagers said the farmer was blessed but he just replied, "Good luck bad luck, I don't know." Farmer's son once confronted him about what happened and asked why wont he feel happy or sad. "Good luck bad luck, I don't know." Good luck bad luck finding out from what lineage this story is from and keeping your studies pure Daoist.

11. Don't forget to forget the 10 noble truths

Yeah, poor guy doesn't know that the world is actually mine... tsk tsk tsk...

Giving labels to things takes away their power. Saying bad things about new-age stuff will blind you to all the good things in it. Taoism covers practically everything and from my perspective it describes how the things work in the universe. Even before the word Dao was imagined and spoken, people were already trying to understand it and before they were born, follow it. A lot of Taoist arts were labeled as new-age and new-age as bad. The whole "new-age" community, like Taoism, became a collection of knowledge and that knowledge became corrupted by people why try to profit from it. Making at judgment hurt everyone, don't judge. Karma is also known but it's not as simple to understand. Imagine a still pond and a first raindrop falling in it. It will make ripples and soon there will be rain and maybe a storm that will make each raindrop make ripples that will get in the way of other ripples. Imagine these raindrops as people, doing their thing not really noticing each other until their ripples collide. Someone might think the ripples are good and some think they are bad, but in the big picture it doesn't make a difference. We look at the ripples but we know about the storm. Think of all the good and bad things in your life and remember the storm. Keep zooming out from the storm and you will see the time when there was not raindrop and no storm, there was not body, no time, no memory, no nothing. Keep zooming out and see person who just died being born. Someone who is not born already lived a full life. Dead and alive people living at the same time. Keep looking and there will be nothing but Tao. There's a meditation that shows you that and it's based of the time one of the Duddhas realized that he had a little time on this earth and he would die without knowing all the joys the world has. He found a way and taught it, but just telling it makes it worthless. If you can figure it out yourself, it will be your treasure. There's a Zen temple where you are shown a picture of the 1000 Buddhas and told to recreate it. Everyone starts drawing.

Reminded me of Okinawa for some reason

FEELING TO THE MAX!!!!!

WE'RE SUPA HEROOOOOOOES

Now this is real TV

No sneak peak for your fellow bums? edit: HOW DOES THAT MAKE A MASK?!?!? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

If a bug wants to bite you it has to pay for it eh

Reminds me of the time when I was messing around with a forum I didn't like and to avoid the bans I made a few accounts ahead of time not giving ideas or anything

if you want to ignore a thread STOP POSTING IN IT oops

You guys are either old or time travelers

You can have complimentary sunglasses for trying

Then he would put on his sunglasses and

You are indeed you but the question doesn't really have an answer. When you ask yourself where you are, you notice attachment to something like your room or your body and realize that you are not in the mirror

I keep looking and you are not here, so you are nowhere. But you insist that you are here and wherever here is, you are. You cannot be nowhere that way. So you are not here.

double post

Where is your here? Your house? Your room? Maybe your body? Where in your body? Your hand? Are you your hand? Maybe collection of impulses in your head and your nervous system is where your are? Can I cut open your body and pull your out? Everyone has nerves blood and bones but that can't be where you are. You are not your body. Where are you? Such a simple question, how do you answer it?