thread for posts that are easy to understand by most people

[doc benway]

On 8/23/2024 at 10:48 PM, steve said:

 

Experience the world around you nakedly and directly, without interpretation or conditioning.

Act genuinely, from your gut and heart, without shame or self-consciousness.

Don't be afraid to express what you need and feel no obligation to satisfy the expectations of others. 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Cobie said:

You really think that’s what a 5 year old could understand? I don’t think so. 

 

Yeah, I don't think a 5 year old would understand what I wrote either.

Instead, I would probably say... "LET'S PLAY!"

 

 

[Cobie]

28 minutes ago, steve said:

… "LET'S PLAY!"

Yes, good point. I’m going to do some editing again. 

 

 

Edited August 25, 2024 by Cobie

[Mark Foote]

9 hours ago, Cobie said:

Redundant.
 

Well, thanks for thinking to reply, anyway! 

[Cobie]

8 hours ago, Mark Foote said:

Well, thanks for thinking to reply, anyway!  …

That’s spooky, how would you know who I had replied to there?   I had removed the quote. Anyway, “Redundant” won’t do then, it’s edited.

 

Your picture reminds me of an idiom: 如鱼得水 ru2 yu2 de2 shui3 - to be like a fish in the water. 

 

Edited August 26, 2024 by Cobie

[Nintendao]

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Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” (Matthew 22:36–40)

 

Somehow this became “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

 

Returning to nonduality it is seen that “What you do to others, you do to yourself.”

 

Edited August 27, 2024 by Nintendao

[Cobie]

nitpicking

 

Edited August 28, 2024 by Cobie

[Mark Foote]

On 8/26/2024 at 8:31 AM, Cobie said:

nitpicking

 

Dao Bums at work:

 

 

 

Edited August 29, 2024 by Mark Foote

[Cobie]

14 hours ago, Mark Foote said:

Dao Bums at work …

That’s a lovely picture, thanks.

 

I had been thinking more along the lines of 

 

 

Edited August 29, 2024 by Cobie

[old3bob]

On 8/16/2024 at 12:42 PM, Cobie said:

edit: old title was ‘What is ‘non-duality’?’ But I’ve given up on Buddhism. New title:

 

Post in a way understandable to a 5 year old. 
 

含德之厚，比於赤子。

han2 de2 zhi1 hou4 , bi3 yu2 chi4 zi3 
He who has in himself abundantly the attributes (of the Dao) is like an infant.

(DDJ Ch. 55)

 

edit #2: again a new title, “thread for posts that are easy to understand by most people” (and I mean “most people” generic, not just most people on the forum).

 

 

I take that to be as "wise as a serpent but innocent (or harmless) as a dove" to borrow a saying form Christianity.

And from Taoism there is the somewhat related saying of,  "Laozi has the dual meaning of “Old Master” and “Ancient child”. 

Edited August 29, 2024 by old3bob