Welcome to The Pub At the End of the Universe.

[songsfortheotherkind]

[QUOTE=CurtisW;494529]

.If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.” ― Joseph Campbell

Is this also an answer to the question I asked you in my last pm?

[Curt]

Look at your PM

[songsfortheotherkind]

Posted by CurtisW (here)
Look at your PM

well I did. I accept.

huzzah!

[Calz]

Posted by songsfortheotherkind (here)

Posted by CurtisW (here)
Look at your PM

well I did. I accept.

huzzah!

[songsfortheotherkind]

Posted by Calz_Avaretard (here)

Posted by songsfortheotherkind (here)

Posted by CurtisW (here)
Look at your PM

well I did. I accept.

huzzah!

[IMG]I'm not reposting that stupid pic, Calz. [/IMG]

Twit. *laughing*

[Calz]

Posted by songsfortheotherkind (here)

Posted by Calz_Avaretard (here)

Posted by songsfortheotherkind (here)

Posted by CurtisW (here)
Look at your PM

well I did. I accept.

huzzah!

[IMG]I'm not reposting that stupid pic, Calz. [/IMG]

Twit. *laughing*

What?

You mean PM doean't mean "Proposed Marriage"???

[Calz]

Posted by another bob (here)

So, what does this mean? Simply that no-mind is mind that is free of fixation. It is free and so it flows.

Okay.

Makes sense.

Since you mentioned (mutable) Gemini ... does it not stand to reason that someone with a lot of mutable energies would be more prone to enter that space than say a *fixed* sign???

Dramatically oversimplified as someone's "sun sign" while perhaps the most indicative of energy or traits is only one source with all the other planets adding to the "dance".

[another bob]

Posted by Calz_Avaretard (here)

Posted by another bob (here)

So, what does this mean? Simply that no-mind is mind that is free of fixation. It is free and so it flows.

Okay.

Makes sense.

Since you mentioned (mutable) Gemini ... does it not stand to reason that someone with a lot of mutable energies would be more prone to enter that space than say a *fixed* sign???

We're not our sun signs, but there all sorts of conditioning factors that come into play in our human behavior. Obviously, a more flexible type would have less resistance and more adaptability to the non-dwelling mode than a stubborn personality sort who might tend to fixate identity, such as a fundamentalist of any persuasion.

[RunningDeer]

Hello songsfortheotherkind,


I combed through at least fifty pages of the thread this morning trying to find the one with the list of critical dates you had coming up for May. I couldn’t find it so, I’m working from memory. (Your Child’s 2nd anniversary?) You’ve been in my thoughts. And if I’m wrong, gulp! I am sorry in advance.

She scampers out holding her breath, hoping the voice inside was correct when it said, “Go ahead. Post!”
..........................................

Peace and hearts,
WhiteCrowBlackDeer

UPDATE: If this is incorrect, I'll delete ASAP.

[Calz]

Oh by the way ... since we have been sharing family stories and secrets I have one more ...





Yes ... yes ... who knew???


Running for office I am ...

Contributions can be submitted starting with Fred's Donate link and taking "options" thereafter ...

[Fred Steeves]

Posted by Chinaski (here)
i honestly don't know if it was the naval gazing session last night or the fact that it's my birthday today

Huh, now there's two others at Avalon I share a birthday with. That could spell real trouble. Oh well, in the mean time happy birthday to us!!!

[Calz]

Posted by WhiteCrowBlackDeer (here)

I combed through at least fifty pages of the thread this morning

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Calz_Avaretard (here)

Posted by WhiteCrowBlackDeer (here)

I combed through at least fifty pages of the thread this morning

I woke up my Wolfie when I belted out a laugh! It's my next screen saver. I've got a fine collection going because of you. Here's $500 in Avalonian buckoos.

[Dennis Leahy]

Oh shyyte! Bob's back, and he mentioned "stinky posts", right after my yak feces inverted-koan.

I had hoped it would smash through the thick air (I'm a middle child who has always battled with the codependent urge to fix every situation, especially between "siblings" that I know love one another.)

This thread (as well as the one Ulli started, "...happening now"), are absolutely overwhelming to me. This one is an eclectic stew containing everything from the silliest and funniest images and prose to some of the most profound, insightful, introspective thoughts that have been shared at Avalon, and then blended with the full spectrum of raw, honest, human emotion. I decided early on to be a watcher, an occasional patron who saunters in quietly from time to time to try to sample a sample, take the pulse, and wave hello.

Dennis
p.s. I know a lot more about yak feces than Buddhism.

[another bob]

Posted by Dennis Leahy (here)
Oh shyyte! Bob's back, and he mentioned "stinky posts", right after my yak feces inverted-koan.

I had hoped it would smash through the thick air (I'm a middle child who has always battled with the codependent urge to fix every situation, especially between "siblings" that I know love one another.)

This thread (as well as the one Ulli started, "...happening now"), are absolutely overwhelming to me. This one is an eclectic stew containing everything from the silliest and funniest images and prose to some of the most profound, insightful, introspective thoughts that have been shared at Avalon, and then blended with the full spectrum of raw, honest, human emotion. I decided early on to be a watcher, an occasional patron who saunters in quietly from time to time to try to sample a sample, take the pulse, and wave hello.

Dennis
p.s. I know a lot more about yak feces than Buddhism.

A monk once asked Ummon, one of my favorite Zen Masters, "What is the Buddha?"

Ummon answered: "A dried ****-stick!"

(Note: A 'dry **** stick' was the medieval equivalent of toilet paper. Hence Yunmen's reply is sometimes translated as "Something to wipe your arse on!"

Now, some may take that as disresectful, and certainly from the mouth of a fool, it would be. Why would a great realizer like Ummon give such an answer? Well, that's what they call a "koan" in Zen. If you try to provide an explanation using your discursive, conceptual mind, you'll neve get it. However, from the point of view of no-mind, the answer is immediately plain. Zen monks in monasteries may labor years over such koans, becoming the inquiry itself, until all their mental preferences and conceptual fabrications are exhausted. At that point, a breakthrough in consciousness is possible.

Dennis, you're safe for now!

[Fred Steeves]

Posted by another bob (here)
Well, that's what they call a "koan" in Zen. If you try to provide an explanation using your discursive, conceptual mind, you'll neve get it. However, from the point of view of no-mind, the answer is immediately plain.

Bob, that reminds me of a funny little story the late great Alan Watts relayed, went something like this: "I left a book of Zen koans with a friend who needed a stay in the hospital. When I came back to visit him a week later, I asked him how he liked the book. He said he didn't understand a bit of it, but found the book tremendously enjoyable".

By the way, I don't really get them either, but I also enjoy them tremendously...

[another bob]

Posted by Fred Steeves (here)
By the way, I don't really get them either, but I also enjoy them tremendously...

The great Poet Ikkyu once said, "The only koan is you!"

Ramana suggested that the best method was simply to inquire, "Who am I?"

The point was not to come up with some intellectual response, but to let the question act like a diamond drill, burrowing through layers of superimposed beliefs and notions, all temporary self-images, until finally reaching the live core at the heart, beyond mind's smoke screen. Only then could you recognize your true nature, stripped of all interpretation and conceptual encrustation.

[Fred Steeves]

Posted by another bob (here)

Posted by Fred Steeves (here)
By the way, I don't really get them either, but I also enjoy them tremendously...

The great Poet Ikkyu once said, "The only koan is you!"

Ramana suggested that the best method was simply to inquire, "Who am I?"

The point was not to come up with some intellectual response, but to let the question act like a diamond drill, burrowing through layers of superimposed beliefs and notions, all temporary self-images, until finally reaching the live core at the heart, beyond mind's smoke screen. Only then could you recognize your true nature, stripped of all interpretation and conceptual encrustation.

Oh yeah, I know their purpose, they're just not my cup of tea on the path of the ongoing awakening process. Now when you get into the realms of "The only koan is you", and the method of simply inquiring "who am I?", well now we're talking.

[jorr lundstrom]

I found the " Where am I ?"even worse. LOL


All is well at the pub, I see. LOL


Jorr

[PurpleLama]

"When am I?" is the one that gives me the most trouble.