@divegeester said
In this thread, under any circumstances.

You have been warned.

yer never gonna say that to my FACE

lol

i read whatever it was last night right after it was posted
since i cannot for the life of me remember the post, tis wrong of me to conclude the words were more vapid than the dismissal of those words

tsk

Attain the mind of emptiness,
Preserve the utmost quiet:
As myriad things act in concert,
I therefore observe the return.
Things flourish,
Then each returns to its root.
Returning to the root is called stillness:
Stillness is called return to Life,
Return to Life is called the constant;
Knowing the constant is called enlightenment.

~ Lao-tzu

listening to the kinks sing about a "plastic man"


i thought about you

Those who seek liberation for themselves alone cannot become fully enlightened.

Though it may be said that one who is not already liberated cannot liberate others, the very process of forgetting oneself to help others is itself liberating.

Therefore those who seek to benefit themselves alone actually harm themselves by doing so, while those who help others also help themselves by doing so.

~ Muso Kokushi (1275-1351)

@kewpie said
I didn't really expect to find anyone, it's a rare obsession I've found. 🫠

even after i did the google thingie i did not understand what it was yer talking about
so i very nearly wrote a stupid rhyme, but didn't

yer welcome

If you want to freely live or die, go or stay, to take off or put on your clothes, then right now recognize the one who is listening to my discourse.

That one is without form, without characteristics, without root, without source, and without any dwelling place, yet is brisk and very alive.

As for all manifold responsive activities, the place where they are carried on is, in fact, no place.

Therefore, when you look for that one, it retreats farther and farther, when you seek that, it turns more and more the other way: this is called the “Mystery.”

~ Lin-chi (d.866)

@divegeester said
I’m lookin’ for him…

Who knows where he is?

i heard he was dead

The saying
"By three methods we may learn wisdom:
First, by reflection, which is noblest;
Second, by imitation, which is easiest;
and Third by experience, which is the bitterest"
is credited to whom?

tornados and cicadas
and falling airplane parts
the moon needs a timezone
another random collection of junk

As long as you are subject
To a life bound by force of habit,
You are not free from the
Burden of the body.

~ Kuei-Shan (771-854)

@hand-of-hecate said
https://www.weremember.com/timothy-nimmo/6w9y/memories

he cast many stag sculptures in bronze
when i did the facebook thingie, i enjoyed watching the processes he documented

Baby Sabreen saved from dead mother's womb in Gaza dies

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68903591

Mike Pinder, keyboardist co-founder of Moody Blues, dies at 82

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/04/25/mike-pinder-moody-blues-death/6731714090109/

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome;
if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent;
if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

~ Lord Salisbury