@Arkturos saidBwahahahaha.
Perhaps it falls to me to inform you that you are not quite so amusing as you might imagine yourself to be.
If you and rookie had kept your noses out of my funky ass, that would have been a good start.
Just because you are "only" bi doesn't give you any special right to boss anyone else around, no matter what demographic you might try to trap them in.
I'm sure you m ...[text shortened]... so that you could really be beneficial to others?
Were you a mean girl before your later traumas?
I'm thinking he probably deleted that message with prejudice.
I hope you realize that with your stunted personality, your view of the world is ridiculously skewed. The irony here is though you may have narcissist tendencies, I doubt if you ever really learned how to play with others, with the result being I doubt if you even like yourself, under all the pompous buffoonery.
Tao Te Ching 53
Were I possessed of the least knowledge, I would, when walking on the great way, fear only paths that lead astray.
The great way is easy, yet people prefer by-paths.
The court is corrupt,
The fields are overgrown with weeds,
The granaries are empty;
Yet there are those dressed in fineries,
With swords at their sides,
Filled with food and drink,
And possessed of too much wealth.
This is known as taking the lead in robbery.
Far indeed is this from the way.
https://www.centertao.org/essays/tao-te-ching/dc-lau/#chapter-53
When I say there is nothing outside,
Students who do not understand me
Interpret this in terms of inwardness,
So they sit silent and still,
Taking this to be Zen Buddhism.
This is a big mistake.
If you take a state of unmoving clarity to be Zen,
You are recognizing ignorance as a slave master.
~ Linji (d. 867)
#34 Tao-te-Ching
The great Way is all-pervading.
It reaches to the left and to the right.
All things depend on it with their existence.
Still it demands no obedience.
It demands no honor for what it accomplishes.
It clothes and feeds all things without ruling them.
It is eternally without desire.
So, it can be called small.
All things return to it,
Although it does not make itself their ruler.
So, it can be called great.
Therefore, the sage does not strive to be great.
Thereby he can accomplish the great.
~ Lao Tsu
The six supernormal faculties of the enlightened
Are the ability to enter the realm of form without
Being confused by form, to enter the realm of sound
Without being confused by sound,
To enter the realm of scent without being confused
By scent, to enter the realm of flavor without being
Confused by flavor, to enter the realm of feeling
Without being confused by feeling, to enter the realm
Of phenomena without being confused by phenomena.
~ Linji (d. 867)
Half my life sitting by rocks and fountains,
My study cold, seldom the steam of tea:
White clouds emerge from the stillness,
In the valley stream the water runs clear.
I had no good karma to begin with,
So I was born into this muddy age.
Yet I know there’s some past blessing,
For I’ve escaped the layman’s life,
Shut my gate among clouds.
Alms bowl in hand, I roam the village streets;
Grasping my staff, I climb the wooded peaks.
Sometimes I drift in the moonlight by Uji Bridge,
An empty boat free to follow the purls and eddies.
~ Gensei (1623-1668)
The ancient masters slept without dreams and woke up without worries. Their food was plain. Their breath came from deep inside them. They didn’t cling to life, weren’t anxious about death.
They emerged without desire and reentered without resistance. They came easily; they went easily. They didn’t forget where they were from; they didn’t ask where they were going.
They took everything as it came, gladly, and walked into death without fear. They accepted life as a gift, and they handed it back gratefully.
~ Chuang-tzu