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@Arkturos said
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?
Bwahahahaha.

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 thoughts arise, immediately notice them; once you become aware of them, they are no longer there.

~ Chinul (1158-1210)


Kuei-shan asked Yun-yen, “What is the seat of enlightenment?”
Yun-yen said, “Freedom from artificiality.”

~ Kuei-shan (771-854)


"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts."

Marcus Aurelius.


“What’s so funny about Biggus Dickus?”

Pilate


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)

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#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

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When the mind is always as clear and bright
As ten suns shining together,
Detached from views and beyond feelings,
Cutting through ephemeral illusions
Of birth and death,
This is what is meant by the saying,
“Mind itself is Buddha.”

~ Yuanwu

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If people but knew their own religion,
how tolerant they would become,
and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

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