GENIUS FORUMS

'He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me,'--in those who harbour such thoughts hatred will never cease.

'He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me,'--in those who do not harbour such thoughts hatred will cease.



Dhammapada

Is that your eye Kunga?

SeekerOfWisdom wrote:Is that your eye Kunga?

No honey...it's not.
I tried to upload mine, but it was too big.

Well! It certainly turned me on, you should have said yes and followed with some kind of philosophical argument, I would have ogled and agreed instantly, baby. ;)

Blessed are the peacemakers.


(Jesus ?)

Sure is, my favorite one, which I think is particularly high level, "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."

I'm more partial to, "Fuck with me and I'll eat your kidneys."

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Wolfgang A. Mozart

If you think you know what the hell is going on, you're probably full of shit.

Robert Anton Wilson

“Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.”
- H. Miller

Cahoot

"What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear?
Hope and fear are both phantoms
that arise from thinking of the self.
When we don't see the self as self,
what do we have to fear?"

-Lao Tzu

The ancient Masters
didn't try to educate the people,
but kindly taught them to not-know.

When they think that they know the answers,
people are difficult to guide.
When they know that they don't know,
people can find their own way.

If you want to learn how to govern,
avoid being clever or rich.
The simplest pattern is the clearest.
Content with an ordinary life,
you can show all people the way
back to their own true nature.

~ Lao Tzu (`Tao Te Ching’, verse 65)

You are what you eat, Grasshopper.

I take that back.

"The Tao is ungraspable.
How can her mind be at one with it?
Because she doesn't cling to ideas."

nutrition for the soul
or the souless ?

my heart beats loud now

SeekerOfWisdom wrote:Cahoot

"What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear?
Hope and fear are both phantoms
that arise from thinking of the self.
When we don't see the self as self,
what do we have to fear?"

-Lao Tzu

Fearlessness derives from a sense of immortality. In youth that sense comes from an unlived future filled with possibilties. Later, that sense comes from the certainty of transience.

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Today is the anniversary day of UG's passing.

"You love fear. The ending of fear is death, and you don't want that to happen. I am not talking of wiping out the phobias of the body. They are necessary for survival. The death of fear is the only death."
- U.G. Krishnamurti

Cahoot wrote: Fearlessness derives from a sense of immortality. In youth that sense comes from an unlived future filled with possibilties. Later, that sense comes from the certainty of transience.

Fearlessness is one description of one result of non-attached 'blank face'. Certainty indeed.

"The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!"
Bill Watterson

Writing and thinking.

Pierce the mendacious tide like a surfboard, like a shark.

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"Boredom is a bottomless pit. As long as you think that there is something more interesting, more purposeful, more meaningful to do than what you are actually doing, you have no way of freeing yourself from boredom."
- U.G.

"The highest skill is in the realization of egolessness.
The highest nobility is in subduing your own mind.
The highest excellence is in having a mind which seeks to help others.
The highest precept is continual mindfulness.
The highest remedy is in understanding the
naturelessness of everything.
The highest activity is not to conform with worldly concerns. The highest accomplishment is the lessening and transmutation of the passions.
The highest giving is found in non-attachment.
The highest moral practice is a peaceful mind.
The highest patience is humility.
The highest effort is to abandon attachment to activities. The highest meditation is the mind without pretension.
The highest wisdom is not to grasp anything as it appears."

[Atisha]

Are you playing your own game or someone else's?
- Tomas (paraphrased)

Test this question against moods and situations and time and it polishes like a diamond.

Frank's Pearls of Wisdom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-6xoT5Z2nA

"I hate men who are afraid of women's strength." - Anais Nin