silent thunder

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  1. I want to become powerful

    Those who crave power seem to always be the most susceptible to being corrupted by it. Like those who always want and crave to lead. I find these usually unworthy of following. While the fool is always absolutely certain, the sages walk in perpetual doubt.
  2. Process Appreciation

    I still mourn the loss of all my Grandpa's hand tools from the 30's n 40's. When he passed, she sold his entire collection of tools and hand tied fishing flies n lures. I wept openly. Been working in wood and metal craft for the last 25 years now. I would use them daily. As for the smells... walnut and red cedar make me giddy and when I come in the door most days my son generally gives me a hug and comments on yhe wood scents. Good vibes...
  3. Process Appreciation

    Done a fair amount of wood steaming/bending, but this idea is going to make a grand surprise for my gal someday on either her birthday/mothersday which frequently coincide or for our anniversary. Props to the design initiator! Crescent Moon floating chair... wow~!
  4. Process Appreciation

    I've built thousands of doors in my career in Hollywood. Many of them strange by common standards. Never had a chance to make one of these in human size
  5. Letting Go of Good and Bad

    I worked very hard and managed to become an uncommon schmuck.
  6. Medicine Buddha

  7. Letting Go of Good and Bad

    Within local awareness, there is still pretty solid conceptual good and bad for me. Moral relativism on grand scales is an intellectual passtime that breaks down for me on our scale.
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    can a smile be inverted i wonder? when i smile, if i consider it, it seems it's my whole being that smiles... the face is another aspect of the smile, not the host. fun to consider what is smiling when one smiles...
  9. I find seriousness to often be confused with sincerity, particularly in the West. Are you being serious? No. However this does not imply one is being insincere. It is quite possible to be sincere while remaining light hearted and jovial. Often to me light hearted and playful sincerity is a sign of high skill. In most situations seriousness and somber attitude are not necessary and overrated.
  10. I don't recall deci being banned, but leaving.
  11. Why would you assume to know what someone else is capable of learning from any given source?
  12. I suspect what folks mean by enlightenment is what to me reflects our natural essence devoid of overlays, illusion, interpretation, assumption and projection. Our true nature. Impossible to know what folks really imply by the concept without being in their mind with them so in the realm of words it's all interpretive and intuiting on the part of the listener/reader. It seems equally impossible to know whether or not a lineage or any member of it is enlightened either; and when we claim another is enlightened or not, we present ourself as a qualified observer and arbiter capable of assessing such. I am grateful for each of my teachers, both the great and the janky. They all have provided grist for the mill of my process. As for transmission. Nature on the whole is the transmitter od the All in All. No thing is a seperate function. Organisms comprise the environment. It all arises tzujan. It is all 'of a thing'.