trailmaker

I guess I am supposed to say hello, so ... hello

Hello and welcome - what are your areas of interest?

egrets stretch and glide

out over the water- fresh

on the heels of love

on the heels of love

life force gliding in pursuit

along eternal way

from mortality...

rich brown dirt smelling of life.

Worms wriggle, glisten.

Worms wriggle, glisten

numerous after the rain

thoughts turn to fishing

Hello.

The interesting name of a site - www.thetaobums.com, interesting "Lobby" here is very good.

I spent 1 hours searching in the network, until find your forum!

Welcome - hope you have a good time here...

Worth it for one dance

to see Mama jitterbug.

Cool drinks, hot night.

Cool drinks, hot night

Sultry, once, twice, thrice removed

from mortality...

(From memory)

"Thanatopsis" Wm. Cullen Bryant

"So live that when thy summons comes to join

the innumerable caravan that journeys to that mysterious realm

where each shall take his chamber in the silent halls of death,

thou go not like the quarry slave at night

scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed

by an unfaltering trust

like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him,

and lies down to pleasant dreams...

Hellow fellow members. I've been reading a lot of very informative posts on Tao bums for quite a while now in particular effilang posts. I must say that Im very impressed by the maturity and intelligence displayed in this forum thus far lol. I hope that I will be able to provide as much as I am able to take away from this community and wish everyone the best of luck towards their noble aspirations. Thank you once again.

Most welcome - I have found this place nice to go to for some time now - hope you enjoy...

once again, Pink Floyd?

banging the division bell

music in dark rooms

music in dark rooms

why not tear down all the walls

lest it go unheard

creek sounds, empty sky

bladder calls, emptying sphere

multiverse bubbles

 

multiverse bubbles

with every decision

new bubble appears

 

new bubble appears

floating in the champaigne foam

four thousand plus posts

 

four thousand plus posts

strolling now to five thousand

storied ways to home

storied ways to home

each containing a moment

all along the way

Hey Bums

 

What' s the deal ?

 

Me no age free of job and all alone. Just PC and I don' t know how many thoughts went through and will went through my crazy mind.

 

I am looking for a girlfriend here, as I suppose it being possible.

 

What else.. Djuan Dsi is my favourite author,

I wonder if he is reborn yet to become my best friend besides my to other best friends.

 

All of you: text me!! I am true until boredom becomes boring and adventure rises beneath horizon.

 

See you soon,

 

Freddy

Welcome and best of fortune in your quest - met a girl years ago who turned out to have been a taoist

without knowing it all along - it was a lifetime of domestic tranquility...

rice wine, wedding cake

friends and family dancing

old maid in corner

old maid in corner

elderly gent approaches

may I have this dance?

anytime of day

cut flowers will drink water.

church-step birds eat rice.

church-step birds eat rice

wedding party celebrates

rice wine, wedding cake

four thousand haikus

and yet- the feeling is strong

red tablecloth, bright

red tablecloth, bright

maybe Szechuan? rice wine

hot shrimp and cashews...

only to return

old photos, so well hidden

stolen memories

stolen memories

apparent realities

relived at a glance

Hello Taobums. I have been a guest here many times. I am not sure why I am joining now I do enjoy browsing the topics here.

Have a good time browsing - it's a good place to be...

If you'll just let them

squirrels will sleep in your walls

in beds of acorns.

in beds of acorns

noisily making babies

wee hours of the night

Sad bloke here. Looking to unstuck my mind from a persistent someone.

 

Have been to a 10 day Goenka course and occasionally does vipassana, no attainments whatsoever yet.

 

Hopefully, there's something that Taoism can offer me that my mind wouldn't so vehemently resist like other practices.

 

Thank you to all of you who've been here before me and contributed a lot to the forum, I've been a long time lurker and I learned a lot from your posts.

I gues the best advice I know of is for starters contemplate the Tao Te Ching and when questions arise talk

to people here...

Welcome - Order in our lives occurs according to natural law - nicely outlined in the Tao Te Ching...

joined the the community looking to have fun here and get some new knowledge.

Welcome - have a good time...

If you're growing old less than 8 hours isn't sufficient either.

Yep - I'm getting up there in age and feel fine with 9-11 hours per night...

Slumping Lorax, stumped

Thought fuzz says best take a nap

It'll come to you

Yes, it's a fine place to be able to go when you feel like it - welcome...

A truly good person functions without ulterior motive.

A moralist acts out of private desires.

A ritualist acts and, when no one responds,

rolls up a sleeve and marches.

 

When we lose the Tao, we turn to Virtue.

When we lose Virtue, we turn to kindness.

When we lose kindness, we turn to morality.

When we lose morality, we turn to ritual.

 

Ritual is the mere husk of good faith and loyalty

and the beginning of disorder.

 

~Tao Te Ching, Chapter 38, as translated by Tolbert McCarroll

 

People of the Tao

conform to the Tao.

People of Virtue

conform to Virtue.

People who lose the way

conform to the loss.

Those who conform to the Tao

are welcomed into the Tao.

Those who conform to Virtue

are welcomed into Virtue.

Those who conform to the loss

are welcomed into the loss.

What you are comes to you - Ralph Waldo Emerson

like an autumn day

the time of year geese fly south

see you in the spring

Hi HealingPhoenix,

 

I am glad you found your way here - Welcome

Likewise - most welcome - lots of power levels to explore here...