Dao Bums (here i am)

[Cobie]

21 minutes ago, Taomeow said:

… Zhurong, the God of Fire …

(Google) Zhurong (祝融 zhùróng), is also the name of the Chinese rover on Mars.  
 

 

Edited March 18 by Cobie

[Nungali]

12 hours ago, -ꦥꦏ꧀ ꦱꦠꦿꦶꦪꦺꦴ- said:

I do, or I make juice from it. 

 

' Prasadam smoothie .  '

 

Mmmmmmm  ...... 'sacrilicious !'

 

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Edited March 19 by Nungali

[Cobie]

15 minutes ago, Nungali said:

… 'sacrilicious !'

Not at all; it is considered disrespectful to waste or throw away prasad.
 

 

Edited March 18 by Cobie

[silent thunder]

9 minutes ago, Cobie said:

Not at all; it is considered disrespectful to waste or throw away prasad.
 

 

nothing in nature is wasted... it is not possible to waste anything.

[Maddie]

2 hours ago, Nungali said:

  " I .m not eating 'grave food !  " 

 

You're saying we aren't supposed to do that? 

[blue eyed snake]

On 2-3-2024 at 4:07 AM, liminal_luke said:

 

 

All of us together in an alternate universe.

 

in that universe I can walk , so will leave the riding for those that need it there

[Nungali]

7 hours ago, Cobie said:

Not at all; it is considered disrespectful to waste or throw away prasad.
 

 

 

 

I know .  I never said it should be thrown away .   ......  I said it was  'sacrilicious'  -   deliciously sacred .

 

I would not throw it away . I dont throw any food away - zero waste ;

 

Meat and bones go to the many goannas  that live in my space and  the ravens and kookaburras  . Possums get fruit  ( but they get the good stuff ) and honey  , grains and veg to other birds ,  Oh .... and bandicootes like Thai sweet chilli and coriander prawn shells  to crunch up .  The ravens polished off the gruesome remains  of the stingray I ate .   And the multitude of life in the big compost pile  gets fed the rest , and that turns into more food ....  for plants  -   the Great Wheel turns and the cycle continues . 

 

Oh yeah , and the goat got the last lot of left over prasadum that the visiting Hare Krishnas made for a feast here  a while back , they kept some, we kept some, still a lot left ..... 'Thea'  ( the goat )    loved it ! One of the HKs looked on approvingly ; " He might even get born reborn as a Devotee !  " 

[Nungali]

6 hours ago, Maddie said:

 

You're saying we aren't supposed to do that? 

 

No . 

 

Is Mercury retrograde ... or something ? 

 

I didnt say  'you all' are supposed to not do or do anything .  I said that I was not going to do that , then .

[Maddie]

6 hours ago, Nungali said:

 

No . 

 

Is Mercury retrograde ... or something ? 

 

I didnt say  'you all' are supposed to not do or do anything .  I said that I was not going to do that , then .

 

Well there goes my discount buffet lol 

[Apech]

On 3/18/2024 at 3:48 PM, thelerner said:

This is probably a naive question.  

Do people end up eating the fruit and food they put out on a shrine?  

 

 

 

In Ancient Egypt there was something called the 'Reversion of Offerings' - which meant that the food offerings made to the god in the daily temple ritual were then first offered to the priests, then to the hemu-ka (the officiants in the funerary rights), and then to the people at the temple entrance.  Thus all the offerings were eaten by someone in a hierarchical order of god - priest - officiants - common folk.

 

In fact much of the local economy of a locale would also operate much in this way - local temples acting as kind of resource centres.

 

 

Edited March 19 by Apech

[silent thunder]

If truly hierarchical it should have been Cats, gods, etc etc

[Apech]

28 minutes ago, silent thunder said:

If truly hierarchical it should have been Cats, gods, etc etc

Well of course.

[Taomeow]

24 minutes ago, silent thunder said:

If truly hierarchical it should have been Cats, gods, etc etc

 

Then and there, cats were gods.

 

Here and now, however, gods are cats.  

 

[Gerard]

And birds too.

 

 

 

[Maddie]

[Mark Foote]

On 3/25/2024 at 3:22 PM, Maddie said:

 

 

I thought you said you didn't have any good pictures!  All of them are good, I'm jealous!

 

 

[Maddie]

guess I'll just own being the Dao Bum's attention whore then lol 

[thelerner]

On 3/18/2024 at 7:20 PM, blue eyed snake said:

 

in that universe I can walk , so will leave the riding for those that need it there

Raises hand.  I'll take the extra horse.

I'll need it for my stuff.

  

by the way, anyone got a spare wagon??  

[blue eyed snake]

I would gladly give you all my worldly goods when I would get back my ability to walk and generally use my body.

so only a horse is a bargain

[silent thunder]

Love you bes... *hug* 

 

[thelerner]

On 3/29/2024 at 9:31 AM, blue eyed snake said:

I would gladly give you all my worldly goods when I would get back my ability to walk and generally use my body.

so only a horse is a bargain

when I get my horse and buggy, you're the first person I'll go for a ride with.  

[Maddie]

good morning 

[blue eyed snake]

your hair looks nice done up like that

[old3bob]

19 minutes ago, Maddie said:

good morning 

 

 

no offense meant Maddie but your pictures  kind of remind me of the song "Bette Davis eyes"...

 

[Maddie]

2 minutes ago, old3bob said:

 

no offense meant Maddie but your pictures  kind of remind me of the song "Bette Davis eyes"...

 

 

I actually get that feedback a LOT lol