sagebrush Posted January 17, 2020 run the opposite direction from the man who thinks he has all the answers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Miffymog Posted January 17, 2020 16 hours ago, sagebrush said: run the opposite direction from the man who thinks he has all the answers. Two men were trying to run away from a lion. While doing so one turned to the other and said - why are you trying to out run this lion, you can't out run a lion. The other replied - I don't need to out run the lion, I just need to out run you. 2 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chainer Posted January 18, 2020 “Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”― Friedrich Nietzsche 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
neti neti Posted January 18, 2020 (edited) . Edited September 3, 2020 by neti neti 4 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted January 18, 2020 “I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own” ― Nikola Tesla 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted January 18, 2020 “Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.” ― George Carlin 3 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted January 18, 2020 On 1/17/2020 at 9:14 AM, Miffymog said: Two men were trying to run away from a lion. While doing so one turned to the other and said - why are you trying to out run this lion, you can't out run a lion. The other replied - I don't need to out run the lion, I just need to out run you. Me, camping with a buddy in Grizzly country. Him: So, what's your like... bear strategy? Play dead? Get big and yell? Me: ... nope... very simple. Always camp with a slow friend. Him: ... dude! you suck! 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moment Posted January 19, 2020 Cats and owls seem soooo alike! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted January 20, 2020 1 hour ago, moment said: Cats and owls seem soooo alike! Ha, our most recent feline family member, Tara... we call her our Owl Cat. She's a Nordic Forest Longhair but i swear in varying lights, varying times of day... She's 33%Owl, 34%Fox, 33%Feline and 39%Shadow/Mist. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
manitou Posted January 20, 2020 (edited) That's 139% all cat. Can you get her weight down? Edited January 20, 2020 by manitou 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted January 20, 2020 (edited) I have lived with several zen masters... all of them feline. ~anon Cats above most animals I've spent time with seem to be innate masters of zen, in both their innate emptiness when not engaged, and their unbreakable focused mindfulness when in action. True Masters. As for Tara: She's the quietest in spirit and presence of any I've shared time with. Spoiler she's about nine months in these pics. Now Three (and still growing to about five vet says), She's very light, though nearly three feet long now, her mane has come in, her tail is even thicker and the hair between her toes is several inches long. She slides across travertine like it's ice. Edited January 20, 2020 by silent thunder 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taomeow Posted January 20, 2020 (edited) 33 minutes ago, silent thunder said: I have lived with several zen masters... all of them feline. ~anon Cats above most animals I've spent time with seem to be innate masters of zen, in both their innate emptiness when not engaged, and their unbreakable focused mindfulness when in action. True Masters. As for Tara: She's the quietest in spirit and presence of any I've shared time with. Reveal hidden contents she's about nine months in these pics. Now Three (and still growing to about five vet says), She's very light, though nearly three feet long now, her mane has come in, her tail is even thicker and the hair between her toes is several inches long. She slides across travertine like it's ice. She does look like a Zen master, although her pillow says Om. My cat Haomao is no zen master. He is a control freak. Edited January 20, 2020 by Taomeow 1 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SirPalomides Posted January 20, 2020 Mencius said, "Instruction makes use of many techniques. When I do not deign to instruct someone, that too is a form of instruction." 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
manitou Posted January 21, 2020 11 hours ago, SirPalomides said: Mencius said, "Instruction makes use of many techniques. When I do not deign to instruct someone, that too is a form of instruction." Dangerously close to not-doing. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
liminal_luke Posted January 22, 2020 Meditation is a lot like marriage: You begin in pursuit of ecstasy and eventually settle for mild contentment. After twenty years you realize that contentment itself is a kind of ecstasy. From "Sparrow´s Guide to Meditation," The Sun Magazine 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chainer Posted January 23, 2020 'He who urges rational thought forward, thereby also drives its antagonistic power—mysticism and foolery of every kind—to new feats of strength. We should recognise that every movement is (1) partly the manifestation of fatigue resulting from a previous movement (satiety after it, the malice of weakness towards it, and disease); and (2) partly a newly awakened accumulation of long slumbering forces, and therefore wanton, violent, healthy.' ― Friedrich Nietzsche 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taomeow Posted January 23, 2020 "Growth for the sake of Growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." -- Edward Abbey 5 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moment Posted January 23, 2020 “There is darkness inside all of us, though mine is more dangerous than most. Still, we all have it—that part of our soul that is irreparably damaged by the very trials and tribulations of life. We are what we are because of it, or perhaps in spite of it. Some use it as a shield to hide behind, others as an excuse to do unconscionable things. But, truly, the darkness is simply a piece of the whole, neither good nor evil unless you make it so. It took a witch, a war, and a voodoo queen to teach me that.” ― Jenna Maclaine 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chainer Posted January 24, 2020 “My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it — all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity — , but to love it...”― Friedrich Nietzsche 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moment Posted January 25, 2020 1. A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. 2. We made too many wrong mistakes. 3. Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken. 4. You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six. 5. I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four. 6. Never answer an anonymous letter. 7. How can you think and hit at the same time? 8. The future ain’t what it used to be. 9. I tell the kids, somebody’s gotta win, somebody’s gotta lose. Just don’t fight about it. Just try to get better. 10. It gets late early out here. 11. You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there. -----Yogi Berra 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moment Posted January 26, 2020 “Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole. Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~ 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chainer Posted January 29, 2020 “If you hit the wrong note, it’s the next note that determines if it’s good or bad.” —Miles Davis 7 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moment Posted January 29, 2020 If cold is the absence of heat, evil is the absence of good.--- anonymous, taoist, pain in the butt. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted January 30, 2020 (edited) “Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.” -- D.T. Suzuki "The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede." -- D.T. Suzuki Edited January 30, 2020 by silent thunder 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites