XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   crazyrainbow wrote:   
   >Am 12.10.2016 um 08:24 schrieb {:-]))):   
   >> crazyrainbow wrote:   
   >>> Am 12.10.2016 um 06:53 schrieb {:-]))):   
   >>>> crazyrainbow wrote:   
   >>>>> Am 11.10.2016 um 15:00 schrieb {:-]))):   
   >>>>>> noname wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> The world does need fixin.  Why does the world need fixin if it's   
   perfect?   
   >>>>>>> It's continually generated by a perfect machine.  Its operators don't   
   know   
   >>>>>>> how to run the thing so they've brought it around to where its product,   
   >>>>>>> called the world, needs fixin.  How do you fix that?  Show folks how to   
   >>>>>>> work the machine so their fingers don't get cut off and the present is   
   >>>>>>> better than the past, for a start.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Sounds kinda like the living Master pickle jar in a way.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> As for me, personally, when I see what needs fixin   
   >>>>>> and I can fix what my needs tell me it needs, I fix it.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> ...   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Maybe when they now start to drop the so "needed" atomic bombs! Maybe   
   >>>>> tehn you'll probably see the need of fixing, but maybe when you survive   
   >>>>> and the tumors start to grow on you, maybe thewn it is to late to fix   
   >>>>> anything! (no need to mention environnmental destruction. if you maybe   
   >>>>> think it doesn't concern me only maybe the next generation, because now   
   >>>>> everything is still(!?) under control, isn't that kind od selfish   
   thinking?)   
   >>>>   
   >>>> When the Sun expands and consumes Earth,   
   >>>> all who remain as surface dwellers shall be consumed.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The end of Earth as it now is does not bother me.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Sooner than that, when the next ice age's glaciers crush cities   
   >>>> that many of the Earthlings live in, if climate change did not   
   >>>> slow the pace of the ice, by then it will be too late.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Climate change does not bother me.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I do not fear atomic bombs.   
   >>>> I lived thru that era, in the 50s.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> There are millions of things that can be fixed each day.   
   >>>> I fix what needs fixing when I am able. And if I can't,   
   >>>> if it bothers me, then it bothers me.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I have had cancers removed.   
   >>>> And yet, quite often I'm full of joy and not in fear.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> When I am concerned, I am concerned.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> When I am at the center of a center, I remain   
   >>>> unconcerned and simply respond.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I used to ride on a see-saw, as a kid.   
   >>>> We had one in the back yard.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Going up and down is not unusual for me.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Cycling occurs.   
   >>>> Sometimes on two wheels.   
   >>>> At times with no hands.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Normally I walk to get around.   
   >>>> Without shoes. As if that makes a difference.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Do you consider yourself some kind of (pseudo and selfdeclared)   
   >>> enlightened (selfcentered) "egomaniac", or what should i read out of   
   >>> your selfcentered posting? Because that's what i read out of it: pseudo   
   >>> and selfdeclared enlightened selfcentered egomaniac.   
   >>   
   >> I consider myself simply unconcerned   
   >> with many things that bother a great many people   
   >> who live in fear and doubt.   
   >>   
   >> As I said, when a thing bothers me, it does.   
   >> When things don't, they don't.   
   >>   
   >> Usually most things that people fear don't bother me.   
   >> I've thought about them a great deal.   
   >> Those fears are not my fears.   
   >>   
   >> I have compassion when I do.   
   >> When I don't I don't.   
   >>   
   >> What you read out of my words is what you read.   
   >> That's in your mind. Or where ever it arises from.   
   >>   
   >> How big would you say your ego is?   
   >> Or how small? If you care to say.   
   >> Maybe on a scale of your choosing.   
   >>   
   >   
   >Ok sorry!   
   >Considerind my ego on a selfchosen scale, let's take the usual 1 to 10,   
   >my ego varies depending on circumstances from -10 to 20, even that is   
   >statemnet considering my ego is included in that range. ;-) :-( :-)   
      
   Mine tends to go from zero to infinity   
   on a scale of identifying my so-called self   
   with everything and nothing.   
      
   From anatman to atman.   
   From simply being an unusual human   
   being a human being for a spell   
   to being Being as the Self,   
   as if that means any   
   so-called thing.   
      
   Sometimes I identify with a nation's capital   
   or with its currency, as if a name means something.   
   Or a flag, a geographical land mass, with lines   
   drawn on a map, as if that is me.   
      
   My myths tend to vary.   
   The ones I take to be all too real.   
      
   Do you have any favorite stories?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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