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Bu2Bu2 Posts: 1,693
edited June 2007 in A Moving Train
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-melcher/buddha-on-the-subway_b_51231.html

This post today, from HuffPo, says everything I wish I knew how to say.

Using my real name, I posted Comment # 2 right after reading it.

I hope you enjoy it, and I hope it starts a really nice discourse amongst us all here in the Pit's train.

Peace,
Bu
Feels Good Inc.
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  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    Yet I wonder why they'd need to be more enlightened?

    How about just equal and as worthy of respect as you are?
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    justam wrote:
    Yet I wonder why they'd need to be more enlightened?

    How about just equal and as worthy of respect as you are?


    yeah i thought the same thing......the idea is alright....i do something similar but usually it's when i'm bored....never thought of it as "meditation".....:o
  • AbookamongstthemanyAbookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    cutback wrote:
    yeah i thought the same thing......the idea is alright....i do something similar but usually it's when i'm bored....never thought of it as "meditation".....:o

    I always wonder what's going on with people I come across...what they go home to, what troubles they face, how complex their life is, did they get enough sleep? It has always fascinated me how everyone's little worlds greatly contrast yet are so similar at the same time. Anyways, I'm a weirdo. :p
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • hippiemomhippiemom Posts: 3,326
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    I always wonder what's going on with people I come across...what they go home to, what troubles they face, how complex their life is, did they get enough sleep? It has always fascinated me how everyone's little worlds greatly contrast yet are so similar at the same time. Anyways, I'm a weirdo. :p
    I do the same thing :)

    When I was younger I had quite a temper, and this is what got rid of it for me. It's very helpful, when someone is doing something that might be annoying to you, to wonder for a moment what might be going on in their life right now. It's made me a much happier and kinder person.
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    I always wonder what's going on with people I come across...what they go home to, what troubles they face, how complex their life is, did they get enough sleep? It has always fascinated me how everyone's little worlds greatly contrast yet are so similar at the same time. Anyways, I'm a weirdo. :p

    I don't think it's weird to be interested in other people!
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  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    i love this one bu2.
    its saying we are all equal.
    and its saying we are no better than any other living form.
    human-beings, so many go thru life in the state of mind as superior
    to others and other life forms.
    it would feel awesome to be at peace with ones universe.
    alot of ppl, (example being), some big shot city fast life style attorney
    gettin a sub @ lunch time, he/she prolly thinks they're better than the
    40 year old lady makin his/her sandwich.
    he/she goes to the park to eat his/her sub sandwich and pigeons
    are all over wantin fed, one or 48 of them pigeons are flyin over him/her
    and shit on him/her just because they had to shit @ that moment.
    so now the high dollar big city fast talkin life style attorney wants to ban pigeons from the park.hehe.
    its like that politian up here in wa.
    her dog got killed and ate by a cat, rather it be a cougar or bobcat.
    she wants to open back up the use of dogs being used for the hunting/murdering of cougars.
    shes a piece of shit.
    move your ass out of the forest were the city has infested.
    get your ass into a box in an apartment complex on the 28 floor.
    you no tree, woods, animal lovin broad.
    my ranting is over, sorry.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • AbookamongstthemanyAbookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    justam wrote:
    I don't think it's weird to be interested in other people!

    :)
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • Bu2Bu2 Posts: 1,693
    justam: "enlightened". Why pick out that word? Because Buddah was in the post's title? If it hadn't been, would you have read and interpreted the post in a different light?

    cutback: Why do you only do "something similar but usually when bored"?
    Feels Good Inc.
  • AbookamongstthemanyAbookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    hippiemom wrote:
    I do the same thing :)

    When I was younger I had quite a temper, and this is what got rid of it for me. It's very helpful, when someone is doing something that might be annoying to you, to wonder for a moment what might be going on in their life right now. It's made me a much happier and kinder person.


    It really does! If you stop to think of everyone as having a heck of time just like you...it makes you wanna just be nice and helpful and then that carries on to the next person. :)
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    Bu2 wrote:
    justam: "enlightened". Why pick out that word? Because Buddah was in the post's title? If it hadn't been, would you have read and interpreted the post in a different light?

    That's what the second sentence said! :D VVV

    "Try going through your day imagining that everyone you run into is more enlightened than you."
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  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    actually buddha is in everyone.
    tap into that.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • Bu2Bu2 Posts: 1,693
    justam wrote:
    Yet I wonder why they'd need to be more enlightened?

    How about just equal and as worthy of respect as you are?

    * * * *

    That's what the second sentence said! :D VVV

    "Try going through your day imagining that everyone you run into is more enlightened than you."

    are not synonyms for enlightened, though.
    Feels Good Inc.
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    thats true bu2.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    Bu2 wrote:
    are not synonyms for enlightened, though.

    I guess that's true Bu2. :)

    If I had been more careful about what I was saying I might have said "Why not imagine they are equally enlightened rather than more enlightened?"
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  • Bu2Bu2 Posts: 1,693
    justam wrote:
    I guess that's true Bu2. :)

    If I had been more careful about what I was saying I might have said "Why not imagine they are equally enlightened rather than more enlightened?"

    I've done the same thing many a time....it's why I love edit options.
    Feels Good Inc.
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    Bu2 wrote:
    I've done the same thing many a time....it's why I love edit options.

    I need edit options because sometimes I say things too sparsely. :)
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  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    try being enlightened by a pile of steaming horse shit.
    when we can do that, we are totaly, amazingly, and uttterly enlightened.
    to do this one must fast for 3.5 weeks only drinking pure spring water
    and meditating at the Buddhadist Temples in Tibet.
    or go to India, get naked and smoke opium and meditate under a tree for 2 months.
    my lil humor is all.
    but in fact i think those folks rock.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • Bu2Bu2 Posts: 1,693
    *holds right hand out to Chad*

    Grasshoppah.....try to take this pebble out of my palm......
    Feels Good Inc.
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    I always wonder what's going on with people I come across...what they go home to, what troubles they face, how complex their life is, did they get enough sleep? It has always fascinated me how everyone's little worlds greatly contrast yet are so similar at the same time. Anyways, I'm a weirdo. :p

    that's what i'm talking 'bout.....:)
    Bu2 wrote:
    cutback: Why do you only do "something similar but usually when bored"?


    see above.....like when i'm in a line at the store or in traffic.....i look around and wonder about other peoples lives....never put it in the context of enlightenment...:)
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    mental-telepathy or whatever it is.
    mind over matter/energy.
    moves bu2s pebble from her hand and into her ear.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • Bu2Bu2 Posts: 1,693
    cutback wrote:
    that's what i'm talking 'bout.....:)




    see above.....like when i'm in a line at the store or in traffic.....i look around and wonder about other peoples lives....never put it in the context of enlightenment...:)

    it's time we all should.
    Feels Good Inc.
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    Bu2 wrote:
    it's time we all should.


    oh you betcha.......gonna from now on......:)
  • my2handsmy2hands Posts: 17,117
    hippiemom wrote:

    When I was younger I had quite a temper


    thats what happens when your an Indians fan :cool:
  • my2handsmy2hands Posts: 17,117
    i thought this thread was about smoking weed on the train...

    dead serious :p
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    enlightenment would be found everywhere, and from anyone.
    and probably anything.
    you can get enlightenment from a tree or a rock.
    a huge body of enlightenment would be the sea.
    or the sky @ daylight or night-light by way of stars.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • Bu2Bu2 Posts: 1,693
    Chad makes a good point.

    Especially with pebbles....ahem.

    One need not go to a church or temple or circle of stones to feel the presence that is so palpable around us, if one simply stops for a moment to take in everything within sight....and realizes that everything in sight is just as real and important as oneself....that one's self is not alone.....that one's self is just one of many.
    Feels Good Inc.
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    I often try to ingest fully the knowledge that everyone I see and encounter during the day will one day be dead. It gives you a strange perspective on things.
    I also like to refocus my eyes on my environment so that rather than seeing a road running through a field, I see a field with a road running through it. I try to see nature first and mans intervention as secondary. It's hard to explain, but It gives you an odd perspective.

    Edit: What I mean is, rather seeing that tree, or patch of grass, or the woods, at the side of the road as being peripheral, I try to see it as being central, so that all the other stuff - road, house e.t.c falls into the position of being peripheral to nature.
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    Bu2 wrote:
    Chad makes a good point.

    Especially with pebbles....ahem.

    One need not go to a church or temple or circle of stones to feel the presence that is so palpable around us, if one need simply stop for a moment and take in everything within sight....and realize that everything in sight is just as real and important as oneself....that one's self is not alone.....that one's self is just one of many.

    thats exactly what it is about.
    we are all of one from one.
    and i'll even go a bit deeper if i may?
    if one would just simply stop for a moment and take in everything within sight,
    and everything out of sight, the unseen and the never-seen.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    Byrnzie wrote:
    I often try to ingest fully the knowledge that everyone I see and encounter during the day will one day be dead. It gives you a strange perspective on things.
    I also like to refocus my eyes on my environment so that rather than seeing a road running through a field, I see a field with a road running through it. I try to see nature first and mans intervention as secondary. It's hard to explain, but It gives you an odd perspective.

    Edit: What I mean is, rather seeing that tree, or patch of grass, or the woods, at the side of the road as being peripheral, I try to see it as being central, so that all the other stuff - road, house e.t.c falls into the position of being peripheral to nature.

    i always see the trees.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    Byrnzie wrote:
    I often try to ingest fully the knowledge that everyone I see and encounter during the day will one day be dead. It gives you a strange perspective on things.
    I also like to refocus my eyes on my environment so that rather than seeing a road running through a field, I see a field with a road running through it. I try to see nature first and mans intervention as secondary. It's hard to explain, but It gives you an odd perspective.

    Edit: What I mean is, rather seeing that tree, or patch of grass, or the woods, at the side of the road as being peripheral, I try to see it as being central, so that all the other stuff - road, house e.t.c falls into the position of being peripheral to nature.

    what i like to see in my head/heart visions/thoughts is this.
    a highway thru the forest but earse the highway and see it as 1,000
    yrs pre-highway traveling.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
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