Bu2 On: Buddah on the Subway

Bu2
Bu2 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
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  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    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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  • norm
    norm 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
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany 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
  • hippiemom
    hippiemom 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
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    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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  • chadwick
    chadwick 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
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany 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
  • Bu2
    Bu2 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.
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany 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
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    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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  • chadwick
    chadwick 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
  • Bu2
    Bu2 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.
  • chadwick
    chadwick 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
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    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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  • Bu2
    Bu2 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.
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    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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  • chadwick
    chadwick 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
  • Bu2
    Bu2 Posts: 1,693
    *holds right hand out to Chad*

    Grasshoppah.....try to take this pebble out of my palm......
    Feels Good Inc.
  • norm
    norm 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...:)
  • chadwick
    chadwick 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

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