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Free Thinking Siddharthist

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About Me

Nan-in served Tea. He poured his visitor's cup full, and then kept on pouring. The visitor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. "It is overfull. No more will go in!" "Like this cup," Nan-in said, "you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?" ~from Zen Flesh, Zen Bones by Paul Reps.

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"Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parent's, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors we borrow it from our children." - Ancient Indian Proverb

My Blog

And the dreamers dream.

We close our "eyes", and lay back. Someone places the needle on the record. As the music plays, we see through our filters "reality". We dance. Slaves to the rythm of that which we perceive. We dream ...
Posted by on Tue, 05 May 2009 06:22:00 GMT

Enough with being unfair to each other.

I understand that racism still exists. There are bad cops. Some black people like chicken openly. Some white people walk like they have a stick in their ass. The moon is not made out of cheese. Perhap...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:16:00 GMT

I am so done walking around in circles.

Im toast.
Posted by on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:45:00 GMT

Stop fighting that which can not be won.

Most of us aren't willing to face the reality of impermanence and death. That's because we forget that our lives are transitory, we quarrel with each other, as if we are go...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:27:00 GMT

The old me is dead and gone

DISCLAIMER! Just trying to get some crap out of my head, dont want anyone to take this one personally.In the words of Stabbing Westward, I can not save you, I cant even save myself.I lik...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:44:00 GMT

Why we do not "get" each other

You know how you feel when you watch a show about millionaires, when you are dirt poor? You know how you sit and shake your head and wonder, WTF? All they do is complain, and expect gold to fall out o...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:18:00 GMT

My ego speaks out on Buddhism

I visit temples, and sit with sanghas, and one thing seems to be universal;  They all want you to be free by doing what they tell you to do.Something in that formula just doesn't sit right with me. I ...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:14:00 GMT

Keep it simple

Prince Gautama who had become Buddha saw one of his followers meditating under a tree at the edge of the Ganges river. Upon inquiring why he was meditating, his follower stated he was attempti...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:51:00 GMT

Generation me, get over our self.

We are the generation of me/I. It has been something I have pondered on for a long time. My daughter is considered weird because her parents are married, have been her entire life, and her brother is ...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:37:00 GMT

blah, blah, ego

Attention! it has come before me that my blogs are my egos way to say, what it says when it says what it says , in order to say that which has been said by all who have said it in the past.... so to s...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:34:00 GMT