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Post by rgs2001uk on May 24, 2016 21:13:55 GMT 7
^^^^,  Anyway Neil Young summed it up years ago. "Take my advice Dont listen to me" |
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Post by bowie on May 24, 2016 21:30:05 GMT 7
I like Neil Young and his early stuff was amazing.
This is dross.
I don't think I was a hippy, threw Zappa at them at the time.
Old times.
Will post on music.
Only fair to readers.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2016 22:01:04 GMT 7
“And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2016 22:04:02 GMT 7
“For so many years, the official propaganda machinery had denounced humanitarianism as sentimental trash and advocated human relations based entirely on class allegiance. But my personal experience had shown me that most of the Chinese people remained kind, sensitive, and compassionate even though the cruel reality of the system under which they had to live compelled them to lie and pretend."
― Nien Cheng, Life and Death in Shanghai
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2016 22:04:41 GMT 7
“But it also had many large posters with messages of a more peaceful nature. These extolled the country’s economic achievement since the Cultural Revolution, which was supposed to have liberated the forces of production and increased productivity. Of course, the Cultural Revolution had done just the opposite. Official lies like this, habitually indulged in and frequently displayed by the authorities, served no purpose except to create the impression that truth was unimportant."
― Nien Cheng, Life and Death in Shanghai
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2016 22:05:07 GMT 7
“Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory is won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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Post by buhi on May 24, 2016 22:06:05 GMT 7
Bloody dog has just kicked the computer, true bitch.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2016 22:06:17 GMT 7
“Only on a few occasions had I ever been comfortable showing my body off, and now here I was, taking a job where Asian boobs and ass ran free.”
― Teresa Lo, The Red Lantern Scandals
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2016 5:22:29 GMT 7
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Alan Watts
Get them chips in the fryer and be done with it FFS
Zen
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2016 5:27:31 GMT 7
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan Watts
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2016 13:22:03 GMT 7
Yes zen, but most do not know life and how to live, it is merely an existence.
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2016 13:31:19 GMT 7
'The Art of War' has been my bible of sorts.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2016 19:00:19 GMT 7
So long as we remain attached to a group or to an ideology, so long as we are ambitious, seeking success, we are bound to create war. It may not be a war of outward destruction, but we will have conflict between each other and within ourselves, which is actually a form of war. I do not think we see this, and even if we do, we are not serious about it. We want some miraculous event to take place to stop war, while we continue to live as we are in the present social structure, making money, seeking position, power, prestige, trying to become famous, and all the rest of it. That is our pattern, and so long as that pattern exists in our minds and hearts, we are bound to produce war.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2016 20:44:36 GMT 7
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts on this day in 1803.
The Rhodora
On being asked, whence is the flower?
In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes,
I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods,
Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook,
To please the desert and the sluggish brook.
The purple petals fallen in the pool
Made the black water with their beauty gay;
Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool,
And court the flower that cheapens his array.
Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why
This charm is wasted on the earth and sky,
Tell them, dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for Being;
Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
I never thought to ask; I never knew;
But in my simple ignorance suppose
The self-same power that brought me there, brought you.
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Post by buhi on May 25, 2016 21:35:47 GMT 7
To see a world in a grain of sand:
OK you know that, but I marvel every day at the incredible.
Limestone, granite, marble, rocks in our daily life which need our contemplation.
Wild life, nature ;
And the mundane, which has its intrinsic wonder.
Maybe quoted here before; losing my marbles.
I choose this , although Wordsworth's rainbow is within it too:
Glory be to God for dappled things –
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.
Source: Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics, 1985)
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