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Posted on Oct.30.2012 @ 01:30AM EDT by leoj99
Who Am I? The Ultimate question in life. And all other questions comes from that single question.
Now don't tell me you are just a concept, an idea, what you think, what you are thinking..
If .. You and You .. through and through..
So you are just a thought that rise and falls like a cloud now you see it now you don't?...lol
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Reply from Avisitor
Oct.30.2012
03:12AM EDT
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What's for dinner?? |
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Reply from Joe Chip
Oct.30.2012
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You're a parrot, who learned to cack-a-daddle-dooo, that's who. |
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Reply from Avisitor
Oct.30.2012
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So who is Polly and what is the cracker for?? |
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Reply from Joe Chip
Oct.30.2012
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Cack. |
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Reply from starduster
Oct.30.2012
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Quote: "You're a parrot, who learned to cack-a-daddle-dooo, that's who." .........
Eggs, parrot or rooster eggs, I dont care, Im going to go microwave some eggs with cheese on top. |
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Reply from football
Oct.30.2012
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You begin to speak Zenish |
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Reply from starduster
Oct.30.2012
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Quote: "So who is Polly and what is the cracker for?? " .........
Polly ? Thats Shaynes girlfriend, aka: David.
I used to be on the email with her too. She told me she had some *very personal* emails with Shayne that she didnt want to tell me about. I think they were having cyber sex, from what she said.
She sent me some naked pictures, along with some candies at Xmas. I wonder who they were of ? Not David, thats for sure, considering her crack. I shared some pictures with her on the Kodak website, and got a confirmation that my pictures had been shared with David at her email address.
on the internet you can never be sure who you are communicating with. |
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Reply from Avisitor
Oct.30.2012
03:35PM EDT
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Orange juice coming out my nose when I read this ... hahaha |
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Reply from BlankName
Oct.30.2012
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Unconditional One. |
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Reply from justin
Oct.30.2012
08:01PM EDT
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I really have no idea who this one is?
I can say I am, but nothing of itself.
What this means I am I do not know. |
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Reply from leoj99
Oct.31.2012
02:18AM EDT
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13. A Buddha
In Tokyo in the Meiji era there lived two prominent teachers of
opposite characteristics. One, Unsho, an instructor in Shingon, kept
Buddha's precepts scrupulously. He never drank intoxicants, nor did he
eat after eleven o'clock in the morning. The other teacher, Tanzan, a
professor of philosophy at the Imperial University, never observed the
precepts. Whenever he felt like eating, he ate, and when he felt like
sleeping in the daytime he slept.
One day Unsho visited Tanzan, who was drinking wine at the time, not
even a drop of which is suppposed to touch the tongue of a Buddhist.
"Hello, brother," Tanzan greeted him. "Won't you have a drink?"
"I never drink!" exclaimed Unsho solemnly.
"One who does not drink is not even human," said Tanzan.
"Do you mean to call me inhuman just because I do not indulge in
intoxicating liquids!" exclaimed Unsho in anger. "Then if I am not human,
what am I?"
"A Buddha," answered Tanzan.
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Reply from Joe Chip
Oct.31.2012
09:50AM EDT
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All the winds are wined in the Internet era and the sine waves round and round, in a virtually relative dimension - round one ding-ding! and round another brother, born in another mother, criss-cross crist of sine waving goodbye from whence to hail the essence prevail, of wordy approach and wordy fail. |
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Reply from Joe Chip
Nov.03.2012
10:28PM EDT
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Add an I? |
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Reply from BlankName
Nov.03.2012
11:13PM EDT
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Reply from BlankName
Nov.03.2012
11:15PM EDT
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that 'e' should have a line accent over it just so you know |
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Reply from leoj99
Nov.04.2012
01:26AM EDT
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So anybody knows more who you are. Not just - I am that I am...lol |
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Reply from leoj99
Nov.04.2012
01:42AM EDT
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Don't take your thoughts too seriously |
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Reply from leoj99
Nov.04.2012
01:45AM EDT
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Your Thoughts Make You Suffer
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Reply from Joe Chip
Nov.04.2012
06:17AM EDT
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They call you the Wonderer.
Your suffering is all over YOU like BOTULISM. |
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Reply from Chryseis
Nov.04.2012
09:58AM EDT
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Quote: "13. A Buddha
In Tokyo in the Meiji era there lived two prominent teachers of opposite characteristics. One, Unsho, an instructor in Shingon, kept Buddha's precepts scrupulously. He never drank intoxicants, nor did he eat after eleven o'clock in the morning. The other teacher, Tanzan, a professor of philosophy at the Imperial University, never observed the precepts. Whenever he felt like eating, he ate, and when he felt like sleeping in the daytime he slept.
One day Unsho visited Tanzan, who was drinking wine at the time, not even a drop of which is suppposed to touch the tongue of a Buddhist.
"Hello, brother," Tanzan greeted him. "Won't you have a drink?"
"I never drink!" exclaimed Unsho solemnly.
"One who does not drink is not even human," said Tanzan.
"Do you mean to call me inhuman just because I do not indulge in intoxicating liquids!" exclaimed Unsho in anger. "Then if I am not human, what am I?"
"A Buddha," answered Tanzan.
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as if |
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Reply from Sam Hardy
Nov.05.2012
06:16AM EDT
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Who am I? you can get an excellent verbal answer from someone like
Ken Wilber who will say I am ever-present brilliant clarity, I am the witness
of the moment to moment arising of everything, I am choiceless awareness, I am
Big Mind or Big Heart or big whatever. But after reading all these definitions
are we really any the wiser (literally) ? I don’t think so necessarily.
It’s
something each of us has to find out for ourselves in meditation, not because
Ken Wilber - or anyone else for that matter - said it who’s practised every kind of meditation and therapy and
written a load of books and is called the Einstein of Consciousness.
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Reply from Joe Chip
Nov.05.2012
07:11AM EDT
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I am capacity for you. |
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Reply from BlankName
Nov.06.2012
02:33PM EDT
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"You are one. You are pure awareness. The world is not real. It is cold and lifeless. Nor is ignorance real. So what can you wish to know?"
Just be all that you can be.
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Reply from 1Zenworld
Nov.06.2012
06:31PM EDT
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you are a breath of air. A rain drop. To see your self in all things an all people is who you are. Look with in your heart. |
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Reply from esoteric
Nov.07.2012
12:18AM EDT
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Quote: "you are a breath of air. A rain drop. To see your self in all things an all people is who you are. Look with in your heart." .........
Just looking is enough. Attention will take itself where it needs to go.
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Reply from leoj99
Nov.07.2012
01:16AM EDT
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Quote: "you are a breath of air. A rain drop. To see your self in all things an all people is who you are. Look with in your heart." .........
It seems this is the first time I heard this in Zen Forums...
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Reply from Joe Chip
Nov.07.2012
06:42AM EDT
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First he found itself in zen, then he found himself in a pickle. |
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Reply from starduster
Nov.07.2012
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Quote: "So who is Polly and what is the cracker for?? " -----------------------
Polly ? Thats Shaynes girlfriend, aka: David.
I used to be on the email with her too. She told me she had some *very personal* emails with Shayne that she didnt want to tell me about. I think they were having cyber sex, from what she said.
She sent me some naked pictures, along with some candies at Xmas. I wonder who they were of ? Not David, thats for sure, considering her crack. I shared some pictures with her on the Kodak website, and got a confirmation that my pictures had been shared with David at her email address.
on the internet you can never be sure who you are communicating with.
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Orange juice coming out my nose when I read this ... hahaha
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When I was emailing back and forth with Polly, she told me she was moving to a better neighborhood after some street toughs had followed her home from a pub yelling taunts at her, telling her to suck their ass pipes and such, threatening to beat her up.
It made no sense to me that such an attractive young woman as I had seen in her pictures would encounter such abuse, what kind of place was Scotland anyway,
until Kodak clued me in that my pics were sent to a *David* at her email address,
and then it came together and I thought, *Ah, now I get it*.
I cant blame Shayne for having cyber sex with her, I was tempted too,
but the Spirit would not allow me to.
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Reply from Avisitor
Nov.07.2012
11:32AM EDT
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Quote: "
Quote: "So who is Polly and what is the cracker for?? " -----------------------
Polly ? Thats Shaynes girlfriend, aka: David.
I used to be on the email with her too. She told me she had some *very personal* emails with Shayne that she didnt want to tell me about. I think they were having cyber sex, from what she said.
She sent me some naked pictures, along with some candies at Xmas. I wonder who they were of ? Not David, thats for sure, considering her crack. I shared some pictures with her on the Kodak website, and got a confirmation that my pictures had been shared with David at her email address.
on the internet you can never be sure who you are communicating with.
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Orange juice coming out my nose when I read this ... hahaha
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When I was emailing back and forth with Polly, she told me she was moving to a better neighborhood after some street toughs had followed her home from a pub yelling taunts at her, telling her to suck their ass pipes and such, threatening to beat her up.
It made no sense to me that such an attractive young woman as I had seen in her pictures would encounter such abuse, what kind of place was Scotland anyway,
until Kodak clued me in that my pics were sent to a *David* at her email address,
and then it came together and I thought, *Ah, now I get it*.
I cant blame Shayne for having cyber sex with her, I was tempted too,
but the Spirit would not allow me to.
" .........
Beauty can take away the sane and leave a babbling man wanting ... Sure, I understand. Another episode, another life, another day ... just more stuff Sometimes these memories comes back to haunt us if we aren't ready for it. It is a tough thing to do ... to disconnect feelings to a memory .. thus releasing any power the memory might have had ...
Sorry, just babbling ... haha
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Reply from 1Zenworld
Nov.07.2012
11:57PM EDT
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Quote: "Quote: "you are a breath of air. A rain drop. To see your self in all things an all people is who you are. Look with in your heart." .........
Just looking is enough. Attention will take itself where it needs to go. " ......... Nice. Thank you. |
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Reply from 1Zenworld
Nov.07.2012
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“1. Accept everything just the way it is. 2. Do not seek pleasure for its own sake. 3. Do not, under any circumstances, depend on a partial feeling. 4. Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world. 5. Be detached from desire your whole life long. 6. Do not regret what you have done. 7. Never be jealous. 8. Never let yourself be saddened by a separation. 9. Resentment and complaint are appropriate neither for oneself nor others. 10. Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love. 11. In all things have no preferences. 12. Be indifferent to where you live. 13. Do not pursue the taste of good food. 14. Do not hold on to possessions you no longer need. 15. Do not act following customary beliefs. 16. Do not collect weapons or practice with weapons beyond what is useful. 17. Do not fear death. 18. Do not seek to possess either goods or fiefs for your old age. 19. Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help. 20. You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour. 21. Never stray from the Way.” ? Miyamoto Musashi
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Reply from starduster
Nov.08.2012
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Quote: "Quote: "
Quote: "So who is Polly and what is the cracker for?? " -----------------------
Polly ? Thats Shaynes girlfriend, aka: David.
I used to be on the email with her too. She told me she had some *very personal* emails with Shayne that she didnt want to tell me about. I think they were having cyber sex, from what she said.
She sent me some naked pictures, along with some candies at Xmas. I wonder who they were of ? Not David, thats for sure, considering her crack. I shared some pictures with her on the Kodak website, and got a confirmation that my pictures had been shared with David at her email address.
on the internet you can never be sure who you are communicating with.
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Orange juice coming out my nose when I read this ... hahaha
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When I was emailing back and forth with Polly, she told me she was moving to a better neighborhood after some street toughs had followed her home from a pub yelling taunts at her, telling her to suck their ass pipes and such, threatening to beat her up.
It made no sense to me that such an attractive young woman as I had seen in her pictures would encounter such abuse, what kind of place was Scotland anyway,
until Kodak clued me in that my pics were sent to a *David* at her email address,
and then it came together and I thought, *Ah, now I get it*.
I cant blame Shayne for having cyber sex with her, I was tempted too,
but the Spirit would not allow me to.
" .........
Beauty can take away the sane and leave a babbling man wanting ... Sure, I understand. Another episode, another life, another day ... just more stuff Sometimes these memories comes back to haunt us if we aren't ready for it. It is a tough thing to do ... to disconnect feelings to a memory .. thus releasing any power the memory might have had ...
Sorry, just babbling ... haha " ......... " .........
Beauty can take away the sane and leave a babbling man wanting ... Sure, I understand. Another episode, another life, another day ... just more stuff Sometimes these memories comes back to haunt us if we aren't ready for it. It is a tough thing to do ... to disconnect feelings to a memory .. thus releasing any power the memory might have had ...
Sorry, just babbling ... haha " .........
That sounds like something Polly would say. |
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Reply from Sam Hardy
Nov.15.2012
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Who am I? The old chestnut.
My true self is the part of me (of all of us)
that is not finite. The one without the name tag (on the toe or the ear it doesn't matter) :) .
The answer to the question is
the same for all of us. And it has nothing to do with ‘identity.’
This is only one answer - hence the paradox. |
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Reply from Joe Chip
Nov.15.2012
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Walk the path of blame and be quiet. |
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Reply from Sam Hardy
Nov.15.2012
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Quote: "Walk the path of blame and be quiet." .........
I don't know who said that but it doesn't make any sense.
Very Zen.
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Reply from Joe Chip
Nov.15.2012
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Blame me. |
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Reply from Sam Hardy
Nov.15.2012
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Quote: "Blame me." .........
The path of blame lead to the palace of ... I've forgotten
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Reply from Sam Hardy
Nov.15.2012
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Quote: "Quote: "Blame me." .........
The path of blame lead to the palace of ... I've forgotten
I feel a quote coming on ..... " ......... |
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Reply from Sam Hardy
Nov.15.2012
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Who Am I? The Ultimate question in life. Ultimate because most people don't ask it until they're dying.
When you're dead you're just left with the name tag on your toe.
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Reply from Sam Hardy
Nov.15.2012
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.......
It’s come : Get back,
JoJo ….
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Reply from Sam Hardy
Nov.16.2012
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The path of blame is the quick path to the palace of Self-righteousness. - William Black |
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Reply from Joe Chip
Nov.16.2012
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Praise, no blame. |
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Reply from BlankName
Dec.02.2012
07:25PM EDT
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Are you...
I am that I am (Self) or I am that I am [...]
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Reply from BlankName
Dec.02.2012
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Are you...
breathing? |
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Reply from BlankName
Dec.02.2012
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Are you...
You are! |
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