Life in the Fast Lane, Sure to make you lose your Mind
Sorry I was in such a damm hurry this morning! I don't know that I care to continue the line of reasoning that I started this morning though... I will say congratulations to my friend on asking his wonderful fiance to marry him. Don't know what took you guys so dam long in the first place :) But better late than never. (or "better nate than lever" if you know what I mean... If not google it ;)
I'm lost in an ocean of my own desires folks. Know what I mean?
I know I've said this before, and that I'm just rehashing old philosophy at this point but all suffering does stem from desire. I look at my buddahs and wonder how much easier it must have been to be able to just walk away from life and do nothing!
No, now truly.... The basis of non action is not leaving things undone but doing only what needs to be done because if it needs to be done than it really isn't considered an action. It just is what it is and is not to be considered at all.
A great lesson in the Zen mindset came from one of my best friends Christopher. Going back a few years, I was living in a ramshackle apartment where the sink leaked water constantly onto my kitchen floor. So I would have to mop it up every few hours, soak it up with towels whatever I could do. I tried to fix the sink myself to no avail, I asked my landlord repeatedly to fix the sink to no avail. Finally after about a month I was so frustrated I just let the water sit there....
It's not my building, why do I care? If the landlord doesn't care why should I? I'm so dam sick of mopping up this water!!!!!!!
And Chris, noticing the pool developing in my kitchen, asked me about it... He got the whole anger intensified version. And he replied "you just have to keep mopping the floor man".
Brilliant.
Now if you missed it, let me clarify. The puddle on the kitchen floor has to be mopped. No one else is going to do it for me. And if I don't keep up with the little puddles the whole floor will fall in!
(Taoist wisdom of tackling challenges while they are small instead of letting them grow to become unmanageable) And if the floor needs to be mopped everyday than just do it and don't waste any more thoughts or energy fighting against the fact and, damm nike, just do it. In the time it takes to contemplate an action the action is complete. No thought, no action, reaction.
Now that being said, I can't just wander off in to the woods and say "This is where I will live from now on!" not because I couldn't construct shelter or find food. But because someone else owns the land and even if no one owned the land the county, city, state or federal government does and someone is going to want to tax you on your pup tent dammit. So I go to work and try to remember the assholes I deal with everyday are fallible spiritual creatures trying to find their way in this life. And that maybe they just seem like assholes because I have so much that I need to work out in my own karma.
Hello and welcome to Tangents are us can I take you some where?
B
I'm lost in an ocean of my own desires folks. Know what I mean?
I know I've said this before, and that I'm just rehashing old philosophy at this point but all suffering does stem from desire. I look at my buddahs and wonder how much easier it must have been to be able to just walk away from life and do nothing!
No, now truly.... The basis of non action is not leaving things undone but doing only what needs to be done because if it needs to be done than it really isn't considered an action. It just is what it is and is not to be considered at all.
A great lesson in the Zen mindset came from one of my best friends Christopher. Going back a few years, I was living in a ramshackle apartment where the sink leaked water constantly onto my kitchen floor. So I would have to mop it up every few hours, soak it up with towels whatever I could do. I tried to fix the sink myself to no avail, I asked my landlord repeatedly to fix the sink to no avail. Finally after about a month I was so frustrated I just let the water sit there....
It's not my building, why do I care? If the landlord doesn't care why should I? I'm so dam sick of mopping up this water!!!!!!!
And Chris, noticing the pool developing in my kitchen, asked me about it... He got the whole anger intensified version. And he replied "you just have to keep mopping the floor man".
Brilliant.
Now if you missed it, let me clarify. The puddle on the kitchen floor has to be mopped. No one else is going to do it for me. And if I don't keep up with the little puddles the whole floor will fall in!
(Taoist wisdom of tackling challenges while they are small instead of letting them grow to become unmanageable) And if the floor needs to be mopped everyday than just do it and don't waste any more thoughts or energy fighting against the fact and, damm nike, just do it. In the time it takes to contemplate an action the action is complete. No thought, no action, reaction.
Now that being said, I can't just wander off in to the woods and say "This is where I will live from now on!" not because I couldn't construct shelter or find food. But because someone else owns the land and even if no one owned the land the county, city, state or federal government does and someone is going to want to tax you on your pup tent dammit. So I go to work and try to remember the assholes I deal with everyday are fallible spiritual creatures trying to find their way in this life. And that maybe they just seem like assholes because I have so much that I need to work out in my own karma.
Hello and welcome to Tangents are us can I take you some where?
B
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I agree. people are people. why waste time and energy wondering why. the reason is, because...
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