tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post4914697048629646729..comments2022-10-12T10:47:25.210+01:00Comments on THIS WEEK'S PROJECT: THE TENDENCY OF THE MIND TO DRIFTUniversal Octopushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14414202273180842342noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-70159089044859527452016-12-23T19:23:06.488+00:002016-12-23T19:23:06.488+00:00The role you are playing often determines which fo...The role you are playing often determines which forks in the road you take. The tiger will eat it rather than release it. <br />The forks in the road you take, determine the the role you end up playing. Persistent and extreme self-separatism in evolution will end up with a tiger rather than a vegan.<br /> <br />Underlying it both ways: As you sow, so are you reaped.<br /><br />Gnomenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-18917542774084681892016-12-19T10:04:12.532+00:002016-12-19T10:04:12.532+00:00'There are significant questions.'
- '...'There are significant questions.'<br /><br />- 'There may well be; yet, this is not the direct way.<br />Don't ask questions to the left, don't ask questions to the right.<br />Once you're here, every thing will be clear.'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-59479002569927311912016-12-13T19:12:21.604+00:002016-12-13T19:12:21.604+00:00Lettuces think lettuce thoughts
Thistles think thi...Lettuces think lettuce thoughts<br />Thistles think thistle thoughts.<br />Yet both feed in the self same soil.<br /> <br />How far back does one have to go<br />to see where their paths diverge?<br /> <br />How long has the crocodile had her scaly smile?<br /><br /><br />.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-76730536966927349922016-12-09T14:59:19.231+00:002016-12-09T14:59:19.231+00:00Ethics acts as a safeguard while there is identifi...Ethics acts as a safeguard while there is identification with the body/mind (egoic consciousness).When there is no identification with the body/mind there is no one (or place) to practice ethics. It is this de-egotising of consciousness which perfects ethics and the boundless Brahma Viharas in the human realm.<br /><br /><br />.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-70295019496560304402016-12-04T21:59:05.562+00:002016-12-04T21:59:05.562+00:00"We're not humans on a spiritual journey,... "We're not humans on a spiritual journey, but spirits on a human journey." (Text written on a blackboard next to a narrow-boat on a canal near Oxford “as a gift to passers-by”.)<br /><br /><br />.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-36220265680767362802016-11-08T16:29:58.693+00:002016-11-08T16:29:58.693+00:00Like a leaf, detached from the tree,
floating on t...Like a leaf, detached from the tree,<br />floating on the winds or borne<br />and tossed by the waves of the sea,<br />at the mercy of the storm,<br />so is the mind. It will drift,<br />the ego’s plaything, tossed and turned,<br />easily stimulated, easily miffed,<br />easily torn and easily burned.<br /><br />Only if control is applied,<br />like the leaf tightly tied<br />to the tree or nestled deep<br />in the original soil, at original sleep,<br />from whence it came,<br />will the mind and its puppeteer be tamed.<br /><br />.noreply@blogger.com