Posted by Timne on July 7, 2009, at 16:01:35
In reply to Re: would I do it when I'm happy? ***triggers***, posted by SLS on July 7, 2009, at 15:29:49
> > > I think I have a better understanding of your friend's (and your) situation now. You can sure write!
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> > > Your friend has no place to be.
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> > > Perhaps a monastery of some sort?
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> > > - Scott
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> > In a tribute to folk-music legend Leonard Cohen, he describes his years as a practicing, ordained Buddhist monk. "I was gracious to everyone, but I hated everybody."
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> > I've found my analysis of authoritarian belief systems interferes with my integration in religious communities. Practical authority - exigencies of the day like planting, harvest and weather, that I understand.
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> > "Roshi said...?" That doesn't ring nearly as true in my mind. An egalitarian community would warm my heart. Or I could use my profound writing skills to explain why they all died -- except no publisher wants to tell the story.
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> I was thinking more of some of the Eastern philosophies.
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> - Scott
East of Tibet? Taoist or Hindu maybe?I find plenty to admire in their experience, but the religious experience, especially when exported from a land where it's been disrupted often clashes with some of my personal experience.
intentional community rings a bit more true, but...
Has anyone else noticed that our bodies are made of Real Estate? Creation story: on day 1, god called the local realtor to find a piece of land. Working through his realtor, he reached good deal with the seller, called a banker and got a loan. After closing the deal, he shaped the Real Estate into a hominid shape, breathed a second mortgage into it, made us sign a deal promising to forever pay for what we are made of and here we are?
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