“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni
Common sense everyone should live by.
ReplyDeleteWow, sounds like a description of the Enlightenment Project.
ReplyDeleteThe insight and wisdom of perhaps one of the world's greatest teachers of philosophy and psychology. As well as a great spiritual leader who taught the Four Noble Truths and the Eight Fold Path.
ReplyDeleteRelative reality, the world we create from our obscured and deluded views, is but our thoughts and beliefs, projected outwards from our duality focused ego.
Reality will never be exactly as one would like it to be. Reality simply is. Way Beyond our immediate control. Perhaps when we learn to just be and stop the attachment to some things and the aversion to others, and understand our interconnectedness and interbeing with our world our suffering will diminished and eventually dissolve.
🙏 Namaste
Yeah, ya ought to try it JC.
ReplyDeleteWell, well. The cultist has spoken.
ReplyDeleteEnlightenment is the last thing Joe Con cares about.
Trump is his messiah, power is his god, and greed is his sacrament.
Joe Con has shown us he rejects all the truth, compassion, and wisdom of the world just to promote white nationalism and the lies, hate and ignorance of Donald Trump as his gospel.
In the "information age" it is difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff and many times it is just easier to accept what is published.
ReplyDelete...and ignore what doesn't please you.
DeleteAnd THAT skud defines PRECISELY why we fund ourselves deep in doo doo.
ReplyDeletefind not fund.
DeleteTraditions - Dead people exerting their control over you.
ReplyDeleteSkud is halfway there. The source of the information and WHO published it are important. All pro-Trump sources LIE. Too many Americans haven't figured that out yet. Here's looking at Skud and -FJ/Joe Con.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of sources, it seems I'm STILL living rent-free in the deranged minds of the WYD crowd.
I haven't posted anything there in ages.
But they certainly remember me in their current thread.
How come DAVEY BOY THE LITTLE CREEP FROM SHAW’S RAG DOESN’T USE HIS NAME ANYMORE?
So Is Davy BOY and the author of the blog that he comes from.
YOU HAVE SPOKEN LIKE THE IDIOT YOU ARE, and HAVE ALWAYS BEEN! But the SCUM-BAG DAVEY DOSNT KNOW HIS ASS FROM HIS ELBOW!
Do they know I welcome their hatred? It tells me I'm on the decent and thoughtful side of humanity.
Congratulations - what higher honor than to be attacked by idiots.
Delete"The Medal of Decency & Truth"
There is nothing to be learned by visiting "Lisa's Latrine."*
DeleteIt's a lot like the Mother Ship, only without the charm. (Racists, bigots and just run-of-the-mill idiot Trumpers post there)
*The last blogger "Free Thinke" christened WYD with that title.
Their hatred consumes them and fuels their deluded diatribes against truth, decency, and compassion.
ReplyDeleteDonald J. Trump lit the green light guiding his cultists to act exactly as ignorant, deluded, and hateful as he as always been...
Shaw... I believe he also used "The Stench Trench" for the place.
ReplyDeleteThe current situation proves the president has very little to do with running the government. We have had a non participating president for three years and now a totally absent one for two months and the government just keeps spending our money like it didn't matter. That is why I say it doesn't matter who wins, nothing will change except the hatred. The country is run by the billionaires and this should prove it even for those who think there are honest politicians who actually work for you.
ReplyDeleteAs usual, you exaggerate and misspeak. Joe Biden has been a good president. But, that goes against your narrative that claims there are no good politicians, leaders and Democrats. A completely cynical take on this country.
DeleteYou know what Oscar Wilde said about cynics: They know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
skud, the benevolent purveyor of disinformation and misinformation. He knows the truth but continues to push his incorrect but relfied beliefs nonetheless.
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