[Cymorill]

im up to the same point as you morty, and have to say i was hooked from the beginning as well. i find that when i rewatch episodes i see things i missed the first time around. its definately a program for those of us that like to think. :)

[Cymorill]

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

Avicenna

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There were rooms of forgiveness
In the house that we share
But the space has been emptied
Of whatever was there
There were cupboards of patience
There were shelfloads of care
But whoever came calling
Found nobody there

After today, consider me gone

Roses have thorns, and shining waters mud
And cancer lurks deep in the sweetest bud
Clouds and eclipses stain the moon and the sun
And history reeks of the wrongs we have done

After today, consider me gone

I’ve spent too many years at war with myself
The doctor has told me it’s no good for my health
To search for perfection is all very well
But to look for heaven is to live here in hell

After today, consider me gone

[Cymorill]

it is in these hours between dusk and dawn
that the ghostly echoes of memories
once thought forgotten and buried
rise up and devour me

shadows screaming off the walls
sinister in their silence
reaching out with slender fingers
trying to claw at my flesh

strange sounds as the wind
howls through the window
spectoral voices whispering
secrets wished forgotten

it is in these hours between dusk and dawn
that i feel most afraid and alone
with no one to comfort and guide me
into a deep and peacful slumber.

[Cymorill]

Through the process of mindfulness, we slowly become aware of what we really are down below the ego image. We wake up to what life really is. It is not just a parade of ups and downs, lollipops and smacks on the wrist. That is an illusion. Life has a much deeper texture than that if we bother to look, and if we look in the right way.

Bhante Gunaratana

[Cymorill]

@soulie wrote:

@cymorill wrote:

to start taking my zen studies far more seriously and to let go of the past finally, hopefully the former will help with the latter. :)

thats a bit boring though

i say, enjoy student life more, and get drunk more times per week :)

i am not a student, zen is a form of buddhist philosophy. :wink:

[Cymorill]

to start taking my zen studies far more seriously and to let go of the past finally, hopefully the former will help with the latter. :)

[Cymorill]

I’m going back, thinking about all the changes.
I’m going back to all those wasted years.
I see the rise and fall of the world I lived in.
This time it doesn’t seem real at all.
But I took the fall and on came all the changes.
All i had could not be saved – it was far too late.

Everyone leaves. In the end.
Everything dies. In the end.
It doesn’t matter how hard you hold on.

I’m going back to the times you went away.
I thought you thought that I was that monster.
I see the rise and fall of the world that I made.
I always wanted to take you with me.
And then I saw some people for the people that I thought they were.
In your painful absence.

Everyone leaves. In the end.
Everything dies. In the end.
It doesn’t matter how hard you hold on.

How hard can you?
Do you want to hold on?

How hard can you?
They all leave in the end.

How hard can you?
We all die in the end.

[Cymorill]

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – there’s the rub, the task.

Virgil

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A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Mohandas Gandhi

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