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Munk; are you mad at me?>>>

No. Not at all. I don't even know what I'd be mad about.
Besides, you're from Hemet.





munk
 
Great post, munk. Dharma Bums is one of my favorite books. Still on loan to Sarah at the moment, and probably gone forever, but easy enough to find another copy when I need once more to read it.

Personally, I've always been better at the bum part than the dharma part.
 
munk said:
Howard's post probably belongs on the HI web page.





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Agreed. It's wonderful and strange to visit a board centered around khukuris and find interesting discussions about, well, nearly anything and everything.

This place is incredibly, wonderfully special.
 
GREAT companion book to Dharma Bums:

A Fool's Progress


Amazon.com
Just before he died in 1989, Ed Abbey published what he called his "honest novel," one loosely based on his own life. Early in its opening pages, Abbey's alter ego, Lightcap, takes off from his nearly empty home (its contents just removed by a disgruntled spouse) in Tucson, Arizona--but not before shooting his refrigerator, a hated symbol of civilization. Lightcap makes a winding journey by car to his boyhood home in the Appalachian Mountains of Pennsylvania, calling on old friends along the road, visiting Indian reservations and out-of-the-way bars, and reminiscing about the triumphs and follies of his life. Readers would be mistaken to view this as pure autobiography, but The Fool's Progress nonetheless is an illuminating look into Abbey's time and his way of thinking, especially on matters of ecology and other social issues. It's also a picaresque tale humorously and artfully told, a book that Abbey himself rightly regarded as one of his best works of fiction. --Gregory McNamee
 
Hi Munk:

Interesting post. You wrote "So I didn't communicate good enough. Yangdu and I see a common dream. We recognized immediately in the other this dream. She says its because she knew me in a past life,".

I have also experienced what Yangdu has mentioned. That is a very complicated subject and mentioned by many beliefs around the world. Not talked about much though.
 
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Munk; are you mad at me?>>>

No. Not at all. I don't even know what I'd be mad about.
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OK, good. I just wondered when you left me off the list:(

I'm glad you didn't let your "femine side" answer me with "You know what you did.
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Besides, you're from Hemet.





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From Trona to Manhattan Beach to Framingham, Mass to New Hampshire to "The L.A. strip near San Pedro to Torrance to Santa Monica to Newbury Park to Fontana to Anaheim to Hemet - what a strange journey.
 
Forget the list. There's great men off that list, it's just the scroungy handful I remembered. To do it right everyone ought to be, and is, on the real list.



munk
 
I hope no one's accusing me of Buddhism. I would not be very good at it.

I didn't believe it twenty years ago, or fifteen, or ten; I suppose that I was beginning to suspect it five years ago but I didn't actually realize it until recently: everyone's got a place. You can choose to find it, or you can let it find you. Either way it all comes together eventually. These days I'm only racing against myself.

Karma? Possibly. My own personal belief is that everyone and everything that comes my way is a reward, a punishment, or a test. Occasionally it's all three. I consider the Cantina to be a reward.
 
My own personal belief is that everyone and everything that comes my way is a reward, a punishment, or a test. >>>>>

Does that include the Pizza delivery kid?

I admit I look to people for evidence of a 'message' or consequence. I never thought about it as being three things, three of anything; reward, punishment or test.


munk
 
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Does that include the Pizza delivery kid?
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Of course.

Usually it's a reward although occasionally it's been a test. There have been a few times where it was a punishment. Once or twice, it was all three.

I guess it really depends on who I order the pizza from, and whether there's pepparoni on it or not.
 
We may have more control of our destiny than some may acknowledge.

On the other hand - this may be wrong....:confused:

I know my destiny, apart from early parent death, has largely been controlled by my own impetuous nature.

On the other hand, I should be dead... Have been dead!
Yet some how, still here :eek:

Hmmmm ?


Maybe I'm a zombie?
 
Talking of spiritual books has anyone read The Prophet by Kahlil Gibhran?

I would also say this is a peaceful and spiritual corner of Blade Forums compared to other places. A bit like a big pile of cushions in the corner of a large candlelit room.
 
That sounds o/k by me AT.
Maybe because there are quite a few elderlyish types here, who have had time to contemplate life enough, to resist hasty judgement of others??

It seems to me , when one hesitates judgement, because of thought, one drops the BP a little.

Some of us need this small therapeutic pause ;)
 
Brent - Got any scars? Zombies don't form scars ya know...
 
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