Apech

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  1. Letting Go of Good and Bad

    I am a little mercurial but I do appreciate your ideas. I think at one time I would easily agreed with you - but maybe it’s my age but now I am quite conscious of the bad in the world (not just extremes but the general degeneration of order) and have found increasingly that battling against it is important for us.
  2. Letting Go of Good and Bad

    Despite my flippancy I do take your point about being non-judgemental.
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    me too - my peach tree had a sort of ecosystem involving ants and greenfly which I solved in more or less this way.
  4. Letting Go of Good and Bad

    you are wise brother Luke - I shall remember that although I charge 20 dollars an hour there’ll be no extra for the touching.
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    @Taomeow your last post brought to mind that growing up in England in the 1950's (yes I really am that old) the fruit and vegetables we could buy were all seasonal. You could only get strawberries, cherries, bananas and so on at certain times. Also the vegetables were very varied and mostly locally produced. They varied in size, shape and quality. There was still some rationing from the war and even oranges were a rarity (we had bottles of condensed orange juice). But it was quite natural and unaffected by sprays of chemicals and wotnot. We always hated having salad for school dinners because the lettuce invariably had bugs in it - and we got the large outer leaves which tasted bitter. This was all made worse by the fact that I had spent some of my childhood in the USA (North Carolina and Cali.) and could remember all the tomatoes and oranges. Anyway later, particularly in the 80's and 90's they invented large supermarket chains (replacing the green grocers and grocers I was used to) and they increasingly supplied carrots, tomatoes, apples and so on which were uniform and identical. I don't think taste was the priority just appearance. In fact I think they prioritised blandness When I started to visit Portugal about 20 years ago it was a revelation because all the food was locally sourced - and I experienced again the strange sight of oddly shaped carrots and turnips. But the taste was wonderful. I rediscovered peaches and plums which had actual taste - in the case of ripe peaches and melons so strong and juicy it was beyond imagination. I think the Dao likes variety as per the 10,000 things - if I may be so bold as to attribute like and dislike to the way. I think that although we were once more the same as you say - the layers of difference we have accumulated over the years - the actions, interactions, combinations and permutations might actually be the point of it all. So when we bite the apple we don't know if it is going to be joy or disappointment. We can then rejoice in the changes.
  6. Letting Go of Good and Bad

    interesting!
  7. Letting Go of Good and Bad

    Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? 33The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. 34Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
  8. Letting Go of Good and Bad

    Brother Luke, is your heart as light as a feather?
  9. Letting Go of Good and Bad

    'Judge not lest yea be judged', saith Santa Luka de Guadalupe. I think the idea of being 'equal' is something which needs careful understanding. In what way are we equal and in what way(s) are we different? Is it wiser to say we are the same or to see our differences. For if I say we are the same then will I not over look the ways in which you are unique, special and an individual. But if I say we are different am I opening myself up to thinking either you or I to be 'better' than the other?
  10. Medicine Buddha

    https://www.landofpyramids.org/mau.htm
  11. Medicine Buddha

    Meow is a mantra!!!
  12. Medicine Buddha

    yes it is - in the tradition I am linked to this is how it is taught. But there are other traditions of course.
  13. Letting Go of Good and Bad

    your dad was right - he wanted you to earn good money and not be a common schmuck! 😃
  14. Letting Go of Good and Bad

    well thank you for lumping me in with common folk!