« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: bitter old Vermontese cali primitive a lousy Buddhist  (Read 1058 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline franksolich

  • Scourge of the Primitives
  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 58706
  • Reputation: +3082/-173
bitter old Vermontese cali primitive a lousy Buddhist
« on: April 06, 2014, 07:54:40 PM »
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12491158

Oh my.

This might, or might not, explain why she's taking a Sabbatical from Skins's island.

Quote
cali (92,671 posts)    Tue Apr 1, 2014, 07:27 PM

I am a lousy Buddhist and sometimes I hate meditation.

I also couldn't get through without it.

I took refuge vows almost 22 years ago and then bodhisattva vows a year or so after that at Karme Choling.
 
I used to be a runner and I mostly hated the getting ready to run and the first few minutes of running- and too often I never found the rhythm and grace of it. That's how I feel about meditating. I do it, some days for only 15 minutes, other days for much longer.
 
some days when I ran though, man they were great. I'd lope across down the field and through the woods down to the road and then loop back up the road to home.
 
I've been meditating for hours every day for the last couple of weeks. It's been hard and good and sucky and just what it is.
 
I wish I could do a dathun- a month long retreat again. That is a revelatory experience.

Quote
gtar100 (3,087 posts)    Tue Apr 1, 2014, 11:29 PM

2. Dukkha.

Just that.

Quote
cali (92,671 posts)    Wed Apr 2, 2014, 07:02 AM

3. no. just that

or more accurately not just that.

Quote
pangaia (2,575 posts)    Wed Apr 2, 2014, 06:32 PM

4. You know, I was really glad to see what you have to say.

I have been meditating for.. well since 1968..

And still I find it the same as you say. It is what it is, and so is living.

Quote
cali (92,671 posts)    Wed Apr 2, 2014, 06:57 PM

5. aw, I'm glad my dear. and be of good cheer. it is what is and it is what we we view it as
Logged
apres moi, le deluge

Offline GOBUCKS

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24186
  • Reputation: +1812/-338
  • All in all, not bad, not bad at all
Re: bitter old Vermontese cali primitive a lousy Buddhist
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2014, 07:57:45 PM »
Apparently Buddhism is okay with alcoholism and drug abuse.
Logged

Offline SSG Snuggle Bunny

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 23049
  • Reputation: +2234/-269
  • Voted Rookie-of-the-Year, 3 years running
Re: bitter old Vermontese cali primitive a lousy Buddhist
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2014, 08:22:54 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on April 06, 2014, 07:57:45 PM
Apparently Buddhism is okay with alcoholism and drug abuse.

And is violently despondent over the prospect of declining abortion.
Logged
According to the Bible, "know" means "yes."

Offline Mr Mannn

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 14885
  • Reputation: +2646/-276
Re: bitter old Vermontese cali primitive a lousy Buddhist
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2014, 08:26:59 PM »
If you have an outbreak of earwigs, you might be a buddist.
Logged

Offline USA4ME

  • Evil Capitalist
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 14601
  • Reputation: +2298/-76
Re: bitter old Vermontese cali primitive a lousy Buddhist
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2014, 08:36:44 PM »
Well, she *did* say she was lousy at it.

.
Logged
Because third world peasant labor is a good thing.

Offline franksolich

  • Scourge of the Primitives
  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 58706
  • Reputation: +3082/-173
Re: bitter old Vermontese cali primitive a lousy Buddhist
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2014, 08:48:04 PM »
Okay, I had to nadin all this Buddhist ooohing and aaawing.

Quote
A student who takes refuge may make vows to adhere to the Five Precepts (pañca-sila). Laypeople undertake at least one of the five, but traditions differ in how many vows are common to take. The Five Precepts are not commandments, such as "thou shalt not ...", but are promises to oneself: "I will (try) ..."

1.To refrain from harming living creatures (killing).
2.To refrain from taking that which is not given (stealing).
3.To refrain from sexual misconduct.
4.To refrain from false speech.
5.To refrain from intoxicants which lead to loss of mindfulness.

Yeah, it looks to me like dear old Eva might be having some problems with these vows.

Quote
The Bodhisattva vow is the vow taken by Mahayana Buddhists to attain complete enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. One who has taken the vow is nominally known as a Bodhisattva. Whereas the Prātimokṣa vows cease at death, the Bodhisattva vow extends into future lives.

Quote
Originally known as "Tail of the Tiger", Karmê Chöling is a Shambhala Buddhist meditation retreat center and community in Barnet, Vermont .

Quote
Dathun is an important milestone in the path of the Shambhala warrior, and an invaluable experience for anyone interested in fundamentally making friends with who and what they are. For most people, it is the first extended program they attend that focuses mainly on meditation practice. What is dathun? Why would anyone take a month out of his or her life to explore sitting meditation?
 
Dathun is a month-long group meditation retreat.

Quote
Dukkha (Pāli; Sanskrit: duḥkha; Tibetan sdug bsngal) is a Buddhist term commonly translated as "suffering", "anxiety", "stress", or "unsatisfactoriness".
Logged
apres moi, le deluge

Offline GOBUCKS

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24186
  • Reputation: +1812/-338
  • All in all, not bad, not bad at all
Re: bitter old Vermontese cali primitive a lousy Buddhist
« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2014, 09:01:06 PM »
Yeah, she's all dukkha-ed up alright.
Logged

Offline obumazombie

  • Siege engine to lib fortresses
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 21814
  • Reputation: +1659/-578
  • Last of the great minorities
Re: bitter old Vermontese cali primitive a lousy Buddhist
« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2014, 01:36:50 AM »
Quote from: USA4ME on April 06, 2014, 08:36:44 PM
Well, she *did* say she was lousy at it.

.
Maybe she's just lousy.
Logged
There were only two options for gender. At last count there are at least 12, according to libs. By that standard, I'm a male lesbian.

Offline 98ZJUSMC

  • The Most Deplorable
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8424
  • Reputation: +436/-76
  • Now, with 99% less yellow!
Re: bitter old Vermontese cali primitive a lousy Buddhist
« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2014, 05:37:52 AM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on April 06, 2014, 09:01:06 PM
Yeah, she's all dukkha-ed up alright.

More derpa-derpa then dukkha, I would think, but the Buddhist (D)Ummies should really just go full:


Take one for the team.
« Last Edit: April 07, 2014, 05:42:17 AM by 98ZJUSMC »
Logged
              

Liberal thinking is a two-legged stool and magical thinking is one of the legs, the other is a combination of self-loating and misanthropy.  To understand it, you would have to be able to sit on that stool while juggling two elephants, an anvil and a fragmentation grenade, sans pin.

"Accuse others of what you do." - Karl Marx

Offline SSG Snuggle Bunny

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 23049
  • Reputation: +2234/-269
  • Voted Rookie-of-the-Year, 3 years running
Re: bitter old Vermontese cali primitive a lousy Buddhist
« Reply #9 on: April 07, 2014, 06:47:20 AM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on April 06, 2014, 09:01:06 PM
Yeah, she's all dukkha-ed up alright.

Buddhism teaches that suffering comes from unfulfilled desires.

I think it is safe to say cali is a dark, bitter and angry soul. Her every post is a profanity laden screed devoid of anything except venomous emotional reflex.

That she is in such a constant state of suffering only speaks to how much she desires what is not rightfully hers.

It is the perfect explanation of how liberals project their greed onto others.

Greed is, after all, desiring a thing you have not rightfully earned.

Liberals are greedy for other people's money in the form of welfare and they are miserable because the full extent of their desire is stymied by things like GOP "intransigence" and that pesky Constitution.


cali and her fellow Proglodytes validate everything Buddha described.
Logged
According to the Bible, "know" means "yes."

Offline JohnnyReb

  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 32063
  • Reputation: +1997/-134
Re: bitter old Vermontese cali primitive a lousy Buddhist
« Reply #10 on: April 07, 2014, 09:26:24 AM »
I was a BUDist....at least I was for a few years. If I drank a beer, it was a BUD.
Logged
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."  Stalin

Offline Skul

  • Sometimes I drink water just to surprise my liver
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12475
  • Reputation: +914/-179
  • Chief of the cathouse
Re: bitter old Vermontese cali primitive a lousy Buddhist
« Reply #11 on: April 07, 2014, 09:33:26 AM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on April 07, 2014, 09:26:24 AM
I was a BUDist....at least I was for a few years. If I drank a beer, it was a BUD.
If you like Rap "music", what does that make you?  :tongue:

 :lmao:
Logged
Then-Chief Justice John Marshall observed, “Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.”

John Adams warned in a letter, “Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet, that did not commit suicide.”

Offline Duke Nukum

  • Assistant Chair of the Committee on Neighborhood Services
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8015
  • Reputation: +561/-202
  • O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
Re: bitter old Vermontese cali primitive a lousy Buddhist
« Reply #12 on: April 07, 2014, 06:47:58 PM »
I can't judge Cali on this as I'm not much of a Buddhist myself.
Logged
“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time”
― Homer, The Odyssey

Offline freedumb2003b

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 6053
  • Reputation: +821/-72
Re: bitter old Vermontese cali primitive a lousy Buddhist
« Reply #13 on: April 07, 2014, 06:50:00 PM »
Quote from: Skul on April 07, 2014, 09:33:26 AM
If you like Rap "music", what does that make you?  :tongue:

 :lmao:


A raptor?
Logged
Measure with a micrometer, mark with chalk, cut with an ax

Hello to the Baizuo lurkers from DU, DI, JPR and Huffpo

DUmmies can no more understand the "Cave" than a rat can understand a thunderbolt, but they fear it just the same. Fear the "Cave", DUmmies. Fear it well. Big Dog 12-Jan-2015

Proud charter member of the Death Squad Hate Force! https://conservativecave.com/home/index.php?topic=112331.msg1386168#msg1386168

Quote from: 67 Rover on November 23, 2017, 09:26:47 AM
Ted Kennedy is the only person with an actual confirmed kill in the war on women.

Offline Big Dog

  • ^^Smokes cigars and knows things.
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 15581
  • Reputation: +1954/-213
Re: bitter old Vermontese cali primitive a lousy Buddhist
« Reply #14 on: April 07, 2014, 06:56:21 PM »
Quote
cali

I am a lousy Buddhist

You are a lousy Buddhist, earwig.

Meditate on this question: "What would the Dalai Lama think of the DUmp?"

The answer will change your life.
Logged
Government is the negation of liberty.
  -Ludwig von Mises

CAVE FVROREM PATIENTIS.

Offline franksolich

  • Scourge of the Primitives
  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 58706
  • Reputation: +3082/-173
Re: bitter old Vermontese cali primitive a lousy Buddhist
« Reply #15 on: April 09, 2014, 08:24:13 AM »
You know, I'm not disparaging Buddhism, which given its sheer longevity, surely has to count as an important religion that's affected the lives of millions and millions of others.

What I am disparaging are those of European and African derivation converts to this southern Asian religion, which has no part in their own history or culture.....or understanding.

It's always struck me that domestic converts to eastern Asian religions are converts for strictly negative reasons; they wish to be rebels, they wish to be different, they wish to slap the predominant religion(s) of their own time and place in the face.

That's always a lousy reason to "convert;" to "get back at" other people.

There is no way a person of European or African derivation can possibly really understand and appreciate Buddhism; it's just too too too alien to their perceptions and values.
Logged
apres moi, le deluge

Offline JohnnyReb

  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 32063
  • Reputation: +1997/-134
Re: bitter old Vermontese cali primitive a lousy Buddhist
« Reply #16 on: April 09, 2014, 08:39:45 AM »
Quote from: franksolich on April 09, 2014, 08:24:13 AM


It's always struck me that domestic converts to eastern Asian religions are converts for strictly negative reasons; they wish to be rebels, they wish to be different,
That's always a lousy reason to "convert;" to "get back at" other people.

EXACTLY.
Logged
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."  Stalin

Offline landofconfusion80

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4289
  • Reputation: +609/-116
Re: bitter old Vermontese cali primitive a lousy Buddhist
« Reply #17 on: April 09, 2014, 08:42:38 AM »
Quote from: franksolich on April 09, 2014, 08:24:13 AM
You know, I'm not disparaging Buddhism, which given its sheer longevity, surely has to count as an important religion that's affected the lives of millions and millions of others.

What I am disparaging are those of European and African derivation converts to this southern Asian religion, which has no part in their own history or culture.....or understanding.

It's always struck me that domestic converts to eastern Asian religions are converts for strictly negative reasons; they wish to be rebels, they wish to be different, they wish to slap the predominant religion(s) of their own time and place in the face.

That's always a lousy reason to "convert;" to "get back at" other people.

There is no way a person of European or African derivation can possibly really understand and appreciate Buddhism; it's just too too too alien to their perceptions and values.

But what about if that religion dovetails with a fascination with handing out flowers at the airport?
Logged
One Who Grows (244 posts)
20. absolute bullshit. the cave is unspeakably vile.

I don't know how any of you can live with yourselves.

:)

Offline GOBUCKS

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24186
  • Reputation: +1812/-338
  • All in all, not bad, not bad at all
Re: bitter old Vermontese cali primitive a lousy Buddhist
« Reply #18 on: April 09, 2014, 11:17:12 AM »
Quote from: franksolich on April 09, 2014, 08:24:13 AM
There is no way a person of European or African derivation can possibly really understand and appreciate Buddhism; it's just too too too alien to their perceptions and values.

Americans convert to Buddhism because they think yoga pants are cute.
Logged

Offline landofconfusion80

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4289
  • Reputation: +609/-116
Re: bitter old Vermontese cali primitive a lousy Buddhist
« Reply #19 on: April 09, 2014, 11:33:43 AM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on April 09, 2014, 11:17:12 AM
Americans convert to Buddhism because they think yoga pants are cute.

Because it's important to remind the board what yoga pants look like:

Logged
One Who Grows (244 posts)
20. absolute bullshit. the cave is unspeakably vile.

I don't know how any of you can live with yourselves.

:)

Offline GOBUCKS

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24186
  • Reputation: +1812/-338
  • All in all, not bad, not bad at all
Re: bitter old Vermontese cali primitive a lousy Buddhist
« Reply #20 on: April 09, 2014, 11:41:12 AM »
Buddhism:


This is an example of why DUmmy cali is a lousy Buddhist.
Logged

Offline obumazombie

  • Siege engine to lib fortresses
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 21814
  • Reputation: +1659/-578
  • Last of the great minorities
Re: bitter old Vermontese cali primitive a lousy Buddhist
« Reply #21 on: April 09, 2014, 02:42:43 PM »
Who said they were a BUDist ?





Logged
There were only two options for gender. At last count there are at least 12, according to libs. By that standard, I'm a male lesbian.

Offline JohnnyReb

  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 32063
  • Reputation: +1997/-134
Re: bitter old Vermontese cali primitive a lousy Buddhist
« Reply #22 on: April 09, 2014, 03:18:13 PM »
Quote from: obumazombie on April 09, 2014, 02:42:43 PM
Who said they were a BUDist ?






It was me but all I see is a racist black "X".....meanwhile, I'll be looking at the yoga pants until you get back to me. :drool:
Logged
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."  Stalin

Offline obumazombie

  • Siege engine to lib fortresses
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 21814
  • Reputation: +1659/-578
  • Last of the great minorities
Re: bitter old Vermontese cali primitive a lousy Buddhist
« Reply #23 on: April 09, 2014, 03:23:07 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on April 09, 2014, 03:18:13 PM
It was me but all I see is a racist black "X".....meanwhile, I'll be looking at the yoga pants until you get back to me. :drool:

Alrighty then let's try once more...





But the racist black X was a tenable subsitute.
Logged
There were only two options for gender. At last count there are at least 12, according to libs. By that standard, I'm a male lesbian.

Offline JohnnyReb

  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 32063
  • Reputation: +1997/-134
Re: bitter old Vermontese cali primitive a lousy Buddhist
« Reply #24 on: April 09, 2014, 04:34:23 PM »
Quote from: obumazombie on April 09, 2014, 03:23:07 PM
Alrighty then let's try once more...





But the racist black X was a tenable subsitute.
Jim Stafford does the Wildwood Weed song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyQi-1Z2tN8
Logged
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."  Stalin
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »