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Travel by toad is uncomfortable?

Once I could see the picture (!) I could see a few lessons in it. Here's one that seems to have been overlooked.

manas wrote: the little rat-like creature is cute, and the toad is,,,horrible and ugly.

I think a lot of us would respond along those lines but we really should realise that such a response is (to use a Pratchettism) speciesist. To toads, toads are beautiful and anything furry is probably sort of yucky. A hypothetical intelligent reptile would probably congratulate the toad here as we would congratulate a cat which had managed to catch a lizard. And so on.
Our responses are learned, to some extent, but we typically side with creatures more like us against creatures less like us - mammals ahead of reptiles and amphibia, reptiles ahead of insects ... and people with our own skin colour ahead of people with different skin colour. Sigh.
Ideally, of course, our attitude to all sentient beings would be the same.


Kim

Ah, yes, the Patagonian Metta-Frog.

So-called because he selflessly carries around furred animals in his mouth if they are bothered by the rain, or if they get tired. Some have been known to sacrifice their lives in the service of their furry little "friends" in this way.

Thanks for such an uplifting picture, Tilt. It has redoubled my intention to develop my Metta.

tiltbillings wrote:For those who could not see the picture and now wish they hadn't:

Move towards the difficult, the unpleasant. Hello toad. Hello mouse.

(thinks..maybe I should reactivate my Facebook account )

Sam Vega wrote:Ah, yes, the Patagonian Metta-Frog.

So-called because he selflessly carries around furred animals in his mouth if they are bothered by the rain, or if they get tired. Some have been known to sacrifice their lives in the service of their furry little "friends" in this way.

Thanks for such an uplifting picture, Tilt. It has redoubled my intention to develop my Metta.

when a saint is projecting...

PS My response to the picture was "poor mouse!' and 'life is fragile and short and it's gonna be even more fragile and even shorter if I don't apply myself correctly this time around!'

tiltbillings wrote:Image

This is what I saw, originally. I thought the lesson related to broken links & anicca.

Wild stuff.

I think some were not seeing the image due to connectivity speed. I had no problem seeing the image at my business where the connection is very good and fast, but at home a couple of times I did not see it.

David N. Snyder wrote:I think some were not seeing the image due to connectivity speed. I had no problem seeing the image at my business where the connection is very good and fast, but at home a couple of times I did not see it.

That is not the problem as I had it on my 25Mb/s line at home. If I try to open the image (in the original post) in an new tab it says that the attachment is removed.

"Here now, Malunkyaputta: What will I say to the young monks when you — aged, old, elderly, along in years, come to the last stage of life — ask for an admonition in brief?"



"What do you think, Malunkyaputta: the forms cognizable via the eye that are unseen by you — that you have never before seen, that you don't see, and that are not to be seen by you: Do you have any desire or passion or love there?"

"No, lord."

"The sounds cognizable via the ear...

"The aromas cognizable via the nose...

"The flavors cognizable via the tongue...

"The tactile sensations cognizable via the body...

"The ideas cognizable via the intellect that are uncognized by you — that you have never before cognized, that you don't cognize, and that are not to be cognized by you: Do you have any desire or passion or love there?"

"No, lord."




Seeing a form
— mindfulness lapsed —
attending
to the theme of 'endearing,'
impassioned in mind,
one feels
and remains fastened there.
One's feelings, born of the form,
grow numerous,
Greed & annoyance
injure one's mind.
Thus amassing stress,
one is said to be far from Unbinding.

Hearing a sound...
Smelling an aroma...
Tasting a flavor...
Touching a tactile sensation...

Knowing an idea
— mindfulness lapsed —
attending
to the theme of 'endearing,'
impassioned in mind,
one feels
and remains fastened there.
One's feelings, born of the idea,
grow numerous,
Greed & annoyance
injure one's mind.
Thus amassing stress,
one is said to be far from Unbinding.

Not impassioned with forms
— seeing a form with mindfulness firm —
dispassioned in mind,
one knows
and doesn't remain fastened there.
While one is seeing a form
— and even experiencing feeling —
it falls away and doesn't accumulate.
Thus one fares mindfully.
Thus not amassing stress,
one is said to be
in the presence of Unbinding.

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tiltbillings wrote:

Dear "tiltbillings",

I think the lesson is CURIOSITY CAN KILL MANY MANY CATS... OR it is the picture of THE LOST WORLD starring Jeff Goldblum:

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Am I right??
yawares

Silly place to go skinny-dipping!


Kim

While obviously a "photoshopped" image, I thought might have been more appropriate in the quitting porn thread.

tiltbillings wrote:While obviously a "photoshopped" image, I thought might have been more appropriate in the quitting porn thread.

Might just be a dead crocodile actually.

No its definitely photoshopped. The woman's body is too small for its location relative to the wall.