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Choices: Offer three choices

Postby cooran » Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:12 am

Hello all,

Time for a new game?


Choose one from three, and offer three more:


Eagle
bald or golden or soar?
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Re: Choices: Offer three choices

Postby Guy » Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:30 am

bald

Dr Phil, George Costanza, Homer Simpson
Four types of letting go:

1) Giving; expecting nothing back in return
2) Throwing things away
3) Contentment; wanting to be here, not wanting to be anywhere else
4) "Teflon Mind"; having a mind which doesn't accumulate things

- Ajahn Brahm
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Re: Choices: Offer three choices

Postby Jechbi » Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:52 am

Homer

Baseball or Plato or Doh!
Rain soddens what is kept wrapped up,
But never soddens what is open;
Uncover, then, what is concealed,
Lest it be soddened by the rain.
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Re: Choices: Offer three choices

Postby cooran » Wed Jul 01, 2009 7:27 am

baseball

cap, rule, game
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Re: Choices: Offer three choices

Postby BlackBird » Wed Jul 01, 2009 8:25 am

game

Anicca, Anatta or Dukkha?
"But, Udāyi, let be the past, let be the future, I shall set you forth the Teaching: When there is this this is, with arising of this this arises; when there is not this this is not, with cessation of this this ceases." - Majjhima ii,32

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Re: Choices: Offer three choices

Postby Jechbi » Wed Jul 01, 2009 4:16 pm

Dukkha

past or present or future
Rain soddens what is kept wrapped up,
But never soddens what is open;
Uncover, then, what is concealed,
Lest it be soddened by the rain.
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Re: Choices: Offer three choices

Postby Rhino » Wed Jul 01, 2009 4:58 pm

present

lust, hate or delusion?
With best wishes

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Re: Choices: Offer three choices

Postby Tex » Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:00 pm

Lust.

Sex or blood or money?
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Re: Choices: Offer three choices

Postby cooran » Wed Jul 01, 2009 7:41 pm

Blood

Pressure, Bank, Donation
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Re: Choices: Offer three choices

Postby Ben » Wed Jul 01, 2009 8:38 pm

Bank

Organ, Blood, River
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Re: Choices: Offer three choices

Postby Tex » Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:47 pm

Organ.

Pipe or chamber or electronic?
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Re: Choices: Offer three choices

Postby cooran » Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:39 am

chamber

horrors, commerce, maid
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Re: Choices: Offer three choices

Postby Tex » Thu Jul 09, 2009 12:04 am

Maid.

Meter, honor, old?
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Re: Choices: Offer three choices

Postby retrofuturist » Thu Jul 09, 2009 6:23 am

Old

Tooheys, man, decrepit?
If you have asked me of the origination of unease, then I shall explain it to you in accordance with my understanding:
Whatever various forms of unease there are in the world, They originate founded in encumbering accumulation. (Pārāyanavagga)


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Re: Choices: Offer three choices

Postby cooran » Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:34 am

Tooheys

XXXX, Bitter, Gold
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Re: Choices: Offer three choices

Postby Tex » Thu Jul 09, 2009 6:37 pm

Gold.

Standard, ring, medal?
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