How enlightened are you?

[Phra Chuntawongso]

I found this in the bangkok post.
How enlightened are you?
If you can live without caffeine
If you can be cheerful,ignoring aches and pains
If you can resist complaining
If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time
If you can take criticism and blame without resentment
If you can ignore a friends limited education and never correct him or her
If you can resist treating a rich friend better than a poor friend
If you can face the world without lies and deceit
If you can conquer tension without medical help
If you can relax without liqour
If you can sleep without the aid of drugs
If you can honestly say that deep in your heart,you have no prejudice against creed,colour,religion,gender preference,or politics,then you have almost reached the same level of spiritual development as your dog.

[Dan74]

[m0rl0ck]

Oh man, thats beautiful

[Dhammabodhi]

[Kenshou]

Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa... woof woof.

[bodom]

A vipassana group here in San Antonio I sometimes attend, called the Yellow Dog Sangha, is named after the founding members yellow lab who would always come to lay an "meditate" with everyone during group meditation. She was a very dilligent meditator and had a better sitting posture than some of the members and wouldn't move at all until the time was up

http://sayellowdogsangha.blogspot.com/2 ... -time.html

[Sobeh]

The Dog-head Buddha in that picture is groovy.

[SDC]

[Annapurna]

The Dog-head Buddha in that picture is groovy.

[Tex]

[Pannapetar]

Wonderful parable!

If you can be cheerful,ignoring aches and pains

I suppose our bitch doesn't quite live up to such high spiritual standards, since she was howling like a wolf over a cut on her paw.

Also, the lady dog complaineth a lot, if I interpret her barking correctly. If I could only speak Doggish.

Cheers, Thomas

[Wind]

I would say that rather depends on the dog. My first dog was very mean, it is easily anger and even attack us. We took care of it with the best of love but it didn't seem to care about anyone except for himself. There was an attack incident that the police was call in. And they had to put it to sleep for our safety. Our next dog was a total sweetheart. So even dogs have variety of personalities just as humans.

[Bnii]

Kenshou, I love it!

[PeterB]

Sentimental anthropomorphic claptrap. Just the sort of stuff to ensure that Buddhadhamma is forever associated with hippy losers.

[tiltbillings]

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[Kenshou]

Well I think he's a Winner, gosh dangit.

[tiltbillings]

Well I think he's a Winner, gosh dangit.

Or a weiner.

[PeterB]

Or a winer..

[tiltbillings]

Or a winer..

Or just some nice old guy who seriously needs dental work.

[jcsuperstar]

the dungeon master told me i was a level 14 enlightened being!