Happy birthday Ben!

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Thanks everyone!
I can't believe the number of posts that this thread has generated!
Your kind wishes and friendship is, as always, greatly appreciated.
I wish you could be here to share the cake!
Metta

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“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

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retrofuturist wrote:Hey look... my account has just been hacked into!

:thinking:

Metta,
Retro. :)
I don't believe you...I think you just have dual nature.... ;)

:tongue:

:namaste:
"Samsara: The human condition's heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment." Elizabeth Gilbert, 'Eat, Pray, Love'.

Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!

Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself. ;)

I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?! :D


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I think you just have dual nature
Don't we all.
>> Do you see a man wise [enlightened/ariya] in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12

This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.

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Re: Happy birthday Ben!

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Ben wrote:Thanks everyone!
I can't believe the number of posts that this thread has generated!
Your kind wishes and friendship is, as always, greatly appreciated.
I wish you could be here to share the cake!
Metta

Ben
Yeh, thanks for that Ben.... Ever heard of DHL...? :popcorn:

:toast:

:namaste:
"Samsara: The human condition's heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment." Elizabeth Gilbert, 'Eat, Pray, Love'.

Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!

Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself. ;)

I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?! :D


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Fede wrote:
Ben wrote:Thanks everyone!
I can't believe the number of posts that this thread has generated!
Your kind wishes and friendship is, as always, greatly appreciated.
I wish you could be here to share the cake!
Metta

Ben
Yeh, thanks for that Ben.... Ever heard of DHL...? :popcorn:

:toast:

:namaste:
Hi Fede!

Yes, indeed, DHL is known on this god-forsaken island.
Actually, its not such a bad idea! i could send you some birthday cake in a flat-pack with an allen key!
My daughter and sons colluded and made me a beautiful birthday cake which was a madeira cake with cream and passionfruit and iced with white chocolate!
Yum!
Metta

Ben
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

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