For those of you who live in that fabled place, the United States of Mordor, and for some of you who don't:
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Have a hallowed evening.
Hollow Weens
Hollow Weens
“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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- 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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e: [email protected]..
Re: Hollow Weens
Dear Ben,Ben wrote:For those of you who live in that fabled place, the United States of Mordor, and for some of you who don't:
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Have a hallowed evening.
Since my daughter left home many years ago..I don't do anything on Halloween anymore...but I'll buy Halloween cookies...cute/yummy! Do Australian people play Halloween?
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yawares cookies/cup cakes
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Hi Yawares,
Most people in Australia don't celebrate Halloween. Its only been very recent that stores started stocking tacky Halloween masks and other paraphenalia and strange out-of-season orange coloured pumpkins. Its generally seen as a commercially-inspired imported cultural artifact.
kind regards,
Ben
Most people in Australia don't celebrate Halloween. Its only been very recent that stores started stocking tacky Halloween masks and other paraphenalia and strange out-of-season orange coloured pumpkins. Its generally seen as a commercially-inspired imported cultural artifact.
kind regards,
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
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
- 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
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
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I gotta say that while I disapprove of the weirdly sexualized/intoxicated nature of most Halloween parties, it does give me a chance to dress outlandishly without censure, which is always a plus.
Gain and loss, status and disgrace,
censure and praise, pleasure and pain:
these conditions among human beings are inconstant,
impermanent, subject to change.
Knowing this, the wise person, mindful,
ponders these changing conditions.
Desirable things don’t charm the mind,
undesirable ones bring no resistance.
His welcoming and rebelling are scattered,
gone to their end,
do not exist.
- Lokavipatti Sutta
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censure and praise, pleasure and pain:
these conditions among human beings are inconstant,
impermanent, subject to change.
Knowing this, the wise person, mindful,
ponders these changing conditions.
Desirable things don’t charm the mind,
undesirable ones bring no resistance.
His welcoming and rebelling are scattered,
gone to their end,
do not exist.
- Lokavipatti Sutta
Stuff I write about things.
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My favorite piece of Halloween music (or at least it should be Halloween music): The Swan of Tuonella by Jan Sibelius:
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Fop
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its "hop tu naa"
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
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That's not what we called it when we were building StonehengeCittasanto wrote:its "hop tu naa"
The Christians needed a way of appropriating Samhain so much that they even moved their corresponding holy day to match it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween# ... influences
They didn't even go to that much trouble for Midwinter/Christmas or Spring (Fertility)/Easter.
What comes around goes around, though. The Christians have now lost it to the Mammonites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammon
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Kim O'Hara wrote:Mammonites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammon
- Morgan asked Osteen [the fellow above] if he ever felt guilty for his wealth. He replied, "I don't ever feel guilty because it comes from – it's God's blessings on my life. And for me to apologize for God's – how God has blessed you, it's almost an insult to our God."
>> 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.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
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wrong country!Kim O'Hara wrote:That's not what we called it when we were building StonehengeCittasanto wrote:its "hop tu naa"
The Christians needed a way of appropriating Samhain so much that they even moved their corresponding holy day to match it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween# ... influences
They didn't even go to that much trouble for Midwinter/Christmas or Spring (Fertility)/Easter.
What comes around goes around, though. The Christians have now lost it to the Mammonites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammon
Kim
we still celebrate it here
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
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I love Halloween and all its works. October is an especially busy month for people like me. Here's me performing at a fundraiser tonight.
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The leopard spots suit you!BubbaBuddhist wrote:I love Halloween and all its works. October is an especially busy month for people like me. Here's me performing at a fundraiser tonight.
BB
I DO so enjoy my work
Gain and loss, status and disgrace,
censure and praise, pleasure and pain:
these conditions among human beings are inconstant,
impermanent, subject to change.
Knowing this, the wise person, mindful,
ponders these changing conditions.
Desirable things don’t charm the mind,
undesirable ones bring no resistance.
His welcoming and rebelling are scattered,
gone to their end,
do not exist.
- Lokavipatti Sutta
Stuff I write about things.
censure and praise, pleasure and pain:
these conditions among human beings are inconstant,
impermanent, subject to change.
Knowing this, the wise person, mindful,
ponders these changing conditions.
Desirable things don’t charm the mind,
undesirable ones bring no resistance.
His welcoming and rebelling are scattered,
gone to their end,
do not exist.
- Lokavipatti Sutta
Stuff I write about things.