Happy Birthday mikenz66 and vinasp!

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Happy Birthday mikenz66 and vinasp!

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Have great day, gents!
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Happy Birthday!!
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Birthday fun and blessings coming your way. Now blow out the candle and make a wish! :candle:
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Happy Birthday!
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Happy birthday guys!
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Happy birthday, gentlemen. A song of celebration for you:

>> 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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Thanks everyone! It's now way past my birthday here in NZ (we're way ahead...).

Mixed blessing having a birthday on the shortest day...

:anjali:
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mikenz66 wrote:Thanks everyone! It's now way past my birthday here in NZ (we're way ahead...).

Mixed blessing having a birthday on the shortest day...

:anjali:
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Take heart, it may be short there, but it is long here.
>> 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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Thanks for they Buddy Guy video Tilt. I love how in the movie "Shine a Light" the Stones wheel out Buddy, then look a little nervous that he might blow them off the stage...



The other Buddy Guy anecdote I recall is from Sam Shepard's excellent book about Dylan's Rolling Thunder tour. Apparently Roger McGuinn came up to Bob to show him a new effects unit that he had just acquired. Bob just wanted to know "Will it make me sound like Buddy Guy?"...

:coffee:
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Happy birthday Mike!
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Happy birthday guys!

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Happy birthday gentlemen.
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Happy birthday guys!

And mikenz66, I appreciate the weekly suttas you post in the Study Group. I may not always discuss them myself, but I enjoy reading others' discussions.
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Happy Birthday Mike! :smile:

Happy Birthday Vinasp! :smile:

I hope you had a great day.
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Thanks everyone!

Happy birthday Mike.
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