Quote:
Originally Posted by Skybird
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and the benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
|
This is wisdom and well worth considering.
I read with great interest you history with regards to your training and interest in Zen and meditation. This helps me greatly in understanding where you are coming from on this and other topics. Thank you for sharing.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Skybird
If people ask me for a self-description today, I leave it to saying that I consider myself to be a spiritual atheist. I enjoy to see eyebrows frowning then, but it is the most precise description for sure that I can give. Not that any of that matters, not for me, not for anyone else.
|
I for one am not frowning. It matters a little.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Skybird
... I did not approach you, and I never meant to missionise you. I explained some things (more or less...) after you stated some things and asked me over some things. What you make of that does not affect me, as I see it. I just claim the right to take you by your words - that'S why there was some head-banging in the past between the two of us.
|
A little head banging is good. Keeps us sharp. No doubt we will have the pleasure again.
A final thought. One thing I am convinced of as I get older is that the old saying it is better to laugh than to cry is sound advice. I do not consider that this life is a joke, but it is definitely a comedy of sorts. Absurdity is best handled with a grin.
Take care.