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Topic: Life is not a test
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FishKitten
Knowflake Posts: 374
From: beautiful, hidden mountain village, BC, Canada
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted August 06, 2003 11:03 PM
 
Premis: Life is not a test, it's a field trip. Enjoy and learn what you can.IP: Logged |
eternal
Moderator Posts: 311
From: Coastal NC
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted August 07, 2003 01:13 AM
Hi FishKitten,Welcome to the site. I agree about life not being a test... it does seem like a "field trip", a field trip to experience ALL THAT WE ARE.  
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WychOfAvalon
Knowflake Posts: 547
From: Los Angeles
Registered: Feb 2003
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posted August 07, 2003 06:21 AM
lol
I wish we could go to the chocolate factory instead of the poorhouse!------------------
I haven’t been very well.. Feeling kind of seasick.. Tryin’ to follow your contrail.. You’re flying miles above my head.. While I’m dreaming underwater sleeping in a whale.. When the stars begin to shine.. Let me be in this number.. And then it comes within a wave.. Like LSD to phantasy.. Like gasoline into a fire.. Like virgin blood to a vampire.. And everybody starts to cry IP: Logged |
anafaery
Knowflake Posts: 863
From: west coast, yummy rain forest, canada
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted August 07, 2003 06:27 AM
oh cool you live in bc too  welcome! ~faery ------------------
where i end and you begin there's a gap in between there's a gap where we meet where i end and you begin
and i'm sorry for us the dinosaurs roam the earth the sky turns green where i end and you begin i am up in the clouds i am up in the clouds and i can't and i can't come down IP: Logged |
FishKitten
Knowflake Posts: 374
From: beautiful, hidden mountain village, BC, Canada
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted August 07, 2003 01:04 PM
Eternal....exactly! The big "what if" field trip. What if I were human? How many lifetimes of love and joy and lessons would it take to understand the human condition? Kind of like the question about how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop. The final answer doesn't even matter, the fun is in trying to find out.Wych.......hilarious. Linda said do what you love and the money will follow. I found that to be true, but it sure took a lot of years for it to begin to catch up to me. Maybe I was walking too fast. Anafaery...I have read lots of your postings. Always very enLIGHTening. Glad to be sharing Beautiful BC with you. Any chance you want to help wish up some rain? Full moon on the 11th. Great time for a rain dance at midnight. You dance there and I'll dance here and maybe sweet water will fall for the whole distance between us. Peace and joy. IP: Logged |
FishKitten
Knowflake Posts: 374
From: beautiful, hidden mountain village, BC, Canada
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted August 07, 2003 04:05 PM
Hey Anafaery....I don't know if you read my last post on this thread or not, but two hours after I posted it, we got rain! That may not sound like such a big deal to everyone, but we haven't had rain in my little paradise for about 40 days and 40 nights. It is so beautiful, I'm going to go walk around in it and smell all the sweet rain smells. Thanks to you and / or anyone out there who helped wish up the rain.------------------
If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always gotten....unkonwn author IP: Logged |
N_wEvil
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posted August 07, 2003 04:20 PM
can you hitchhike?  On a more serious note, it does lighten things a bit. Sometimes i think of life as a computer game ------------------
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Stand Your Ground; this is what we are fighting for -
For our spirit and our homes and ways
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bauschd
Knowflake Posts: 230
From: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted August 07, 2003 10:41 PM
I've always thought of life as a wave (and a computer game). Sometimes you just wait, and float, and then it'll pick you up. If you catch it properly it can ba an awesome ride, but then it stops. So you just swim back to the break and wait for the next ride. Or you could move on and look for other breaks. Or try other oceans, but you get my drift...------------------
Love and Light to aLL
My numerology program according to "Star Signs" by LG. IP: Logged |
anafaery
Knowflake Posts: 863
From: west coast, yummy rain forest, canada
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted August 08, 2003 02:25 AM
life has at times been a video game, but overall? it feels like a wonderful dream, a flowing narrative that ends up being connected in so many ways, like a beautiful tapestry.i just got back with one of my best friends after two years. we had a horrid falling out, but we were both going through some awful things at the time. now after all this time i sought him out, and we are ok. i have cried a couple of times already, but i havent told him that . i am just so happy. i missed him so much. being that he is a pisces with a scorpio moon its been interesting... we are both so tentative and our conversation is very benign and neutral as we try to figure each other out again. nothing over-gushy or anything, i guess we are just realizing what its like to be in each others presence again, and its brilliant. its quite a dance really. i am just so happy we arent apart anymore. even if we are never as close as we once were. i am thankful for the little things. *happy sigh* ~ana ------------------
where i end and you begin there's a gap in between there's a gap where we meet where i end and you begin
and i'm sorry for us the dinosaurs roam the earth the sky turns green where i end and you begin i am up in the clouds i am up in the clouds and i can't and i can't come down IP: Logged |
anafaery
Knowflake Posts: 863
From: west coast, yummy rain forest, canada
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted August 08, 2003 02:49 AM
fishkitten- i am glad you got rain i would so love some myself right now. for living in a rainforest region, summer sure is hot and dry.  i am so sad for the rest of the province right now, all the forest fires. its awful its natures way though. i just dont know if those fires are man made. if so, im angry. i love my trees.isnt british columbia a touch of heaven? meili mentioned so too. theres just something about this place... supernatural indeed. thank you for your comments. i guess sometimes i forget that people might read what i say, if they arent directly responding. it is nice to know that what i write is interesting to others. i am sure you will have lots to contribute of interest to us! glad you came! take care ~faery ------------------
where i end and you begin there's a gap in between there's a gap where we meet where i end and you begin
and i'm sorry for us the dinosaurs roam the earth the sky turns green where i end and you begin i am up in the clouds i am up in the clouds and i can't and i can't come down IP: Logged |
lathander
Knowflake Posts: 7
From: Penrith, NSW, Australia
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted August 08, 2003 03:48 AM
It is convenient to think of life as something to enjoy, and indeed it is - for the right reasons, of course. Enjoying life however, is only the first step to achieve enlightenment.
I recall the old Buddhist story of the father, Prince Siddhartha who wanted his son to never become a Buddha. He provided his son with every worldly pleasure, but his plan backfired - for it was only after the son had experienced the world could he leave it behind. The son, named Guatama, joined the ascetics, and renounced the world. But Guatama only reached enlightenment by following the middle path, and rejecting both extremes.
It is necessary for us to indulge in sensual pleasure, but, and here comes the not-so-fun part, only so we may transcend it. For true pleasure does not lie within this world, but the world of God. Until we have learnt to experience the world of flesh in its entirety, we cannot hope to transcend it.
Through only the passion of the Empress may we sense, from deep within our souls, the true meaning of life.
It follows, of course, that carnal pleasures are necessary, but not the solitary step in the true awakening of spirit. From there we must go further - and this does not mean denying the pleasures of flesh entirely.
In my short life, as I have progressed with my spiritual studies, I have felt a natural, and slow move away from the pleasures of the senses, and into a far more satisfying intimate relationship with my creator (although every time I make a step forward, he/she takes a step away from me, in order to test my true desire.) Life is indeed a test, and enjoying it is the first step towards accepting, and finally transcending it.Just a thought.
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FishKitten
Knowflake Posts: 374
From: beautiful, hidden mountain village, BC, Canada
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted August 08, 2003 01:30 PM
Hi Lathlander, et al. I guess I never really thought of the true joys of life as being the pleasures of the senses. When I think of joy, I think of the bubble of laughter that wells up in my chest when I walk in the mountains or see a baby smile or experience an instant of true connection with the universe. I think of it like that smile I always see on the face of the Dali Lama. I don't think one has to lose onself into the material to feel joy. In fact, exactly the opposite. I think that overcoming the physical and uniting with the spiritual is, at least for me, the path to experiencing the greatest joy of all. I just think that sometimes we Seekers can get so wrapped up in our quest that life starts to seem far too serious and we forget to laugh. We (well, anybody, really) can get into the habit of taking ours-elves too seriously. As someone once said (in paraphrase), as valuable as words in books are, they are not alive. Life is all around us and we should learn at least some of our lessons from living trees and rocks and animals and people. I see too many people just trying to "make it through" this life in order to get to something better. They see life as a test, implying that one can either pass or fail, or that some people can end up with a better grade than others. I see life as more of a field trip. We are all here to experience what life is like as a human. Granted, we do have the choice to either learn all we can from this trip and help others to do the same. Or we can disrupt the whole class, learn very little, and have to repeat the whole thing in summer school. Its just easy, at least for me, to sometimes get caught up in all the difficulties of life and all the unfairness in the world. Some days you just have to let it go, take off your shoes, and chase the ice cream truck around town (metaphorically, of course).As for life being a computer game...I guess I can see that to some extent, but I came along soooo very long before computers, I just never got into the gaming part of them. You guys are the greatest! I have heard and read so many things over the years, I sometimes forget who said what, but I once heard that for every hour we spend seeking the truth of the universe, a light turns on in a thousand minds. If that is anywhere near true, the people of Lindaland are lighting up minds at a phenominal rate! Peace Knowflakes. IP: Logged | |
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