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woodss On February 26, 2024




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#46New Post! Nov 24, 2011 @ 17:10:34
@MadCornishBiker Said

Lol.


Yeah you can laugh at all that, but I think my beliefs are right and everyone elses are wrong. And my beliefs are to promote tolerance, and to gently convert people an don't pressure them.

Thats the mistake that relgions do.
MadCornishBiker On January 14, 2014

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#47New Post! Nov 24, 2011 @ 17:15:43
@woodss Said

Yeah you can laugh at all that, but I think my beliefs are right and everyone elses are wrong. And my beliefs are to promote tolerance, and to gently convert people an don't pressure them.

Thats the mistake that relgions do.


I guess we all think that, but which of us can back their up from God's word I wonder? I know I can because the Holy Spirit is with me to help and guide me.
woodss On February 26, 2024




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#48New Post! Nov 24, 2011 @ 17:21:54
@MadCornishBiker Said

I guess we all think that, but which of us can back their up from God's word I wonder? I know I can because the Holy Spirit is with me to help and guide me.


Yeah the Holy Spirit, Mr. Biker your correct about that, what ponders me is that could our beliefs be leading us to the garden path.

I agree with you with some portions, and others I don't its simply how I been wired up.
tariki On September 16, 2012

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#49New Post! Nov 24, 2011 @ 17:38:35
Hi Woodsy and Biker, you are both welcome here in the Pure Land, where bits of rubble are turned to gold

woodss On February 26, 2024




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#50New Post! Nov 24, 2011 @ 17:47:43
Woodsy is a old family nickname from way back.
tariki On September 16, 2012

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#51New Post! Nov 24, 2011 @ 18:00:21
@woodss Said

Woodsy is a old family nickname from way back.



Bits of rubble.....bits of wood......Amida doesn't worry about the exact details...

MadCornishBiker On January 14, 2014

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#52New Post! Nov 25, 2011 @ 09:53:19
@tariki Said

Hi Woodsy and Biker, you are both welcome here in the Pure Land, where bits of rubble are turned to gold



Lol. I may look in here occasionally as I do at the moment, but all I ever see here is iron pyrite.
BozieFozie On May 19, 2022
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Paradise, Florida
#53New Post! Nov 25, 2011 @ 11:52:16
@tariki Said

A couple of pictures, Amida Looking back.......(see post 15 on this thread....there is a statue of Amida that stands outside one of the Pure Land (Shin) temples in Japan. It is called "Amida Looking Back." The statue shows Amida with her/his hands in the mudra's (hand positions) of "teaching" and "fear not". In other words, the call is to come and hear the teachings, and cease to fear. Yet Amida is shown turning her head, for her first thought is for those who do not, or cannot come, for whatever reason. The ones who will not "make it" without special favour and grace.)






AHO! May the Light of the Divine Feminine ever shine upon this tired old earth!!! Hello boys!!!

Tariki, brother, I never tire of your threads. In an oft-times divisive forum, these are an oasis for me. Bright blessings to you, my friend!
anthonyjohn On October 04, 2013




Cardigan, United Kingdom
#54New Post! Nov 25, 2011 @ 18:56:35
As a Buddhist I don't actually worship idols, but I do have an old concrete statue of a fat, smiling little Buddha in my back garden, among the wild flowers. He's covered in bird-s*** at the moment so he's probably smiling at the thought of anybody worshiping a useless chunk of concrete instead of all that very useful guano that covers him and which will be scrapped off in the spring and used to fertilize the garden.
Electric_Banana On February 05, 2024




, New Zealand
#55New Post! Nov 25, 2011 @ 19:06:51
@tariki Said

Hi Woodsy and Biker, you are both welcome here in the Pure Land, where bits of rubble are turned to gold




Sorry, Tariki but that statement led me to remembering scenes from a third world country where little scrawny children were desperately running through the streets selling bracelets made from trash to tourists.
MadCornishBiker On January 14, 2014

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#56New Post! Nov 25, 2011 @ 19:44:35
@Electric_Banana Said

Sorry, Tariki but that statement led me to remembering scenes from a third world country where little scrawny children were desperately running through the streets selling bracelets made from trash to tourists.


To me it conjures up a world where Gold is turned to trash, and lies become truth. Where everything is vague and mystical.
tariki On September 16, 2012

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#57New Post! Nov 25, 2011 @ 19:54:11
@anthonyjohn Said

As a Buddhist I don't actually worship idols......



Have you heard the one about the newly enlightened Westerner, who was being escorted through the Zen monastery by the old master, who spoke only broken English? At every statue of the Buddha the old master passed, he stopped and prostrated himself. The Westerner looked on with a bit of disdain, and at the third or forth statue he said to the old master, "I say, don't you think we are a bit above that sort of thing now? Speaking for myself, I think I would rather spit at those statues than bow to them." To which the old master replied...."OK. You spit, I bow."

tariki On September 16, 2012

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#58New Post! Nov 25, 2011 @ 19:55:55
@Electric_Banana Said

Sorry, Tariki but that statement led me to remembering scenes from a third world country where little scrawny children were desperately running through the streets selling bracelets made from trash to tourists.



Trash you say? I'm going to have to take a longer look at some of that stuff I bought.......

Electric_Banana On February 05, 2024




, New Zealand
#59New Post! Nov 26, 2011 @ 08:31:38
@MadCornishBiker Said

Where everything is vague and mystical.



I was thinking something along the same lines...not in regards to Tariki's Buddhist Pure Land but after spending about five minutes on FaceBook right now, I don't know if it is just my warped perception but everyone participating on there appear to have been bamboofled into a state of mindless loving euphoria.

Granted nothing malevolent but still the overall ambiance was prosthetic and subtly disturbing.

If not allowed to descend into extremes it is those darker shades of soul which apply contrast, color and life to life.

I believe to each is own and the same with the reality they feel serves them best however hanging onto atheist or agnostic rationality makes more sense of the situation.

For instance, from the Twilight Zonish viewpoint brought on through theism I stopped on FaceBook and wondered if I'm existing in some really nonsensical Kurt Vonnegut novel. I'm sure it might be spiffy to explode into nothing but sunshine and smiles and walk around constantly aloof using the term 'love' like Smurfs use the term 'Smurf' but it seems to drift too far into an opposite extreme where the shades are lost along with that which makes life feel natural, genuine and well...real.

Obviously I can't go through life constantly spooking myself like this. The rational perspective brings things back down to Earth once again suggesting that nothing 'mystic' is taking place, it is just that people more and more have given up and decided to just talk themselves and everything around them pretty.

Apparently it does work.
But so does wearing a carrot suite to go shopping in the winter to keep me warm.

From my own personal end of things I've been finding it easiest just to ignore it all, all together.

Most things in life are a box that you can never open - you can just sit around guessing at the all or nothing that is inside. You wonder if the box is your friend or if the box is an opponent but ultimately there a million and one more interesting things to spend your time doing than spending all day playing guessing games with the box.
Electric_Banana On February 05, 2024




, New Zealand
#60New Post! Nov 26, 2011 @ 08:34:25
I mean, it looks to me like someone just put the box there to get my goat.
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