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Post by lamudbug on May 5, 2013 11:49:40 GMT -5
Given:
phi·los·o·phy (f-ls-f)
n. pl. phi·los·o·phies
1. Love and pursuit of wisdom by intellectual means and moral self-discipline.
2. Investigation of the nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on logical reasoning rather than empirical methods.
3. A system of thought based on or involving such inquiry: the philosophy of Hume.
4. The critical analysis of fundamental assumptions or beliefs.
5. The disciplines presented in university curriculums of science and the liberal arts, except medicine, law, and theology.
6. The discipline comprising logic, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and epistemology.
7. A set of ideas or beliefs relating to a particular field or activity; an underlying theory: an original philosophy of advertising.
8. A system of values by which one lives: has an unusual philosophy of life.
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Post by lamudbug on May 5, 2013 11:56:52 GMT -5
Given the above definition,
The following fits here.
The Frog In The Well
A frog, at the seashore, decided to go inland and explore the world.
He hopped a great distance, and came to a shallow well.
Hopping into the well (for frogs do love water)
He came upon a frog sitting beside the pool of water at the bottom of the well.
They spoke of things only frogs understand.
And finally, the frog, from the seashore,
began to speak of life at the seashore.
The frog in the well stopped him.
"You are talking nonsense.
I have been from one side of this well to the other and there is no seashore.
You speak lies and should just shut up."
The frog from the seashore gave up.
Trying to tell anything to someone who already knows everything
is a waste of time and effort.
He, quietly rested awhile, hopped out of the well,
and continued his journey.
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Post by coolplanet on May 6, 2013 21:20:48 GMT -5
I'm a big fan of the Thrice Great Hermes. He would say 'As above, so below." Is it merely the frog's reflection?  |
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Post by progresshiv on May 7, 2013 23:24:04 GMT -5
Why does everyone who disagrees with me look like an ignorant frog? ;-)
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Post by lamudbug on May 12, 2013 20:51:28 GMT -5
I heard that story from OSHO....
My first meeting with OSHO.
I was waiting for my wife to arrive at the PHX airport
Someone who noted I was wearing all brown earth tones
asked about the others dressed like me.
I went to ask them.
A little old guy from India went down the line holding hands and greeting people.
He took my hands and said:
It is do good to see you again my very old friend,
I told him:
You are full of ****. You never saw me before.
He said: not in this life my old friend.
He followed with our eyes are both brown ,
we are both full of **** up to here, are we not?
I became a person who loved his stories,
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Post by Vierotchka on May 21, 2013 13:45:52 GMT -5
I heard that story from OSHO.... My first meeting with OSHO. I was waiting for my wife to arrive at the PHX airport Someone who noted I was wearing all brown earth tones asked about the others dressed like me. I went to ask them. A little old guy from India went down the line holding hands and greeting people. He took my hands and said: It is do good to see you again my very old friend,I told him: You are full of ****. You never saw me before.He said: not in this life my old friend.He followed with our eyes are both brown , we are both full of **** up to here, are we not?I became a person who loved his stories, I learned a great deal from him. He gave me the name Ma Gyan Jagdishvari without my asking for anything, and picked Guru Purnima day for my initiation into Sannyas.  |
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Post by presscore on Dec 8, 2013 15:39:11 GMT -5
Ma Gyan Jagdishvan, Guru Purnima, Sannyas have the flavor of Asian/Indian Bhuddism.
I'm a Bhuddist, aware of Reincarnation, Karma, Dharma et al... I read something posted
today on my iGhome page replacing I Google. A quote from Samuel Langhorn Clemens
whom we know as Mark Twain. It was radicaly different than most of his wry quotes on
human nature...And one of the sparse few that was so dead on target it would split an
arrow in the center of a bullseye. I want to share it with you Currenteers. as inspiration:
" Let us strive to live our lives with such virtue that even the undertaker would openly
weep at out passing " Mark Twain.
His telling quote reminded me of another quote from an anonymous source that struck
the same chord of resonance in me:
" When you came into this world, you alone cried as all the others rejoiced. May you live
your life so that when you pass, all the world weeps at your passing, as you alone rejoice "
Vincet Omnia Amor
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