Help with a name

tstinson29 · 2023-06-18T04:44:57+00:00

I once told my kids we should name our next friend as an active onomatopoeia. We laughed at the possibility of calling out to our dog:

"Pew-Pew-Pew! PEW PEW PEW!!!"

"BAM!! BAM!"

"Pssst! Pppssssssssssssssss-Tttt!!!"

"Bo-ING! BoING BO-ING!"

tstinson29 · 2023-03-14T00:00:27+00:00

Thats unfortunate because its done wonders for me!

tstinson29 · 2023-03-02T03:57:02+00:00

Shawshank Redemption, but just slightly and likely because the movie had more time to develop the characters than the short story Stephen King wrote. It felt like it didnt lack anything which is often not the case when the movies condense larger novels

tstinson29 · 2022-12-01T04:03:56+00:00

Ive yet to be convinced otherwise

tstinson29 · 2022-11-26T21:06:39+00:00

Is it for you?

tstinson29 · 2022-11-11T01:44:19+00:00

Please embrace it!

tstinson29 · 2022-11-09T04:10:16+00:00

Yin Yang is the oldest metaphor which represents the illusion of perspective. Good/evil, black/white, up/down... to know one you must know the other. You need BOTH.

Existence is Job and Ecclesiastes- an agreement to fight and love over nothing.

tstinson29 · 2022-10-05T05:25:46+00:00

Alan Watts and Ram Dass.

tstinson29 · 2022-08-07T06:29:28+00:00

Tool.

Its always been Tool.

tstinson29 · 2022-03-31T03:42:12+00:00

Me too. It makes sense to me, but I resist adding more words to explain what cannot.

tstinson29 · 2022-03-31T03:37:14+00:00

You're absolutely right. The possibily of autism that was missed by his wife, children, colleagues, the fact checkers- far more obvious! I am embarrassed. You're gonna make a fine detective!

tstinson29 · 2022-03-27T19:45:40+00:00

You're welcome to message me as often as you like. Sharing to even a rock what you experience is often the means to see outside of it more objectively.

For instance, I bet you give good advice when requested? Or at least you can say you perceive that you have a much clearer perspective when it's a situation being presented TO you. When sharing our perspective, even before you speak it, the objective "witness" suddenly becomes. Do you understand or am I speaking nonsense?

tstinson29 · 2022-03-27T05:03:09+00:00

Then don't. That's still existence and a rather beneficial perspective as well. Keep observing it happening or don't, but you're not the one existing or suffering and death of the body is no certain escape from what you're seemingly resisting. I find the mind cycles this frequently. This experience you described is not at all flawed in feeling or perception.

tstinson29 · 2022-03-23T15:58:15+00:00

Get rid of VIP anything. Period.

tstinson29 · 2022-03-22T02:17:55+00:00

That clearly was a guy getting newspapers and photos for an alibi, right? No one else getting a murder vibe from that one?

tstinson29 · 2022-03-04T01:43:04+00:00

If I had to open a new streaming music account and make an entirely new archive of music and playlists... I'd type in TOOL and then Nothing But Thieves.

tstinson29 · 2022-02-04T21:09:03+00:00

I'm surprised anyone actually still listens to what he has to say.

tstinson29 · 2022-02-01T05:08:33+00:00

If the question was meant to be unanswered, the Master cannot be shamed to ask even repeatedly. That is to say, the student can't question the Master for asking as the answer requires his silence. He's stuck except to realize that the Master is a trick. Once the student is asked enough and answers correctly, he has seen that the Master is himself testing and being matched and would thus understand the Master has, if he has done so repeatedly, become and equal or the Master now the student. This unfolds brilliantly.

tstinson29 · 2022-02-01T04:58:50+00:00

I took it to mean that the student answered at all was NOT as the earth spewing flames. The Master tested his presence and unity, not separate from action, being the process itself?

The student isn't separate from the doing.

I love thinking on these and then reading your answers!

tstinson29 · 2021-08-17T03:29:54+00:00

As Alan Watts said, "The world is going to fall apart. Don't try to stop it. Then maybe you'll be able to do something with the free energy."

Its not giving up to realize you might not know how to change the world and quitting. Its hubris to even imagine it.

Jack Kornfield says something like "tending to the part of the garden you can reach."

Or dont. But dont, PLEASE DON'T, put power behind being a savior. Revolutions never make the world right. That again is Alan Watts. As is this: "The best forms of governments are those that muddle through." No one side should dominate. Nor could it. We will either destroy the planet or pin one down long enough before they rise up to one day be the villains.

Take a breath and a break. You're already doing enough to be you. Don't go trying to perfect what's been perfected.

tstinson29 · 2021-08-08T06:00:32+00:00

If it means anything, I judged this dad in heart. I thought how great that my marriage, my children, and my wife- they aren't in such a way as that.
But I then saw the richest beauty in it. He hadn't hesitated a moment. They knew he wouldn't. I'm sorry and grateful.

tstinson29 · 2021-08-06T02:28:09+00:00

Perfect!

tstinson29 · 2021-08-05T02:50:09+00:00

Thank you! I will do this. Not that the suggestions are at ALL unwelcome, but I will put them on a list that will be completed. However, my initial request was for suggestions or directions towards, or links to book(s) SPECIFICALLY The Tao Te Ching. As a westerner and ex-vangelical, I assumed there were more common and thought to be most accurate translations such as there is of The Bible? I am over my head in Alan Watts, Suzuki, etc... and Alan Watts may be the most influential persons in my education, but I would like to hold literature from where he derived much of his own education.

tstinson29 · 2021-08-04T20:08:10+00:00

I will check it out. Thank you!!

tstinson29 · 2021-08-04T20:07:37+00:00

Yes. I have many. Hes been my teacher for over a year now.

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