Post by Don StockbauerPost by kelpzoidzlPost by Don StockbauerPost by Don StockbauerPost by Don StockbauerPost by KelpsZoidzlPost by Don StockbauerPost by KelpsZoidzlPost by Don StockbauerPost by KelpsZoidzlPost by Don StockbauerPost by Don StockbauerPost by Don StockbauerPost by Don StockbauerPost by kelpzoidzlPost by Don StockbauerPost by Don StockbauerPost by kelpzoidzlPost by Don StockbauerPost by Don StockbauerPost by Don StockbauerPost by Don StockbauerPost by Don StockbauerPost by Don StockbauerPost by KelpsZoidzlPost by KelpsZoidzlPost by kelpzoidzlPost by kelpzoidzlPost by Don StockbauerPost by kelpzoidzlAlmost 2023 and there still is no proof of intelligent life in the goldfish bowl.
Does a dog have Buddha nature?
You should be able to answer this one being the all wise Buddha guy.
The answer is yes, not MU.
Having the nature innately and inherent, does not mean it's manifest at the moment, except as potential. But if you could see the dog's past present and future it would be clearly there.
Hofstadter, in Godel Escher Bach , who is pretty deeply into Zen, certainly does not have the knowledge you have, he talks a lot about MU, unasking a question I do know a little bit about it but just superficially because hofstadter's knowledge is also superficial.
Originally Chan/Zen was the name of a sect in China (Chan) and Japan (Zen) It became a fad with the intellectuals, Samurai and Certain governmental regimes in Japan but originally sprang from various sects in China that had sprung from Tien-tai Sect.
They focused on riddles and strict zazen meditation. Leaving Tien-Tai was a non-appreciative thing to do. The appropriated lots of Tien-tai but missed the most important things. They diminished the importance of the sutras and replaced real buddhist practice with Koan riddles. The most prominent WERE Hakuin and Dogen, who both returned to the Lotus Sutra in later years but somehow most Zen was based on their earlier years and their fictional founder BODHIDHARMA.
Nichiren called zen
, "The bottomless pit" because they fell into the arrogance of thinking they didn't need to practice that they were Buddha's already. Missing a major point. Theoretically all beings are "Buddhas" already but in actuallity it goes much deeper than that.
I can't comment on something I know nothing about. perhaps we should try to find a mutual ground such as Live Cleo's various showstoppers.
I can't comment on Live Cleo's various showstoppers because I have no idea what it is.
I can add a you tube link to a concert I videoed on 11/5/2022. Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp in Thousand Oaks CA
To me Jeff Beck is the Kubrick of Cosmic Guitar.
http://youtu.be/Zyv7wBtY564
The whole concert in 4k
Jeff Beck is not a guitarist who plays pentatonic scales. He plays melodies.
Johnny Depp is now his sidekick disciple and it's fun to watch. The bass player and drummer keyboardist are also pretty involved. Crank it up.
Live Cleo is a porn star ,one of the best , great endurance , lots of moves , I only know of her second hand , I would never watch porn.
There is one song that I really like to crank up loud when I'm in the mood , it's Simon and Garfunkel's "Sound of Silence."
So Johnny Depp's sunk from being a movie star to being involved in rock 'n' roll?
I don't think he has sunk as a movie star either. He says he would rather have been a Rock and Roller in the first place.
Jeff Beck was his idol and now he is working with 78 year old Jeff Beck who's guitar playing is miraculous.
I'll have to experience more of the two of them.
I've been listening to a lot of Lesley Gore here lately . What I can't figure out is Lesley Gore is a pretty bad name for a woman; why didn't she change it to Herman Gore?
I need to retire that joke because it's not fair to her family and her descendants so I hereby apologize.
So I have to talk about Jeff Beck and Sean Penn ;
I don't know anything about them.
Did the Star Child know when he detonated the orbiting nuclear weapons that that would just kick off World War III on the ground , remelting the Earth's crust and selling a whole lot of movie tickets? And endless speculation?
It was, the Doomday Machine....those fools!
always get those two mixed up
sure , the doomsday machine , science fiction allows all future outcomes imaginable , doesn't it?
Einstein had that saying "Logic will take you from point A to point B ; imagination will take you anywhere ".
Imagination can be used to put a man on the moon , it can also be used to create a nuclear weapons system."
There are inner voices that are contradictory, yet true awakening comes from within and expands to infinity.
But the only thing that's inside last time I checked was a heart and liver and pancreas etc etc , a few old bullets from former arguments.
Well that was rather flippant, wasn't it ?
also I'll say that your comment is a cliché and doesn't tell us much of anything.
Douglas hofstadter in one of his books has an article called "the tumult of InnerVoices " which is a good article to read concerning inner voices.
What's that lyric? "There's someone in my head but it's not me."
That's certainly an inner voice , all right.
Well? So what is it sayin'?
Yeah I learned the word "mind" pretty early on .
What it's saying , I think it's basically nonsense . Maybe we could write to Pink Floyd and find out.
2001: The Barbie Movie
http://youtu.be/8zIf0XvoL9Y
I haven't seen the movie; does the little baby feller show up there at the end?
I haven't seen it either. It doesn't come out till July
Maybe Barbie gets knocked up and has a space baby.
I wonder how much they have to pay whoever's financially responsible now for the rights to 2001 to have a knock off like that that's almost exact As far as general form.
I'm sure some deal was made.
I should've known that.
I'm just not up on all the stratospheric levels of finance involved with movie rights being a lowly pecan rancher.
Merry Christmas to all my beloved friends here in alt movies Kubrick
And a happy new year of bad decisions of trillionaires.
now Mr. Kelp, I once figured it out that Elon Musk is worth around 200 billion , so if he had five times as much he would be a trillionaire, we're talking in US dollars here , so what could you possibly mean by stating there are actual trillionaires around .I'm so confused.
I've posted in several places "I wonder if Elon will ever become a centillionaire?"
A centillion is a one with 303 zeros after it.
What good is all that money to someone that gets killed in a car wreck?
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There before him, a glittering toy no Star-Child could resist,
floated the planet Earth with all its peoples.
He had returned in time.
Down there on that crowded globe,
the alarms would be flashing across the radar screens,
the great tracking telescopes would be searching the skies -
and history [as it had hitherto been known] would be drawing to a
close.
A thousand miles below,
he became aware that a slumbering cargo of death had awoken,
and was stirring sluggishly in its orbit.
The feeble energies it contained were no possible menace to him;
but he preferred a cleaner sky.
He put forth his will, and the circling megatons flowered in a silent
detonation that brought a brief false dawn to half the sleeping globe.
Then he waited, marshalling his thoughts and
brooding over his still untested powers.
For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do
next.
But he would think of something.