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Karuuna

Friday, March 01, 2002 - 12:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This is for -- well, you know who you are.

"If people find fault with you and try to put you in a bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into any contest, and don't get upset, angry or resentful.

Just cut right through it and be as if you never heard or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves.

If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight."

Master Yuanwu -- Translated by T. Cleary in his book "Zen Essence"

Merlin

Friday, March 01, 2002 - 12:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
<pulls up my handy stepstool so I can get some elevation and *high fives* Karuuna>
shadymerl

Karuuna

Friday, March 01, 2002 - 12:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
rotfl

Whowhere

Friday, March 01, 2002 - 12:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
"Never argue with a fool because a stranger can't tell who the fool is."

Weinermr

Friday, March 01, 2002 - 01:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
"A fool and his hair are soon parted."

anonymous

Lancecrossfire

Friday, March 01, 2002 - 01:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Heck of an approach Karuuna! <I'm in line behind Merlin for a high-5>

Karuuna

Friday, March 01, 2002 - 01:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
weiner - don't say that about Lance! He's sensitive about his hair de-part-ure.

Thank you for your support, Lance. You're a gem.

Karuuna

Friday, March 01, 2002 - 01:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Whowhere - is that kind of like:

"when arguing with an idiot, who is the idiot?"

Whowhere

Friday, March 01, 2002 - 01:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Exactly. Did you already post that?? If so, sorry :(

Weinermr

Friday, March 01, 2002 - 02:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey!!!! I wasn't talking about our Lance. I was just tossing a piece of wisdom out for all the (TVCH) world to see. I'm innocent I tell you, innocent.

Karuuna

Friday, March 01, 2002 - 02:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
No, no, Who - it's an old favorite of mine... your post reminded me of it. :)

Karuuna

Friday, March 01, 2002 - 02:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Weiner - of course you were! I mean, weren't! I mean, oh heck, I don't know what I mean...so I'll post another little piece for the departed...


"And indeed there will be time
To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?"
Time to turn back and descend the stair,
With a bald spot in the middle of my hair...
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?"
-- T. S. Eliot

Soeur

Friday, March 01, 2002 - 06:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
zen lesson

Flint

Friday, March 01, 2002 - 08:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
An oldie but a goodie, and my favourite is:

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Axman

Monday, March 04, 2002 - 05:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I just recently watched The Godfather:
"..a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a man"- Marlon Brando

Kep421

Wednesday, March 06, 2002 - 02:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey Karuuna...in reference to the honoree mentioned in your post of March 1st, the following always comes to my mind:

It is always better to remain silent and have others think you a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Julieboo

Wednesday, March 06, 2002 - 02:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Does anyone here know a saying that is about accepting the most heinous of things because that's how things have always been done???

Lancecrossfire

Wednesday, March 06, 2002 - 02:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Julie--I have one that works for that and anything else. It basically means that if you want different results, you wiull have to try something different.

"Keep doing what you're doing, and you'll keep getting what you're getting."

Karuuna

Wednesday, March 06, 2002 - 02:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kep -- hehehe...

WAIT! Who are you trying to say should keep their mouth shut so they won't find out I'm really a fool???? LOL

Karuuna

Wednesday, March 06, 2002 - 02:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Julie - I have one that's not quite what you were asking, but here goes anyway...

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing today as you did yesterday, and expecting different results. :)

Karuuna

Wednesday, March 06, 2002 - 02:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Julie - here's a website with a searchable database: http://www.bartleby.com

Looking up "change", I found this one:

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something. You know why it is: to do things today exactly the way you did yesterday saves thinking."
-- Woodrow Wilson

Julieboo

Wednesday, March 06, 2002 - 02:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The quote wasn't as much about change as it was about how we accept the most horrible things merely because they've always been done...

Thanks Karuuna, I will check that site out...

I think the quote I am thinking of might have been from Churchill

Lancecrossfire

Wednesday, March 06, 2002 - 03:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

Babyruth

Wednesday, March 06, 2002 - 06:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Whining is anger coming out of a small hole.

Oregonfire

Wednesday, March 06, 2002 - 07:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Depression is anger turned inward.