---I don't get it. In reply to the statement that if people waste their lives watching the NFL and drinking beer, Rory said "This could be just what the doctor ordered". Sounds like somebody wants to have it both ways.
In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rory Goff" <rorygoff@> > wrote: > > > > R: > In THIS context, any "tradition," even a "practical" one is > > > > baloney. We > > > > don't die by acquiring more and more, we die by ourselves, > naked and > > > > Alone. > > > > > Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > > > I don't know about you, but I plan on dying with my clothes ON > > > (unless of course I happen to be in the shower at the time or > making > > > love)! > > > > It is natural to trivialize and joke about it, in our attempt to > avoid > > and deny it. > > > > Just dropping a friendly reminder that until we accept its > presence > > wholeheartedly as Here and Now, our spiritual journey has not > truly > > even begun. > > > As we see from this world's "great religions", lifetimes can be > spent deciding what to wear, what color, drape of fabric, what shoes > to put on, how to step, in what order progress will be made, what to > think, how others may have explained it in the dusty past, before > the very first step of the spiritual journey is made. What a waste > of time, and a waste of life. >
