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Comment on Faith and no works? by tgrignon

tgrignon — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:26:26 +0000

Logged in as Terry, but not actually, him, I thought I’d add something I heard years ago which you may already find familiar. “The more you have, the more it has you!” Sounds like something Mark Twain might have said, but I can’t tell you where I got this. It’s a favourite of mine, which I play over and over again like a loop. Even though I don’t live up to the minimalist ideal, I do espouse this as a truth. Perhaps that’s why I value conversation, sharing ideas, creativity and information so much. You don’t have to pick these up off the floor and dust or clean them, arrange them, fix them, house them… I get a feeling of things lifting off me, a lightening when I think of how the future holds so many possibilities when it comes to converting material goods, to immaterial ’sharing’. There isn’t enough room in our house for all the books 5 people have read, are reading or wish to read. The idea that we can partake of these, without having to own, dust, arrange and house them all is so liberating. Is this ‘lightening’ a trend, or is it just me? We’ve still got such a long way to go… but that’s the goal. To figure out what’s worth the maintenance and freeing up as much time from said maintenance as possible, to live, to be… Karen.

Comment on Faith and no works? by tgrignon

tgrignon — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:18:43 +0000

I would consider myself a practising Christian but I certainly would not hold to the idea that I will be saved by just admitting to be born again (not that I like or cordone that label). Faith, to me, is a voyage with an infinite number of levels or nuance or ‘enlightments’. I think doubt is part of it too… it isn’t black and white as radical protangonists of any faith would have us believe. If you recall the story of the burning bush, God did not want to be labeled… He was who He was. The question is who are we and are we willing to strive to be better.
I don’t think there’s really any easy way to faith. You can’t just be born again and then your set for life, or commit suicide for Allah and cash in your virgins or go through the motions in the Catholic confessional or on your death bed and come out squeaky clean… nothing worth having is that easy.

Comment on Back on the bus by tgrignon

tgrignon — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:44:29 +0000

But what can be read in(to) the bus of desire? I am not going to worry because I know that Tim is taking care of busness.

Comment on This Way I have gone by tgrignon

tgrignon — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 02:06:55 +0000

I’m reminded of Thorton Wilder’s “Our Town”. The big message for me in that play was to live each day as full as you can. Of course… ‘living to the fullest’ is a very different thing for different people. How would it be different for a buddhist, Tim? Or is the answer as individual as there are people?

Comment on Modern Buddhism by mimimiller

mimimiller — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 03:42:35 +0000

What is my work?

Comment on Modern Buddhism by tgrignon

tgrignon — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 02:11:44 +0000

Does listening to the teaching distract from your work or does it help?