Don't ask me how I've been! Don't think I've forgotten you've never liked that necklace.
As stolen from dorukai: Multiplayer Guitar Hero. Can even make yourself a mini-band online. Now all I need is a copy of the game when it comes out and of course, a 360.
I love songs like this where the lyrics are depressing or rather down but the music is just so chirpy and cheerful. Not to mention the sheer creative nature of this band's video clips. So very entertaining. ^___^
*grooves in his chair* Woo! VINDICATED YET AGAIN! Just like one of the many badges that I have says. It's somewhere on that jacket o' badges. ... *peers across room* Somewhere. ^___^ I'll make more sense about this particular statement at a later date.
Not too long ago I made the offhand remark that the soul doesn't matter to me. I've joked over the years about how I've sold my soul and all. To be honest, it wasn't sold for all that much. Probably foolish to attempt to do so anyway. Still, look at it from a Buddhist perspective, the soul doesn't matter. Yes it can be useful in the sense of reincarnation, but apart from that it shouldn't have any extraneous attachment placed upon it. Why? Because the maxim of "all life is suffering" holds true to more than just the physical. Mental attachments are also a source of suffering. You don't actually need the sensation before you to be able to have a sense of wanting and thus suffering. For example, if you have food cravings you don't actually need some nice food before you, causing your mouth to salivate, your nostrils to flare at the wonderful smells pouring off the delicacies. Just the memory retention of the senses being triggered are enough to make one go into Pavlovian reflexes.
Similarly, the soul as an idea, concept or even real object hasn't been defined across the board as say what a chair is in all its myriad forms. A soul is still undefinable much like life and death. Whilst science and religion can describe these concepts, they have yet to define it to the very last detail. They cannot tell us how life is specifically created. What sentience is. These and more concepts would need to be put into the understanding of all before you could truly grasp what the soul is. And thus, without this understanding how can you cling to it helplessly like television couch potatoes cling to their reality television shows? These shows will make as much of an impact upon your life as you let them. Just like the attachments to the idea of a soul. Only as much as you let them. And then comes the suffering because you now know only the soul and not-soul, a concept pretty similar to the self and not-self.
*sighs* Y'know sometimes it is hard to have my father over in Malaysia. There aren't many people who I can discuss the philosophy of Buddhism with in everyday life.
Anyway, that's all for now.
Toodles.
I love songs like this where the lyrics are depressing or rather down but the music is just so chirpy and cheerful. Not to mention the sheer creative nature of this band's video clips. So very entertaining. ^___^
*grooves in his chair* Woo! VINDICATED YET AGAIN! Just like one of the many badges that I have says. It's somewhere on that jacket o' badges. ... *peers across room* Somewhere. ^___^ I'll make more sense about this particular statement at a later date.
Not too long ago I made the offhand remark that the soul doesn't matter to me. I've joked over the years about how I've sold my soul and all. To be honest, it wasn't sold for all that much. Probably foolish to attempt to do so anyway. Still, look at it from a Buddhist perspective, the soul doesn't matter. Yes it can be useful in the sense of reincarnation, but apart from that it shouldn't have any extraneous attachment placed upon it. Why? Because the maxim of "all life is suffering" holds true to more than just the physical. Mental attachments are also a source of suffering. You don't actually need the sensation before you to be able to have a sense of wanting and thus suffering. For example, if you have food cravings you don't actually need some nice food before you, causing your mouth to salivate, your nostrils to flare at the wonderful smells pouring off the delicacies. Just the memory retention of the senses being triggered are enough to make one go into Pavlovian reflexes.
Similarly, the soul as an idea, concept or even real object hasn't been defined across the board as say what a chair is in all its myriad forms. A soul is still undefinable much like life and death. Whilst science and religion can describe these concepts, they have yet to define it to the very last detail. They cannot tell us how life is specifically created. What sentience is. These and more concepts would need to be put into the understanding of all before you could truly grasp what the soul is. And thus, without this understanding how can you cling to it helplessly like television couch potatoes cling to their reality television shows? These shows will make as much of an impact upon your life as you let them. Just like the attachments to the idea of a soul. Only as much as you let them. And then comes the suffering because you now know only the soul and not-soul, a concept pretty similar to the self and not-self.
*sighs* Y'know sometimes it is hard to have my father over in Malaysia. There aren't many people who I can discuss the philosophy of Buddhism with in everyday life.
Anyway, that's all for now.
Toodles.