SEARCHING AND SEEKING FOR THE KLESHAS

2 Tough and Crazy people get together and consider life through the Oracle of the Animated Gif. They contemplate the searching. The seeking of lost lives. The Hunting through papers and documents. Looking for the Nuggets of Gold. The Thin Golden Threads. Connecting dots so they are. Connecting dots.

Gold thread friendship is a golden thread that unites the all hearts

A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.

SITTING THERE

2 Tough and Crazy people get together and consider life through the Oracle of the Animated Gif. They contemplate sitting doing nothing much. Lois said of Bill Wilson something to the effect that – Bill never ran when he could walk. Never walked when he could sit and never sat when he could lie.

Did some of his best work when he was lying down so he did or sitting at a wee table. So Mebbe we will SIT awhile. There’s a lot in SITTING.

Izzy and John Sebastian say – I’M JUST SITTIN’ HERE LOVIN’ YOU.

Some SITTIN’ is juST SITTIN’.

CHECK THE ZEN FROG SITE AGAIN FOR WONDERFUL SAYINGS.

But I say unto you,
Take this staff just as a staff;
Movement is movement;
Sitting is sitting,
but don’t wobble
under any circumstances!
My staff has turned into a dragon
and swallowed up the whole world.
Where are the poor mountains and rivers and great earth now?

- Yun-men Wen-yen, (Ummon), 864-949
Sermons
Translated by R. H. Blyth
Found in Zen and Zen Classics: Selections, p. 252
Edited by Frederick Franck

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still?
Henry George

Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.
Michel de Montaigne

I was thrown out of university for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

Just sitting quiety, doing nothing,
Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.
- Zenrin poem

I’d rather be riding my motorcycle thinking about God than sitting in church thinking about my motorcycle.
- Anonymous

Rudyard Kipling:

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing: — “Oh, how beautiful!” and sitting in the shade.

Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.”~Hunkesni (Sitting Bull), Hunkpapa Sioux

WALKING THE PADDOCKS

2 Tough and Crazy people get together and consider life through the Oracle of the Animated Gif. They contemplate WALKING. They are considering walking the perimeter of the property despite the brown snake threat and the steepness of the terrain. The paddock is newly slashed and the ground is not too muddy and walking is a possibility.

“The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and
the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage
through a series of thoughts. The creates an odd consonance between
internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is
also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it.
A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was
there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making.”
- Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy
of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the
fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort
which life implies.
- Eric Fromme

When temptations comes, I don’t say, “Yes,” and I don’t say, “No,” I say, “Later.” I just keep walking the Red Road–down the middle. When you’re in the middle, you don’t go to either extreme. You allow both sides to exist.” ~Dr. A. C. Ross~Lakota

Walking With Grandpa
~Author Unknown

I like to walk with Grandpa
His steps are short like mine
He doesn’t say “Now Hurry Up!”
He always takes his time.
Most people have to hurry
They do not stop and see.
I’m Glad that God made Grandpa
“Unrushed” and young like me.

Making the decision to have a child – it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.
Elizabeth Stone

“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking”

John Wain

It is wonderful when one is out with these animals, how attached they become. There are times when I would walk up to my horse, that he would nicker in a low tone and ruh his nose against me in a very knowing manner.
~HS Young

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.