Posts Tagged ‘samsara’

Me: “Hi, how are you today?”
Customer: “I need to buy this bird.”
Me: “Ok, have you ever had a bird before?”
Customer: “I’ve had THIS bird before! I need to have this bird! My bird died last week and this bird tells me that he is my bird reincarnated! I need to have this bird.”
Me: “The bird [...]

Buddhists are all about letting go, not clinging to things, it is true. But we’re also all about understanding things, which we believe is what leads us to be able to give up clinging. If you don’t really take the time to understand something, you can’t really expect to give up clinging it. [...]

An interesting discussion on the Second Life VR platform:
Let me tell you of the sad reality of Second Life. In case your not familiar with Second Life its a virtual world where über good looking people in tank tops and fishnet stockings run around having virtual sex, virtual lives and virtual Buddhism. In this virtual [...]

Went to Chinatown looking for pocket watches today, picked up two nice gold-plated Bulova watches, should make nice monk presents.
Also picked up four tenants for the night… tomorrow to free them in a lake somewhere. They came in these little tacky plastic boxes and were frantically trying to escape to something a little more [...]

(08:35:05 PM) Eric Hancock: “hi yes I’d like to cancel my credit card” “why? we have blah blah blah offers” “well I’m becoming a monk”
(08:35:14 PM) Yuttadhammo: haha
(08:35:15 PM) Eric Hancock: “is that a joke?”
(08:35:16 PM) Eric Hancock: lol
(08:35:24 PM) Yuttadhammol: what fun
(08:35:30 PM) Eric Hancock: it is fun
(08:37:47 PM) Eric Hancock: she kepy [...]

Just got meself a skype number: +1 818 824 6654… not to be an unpaid advertisement for the sky people, but it costs my students $5 a month to get me a telephone number and unlimited calling to anywhere in North America. And now I have an excuse when people try to offer to [...]