The Last Frontier

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" I thought I was separate and therefore I was. " (apologies to Descartes.

 

Ana Ruiz, sometime many years ago. ;-)

 

 

Separation:

 

I am

I am not

 

I am not

I am

 

unseparated...

 

Love,

Ana

 

 

So who are you and what do you do? EH????????

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Nisargadatta , " anabebe57 " <anabebe57

wrote:

>

> " I thought I was separate and therefore I was. " (apologies to

Descartes.

>

> Ana Ruiz, sometime many years ago. ;-)

>

>

> Separation:

>

> I am

> I am not

>

> I am not

> I am

>

> unseparated...

>

> Love,

> Ana

>

>

> So who are you and what do you do? EH????????

 

>(don't know who), don't know why, there's no sun up in the sky

Stormy Weather....but I'll Take Romance and laugh:

 

A Zen Study

On Levels of Laughter

 

THE FOURTH-CENTURY Indian theatrical treatise of Bharata arranged the

spectrum of smiling through laughter from top and downwards. On this

dramatic scale, the highest form of showing mirth is sita.

 

Sita, a faint smile—serene, subtle, and refined.

 

Hasita, a smile which slightly reveals the tips of the teeth.

 

Vihasita, a broader smile accompanied by modest laughter.

 

Upahasita, a more pronounced laughter associated with a movement of

the head, shoulders, and arms.

 

Apahasita, loud laughter that brings tears to the eyes.

 

Atihasita, uproarious laughter accompanied by doubling over, slapping

the thighs, " rolling in the aisles " , and the like.

 

SOME THINK that the Buddha " laughs " in the exalted sense of sita.

This view prevailed among Buddhist scholastics, and has persisted

throughout the Buddhist world since. (3)

However, some sutras (verses) seem to suggest that on such and

such an occasion the Buddha laughed.

 

Good one!

That's a good joke ana!......

 

apologies to no one in particular said the singular nondualist

.............bopin' bob