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Magnus Eisengrim
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Sorry to hear about your father, Bill.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats
mastermindreader
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My deepest sympathies and condolences, Bill.
landmark
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Condolences, Bill. A man's books say so much about who he was.
S2000magician
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Thanks John, Bob, and landmark. I appreciate your thoughts.
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Bob: shoot me a PM if you would. (Assuming that will allow me to reply.)
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On Oct 7, 2014, critter wrote:
First to come to mind:

The Tao of Pooh
Erdnase
Hardcore Zen
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Tao Te Ching
Yoga Mala
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Robert E. Howard's Conan stories
The Tao of Jeet Kune Do
The Hellbound Heart


Since you have read some Zen stuff I wondered if you ever looked into the Tibetan stuff? For an earthy and enlightened introduction to the real core of that kind of Buddhism I recommend "Words of My Perfect Teacher" by Patrul Rinpoche.
Mr. Mystoffelees
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Calvin & Hobbes
Also known, when doing rope magic, as "Cordini"
Steve_Mollett
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The works of E.A.Poe, H.P.Lovecraft, Robert Bloch and Kurt Vonnegut.
Author of: GARROTE ESCAPES
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
- Albert Camus
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On Oct 10, 2014, foolsnobody wrote:
Quote:
On Oct 7, 2014, critter wrote:
First to come to mind:

The Tao of Pooh
Erdnase
Hardcore Zen
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Tao Te Ching
Yoga Mala
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Robert E. Howard's Conan stories
The Tao of Jeet Kune Do
The Hellbound Heart


Since you have read some Zen stuff I wondered if you ever looked into the Tibetan stuff? For an earthy and enlightened introduction to the real core of that kind of Buddhism I recommend "Words of My Perfect Teacher" by Patrul Rinpoche.



I have read a few books on Tibetan Buddhism. I took a class on Buddhist Psychology that was taught by a Tibetan Lama who had fled with the Dalai Lama so we had the required reading from that and I've read a few by the Dalai Lama too.

Soto Zen and Taoism are kind of the core of my personal religiophilosophy. I learn lots of things from lots of different places though.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
~Will Rogers
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