now that's just CRAZY
Got back a week ago from my three days of fun-filled board game playing in KY with 18 other guys. Finished the "990" at work, which is like the 1040 for not-for-profits (and, in our case, due on 2/15).
Here's what else I've been doing instead of keeping you up-to-date (I'm a bad boy):
1. Read the Tao Te Ching (which is the second most translated book in the history of the world)...so now I've read #1 and #2...I wonder what #3 is...let's see: Maybe Euclid's "The Elements" or the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (per the guiness book of world records) which probably shouldn't count as a BOOK. Turns out there is no consensus for #2...let alone #3.
2. Started (today) going down to Bloomy to teach a beginner's Tai-Chi class (I have one real student).
3. Continuing to fix my new laptop to make it do what I want it to do (really, a neverending process). Hay, that reminds me - what do you all use as video conference software (free, of course) - since I have this built-in webcam, now I want to use it.
4. Going to a (very) late-night bible study (it starts at 10pm on Tuesdays...now that's just CRAZY). It gets over the next day.
5. Getting more and more behind on my chess dues tracking. It's the kind of thing that if you get too far behind, you feel you can never catch up.
6. Doing my taxes. Which reminds me - I need to get back to that RIGHT NOW.
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Lao Tzu begins his book, TAO TE CHING: 'Truth is that which cannot be expressed. Remember this,' he says 'and then you can read my book. Don't forget it -- because truth you will not find in the words. Perhaps one can find it in the gaps between the words or between the lines but not in the words, not in the lines themselves.'
It reminds me of Thomas Merton in "New Seeds of Contemplation" where he says (in paraphrase), that the words DESCRIBE the ultimate, underlying truth, but the words themselves are not truth. The resurrection, the virgin birth, etc., are the best words we've come up with to describe the indescribable.
I read the Tao Te Ching this last summer, and it took me that long to read it, in fact it probably do me some good to read it a few more times to fully appreciate it. Its beautiful though and a definite must!
l0pm to study anything has to be goofy when you've got a day job and kids to boot....alles gute
I use msn for video, Kieron.
Microsoft Net Meeting?
No, microsoft messenger.
Here? http://messenger.msn.com/download/getstarted.aspx
My own experience is that love is the only word that can describe something of the divine. The meeting of two lovers is the only experience that can say something about the indescribable, of the indefinable, that can at least indicate, give a hint of the tremendous ecstasy that happens when an individual merges with the whole. It is like two lovers merging into each other, it is a deep embrace of love. Of course it is far greater, far more profound, qualitatively different, on a different plane than that of ordinary lovers. But ordinary lovers come closer to it than anything else. No cross can come close to it.
Each one must carve his own path, which takes shape as he walks along. There is no definite direction that one can follow. If the paths were ready-made, all we had to do was to follow one of them and reach the top. But there are no paths. As man walks, his foot-steps get erased behind him and are lost forever. Though each one has to make his own path, a few hints can be given in connection with them. There the Tao Te Ching can be of great help.
There is no greater love than to lay down your life for your friends.
A pair of travelers took shelter for a few days in a very squalid hut. One of them grumbled and complained about the dirt and the mess, while the other man immediately set about cleaning the place. He found immense satisfaction in this labor of love. The same hut made one man quite miserable and another very happy.
Is there a greater satisfaction to be found in life than undertaking a task with love? Is there anything more gratifying than serving others? No, nothing at all if you seek lasting pleasure in life try to make your worldly abode as clean and tidy as possible and leave it more beautiful that you found it for those who come after. You will always find happiness in the creation of beauty
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