I don't know, I guess because its Thursday

[Xue Sheng]

And it actually is Thursday... :uhohh: I think

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. - Charles DuBois

If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong. - Leo Rosten

 

[Flea]

Tragedy is just a joke we haven't figured out yet.

- Garrison Keillor

 

[Xue Sheng]

OK I admit, its Tuesday

The five colors blind the eye.
The five tones deafen the ear.
The five flavors dull the taste.
Racing and hunting madden the mind.
Precious things lead one astray.

Therefore the sage is guided by what he feels and not by what he sees.
He lets go of that and chooses this.

 

[Xue Sheng]

First this is most certainly NOT Thursday

I was reading something the other day and it was talking about Consciousness and it was basically saying that most science is based on inanimate objects getting together by accident and producing life and that life evolving and later developing consciousness and it saying that without consciousness there could be no life and no evolution.

Whether or not this makes any sense at all it got me thinking about René Descartes and thinking about René Descartes usually gets me about the Philosophers Song but this time it didn’t and I found myself really thinking about

Cogito ergo sum (I am thinking, therefore I exist) - René Descartes

Which I seem to be thinking about slightly differently based on the whole there can be no life without consciousness thing

 

[Xue Sheng]

I know its not Thursday but for some reason this one is really hitting home with me this past week.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever. - Viggo Mortensen

 

[Xue Sheng]

Strange day I guess, but this is running through my noggin today

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

 

[Xue Sheng]

Interesting day today, at least for me;

After a year of not much luck with my personal health, gastroenteritis, sleep apnea, broken foot, stretched ligaments in my knee, etc. I am not all that happy with my job and I am most certainly not all that happy with the health bits and DAMN IT I can’t train like I would like…. Not that the year has been all bad, found a great house after all.

But I was flipping through a book (Chuck Norris’ book The secret power within) I have read before (at least twice) and something hit me pretty hard, that I have read before with little of no effect, that was the very first line of the very first chapter of the book

If we don’t change the direction we are going, we will likely end up where we are heading – Chinese saying

I just wanted to post this
:asian:

 

[Xue Sheng]

Well my demented little noggin has returned to where it began with this and since I am back where I started it is time for me to end it where it began

The Path With The Heart

From Carlos Castaneda: "Don Juan's Teaching"

Don Juan said:

Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions.

To have such clarity you must lead a disciplined life. Only then will you know that any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do. But your decision to keep on the path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition.

I warn you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question. This question is one that only a very old man asks.

My benefactor told me about it once when I was young, and my blood was too vigorous for me to understand it. Now I do understand it. I will tell you that it is: Does this path have a heart?

All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. They are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my own life I could say I have traversed long, long paths, but I am not anywhere. My benefactor's question has meaning now. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it does not, it is of no use.

Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart the other does not. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.

The trouble is nobody asks the question; and when a man finally realizes that he has taken a path without a heart, the path is ready to kill him. At that point very few men can stop to deliberate, and leave the path.

A path without a heart is never enjoyable. You have to work hard even to take it. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy; it does not make you work at liking it.

For me there is only the traveling on paths that have a heart, or on any path that may have heart. There I travel... and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length.

And there I travel looking, looking, breathlessly.

Don Juan, a Yaqui Sorcerer

Thanks for putting up with my occasional trips philosophical :asian:


THE END

 

[xJOHNx]

Descartes

His cognito ergo sum is one of the most misused ones there is.
Not to nitpick, or sound supirior.

What he actually said was:
"I doubt, therefor I think, therefor I am"
As his whole philosophy was based around doubting everything. Something that can still be found in modernWestern Medicine. By differential diagnosis.

good thread sir! Loved reading every bit of it!

 

[Xue Sheng]

OK...I lied..its not the end... I saw this and it hit a nerve so I felt I had to post it


And HEY!!! Whaddaya know... It’s actually Thursday

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. ~Gilda Radner

 

[Xue Sheng]

Everything seems to happen on Thursday… well except for those things that don’t

Going to take some time off, train some CMA, play my Classical Guitar again, relax, take it easy and just not post for a bit… it is time for a break :asian:

I'm thinking of retiring from all my dirty deals
I'll see you in the next life, wake me up for meals

Oh and Happy Holidays to all… or as I generally say Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year

 

[Xue Sheng]

Told ya I'd be back

No reason for the following other than I like it