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Posted on Jul.20.2010 @ 09:14AM EDT by Woodsman
One of the things... hi... that I don't do is worship objects. But that's not completely right, I don't sit and give any more, give more importance to inanimate objects formed into an image of a living thing as having more importance than a living thing, let's say to an ant. But I would kill ants in the house. Oh boy. Let me start over...
I, we, in our house, we have a Buddha statue in a place of honor in back, where I spend a good percent of time, seeing it, and dust was beginning to build up on "it", or him. So, my form of worship involves removing dust from a statue, with one finger at a time, until the lifeless object shines.
Don't know where this is going. The topic was plastic, Buddha... let's just call it a Buddha object, like any object plastic or otherwise, lifeless.
Ok, time to turn the potatoes, which I picked from the garden yesterday... beautiful, before being eaten, and digested. This ain't easy.
I'm never completely right, or wrong.
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Reply from Woodsman
Jul.20.2010
09:23AM EDT
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I'm on a diet. Want to lose 10 pounds, and am giving up on sugar, and gave up high fructose corn syrup already. I don't eat cow, but would if offered, if hungry, or a guest. But I don't, haven't been hungry for awhile, or been a guest.
I don't know where this is going, just waking up, before I get busy outside again. The boy and me are making a root cellar... dig, dig, dig, three feet to go. Each grain of sand matters, is mattered... another Buddha. |
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Reply from ______
Jul.20.2010
11:27AM EDT
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As-Salamu `Alaykum. |
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Reply from justin
Jul.20.2010
06:25PM EDT
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Enjoy your digging woodsy :)
I do not have any statues or pictures of Buddha anywhere, i have some beads on a string and this reminds me to be mindful. I work casually in a thai resturant and it has a huge painting of Buddha and this reminds me also. I extend this to all nature. but it is easier to see that smiling peaceful representation of nature, sometimes.
hows the rabbits?
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Reply from sit_teh
Jul.20.2010
08:10PM EDT
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A Cosmic Corpse,
An Original I Am,
A Perfect Nirvana.
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Reply from Woodsman
Jul.20.2010
10:02PM EDT
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Wow, just sat down. Wood, stain, sun, tools, and Buddhas. Everywhere, like, here I am, cutting this long 2X8 into three pieces (the wood was recycled from old trusses someone gave me) so, the table saw is really doing some work, and as I am watching the wood being cut at the blade edge a big house fly comes to rest between the cutting blade the the rip fence. All of a sudden I have this feeling, and thought (Buddha is more feeling than thought, if you can, feel it... too) "this fly knows this wood, and me, and the saw, and the place, our place in the woods, together, as one being, to any other one - Buddhahood reawakened."
The rabbits I keep have so much personality, some let me pet them, and want to have some relationship with me, just like the fly did. One thing speaks of many others, and we have all been in every other, as every other is in ourselves, self, Self, but not plastic.
Yes! Plastic! One.
Had no sweets today, another form of relating to food on a "different" level... not just taken for granted, and letting the body feel hunger, for a change. Gratefulness.
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Reply from lehish
Jul.20.2010
11:41PM EDT
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are the rabbits kept in cages? |
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Reply from esoteric
Jul.21.2010
05:17AM EDT
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3mzhvMgrLE
"A study in the Journal of Hand Surgery revealed that woodworking equipment produces over 700,000 significant injuries a year. The study also revealed that 42% of the injuries occurred with a table saw, and 37% of those injured lost one or more digits in the accident. Additionally, the survey found that approximately 40% of the injuries occurred to professional woodworkers, those who work with these types of tools on a daily basis." (http://woodworking.about.com/od/recommendations/qt/SawStopBrake.htm)
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Reply from Tenzo_
Jul.21.2010
07:20AM EDT
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On the subject of safety (I write with elevated left leg and an ice pack on my ankle). Do also try to avoid running on country paths by moonlight. |
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Reply from immortal 1
Jul.21.2010
07:40AM EDT
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Quote: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3mzhvMgrLE
"A study in the Journal of Hand Surgery revealed that woodworking equipment produces over 700,000 significant injuries a year. The study also revealed that 42% of the injuries occurred with a table saw, and 37% of those injured lost one or more digits in the accident. Additionally, the survey found that approximately 40% of the injuries occurred to professional woodworkers, those who work with these types of tools on a daily basis." (http://woodworking.about.com/od/recommendations/qt/SawStopBrake.htm)
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Its not just a labor or love, working with wood, its an exercise in *mindfulness*, and tending to ones *path*.
One must remain mindful at all times to keep things you want to keep *out of the blade path*.
Unless you didn't tighten it down, or check it before starting, blades are generally restricted to moving forward and backward from where they are. That line of possible or potential travel is called the *blade path*. Its a danger zone. |
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Reply from Woodsman
Jul.21.2010
08:25AM EDT
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Awake, time for a walk with the dogs and wife. OM, last night before bed had my candle burning on the Buddha altar and looked over from the reading couch and the Buddha was gold! I've never seen that before. It was like it had new life! Why? Because, there are miracles happening all the time, and more the further we get to the new heaven and new earth where we are going to be more, in synch with everything, aware of, with. Even plastic Buddha statues have life, golden!.
I do lathe work, make candle holders, and have a ritual candle walk from the front of the house to back, it being my only light, it's all I'll use in the root cellar, day or night. Pulled my first potatoes yesterday. Fine they be. Candle was burning last night in the window and a fly was brought into the flame, which I saw floating in the candle wax before it went out again before sleep, in the liquid wax it still moved, propelled by the movement of hot wax moving to the flame and away before going out. I only use half inch candles, cut into sections/night. Like one 12 inch candle will last me a few weeks.
Gotta walk! Pooches are walking Buddhas.
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Reply from Woodsman
Jul.21.2010
09:52AM EDT
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Quote: "are the rabbits kept in cages?
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They are free. I just delivered 2 does to a friend of mine who lives 20 miles away, for free. My friend has a big garden and lots of land and space to raise them, plus 2 daughters and a wife, a dog and cat. It's bunny Buddha blissville. : )
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Reply from Woodsman
Jul.21.2010
01:32PM EDT
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I come in after starting some painting on the deck, and crave something to eat, or drink, the craving is in my mouth, not my belly. And ahh!!! Some cold coffee on the dining room table that I didn't drink at breakfast. It is so good cold-er.. cooler! My desire quickly goes back into the bushes, and rests, with a Buddha, I feel. Back out to work! Whoops! It's lunchtime. My stomach still says nothing, feels less. Wait, let me stop and let it feel. Oh yeah it's talking, "lunch me.".
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Reply from lehish
Jul.21.2010
06:44PM EDT
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Quote: "Quote: "are the rabbits kept in cages?
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They are free. I just delivered 2 does to a friend of mine who lives 20 miles away, for free. My friend has a big garden and lots of land and space to raise them, plus 2 daughters and a wife, a dog and cat. It's bunny Buddha blissville. : )
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Reply from immortal 1
Jul.22.2010
07:44AM EDT
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Quote: "Awake, time for a walk with the dogs and wife. OM, last night before bed had my candle burning on the Buddha altar and looked over from the reading couch and the Buddha was gold! I've never seen that before. It was like it had new life! Why? Because, there are miracles happening all the time, and more the further we get to the new heaven and new earth where we are going to be more, in synch with everything, aware of, with. Even plastic Buddha statues have life, golden!.
I do lathe work, make candle holders, and have a ritual candle walk from the front of the house to back, it being my only light, it's all I'll use in the root cellar, day or night. Pulled my first potatoes yesterday. Fine they be. Candle was burning last night in the window and a fly was brought into the flame, which I saw floating in the candle wax before it went out again before sleep, in the liquid wax it still moved, propelled by the movement of hot wax moving to the flame and away before going out. I only use half inch candles, cut into sections/night. Like one 12 inch candle will last me a few weeks.
Gotta walk! Pooches are walking Buddhas.
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Everything is a miracle. We just notice the things that stand out or cant be explained.
I like my router lathe, which would likely not handle the diameter that you need for candle holders. But it can be set up to do spirals and acorn patterns, etc. Closet pole trim works well so that you dont have to round off the wood blank first.
I love being covered in sawdust, but I cant stand to get grease on me so I dont do more mechanical work than I can help. |
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Reply from Woodsman
Jul.22.2010
08:47AM EDT
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Am in the process of demolishing a Shasta trailer, like from the 60's... had been given to us as a gift, which was nice, until on further inspection - a weak floor which was decomposed and dangerous to stand on, open holes behind the fold down bedding, and the smell of mildew. So I stripped it. And now am dismantling it out in the woods... will use the aluminum siding to trim the 4x4x6'5" root cellar, and save the trailer to hall wood. I have to learn to stop taking other people's garbage. Just got the back deck painted, and ended up having to reconstruct sections to make it solid for the paint with a 5 year warranty. Of course in five years things are going to be very different, I'll be glad to have a working root cellar.
I think about the reason we are alive a lot, but not as a question with answers, but just an awareness with unity connections... like how sounds coincide with thoughts bringing in a sense of a much larger dimension, call it spiritual, versus material-ism. But each object has a relationship with every other, so can't be discounted, as meaningless. Everything has a meaning, every feeling/thought can connect us with awakening . If you call it that, in silence. |
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Reply from Tenzo_
Jul.22.2010
10:17AM EDT
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I'd never heard of a root cellar before reading your posts Woody. Just googled it, really interesting. How big are you building it? |
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Reply from ______
Jul.22.2010
10:58AM EDT
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Miracle size. |
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Reply from Woodsman
Jul.22.2010
08:43PM EDT
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6 feet 5 inch tall interior, 4 feet wide, and about 2-3 feet dirt on top, with a ladder (already made from a tree fort we just demolished), and an insulated cover door, and eventually we'll have to check on humidity levels, and floor surfacing, it has to be impermeable to water, so we are beginning small, and now it's raining which is good as we need it, the potatoes are just about ready to pull, have so many beans right now, maybe dehydrate them, but we have to get all the wood over to the hole, the ramp to wheel dirt out is in place, and the hole is about 6 feet wide right now and 4 feet deep, we have two shovels and a wheel barrow to move the dirt, it'll get there, will keep you informed
right now we're doing a water collection thing, where rain water is kept in large cans from roof runoff, just like to use what nature provides with only labor to move it, nature provides that too
Here cometh the rain... oh yeah, I love the sound of water pouring into cans! : 0 )
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Reply from justin
Jul.23.2010
12:34AM EDT
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'Here cometh the rain... oh yeah, I love the sound of water pouring into cans! : 0 )'
There are houses here which have tin roofs and the rain drumming on them is the best way to sleep at night.
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Reply from lehish
Jul.23.2010
01:31AM EDT
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Quote: "'Here cometh the rain... oh yeah, I love the sound of water pouring into cans! : 0 )'
There are houses here which have tin roofs and the rain drumming on them is the best way to sleep at night.
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Reply from Woodsman
Jul.23.2010
12:04PM EDT
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All the cans are full of fresh clean water on the deck, more rain tonight, have to work anyway, and stay awake 12 more hours... just slept 12..
Will focus tonight on helping those in most need: the nursing staff, who cannot accept silence, or me either as I overcompensate for the adolescent noise at night by saying nothing unless it is a need-based on the patient. I usually take the patients no one else wants and we tend to have very good nights, where I care for others being freed from the consumer system, and add not to the denial of a dualistic "better than thou" comparative slide into nihilism. Being open to suffering requires silence to validate what has not yet been heard or able to be expressed. I'm not proud, but sorry, can feel the tears even now.
This will be expressed without my voice, but with hands, eyes, and ears opening up to what is not wanted in silence.
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Reply from lehish
Jul.23.2010
05:05PM EDT
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Quote: "All the cans are full of fresh clean water on the deck, more rain tonight, have to work anyway, and stay awake 12 more hours... just slept 12..
Will focus tonight on helping those in most need: the nursing staff, who cannot accept silence, or me either as I overcompensate for the adolescent noise at night by saying nothing unless it is a need-based on the patient. I usually take the patients no one else wants and we tend to have very good nights, where I care for others being freed from the consumer system, and add not to the denial of a dualistic "better than thou" comparative slide into nihilism. Being open to suffering requires silence to validate what has not yet been heard or able to be expressed. I'm not proud, but sorry, can feel the tears even now.
This will be expressed without my voice, but with hands, eyes, and ears opening up to what is not wanted in silence.
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what are you talking about?
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Reply from Woodsman
Jul.23.2010
06:52PM EDT
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Being in the now requires not looking back, back(2/1), but starting with a clean slate with each experience, every experience an awakening, first, last, only One. |
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Reply from ______
Jul.23.2010
08:12PM EDT
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Cometh the Pour; Cometh the Can
fragile chains
moonlight wanes
drenching daisy
gains
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