better than a tree falling in the forest

Imagine yourself as a child lying on your back, gazing up into a cloudless sky, and blowing soap bubbles through a plastic ring. As a bubble drifts up into the sky, you watch it rise, and this brings your attention to the sky. While you are looking at the bubble, it pops, and you keep your attention right where the bubble had been. Your awareness now lies in empty space.

-B. Alan Wallace, "Tibetan Buddhism From the Ground Up"

 

The atmosphere is no where near empty though. Over ten thousand pascals of atmospheric pressure.

Childlike wonder is overrated. Alan Wallace is dumb.

 

See why building faith on bad metaphors doesn't work?

Carry on.

 

You're such an ass sometimes

 

I have been a little pissy the past couple days.

Sorry Boog.

 

No sex-itis setting in?

 

you're forgiven.. i don't really like a lot men right now as it is.. i'll just add you to that list and let it go

 

Wouldn't letting it go take me off a list?

I'm not going to argue though. You'll forgive me soon. I'm too huggable to stay mad at.

 

Actually yeah...

 

let it go as in "you're not worth me getting upset over because you had some sort of pleasure in hurting me and hurting me more would only make you happy"


i thought that was nice.. i'm not doing good lately and well.. i needed a way of thingking that i'm not as big as i assume at times.. ONE.. but you want to ruin that .. and i'm just gonna ignore you even said anything

 

I'm definatly not worth getting upset over.

I didn't mean to hurt your feelings Boog. I really am sorry.

 

He's just trying to get in your pants by seeming sweet and sincere.

 

it's okay.. seems my feels are getting hurt real easily lately :&

stress i'm sure

 

wouldn't be the first time a man tried that

i trust no one now

 

That's probably a good policy.

I really did mean it though. I didn't want to hurt your feelings.

 

too late anyways.. i'm going to return the bottle of soap bubbles i got you for your birthday

 

Damn.

Oh well, I'd probably have choked on them anyway.

 

blowing bubbles just happens to be one of my favorite things to do..

i just never thought of it like that

i should go blow some now... we have some called "catch-a-bubbles" and they're not soap.. they don't pop as easily.. we had one sitting on the picture frame in the front walkway for 2 weeks before it popped

 

i can imagine doing that the next time someone foolishly leaves a bubble blower where i can get it.

You HAVE to trust boog, or you will never find people you can trust.
negative lessons are a bad plan, just stop being so tolerent of people who wrong you,

 

Sounds exactly like what I do even at my age now, so I guess I don't even have to imagine being a child.

I love laying in the grass blowing bubbles, man, I can get so involved in it, watching the way the sunlight hits those little spheres of soapiness, making rainbows, it's awesome!