The Honest Truth

I'm wiping the sleep gunk out of my eyes and having a good stretch. The world's in a state, but there are lots of possibilities. It's like having free reign in a scrap yard, what ya gonna build with all this random shit? I'm not entirely sure yet, but I want it to be useful.

 

To quote Saint Augustine, 'I wait for death'.

Well, maybe that's a bit extreme. But I am getting older and I'm not in optimal health, even though I'm ok a lot of the time.

I still find life both fascinating and even enjoyable,but I don't have any big goals. Just to live out a relatively comfortable existence until the finale, and if I can find any small positive things to do, all well and good.

On a spiritual level, I would very much like to avoid having to be reincarnated here.

 

I never got that. I've been getting new rides since the dawn of time (as long as I'm winning I don't quit! )

 

I just don't like the idea of having to go through the whole process once more. But of course, reincarnation is only one possibility. Maybe it doesn't happen.

 

Same here, I enjoy being alive way too much not to come back!

 

Trouble is, you would have forgotten all about this present life, and you might come back under worse conditions.

 

Goodwill is going to be very happy soon.

I've been trying to downsize my giant collection of stuff for a couple of years now. TV, VHS collection, DVDs, video games, antiques, etc.
But nobody's buying. TBH, I haven't been trying hard enough to get rid of it all, really. I love all my stuff, but it has to go now.

I have 3 big boxes packed right now and ready to be dropped off this weekend to Goodwill. By next weekend I should have 3 or 4 more packed.
Movies, games and electronics will go to the pawn shop because I know I'll get a few bucks there on the spot.

I'm tired of being weighted down.

My goal: To be able to just shove what I need into my truck and move on a moments notice. No moving van, no storage shed.
I could have gone to Colorado last year and got a job paying $47 an hour, but I didn't know what to do with all the stuff I have.

Living in a van down by the river sounds like more fun than dealing with all of this weight.

I'm going to miss my stuff... :bigcry:

 

If you would come back under worse conditions it would be a good thing not to remember your previous life

 

I tell myself that if this is what's gonna happen, it's because it needs to. I think it's kinda foolish to be afraid of this because it would happen, in the end, for my own good, so I have a better understanding of certain things. No life experience happens without a reason.

 

Trouble is that you'd be stuck cycling through further layers of ignorance, or at least lack of Self knowledge.

 

The whole idea of both Hinduism and Buddhism is really to avoid re-birth by gaining liberation from the cycle.

 

I heard about that one. Is my memory right or that's because they see reincarnation as some kind of punishment?

 

It is the best punishment a God ever gave

 

It's not seen as a punishment, but as an automatic process which is determined according to karma.
But there are many variant beliefs about the whole thing.

 

I often think of getting rid of the weight, as they say you can't take it with you....It is like one becomes a slave to things that are not alive....I admire you for following your dream .....What you wrote here made me think of the word Vagabond....and then I remembered one of my favorite poets named Don Blanding, and here is his Vagabond House poem in a link, as it was too long to copy and paste....

hmmm...it is not coming up...I will try to copy and paste then....as that link is not what I see.....


http://allpoetry.com/Vagabond's-House

 

I'm sorry...I cannot seem to copy and paste it and it is too long of a poem anyway, but if you want to read it,, just type it into Google, and you may find the poem in its entirity.....as I did, but when I linked tht page here, I do not see the poem in its entirity......

Vagabond's House by Don Blanding