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These are for you Ron

Blackbeard
Long John Silver

FTFY.

Also, i dont think confucious knew anything about farming, you need pooh, footsteps wont do anything :rolleyes:

As a man of his time, Kong Qui new enough about farming to say something wise about it. However, being too busy with philosophical and ethical matters I doubt he would have said this, let alone that the farmers of that time would have understood such a saying. Pearls for the swines, like the ones given to certain would-be consultants. Oops..

“I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings by living, but people work like crazy, thinking that they have to in order to stay alive. The bigger the job, the greater the challenge, the more wonderful they think it is. It would be good to give up that way of thinking and live an easy, comfortable life with plenty of free time. I think that the way animals live in the tropics, stepping outside in the morning and evening to see if there is something to eat, and taking a long nap in the afternoon, must be a wonderful life. For human beings, a life of such simplicity would be possible if one worked to produce directly his daily necessities. In such a life, work is not work as people generally think of it, but simply doing what needs to be done.”


Masanobu *now Paul, stop that* - A philosopher and a farmer....

Does his last name sound like a swear word, EB?

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. - James A. Baldwin

Good one, +1 this.
Nostalgic too - like a letter from mom.

So Masanobu san was a kind of Wu Wei farmer, huh? Always interesting to see how Japanese manage to give their own, and often more sofisticated, twist to the old teachings of our friends Lao Tzu, Chwang Tzu and Kong Qui. But those words contain a lot of wisdom gained through observation and contemplation. Oh, how I wish more would practice those two simple activities close to Wu Wei, including myself.

Thats not fair if I can't even say Masanobu *now Paul, stop that* without being censored.....

It triggered on *now Paul, stop that*....not Masanobu. You see, now the censoring makes it even impossible for you to see what triggers it.

Baaaa Humbug it is..


how do you spell it krike Whats it really mean. Just what it sounds like?

The funny thing is that bad words sometimes slip through.

“While we may judge things as good or bad, karma doesn't. It's a simple case of like gets like, the ultimate balancing act, nothing more, nothing less. And if you're determined to fix every situation you deem as bad, or difficult, or somehow unsavory, then you rob the person of their own chance to fix it, learn from it, or even grow from it. Some things, no matter how painful, happen for a reason. A reason you or I may not be able to grasp at first sight, not without knowing a person's entire life story - their cumulative past. And to just barge in and interfere, no matter how well-intentioned, would be akin to robbing them of their journey. Something that's better not done.” - Alyson Noel, Shadowland -

but what if it is your karma to barge in ?

*kittens* u o k a...

Bugger... still doesn't work........

f u k uoka.. ? Yay...


Masanobu f u k uoka..