Greetings Kim,
Sounds a lot like my day.
The guy handing out Palmer fliers admitted he was really a Labor voter, but the local Palmer candidate was his sumo wrestling teacher.
The volunteers were all respectful of each other - appreciating each other's passion for their beliefs, in bright contrast to the apathy and/or despondence of a large portion of voters.
Metta,
Retro.
Aussie election: Democracy in action?
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"Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."
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And now for a wee bit of classic Michael Leunig...
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
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Tony Abbott's victory speech (unedited).
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
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Good work, folks! Hopefully this will give time for the other guys to sort themselves out and recall what they are about.
"Always look on the bright side of life!"
"Always look on the bright side of life!"
_/|\_
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“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
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That's ace
"Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."
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I couldn't make up my mind about an image to post which represents how I feel about the election results, and about the possible future of Australia under Mr. abbott. So here is a selection:
http://www.google.com.au/search?site=im ... lQWMm4GYAQ
Karuna,
Chris
http://www.google.com.au/search?site=im ... lQWMm4GYAQ
Karuna,
Chris
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
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Please recognizes that our new Prime Minister have a very good understand of "boat people". He arrived in Australia with his parents on a boat and they did not have any legitimate claim for refugee status.
metta to all Australians - i think we will need to enhance our understand and practice of equanimity.
paul
metta to all Australians - i think we will need to enhance our understand and practice of equanimity.
paul
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+ 1retrofuturist wrote:That's ace
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+ 1dagon wrote:metta to all Australians - i think we will need to enhance our understand and practice of equanimity.
paul