HAPPY BIRTHDAY FEDE!
For our magnificent friend Fede who was given the gift of a grandson only a few days ago.
Wishing you a happy day on your birthday and many many happy days to come.
Lots of metta
Ben
Happy Birthday Fede
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FEDE!
“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]..
Happy Birthday Fede
Have a happy birthday Fede!
And just to get you used to the new regime now that the little one is here:
with metta
Chris
And just to get you used to the new regime now that the little one is here:
with metta
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 ---
Re: Happy Birthday Fede
Happ B Day Fede! !
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.
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happy Birthday
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
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He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
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Greetings Fede,
Hope you have a happy birthday, with lots of hot cross buns.
Metta,
Retro.
Hope you have a happy birthday, with lots of hot cross buns.
Metta,
Retro.
"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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Woo-hoo! Thank you guys!!
I received a Birthday-cum-Easter card from a friend....
"Here comes the Easter bunny
His basket full of eggs,
And if the one for you's not there,
I'll break his ruddy legs!"
Which amused me......
However you spend it, and with whom, enjoy your Easter Sunday, everyone.
Bless you Ben.
'Magnificent'....? You should see me at 6.30am whilst I'm ironing.....
I received a Birthday-cum-Easter card from a friend....
"Here comes the Easter bunny
His basket full of eggs,
And if the one for you's not there,
I'll break his ruddy legs!"
Which amused me......
However you spend it, and with whom, enjoy your Easter Sunday, everyone.
Bless you Ben.
'Magnificent'....? You should see me at 6.30am whilst I'm ironing.....
"Samsara: The human condition's heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment." Elizabeth Gilbert, 'Eat, Pray, Love'.
Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!
Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself.
I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?!
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Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!
Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself.
I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?!
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Re: Happy Birthday Fede
Happy Birthday Fede!
Wishing you lots of bliss, happiness and peace.... and swift Enlightenment!
Wishing you lots of bliss, happiness and peace.... and swift Enlightenment!
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Happy birthday to you Fede, whose posts mak me smile.
Re: Happy Birthday Fede
Happy Birthday! from another fan of your posts. 
You should consider defecting to the Great Vehicle. The world needs a new laughing buddha!
You should consider defecting to the Great Vehicle. The world needs a new laughing buddha!
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Thank you so much!
Stefan, it's always a gift to me when I see your smiling avatar.....
How nice you people all are......
Stefan, it's always a gift to me when I see your smiling avatar.....
How nice you people all are......
"Samsara: The human condition's heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment." Elizabeth Gilbert, 'Eat, Pray, Love'.
Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!
Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself.
I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?!
http://www.armchairadvice.co.uk/relationships/forum/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!
Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself.
I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?!
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Happy birthday, Fede!!
"To reach beyond fear and danger we must sharpen and widen our vision. We have to pierce through the deceptions that lull us into a comfortable complacency, to take a straight look down into the depths of our existence, without turning away uneasily or running after distractions." -- Bhikkhu Bodhi
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." -- Heraclitus
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." -- Heraclitus
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Happy Birthday Fede my wise and wonderful friend 
Hope you have a great day
Msmedusa
Hope you have a great day
Msmedusa
'You cannot stop the birds of unhappiness flying around your head, but you dont have to allow them to make nests in your hair ' Chinese Proverb.
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Re: Happy Birthday Fede
well, it's been quiet, and I've been doing what I felt like doing. which was a whole load of not a great deal.
Easter bunny bought some eggies, so his legs remained intact (!) and I got taken out to dinner this evening, which was cool....!
All in all, not a bad day.
On the 14th of this month, I hold my very first evening cookery class at work - we advised all clients on our mailing list, by email just a few days ago - and are now fully booked!
Then the following morning, I travel to France to see my wonderful new little Grandson!
When I return, I will have to submit my case notes to the Dog Psychology centre for accreditation - So life is definitely full!
I think I should be getting younger every day!
Easter bunny bought some eggies, so his legs remained intact (!) and I got taken out to dinner this evening, which was cool....!
All in all, not a bad day.
On the 14th of this month, I hold my very first evening cookery class at work - we advised all clients on our mailing list, by email just a few days ago - and are now fully booked!
Then the following morning, I travel to France to see my wonderful new little Grandson!
When I return, I will have to submit my case notes to the Dog Psychology centre for accreditation - So life is definitely full!
I think I should be getting younger every day!
"Samsara: The human condition's heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment." Elizabeth Gilbert, 'Eat, Pray, Love'.
Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!
Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself.
I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?!
http://www.armchairadvice.co.uk/relationships/forum/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!
Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself.
I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?!
http://www.armchairadvice.co.uk/relationships/forum/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;