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Join Date: Mar 2007
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Staying motivated
BODYBUILDING SUPPLEMENTS High Quality Supplements For Bodybuilders and Athletes. www.ironmaglabs.com I understand that this will probably lead to even furter slide in my popularity here although, because I came here as a budhist ad everything I do is about that, I decided that it was appropriate whatever the repercussion from it.
A story for you all. Once upon a time, more than 1500 yrs ago, there was a Prince. He had a lovely wife and beautiful children. AS was the trend for the richerst caste in the day, he also had a lovely concubine, with whom he also had beautiful children. The Prince and his court enjoyed the very best money and power could buy. In his castle, he had a big comfortable room where he used to like to spend time, for the balcony off that patricular room provided the most amazing place to look down and watch the ppl of the kingdom below acting out their days and lives. One day, the Prince was watching the ppl down below, and he noticed, with bloody war forever looming in and from surrounding kingdoms, how hard and poor the lives of the ppl had become. The handsome rich young prince was moved by this. He was so moved in fact that he wept for what he could not do to change that for them. After relecting on this for a time, riddlen with empathy, the young prince decided he would leave the castle and go forth into the world to live as they did with hope that he might discover how to amend the predicament. And so he did, renouncing his throne and taking no money, he left his wife, his concubine and his beautiful children. The prince wanderd for a time as such. A reasonable amount of time, and still was yet to discover the solution. At this, the prince decided, as through his travels, face and body dirty with dust from the journey and sweat from the hardship of the land, belly empty and no food to be found, that he would stop in the forrest he had just entered, and he would he sit until he came up with the answer. Ther prince sat and he sat. Many a time as he was fading away, a stranger would approach the prince and offer him food. The prince was flattered and grateful for the offer he knew to be such a sacfrice to the ppl who'd stopped but declined nonethless feeling he could calm his raveous hunger through calming down his desire for it without likewise to the purpose he was pursuing. And so the Prince continued to sit. and sit. and sit. Many years went by, and the prince still sat trying to think of the solution to the problem that had been before him. Finally a kind hearted sweet faced maiden was also walking inthe forrest and encountered the prince. Unable to go on and not notice the starvation the prince was appearing to suffer through his handsome travel worn face, she approached the prince and enquired of him as to how it came about that he should be in the forrest that day. Having learnt of how it came to be for the prince, the maiden, saddened and concerned, then departed from the prince . Several hours later, the maiden returned with food offering it to the prince. It was at having to confront this offer, that finally the answer the prince had been searching for dawned upon him! He would take the food, get up and walk to each kingdom and tell the kings of those kingdoms not to fight and to make peace with the other kingdoms. Of course, that would prove slightly harder than the prince had realised at the time. Eating the meal and thanking the maiden with all of the affection and love and gratitude in his heart, the prince set off on his way. For many weeks and months and years, the prince walked. He walked and he walked and he encountered all manner of beast, plant insect and person. As he walked, he would stop to explain his idea for peace that would improve life for all. That news wasn't always received so well, as you might imagine, but it did provide the prince enough support to have his bowl filled ofen enough to continue his journey. The prince did go from kingdom to kingdom trying to speak with the kings. Time and time again, the prince was told that they weren't interested or that it would never work, for this reason or that, and to please leave. And so he did. Finally the prince came to one kingdom and the gates opened. The king loved everything the pirince had said and ordered his townspeople to build for the prince a temple, so that the king might hear his advice and plans and be able to find him when he wanted to. The towns people did so and loved having the prince amongst them. After a time, the king set off with the information guided by the prince and eventually the wars ceased and the ppl below began to prosper. The prince grew in popularity as his ideas started to take and bear fruit and he was affectionely therafter named as buddha. The enlightened one. There are so many ppl for whom succes has been a long and ardent journey full of sweat and dirty paths and also full of rejection and outside skeptisms. Having so many of his own theories rejected time and time again before a door opened and he was let in, David T suzuki is a prime example of one of these people. {quote} David Takayoshi Suzuki, CC, OBC, PhD (born March 24, 1936), is a Canadian science broadcaster and environmental activist. Since the mid-1970s, Suzuki has become known for his TV and radio series and books about nature and the environment. He is best known as host of the popular and long-running CBC Television science magazine, The Nature of Things, seen in syndication in over 40 nations. He is well known for criticizing governments for their lack of action to protect the environment. He also tries to convince children to help protect the environment { end quote} I just wanted to drive home to people tat there will always be obstacles to anything big that's worth acheiving. There will also always be people who are mean and cruel and ignorant or without hope themselves who will add the hardship of not giving up. It's worked for people through time time and time again so i say to you all, dont give up. Rome wasn't built in a day and I along with many ohers in the world beleive that if you hang in and keep working toward your goals, it's pretty dammed likely you'll get there. I'm not sure how long this post will be allowed to stay up here, but there you all go. peace and good luck to you all. Blooming tianshi lotus. |
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Patrick
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: AZ
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nice cut and paste. that was the first post of yours that actually had sentences that made sense.
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http://pwtraining.blogspot.com/.....come and see what is on my mind!
http://ivonneberkowitz.blogspot.com/....check out Ivonne's new blog! Optimum Sports Performance "In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, in the experts there are few." -Buddha's Little Instruction Book |
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Patrick
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: AZ
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okay, I lied. I read maybe 3 lines of that, got bored and decided not to waste my time.
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http://pwtraining.blogspot.com/.....come and see what is on my mind!
http://ivonneberkowitz.blogspot.com/....check out Ivonne's new blog! Optimum Sports Performance "In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, in the experts there are few." -Buddha's Little Instruction Book |
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 896
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and might that explain why those first lines read the way they now do then??
Speaking of wasting time though, this really is making me want to vomit aswell. From the accusations of lying to the disgraceful crap attitudes that supposedly good people are throwing about here, It's fucking disgusting and like people or not, I'm glad I'm not like them. |
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do work son
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And honestly, just when I thought you couldn't get any dumber, you go and do something like this...
What you did there is the equivalent of me going on some Japanese Anime website, have no idea what people are talking about or what I'm even talking about, and then try and pass off something in perfect Japanese as my own. You're a fucking joke. Be gone. |
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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Some people mighta callled him a piece a shit and still do but the man didn't give up and was dilgent in his efforts the entire way through. That's all my point was .
No Soxmuscle. I dont even get where some ppl aren't seeing themselves as the real joke here. It's just foamed ramblings of nothing to me really and i dont get it. I would be soooo fucking embarrasseed to behave like that. It certainly is nOt professional. |
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I highly doubt you will find a single person on here who would even take the time to read that post. I know I didn't bother.......
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Patrick
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: AZ
Posts: 30,280
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^ no shit! that thing is fucking long as hell!
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http://pwtraining.blogspot.com/.....come and see what is on my mind!
http://ivonneberkowitz.blogspot.com/....check out Ivonne's new blog! Optimum Sports Performance "In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, in the experts there are few." -Buddha's Little Instruction Book |
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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I read it. But its sunday, i'm sick and my girl's away so i'm just sitting around taking bong rips.
I thought Buddha sat and meditated under a tree, and had to reject three offers from the devil or something like that. I could be mixing something up but i remember reading about it in my philosophy of religion class. |
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"...we have to remember that training is a complicated dance of stimuli and response. Our goal is to understand how to manipulate the stimuli in order to evoke the responses we desire." -Nathan J. Polenchek
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Done
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Southern, NJ
Posts: 5,176
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What I find amusing is that you feel you are the victim. Everyone is rude and being mean to you. It was YOU that made callous and rude remarks, even to the people who stuck up for you, and tried to be your friend. LW, Fitgirl, Premier, even Bonecrusher come to mind. You threw them under the train so to speak. Then you come up with this worthless bullshit making it sound like we are all picking on you.
Like I said before, I think you need mental help and I am not saying that to be mean. Oh and btw, here is the real story of Buddha About Buddha - The Life of Buddha, Siddhartha is born |
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do work son
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Good point, JD.
I vividly remember Jodi giving her the benefit of the doubt and BL firing at her with some completely inappropriate shit. She just sucks. Theres no other way to put it. |
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Catalyst
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Hawaii, selling munitions for the war on EcoTerror
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Thats the worst recollection of the story of Siddartha I've ever read. And by the way your doubt betrays your ego, your selfish belief in always being defeated and rejected goes against the moral of the story you present....
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That's Mr. Incredible
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I was actually going to say something positive about the story, but you're right. Also, just as an outsider watching these fights (some were very entertaining), I do believe that Blooming Lotus opened her own can of worms when she attacked Jodi in Akira's arrested thread (one of the more interesting fights). Sorry, but that was just uncalled for. ![]() |
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Mr. Incredible - "Of course I have a secret identity. I don't know a single superhero without one. I mean, who wants the pressure of being super all the time?"
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Succinct
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Blooming Lotus deserves an award.
A. The best troll of 2007. Seriously, if he's a troll, he's fucking amazing at being fucking annoying. B. The most fucked up person of 2007. I'm talking about serious mental issues here. Either way, BL, you get to wear a real medal for once in your life! ![]() |
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That's Mr. Incredible
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Yeah, I read some of his posts, he seemed like such an idiot. Then there was John H who reminded me of a very bad Tony Little (I swear if I see another one of his commercials again I'm going to put a brick through my tv).
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Mr. Incredible - "Of course I have a secret identity. I don't know a single superhero without one. I mean, who wants the pressure of being super all the time?"
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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I aam the help I said , and as far as Jodi and our falling out goes, if she sincerely thinks that she has to lie about me and undersell me with unfair garbage just to be able to defend me then she was never in the right in the first place. As far as the story goes, it was long enough as it was and the point got across to those who read it. i've probably studied a few more versions and other doctrine clarifying what exactly it all means and is saying than most ppl have, so take the fucking brief and do what you like with it. Maniclion, I dont know what you think you know about buddha and buddha nature but amitabah and wtf ever. Do your thing on it honey because i will definately be doing likewise. . i dont know who you think you are about it to be honest. Look. Look for something postive and if you look hard enough you'll no doubt find it. Look for negative and it'll be there. If ppl dont understand where and what benevolence i'm serving and carrying on their behalves, then it's not my problem and I'm reeally busy just doing that. It's a good story and association.. It only takes one time short of good thoughts to turn the cards in the life . If you dont get it then i guess you dont need to atm. If you do down the track, then i hope you find something to get you past your bail. Imo, most of you are acting like children with bad attitudes. How exactyl would you like to me respond to that? Last edited by Blooming Lotus : 08-19-2007 at 09:16 PM. |
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Patrick
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: AZ
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http://pwtraining.blogspot.com/.....come and see what is on my mind!
http://ivonneberkowitz.blogspot.com/....check out Ivonne's new blog! Optimum Sports Performance "In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, in the experts there are few." -Buddha's Little Instruction Book |
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Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 896
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Now wouuld be good, but whaddayou want? It takes as long as it does and happens or not if and when it does. Until then go about your business and wtf ever about later. Later 'll take care of later by what happened before that we can use for then. If we feel we can hang off and or plan ahead then we might do that. If not we die or screw our lives up and it doesn't matter maybe.
Loosing patience or getting lost in another direction is half the test right? Sometimes we just dont know until we get there. . but it's nice to feel without or short of hope and be able to see something better to look forward to at those times . It's about being realistic and honestly chasing what we want. When that changes then it's nice to know we could have it. |
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Patrick
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: AZ
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I totally agree. Once again, pure genius.
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http://pwtraining.blogspot.com/.....come and see what is on my mind!
http://ivonneberkowitz.blogspot.com/....check out Ivonne's new blog! Optimum Sports Performance "In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, in the experts there are few." -Buddha's Little Instruction Book |
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