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BeinGood About Not, etc....

---Not About Being Good---
Just as Buddhist shila [ethical conduct] refers not to some imaginary static state of virtue but to an ongoing test of volition, so too is this true of enlightenment. Since there is no abiding personhood in any of us, rather than speaking of an enlightened person, let'’s speak of enlightened conduct.
 - Bodhin Kjolhede, "Pain, Passion, and the Precepts"
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what about
whereabouts unknown? is
such
delicious
torment as much ab'out ye or me?
or the me wit'in ye wit
       in me?

not to deny abiding
          personhood
          delude'dled
whatever was my me for too long too long a go -

thereby be
        My Pain, not t'be tooken personalike,
     but as for all sentient beans,uni
     versal dispersal unconditional compassion, &
karma,
which in-no-way dispenses rewards nor puni
                                     shments,
an unknowable condition--------------


no mes'sage here kids------delighted
                         enlight'liment
                       is a cummance of bliss
                    afire wit thee pains of every
thing that lives that
lives that
lives.........be it alike un'to "so be it"


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