Things seem to just fall apart

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[Olivianna]

Pema Chodron

 

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[Olivianna]

Pema Chodron wrote a book titled _When Things Fall Apart_, which basically expounds upon some (Theravedic?) Buddhist philosophy stating that there is no certaintly in anything. That is, we can not count on anything staying the same. It is an idea most often connected to Buddhist thought, but similar strains of such themes are found in other religions, of course. Anyway, her book is an interesting read. Not that understanding that there is no certainty/permanence in anything will immediately make pain go away.

 

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[Olivianna]

Buddhism is a cheap copy of indu traditions ok

Pea-brain. Ok, following your logic, Islam is a cheap copy of Judaism and Christianity. Pea-brain.

 

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[Olivianna]

So, with all of your manipulations of history (which I don't necessarily whole-heartedly accept) where are you now? Who gives a fuck what's a copy of what? Do you think God/brain/spirit/Earth/whatever cares? Keep spreading your falsehoods elsewhere or engage with others on a compassionate level.

 

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[Kymberley]

......so easily, I guess it's all apart of growing up, getting older.....friends just don't remain friends anymore, people change, start their own lives, people drift apart.......

It's weird but I'm sitting back watching a group of people that I grew up with fall apart in front of my very eyes, as I predicted, and doing nothing about it.....I've accepted it, but now it's just hitting me.......I always told my best friend that that's bound to happen, everyone keeps just one or two close friends, you slowly discover who's really going to be there for you, and who couldn't really give a sh|t if you were doing good or not.......

I guess it just hurts......seeing all of this happening, knowing that I can't really do anything to stop it......at the same time I'm glad I'm rid of all of the politics and gossip......yet it still hurts..........

Just thought I'd throw this into the void, not expecting an answer or a solution to the question of, how to grow up without losing it.......just felt the need to get this out of my system......

Yayati.... I actually read this all the way through. Barring the rest of this post, and by that I mean the trip into whose theology you tend to agree with, I know what you are talking about. It sucks when you finally realize just who is left after all you have gone through with your friends.

Remembering back to how many of those "Friends 4 Ever" and just how long "4 Ever" actually turned out to be, makes you laugh at the thought of just how short our lives really are.

I have one friend I still speak to regularly from my teen years. We were within a couple of hundred miles of each other three weeks ago for the first time in 8 years, and yet couldn't find the needed two hours just to meet in the middle and say hello face to face.

Thanks for the thought. It will have me thinking of many today.

 

[Dietrich K.]

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. "

- The Second Coming - W.B. Yeats