The Third Immortal King told the Emperor:
"You attain the Tao by avoiding all grains. You will never again have to follow the rhythm of the moon and plant or harvest.
"Now, the people of mysterious antiquity, they reached old age because they remained in leisure and never ate any grains.
"As the Dayou zhang (Verse of Great Existence) says:
The five grains are chisels cutting life away,
Making the five organs stink and shorten our spans.
Once entered into our stomach,
There's no more chance to live quite long.
To strive for complete avoidance of all death
Keep your intestines free of excrement!"

From Taishang lingbao wufuxu (Explaination of the Five Talismans of Numinous Treasure)

kwan Wrote:
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> To strive for complete avoidance of all death
> Keep your intestines free of excrement!"
Kwan.....That's a Prophetic Promise....
must look into this a little deeper.....WY

Within the heart of every stray
lies the singular desire to be loved
Have a GREAT DAY.

May there be funny balloons flying,
May there be flowers on the earth,
May there be children on the earth,
May there be peace on the earth!
Nadia Hristova, 9 years

"You may run on for a long time".....Elvis Presley
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Anthem

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.

--Leonard Cohen

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work!" Quote by Thomas Alva Edison

=)

...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist

Awake, thou wintry earth -
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!
~Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"

If you pick
up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is
the principal difference between a dog and a man.

- Mark
Twain

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it"...Yogi Berra
Sorry folks, but I use this over and over again,
I like it so much. The quote gets better when an explanation
is provided....Yogi Berra, in giving directions to his home,
explained it this way because either turn would get you there,
but he forgot to tell that....WY

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Poem by student punished for dyeing her hair

Amber Cole was punished by administrators of Eagleton Elementary School for dyeing her hair pink. Here is a poem that she wrote about her fight for free expression.

Everyone thought I was a fool
The day I took my Civil Rights to school

I had been told that free speech was banned
And knew that I had to take a stand

I did not try to create a stink
I just wanted my hair to be Pink

I had been told of the great debate
“Civil rights did not stop at the school house gate”

But when I arrived at school
The fires of censorship began to fuel

Punish her and make it ample
She has to be made an example

The principal told my overseer
“We don’t want her to become the leader”

They decided to put me under suspension
Because freedom fuels my mighty engine

“Free Speech” is this engines roar
“Liberty and Justice for All” is what I stand for

So I ask that you support my fight
And let the world know censorship is not right

"She raises the level of your Game".....Felicity Huffman, about
Jane Fonda, in the movie 'Georgia Rule'. Also starring Lindsay
Lohan.
May we all raise the level of everyone we meet...WY

"I'd give my right arm to play guitar like that"....Anonymous

What he really meant was 'I want to play good Guitar,
but I don't want to Work to do it'.
Some quotes are Humorous, some are Inspirational, some are
Spiritual, but a blend of all three is Best....WY

"If a Man made a statement in a wilderness, and there was no
Woman around to hear what he said, would he still be Wrong?"....Anonymous

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain.

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
Mark Twain.

wheatgrass yogi, I got that qoute out of a Twain quote site, not sure who wrote it?
they lived almost the same period.

la_veronique Wrote:
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> WY
>
> I find this series of quotes somewhat entertaining
> in a rather bizarre way.
>
> Stranger things have been quoted.
La_V....I look at all of us as being here to
entertain....but in a serious way. I see too many here
getting too serious. It's more Fun for me to bend in the
other direction.
You seem to have a cheerful nature. I've enjoyed your posts...WY

u are right

when things get too serious
it gets down right comical sometimes

cheers

....I look at all of us as being here to
entertain....but in a serious way. I see too many here
getting too serious. I agree to entertain and a little bit serious,
somewhere in between not to lightly not to serious. but I dont see anyone here getting to serious, just quotes,
another quote in somewhat a serious way.

"How wonderful it is that nobody
need wait a single moment before
stating to improve the world."
Ann Frank

1st Raw Food Vegan....."What would you do if you were given only
six months to live?"
2nd Raw Food Vegan....."I'd eat a lot of Red Meat."

I saw this somewhere and thought it was funny...WY

"There is no Job so Easy that it can't be done Wrong"....Anonymous

"never trust a fart"
- my dad

=)

...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist

Jgunn Wrote:
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> "never trust a fart"
> - my dad
Good one Jodi!! My Father had some interesting
statements too. One that comes immediately to Mind is....
"Poor People have Poor Ways".
I wish now I had conversed with him more when his
mind was 'sharp'.....WY

"I generally avoid Temptation...unless I can't resist it"....Mae West
How are you doing?....WY

The earth is changing

The rain forest is dying

The earth is warming up

Are the politicians lying

About the half empty cup?



The world has frozen once before

Without the aid of man

The ice that covered the lands did thaw

Without the aid of man!



In the 1970's grapes grew in the UK

In the 1980's we saw snow like never before

What makes us think, that this is not ok?

That the intervention of man brought us to the floor?



Its all down to greed,

money and scare tactic

The earth is changing i do concede

And this is a pandemic



But its the politicians with the disease

Their desire for more

The oil barrons to appease

The tax on the lives of the poor

Not every sucessful Person is a good Parent, but every good Parent is a sucessful Person!

- unknown

...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist

This poem came to mind with all this pig scare going down-

Language is a virus,

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.
---Rumi

Sharrhan:


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hey kwan

i absolutely love that rumi quote

it is very delicioius
and striking
and simple

love rumi to pieces


<<"I generally avoid Temptation...unless I can't resist it"....Mae West >>

i luved this quote as well

yeah... funny as heck

"For me there is only the traveling on the paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart. There I travel, and the only worth while challenge is to traverse its full length. And there I travel, looking breathlessly." Don Juan

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