That sounds like my king of book jac, travel, sport and comedy all in one, I'll have to check it out..
Touching the Void is a compelling read and a spellbinding film, even the stage adaptation keeps you on the edge of your seat. Even though it's primarily a mountaineering story, it's appeal is by no means limited to the mountaineering fraternity.
When word got out that Simon Yates had cut the rope sending his climbing partner Joe Simpson to his almost certain death, the climbing world was in shock and disbelief. Touching the Void is the harrowing story of one mans struggle to survive against impossible odds and how the real truth of that desperately agonising event really played out.....not for the feint hearted.
I rarely but anything from thr reduced section since I changed my diet about six months ago. In fact there are many sections I just walk past these days, especially the chocolate, cakes and buscuits sections. That was so difficult at first..
The only time I've seen a film that was as good as the book was the accliamed Touching the Void by Joe Simpson . Even the recent stage adaptation somehow conveyed the harrowing true story of Joe Simpson's survival story after his partner Simon Yates had to cut the rope he was suspended on and his subsequent solo fight for survival high up in the Peruvian Andes.
"The book behind the BAFTA award-winning film. Winner of the NCR Award for non-fiction and the Boardman Tasker award."
I have a tiny buddha on the top of the dashboard in my van. Since he's been there, about 8 years he's turned 180 degrees and is now looking at me when i'm driving.
You have to ask, what is an emotion to find the answer to that. I believe an emotion to be a cluster of energies brought about by thought. These energies vibrate on different levels (frequences.) Depending on the effect they have determine whether they are positive or negative vibrations....yes, "what's with the negative waves man," as Oddball asked in Kelly's Heros really had validity. But, aside from the duality of negative and positive (a man made concept) lies 'madhyamaka', the middle ground. This is where true separation from our delusions (suffering) can be found. It's either this or that, but neither this nor that. We can only allow one to negate the other...or not. The mind has the power to choose.
I'm sorry, I should have said "desirous attachement." Sadness and anger can be eliminated, and who would not want to. You can only be sad through attachement and angry when you believe something exists to be angry with. But right now I believe my pint exists at the pub, so that's where I'm off.
I haven't heard that idiom but suspect there is more 'around it'. Enlightenment is the ultimate achievement for a Buddhist and also to become a bodhisattva. A bodhisattva, fully enlightened one (a buddha) lives with the awarness that he, or she are not separate from all other sentient beings, there is no self. Through this awareness they cannot suffer the delusions of normal beings, sadness, anger, attachement etc. To attain bodhisattva may take many lifetimes of suffering, (samsara) and this is where karmic history comes in. To gather merit and gain positive karma takes the student closer to bodhisattva and eventually nirvana, no re-birth, no samsara. Most people who study Buddhism do so for the infinate wisdom of the Buddha's teachings, past down through empowerments directly from the Buddha through the ages, but don't necessarily expect to achieve enlightenment. To become enlightened (a buddha) is extremely rare and almost unobtainable, but to take on the journey and follow the path (lam rim) will without doubt bring great peace of mind and through the loving and compassion that will follow will guarantee a more fruitful and meaningful life. This is how I understand the meaning of enlightenment. I've never met anyone who was truly on the path of lam rim to be anything but full of loving and full of the real joy of life.
This that follows is a little quote from a site i've found. The site really does explain enlightenment in a way that can maybe understood, (and is much better than my clumsy words) for anyone who may be interested, I've added a link...
"Enlightenment is not something that benefits "you" or "me." It is the absence of the illusion of there being a "you" or "me" to benefit. Enlightenment is held up as the ultimate goal of Buddhism, but ironically it is only when the concept of being a "someone" who could achieve anything is abandoned that enlightenment naturally occurs."
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That sounds like my king of book jac, travel, sport and comedy all in one, I'll have to check it out..Touching the Void is a compelling read and a spellbinding film, even the stage adaptation keeps you on the edge of your seat.
Even though it's primarily a mountaineering story, it's appeal is by no means limited to the mountaineering fraternity.
When word got out that Simon Yates had cut the rope sending his climbing partner Joe Simpson to his almost certain death, the climbing world was in shock and disbelief. Touching the Void is the harrowing story of one mans struggle to survive against impossible odds and how the real truth of that desperately agonising event really played out.....not for the feint hearted.
The film trailer.....
The stage adaptation at the Old Vic trailer...