Sung with so much feeling and passion, makes you think the way Jack sings it is the way it should originally have been sung. Much better than Dolly's version imo....
Good, I'm almost out, it's on my next shopping list, maybe I'll try a box. If nothing else it will bring back memories of my dad mixing it with a tiny spoon he used just for mixing and serving Colemans Mustard...
When I was a kid we always got Colemans mustard in powder form which was mixed with water to make a paste. Not sure if it's still available in powder form.
It seems the word soul has different meanings to different people. Some people are called 'souless' when they display no empathy. Some, we say have a good soul when they are kind. Using these definitions it's difficult to see how an animal can have a soul. But then, we are used to slipping the 'word' soul into conversation where it seems best suited, where definition is not required. Maybe soul and it's definition is best left a mystery that cannot be solved by rational thought, something similar to this quotation by Goethe.....
"It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it."
Or how James Hollis describes soul, or 'psyche' which as mentioned earlier in the thread is the Greek word for soul....
"We may stand in relationship to soul only through the imaginary world of the psyche, whether conscious or not, comprehensible or not. While we may seek it through ego driven venues, ranging from theology to music to romantic love, we are more frequently pulled down to the swampland where we at least want to sojourn. Such descents are proof of the ubiquity, autonomy and essential mystery of soul. While the idea soul may be too amorphous for many, we must retain it precisely to honour it's ambiguity, it's elusiveness. Whether soul is in fact there is unimportant. What matters is that in such venues one experiences the depth, the intimation of mystery, which constitutes soul."
Like I mentioned earlier, if soul is so ambiguous, it seems to be pointless, meaningless and of no value to ponder whether animals have a soul...there really is no correct answer....that would appear to be the nature of soul.
I remember a couple of times when members were named and shamed by admin, but that was many years ago. They used to post quite often to keep us in check. I don't think they're really bothered these days though.
Yes, even at that basic level we know anger can be transformed and calmed. It's amazing how after practice and self examination over a comparatively short time, anger can no longer take control of your thoughts and actions like perhaps it once did.
In the Anapanasati Sutta (“Discourse on the Full Awareness of Breathing”), the Buddha teaches, “Breathing in, I calm the activities of the mind in me.” “Activities of the mind” refers to any emotional or psychological state, such as anger, sadness, jealousy, or fear. As you breathe in and out mindfully, you embrace and calm that mental state. As soon as you are aware that anger has arisen, produce mindfulness to embrace the anger. After ten minutes, the intensity of the anger will lessen, and mindfulness will reveal many things. After holding her baby for a few minutes, perhaps humming a lullaby, the mother will search for the cause of the discomfort. Perhaps the baby has a fever or a chill, perhaps her diaper is too tight, or she is thirsty. As soon as the mother discovers the cause, she can transform the situation right away. It is important to get at the root of the problem. This is the practice of looking deeply.
Breathing in, I know I am angry. Breathing out, I know that the anger is in me.” First, you practice recognition. “Hello, anger, my old friend.” Then you look deeply to see its source. “Why am I angry?” The first thing you will discover is that your suffering has its roots in your store consciousness, in seeds that are already there, seeds of anger, delusion, pride, suspicion, or greed. The other person is only a secondary cause.
The next thing you will see is that the other person is also suffering. You may have thought you were the only one suffering, but that is not correct. When someone spills that kind of suffering onto you, you know that he is suffering. When you understand this, love will well up in you, and you will want to help. Understanding is the key.
Thanks to the practice of mindfulness, your anger will return to your store consciousness. The next time it arises, practice the same way, and eventually that seed of anger in you will weaken. This is the practice of facing your anger, and, thanks to mindfulness, transforming it into the energies of love and understanding.
Anger affects us all from time to time and never in a positive way. Below Thich Nhat Hanh offers advice on using mindfulness to take care of your anger, and ultimately transforming it into love and understanding. With practice this method can prove a very effective way of, firstly, understanding your anger, then eventually turning it into a positive emotion.....
"When you are angry, close your eyes and ears and return to yourself in order to quell the flames. Smile, even if it takes effort. Smiling relaxes hundreds of tiny muscles, making your face more attractive. Sit wherever you are, and look deeply. If your concentration is not yet strong, you can go outside and practice walking meditation. Most essential is to water the seed of mindfulness and allow it to arise in your mind consciousness.
Mindfulness is always mindfulness of something, just as anger is always anger at something. When you drink a glass of water and are aware that you are drinking a glass of water, that is mindfulness of drinking water. In this case, we produce mindfulness of anger. “Breathing in, I know I am angry. Breathing out, I know that anger is in me.” First the energy of anger arises, and second the energy of mindfulness arises. The second energy embraces the first in order to soothe it and allow it to subside.
We do not produce mindfulness to chase away or fight our anger but to take good care of it. This method is non-dualistic and nonviolent. It is non-dualistic because it recognizes that mindfulness and anger are both parts of ourselves. One energy embraces the other. Don’t be angry at your anger. Don’t try to chase it away or suppress it. Acknowledge that it has arisen and take care of it. When your stomach hurts, you don’t get angry at it. You take care of it. When a mother hears her baby crying, she puts down what she is doing, picks the baby up, and comforts her. Then she tries to understand why the baby is crying, whether it is because of some physical or emotional discomfort.
Look deeply at your anger as you would at your own child. Do not reject it or hate it. Meditation is not to turn yourself into a battlefield, one side opposing the other. Conscious breathing soothes and calms the anger, and mindfulness penetrates it. Within fifteen minutes of lighting the heater, the warm air pervades the cold room, and a transformation occurs. You don’t need to discard or repress anything, not even your anger. Anger is just an energy, and all energies can be transformed. Meditation is the art of using one kind of energy to transform another. The instant the mother holds her child, the child feels the energy of love and comfort and begins to feel relief. Even if the cause of discomfort is still present, being held in mindfulness is enough to provide some relief.
Seemingly this does not apply to EU and UK users.....
"Last week, WhatsApp sent a message to all of its users informing them of its new privacy policy, which would share data from the messaging app to Facebook. This data includes battery level information, IP address, browser information, mobile network, phone number and the internet service provider.
This does not include the contents of users’ chats because those are, like Signal, end-to-end encrypted. In fact, WhatsApp uses the same protocol that Signal itself uses.
Moreover, this does not include users in the "European region", which covers the EU, EEA, and the UK (even post-Brexit), despite being given a new privacy policy to agree to. “There are no changes to WhatsApp's data-sharing practices in Europe arising from this update,”
I don't think he was a God, nor did he want to kill his father to marry his mother, he was tricked into doing that. It's quite an intriguing story. He needed to get to the truth and in doing so made the sacrifice of his eyesight. He was eventually blessed by the God's for his sacrifice.
James Hollis makes a comparison with the story to 'going beyond' in order to find the truth about oneself....
"Consider the courage of Oedipus who had to know, though he feared that what he had to know might destroy him. His mother-lover-consort Jocasta urges him to close down the investigation. No smoking guns for her. Beyond this point lies danger. Abandon hope all ye who enter. But he has to know, and while that knowledge is destructive of the ego world he has constructed, his suffering at last brings him to Colonus where the Gods bless him for his journey."
Yes I have....well almost as bad. Part of Gokarna Beach, Karnataka, south west India. It seemed that the town used it to dump rubbish, it was not a pretty sight.
I think it's all about intent. There's quite a difference from killing for self gratification and pleasure, to killing with the sole intention of providing food.
If you ask a roomful of people, what is love, you probably get as many different answers as there are people in the room. The word love is most often used as a substitute for many different emotional states of mind, more often than not directed by the ego in the form of projection. The ego of course has one major objective.....self interest.
Romantic love by definition has its foundations in self interest as it always seeks something back, reciprocation is paramount to a romantic relationship.
True love, that is the energy that flows within us all, exists without the emotional guidance and demands of the ego. It could be described as...the natural expression of our self, or giving of our self, in the form of, sharing, helping, encouraging, empowering and many other expressions....without wanting anything in return and with the sole intention of benefitting another/others.
As soon as you want/expect something back, it's not love, it's seeking reward...it's business. Love has no expectations towards which our own personal happiness is dependent, only a positive vision for the happiness and endeavours of others.
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RE: It's just not country..
Great...some of it sounds like 'down the pub' version...love it...