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Old Jan 14, 2017, 10:56 AM
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i found this interesting...

When I deeply contemplate the transient nature of human life, I realize that,from beginning to end, life is impermanent like an illusion. We have not yetheard of anyone who lived ten thousand years. How fleeting is a lifetime!Who in this world today can maintain a human form for even a hundred years?There is no knowing whether I will die first or others, whether death will occurtoday or tomorrow. We depart one after another more quickly than the dewdrops onthe roots or the tips of the blades of grasses. So it is said. Hence, we mayhave radiant faces in the morning, but by evening we may turn into white ashes.Once the winds of impermanence have blown, our eyes are instantly closed and ourbreath stops forever. Then, our radiant face changes its color, and theattractive countenance like peach and plum blossoms is lost. Family andrelatives will gather and grieve, but all to no avail?Since there is nothing else that can be done, they carry the deceased out to thefields, and then what is left after the body has been cremated and has turnedinto the midnight smoke is just white ashes. Words fail to describe the sadnessof it all.Thus the ephemeral nature of human existence is such that death comes to youngand old alike without discrimination.So we should all quickly take to heart thematter of the greatest importance of the afterlife

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Old Jan 14, 2017, 12:02 PM
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i found this interesting... something i wrote back in 2010... but i have absolutely no recall of writing it... sounds like something i would write... makes me sound smart, what happened to me!
did i even write it or did i steal it from some place?

When I deeply contemplate the transient nature of human life, I realize that,from beginning to end, life is impermanent like an illusion. We have not yetheard of anyone who lived ten thousand years. How fleeting is a lifetime!Who in this world today can maintain a human form for even a hundred years?There is no knowing whether I will die first or others, whether death will occurtoday or tomorrow. We depart one after another more quickly than the dewdrops onthe roots or the tips of the blades of grasses. So it is said. Hence, we mayhave radiant faces in the morning, but by evening we may turn into white ashes.Once the winds of impermanence have blown, our eyes are instantly closed and ourbreath stops forever. Then, our radiant face changes its color, and theattractive countenance like peach and plum blossoms is lost. Family andrelatives will gather and grieve, but all to no avail?Since there is nothing else that can be done, they carry the deceased out to thefields, and then what is left after the body has been cremated and has turnedinto the midnight smoke is just white ashes. Words fail to describe the sadnessof it all.Thus the ephemeral nature of human existence is such that death comes to youngand old alike without discrimination.So we should all quickly take to heart thematter of the greatest importance of the afterlife
I have found an easy way to find out where something comes from, when I read a poem and I like that poem all I do is highlight a sentence in the post then what I do is paste that sentence of choice in the search bar and then google it. this lets me know where that poem or song or post I like comes from, when I googled the first sentence of this poem many results come up saying this is a poem by Jokpeme Joseph Omode heres one of the many likes I found by googling the first sentence Jokpeme Joseph Omode - Jokpeme Joseph Omode Biography - Poem Hunter
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Old Jan 14, 2017, 01:57 PM
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apparently i didn't write this, but for whatever reason i sent it to an old acquaintance back in 2010

i found it here
Berkeley Buddhist Temple White Ashes
Thanks for this!
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Old Jan 14, 2017, 03:08 PM
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Sometimes I find it unsettleing when I encounter a past thing that "I've done" and draw a total blank. That's the normal part....the unsettling part is finding things that I'd never say or do for any reason whatsoever....like so not me stuff.
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Old Jan 14, 2017, 05:26 PM
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Sometimes I find it unsettleing when I encounter a past thing that "I've done" and draw a total blank. That's the normal part....the unsettling part is finding things that I'd never say or do for any reason whatsoever....like so not me stuff.
For me it's the things my others write to ex T.... Holy moly!!!
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Old Jan 15, 2017, 10:43 AM
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We got some who throw stuff we write away. We usta have lots n lots of write stuff but they almost all gone now. We still got stuff from one girl inside n she usta like learnin spanish so most of what we got now is stuff that talk about how oso aint ojo cuz we dont got bears for eyes. Sometimes i think well itd sure be nice to have them write stuffs back but then other times im real glad we aint got that creepy stuff around no more. I dont like seein some stuffs them others do cuz i dont wanna be thinkin bout that.
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Old Jan 15, 2017, 03:34 PM
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We got some who throw stuff we write away. We usta have lots n lots of write stuff but they almost all gone now. We still got stuff from one girl inside n she usta like learnin spanish so most of what we got now is stuff that talk about how oso aint ojo cuz we dont got bears for eyes. Sometimes i think well itd sure be nice to have them write stuffs back but then other times im real glad we aint got that creepy stuff around no more. I dont like seein some stuffs them others do cuz i dont wanna be thinkin bout that.
Us too. We quit writing. But with this online typibg stuff. We do more now.
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