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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 22 2015, 11:16 PM (439 Views) | |
| crow | Aug 22 2015, 11:16 PM Post #1 |
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Soren being a member of this very site, and hopefully not too embarrassed by this sudden appearance of a section devoted to him. It is not for me to write about him, at least not yet. But I will say this: In a lifetime of being exposed to humans, none have displayed the insight and knowing of this man. He has never mentioned having experienced enlightenment, but somehow, in his case, it scarcely seems important. He seems to know what I know, and quite possibly what I may not know. He wears his humility considerably more gracefully than I do. His image reminds me of a rabbit. The kind of rabbit you might see in a medieval woodcut, gazing up at the moon. ![]() Earth, moon and stars. ![]() Space inside his head. Alive. Edited by crow, Aug 22 2015, 11:52 PM.
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| crow | Sep 29 2015, 08:45 AM Post #2 |
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Soren recently traveled halfway around the world to meet someone he had never seen before. He arrived with open eyes and open heart, and they stayed open. History was made in a few days, and then the world resumed its turning. Student became master, master became student, both became neither, and all became fun. Miracles are actually very common things. Edited by crow, Sep 29 2015, 08:46 AM.
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| SorenL | Sep 30 2015, 05:17 AM Post #3 |
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I have only just returned to my normal life, after a very long trip, and a very long sleep. And though I am still quite young, I feel rejuvenated. A crow can seem to be many things - but at heart it is a friendly creature, thouroughly good natured, and with a hilarious sense of humor. A rediscovered secret of life: Good company is priceless, and there is a lot to be learned from it, simply by enjoying it for what it is. Gratitude is the key. |
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| crow | Sep 30 2015, 09:36 AM Post #4 |
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So glad you are safely home. That last day was was about 9000 hours long. |
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| SorenL | Sep 30 2015, 01:11 PM Post #5 |
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Indeed. Luckily, I was unable to get any substantial sleep on the airplanes: It wasn't so nice on the journey, but it meant that I had no trouble going to sleep at normal bedtime when I got home. I think I may have beat the jetlag. |
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| crow | Oct 1 2015, 11:06 AM Post #6 |
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Nobody beats West to East Jet Lag! I had often wondered if you were human. I still do. |
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| crow | Oct 11 2015, 12:27 PM Post #7 |
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At 29, one year to go. At 30, Soren becomes Jesus. The world does not await this, but it probably should. Meanwhile, everybody is best served by serving their time, one moment at a time. This goes for Jesus, too. Especially for Jesus. He made a memorable statement, recently: I was asking about Norse Gods, about which Soren knows quite a lot. Thor and Loki were described... Loki is a trickster magician. He causes disasters that only he can rectify. Odin would murder him in an instant, were this not so, but since Loki is the only one who can clean up the mess, Odin is unable to exterminate him. After Loki cleans up the mess he has made, thereby saving the world, Odin owes him a debt of gratitude, and so still can not murder him. A sort of Norse Catch-22. Thor, on the other hand, is a heroic God. A man of action, on a cosmic scale. Concerning Thor, Soren had this to say: "When Thor decides to do something, It Gets Done!" Soren knows lots. You have to figure out how to get it out of him, though. He don't say much Edited by crow, Oct 11 2015, 12:33 PM.
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| xor | Oct 11 2015, 10:15 PM Post #8 |
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![]() I've always loved this painting by C. Hansen depicting Loki gatecrashing a party of norse gods and promptly being bounced straight back out. I don't know a lot about the mythology but you can really sense the 'no-nonsense' attitude of Tor and what an annoying little villain Loki is in this scene. |
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| SorenL | Oct 12 2015, 03:41 AM Post #9 |
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I admittedly find it hard to say something very often. It is very hard not to be wrong. Silence, on the other hand, is never wrong... and once you have given yourself over to silence, you wouldn't believe the interesting things that people start to say around you. And not just people... Everything speaks in its own way, to the one who'll listen. Btw: It's is believed by some that Loki is an even older god than Odin. Maybe - maybe - he was worshipped by the ancient Norse as the Life-force itself. The trickster is a powerful archetype. Consider this: Buddhists claim the world itself to be an illusion. A grand trick, in other words. The veil of Maya. But maybe the ancient Norse revered the world for the very same reason: As illusion, a veil, as play and games... Who knows? Maybe, to them, life itself was the greatest, funniest prank of all time. A prank of divine proportions! And what is a great prank but something you take very seriously, at face value, at first - until you realize exactly how ridiculous it all was. Perhaps you'll be a bit offended at first - but once you get over yourself, you'll start to roar with laughter! "Did I take all of this so seriously?" ![]() Culture - and cultural differences are powerful things. Love that painting, xor. Never seen it before. Loki and Thor are the perfect match! Edited by SorenL, Oct 12 2015, 03:43 AM.
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| Veronique | Oct 12 2015, 10:28 AM Post #10 |
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maybe this universe is like the game dungeon and dragons. God is the Dungeon master or the Game master and people are the players, playing a caracter. |
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| crow | Oct 12 2015, 10:59 AM Post #11 |
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Soren spends most of his time listening, and the rest laughing. I, on the other hand, spend most of my time playing a character not of my choosing. If it all really is a big game, it's the biggest and the best game going. Indistinguishable from Reality. It's tempting to start from a baseline position of: if Buddhists say this, then it must be true. Not so. Buddhists start from a shaky baseline, themselves, in wanting to be like the Buddha. Wanting is not a worthy or useful state. And wanting to be like something is even less so. The Buddha was the Buddha. He had attributes that made him what he was. I am certain he never intended his admirers to be him, or even be like him. The Buddha, today, is not the man, himself; it is a state of being. Life is a given. It is given to us. It is what it is. Only an ego could judge it, find it lacking, and deem it illusion. Life pre-exists. We get to share it, for a while. Soul could never see this as illusion. Only ego could. Because ego deals in nothing but illusion. Nothing real exists in the mind. Soul is not mind. But, of course, to the ego that knows not his own soul, everything is illusion, with the sole exception of ego, itself. Edited by crow, Oct 12 2015, 11:46 AM.
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| crow | Oct 16 2015, 10:28 AM Post #12 |
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"Not a bad bone in his body". This an English saying referring to the best of people, that you rarely hear any more. Probably this is because, in modern times, it refers to the state of so few people. My wife uses it, most often, to refer to me, or to Lily, our Maine Coon cat. I can use it, now, to describe Soren. There are many things about him that I could describe, and all of them are good. But the phrase that sums him up the best, is: "There's not a bad bone in his body". |
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| Veronique | Oct 17 2015, 10:57 AM Post #13 |
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most people are bad to the bones
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| crow | Oct 17 2015, 11:24 AM Post #14 |
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That may be the truest statement on this whole site. I have no idea why people are the way they are, but there can be little doubt that most of them are that way. Fortunately, we few, we happy few, we band of brothers, know that we have a choice. |
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| xor | Oct 19 2015, 01:48 AM Post #15 |
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"There's not a bad bone in his body." I know of such people and indeed I know Soren to be one of them. People with this inherent quality are among the luckiest alive in my view. Second luckiest are those that know of their existence. And the most unlucky are those that fail to see or appreciate such a quality. |
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| SorenL | Oct 19 2015, 01:49 AM Post #16 |
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I could use the very same words to describe the crow: No bad bones. None at all. Perhaps that goes for a lot of the users in here, as well: Fewer bad bones than one is used to, in the general population, at least. I don't know, of course. But that is the feeling I get. Having basic good-will towards others is one of the great secrets of life. It is a basic necessity with regards to enjoying each others company. Unfortunately, a lot of people do not know how to have good-will, and thus end up abusing the good-will that is shown to them. They don't even recognize it, when it is there. This can be a very hurtful thing to experience, and I suspect that this is why a lot of people end up with no apparent good-will towards strangers: They have experienced people abusing their good-will one time too many, have been hurt by it one time too many, and so have grown to become suspicious of everybody, expecting everybody to be abusive people. And not without good reason. I know for a fact that crow is an extremely good-natured man - and also that he has experienced others taking advantage of- and downright abused his good-will many many times. Still, he has not changed his basic attitude, and was - for example - able to be extremely open, generous and forthcoming towards someone like myself, who was basically - until very recently - a stranger to him, of whom he couldn't possibly know what to expect. This is something I find extremely admirable, and worth aspiring to: It takes a strong character to remain good, honest and true in a world, where most people are indeed bad to the bone. |
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| crow | Oct 19 2015, 12:03 PM Post #17 |
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Truth to tell, I do have a few bad bones. My right elbow, for example. I fractured it when I was about 13, and it's hurt ever since. A sixth-former kicked me in the ass, at school, too, and broke my tailbone. Things like that never really seem to completely heal. Still, in the metaphorical sense, I have few - if any - bad bones, and although such a state involves being frequently disadvantaged by the hordes of bagfuls of nothing but bad bones one runs into every day, still it is a state that has advantages. There are no plaster casts in Heaven. As some of you may have deduced, by now, Soren recently crossed half the planet to visit me for a week. From the eastern side of the North Sea, to the western coast of Canada, to spend his nights in an eight by ten foot power shed with no windows, and spiders for company. He didn't complain, once. Not only about that, but about anything. I made a point of introducing him to people as 'Jesus', after witnessing his non-reaction to the first instance of this. "This is Jesus," I would say. "Back from the dead." Peoples' reactions to this were interesting, in an unexpected way. Apparently, very few people even know who Jesus was, any more, and even if they did, generally showed absolutely no interest in the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to actually run into him. Either that, or they would become hostile at the possible joke being played on them. Even more interesting was Soren's non-reaction. Did he dislike being introduced as Jesus? No, apparently not. He was as he was, and did what he did, calm and smiling, when he wasn't roaring with laughter. He is, in fact, the epitome of a taoist. Unlike any others who adopt that label. He is the closest thing to invisible, when he decides to be, and unforgettable the rest of the time. That was one of my most memorable weeks, in a long, long lifetime. While most people we ran into thoroughly missed their opportunity to bask in the reflected glory of The Master, I ended up with third-degree burns. I'll probably never see an event like that one, again, which is both good, and bad. Because once-in-a-lifetime is as good as it gets, while at the same time, unavoidably leaves me wanting more. My wife, too. What a week But, as always: you never know... Edited by crow, Oct 20 2015, 10:22 AM.
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| crow | Feb 2 2016, 11:09 PM Post #18 |
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I once became quite irritated at Soren, due to a minor misunderstanding, which left me waiting for what seemed like a very long time, in my car with the engine running... He'd been writing a postcard to his future wife, that we were now going to deliver to the post office, some eight miles away. When he finally showed up, minus the postcard, blissfully unaware of my growing irritation, I said: "Where's the postcard?" "In the house." Smiling, oblivious to impending doom. "Go and get it." It was a command. He went to get it, came back, and as we drove off he smiled widely at me. "What are you smiling at?" I enquired. "In my whole life, I've never seen genuine authority before," he said. "It's breathtaking!" How's that for the perfect response? Done. Sorted. When Soren decides to do something, he's like a gentle, loving Thor: It. Gets. Done! Masterful. Edited by crow, Feb 2 2016, 11:11 PM.
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