.Philosophy of a Shopaholic:

1)I shop therefore I am.

2)I buy therefore I am happy.

3)I pay therefore I am in debt.

Isn't it so? if we aren't careful ?
So, better be happy without shopping, and if so: no debts, !kk

WORLD IDEOLOGIES AS EXPLAINED BY REFERENCE TO COWS

FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes the milk.

PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you a glass of milk.

BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: Your cows are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs as the regulations say you should need.

FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.

PURE COMMUNISM: You share two cows with your neighbors. You and your neighbors bicker about who has the most "ability" and who has the most "need". Meanwhile, no one works, no one gets any milk, and the cows drop dead of starvation.

RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the black market.

PERESTROIKA: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the Mafia takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the "free" market.

CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.

DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.

PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.

REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors elect someone to tell you who gets the milk.

BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.

CAPITALISM: You don't have any cows. The bank will not lend you money to buy cows, because you don't have any cows to put up as collateral.

PURE ANARCHY: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.

ANARCHO-CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.

SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

OLYMPICS-ISM: You have two cows, one American, one Chinese. With the help of trilling violins and state-of-the-art montage photography, John Tesh narrates the moving tale of how the American cow overcame the agony of growing up in a suburb with (gasp) divorced parents, then mentions in passing that the Chinese cow was beaten every day by a tyrannical farmer and watched its parents butchered before its eyes. The American cow wins the competition, severely spraining an udder in a gritty performance, and gets a multi-million dollar contract to endorse Wheaties. The Chinese cow is led out of the arena and shot by Chinese government officials, though no one ever hears about it. McDonald's buys the meat and serves it hot and fast at its Beijing restaurant.

as the title says is just a funny point of view, nothing else,hugs,kk

."There is but one cause of human failure and that is man's lack of faith in his true Self." by William James

."We'r injured and hurt emotionally - not so much by other people or what they say or don't say - but by our own attitude and our own response." by Maxwell Maltz

."If u depend on someone for your happiness u'r becoming a slave, u'r becoming dependent, u'r creating a bondage. And u depend on so many people; they all become subtle masters, they all exploit u in return." by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

.Cows on their dinning room
.So, when i look to a cow, or lots of them, i always think on good cheeses, great milk, hamburgers, great beefs/stakes..well:FOOD...not Holy cows. I just like cows cz that: FOOD, yummies cheeses,meat,etc. Well all this cz ours cmts. joking around cows on my last 3 posts, we really laughed a lot,i still do whenever i re-read it; and cz those fundamentalists or whatever better explain them that for me COW=FOOD. There are lots of cows in the world, enough cows for everybody even madcows ! Now holy cows,oh well i can't bring one home to pee&poo to bring me luck&money cz i will not manage pull a cow at Lisbon's streets, sit it down on the lift and be around&around on my home wait'g that it does it's "job" , yes people would think i turned crazy forever . That's why by me they are Food..well now whenever i go again into a McDonald's i'll remember 4sure this stuff and that maybe i'm eat'g a holy hamburger, sounds nice huh ? Lol,i'm jok'g but it's the truth!Anyway i think its great every each Culture maintain their traditions so they don't fly away...oops...better i stop saying that Humankind is beautiful with their own traditions in each place

Hmm,i think that poor donkey's thoughts maybe:"wow, i'm up..what's going on?who's pushing me?" or "from up here views are better"...hahahaha,anyhow hope is not a holy donkey as the cow ok?any suggestions as his thoughts..i'm already laughing so be my guest..hahahaha KK

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."Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other." by Ouspensky & Gurdjieff

."There is much to use of nature's way. It is with you always, available to you always. Take time to hear and see that which is close at hand.
There are forces in you untried. They are yours to be used as you find them." by St.Clair-Thomas

A Cup of Tea

Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen.

Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor's cup full, and then kept on pouring.

The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. "It is overfull. No more will go in!"

"Like this cup," Nan-in said, "you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?"

BRAVO Red devils BENFICA...hahaha,almost seems a war between Portugal and Spain as along History, with Port.English oldest alliance in world now with spanishes hahahahaha VIVA BENFICA MUST WINN, WINNNNNN
YUUUUUPEEEE,KK (ps.well, i hope didn't hurt no one with my happines here,when i posted this just cz im a Benfica fan, i'm sorry)kk

BENFICA MUST WIN vs LIVERPOOL..but i wonder really! well we won Manchester United with our goalkeeper lesionated in legs..so i'v FAITH, i HOPE, so i n shout: VIVA BENFICA...BRAVO BENFICA kk..anyway if Liverp'l wins its ok by me cz iv friends which are Liverpool's fans,BUT i LOVE BENFICAAAAAA hugs2uall, BENFICAAAAAA

which thoughts is he hav'g?like: "wow i'm singing with this stuff on my hands like Mick Jagger, Sting, Coldplay, Eminem..hmm who else??? i wanna karaoke!..."

"My Heart Burns Like Fire":

Soyen Shaku, the first Zen teacher to come to America, said: "My heart burns like fire but my eyes are as cold as dead ashes." He made the following rules which he practiced every day of his life.

1)In the morning before dressing, light incense and meditate. ( i never did it!meditate bfore dressing?im always rush'g!)

2)Retire at a regular hour. Partake of food at regular intervals. Eat with moderation and never to the point of satisfaction.
(hmm,i'm fail'g this 1 too!)

3)Receive a guest with the same attitude you have when alone. When alone, maintain the same attitude you have in receiving guests.
(that's a hard one no?how can i do that?my attitude or mood varies a lot)

4)Watch what you say, and whatever you say, practice it. (Ireally try to, true, is an extreme effort 4me but i try and mostly i succed, , well mainly yeah!sometimes i count till 50 before reply someone or go out,, that's how i practice it)

5)When an opportunity comes do not let it pass you by, yet always think twice before acting. (where is it?passed by already!cz i thought twice )

6)Do not regret the past. Look to the future. :D (YES, this 1 i do! It's MY WAY )

7)Have the fearless attitude of a hero and the loving heart of a child.:P (Now im enjoy'g,that's me too )

8)Upon retiring, sleep as if you had entered your last sleep. Upon awakening, leave your bed behind you instantly as if you had cast away a pair of old shoes. ( hmm sometimes is hard huh? u don't get insomnia(insonia)with like this but still sleepy like ?? and after awakening, also depends the circunstances :P )
HUGS,KIKI

"Trading Dialogue For Lodging"

Provided he makes and wins an argument about Buddhism with those who live there, any wandering monk can remain in a Zen temple. If he is defeated, he has to move on.

In a temple in the northern part of Japan two brother monks were dwelling together. The elder one was learned, but the younger one was stupid and had but one eye.

A wandering monk came and asked for lodging, properly challenging them to a debate about the sublime teaching. The elder brother, tired that day from much studying, told the younger one to take his place. "Go and request the dialogue in silence," he cautioned.

So the young monk and the stranger went to the shrine and sat down.

Shortly afterwards the traveler rose and went in to the elder brother and said: "Your young brother is a wonderful fellow. He defeated me."

"Relate the dialogue to me," said the elder one.

"Well," explained the traveler, "first I held up one finger, representing Buddha, the enlightened one. So he held up two fingers, signifying Buddha and his teaching. I held up three fingers, representing Buddha, his teaching, and his followers, living the harmonious life. Then he shook his clenched fist in my face, indicating that all three come from one realization. Thus he won and so I have no right to remain here." With this, the traveler left.

"Where is that fellow?" asked the younger one, running in to his elder brother.

"I understand you won the debate."

"Won nothing. I'm going to beat him up."

"Tell me the subject of the debate," asked the elder one.

"Why, the minute he saw me he held up one finger, insulting me by insinuating that I have only one eye. Since he was a stranger I thought I would be polite to him, so I held up two fingers, congratulating him that he has two eyes. Then the impolite wretch held up three fingers, suggesting that between us we only have three eyes. So I got mad and started to punch him, but he ran out and that ended it!"

i love 2eat prawns not to peel them 4sure ! so i'd be rather prefer the herbs ones,, yeah better those ,hugs,kiki

1)Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.

2)Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.
Simon Newcomb , 1902, eighteen months before Kitty Hawk

3)Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
Lord Kelvin, 1895

4)Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers film studios, 1927

5)First, . . . to want to affirm that in reality the sun is at the center of the world and only turns on itself without moving from east to west, and the earth . . . revolves with great speed around the sun . . .is a very dangerous thing, likely not only to irritate all scholastic philosophers and theologians, but also to harm the Holy Faith by rendering Holy Scripture false. Nor can one answer that this is not a matter of faith, since if it is not a matter of faith "as regards the topic," it is a matter of faith "as regards the speaker"; and so it would be heretical to say that Abraham did not have two children and Jacob twelve, as well as to say that Christ was not born of a virgin, because both are said by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of the prophets and the apostles.
Cardinal Bellarmine, in a Letter to Foscarinin, April 12, 1615

6)First, . . . to want to affirm that in reality the sun is at the center of the world and only turns on itself without moving from east to west, and the earth . . . revolves with great speed around the sun . . .is a very dangerous thing, likely not only to irritate all scholastic philosophers and theologians, but also to harm the Holy Faith by rendering Holy Scripture false. Nor can one answer that this is not a matter of faith, since if it is not a matter of faith "as regards the topic," it is a matter of faith "as regards the speaker"; and so it would be heretical to say that Abraham did not have two children and Jacob twelve, as well as to say that Christ was not born of a virgin, because both are said by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of the prophets and the apostles.
Cardinal Bellarmine, in a Letter to Foscarinin, April 12, 1615

7)Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.
Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872

8)Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Attributed to Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.D

9)Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy.
Anonymous drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.:P

10)640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Bill Gates, 1981 :P
.Hugs,KK

Warning:this is a kind of a message 2whom concerns cz i'm really angry so better laugh about it and post a joke to them: