tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3627066232096656465.post280988931665760197..comments2023-05-21T04:54:36.609-03:00Comments on Somewhere in Dhamma...: In the beginning...吉道 Giuseppehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05451938938458412188noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3627066232096656465.post-69218421863973073772008-08-12T12:30:38.000-03:002008-08-12T12:30:38.000-03:00Great post! I think it's when the thoughts sta...Great post! <br><br>I think it's when the thoughts start coming and we start believing them that "enlightenment" becomes an issue. Everything is pretty peachy and okay before we tie ourselves up in knots with thinking.<br><br>"Waking up" is another one of the dreams we create. It's like dreaming inside of a dream! But, as the Buddha might say, though I should hardly know what the Buddha would say, it's a skillful dream -- a useful dream. <br><br>Interesting about wanting to experience death... I never had that inclination.josesiemnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3627066232096656465.post-4362594639355090032008-08-12T21:45:33.000-03:002008-08-12T21:45:33.000-03:00Hey Joseph,Great to read this - your writing style...Hey Joseph,<br>Great to read this - your writing style really flows with me - I get it and enjoy reading it! It is brave of you to reveal these profound early moments, but hey, the good writing out there reveals truth and takes risks, so you are joining the ranks of good writers!<br>I will look forward to all your posts - anything I've read by you so far has been really gripping and fascinating.<br>Keep 'em coming! Link to my blog if you want, www.hotcomet.blogspot.com I am currently inspired by you to update it more often. Let's do it!<br>Peace on the Journey, <br>HaileyHaileynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3627066232096656465.post-10172112804173915192008-08-12T22:02:36.000-03:002008-08-12T22:02:36.000-03:00Ah those early attempts to get to the other side (...Ah those early attempts to get to the other side (til you realize we're in the other side(s). Mine was many baby asprin at the age of two and a half...but then at three I discovered the joys of tipping oneself over in a cardboard box and at four the "magic" woods, poetry and "flying", so the why -waste- time- here moves lay dormant until 16 ;-}. Looking forward to your next post Joseph! xo JGJainnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3627066232096656465.post-12242657990777196652008-08-13T04:40:43.000-03:002008-08-13T04:40:43.000-03:00Hi Joseph,This is a seriously great start to what ...Hi Joseph,<br><br>This is a seriously great start to what promises to be a really wonderful blog. Nice one.<br><br>I admire your honesty and openness here mate, it makes for absorbing reading. You take us seamlessly to your conclusions.<br><br>For me though, I have come to a quite different place. I'm not half so sure I can get there on my own. I find God* bothering me all the time...<br><br>....and find the best way to respond is to just surrender to that. But, hey, isn't that just the same as your conclusion of focusing on the joy of living anyway?<br><br>It all comes together.<br><br>Great writing mate,<br><br>Marcus<br><br>*God = Infinite Light and Infinite Light, Amida Buddha, the source, the ground, infinite being, the divine,whatever you'd like to call it.Marcushttp://marcusjournal.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3627066232096656465.post-31852634487539240812008-08-13T07:46:42.000-03:002008-08-13T07:46:42.000-03:00Hi JosephTremendous writing! Keep up the good wor...Hi Joseph<br><br>Tremendous writing! Keep up the good work. You have a gift with the written word and it's also interesting, enjoyable, sometimes fascinating and often gripping to read. I'll keep tuned in to your progress and keep enjoying your writing, <br>Thanks and have a lovely long weekend ahead,<br>CathyCathynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3627066232096656465.post-59023732705053818142008-08-13T12:33:06.000-03:002008-08-13T12:33:06.000-03:00Dear Gil-do,Or should I call you Joe? A very intri...Dear Gil-do,<br><br>Or should I call you Joe? <br><br>A very intriguing intro into the conscious mind of a growing boy who seems to have turned out quite balanced, creative, inquisitive, and inspiring.<br><br>I am in, and cannot wait for another installment.<br><br>As a boy, I was troubled by cruelties I saw; you were pondering existence. I am interested in how your mother's words seemed to be those of God's themselves, for you took them as fact, and began your exploration in naive, good natured honesty from there---testiment to the power of caregivers over the child consciousness and the responsibility we have as teachers?<br><br>Nice writing.<br><br>If I may say to Cheon-do herein, I like your analysis vis-a-vie your post on your own blog. You are into this aspect of thought itself perhaps confounding consciousness? I agree.<br><br>Gil-do, keep writing please,<br><br>Mando<br>(Carl Atteniese Jr.)Carl Atteniesehttp://carlatteniese.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3627066232096656465.post-27954175820643529232008-08-13T20:19:36.000-03:002008-08-13T20:19:36.000-03:00I really appreciate this brave and unflinching hon...I really appreciate this brave and unflinching honesty. This is the kind of conversation I find myself craving and always waiting to engage in. Just the other night I was drunk outside an awful night club and I turned to the guy next to me and asked him if he thought the soul was eternal! - in response he looked at me like I was mad and hurried away! I don't blame him! It's hard to face these thoughts and questions, to allow yourself to have them. And to write your thoughts, to publish them and hold them up for everyone to read is harder. <br>I was shocked to read about your attempted suicides. I mean, wanting 'to know about death' is something that we all face at some point, but to act on it is still shocking, even when perhaps it shouldn't be. Your explaination of your thoughts feels logical and I like the way you consider your position with moralising. Also you prove the point that a fascination with and even longing for an end to life, are not necessarily depressive or nihilistic. It is, conversely, the overwhelming desire to exist to our fullest (to see more that just Plato's shadows on the cave wall, to 'understand everything'- as you mother put it) that can inspire thoughts of suicide; of journeying, as Hamlet considered, to the 'undiscovered country'. <br>But I can only say this because of the resolute faith in life that you express at the end of this blog. Otherwise my philosophising could sound irresponsible. Do not misunderstand me: I know we must keep living. (And life is wonderful). That's not to say that we should shun and silence thoughts of death. Death is the backing a mirror must have if we are to see anything.<br><br>Tell me more, Joseph.Natnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3627066232096656465.post-2534785273130218372008-08-15T06:34:59.000-03:002008-08-15T06:34:59.000-03:00Wow.Wow.Marcushttp://marcusjournal.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3627066232096656465.post-36467869840783365602008-08-15T06:36:35.000-03:002008-08-15T06:36:35.000-03:00Wow. Amazing to be here to read this exchange. Ama...Wow. Amazing to be here to read this exchange. Amazing. <br><br>Thank you both. Thank you, and sincere bows to all.Marcushttp://marcusjournal.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3627066232096656465.post-75874691257888765042008-08-15T11:45:12.000-03:002008-08-15T11:45:12.000-03:00to mom: one thing that gave me the ease to write t...to mom: one thing that gave me the ease to write that story is that it happened so long ago my body has entirely regenerated more than two times by now. I can truly say that is no longer me, just an idea, a memory of myself that remains.Joseph Bengivennihttp://bengivenni.smugmug.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3627066232096656465.post-61683512346967676352008-08-15T12:13:26.000-03:002008-08-15T12:13:26.000-03:00ps: i did try to infuse as much comedy as was appr...ps: i did try to infuse as much comedy as was approapriate...<br> but it wasn't the easiest task~Joseph Bengivennihttp://bengivenni.smugmug.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3627066232096656465.post-79424748966553981962008-08-27T09:49:04.000-03:002008-08-27T09:49:04.000-03:00hahahahahahahahasaranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3627066232096656465.post-90601981148208057902008-08-28T22:34:04.000-03:002008-08-28T22:34:04.000-03:00Wonderful! Joseph's mom you are such an insigh...Wonderful! Joseph's mom you are such an insightful, special person! I feel so much better having read your response to Joseph's blog.Natnoreply@blogger.com