Ugh, this thread is a trainwreck!
fx, do you REALLY have to link a Youtube vid in every post of yours?
It's almost like you go looking for Youtube vids that have literally nothing to do with anything. But why am I even bringing it up? You're just going to respond with a Youtube vid!
Also, someone please help me flip the boomswitch at 100nl.
silly boy
they
always have something to do with it. Some of you just don't get it.
Try to think beyond, see the real relation, the underlying theme.
Toward the end of his life, the Buddha took his disciples to a quiet pond for instruction. As they had done so many times before, the Buddha’s followers sat in a small circle around him, and waited for the teaching.
But this time the Buddha had no words. He reached into the muck and pulled up a lotus flower. And he held it silently before them, its roots dripping mud and water.
The disciples were greatly confused. Buddha quietly displayed the lotus to each of them. In turn, the disciples did their best to expound upon the meaning of the flower: what it symbollized, and how it fit into the body of Buddha’s teaching.
When at last the Buddha came to his follower Mahakasyapa, the disciple suddenly understood. He smiled and began to laugh. Buddha handed the lotus to Mahakasyapa and began to speak.
“What can be said I have said to you,” smiled the Buddha, “and what cannot be said, I have given to Mahakashyapa.”
Mahakashyapa became Buddha’s successor from that day forward.
