Comments on: Come alive http://bitterjug.com/blog/come-alive/ Mark Skipper's continuing adventures Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:27:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Mark http://bitterjug.com/blog/come-alive/#comment-2199 Mark Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:06:23 +0000 http://bitterjug.com/blog/come-alive/#comment-2199 And Steinbeck also wrote this: <blockquote>The hell with it. There aint no sin and there aint no virtue, there's just stuff people do. Its all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice and some ain't nice,.but that's as far as any man got a right to say</blockquote> Thanks to Jim for lending me The Grapes Of Wrath. This is the principle of not being judgmental and accepting people as they are. This is something I have been thinking about a lot since <a href="http://bitterjug.com/blog/photos-from-last-weekend/">our Buddhist weekend</a> and since reading <a title="Namu Amida Bu" href="http://bitterjug.com/blog/namu-amida-bu/">David Brazier's book</a>. And Steinbeck also wrote this:

The hell with it. There aint no sin and there aint no virtue, there’s just stuff people do. Its all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice and some ain’t nice,.but that’s as far as any man got a right to say

Thanks to Jim for lending me The Grapes Of Wrath.

This is the principle of not being judgmental and accepting people as they are. This is something I have been thinking about a lot since our Buddhist weekend and since reading David Brazier’s book.

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