Oh my heck how years roll on thru..

there on Gilligans paradise..

Green trees of

emerald essence

of everyone gone a bit to wild)

Oh my heck! The fortress of Gilligan's Emerald Island have tablets that are more mint than bluegreen ~! ~ Here are some prosaic poesyies that is something to ponder on as you end your day in the warm waters of the Sarasvati river in DeNial.

From "The Prayer Requested by Namke Nyingbo" by Padmasambhava

All these things of the outer environment and the beings therein
That come into sight as the objects of your eyes like this,
They may appear, but leave them in the sphere free from clinging to a self.
Since they are pure of perceiver and perceived, they are the luminous-empty body of the deity.
I pray to the guru in whom attachment is self-liberated,
I pray to Padmasambhava from Uddiyana.

All these sounds, taken as pleasant or unpleasant,
That resound as the objects of your ears like this,
Leave them in the sphere of inconceivable, empty resonance.
Empty resonance, unborn and unceasing, is the Victor's speech.
I pray to the words of the Victor that resound and yet are empty,
I pray to Padmasambhava from Uddiyana.

However these thoughts of afflictions' five poisons,
Which stir as objects in your mind like this, may appear,
Do not mess around with them through a mind that rushes ahead into the future or lingers in the past.
Through leaving their movement in its own place, they uncoil as the dharmakaya.
I pray to the guru whose awareness is self-liberated,
I pray to Padmasambhava from Uddiyana.

Grant your blessings that the mind stream of someone like me is liberated
Through the compassion of the Tathagatas of the three times,
So that objects, appearing as if perceived outside, become pure,
That my very mind, perceiving as if inside, becomes liberated,
And that, in between, luminosity will recognize its own face.

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When you practice virtuous actions of love and compassion on the relative level, you spontaneously realize the profound nature of emptiness, which is the absolute level.

In turn, if you focus your meditation practice on emptiness, then your loving-kindness and compassion will spontaneously grow.

These two natures, the absolute and the relative, are not opposites; they always arise together.

They have the same nature; they are inseparable like a fire and its heat or the sun and its light.

Compassion and emptiness are not like two sides of a coin. Emptiness and compassion are not two separate elements joined together; they are always coexistent.

In Buddhism, emptiness does not mean the absence of apparent existence. Emptiness is not like a black hole or darkness, or like an empty house or an empty bottle.

Emptiness is fullness and openness and flexibility. Because of emptiness it is possible for phenomena to function, for beings to see and hear, and for things to move and change.

It is called emptiness because when we examine things we cannot find anything that substantially and solidly exists.

There is nothing that has a truly existent nature. Everything we perceive appears through ever-changing causes and conditions, without an independent, solid basis.

Although from a relative perspective things appear, they arise from emptiness and they dissolve into emptiness. All appearances are like water bubbles or the reflection of the moon in water.
--from Opening to our Primordial Nature by Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche

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You may enjoy the following links:

The Official Gilligan's Island Fan Club

Wikipedia: Gilligan's Island

Bob Denver's Gilligan's Island Fan Club

This one might not be such happy reading (it's about the actress who played "Mary Ann", who -- one has to admit -- looks stunning for a 69-year-old woman):

"Gilligan's Island" actress sentenced to 6-month probation

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...are here. There are quite a few interesting items.

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MaryAnn gets busted for Pot Possession. (not our MaryAnn, but Gilligan's.)

Now there's good taxpayer dollars working. I always knew MaryAnn was subversive. I feel vindicated.

We own two seasons of Gilligan's Island on DVD. Twice or thrice a year, my GoodHusband gathers snacks and kids and watches a half dozen episodes-- all in a row.

That single afternoon of activity kills more brain cells than a month of uncontested pot smoking. When they emerge bleary-eyed from the TV room, some of them need remedial reading intervention. Some of them need speech rehabilitation.

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MaryAnn gets busted for Pot Possession. (not our MaryAnn, but Gilligan's.)

Now there's good taxpayer dollars working. I always knew MaryAnn was subversive. I feel vindicated.

We own two seasons of Gilligan's Island on DVD. Twice or thrice a year, my GoodHusband gathers snacks and kids and watches a half dozen episodes-- all in a row.

That single afternoon of activity kills more brain cells than a month of uncontested pot smoking. When they emerge bleary-eyed from the TV room, some of them need remedial reading intervention. Some of them need speech rehabilitation.

Amen;;thanks for the update..great comedy back in the time machine tvee works..

besides what you mentioned this can give anyone Healthproblems,no good!