Happy Birthday Buck. Live long and prosper. They they sing for the 'already enlightened' Buck, and was that true for you? By the way, as you are younger than I am, you can stop calling me 'son'. That will save you time. I give you the gift of time. The problem with that is, time brings change, aging and death.
I read that the Romans were the first to celebrate birthdays for non-religious figures. The problem here is you seem to be the most religious figure on FFL. Do we see a celebration of Buckday sometime in the future? Christians initially considered celebration of birthdays a pagan ritual. A birthday represents the conversion of being into beings, a beginning of the path to death and ignorance. So, aside from social feely-good stuff, it seems strange to me that a celebration that encapsulates the loss of wholeness would be considered important in a context of enlightenment, singing praises for that fictional entity, the ego, that warps the experience of wholeness. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote: Buck is 60. As of a few minutes ago (8:58pn CST). Around the campfire they just sang for me: "Happy Birthday to You, Happy Birthday to You, Happy Birthday Dear (, Dear) Buck in the Dome; Happy CC, Happy GC, Happy UC to You. Through You Heaven on Earth, Through You Heaven on Earth, Through You Heaven on Earth for All.” The harmonies the way that us really conservative meditators sing is so beautifully perfect. I was touched, -Buck
