Vida Guerra’s ass is something to behold. It’s smooth, round, plump, and absolutely beautiful. It both proves that God created woman, and that evolution does indeed exist.

However, what is Vida Guerra’s ass? Is it a substantial separate thing to behold? Could it exist without the blood from which her heart pumps life giving oxygen to it? Could it exist without the thin layers of skin which protect it? Without the gravity that pulls down on its succulent lobes? Without the bones and muscle that make it up? Without the countless dust mites that crawl upon her skin to pick away at decay? No!
Vida’s ass is all of these things, yet none of these things.

You can’t point out any significant part of her ass, or thing that makes up her ass, and say that those individual things form an ass that is unchanging--a true, transcendent ass. Nor can you actually say that her ass is nothing more than the sum total of those things--just an big, round, object of lesser objects. For all those lesser objects are thus made up of countless other conditions, etc. that make themselves what they are. Vida’s Guerra’ ass is truly a miracle, but a miracle in a state of change and flux--it is not a substantial or separate and permanent thing. Some of the conditions which arise to make her ass what it is (time, gravity, health, vitality, etc.) which are conditioned things themselves, will change, and thus her beautiful round ass will sag and wrinkle over time, before it eventually is returned to dirt, rotting in the bosom of mother earth.

If Vida’s ass were a glass of water, it would not stay delicious and nurturing forever. Eventually, it would turn rancid, or slowly evaporate. Like the Buddhist say, holding on to the notion of a “soul” is like grasping desperately to a glass of water, when outside your window there is a river.

Does this mean there is no ass? Of course not. But there is no permanent, unchanging, separate ass by itself. If Vida’s ass had its own personality. Lets say, her ass is so spectacular, it has its own ego--its own soul. And lets represent that soul as a flame on a candle. Eventually, that candle burns away and you must light a second candle with that flame, and blow the old one out. Let’s say you continue this process until you’ve burned through a dozen candles. Would the flame on the final candle be the same as the flame on the first candle? No, it wouldn’t. Certainly it passed a certain raw essence from candle to candle, but each candles wick gave the new flame its own character. In this way the flame is completely dependent on the candle that supported it, and that candle’s characteristics completely depending on the candle maker, wax type, size, etc. etc. The flame simple could not exist as its own “thing”. There is no everlasting, unchanging soul. It always changes depending on the vessel, experiences, and consciousness streams that it entertains at any given time.

You see, Vida’s ass proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that all things are dependently co-arising, ever changing, and ultimately unsatisfactory in their impermanence, despite how yummy delicious the current state of them might be.




ASS EDIT
[Edited 10/13/07 14:08pm]

so...bubble butts prove that nothing stays the same? right?

dan, i suck at this kind of philsophy thing.

evenstar said:

oy

dear lord help us if this is your "scientific" proof.

shanti0608 said:

You're abusing the queen's English!

okay that's it. time to shut down the P & R forum entirely

XxAxX said:

Cloudbuster said:

Imago said:

Ha!! I do that on a daily basis...

( It really gets to the English when I say "ERBS" instead of "HERBS".....lol)
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XxAxX said:

<-- dependently co-arising brick

Imago said:

reported

XxAxX said:

Come now, we should just...

Cloudbuster said:

can't we all just

Dan




give me 3 good reasons to NOT lock this


~waiting~

XxAxX said:

Only if Mach joins in.

Mach said:

It's about depndent origination, a fundemetal buddhist concept, and the foundation for the Holy Eightfold path!

The Christians get to keep their threads, and there are plenty of asses on those!







I keed, I keed.

shanti0608 said:

They actually say the "H" in the word?

WTF is wrong with them? Wasn't Oasis enough? Now this?

Imago said:

I know...

You might want to think twice about coming to visit this country again...Sat night Predom and Mdiver were very prejudice against me because I am American...
I was the only American in the room ~ it was terrible.
all they had to hold against me was the way that I say the word herb.





*** I would like to note that I used the word English and NOT British in my post earlier..that should get me some sort of extended stay here at the INN.

This thread has spun me into an ass-istential crisis. I am a lover of all that is ass, sometimes even the female ones. I don't know where this came from. I was never SAT on by grammar school bullies or anything like that.....

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I love and appreciate a good ass as well.... male and female.

I find her ass really distasteful.

I mean, really.

Cloudbuster said:

I'm on duty here

CarrieMpls said:

Me too..it is a bit extreme....
but when ppl discuss breasts the HUGE ones do not get called distasteful..

Why all of the ass discrimination?? WHY???


j/k Carrie...just trying to lighten the mood.


Imagos thread is so serious & intense... it has really made me question the issue at hand...

This thread has been a mixed blessing.

I use ass here of course as a proxy for notions of the ego, atman, or soul. Where other forms of myth/religion see peeling way the layers of conditions as a way to get to the true, unchanging self, Buddhists see it as peeling away the things that actually make the supposed, imagined "self".


On the one hand, I've finally gotten some General Discussion folks to move from their safe sanctuary in the hostile wasteland that we know as P&R. But on the other, they've only come in here to talk about ass.




course asslicious edit
[Edited 10/10/07 9:04am]

Imago said:

this thread is speciesist!!!!!

on behalf of donkeys everywhere i would like to point out that this thread is demeaning and extremely species-centric.

henceforth you will call us by the name "donkey" and not "ass"

XxAxX said:

That's not a donkey--that's a long legged rabbit.

Such wierd animals will be the subject for my upcoming thread titled, "Animal rolepaly while having sex with your partner, and how that relates to the Mayahana/Therevarda buddhist divide."

shanti0608 said:

But I think the really huge cartoon breasts are distasteful as well. I just think they can be more out of proportion before they reach comical/parody status.

Yes, Vida's ass is a parody of an ass.

i don't get it

CarrieMpls said:

Indeed

CarrieMpls said:

someone is going to use that in their quote/sig line fer sure