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This week: Getting serious about girl talk; coming to grips with a scary pollutant; and the science of yoga.
The Science Times PodcastTuesday, February 28, 2012
Misconduct In The (Yoga) World
Elena Brower: Art Of Attention: Misconduct In The (Yoga) World
( Excerpts)
"2002. Inner Harmony Retreat, Southern - John Friend was at his finest, delivering the most crystalline teachings both physically and philosophically.
We were having consistent, deep experiences of our hearts and felt strong both individually and as a community on that mountaintop.
Profoundly inspired, we brought those hours and pages of learning home to our local communities...
Since then, John Friend created for himself a powerful position and amidst his stellar teaching, made some unfortunately destructive choices over the years.
After his disgruntled I.T. guy recently posted his salacious electronic interactions for all the world to see, everything in the Anusara community began to crumble.
Within the context of that disintegration, it's become apparent that within the community of teachers, there were two discernible camps.
As you'll see, one of the "camps" knew less and were definitely more "in the dark" about the "real" John than others of us.
Together, we were a dedicated group of assiduously studious teachers who chose to be there and truly did make an impact in the world of yoga.
We received an incredibly rich and precise education, and in the language of the heart, we all found our voices and made real careers out of our work, and that felt so true for a long time.
The Two "Camps" Within Anusara
There were the ones in John's closer circle who "knew" of his penchant for women, partying
and fun were not shocked to see that evidence .
Then there were the ones who had absolutely no idea about any of it.
Those folks are devastated at John's breach of ethics and morals.
.They're understandably disappointed to hear that he cheated on his girlfriends repeatedly, lied to so many about his dealings and whereabouts as certain relationships ended and others began.
For them, this is irreparably difficult, extremely sad, and truly the breakdown of a deeply-set paradigm in their lives both personally and professionally, with potentially far-reaching financial implications.
There was some fairly erratic teaching and seemingly incongruous commentaries as well. Shortly after the time that John unveiled his new philosophical model of "Shiva-Shakti Tantra," there was also a shift in the business model, it seemed:
We were notified that we'd all be obliged to give him first creative say in any products we made going forward and then 10 percent of any revenue we generate from said products."
YogaDork helped expose the hippocrit....
For more by Elena Brower, click here.
( Excerpts)
We were having consistent, deep experiences of our hearts and felt strong both individually and as a community on that mountaintop.
Profoundly inspired, we brought those hours and pages of learning home to our local communities...
Since then, John Friend created for himself a powerful position and amidst his stellar teaching, made some unfortunately destructive choices over the years.
After his disgruntled I.T. guy recently posted his salacious electronic interactions for all the world to see, everything in the Anusara community began to crumble.
Within the context of that disintegration, it's become apparent that within the community of teachers, there were two discernible camps.
As you'll see, one of the "camps" knew less and were definitely more "in the dark" about the "real" John than others of us.
Together, we were a dedicated group of assiduously studious teachers who chose to be there and truly did make an impact in the world of yoga.
We received an incredibly rich and precise education, and in the language of the heart, we all found our voices and made real careers out of our work, and that felt so true for a long time.
The Two "Camps" Within Anusara
There were the ones in John's closer circle who "knew" of his penchant for women, partying
and fun were not shocked to see that evidence .
Then there were the ones who had absolutely no idea about any of it.
Those folks are devastated at John's breach of ethics and morals.
.They're understandably disappointed to hear that he cheated on his girlfriends repeatedly, lied to so many about his dealings and whereabouts as certain relationships ended and others began.
For them, this is irreparably difficult, extremely sad, and truly the breakdown of a deeply-set paradigm in their lives both personally and professionally, with potentially far-reaching financial implications.
There was some fairly erratic teaching and seemingly incongruous commentaries as well. Shortly after the time that John unveiled his new philosophical model of "Shiva-Shakti Tantra," there was also a shift in the business model, it seemed:
We were notified that we'd all be obliged to give him first creative say in any products we made going forward and then 10 percent of any revenue we generate from said products."
YogaDork helped expose the hippocrit....
For more by Elena Brower, click here.
Yoga Fans Sexual Flames and, Predictably, Plenty of Scandal - NYTimes.com
Yoga Fans Sexual Flames and, Predictably, Plenty of Scandal - NYTimes.com
philanderer and sexual hypocrite.
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philanderer and sexual hypocrite.
This week: Getting serious about girl talk; coming to grips with a scary pollutant; and the science of yoga.
The Science Times PodcastYoga Fans Sexual Flames and, Predictably, Plenty of Scandal - NYTimes.com
Yoga Fans Sexual Flames and, Predictably, Plenty of Scandal - NYTimes.com
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CELEBRITY GURU Swami Muktananda had many thousands of devotees, including celebrities. A senior aide charged that he was a serial philanderer and sexual hypocrite.
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IN RETREAT John Friend's sexual indiscretions upset many devotees of Anusara yoga, which he founded.
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ACCUSED GURU Swami Satchidananda was a superstar of yoga who gave the invocation at WoodstockYoga Fans Sexual Flames and, Predictably, Plenty of Scandal - NYTimes.com
Yoga Fans Sexual Flames and, Predictably, Plenty of Scandal - NYTimes.com
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Yoga and Sex Scandals: No Surprise Here
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
The wholesome image of yoga took a hit in the past few weeks as a rising star of the discipline came tumbling back to earth. After accusations of sexual impropriety with female students, John Friend, the founder of Anusara, one of the world’s fastest-growing styles, told followers that he was stepping down for an indefinite period of “self-reflection, therapy and personal retreat.”
Mr. Friend preached a gospel of gentle poses mixed with openness aimed at fostering love and happiness. But Elena Brower, a former confidante, has said that insiders knew of his “penchant for women” and his love of “partying and fun.”
Few had any idea about his sexual indiscretions, she added. The apparent hypocrisy has upset many followers.
“Those folks are devastated,” Ms. Brower wrote in The Huffington Post. “They’re understandably disappointed to hear that he cheated on his girlfriends repeatedly” and “lied to so many.”
But this is hardly the first time that yoga’s enlightened facade has been cracked by sexual scandal. Why does yoga produce so many philanderers? And why do the resulting uproars leave so many people shocked and distraught?
One factor is ignorance. Yoga teachers and how-to books seldom mention that the discipline began as a sex cult — an omission that leaves many practitioners open to libidinal surprise.
Hatha yoga — the parent of the styles now practiced around the globe — began as a branch of Tantra. In medieval India, Tantra devotees sought to fuse the male and female aspects of the cosmos into a blissful state of consciousness.
The rites of Tantric cults, while often steeped in symbolism, could also include group and individual sex. One text advised devotees to revere the female sex organ and enjoy vigorous intercourse. Candidates for worship included actresses and prostitutes, as well as the sisters of practitioners.
Hatha originated as a way to speed the Tantric agenda. It used poses, deep breathing and stimulating acts — including intercourse — to hasten rapturous bliss. In time, Tantra and Hatha developed bad reputations. The main charge was that practitioners indulged in sexual debauchery under the pretext of spirituality.
Early in the 20th century, the founders of modern yoga worked hard to remove the Tantric stain. They devised a sanitized discipline that played down the old eroticism for a new emphasis on health and fitness.
B. K. S. Iyengar, the author of “Light on Yoga,” published in 1965, exemplified the change. His book made no mention of Hatha’s Tantric roots and praised the discipline as a panacea that could cure nearly 100 ailments and diseases. And so modern practitioners have embraced a whitewashed simulacrum of Hatha.
But over the decades, many have discovered from personal experience that the practice can fan the sexual flames. Pelvic regions can feel more sensitive and orgasms more intense.
Science has begun to clarify the inner mechanisms. In Russia and India, scientists have measured sharp rises in testosterone — a main hormone of sexual arousal in both men and women. Czech scientists working with electroencephalographs have shown how poses can result in bursts of brainwaves indistinguishable from those of lovers. More recently, scientists at the University of British Columbia have documented how fast breathing — done in many yoga classes — can increase blood flow through the genitals. The effect was found to be strong enough to promote sexual arousal not only in healthy individuals but among those with diminished libidos.
In India, recent clinical studies have shown that men and women who take up yoga report wide improvements in their sex lives, including enhanced feelings of pleasure and satisfaction as well as emotional closeness with partners.
At Rutgers University, scientists are investigating how yoga and related practices can foster autoerotic bliss. It turns out that some individuals can think themselves into states of sexual ecstasy — a phenomenon known clinically as spontaneous orgasm and popularly as “thinking off.”
The Rutgers scientists use brain scanners to measure the levels of excitement in women and compare their responses with readings from manual stimulation of the genitals. The results demonstrate that both practices light up the brain in characteristic ways and produce significant rises in blood pressure, heart rate and tolerance for pain — what turns out to be a signature of orgasm.
Since the baby boomers discovered yoga, the arousal, sweating, heavy breathing and states of undress that characterize yoga classes have led to predictable results. In 1995, sex between students and teachers became so prevalent that the California Yoga Teachers Association deplored it as immoral and called for high standards.
“We wrote the code,” Judith Lasater, the group’s president, told a reporter, “because there were so many violations going on.”
If yoga can arouse everyday practitioners, it apparently has similar, if not greater, effects on gurus — often charming extroverts in excellent physical condition, some enthusiastic for veneration.
The misanthropes among them offer a bittersweet tribute to yoga’s revitalizing powers. A surprising number, it turns out, were in their 60s and 70s.
Swami Muktananda (1908-82) was an Indian man of great charisma who favored dark glasses and gaudy robes.
At the height of his fame, around 1980, he attracted many thousands of devotees — including movie stars and political celebrities — and succeeded in setting up a network of hundreds of ashrams and meditation centers around the globe. He kept his main shrines in California and New York.
In late 1981, when a senior aide charged that the venerated yogi was in fact a serial philanderer and sexual hypocrite who used threats of violence to hide his duplicity, Mr. Muktananda defended himself as a persecuted saint, and soon died of heart failure.
Joan Bridges was one of his lovers. At the time, she was 26 and he was 73. Like many other devotees, Ms. Bridges had a difficult time finding fault with a man she regarded as a virtual god beyond law and morality.
“I was both thrilled and confused,” she said of their first intimacy in a Web posting. “He told us to be celibate, so how could this be sexual? I had no answers.”
To denounce the philanderers would be to admit years of empty study and devotion. So many women ended up blaming themselves. Sorting out the realities took years and sometimes decades of pain and reflection, counseling and psychotherapy. In time, the victims began to fight back.
Swami Satchidananda (1914-2002) was a superstar of yoga who gave the invocation at Woodstock. In 1991, protesters waving placards (“Stop the Abuse,” “End the Cover Up”) marched outside a Virginia hotel where he was addressing a symposium.
“How can you call yourself a spiritual instructor,” a former devotee shouted from the audience, “when you have molested me and other women?”
Another case involved Swami Rama (1925-96), a tall man with a strikingly handsome face. In 1994, one of his victims filed a lawsuit charging that he had initiated abuse at his Pennsylvania ashram when she was 19. In 1997, shortly after his death, a jury awarded the woman nearly $2 million in compensatory and punitive damages.
So, too, former devotees at Kripalu, a Berkshires ashram, won more than $2.5 million after its longtime guru — a man who gave impassioned talks on the spiritual value of chastity — confessed to multiple affairs.
The drama with Mr. Friend is still unfolding. So far, at least 50 Anusara teachers have resigned, and the fate of his enterprise remains unclear. In his letter to followers, he promised to make “a full public statement that will transparently address the entirety of this situation.”
The angst of former Anusara teachers is palpable. “I can no longer support a teacher whose actions have caused irreparable damage to our beloved community,” Sarah Faircloth, a North Carolina instructor, wrote on her Web site.
But perhaps — if students and teachers knew more about what Hatha can do, and what it was designed to do — they would find themselves less prone to surprise and unyogalike distress.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Yogis Of Tibet (2002) - YouTube
Yogis Of Tibet (2002) - YouTube
ploaded by mrhatnaa on Jan 23, 2012
ploaded by mrhatnaa on Jan 23, 2012
For the first time, the reclusive and secretive Tibetan monks agree to discuss aspects of their philosophy and allow themselves to be filmed while performing their ancient practices.
Wheel of Time (2003)
Wheel of Time (2003) - YouTube
uploaded by mrhatnaa on Jan 22, 2012 Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog's photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India. Tibet
Wisdom
uploaded by mrhatnaa on Jan 22, 2012 Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog's photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India. Tibet
Wisdom
Universal Prayer For World Peace - YouTube
Universal Prayer For World Peace - YouTube
d by cdragon333 on Jul 7, 2009
d by cdragon333 on Jul 7, 2009
A Prayer that is said for all of humanity To come together as one, and forget our differences.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Work with meaning and purpose
The ethics of getting a job
Patrick McCabe July 26, 2011
Montaigne retired to a chateau to write and think, emerging occasionally to involve himself in local politics.
Montaigne felt his critics were too demanding: 'They are unjust to exact from me what I do not owe, far more rigorously than they require from others that which they do owe,' he complained. Montaigne did not feel he owed anyone anything. As long as he did not actively take, who would have the temerity to ask him to give?
'The human person is created to praise, reverence, and serve God', he wrote. 'Thus ... we should not want health more than illness, wealth more than poverty, fame more than disgrace, a long life more than a short one ... but we should desire and choose only what helps us more towards the end for which we are created.'
He adopted as his mantra: 'What have I done for Christ? What am I doing for Christ? What will I do for Christ?' Loyola felt life was about a calling, a mission from God to live our lives in his service.
Will it be sufficient that, like Montaigne, I have a happy disposition, find a job I enjoy, and do no harm? Or ought I to follow Loyola's philosophy, and regard 'happiness' as simply a distraction from the real goal of life — 'to serve'?
In his book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, Alain de Botton expresses skepticism at the notion of a 'calling' that so influenced Loyola. He believes 'calling' is an 'unfortunate' term, prone to torturing us with false hopes of fulfillment and meaning.
... he laments that a 'secularized' version of the notion persists. Oprah Winfrey proved his point when, on her recent final show, she gave her fans one last piece of advice: 'Start embracing the life that is calling you and use that life to serve the world.'
Botton seems more sympathetic to the views of a career counselor he observes, who believes one's career is 'an act of self-hood'. A good career, according to him, is one that makes you happy, one where you do what you love.
...sees no contradiction in complaining that his fellow citizens demand from him 'what I do not owe'. His incredibly privileged youth has left him with no feeling of obligation towards his much less fortunate fellow humans.
The work nearly two decades of education has involved, if the objective of all that was simply my contentedness, the means were disproportionate to the end.
Employment is about remuneration for labour, not changing the world. If one wishes to practice altruism, perhaps that is best pursued through volunteering.
In this way, a happy, ethical life can be attained, by working in a field you enjoy, and then volunteering in one's spare time.
Patrick McCabe studies Law and is a contributor to the Adelaide University magazine On Dit. With this essay he won Eureka Street's 2011 Margaret Dooley Award for Young Writers.
Padstoral Atheism
Alain de Botton's pastoral atheism
De Botton says religions are not true, and God does not exist. Yet atheists should not dismiss religions on these grounds. The rituals, modes of thinking, methodologies, and approaches to life that religions promote can still be of great assistance to atheists.
For instance, de Botton argues that atheists could learn how to foster a sense of community from the Catholic Mass. The Jewish Day of Atonement could help atheists build better interpersonal relationships. Zen Buddhist retreats could assist atheists to reflect on the direction of their lives.
One chapter commends religious places of worship and the feelings they can induce in us. De Botton suggests building a secular 'Temple to Perspective' — a place where humans can put their troubles into perspective by reflecting on the 460 million years Earth has existed for.
With typical zeal, de Botton has already put this suggestion into action, raising almost half of the million pounds required to actually build this temple in London.
The proposal has angered fellow atheists. Richard Dawkins has condemned the plan, declaring that 'atheists don't need temples', and that the money would be better spent on promoting 'rational, critical thinking'. The Guardian's Steve Rose protests that the Temple of Perspective is insufficiently atheist, and so 'a Christian or Muslim' might also be able to enjoy it.
These criticisms demonstrate the gap between de Botton and other atheists. Dawkins and Rose's outlook is missionary, while de Botton's is pastoral. Dawkins and his ilk want to save souls from religion, and promote the good news of atheism. De Botton is more concerned with the spiritual needs of the existing flock.
Many atheists argue that religious people are childish, irrational, needy, and vulnerable, and that atheism is about turning away from all those things, and embracing a rational, 'grown-up' existence. That argument is implicit in Dawkins' dismissive 'atheists don't need temples'.
While de Botton agrees atheism is the rational choice, he argues that those who make that choice do not suddenly cease to be irrational and childish. It is not religious people who are childish and vulnerable, but human beings. The wisdom of religion is to recognise our inherent vulnerability, and cater to that aspect of our being.
It is evident why atheists might be angered by de Botton's ideas. But what should theists make of this book?
It will offend theists who believe the only reason to practise religious rituals is simply to adhere to God's edicts. For such theists, God's reasons for prescribing particular rituals are irrelevant and inscrutable. To put it bluntly, God might as well have commanded us to do the hokey-pokey, and these theists would perform it with as much zeal as they might attend a Catholic Mass.
These believers will regard de Botton's use of elements of religious rituals outside of a theistic context as absurd and blasphemous.
Other theists, such as myself, instead see religious rituals and practices as a means of guiding and enabling a life lived in accordance with the beliefs and values of a particular faith. Religion for Atheists can help this type of believer gain a new appreciation for the utility of religious rituals.
De Botton eloquently demonstrates just how helpful religious practices are, even when the theistic content is substituted for lessons about 'perspective' or 'community'. Believers can see that when the more profound teachings of religions are re-inserted into the rituals, those rituals are powerful tools indeed for assisting us to live our lives in a way that is attuned to theistic values and beliefs.
While de Botton's individual ideas and arguments are at times open to fundamental criticisms, his general perspective is a valuable one. His book can help theists articulate the importance of religious practices in a world that is, even among believers, increasingly sceptical of organised religion.
But at the same time, it can also assist believers to fearlessly adapt and improve aspects of traditional religion where that is required. In a new epoch that requires religions to be introspective if they wish to remain strong, this can only be a good thing.
Patrick McCabe works at an Adelaide law firm while completing a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice. He is a former contributor to the Adelaide University magazine On Dit. Patrick won Eureka Street's 2011 Margaret Dooley Award for Young Writers with this essay.
Statues of Buddhist Monks
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Statues of Buddhist monks are lined near a temple in Payathonzu, near the Burmese border with Thailand, February 20, 2012.
REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang
REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang
Chant of the Templars - Da Pacem Domine - YouTube
Chant of the Templars - Da Pacem Domine - YouTube
Mar 4, 2011
Mar 4, 2011
Chorus:
Da pacem, Domine, in diebus nostris
Quia non est alius
Qui pugnet pro nobis
Nisi tu Deus noster.
1. Fiat pax in virtute tua: et abundantia in turribus tuis.
Da pacem, Domine, in diebus nostris
Quia non est alius
Qui pugnet pro nobis
Nisi tu Deus noster.
2. Propter fratres meos et proximos meos loquebar pacem de te:
Da pacem, Domine, in diebus nostris
Quia non est alius
Qui pugnet pro nobis
Nisi tu Deus noster.
3. Propter domum Domini Dei nostri quaesivi bona tibi.
Da pacem, Domine, in diebus nostris
Quia non est alius
Qui pugnet pro nobis
Nisi tu Deus noster.
4. Rogate quae ad pacem sunt Jerusalem:et abundantia diligentibus te.
Da pacem, Domine, in diebus nostris
Quia non est alius
Qui pugnet pro nobis
Nisi tu Deus noster.
5. Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto, sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen
Thursday, February 23, 2012
The Evolution of Religions - YouTube
The Evolution of Religions - YouTube
Uploaded by USCCollege on Oct 15, 2009
Jared Diamond, professor of geography at UCLA, received the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 1998 for Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. In 1999, he received the National Medal of Science. His most recent book is Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2004).
Prof. Diamond argues that religion has encompassed at least four independent components that have arisen or disappeared at different stages of development of human societies over the last 10,000 years.
Read more about The Center for Religion and Civic Culture at http://crcc.usc.edu/
The Evolution of Religions - YouTube
The Evolution of Religions - YouTube
Uploaded by USCCollege on Oct 15, 2009
Jared Diamond, professor of geography at UCLA, received the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 1998 for Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. In 1999, he received the National Medal of Science. His most recent book is Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2004).
Prof. Diamond argues that religion has encompassed at least four independent components that have arisen or disappeared at different stages of development of human societies over the last 10,000 years.
Read more about The Center for Religion and Civic Culture at http://crcc.usc.edu/
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Merton
"In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart.
As soon as you compare that shadow with the shadows of other people, you lose all joy, because you have begun to trade in unrealities and there is no joy in things that do not exist." ~Thomas Merton
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Valantine's Day
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Attracting a crowd( Mark Ralston, AFP/Getty Images / February 13, 2012 )
A store "greeter" dressed as a historical figure
tries to attract customers to a candied fruit store in the Qianmen
hutong area of Beijing.
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Nikos K.
Nikos Kazantzakis quotes of a Religious Nature
“The canary began to sing again. The sun had struck it,
and its throat and tiny breast had filled with song. Francis gazed at it
for a long time, not speaking, his mouth hanging half opened, his eyes
dimmed with tears.
"The canary is like man's soul," he whispered
finally. "It sees bars round it, but instead if despairing, it sings. It
sings, and wait and see, Brother Leo: one day its song shall break the
bars.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Saint Francis
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Saint Francis
“Overdraw me Lord, and who cares if I break!”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ
“We are not men, to have need of another, an eternal life; we are women, and for us one moment with man we love is everlasting Paradise, one moment far from the man we love is everlasting hell. It is here on earth that we women love out eternity”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ
“My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ
“Truly, everything in this world depended on time. Time
ripened all. If you had time, you succeeded in working the human mud
internally and turning it into spirit. Then you did not fear death. If
you did not have time, you perished.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ
“I say one thing, you write another, and those who read you
understand still something else! I say: cross, death, kingdom of heaven,
God...and what do you understand? Each of you attaches his own
suffering, interests and desires to each of these sacred words, and my
words disappear, my soul is lost. I can't stand it any longer!”― Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ
― Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ
“When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I'm the only one to drown, God is protecting me then too.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ
“You will, Judas, my brother. God will give you the strength, as much as you lack, because it is necessary—it is necessary for me to be killed and for you to betray me. We two must save the world. Help me."
Judas bowed his head. After a moment he asked, "If you had to betray your master, would you do it?"
Jesus reflected for a long time. Finally he said, "No, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to. That is why God pitied me and gave me the easier task: to be crucified.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ
Capitalist Quotes
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford, 07/30/1863 - 04/07/1947
Founder of the Ford Motor Company
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Henry Ford
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Henry Ford
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Henry Ford
Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
Henry Ford
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Henry Ford
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
Henry Ford
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Henry Ford
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford
News | The Office of His Holiness The Dalai Lama
News | The Office of His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama is not a separatist: Archbishop Tutu
February 10th 2012
Dharamsala, HP, India, 10 February 2012 (The Hindustan Times) - He has no army, he cannot command his people with guns and he's not a separatist.
South African anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu said these words to the Chinese while referring to Tibetan spiritual leader and fellow Nobel laureate the Dalai Lama here on Friday.
"I want to say to the Chinese government that His Holiness the Dalai Lama is the most peace-loving person on this earth. I want to say to the Chinese government that the Dalai Lama has no army, he cannot command his people with guns, he's not a separatist," Tutu said at a public ceremony organised by the Tibetan government-in-exile on his visit.
Seeking more autonomy for the people of Tibet, Tutu said: "Please, you leaders in Beijing, we beg you, allow Tibet to be what the constitution of the People's Republic of China commits. The constitution allows for autonomy and that is all His Holiness the Dalai Lama and his people want."
"We beg you and at the same time remind you too that this is a moral universe. There is no way in which injustice, oppression and evil can ever have the last word," the former archbishop said in his message to the Chinese leadership.
To the Tibetan people, he said: "We will visit you in Tibet. We will enter a free Tibet."
Long-time friend of the Dalai Lama, Tutu came to Dharamsala to meet him.
Expressing a gesture of friendship, the elderly Buddhist monk specially visited the Gaggal airport, 15 km from his official palace at McLeodganj, to receive Tutu in the morning.
"I welcome a great person today. He is a great and world-renowned personality," the Dalai Lama said in his welcome address.
"He's a person who strongly advocates the importance of love, compassion and equality. Even in his own country South Africa, he along with Nelson Mandela has worked wholeheartedly through non-violence for equal rights and genuine democracy," he said.
"The most important thing is that, even after the victory of democracy and equal rights in his country, uneasy feelings of animosity and ill-will have remained within people. Archbishop Tutu has made special efforts to reconcile the people and do away with the feelings of unease and ill-will towards each other."
The Dalai Lama appealed to his fellow Nobel laureate to pray for the well-being of Tibetans suffering repression in Tibet.
"Tibetans are passing through a difficult period. Our sophisticated and compassionate Tibetan culture is really facing a lot of difficulty," the elderly monk said.
"Another thing is that, he works tirelessly for truth, honesty and equality. He doesn't see any differences. Wherever there is abuse of human rights or people's freedom is being snatched away, be it Burma or Tibet, he is always the first person to speak against it," the Dalai Lama said about Tutu.
In October, the globe-trotting monk had called off his South Africa visit as it was "inconvenient" for the government there to grant him a visa as it had close ties with China.
He was invited by Tutu on the latter's 80th birthday.
The Dalai Lama has lived in exile in India since he fled Tibet during a failed uprising in 1959. He favours "greater autonomy" for Tibetans rather than complete independence.
Chinese leaders have, however, called him a separatist who wants Tibet to secede from China.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Quotes
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I cannot consent to place in the control of others one who cannot
control himself.
--Robert E. Lee
"The reason for so much bad science is not that talent is rare, not at all; what is rare is character."
- Sigmund Freud
"Money is a handmaiden, if you know how to use it; a mistress, if you do not." - Horace
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti: In Total Silence The Mind Comes Upon The Eternal - YouTube
Jiddu Krishnamurti: In Total Silence The Mind Comes Upon The Eternal - YouTube
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What Love Is Not
7th Public Talk, Saanen, Switzerland, 22nd July, 1979
In Total Silence the Mind Comes Upon the Eternal
Why is there constant strife and seeking?
Are we seeking superficial sensory experience or something timeless that thought has not touched at all?
Can thought with its limitation enquire deeply? Is observation the instrument of thought?
When one observes does the thing being observed undergo change?
Can the mind having understood desire know its value is relative and be free to observe?
Is there a way of living without any control? Is not the controller the movement of thought?
When there is no conflict whatsoever what takes place in the mind?
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"Do not cling to the letter, just comprehend the meaning, referring each point to your own self, so as to merge with the original source. Then the knowledge that has no teacher will spontaneously appear, the pattern of natural reality will be perfectly clear, and you will attain the body of wisdom, attaining enlightenment without depending on anyone else."
~ Chan Master Chinul (1158-1210)
One day someone asked me, "How can I progress in spite of everyday difficulties?" I gave the somewhat hard answer, "How can you get to the second floor in spite of the stairs?" So the real question on the path is: "How can I progress on the Way thanks to every day difficulties."
– Arnaud Desjardins
"A fly, when it exists, has as much being as God."
- Soren Kierkegaard
"That which understands error is not itself in error."
— Surangama Sutra
Dhamma
"To practice the Dhamma...is to go against the flow, to go upstream against suffering and stress, because suffering and stress are the main problems. If you don’t really contemplate stress, your practice will go nowhere. Stress is where you start, and then you try to trace out its root cause.
You have to use your discernment to track down exactly where stress originates, for stress is a result. Once you see the result, you have to track down the cause. Those who are mindful and discerning are never complacent. Whenever stress arises they’re sure to search out its causes so that they can eliminate them."
-- Upasika Kee Nanayon
"I am a deeply religious unbeliever. That is a somewhat new kind of religion."
--Albert Einstein
"A mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillion infidels..."
--Walt Whitman
--Albert Einstein
"A mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillion infidels..."
--Walt Whitman
"Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy."
-- Marcus Aurelius
"There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.” Victor Hugo
"In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain - I find no sea room - but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
Four Noble Truths
A fresh articulation of the Four Noble truths by the great teacher Phra Ajaan Dune Atulo (1888-1983) who was affectionately know as "Luang Pu," a term of great respect and affection, meaning “Venerable Grandfather.”
"The mind sent outside is the origination of suffering.
The result of the mind sent outside is suffering.
The mind seeing the mind is the path.
The result of the mind seeing the mind is the cessation of suffering.”
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Voodoo
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Is it taboo? Often misunderstood, voodoo was born in the West African nation of Benin. And here it is an official religion.
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Kenneth Wilber - Speaking of Everything - YouTube
Kenneth Wilber - Speaking of Everything - YouTube
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Kenneth Wilber II is an American author who has written about adult development, developmental psychology, philosophy, worldcentrism, ecology, and stages of faith. His work formulates what he calls Integral Theory. In 1998, he founded the Integral Institute, for teaching and applications of Integral theory.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Myth and Logic of Shaolin Kung Fu
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National Geographic Documentary Myths Logic Of Shaolin Kung Fu full documentary
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream Speech - August 28, 1963 - YouTube
Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream Speech - August 28, 1963 - YouTube
I Have a Dream Speech
Martin Luther King's Address at March on Washington
August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C.
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Don't grumble that roses have thorns, be thankful that thorns have roses
And the trumpet is blown, and all who are in the heavens and all who are in the earth swoon away, save him whom Allah willeth. Then it is blown a second time, and behold them standing waiting!
—Sura 39 (Az-Zumar), ayah 68[19]
No injustice shall be done
Surely Allah does not do injustice to the weight of an atom, and if it is a good deed He multiplies it and gives from Himself a great reward.
—Qur'an, sura 4 An-Nisa, ayah 40[20]
Jesus will return. The Qur'an claims that all of the "People of the Book" will believe in him before his death. Many Islamic authors take this passage to mean that Jesus has not died, but instead was raised to Heaven and will return before the day of judgment to establish the Kingdom of God.
“Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul (Psalm 143:8).”
“Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.”
John Webster
The child, offered the mother's breast,
Will not in the beginning grab it;
But soon it clings to it with zest.
And thus at wisdom's copious breasts
You'll drink each day with greater zest.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.”
Stanley Lindquist
For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
George Gissing
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
Wayne Dyer
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. ~John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The very reverse may be said of love. In a great degree, love and friendship cannot subsist in the same bosom; even when inspired by different objects they weaken or destroy each other, and for the same object can only be felt in succession. The vain fears and fond jealousies, the winds which fan the flame of love, when judiciously or artfully tempered, are both incompatible with the tender confidence and sincere respect of friendship.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
If they say to you, ’from where have you originated?’ say to them,
’We have come from the light, where the light originated through itself.’
`God Sent Me An Angel`:::::::
I was walking along a country road one calm and cloudy day
Feeling down about the problems that had seemed to come my way
My pain was very great and my tears I could not hide
And was calling God to help me as I was hurting deep inside
I then thought about what I've believed and how I've rarely called
For sometimes I have wondered if God were there at all
As I lifted up my head and looked down that road a spell
I spotted someone coming - from the distance hard to tell
As he got a little closer I could then see all the signs
Of someone who'd been down that road quite a number of times
His clothes were old and dusty and his shoes were pretty worn
But there seemed a glow about him - at least I could have sworn
His face appeared real friendly as he peered up in the sky
He said, the weather is pretty calm today, hope the rain will pass us by
He first talked about the weather, but there seemed to be much more
That we both had in common, except for what we wore
He started talking about his life and the places he had been
And he spoke as if he knew me, like we were next-of-kin
From the problems that he had, to the happy times he found
Our likeness was uncanny and was becoming more profound
We had so much in common - I couldn't believe how much alike,
That I decided to tag along, we continued on our hike
He said he's from all over and his name was just like mine,
And hoped one day that we would meet as he had a real short time
I was feeling sort of baffled, as we went on with our walk
But he had held my interest, so I listened as he talked
He said, I know you're hurting - as your life has been so hard
But it seems today that you found God, where once you'd disregard
From the point that I was calling and was asking for God's hand,
Is the point where he had first appeared, as this was in God’s plan
He said to take more time for prayer - that I could bend God's ear
That He is always listening, and He is always near
God knows about my struggles but better times will be ahead,
As long as I keep believing and will no longer be mislead.
We then turned onto a sidewalk and now very close to home,
And it was then it struck me that I was suddenly now alone.
This stopped me in my tracks and I began to call his name
And it was then I understood, why to me that day he came.
I then realized God had heard me, as my Angel He then sent
To relieve me of my worries, and all my discontent.
Today I pray more often and feel blessed with my God's Love
As He was there and listening - and sent an Angel from above
:::::Tommy Q
Healing Prayers – Can I receive healing from God every time?
The answer is definitely “Yes!” God can heal every sickness that leads to our ultimate death. But does God choose to heal us every time? No. He may heal us as a result of prayer. He may heal through simple procedures, through a surgeon’s trained hand, or He may heal us in a way that we can’t explain medically. God’s healing for each of our lives transcends our temporal perspective of pain and death. His will, or divine plan, for our lives is for this earthly tent to be exchanged for an eternal heavenly dwelling that never suffers the effects of sin’s decay (2 Corinthians 5:1–2). For children of God, there is ultimate healing for each of us.
As children of God, our healing prayer can be:
Heavenly Father, You are intimately aware of the struggle I am experiencing -- the pain and the despair. You know the desire of my heart to be healed of this illness. I ask now for Your healing touch. I know that You are able and that just like in Bible times, You can heal me.
I also understand that You will chose what is best for me. I pray that through this trial, I will draw close to You -- that You will be my comfort and strength. I pray that ultimately, whatever happens, You will be glorified through me.
You Are Special
The Power of concentration
This is the ability of focusing the attention on one single object or thought, and at the same time excluding all other unrelated thoughts from the mind.
Concentrating on one single thought or subject directs the mental energies into one point and prevents their dissipation. Concentration strengthens the power of the thought focused on, and can achieve wonders. This action is similar to the action of a magnifying glass that concentrates the rays of the sun into one single beam, and which can then burn a piece of paper.
This ability can be developed through special exercises. Any time spent on such exercises is time well spent. The more time and energy you devote to strengthening the power of concentration, the stronger this ability becomes.
Willpower
This is the inner strength to make decisions, take action and handle and execute any aim or task, regardless of inner resistance, discomfort or difficulty. It manifests as inner firmness, decisiveness, determination, resolution and persistence.
Charles Spurgeon said it best. "Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength."
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