~~~~ A DIFFERENT KIND OF HOUSE ~~~~ Nov 5, 2009 6:58 am 103 Views "I walk in and out of many worlds." --Joy Harjo, CREEK/CHEROKEE In my mind are many dwellings. Each of the dwellings we create ourselves - the house of anger, the house of despair, the house of self pity, the house of indifference, the house of negative, the house of positive, the house of hope, the house of joy, the house of peace, the house of enthusiasm, the house of cooperation, the house of giving. Each of these houses we visit each day. We can stay in any house for as long as we want. We can leave these mental houses any time we wish. We create the dwelling, we stay in the dwelling, we leave the dwelling whenever we wish. We can create new rooms, new houses. Whenever we enter these dwellings, this becomes our world until we leave for another. What world will we live in today? Creator, no one can determine which dwelling I choose to enter. No one has the power to do so, only me. Let me choose wisely today. 3 Comments

~~~~ SIMPLE ~~~~ Nov 5, 2009 6:49 am 101 Views "Keep your life simple because the more you get, the more complicated it becomes." --Joe Coyhis, STOCKBRIDGE-MUNSEE The old ones say, lead a simple life. The society we live in is all about getting more houses, cars, luxury and credit cards. The law of worry says, the more you have, the more you need to worry. You get a house, then you need insurance, then you need to take care of the yard and the list goes on. Next, you may want a bigger house with a bigger yard which costs more in insurance. Along with the accumulation of materialism, are other "gifts." Soon you become a slave and the materialism owns you. Lead a simple life and have peace of mind. Lead a simple life and be spiritual. Creator let our foundation be spiritual and simple. 2 Comments

~~~~DALAI LAMA ...SMART DOES NOT MEAN HAPPY~~~~ Nov 4, 2009 7:13 am 117 Views CAMBRIDGE - Arrayed before him were deans and doctors, professors and pupils, and the full range of scholars who populate the hallowed halls of Harvard. After the Dalai Lama slipped off his shoes, crammed his crossed legs into a too-narrow chair, and unceremoniously blew his nose, the world's most revered and honored Buddhist monk offered a bit of wisdom for the sages: Being smart doesn't make you happy. During a day of high-minded events at Harvard and MIT, the 73-year-old spiritual leader repeatedly showed that he was not interested in the pomp of his surroundings. When the crowd rose, in complete silence, as he entered Memorial Church, he said, abruptly and simply, "Sit down." At a tree-planting in his honor in Harvard Yard, he made it clear this would not just be for show. He chastised the president of Harvard, Drew Gilpin Faust, for shoveling too little dirt on the birch sapling's roots, and once the dignitaries had done their thing, he grabbed his shovel and smoothed out the ground, and then took a plastic water bottle and liberally sprinkled its contents over the sun-drenched green leaves. At Harvard, he flipped through a program while a group of Tibetan girls performed a dance for him; at MIT, as the Buddhist chaplain delivered closing remarks, the Dalai Lama busied himself putting on his slippers. His day had two major events - a talk at Harvard about the importance of educating people to be compassionate, as well as intelligent, and a fund-raising event for a new institute in his name, the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values, at MIT. At Memorial Church, after being welcomed by Tibetan dancers and musicians, the Dalai Lama posed a rhetorical question, "whether education, intelligence, can bring inner peace," and proceeded to conclude that it cannot. He joked about Harvard's reputation, saying: "Some of my friends in the East once told me Harvard is so famous, even just to walk in that place is something sacred. That is too much, I think. Foolish people, or silly people, can walk [through] easily." At another point, he observed: "There are very smart scholars, professors . . . full of feelings of competition, full of jealousy, full of anger. . . . I don't mean disrespect." He said, as he often does, that compassionate feelings appear to be a biological component of human beings - he cited the early connection between children and their mothers - and said those feelings need to be cultivated, not only by families, but also by schools. He noted that Buddhist monks have weathered imprisonment in Chinese prisons with less apparent psychological damage than that experienced by veterans of the Iraq war, and said, "More compassionate persons, in spite of traumatic experiences, their mental state is still calm." And he attributed some youth violence to a lack of "compassion, or affection, in family, or society." But he suggested that "Warm-heartedness" is difficult to teach. "How to teach, I don't know," he said. "I often express these things. But how to implement, it's up to you." At MIT, the Dalai Lama offered a mix of provocative ideas about promoting ethics in a secular society with banter and jokes that he chortled at himself. After entering the nearly full Kresge Auditorium, where some guests had donated $1,250 or more for a pair of tickets, he kidded a Catholic monk in the front row that his head was less than perfectly shaved, unlike the Buddhist monks in the hall. Sitting cross-legged on a sofa, he recalled that he had visited a homeless shelter in San Francisco recently and told a man there that he, too, had suffered the same fate after going into exile in 1959. "I said, 'Me too, homeless.' " His talk centered on how to achieve genuine compassion - not the kind that people easily muster for friends who share their views, but compassion for those they don't agree with. The Dalai Lama also said the new ethics center should search for ways to help secular people build ethical values, arguing that most of the world's 6 billion people are nonbelievers who won't get ethics through religion. He asked the Catholic monk whether secularism means rejection of religion, to which the monk replied, "that depends on your experience of secularism." "Very wise answer," the Dalai Lama told him to laughter. "We need to promote secular ethics through education." The Dalai Lama had some imaginative ideas for MIT scientists to work for peace. "You could invent an injection for compassion," he said. "I would want that." And maybe commerce could contribute: "You could have shops selling compassion. In a supermarket, you could buy compassion." A student asked about ethics and the weapons industry. The Dalai Lama, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his nonviolent campaign for Tibetan rights, said he hoped this would be the century for global demilitarization. But a good start, he said, would be for institutions like MIT to invent a bullet "that misses ordinary people but hits the decision makers," waving his arm in the path of a wiggling bullet to laughter and applause. "That kind of bullet needs to be developed. Wonderful." article by Michael Paulson 1 comment

~~~~ WE ARE ACCOUNTABLE ~~~~ Nov 2, 2009 7:30 am 148 Views "Someone must speak for them. I do not see a delegation for the four footed. I see no seat for eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior, but we are after all a mere part of the Creation." --Oren Lyons, ONONDAGA Whenever we make decisions, we need to look around and see who would be affected by them. If we change the course of a river , who, what will be affected? If we put poison on the gardens, who, what will be affected? If wee cut the trees and too many are cut, who, what will be affected? We need to become aware of the consequences of our actions. We need to pay attention to our thoughts. We are accountable to our children to leave the Earth in good shape. My Creator, help me make right decisions 4 Comments

~~~~ THE OLDEST RECORDED FIREWALK ~~~~ Nov 2, 2009 7:19 am 149 Views The oldest recorded firewalk was over 4000 years ago in India. Two Brahmin priests were competing to see who could walk further, one managed to do so and his feat was written down in the historical records of that time. In a 17th century letter a Jesuit priest, Father Le Jeune, writes to his superior, telling of a healing firewalk he witnessed among the North American Indians. He reports of a sick woman walking through two or three hundred fires with bare legs and feet, not only without burning, but all the while complaining about the lack of heat she was feeling. Some 30 years later, Father Marquette reported similar firewalks among the Ottawa Indians and Jonathan Carver writes in his 1802 book Travels in North America that one of the most astounding sights he saw was the parade of warriors who would "walk naked through a fire... with apparent immunity." Other North American Indians who were known to have shamanic traditions which included fire handling were the Fox, Menomini, Kere, Blackfeet and particularly the Zuni, who had, and some claim still have, a "great fire fraternity." The Kahunas, or native priests of the Hawaiian Islands, had powerful practices of lava waking. Fire worship practiced as a rite of purification, healing, initiation and transcendence has been a thread in the cultural tapestry of our planet. Many tribal people had, or have, rituals and ceremonies to honor the sacred aspect of fire, honoring its gifts and acknowledging its power. Fire worship and firewalking has nourished and warmed the human spirit since the dawning of mankind, today firewalking has evolved into a powerful tool for self-realization and empowerment. Many of the natural environments of our planet are dependent on the cleansing and purifying aspects of fire. Wildfires clear the way for new growth, which many animal and plant species depend on for survival. Just as the planet requires fire for renewal so does the human spirit, as we are always intrinsically connected with this earth from which we grew. Our relationship to fire is as old as the human race. Recent evidence suggests that Australopithecus controlled fire nearly a million and half years ago. The beginnings of firewalking are lost in the annals of history, but we do know that Africa, often considered the birthplace of mankind, has a long history of firewalking and fire dancing. The African-born Hindus walk on fire regularly as part of important religious festivals and !Kung Bushmen of the Kalahari desert have firewalked since their tribal beginnings. The !Kung use fire in their powerful healing ceremonies. In 1977, anthropologist Laurens van der Post published an account of his travels to Africa to study the !Kung and was astonished when witness to their healing fire dances. And, Richard Katz, a Harvard Psychologist reports that the !Kung use the fire to heat up their energy, which they call n/um : Dancers will go in the fire, walk in it, put their heads in it, pick up the coals and rub them over their hands and body... when the n/um (or energy) in the body is boiling and as hot as the fire, they will not be burned. As the n/um intensifies in the healers they experience an enhanced consciousness called !kia , during which they heal all those at the dance. In Bali, the mystical South Sea island, it is not the men who dance on the fire, but young girls. In India, Tibet, Sri Lanka, China, Japan and Argentina, to mention a few, people dance and walk, joyously, solemnly, exuberantly, or devotionally across fire. In the Hindu fire ceremony Agni Hotra, fire is used to purify the physical and spiritual atmosphere, and in Peru the flame is used to spiritually uplift participants in the fire-ceremony. 4 Comments

~~~~ TOMBSTONE SAYINGS ~~~~ Oct 31, 2009 9:28 am 200 Views Sir John Strange; Here lies an honest lawyer, And that is Strange. -- Tombstone in England I was somebody. Who, is no business Of yours. -- Vermont As the flowers are all made sweeter by the sunshine and the dew, So this old world is made brighter by the lives Of folks like you. -- Bonnie Parker (Bonnie and Clyde) Here lies Lester Moore; Four slugs from a .44; No Les No More. -- Tombstone Arizona John Brown is filling his last cavity. -- Dentist's Tombstone I told you that I was sick! -- Georgia Cemetary, USA Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake; Stepped on the gas instead of the brake. -- Pennsylvania Tombstone, USA Remember man, as you walk by, As you are now, so once was I, As I am now, so shall you be, Remember this and follow me. -- Tombstone in England To follow you I'll not consent, Until I know which way you went. -- Written on the tombstone in reply to one above The children of Israel wanted bread, And the Lord sent them manna, Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife, And the Devil sent him Anna. -- England Tombstone Under the sod and under the trees, Lies the body of Jonathan Pease. He is not here, there's only the pod; Pease shelled out and went to God. -- Massachusetts Tombstone Gone away, Owin' more than he could pay. -- England Alien tears will fill for him; Pity's long-broken ern. For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn. -- Oscar Wilde's Tombstone 8 Comments

~~~~ INDIVIDUALITY ~~~~ Oct 31, 2009 8:53 am 192 Views If you don't want to be judged harshly by other people - then don't continually condemn yourself. You have to tell people who you are, and you do it by action, by words, and by attitude. If you intend to compete with everyone, it will show in your manner. If you believe no one likes you, they will believe there is a reason - and not like you. If you believe you are smarter or above everyone else, others will see a foolish person then know you as a hipocrite. If you try to destroy another person to make yourself seem of importance, to gain more friends, tables will turn, you will destroy yourself. If you believe social status is power, you will see the day when it breaks down. Individuality is not competition, not painful separation, but sincerity and genuine caring. These things are evident - and the person that deliberately sets out to hinder someone is headed for out-and-out loneliness. ~ We first knew you as a feeble plant which wanted a little earth whereon to grow.... ~ ~~Native American Creator please remind us to know the strength you give us in individuality 4 Comments

~~~~ YOU ARE SPECIAL AND UNIQUE ~~~~ Oct 30, 2009 7:19 am 223 Views "We all come from the same root, but the leaves are all different." --John Fire Lame Deer, LAKOTA We all come from one Great Spirit but we are all different and unique. Nothing in the Great Creation has a twin that is identical. Even children that are twins are different. Every single person is extremely special and unique. Each person has a purpose and reason why they are on the Earth. Just like every leaf on a tree is different, each one is needed to make the tree look like it does. No leaf is better or worse than the other—all leaves are of equal worth and belong on the tree. It is the same with human beings. We each belong here and do things that will affect the great whole. Creator of the Great Spirit, today, let me see myself as a valuable contributor to the whole. 2 Comments

~~~~ WHY DO MEN LOVE WITCHES?...lol ~~~~ Oct 30, 2009 6:55 am 231 Views because they make the magic happen HAVE A HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 3 Comments

~~~~ EVALUATION TIME ~~~~ very interesting to read Oct 28, 2009 8:26 am 262 Views The brain is a tool that needs to always be sharp, in order to keep this tool sharp you must always use it, and not just use it you must always try and bring it to its limit by questioning everything and not assuming you know. 1. unfortunate event makes world wide news and upsets or angers the public. 2. the result no matter what is always expansion of the Government and destruction of constitutional freedoms. It doesn't matter what the excuse, or explanation is the result always reveals the truth. A child can give the greatest excuses when he is sick or late for school but if it always happens on the day of a test the truth is revealed by the results. The major media outlets can give every explanation in the book, as to why war happens assassination happen and terrorist events take place, but if they all end up in the expansion of government and the destruction of constitutional rights the truth is revealed by the results. Because the vast majority of the public are completely ignorant of the natural biological cycle of man it is increasingly difficult for them to except that these events are by no means an 'accident'. ----Tao is truth.-- The word "Tao" has no exact equivalent in the English language. To render it into "way", "principles", or "law" is to give it a too narrow interpretation. Although no one word can substitute for it's meaning. I have used the word "Truth" for it. To be truthful and honest. --One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others. Truth is where the problem is.--We shall find the truth when we examine the problem. The problem is never apart from the answer, the problem is the answer--the understanding of the problem is the dissolution of the problem. It is a mistake to think that one can establish a universal definition for verification. Determining truth in propositions. --A proposition is true if: -every proposition corresponds to a fact in the world. -every proposition is a kind of symbol which pictures a particular fact-e.g., musical scales. If a picture is true, therefore a proposition is true. -Indefinable view -coherence view -every proposition should fit into and will not contradict the set -cannot dissect experience into subject and predicate -can take experience as a whole -reality is coherent Determining truth in statements.--A statement of reality is true if it doesn't contradict other statements concerning reality. Determining truth in beliefs.--A belief is true if and only if one can act on it without upsetting one's expectation. Truth in nature.--There is an element of truth in everything. Nature teaches, although it can sometimes be misleading The man who seeks truth lives in what IS.--The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has not style at all. He lives only in what is. Truth must be experienced by the individual to be meaningful.--A fat belly cannot believe that such a thing as hunger exists. It is something you have to go through and understand. No one can eat and digest your food for you in order to give you the necessary strength to live. The realization of truth.--Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything The paradigm of truth.--I have said before "truth is nowhere to be found on a map." your truth is different from that of mine. At first, you may think that this is truth, but later you discover another truth, and then the former truth is denied--but you are closer to truth. Perhaps when we have found out more about what is not the truth, we will be that much closer to the truth. To experience pain, for example, does not necessarily mean that one understands it, accepts it, or even for that matter, denies its existence: It is. But it does not follow that everyone will understand pain in the same way and arrive at the same conclusion. All one has to do is take a close look at the medical profession. However, when I say that pain "is" this does imply that I am experiencing some THING, but to relate this THING to someone other than myself seems to be where the difficulty lies. It is, I believe, more than a semantic difficulty--it is an impossibility. Semantically, we all respond to a given idea, concept, or word in much the same way: that is, if the concept, idea, or word is in our own native language. Truth cannot be limited.--Truth cannot be structured or confined. When there is no center and no circumference, then there is truth. Truth cannot be organized.--You can't organize truth. That's like trying to put a pound of water into wrapping paper and shaping it. School yourself in the truth.--Cultivate and school yourself in the TRUTH--study hard and enjoy your planning and steps to ultimate fulfillment. Partial zed cultivation is not an approach to truth; there is no " your style" or "my style", but only the intelligent understanding of problem. The ways of truth.--The ways of truth consist of seeking after truth, awareness of truth(and it's existence), perception of truth (it's substance and direction, like the perception of movement), understanding truth, experiencing of truth, mastering of truth, forgetting truth, forgetting the carrier of truth, the return to the primal source where truth has its roots, and repose in the nothing. First-rate philosophers practice truth in order to understand it.-- According to Tao, a first rate philosopher practices truth in order to understand it. Krishnamurti pointed out that in order to see truth, one cannot be fragmented, but must see the totality. If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today Truth is everyday life The truth and the Way exhibit in the simple everyday movements. Because of this, many miss it (if there is any secret, it is missed by seeking). If there is any secret, one must have lost it by striving for it. The truth is here but men want to decorate the simple truth the snake with feet. Truth as liberating agent The direct awareness in which is formed "truth that makes us free" not the truth as an object of knowledge, only but the truth lived and experienced in concrete and existential awareness. Anger and Truth.--That man in whom the truth is bright has no anger. Truth transcends "for" and "against"--The prefect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose; do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hair's breadth difference, and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease. I don't hold beliefs I have convictions and at any moment if someone trys to reason with me and show me where I am wrong so that I may make up my own rational conviction I am open to it.-------------- Faith vs. doubt. -I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. To act on faith.--Faith without work is death. Applied faith.--Thoughts backed by faith will overcome all obstacles. Faith in oneself.--What do I live on? My faith in my ability that I'll make it. Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe. It is a well known fact that one comes, finally, to believe whatever one repeats to one's self, whether the statement be true or false. If man repeats lie over and over, he will eventually accept the lie as truth. Moreover, he'll believe it to be the truth. Every man is what he is because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind. Faith is a state of mind.--Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-descipline. Faith will accomplish. Cultivating faith.--Faith can be induced or created by affrirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind through the principle of autosuggestion. This is the only known method of voluntary development of the emotion of faith. Faith and reason.--I cannot and will not "scoff" at faith when reason seems to be such a barren thing. Faith maintains the soul.--Faith is the maintaining of the soul through which one's aims may be translated into their physical equivalent. One's perspective on truth changes with change.--Because I am a changing as well as an ever-growing man, thus what I hold true a couple of months ago might not be the same now. There is pathless road.--Truth is a pathless road. A road that is not a road. It is total expression that has no before or after. How can there be methods and systems by which to arrive at something that is living? To that which is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way, a definite path, but not to that which is living. Truth is outside molds and patterns.--Truth exists outside of all molds and patterns, and awareness is never exclusive. Truth is never a set idea and definitely not a conclusion. Styles and methods are conclusions but the truth of life is a process. Find out for yourself what is true.--Create immediately an atmosphere of freedom so that you can live and find out for yourselves what is true, so that you are able to face the world with the ability to understand it, not just conform to it One can tell for oneself whether the water is warm or cold. In the same way, a man must convince himself about these experiences, only then are they real. Discard what is ornamental. --Shun what is trivial and discard what is ornamental The ultimate truth.--The ultimate has no symbol, no style, no superhuman. Truth is not found in a book.--Truth is not to be found in a book. Furthermore, such a book merely presents a barrier to progress in your search for truth. Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book. A finger pointing to the moon.-- These few paragraphs at best are merely " a finger pointing to the moon." Please do not take the finger to be the moon or fix your intense gaze on the finger and thus miss all the beautiful sight of heaven. After all, the usefulness of the finger is in pointing away from itself to the light that illumines finger and all. Emptiness--the end.--I have to leave now, my friend. You have a long journey ahead of you, and must travel light. From now leave all your burden of preconceive conclusions behind, and "open" yourself to everything and everyone ahead. Remember, my friend, the usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness. The end is the beginning.-- The beginning and the end thus turn into next-door neighbors. On the musical scale, one may start with lowest pitch and gradually ascend to the highest. When the highest is reached one finds it is located next to the lowest. To know, but to be as though not knowing, is the height of wisdom.--------- Bruce Lee Have faith? Have reason, have ovaries, have balls, and keep your mind SHARP!!!! 2 Comments

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