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Why it is more difficult to prove there is no God than to prove indeed there is... by Alicia Bernal

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ONUS PROBANDI

“Today’s quote from quotes@philosophersmag.com

Today's date: 12 May 2004

If my interlocutor desires to convince me that Jupiter has inhabitants, and that his description of them is accurate, it is for him to bring forward evidence in support of his contention. The burden of proof evidently lies on him; it is not for me to prove that no such beings exist before my non-belief is justified, but for him to prove that they do exist before my belief can be fairly claimed. Similarly, it is for the affirmer of God's existence to bring evidence in support of his affirmation; the burden of proof lies on him.”

Annie Wood Besant

--Why I do not believe in God

The Poet lived out His poetry in me and so I no longer need to write my interlocutor about taxonomic data with an accompanying affidavit to desist from further implicating my good self, because ignorance is not a crime; however there are acquired facts in my head that went the way of a tumor, suffice it to say that they are right about formal dogmatic atheism as being self-refuting. I can never draw poetry from it.

I quote this time Herbert Spencer whose agnosticism had me memorizing his lumbering phraseology “…which while admitting the rational necessity of postulating the Absolute or Unconditioned behind the relative and Unconditioned objects of our knowledge declares the Absolute to be altogether Unknowable to be in fact the Unknowable about which without being guilty of contradiction we can predicate nothing at all except perhaps that It exists.”

Here lies the Poet’s Onus Probandi and never mind if His poems speak for themselves in life.

~aliceinthepoetsheartland

Universe, the greatest secret - you know? by 〇cindy May

2012年3月27日师父开示

Messages from Osifu

Resolving Demon's Interruption

March 27th, 2012

魔子魔孙企图瓦解我们，干扰从未停止。

Demon's descendants try every way to overthrow us and never stop disturbing.

你们没有足够的定力，就会被击溃，瓦解。

If you don’t have enough samadhi power, you will be defeated and overthrown.

道心不坚、定力不足、智慧未启、烦恼炽盛、执著心重者最容易受到干扰。

Those people are vulnerable to disturbance, who don’t have enough firm resolve and concentration capability and wisdom, and stricken by afflictions and attachment.

这种干扰来自有形和无形的都有。防不胜防，无孔不入。

专找薄弱口进攻。你们无有智慧眼，无从分辨。

This kind of disturbance is from both the visible and the invisible. It is very hard to guard against because they are very pervasive and pick on vulnerable area to invade. You have no wisdom eyes, so you aren’t able to discern them.

释迦牟尼佛传你们必须要看。释迦牟尼佛以身演道，佛是你们的榜样、示范、师父。

You must read Buddha Shakyamuni biography. Shakyamuni Buddha demonstrated the Way with his own conduct. Buddha is your model, example and Master.

观世音菩萨传奇你们必须要看。观世音菩萨以身演道，菩萨是你们的榜样、示范、师父。

You must read Avalokitesvara legend. Avalokitesvara demonstrated the Way with her own conduct. Bodhisattva is your model, example and Master.

地藏菩萨传你们必须要看。地藏菩萨以身演道，地藏是你们的榜样、示范、师父。

You must read Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva legend. Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva demonstrated the Way with his own conduct. Ksitigarbha is your model, example and Master.

我们有太多的佛菩萨做榜样，为何还不知怎么做呢？

Too many Buddhas set us examples, why not know how to do?

学佛学释迦牟尼学诸佛如来，这很明晰呀！

Study Buddha, study Shakyamuni Buddha, study Buddhas. It is very clear!

无我无为顺道而行造福苍生普济亿灵--行佛道。

To perform according to the Way (cosmic laws), along the unconditioned Way without thoughts of a false self. To bring bliss to fellow human and rescue millions of beings.---do what Buddha did.

师父反复说，学佛人必须反复研读释迦牟尼佛传。

Master said repeatedly: The Buddhist must read Buddha Shakyamuni biography deeply and repeatedly.

把释迦牟尼佛的精神行愿融入到自己的血脉骨髓。

To integrate the spirit、action and vow of the Sakyamuni Buddha into our own blood and bone marrow.

把释迦牟尼佛的精神行愿融入到自己的细胞分子。

To integrate the spirit、action and vow of the Sakyamuni Buddha into our own cellular elements.

把释迦牟尼佛的精神行愿融入到自己的一言一行。

To integrate the spirit、action and vow of the Sakyamuni Buddha into our own every word and every action.

把释迦牟尼佛的精神行愿融入到自己的举手投足。

To integrate the spirit、action and vow of the Sakyamuni Buddha into our own every act and every move.

把释迦牟尼佛的精神行愿融入到自己的为人处世。

To integrate the spirit、action and vow of the Sakyamuni Buddha into our own behavior conducting.

说佛说行佛事--你就是化身佛、分身佛、当下佛。

Say what Buddha said, do what Buddha did---you are embodiment Buddha, reproduced Buddha and the NOW Buddha.

研读释迦牟尼佛传是你化解对治魔扰的最好方法之一。

One of the best ways to resolve Demon's interruption for you is to study and read Buddha Shakyamuni biography.

研读楞严经五十种阴魔是你化解对治魔扰的最好方法之一。

One of the best ways to resolve Demon's interruption for you is to study and read 50 kinds of skandhas maras in the Shurangama sutra.

研读大藏经典是你化解对治魔扰的最好方法之一。

One of the best ways to resolve Demon's interruption for you is to study and read classic Tripitaka.

加持楞严咒是你化解对治魔扰的最好方法之一。

One of the best ways to resolve Demon's interruption for you is to uphold more Shurangama Mantra.

不著相不动心是你化解对治魔扰的最好方法之一。

One of the best ways to resolve Demon's interruption for you is to keep your heart unmoving and not cling to the appearance.

亲修实证是你化解对治魔扰的最好方法之一。

One of the best ways to resolve Demon's interruption for you is to cultivate and realize personally.

不执著神通感应是你化解对治魔扰的最好方法之一。

One of the best ways to resolve Demon's interruption for you is to not cling to supernatural powers.

不执著五欲六尘是你化解对治魔扰的最好方法之一。

One of the best ways to resolve Demon's interruption for you is to not cling to five desires and six dusts.

不执著情爱是你化解对治魔扰的最好方法之一。

One of the best ways to resolve Demon's interruption for you is to not cling to love.

不执著名闻是你化解对治魔扰的最好方法之一。

One of the best ways to resolve Demon's interruption for you is to not cling to fame.

不执著利养是你化解对治魔扰的最好方法之一。

One of the best ways to resolve Demon's interruption for you is to not cling to benefits.

不执著酒色是你化解对治魔扰的最好方法之一。

One of the best ways to resolve Demon's interruption for you is to not cling to wine and sex.

不执著财气是你化解对治魔扰的最好方法之一。

One of the best ways to resolve Demon's interruption for you is to not cling to wealth.

不执著名色是你化解对治魔扰的最好方法之一。

One of the best ways to resolve Demon's interruption for you is to not cling to reputation.

不执著财食是你化解对治魔扰的最好方法之一。

One of the best ways to resolve Demon's interruption for you is to not cling to money and food.

不执著懈怠是你化解对治魔扰的最好方法之一。

One of the best ways to resolve Demon's interruption for you is to not cling to be slack.

实则所有的魔扰皆是虚幻。

In fact, all of Demon's interruptions are illusory.

实则所有的魔扰皆是假的。

In fact, all of Demon's interruptions are false.

实则所有的魔扰皆是梦境。In fact, all of Demon's interruptions are dreamland.实则所有的魔扰皆是泡影。In fact, all of Demon's interruptions are bubbles.所有的魔扰皆是汝心感召。All of Demon's interruptions are what your heart calls in. 所有的魔扰皆是汝业感召。All of Demon's interruption are what your karma calls in. 所有的魔扰皆是汝障感召。All of Demon's interruptions are what your obstacles calls in. 所有的魔扰皆是汝习感召。All of Demon's interruptions are what your bad habits calls in. 所有的魔扰皆是汝烦恼感召。All of Demon's interruptions are what your affliciton calls in. 如心不动，谁能奈何？Keep your heart unmoving, who can have a way?魔子魔孙控制众生的办法就是想尽一切办法让你心动，受其所牵，为其所利用。

The way to control sentient beings for Demon's descendants is to try every way to keep your heart moving and make you following them and being used.最终目的是汲取你的生命能量。The final purpose is to suck your life energy.魔子魔孙妄图控制整个宇宙。Demon's descendants are attempting to control the whole universe.控制宇宙靠的是能量。犹如地球人控制地球靠的是能源一样。

To control the whole universe depends on energy, just the same as people on the earth control the earth depending on energy.地球人已经发现能源问题是最重要的问题。很多战争的本质就是为能源而战。People on the earth found that the most important problem is energy which many wars essentially fought for.邪恶力量要尽可能的攫取生命能量。不择手段！Evil forces will spare no effect to derive life energy, trying all sorts of tricks.

邪恶力量想尽一切办法让人类心动，心动则释放能量，邪恶力量就可以提取能量。

Evil forces try their best to keep human beings’ hearts moving. When your heart moving, you will release energy， which evil forces can extract.这就是事实真相。这个真相不可以再一次被淹没。This is the truth which can't be submerged again.让更多的人觉醒、觉知、觉悟。不要沦为邪恶力量的奴隶、奶牛而不自知。这种现象已经存在多劫了。

Make more people awaking、intuiting and being enlightened. Don’t decline into slaves or cows of evil forces while they are unaware of that fact. This kind of phenomenon has remained for countless kalpas.佛无法在多劫来度尽众生，就是因为佛无法借助外力让众生不动心。佛一尊又一尊的佛，化身前来。以身演道、点化众生。从未间断过！结果如何？你们已经看到。That Buddhas weren’t able to rescue all sentient beings during countless kalpas is because Buddhas couldn’t use external force to keep sentient beings’ hearts unmoving.

Buddha, one Buddha after another incarnated and came here, demonstrating the Way with their own conduct and instructing sentient beings, never stopping. How are the results? You've already seen that.当然，佛的心血没有白费。一批又一批的菩萨、辟支佛、罗汉、天人提升而归。Of course, Buddha's efforts were not in vain. One group after another of Bodhisattvas、Pratyekabuddhas、Arhats and people from heaven have promoted and returned back.是呀，与此同时。一批又一批的罪魂、恶业深重者，随业坠落。Yes, meanwhile one group after another of sinful souls and those who did heavy evil karma sunk due to their Karma. 佛与魔本来没有斗争。There is originally no fight between Buddha and Demon.正与邪本来没有斗争。There is originally no fight between righteousness and evil.呵呵Ahah佛要带你走，魔就不乐意了。犹如你去解救一个奴隶，奴隶主肯定不会双手奉上的。Buddha wants to take you with him while Demon isn’t pleased, just as you go to rescue a slave whom slave owners mustn’t hand over.因为佛要解救接引度脱众生，魔要控制奴役利用众生，矛盾就产生了。呵呵

Because Buddha wants to rescue and guide sentient beings while Demon wants to control、enslave and make use of sentient beings, contradiction is born. Ahah.

事实情况就是如此简单。仅此而已The thing is so easy and nothing than that.接下来，佛菩萨的慈悲救度会继续......接下来，魔子魔孙的邪恶干扰会继续......Next, Baddha’s compassionate salvation will continue……

Next, the evil interruption of Demon's descendants will continue……这种局面持续了无量劫。还会持续下去This situation has continued for immeasurable kalpas and will still be continuing.〇sifu曰：不受磨不成佛。〇sifusifu said: Without hardships none becomes Buddhas.〇sifu曰：历尽磨难方成佛。〇sifusifu said: After finishing experiencing the tribulation, one can become a Buddha.〇sifu曰：一切皆是考验。〇sifusifu said: Everything is test.〇sifu曰：密钥在心，正诚善净。〇sifu said: The secret key of return hides in the mind, which must be virtuous, faithful, benevolent and pure.

〇sifu曰：最大的智慧就是不动心。〇sifu said: The biggest wisdom is to keep your heart unmoving.〇sifu曰：时刻祝福。〇sifu said: Bless you at any time.

师父说过，不一定非要集中在佛堂共修提升，在家静修是一样的。时时与佛相应时时得佛加持。

Master has ever said that it is not necessary to cultivate together for promotion and practice at home individually is the same. When you resonate with Buddha, you can be blessed by Buddha at any moment.在佛堂人多集体活动让左邻右舍误解，反而不安全。

At the ashram, too many people get together and are easily misunderstood by neighbors. It isn’t safe instead.

各有各的事，各有各愿，各有各的缘，各有各的使命，不要求什么都要在一起，什么都要每个人都知道。

Each has his own thing. Each has his own vow. Each has his own predestined relationship. Each has his own mission. Don’t need everyone to get together and know everything.

真修行人不见世间过

The true practicer sees no fault in the world.

不要总盯着别人，时刻观照自己的身语意。

Don’t always stare at others. Observe your own body、speech and mind at any moment.诸恶莫作众善奉行自净其义

Every form of evil cannot be done. Every form of kindness should be done. At the same time, try to purify your mind by yourselves.

道场清净与否，取决于你们每一个进入道场的人心是否清净。

Whether the ashram is pure depends on whether your heart is pure or not when you go into the ashram.一切都是你的心感召的。

Everything is what your heart calls in.

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Mantras are neither magic spells whose inherent power can defy the laws of nature, nor are they formulas for psychiatric therapy or self-hypnosis. They do not possess any power of their own, but are means for arousing and concentrating already existing forces of the human psyche. They are archetypal sound and word symbols that have their origin in the very structure of our consciousness. They are, therefore, not arbitrary creations of individual initiative, but arise from collective or general human experience, modified only by cultural or religious traditions.

The mantra connects our peripheral consciousness with our depth consciousness, which represents totality of our past. Our past, however, reaches back to a time before the creation of structured language and fixed word forms or concepts. Thus the earliest mantric expressions or seed-syllables (bija) are prelingual, primordial sounds which express feelings but not concepts, emotions rather than ideas.

Just as music conveys meaning, though this cannot be expressed in words, basic mantric sounds convey vibrations which affect our attitudes, our moods, our states of consciousness. They also affect different psychic centers in our bodies which are not connected with thought-activity but with space-feeling, inner movement, emotion or other psychic qualities, because consciousness is located not only in the brain but in various other centers (cakras) of psychic energy. When we are moved by a song or certain passage in music, we cannot even say why this is so. There are no logical reasons. We simply feel that something begins to swing or to vibrate within us like a chord of the same wavelength.

The basic vowel sound of a mantric seed-syllable (bija) produces an effect that is difficult to imagine, if we consider that sound merely as represented by a printed syllable in a book or pronounced in a spoken word. Though it is true that ultimately every sound has potential mantric qualities, there is a clear distinction between a mere linguistic vowel sound and that of a mantric seed-syllable. The mantric nature of the latter is indicated by a small circle or dot (anusvara) on top of the written character, signifying that the outflowing sound is closed off and turned inward, where it merges from the audible into the inaudible inner vibration. The latter is real shabda, or inner sound which sets in motion the respective psychic forces or cakras and frees them from the restrictive entanglements, by loosening the "knots" (granthi) into which they have bound themselves, due to our negligence or misuse of them.

As in music we can discern a different vibrational character in all mantric vowels: the O is rounded, all-inclusive sound, and it is certainly not by chance that in Greek and Roman scripts it has been symbolized by a circle. By superimposing the anusvara upon this sound, it is converted into the mantric seed-syllable OM. As such it has always been regarded -- from the earliest times of Indian history until the present day -- as the universal sound. In the words of Rabindranath Tagore, "Om is the symbolic word for the infinite, the perfect, the eternal. The sound as such is already perfect and represents the wholeness of things. It is meant to fill the mind with the presentiment of eternal perfection and to free it from the world of narrow selfishness."

Buddhism shares with the teachings of the Upanishads the recognition of man's potential universality, but it is equally consious of the imporatnce of individuality, without which this universality could not be experienced and realized. The Buddhist way, as we may say, begins where that of the Upanishads ends. Although the mantric symbol OM is shared by both, its evaluation is not the same, since it depends on the position which the symbol occupies in the particular mantric tradition and in relationship to other symbols within this tradition. Om, therefore, in Buddhist tradition stands at the beginning of every mantric formula, but never at its end.

OM is like the opening of our arms to embrace all that lives. It is like a flower that opens its petals to the light of the sun. The crown-chakra (sahasrara-cakra), in which the OM traditionally is placed, is indeed depicted as a thousand-petalled lotus. However, the energies thus received do not remain in the petals of the flower; they have to descend into the darkness of the roots in order to be transformed into a life-giving and life-sustaining force. In the same way, the universality experienced in the OM, the primordial sound of timeless reality, must descend and be realized in the depth of the human heart in order to be transformed into vibrant life.

OM is the ascent towards universality, HUM the descent of the state of universality into the depth of the human heart. OM and HUM are like counterpoints in a musical score. OM is the infinite; but HUM is the infinite in the finite, the eternal in the temporal, the timeless in the moment, the unconditioned in the conditioned, the formless as basis of all form: it is the Mirrorlike Wisdom, which reflects the void as well as the objects and reveals the emptiness in the things as much as the things in the emptiness.

The OM stands like the sun in the center of the mandala, the place of Vairocana, the "sun buddha," the radiating one; the HUM stands in the east, the place of Aksobhya. Though the east is the entrance-point into the mandala, the HUM cannot precede the OM in any mantric formula, because the presence of the center is the conditio sine qua non of the mandala, which in Tibetan is rightly translated as "center (and) circumference" (dKhyil-hKhor). In other words, we must have passed through the experience of OM in order to reach and to understand the still deeper experience of HUM.

The basic vowel sound of the long U in HUM is the sound of depth, vibrating forth in the anusvara, which merges into the inaudible. The vowel "u" (=oo) expresses a downward movement and represents the lower limit in the tonal scale of the human voice, the treshold of silence, which in Tibetan is called "the door of the inaudible". The aspirate "h" which precedes it, is the sound of breath (prana), the subtle life-force. The sonorous inwardly directed, inwardly vibrating final sound of the nasalized "m", representing the anusvara, stands as it were between consonants and vowels, being in fact the combination of both, thus hinting beyond duality. This is why the anusvara is the characteristic mark of practically all seed-syllables (bija-mantras), which distinguishes them from ordinary vowel sounds.

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The world a better way - you can do? by 〇cindy May

February 14,2012

True Love

今日西方情人节

Today is Valentine’s Day.

师父祝福天下有情人早成觉有情！

Master blesses lovers become enlightened sattvas（Bodhisattvas, or enlightened living beings）.

一个情字，害了多少苦海沦落人！

A word-love, damages so many miserable unfortunate persons.

情是一个很敏感的话题。

Love is a very sensitive topic.

关于情的法很难讲的。

It is difficult to discourse about Love.

说破了说透了说穿了，众生接受不了。

All living beings cannot accept it if it is told pellucidly.

不说破不说透不说穿，众生执著爱欲沉沦。

If not so, all living beings will cling to love and be trapped.

多少众生“为情所困”！陷入爱欲沉迷无法自拔！

Countless living beings were trapped into Love and cannot extricate themselves!

多少众生“为情所迷”！陷入爱欲沉迷无法自拔！

Countless living beings were stuck on Love and cannot extricate themselves!

多少众生“为情所缚”！陷入爱欲沉迷无法自拔！

Countless living beings were tied up to Love and cannot extricate themselves!

自古有言“英雄难过美人关”。

There is an ancient saying:‘The hero becomes a prisoner of beauty because of love’

古往今来，多少痴男怨女迷情失德、贪欲背道。

Since time immemorial, countless men and women are addicted to love and greed so that they go against laws and morality.

名关、利关、钱财关、情关等诸种修心修行修炼中要通透的关卡考验，此情关障住了多少修炼人呀！

Fame、gain、wealth and love etc need to be broken through during the practice, however, countless practioners cannot get through the barrier of the love.

师父见证了很多卡于情关无法通透动弹之人。

Master witnessed many people who could not get through the barrier of the love so that they could not extricate themselves .

师父见证了很多卡于情关，退转道心，陷于爱欲情欲之人。

Master witnessed many people who were addicted to love and lust about the barrier of the love so that they retreated from their resolve.

师父见证了很多卡于情关，为情背道，逆天而行，贬下凡尘之人。

Master witnessed many people who were sentenced to come to the earth from the Heaven about the barrier of the love so that they went against the Law and the principles of universe because of love.

“自古多情空遗恨，此恨绵绵无绝期”这句话虽很哀怨，但也直白

‘Hate affectionately and vacantly from ancient times, but this vow unfulfilled will be regretted forever.’ This sentence is very plaintive and sorrow while straightforward.

因为情，多少天人贬下凡尘！

Because of love, countless people from the Heaven were punished and degraded down to earth.

因为情，多少凡人痛失人身！

Because of love, countless ordinary persons sacrificed their lives.

因为情，多少众生道法不信！

Because of love, countless living beings did not believe the Law and the principles of universe.

因为情，多少神佛血泪流尽！

Because of love, countless Divinities’ tears and blood dry up.

因为情，多少仙圣苦口婆心！

Because of love, countless Divinities are well-meaning .

神佛仙圣真的情是大慈大悲！

Divinities'love is great compassion!

神佛仙圣真的情是无我无为！

Divinities'love is non-self and unconditioned.

神佛仙圣真的情是无欲无求！

Divinities'love is unselfish and to no seeking.

神佛仙圣真的情是无贪无嗔！

Divinities'love is no greed and no hatred.

神佛仙圣真的情是清净平等！

Divinities'love is equal and peaceful.

神佛仙圣真的情是至纯至净！

Divinities'love is pure and clean.

神佛仙圣真的情是奉献不停！

Divinities'love is always dedicating.

神佛仙圣真的情是光爱至诚！

Divinities'love is sincere light and love!

神佛仙圣真的情是同体同心！

Divinities'love is the same heart and body!

神佛仙圣真的情是唤醒沉沦！

Divinities'love is to awake those trapped.

神佛仙圣真的情是点化痴冥！

Divinities'love is to guide the barmiest.

神佛仙圣真的情是直指归心！

Divinities'love is to focus on your mind!

神佛仙圣真的情是引领亿灵！

Divinities'love is to guide all living beings!

神佛仙圣真的情是回归佛心！

Divinities'love is to return the center of the cosmos.

神佛仙圣真的情是性海归真！

Divinities'love is to go back to true bhutatathata ocean.

神佛仙圣真的情是宙心无生！

Divinities'love is the birthlessness of cosmic center.

神佛仙圣真的情是如如空灵！

Divinities'love is spiritual and constant.

妙哉妙哉至真情，

大慈大悲不沉沦。

至亲至爱至纯净，

无我无欲无私心。

So wonderful is the true love.

Infinite compassion never makes people deprave.

Utmost affecting, utmost love and utmost pure.

Non-self, no desires and no selfishness.

若问此情当何名，

此情在心不在身。

此情不在身亲近，

亿灵本来同法身。

If you ask what name should be given to this kind of affection.

It does not rest upon body but in heart.

It does not mean the intimacy of bodies.

All living beings have the same Dharma body.

此情不在欲中行，

情欲不除陷沉沦。

此情绵绵期无尽，

诸佛菩萨度家亲。

This kind of love is not desire.

One will sink into vices if his desires for love are not removed.

The vow unfulfilled will be regretted forever.

Higher dimensional beings have being rescued families.

苦海慈舟行不停，

倒驾慈航唤亲人。

佛子若问何为情，

大慈大悲情至真。

Compassionate boat never stops in the misery ocean.

Invert driving compassionate ship, call loved ones.

If the sons of Buddha ask what is affection.

Infinite compassion is true love.

就以此偈《情至真》，作为今日开示的结语吧。

南无阿弥陀佛！

The name of the verse is true love. And that is the end of today’s speech.

Namo Amitabha!

有的弟子有缘人问：若没有情，世界岂不是没有人了？

师父不想答复此类问题。不妨参悟地藏王菩萨的大愿---在佛前立下宏大誓愿：“为是罪苦六道众生广设方便，尽令解脱，而我自身方成佛道。”

Some disciples and guests ask: ‘If there is no love, there will be no person in the world?’ Master doesn’t want to answer such question. You should think over Ksitigarbha’s big vow---making the vow in front of Buddha:‘I will not become a Buddha until I make all living beings suffering in six ways be more convenient and make them come out.’

有弟子有缘人问：若不吃肉、喝酒、抽烟，饭店还怎么开下去呀？

答复：宇宙没有要求一定要开饭店。人类可以开素食店，不喝酒、不吃肉、不抽烟、人会活得更美好。

Some disciples and guests ask: ‘If we don’t eat meat，drink the wine and smoke, how does the restaurant run?’ The reply is: ‘the universe does require that restaurants serving meat dishes must be opened. We can run vegetarian restaurants. If no eating meat，no drinking and no smoking, people will have a better life.

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191/365. by Rene

1. What are you grateful for today?

Managed to learn how to do mail merge and sent out whatever I need to send. I realised that my neck still pains and it hit me hard that I should see another doctor to find that cure I need since the chiropractor didn't help at all. I was given a nice tui na massage and acupuncture and a patch with Chinese medicine. The Chinese practitioner was experienced and I believe in him. He was gentle and practical. I hope he could cure my neck pain.

2. What emotional message did you have today?

Calm. Lazy. Curious. Relaxed. Restful.

3. What have you done today that move you forward to achieving your dream or goals?

Keeping up on my health, curing my neck pain.

4. What have you learned today? How can you do it slightly better next time?

"The self you judge is not the real self, the self you love is the real you". "The real mirror is to see yourself without judgement" - the mirror isn't doing anything to you, you are the one full of the ideas of yourself. "Whenever you don't feel loveable, it's because you're judging yourself". Your Unconditioned Self is without judgement and it is love.

5. What have you done to leverage your ability today?

Love myself. Rest.

6. Have you veered off or stayed back at your centre? Have you contracted or expanded?

Remained.

7. What is that one issue that you notice today?

Love is born with us. Over time as we grow, we forget about it because we learn to be logical and form our idea and judgement. Love is not pure from thereon.

8. What's the one thing I want to focus more/ 1 thing I want to eliminate?

Love myself more and love my body and love my health by getting the rest I need and slowing down my steps and breath. Forget about what I think about myself. Forget whatever judgement I have on myself. Feel myself more.

Ruth dressed for the High School Prom by Beth Scupham

This is mom, I think this is a prom picture. I like the picture of Jesus above her, and her brothers in uniform on the mantle. It must have been during the war (WW II).

She looks sad.

Sometimes I think of my mother as if she were a great Zen master, working her way through the struggles and burdens of life. Despite mental illness, she possessed a great clarity and large spirit that never was taken from her. She was always so much stronger than anyone suspected.

"If you remember nothing else, always remember this one great secret of spiritual practice: we don't have to feel any particular way. We don't have to have special experiences, nor do we have to be any particular way. With whatever arises, whether it's pleasing or not, try to remember that all we can do is experience and work with whatever our life is right now. No matter what life is and no matter how we feel about it, all that matters in practice is whether we can honestly acknowledge what is going on, and then stay present with the physical experience of that moment."

- Ezra Bayda

Zen Heart

"Breathe with unconditioned breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensioned life; stay away from screens."

- Wendell Berry

Our difficulties are not obstacles to the path; they are the path itself. They are opportunities to awaken. Can we learn what it means to welcome an unwanted situation, with its sense of groundlessness, as a wake-up call? Can we look at it as a signal that there is something here to be learned? Can we allow it to penetrate our hearts? By learning to do this, we are taking the first basic step toward learning what it means to be open with whatever life presents us.

Even when we don’t like it, we understand that this difficulty is our practice, our path, our life.

-- excerpt, Being Zen: Bringing Meditation to Life, Ezra Bayda

~ Quite often a flash of enlightenment will give you this message: Go back to where you started and learn to love it more.

-- Thaddeus Golas

The unconditioned Love by Damien Thorne

Hvorfor har jeg ikke tenkt på å fotografere stabburet ovenfra før?__DSC8104_21-12-19 by Øyvind Holmstad

Pål Steigan avslutter året med et voldsomt angrep på de nye hipsterne og manager-klassen, hvilke lovprises av Balke-presten.

"Hillary Clinton demonstrerte denne klasseforakten da hun kalte Donald Trumps velgere for «a basket of deplorables». Og hun føyde til at de er «rasister, sexister, homofobiske, fremmedfiendtllige, islamofobe», for å understreke hvor forferdelige disse mindreverdige menneskene er. Hun kunne ha kalt dem «avskum», og det ville gjort samme nytten. Hennes tilhengere jublet, siden deres klasselojalitet lå til den øvre middeklassen, men som vi vet slo dette ikke an i arbeiderklassen." - Pål Steigan

– De folkene som tapte valget for Labour hater arbeiderklassen

For egen del har jeg blitt en deplorabel, ikke av egen vilje, men av hipsternes vilje, da det var hipsterne som kastet meg ut av min industri-elvetradisjon, tok fra meg mine verdighetsklær og kvalte vår elvegud, vår siste sterke gud, for snart tre år siden. Denne ugjerningen ble støttet opp om av resten av husmannstroens barn, og jeg mottok ikke et støttende ord, med et lite unntak av en onkel. Dette fordi de alle var blitt progressive, James Kalb ville naturligvis lagt til liberale og tyranner også, og mine verdier er derfor de diamentralt motsatte av deres.

Selv har jeg også "the Clintons" i slekta, og de mener naturligvis at jeg som deplorabel har å holde munn, hvor de syntes PermaLiv burde stenges ned og jeg skulle underordne meg deres system, som de tror er toppen av menneskelig utvikling. James Kalb ser imidlertid på hele systemet deres som pur djevelskap, ute av stand til annet enn å ødelegge sivilisasjonen, Gud og menneskets verdighet. Selv lytter jeg heller til James Kalb, de deplorables talsmann.

- James Kalb - de deplorables talsmann

James Kalb beskriver det nye borgerskapet, hipsterne, således:

"Coolness started with jazz musicians, and still has something of the spirit of the night, of escape from everyday reality, of unconditioned freedom, of improvisation without a goal. It’s the liberal equivalent of the divine grace that bloweth where it listeth and none can define.

It has something in common with sanctity. The cool are in the world but not of it. They possess a certain disengagement, so that they are independent of their surroundings and not easily flustered or excited. They’re not conventional, and recognize immediately whatever they’re presented with. That gives them a sort of perfect pitch in matters of perception, expression, and practical decision.

Of course, coolness is also very different from sanctity. Sanctity is about eternity, coolness about today. It has religious aspirations, but its hedonism and individualism means it goes nowhere. The lives of the saints have enduring interest because they point to something beyond themselves, the lives of the hipsters don’t." – James Kalb

Så det er klart, jeg hører ikke innunder dette her, jeg deler ikke disse verdiene, derfor måtte jeg bli en deplorabel. Dette var alle skjønt enige om!

Av denne grunn har jeg kommet til at stabbursjubileet 2020 også må bli de deplorables år! Totenåsens apostel var ikke hipsternes apostel, han var de deplorables apostel, han kom fra de deplorable til de deplorable. Han kom til fattigfolket, de deplorable, i randsona rundt Totenåsen, for å gi dem verdighet, gjennom husmannstroen, de deplorables tro! En tro husmannstroens barn nå har forlatt, til fordel for hovdetroen, hipsternes tro!

I sitt siste essay for 2019 kommer James Kalb inn på hvor viktig det er å ha sterke, samlende guder:

- A Course Reversal? On R.R. Reno’s Return of the Strong Gods

Slik jeg ser det er det avgjørende at vi deplorable har sterke, samlende guder, og vi har her masse som kan samle oss!

Husmannstroen = de deplorables tro.

Totenåsens apostel = de deplorables apostel og helgen.

Lommedemokratiet = de deplorables demokrati, som kan ta fra manager-klassen deres makt og privilegier, for å gi dem til oss.

James Kalb = de deplorables filosof og talsmann.

Christopher Alexander = de deplorables arkitekt (-filosof).

Foran stabbursjubileet og de deplorables år, er det fem artikler jeg særlig anbefaler å studere i jula, hvilke jeg ønsker å ta med meg inn i dette jubileumsåret, for å benytte flittig.

De deplorables leseliste for jula 2019

Beauty and the Nature of Matter: The Legacy of Christopher Alexander

How a Generation Lost Its Common Culture

Catholicism (Husmannstroen) in a Time of Dissolution

De folkene som tapte valget for Labour hater arbeiderklassen

A Course Reversal? On R.R. Reno’s Return of the Strong Gods

God jul til alle deplorable!

P365-327-Bird Watching.Unaware by Jake Harris

Today is awesome! We've been to The Thousand Steps in the Dandenongs and now we're darting about the cockatoo park on the way home. To my stupid machismo, one thousand steps didn't seem much of a thing, so I've got a jacket and jeans on and a pair of average leisure shoes - how wrong I am. For starters, it's been raining this morning and so there's a constant stream of water running down the hillside making everything utterly slick and humid and beyond that, there's 1000 steps. 1000 steps that we choose to first descend and then come straight back up. Later I find that there's a path you're meant to take in one direction and then return on the steps, this method I presume is less likely to smash your unconditioned legs to jelly, but that's just a presumption of course.

Once I stop shaking and sweating, we get back in the car and go for sustenance in the form of caffeine and sugar. Chelsea is keen to feed the birds at this place on the way home so we dart over for a quick stop. Last time she went there was a bus load of people and the birds were dispersed amongst the people accordingly, this time there is only us in the feeding area when we begin and the ration dramatically changes much to Chelsea's distress and my mirth.

This little fiend came in at the end of our stint and was fascinated and slightly afraid of our fine feathered friends.

Fruits Week: Grape by The Chocolate Wonder

This skirt is 100% silk and is perfect for the hot summer heat in an unconditioned classroom full of sweaty, stinky 12 year olds, lol!

blue/green necklace--remixed thrifted

olive cardigan--remixed Marshalls

purple camisole--remixed Old Navy

purple, green, and blue skirt thrifted (Norton McNaughton Petite)

olive gladiator wedges--remixed Steve Madden

New York - Howe Caverns - Entrance to Titan's Temple. And Some Interesting Information. by pepandtim

The Postcard

A postally unused postcard that was published by Colourpicture of Boston 15, USA. In the space for the stamp it states that a One Cent stamp is required.

On the divided back of the card the publishers have provided the following information:

'Entrance to Titan's Temple.

Howe Caverns, Near Cobleskill, N.Y.

Titan's Temple is the largest room in Howe

Caverns. At the right is a massive example

of flowstone. The colored grottoes in the

center are in the side wall.

They have been eroded through the

centuries by the underground stream in

the Caverns.

The dark space and line just above the

grottoes is a line of demarcation between

the Silurian and Devonian geological

periods, indicating the great age of these

rocks.

Modern passenger elevators, electric lights,

well-kept brick walks, pure air, large

passageways and high ceilings make the

trip through the most spectacular natural

wonder in Northeastern United States

easy and never-to-be forgotten.'

Howe Caverns

Howe Caverns are in Schoharie County, New York. They are a popular tourist attraction, providing visitors with a sense of caving or spelunking, without needing the advanced equipment and training usually associated with such adventures.

Howe Caverns are the second most visited natural attraction in New York State, after Niagara Falls.

Geology of Howe Caverns

The formation of the cave, which lies 156 feet (48 m) below ground, began several million years ago. The cave walls are composed mainly of two types of limestone (Coeymans and Manlius) from different periods in the Earth's early history, deposited hundreds of millions of years ago when the Atlantic Ocean stretched far inland.

The cave contains an underground lake, called the Lake of Venus, as well as many stalactites and stalagmites.

Discovery and Development of Howe Caverns

Howe Caverns are named after farmer Lester Howe, who discovered the cave on the 22nd. May 1842. Noticing that his cows frequently gathered near some bushes at the bottom of a hill on hot summer days, Howe decided to investigate.

Behind the bushes, Howe found a strong, cool breeze emanating from a hole in the Earth. Howe proceeded to dig out and explore the cave with his friend and neighbor, Henry Wetsel, on whose land the cave entrance was located. The cave maintains a constant temperature of 52 °F (11 °C), irrespective of the outside weather.

Howe opened the cave to eight-hour public tours in 1843, and, as business grew, a hotel was built over the entrance. When Howe encountered financial difficulties, he sold off parts of his property until a limestone quarry purchased the remainder. The quarry's purchase included the hillside, which encompassed the cave's natural entrance.

The cave was closed to the public, until an organization was formed in 1927 to re-open it. The organization spent the next two years undertaking development work to create an alternative entrance into the cave.

After completion of the work – including elevators, brick walkways, lighting, and handrails – the cave was re-opened to visitors on Memorial Day, May 1929.

The standard tour lasts about 80 minutes, and shows the majority of the cave. Visitors begin at the elevators and continue to the end of the Lake of Venus, which marks the end of the developed property. Beyond this point lie about 2,100 feet (640 m) of unconditioned and destroyed caverns, which led to the quarry and the natural entrance. After a boat ride, visitors turn around and walk back the way they came, with two additional stops.

More Recent Developments

In 2008, the cave was purchased by private owners. In 2011, an adventure park attraction was assembled, initially featuring only a rope course and zip line. Since then, an H2OGO ball has been added, along with a rock wall, an air jumper, and a gemstone mining building.

In May 2015, Howe Caverns officials re-opened the natural entrance of the cave to public tours. The newly-opened section of the cavern had not been seen since 1900. Guy Schiavone, Howe Cavern's specialty tour director has said:

"The caverns were closed to begin with

because the property had been previously

owned by several cement companies that

took over in the late 1800's."

On the 8th. July 2015, one of the H2OGO water attractions was stolen. Howe Caverns offered a reward to anyone providing information that might lead to an arrest of the thief or thieves.

The two-hour "Signature Rock Discovery Tour" simulates natural cave exploration with the assistance of a guide, in a section of the cave that had not previously been open to the public. There is no artificial lighting in this part of the cavern, so visitors are supplied with their own portable lamps, as well as a suit appropriate for the muddy and cold journey.

The expanded tour includes the remains of Howe's original tourist boat, and signatures along the rock left by cavern adventurers more than 100 years ago.

There is also a “Music Hall” where sound echoes exceptionally well. The tour usually ends at the "Lake of Mystery", as visitors would have to crawl through a muddy passage filled with water inches away from the ceiling, to proceed any further.

The store at Howe Caverns sells "cave aged" cheese that is stored in a locked room by the elevators.

Weddings are performed deep in the cave, on top of a calcite formation that resembles a heart shape.

Cave House Museum of Mining & Geology

The Cave House Museum of Mining & Geology is located next to the caverns in the former hotel. The museum features exhibits relating to the cave's geology and formation, along with rock and mineral specimens.

It also presents the history of the cave's discovery and tourism, wildlife found in the cave, and the area's cement industry.

Utsyn fra Holmstadengen__DSC8810_26-12-19 by Øyvind Holmstad

I min barndom gikk man julebukk, en tradisjon som nå helt har forsvunnet, sammen med juletrefesten på bedehuset og meget annet. Ja, i grunnen alt annet, da vi nå har blitt historieløse. Og hvorfor har vi det? Her tror jeg Terje Tvedt gir et godt svar, det skyldes universalismen, vår vestlige selvforståelse, som liksom er all sivilisasjons endepunkt, hvilket gjør historien irrelevant.

- Terje Tvedts seks foredrag mot samtidens historieløshet

I første del i første kvarter nevner Tvedt en japaneser som skrev "The End of History", og det er klart at mot noe slikt blir jeg selvsagt en hatist, som kommer her dragende med James Kalb, som i motsetning til denne japaneseren hevder at historiens slutt består i at den vestlige sivilisasjon gikk til grunne og råtnet vekk, og ikke var menneskehetens høydepunkt!

Men med klimakrisen, som Terje Bongard sier kun er toppen av isfjellet av vår tids kriser, begynner folk å stille spørsmålstegn ved den industrielle sivilisasjon. Kunne det være slik at det var apostelen i Holmstadengen som representerte vår sivilisasjons høydepunkt? Her i steinrøysa oppunder Totenåsen? En kjettersk tanke, men så har jeg da også blitt angrepet av grendas representant for den moderne inkvisisjonen, samt "the Clintons", som representerer kommunens høyverdige, progressive verdier, inkarnert gjennom Totenpark-prosjektet. Hvor alle var glade da fyrsteparet, de kuleste av de kule, med mega-kule biler, hytte og villa, og ikke minst spektakulære reiser over hele verden på luksus-hotell, vår tids hellige, hipsterne, fikk degradert denne skammingen til en deplorabel, ved å kvele hans siste, sterke, levende gud, hans industri-elvegud.

Så selvsagt, fyrsteparet med storfyrsten har nå tatt vår apostels plass, som representanter for vår tids hellige, hovdetroens hellige, de kule, hipsterne. Men, som James Kalb påpeker, deres liv har ingen interesse, for selv om de har religiøse aspirasjoner, drukner det hele i individualisme og hedonisme, hvor alt leder ingensteds hen. Helgenenes liv derimot har evig interesse, fordi deres liv peker på noe utover dem selv. Så hadde da også vår apostel, han som skulle vært husmannstroens barns helgen, følgende livsmotto:

"For meg er livet Kristus og døden en vinning."

- Fil 1,21

For Totenåsens apostel var hele livet Kristus, hvor han med sitt liv og sin livsførsel ønsket å peke på noe større enn seg selv, noe utover seg selv. Hipsterne, de kuuuuuuuuuule, ønsker med hele sitt liv og sin livsførsel å peke mot seg selv. Derfor er hipsterne vår tids helgener!

by Miha Skerlep

Every state of being is open to liberation because every state of being is none other than liberation itself -- in a distorted form.

This could be seen as our great hope as beings. Every mind-state(1) is connected with our beginningless elingtenment. Every state of mind, no matter how confused, in its free condition(2) is none other than the liberated state. "Good" and "evil" do not exist as separate fields of energy. This means that no one is either too good or too bad for spiritual practice. Anyone who is tickled by the possibility, can engage with their own condition at the level of practice. This is all that is initially required. You simply need to be curious -- to be intrigued by the possibility that you are actually quite well qualified to make a radical shift. In the very moment that you allow this idea to stir you in some way, you stand at a doorway that opens on a tremendous panorama of potential. Every moment is an amazing possibility.

Every "negative" state of mind contains something of the quality of our naturally liberated state. Every thought, every feeling, every sensation or action is enlightenment; but we do not realise it. When you sip a glass of Brunelo; savour a piece of dolcelate; wash the dishes; vacuum the carpet; take a shower; call on a friend; flirt with a new and tantalising person; cook food; make love; go shopping for a suede shirt or silk underwear; or, hit your thumb with a hammer -- enlightenment is there. We are never separated from it. There is no need to look for enlightenment in any other place than where we are.

It is there, unrecognised, in every moment. So, why do we constrict our energies? What prevents us from recognising our enlightenment if it is beginningless and ever-present? How do we discover the stillness of balance, and the vibrant creativity of openness within the same emotional state? In order to find the answers to these questions, we need to gain a deeper understanding of what we are and how we function.

When we suppress our emotions, clearly a quality of balance is being sought. When we risk abandonment to the heights and depths of our feelings, a quality of openness is clearly present.

This is definitely not a matter for intellectual speculation. Thinking does not help at all, in coming to a real understanding of emotions. The intellect is of little or no value in discovering what we are beyond the texture of what we feel. In order to understand what we are, in order to realise our unconditioned nature, we need to become simpler in our approach. We need to discover space.

Space is the quality of experience in which there is no clinging to the content of Mind through the process of attempting to establish reference points: "this and that" are "there", therefore "I" am "here", in distinction to "this and that". Space is the dimension of our existence in which there is no attempt to artificially divide "self" and "other". There is also no loss of presence into an experience of "everything is one".

As soon as the idea of space is discussed, paradox arises. This is unavoidable. However, there is no need to be too perplexed by extraordinary definitions. At this point it would be better to envisage space as "lack of pressure" or "absence of neurotic speed". All that is needed is the sense in which space is a quality that we have quite naturally. It could be equated with a feeling of being completely relaxed in all aspects of our being; yet very awake and alive -- a sense of having all the time and room we need to do or be anything in any moment, without fear or confusion. You could say that space was simply feeling natural and happy in your own skin.

We need to allow space for our experience to be precisely what it is. This may seem mystifying, unless we take the time to question the nature of our experience. But how can we do that, and what would we find if we try to examine our own experience? Maybe this would be a good point to experiment with experience.

exercise

just sit where you are / feel what it is like to be you / try not to put words to what you feel / just sit with what you feel, and see what happens / see if you can find what is there beyond the desire to attach words and ideas to what the feeling is like / see if you can see, hear, smell, taste or touch what you are / try everything you can in an attempt to sense yourself, apart from thinking about it

If you have tried to examine the nature of your experience in this way, you may have discovered something quite peculiar. You may have discovered that it is impossible to examine the nature of your experience, without the process of intellectual examination also becoming part of your experience. If we look for the nature of experience with the rational mind, we will never find it -- we will only ever dwell within the limitations of the rational mind. The living quality of experience exists only in the present moment. As soon as we analyse it, we become involved in historical research. We may as well have crept off to some chilly archive to examine pictures of sunny days -- when all around us, there was a real sunny day to experience. Maybe there are gin and tonics available on the lawn and delightful parasols beneath which to sit. Maybe there is potted crab, or salmon and cucumber sandwiches with chilled Chablis. Or maybe there is champagne and orange juice. These things are not available in terms of archival research on emotions. That belongs to the tortuous technology of duality.

When we operate in this way, we artificially separate experience into two fields: "perception" and "field of perception". The term "perception" applies to the act of perceiving -- the way in which we register the presence of the world through our sense faculties. The term "field of perception" applies to the world that we perceive. Attempting to establish that our perception and the field of perception are independent creates monstrous confusion. With this divisive logic we distance ourselves analytically from direct experience. Perception and field of perception are inseparable, and when we attempt to separate experience into distinct fields, we lose our "knowing" and end up "knowing about".

Ultimately there is no division between our perception and what we perceive. Our perception and field of perception are mutually self-creating. What we see incites a reaction which influences how we see it. How we view things changes how they are. Enlightened Mind is divisionless. Our perception and field of perception are completely and utterly interconnected, and this fundamental indivisibility is the real nature of experience. So this is the answer to our question: all we find when we attempt to examine the nature of our experience is our dualistically confused commentary on it.

"Mind-state" refers to the little-"m" mind (Tib.sem). This is the condition of the conceptual mind, as distinct from the nature of Mind - the large-"M" Mind (Tib. sem-nyid). The nature of Mind is that from which mind-states arise.

The "free condition" is that in which patterns are either absent; or, present in a state of unconstrained flux. This is another way of describing the non-dual state, in which form is recognised as emptiness. The free condition is that in which there is no clinging to any kind of reference point; not even the reference point of emptiness.

NGAKPA CHOGYAM with KHANDRO DECHEN / Spectrum of Ecstasy / Shambhala Publications

This just happened. by Nikki

The girls prepared a PowerPoint presentation titled "Why you should let us adopt a puppy". They have been working & researching for HOURS in their makeshift (& unconditioned) closet/office, keeping it as secret as they could. They borrowed 11 books from the library, they crafted a piggy bank from an ice cream carton to hold funds, they watched videos, they found information from local shelters, & they made lists & charts. They have been asking for a dog since they were little. Always the Mr. said "no". (And mommy, too, who would prefer a cat.) But after all their hard work on this presentation they were thrilled to hear these words from their daddy: "Maybe." #wewantadog #maybe #powerpoint #powerpointpresentation #mayihaveapetplease #smartkids

Unrefined Me by Lisa aka Anders James

How does your everyday rebellious, freedom fighter, palladin of tranny´s look like?

As you can see he looks somewhat of a crossbreed between an Indian Guru, a part time transvestite and some sort of south american guerilla soldier, ”peiced together as one.” - In fact it is not quite impossible to find this sort of character, facing conflicts wearing tight skirts and matching heels as uniform, firing words of wisdom at will, using sarcasme in ”hit and run” tactics.

By the way, this is my natural unconditioned hair... Why do black women straighten their hair you may ask..!? Beats me....

Newborn Baby Reflexes Study Methods by Olga Parker

The nervous system of a newborn is immature and exhaustion is increased, so his protective inhibition is highly pronounced: he sleeps for a large part of the day. To assess the state of baby’s nervous system, his unconditioned reflexes are studied first of all. Many reflexes of the newborns and babies at the age of 3 months old are called primitive because of the immature nervous system. We offer some study methods of inherent baby reflexes in today’s article: developachild.net/newborn-baby-reflexes-study-methods/

The Rescorla-Wagner Model - Psychology. by i.am.a.procrastinator.

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The Rescorla-Wagner Model: "Learning is determined by the discreptancy between the experience of the US (unconditioned stimulus) and how much was expected (i.e. prediction error)."

In laymen's terms: "The less you know, the more you have to learn; the more you know, the less you have to learn".

Despite how easy this concept may sound, it was a hard one for me to grasp (esp. the graphs) - but I understood it in time for my exam.

Home - Sydney, NSW.

Australia.

10.5 Bokar Rinpoche by Riaz Padamsee

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experience.. the unconditioned stability and harmony of mind, the source of well being and wisdom.

summer is different this year by naeledra_anomis

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an entire discussion about frames. some like it, some don;t...aesthetic reasons mainly, then the pleasure of sheer view, unconditioned and natural display.

i like them some times. that;s why i use them

they help me to emphasize something that yet i am not able to catch in photos. i will learn in time how to look old without them, how to capture reality without freezing it.

this picture and this one is inspired by one of my contacts which is an amazing poet

by Miha Skerlep

When we draw down the power and depth of vastness into a single perception, then we are discovering and invoking magic. By magic, we do not mean unnatural power over the phenomenal world but rather the discovery of innate or primordial wisdom in the world as it is. The wisdom we are discovering is wisdom without beginning, something naturally wise, the wisdom of the cosmic mirror. In Tibetan, this magical quality of existence, or natural wisdom, is called drala. Dra means "enemy" or "opponent," and la means "above." So drala literally means "above the enemy." Drala is the unconditioned wisdom and power of the world that are beyond any dualism; therefore, drala is above any enemy or conflict. It is wisdom beyond aggression. It is the self-existing wisdom and power of the cosmic mirror that are reflected both in us and in our world of perception.

One of the key points in discovering drala principle is realizing that your own wisdom as a human being is not separate from the power of things as they are. They are both reflections of the unconditioned wisdom of the cosmic mirror. Therefore, there is no fundamental separation or duality between you and your world. When you can experience those two things together, as one, so to speak, then you have access to tremendous vision and power in the world---you find that they are inherently connected to your own vision, your own being. That is discovering magic. We are not talking here about an intellectual revelation; we are speaking of actual experience. We are talking about how to actually perceive reality. The discovery of drala may come as an extraordinary smell, a fantastic sound, a vivid color, an unusual taste. Any perception can connect us to reality properly and fully. What we see doesn't have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists. There is some priciple of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything.

When we see things as they are, they make sense to us: the way leaves move when they are blown by the wind, the way rocks get wet when there are snowflakes sitting on them. We see how things display their harmony and their chaos at the same time. So we are never limited by beauty alone, but we appreciate all sides of reality properly.

Many stories and poems written for children describe the experience of invoking the magic of a simple perception. One example is "Waiting at the Window" from Now We Are Six, by A. A. Milne. It is a poem about spending several hours on a rainy day looking out the window, watching drops of water come down and make patterns on the glass. Reading this poem, you see the window, the rainy day, and the child with his face pressed to the glass watching the raindrops, and you feel the child's sense of delight and wonder. The poems of Robert Louis Stevenson in A Child's Garden of Verses have a similar quality of using very ordinary experiences to communicate the depth of perception. The poems "My Shadow," "My Kingdom," and "Armies in the Fire" exemplify this. The fundamental vastness of the world cannot be expressed directly in words, but in children's literature, very often it is possible to express that vastness in simplicity.

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery is another wonderful example of literature that evokes the sense of ordinary, or elemental, magic. At one point in this story, the little prince meets a fox. The prince is very lonely and wants the fox to play with him, but the fox says that he cannot play unless he is tamed. The little prince asks the meaning of the word tame. The fox explains that it means "to establish ties" in such a way that the fox will become unique to the little prince and prince unique to the fox. Later, after the fox has been tamed and the little prince must leave him, the fox also tells the prince what he calls "my secret, a very simple secret," which is, "it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."

Saint Exupery has a different vocabulary here for describing the discovery of magic, or drala, but the experience is basically the same. Discovering drala is indeed to establish ties to your world, so that each perception becomes unique. It is to see with the heart, so that what is invisible to the eye becomes visible as the living magic of reality. There may be thousands or billions of perceptions, but they are still one. If you see one candle, you know exactly what all the candles in the whole world look like. They are all made out of fire, flame. Seeing one drop of water can be seeing all water.

Drala could almost be called an entity. It is not quite on the level of a god or gods, but it is an individual strength that does exist. Therefore, we not only speak of drala principle, but we speak of meeting the "dralas." The dralas are the elements of reality---water of water, fire of fire, earth of earth---anything that connects you with the elemental quality of reality, anything that reminds you of the depth of perception. There are dralas in the rocks or the trees or the mountains or a snowflake or a clod of dirt. Whatever is there, whatever you come across in your life, those are the dralas of reality. When you make that connection with the elemental quality of the world, you are meeting dralas on the spot; at that point, you are meeting them. That is the basic existence of which all human beings are capable. We always have possibilities of discovering magic. Whether it is medieval times or the twentieth century, the possibility of magic is always there.

A particular example of meeting drala, in my personal experience, is flower arranging. Whatever branches you find, none of them is rejected as ugly. They can always be included. You have to see their place in the situation; that is the key point. So you never reject anything. That is how to make a connection with the dralas of reality.

Drala energy is like the sun. If you look in the sky, the sun is there. By looking at it, you don't produce a new sun. You may feel that you created or made today's sun by looking at it, but the sun is eternally there. When you discover the sun in the sky, you begin to communicate with it. Your eyes begin to relate with the light of the sun. In the same way, drala principle is always there. Whether you care to communicate with it or not, the magical strength and wisdom of reality are always there. That wisdom abides in the cosmic mirror. By relaxing the mind, you can reconnect with that primordial, original ground, which is completely pure and simple. Out of that, through the medium of your perceptions, you can discover magic, or drala. You actually can connect your own intrinsic wisdom with a sense of greater wisdom or vision beyond you.

You might think that something extraordinary will happen to you when you discover magic. Something extra-ordinary does happen. You simply find yourself in the realm of utter reality, complete and thorough reality.

CHOGYAM TRUNGPA / Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior / Shambhala Publications

Memory by Daniele

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Every now and then, it is good to remember.

Dedicated to my grandpa Guerrino, who didn't travel to the US but fought the war here and in Africa, and to my granny Pina, who dedicated her life to please us all. Both in life and death, they would have deserved a hell of a lot more. All the good things that I will ever accomplish in my life are the offspring of their unconditioned love.

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I took the picture last year at Ellis Island National Monument, in NYC. Since it is a jpg I couldn't tone map it, so I resorted to the good old gimp. It consists of two layers: a bottom one with a very dark and contrasting b&w conversion (achieved via channel mixer) and a top layer with the color image set to dodge. Then I masked part of the top layer to let the b&w below emerge and added the black frame. Finally, I burned here and there the b&w layer to (try to) give it more depth and roughness.

The noise is wanted :-)

View On Black

High-dimensional creatures advice by 〇cindy May

2012-04-17师父开示

Messages from Osifu

　　　　　　 The only way to save the planet　

April 17th, 2012

Master always feels there are so much in mind to say, sitting before the computer, but would like to say nothing, because too much have been said before.

There is a sound in mind,” Another day has gone away, and another day has been cut from the effective time dedicated to humankind.

Master is doing his best, and Master has already made his utmost efforts. However, it is too hard to awaken living beings. Guiding living beings to invert mind to kindness and invert mind to inner self true nature is much too difficult.

The consequence would be unimaginably disastrous if we still don’t invert our minds.

Let us look at the comprehensive diagnosis and assessment of the Earth given by Universe.

1. Energy and resource problem demands to be adjusted at once.

2. Energy field problem demands to be adjusted at once.

3. Geomagnetic field problem demands immediate adjustment.

4. Ecological environmental protection problem demands immediate adjustment.

5. Over-population problem demands immediate adjustment.

6. Rescuing and releasing problem need to be adjusted and solved at once.

7. Connection problem among Heaven, Earth and Human needs to be adjusted and solved at once.

8. Earth balance problem needs to be adjusted and solved at once.

9. Violation against laws problem needs to be adjusted and solved at once.

10. Social operation problem needs to be adjusted and solved at and once.

The ten problems above are the foremost serious demanded to be adjusted and solved. If those issues could not be treated properly and quickly, the results must be too dreadful to contemplate.

Many stars and planets in the universe have been destroyed because of energy and resource problem.

Many stars and planets in the universe have been destroyed because of energy field problem.

Many stars and planets in the universe have been destroyed because of geomagnetic field problem.

Many stars and planets in the universe have been destroyed because of ecological environmental protection problem.

Many stars and planets in the universe have been destroyed because of over-population problem.

Many stars and planets in the universe have been destroyed because of rescuing and releasing problem.

Many stars and planets in the universe have been destroyed because of connection problem among Heaven, Earth and Human.

Many stars and planets in the universe have been destroyed because of earth balance problem.

Many stars and planets in the universe have been destroyed because of violation against laws problem.

Many stars and planets in the universe have been destroyed because of social operation problem.

These precedents in the cosmic operation are not rare at all. Too much miserable lessons there were, and too much precedential warnings.

We should actively face, calmly handle, ingeniously adjust and wisely solve them.

We cannot sink deeper and deeper.

We cannot burn our boats.

We cannot drain the pond to catch fish.

We cannot stop thirstiness by drinking poisons.

We cannot allay hunger by cutting flesh.

We cannot be shortsighted and improvident.

We cannot be too eager for quick success and instant benefits.

We cannot violate science.

We cannot go against rules.

We cannot perform against the Way.

We cannot self-destruct homeland.

We cannot self-destroy fertile lands.

We cannot self-destroy pure waters.

We cannot self-destroy green mountains.

We cannot self-destroy blue skies.

We cannot self-destroy white clouds.

We cannot self-ruin natural ecology.

We cannot self-ruin health.

We cannot self-destroy Earth.

We should awaken:

“Love Earth, Love Nature, Love beings, Love human, Love societies, Love nation, Love self, Love everything.”

Yes, Love everything. Love exactly needs never destroying.

Yes, Love everything. Love definitely demands utmost care.

Yes, Love everything. Love definitely demands performing according to the Way.

Yes, Love everything. Love definitely demands scientific development.

Yes, Love everything. Love definitely demands sustainable development.

Yes, Love everything. Love definitely demands balanced development.

Yes, Love everything. Love means helping them to purify.

Yes, Love everything. Love means helping them to promote.

Yes, Love everything. Love means helping them to accomplish.

Yes, Love everything. Love means helping them to return to cosmic original home.

We need to understand true love.

We need to know what true love is.

Love is dedication, non-ego dedication.

Love is illumination, pure illumination.

Love is rule, unconditioned rule.

Because we, living beings and Buddhas are ALL ONE, it doesn’t need any reason for our love.

Since living beings are ONE, we shall not continue to fight against each other and engage in internal strife.

All things including sun, moon, stars, mountains, each flower　and each leaf, stone and sand are one WHOLE with us.

Both Universe and we are original ONE.

Both Nature and we are original ONE.

I am the Universe, and the Universe is me.

Let all delusions, discriminations and attachments go off your mind and harmoniously integrate with the Universe, just like a drop of water entering into oceans.

Intermingle with Universe in such ways, non-self, unconditioned, no desires, no seeking, pure and serene, equal and enlightened.

It is high time to restore origin after experiencing all things supposed to be experienced.

It is high time to return original homeland after going through all things supposed to be gone through.

It is high time to change mind and embark on return journey after undergoing all things supposed to be suffered.

Await your good news!

Bless you all every moment!

当师父坐到电脑前，想对大家说些什么的时候，总觉得有千言万语想说，而又不想多说。因为过去已经说得太多。

心里一直有一个声音，“又过去了一天，为人类奉献的有效时间又少了一天。”

师父在尽心尽力，师父已经尽心尽力了。

唤醒众生太难太难。

引导众生“回心向善，回心向佛”太难太难。

我们再不回头，后果不堪设想。

我们来看看宇宙对地球的综合诊断及评估：

1、能源问题亟待调整解决。

2、能量场问题亟待调整解决。

3、地磁场问题亟待调整解决。

4、生态环保问题亟待调整解决

5、人口超限问题亟待调整解决。

6、救拔超度问题亟待调整解决。

7、天地人联通问题亟待调整解决。

8、地球平衡问题亟待调整解决。

9、违背规律问题亟待调整解决。

10、社会运行问题亟待调整解决。

以上十大问题是地球目前最突出的问题。亟需调整解决，若不能尽快很好的调整解决，后果不堪设想。

宇宙中很多星球毁灭于能源问题

宇宙中很多星球毁灭于能量场问题。

宇宙中很多星球毁灭于地磁场问题。

宇宙中很多星球毁灭于生态环保问题。

宇宙中很多星球毁灭于人口超限问题。

宇宙中很多星球毁灭于救拔超度问题。

宇宙中很多星球毁灭于天地人联通问题。

宇宙中很多星球毁灭于星球平衡问题。

宇宙中很多星球毁灭于违背规律问题。

宇宙中很多星球毁灭于社会运行问题。

这些先例在宇宙运行中并不鲜见，惨痛的教训、前车之鉴太多了。

这些无法回避的问题现在摆在了地球人类的面前。

我们应该积极地面对、冷静地应对、巧妙地调整、智慧地解决。

我们不能越陷越深。

我们不能不留后路。

我们不能涸泽而渔。

我们不能焚林而猎。

我们不能饮鸩止渴。

我们不能割肉充饥。

我们不能目光短浅。

我们不能急功近利。

我们不能违背科学。

我们不能逆反规律。

我们不能逆道而行。

我们不能自毁家园。

我们不能自毁良田。

我们不能自毁绿水。

我们不能自毁青山。

我们不能自毁蓝天。

我们不能自毁白云。

我们不能自毁生态。

我们不能自毁健康。

我们不能自毁地球。

我们应当觉醒：

“爱地球、爱自然、爱亿灵、爱人类、爱社会、爱家国、爱自己、爱一切。”

是的，爱一切。爱就不要破坏。

是的，爱一切。爱就要精心呵护。

是的，爱一切。爱就要顺道而行。

是的，爱一切。爱就要科学发展。

是的，爱一切。爱就要可持续发展。

是的，爱一切。爱就要和谐发展。

是的，爱一切。爱就要平衡发展。

是的，爱一切。爱就要助其净化。

是的，爱一切。爱就要助其升华。

是的，爱一切。爱就要助其圆满。

是的，爱一切。爱就要助其回归。

我们要懂得真爱。

我们要知道什么是真正的爱。

爱是奉献，无我的奉献。

爱是光明，纯净的光明。

爱是规律，无为的规律。

因为我们、亿灵、诸佛如来本来一体。

所以我们的爱不需要理由。

即是亿灵同体，那就不要再手足相残、同室操戈。

一切日月星辰、山河大地、一花一叶、一石一沙和我们本来也是同体。

我们和宇宙本来同体。

我们和自然本来同体。

我即宇宙，宇宙即我。

放下一切妄想分别执著，和宇宙相融。犹如滴水融入大海。

和宇宙相融，无我、无为、无欲、无求、清净、平等、正觉。

该体验的都已经体验了，是时候该返本还原了。

该经历的都已经经历了，是时候该回归家园了。

该磨难的都已经磨难了，是时候该回心转身了。

等待你们的好消息。

时刻祝福你们！

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Unconditioned Love by Silvia Pitzalis

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Happy mother's Day :) by Shounak Ray

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Mother

A bliss of solitude in this tough world,

An oasis of love in the desert of calculated fondness

A wall of protection against all the hardness and obstacles in our path..

If unconditioned love exists , it is the love bestowed by a mother on her child...

Love u mom and wishing a Happy Mothers day to all the moms in the world ... :)

Picture of my mom taken at VUDA Park , Vizag

20071008moelfamausummit03.jpg by Adam Walton

A new version of a previous shot in my photostream with the blue cast removed [thank you for the suggestion, Simon!]

Since my daughter returned to school and my evening show finished, I haven't had the opportunity to go out and take any pictures. It would appear that my new role in life is as full-time househusband, which is fine [I'm really enjoying the extra time with my daughter. No, really.] but I am missing photography and all that getting a good picture entails: the preparation, the choosing of a destination, the long walk and reaching the destination only to realise that you've left the bloody battery at home.

This evening, at my wit's end after a day staring at a computer screen having achieved nothing more than a new high score on Chuckie Egg, I decided to take advantage of the glorious, early evening light to go out and get some shots!

I was so excited. I decided that I would try the Clwydian Range again because it's relatively close and in this light there would be some spectacular views. My camera eye was salivating.

Of course, by the time I reached the car park at the base[ish] of Moel Famau the sky had gone back to that uniform shade of blotchy grey that it's been specialising in all summer, and all of that lovely, golden light had been soaked up.

Drat!

It didn't stop me from hauling my fat ass up the side of the hill. It's more a baby mountain than a hill. 554m and the highest peak in the Clwydian Range. It felt at least 10 x that to my unconditioned body. That tripod that felt so light and portable in the blinking camera shop now felt like it was made out of collapsed stars.

Got to the top, though. Woo hoo!

Here's the photographic proof.

Visitors from foreign climes will criticise the dull colours and the uninteresting sky.

Welcome to North Wales.

dense pack insulation by The EnergySmart Academy

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2011-10-25 师父开示 Messages from Osifu：Be a Real Practitioner October 25th, 2011 by cosmic obert

2011-10-25 师父开示

Messages from Osifu：Be a Real Practitioner

October 25th, 2011

近阶段是三日开示一次，将来的某个时空点还会调整至七日开示一次。师父的开示法会会越来越少。

Recently Osifu gives teachings every three other days, and it will be adjusted to every seven other days at some spatiotemporal stage in the future. Osifu’s Teachings Assemblies are getting less and less.

从2008年建网络道场开始讲法以来，已经讲的太多了。

Osifu has been talking too much since the establishment of online ashram in 2008.

师父一直有记笔记的习惯，今年特别繁忙，节奏太快了。以至于都无暇记笔记，昨日略有闲暇准备补一补笔记，一看笔记本已经用完了。

Osifu always has a habit of taking notes. But he is so busy this year and everything is moving so fast that even no time can be used to take notes. Yesterday Osifu had some spare time and decided to make up the diary, but seeing that the notebook had no space for notes at all.

昨天下午买了一个笔记本，从2011年9月1日补起，然后一页两天提前排版好。

Osifu bought a new notebook at yesterday afternoon and typeset in advance by every two days in one page since the date of Sep. 1st, 2011.

师父从9月1日一口气排列下去，写完最后一页，不多不少，排列到2012年12月31号笔记本正好用完。

Starting from the date of Sep. 1st Osifu finished the notebook typesetting in one breath till it arrived at the last page, and it was coincidently used up by the date of Dec. 31st, 2012.

这个笔记本将刚刚好记录到2012年12月31号，真是巧合，呵呵。

无处不巧合呀！

The notebook will take records just right till Dec.31 2011. What a coincidence! There can be a coincidence anywhere!

但大家不要过于担忧恐惧2012会发生什么灾劫或者是世界末日，恐惧是负能量负信息负密码，尔等不要恐惧，不要怖畏，真修行人会遇难呈祥、逢凶化吉的。

But we should not be too much fear if any disasters will happen in 2012 or it may be the end of the world. Fear or worries are the negative energy, negative information and negative secret code. All of you don’t need to worry about the disasters and a real practitioner will always be free from misfortunes and always turns bad luck into good!

是的！真修行人会遇难呈祥、逢凶化吉的。

Yes, a real practitioner will always be free from misfortunes and always turns bad luck into good!

弟子们！

My disciples!

要做一个真修行人。

Be a real practitioner!

弟子们！

My disciples!

要做一个真正的修心修行修炼人！

Be a real practitioner of mind discipline, cultivation and practice!

当然，很多自我标榜为学佛人的并不是真正的修心修行修炼人！

Surely, there are many people who label themselves as the Buddhism practitioners are not real practitioners.

当然，很多自我标榜为修道人的并不是真正的修心修行修炼人！

Surely, there are many people who flaunt themselves as the Taoism practitioners are not real practitioners.

当然，很多高人、法师、活佛并不是真正的修心修行修炼人！

Surely, there are many experts, masters and Living Buddhas are not real practitioners.

当然，很多大学者、大居士、大法王并不是真正的修心修行修炼人！

Surely, there are many great scholars and great kulapats s as well as great Dharma Kings are not real practitioners.

那么谁才是真正的修心修行修炼人呢？