Does our concept of time and space actually make sense? Do we actually know what the end and beginning look like or even are? Where did humans come from, and why are we on this planet?
ETs and humanoid robots
We wish we could have all the answers to all the universes, as if somehow unlocking the "how" would change our "why."
As we understand more, humans can control our purpose on earth [along with all of the ET races also co-inhabiting this planet]. New research from the Hubble Space Telescope has found something strange is happening in the universe.
"Don't panic" (HHGTTG)
NASA is working on figuring out what exactly is happening and why. However, this could not only challenge our previous assumptions and understanding of the universe, but it could also introduce a "brand new physics." Keep reading to learn what it means.
[The "new physics" is already known and studied on military bases and on black budget project sites like Groom Lake, but all of that is top secret and higher, with there being many levels above top secret like majestic.
Success in the ordinary sphere of physics in a university or place like Alamo or Bell Labs leads to a visit and offer of greater opportunity working secretly for the government and/or its alphabet agencies, such as DARPA, the CIA, NSA, NSC, Montauk Labs, and the US military and their D.U.M.B.s] More
On Right View Maurice O'Connell Walshe (KaccayanagottoSutta, SN 12.15, PTS: S ii 16, CDB i 544)
[Ven. Kaccayana (Ka-cha-yana) is one of the Ten Chief (male) Disciples of the Buddha, deemed "foremost in explaining the Dharma." In the prosperous Indian city of Savatthi, he asked the Buddha:]
"'Right view [1], right view,' it is said, Venerable Sir. In what way is there right view?'"
"The world in general, Kacchayana, inclines to two views, to existence [2] or to non-existence [3]. But for one who, with the highest wisdom, sees the arising of the world as it really is [4] 'non-existence of the world' does not apply. And for one who, with highest wisdom, sees the passing away of the world as it really is, 'existence of the world' does not apply.
"The world in general, Kacchayana, grasps after systems and is imprisoned by dogmas [5]. But one [6] does not go along with that system-grasping, that mental obstinacy and dogmatic bias, does not grasp at it, does not affirm: 'This is my self' [7].
"One knows without doubt or hesitation that whatever arises is merely dukkha ["unsatisfactory," 8], that what passes away is merely dukkha and such knowledge is one's own, not depending on anyone else. This, Kacchayana, is what constitutes right view.
"'Everything exists' [9], this is one extreme [view]. 'Nothing exists,' this is the other extreme. Avoiding both extremes the Tathagata [10] teaches a doctrine of the middle: Conditioned by ignorance are the formations...[as in SN 12.10].
"So there comes about the arising of this entire mass of suffering. But from the complete fading away and cessation of ignorance there comes the cessation of the formations, from the cessation of the formations comes the cessation of consciousness... So there comes about the complete cessation of this entire mass of suffering."
Sarah Swofford reading select passages of the Buddha's profound wisdom
NOTES
Right view: (sammaditthi): the first step of the Noble Eightfold Path, lit. "right seeing." It is also rendered "right understanding," but the connotations of this are too exclusively intellectual. The rendering "right views" (plural) is to be rejected, since it is not a matter of holding "views" (opinions) but of "seeing things as they really are."
Atthita: "is-ness." The theory of "Eternalism" (sassatavada).
Natthita: "is-not-ness." The theory of "Annihilationism" (ucchedavada). All forms of materialism come under this heading. See the discussion in BhikkhuBodhi's translation of DN 1, The All-Embracing Net of Views (BPS 1978), pp. 30-33.
Yathabhutam: See Note 1.
As we might say today, "ideologies" or "-isms."
I take this to mean the person who sees "with the highest wisdom" mentioned above. Mrs. Rhys Davids [in her translation] seems to have gone slightly astray here.
[Atta me ti:] See SN 3.8, n. 1. Feer's edition of the Sutta Nipata reads here atta na me ti "this is not myself," which would also make sense but is contradicted, not only in SA [the Commentary to SN], but also when the story is repeated at SN 22.90.
The usual translation "suffering," always a makeshift rendering, is inappropriate here. Dukkha in Buddhist usage refers to the inherent unsatisfactoriness and general insecurity of all conditioned existence.
Sabbamatthi: From the Sanskrit form of this expression, sarvamasti (though used in a slightly different sense) the Sarvastivadin school got its name. They held that dharmas [phenomena] existed in "three times" -- past, present, and future. It was mainly to this early school that the label "Hinayana" ("Lesser Career or Vehicle") was applied and later illegitimately transferred to the Theravada school. (See SN 12.22, n. 1).
Tathagata (the Buddha's usual way of referring to himself): Literally, probably either "Thus come" (tatha-agata) or "Thus gone beyond)" (tatha-gata). For other meanings, see BhikkhuBodhi'sThe All-Embracing Net of Views (BPS 1978), pp. 50-53, 331-344.
Photo tour, now in Nepal, in Mexico City on 10/21/08 (Xinhua/en.tibetculture.net).
China's Official State Media, August 5, 2009
KATHMANDU, Nepal- There is a popular saying, "A picture is worth a thousand words." So it is not hard to get a one-sided view of the "development" of the Tibetan Autonomous Region from a pro-China perspective -- so long as China controls the exhibition. Therefore, a 217 photo exhibit has been launched [in a likely propaganda campaign Nepal is obliged to allow to tour through] showing Tibet's antique past and modern Chinese present.
Visitors of the exhibition entitled "Tibet of China: Past and Present" spoke of their experience after viewing the exhibit in Nepal's capital Kathmandu on Wednesday. "An exhibition of lively pictures has unveiled the bitter truth of past as well as glimpse of prosperous present of Tibet," Nepalese Minister for Information and Communications Shankar Pokharel is reported to have said after viewing the array of carefully selected images.
Adding that relations between Nepal and China, culturally and socially, has roots extending back to ancient times, Pokharel said that phases of development and modernization of Tibet could be a new strategy of development in Nepal. More>>
WASHINGTON – A federal judge said Thursday that he wants to look at notes from the FBI's interview with former VP Dick Cheney during the investi-gation into who leaked the identity of a CIA operative. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan's decision to review the documents followed arguments by Obama administration lawyers that sounded much like the reasons the Bush administration provided for keeping Cheney's interview secret. More>>
WASHINGTON – Authorities say they found child pornography on a computer belonging to a white supremacist charged with shooting and killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. In a document filed Wednesday, FBI officials say they found the material on a computer seized last week from the Annapolis, Md., apartment where 88-year-old James von Brunn lived. More>>
PHOTOS: 1. Former VP Dick Cheney speaks about national security at the right wing American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. on 5/21/09 (Reuters/Joshua Roberts) MORE. 2. undated photo of murder suspect James von Brunn, who opened fire inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial and Museum in D.C. on June 10, killing a guard (AP/Talbot County Sheriff Office).
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