Saving Net Neutrality (video)

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Pasadena radicals march on Verizon to protest the corrupt government crook FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who is attempting to destroy Net neutrality for his former and future employer, Verizon, Inc. If he succeeds, we'll be harmed, whereas Pai will be monetarily rewarded. No to corporate greed! Yes to Net neutrality!

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Matter that moves faster than light found!

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Photons (light) are far from ultimate materiality. But how about neutrinos or quanta? There exist subatomic particles Buddhism refers to as kalapas. Name-and-form (nama-rupa) are intimately related, with the more subtle mind ("name") taking precedence.

In Buddhist physics -- gone into great detail in the Abhidharma ("Higher-Teaching"), one of the three divisions of the Buddha's teachings (Dharma), "ultimate particles" are referred to as kalapas.

Those able to see them (as a function of absorption- and insight-meditation called jhana- and vipassana-bhavana) consistently refrain from calling them "atoms."

It's not that Einstein was wrong; it's that we are not told about everything he found. Tesla and he fashioned a unified field theory just before he passed away. The government got those notes and equations. The true story is novelized by Sean David Morton in Sands of Time.

Our modern subatomic theory is wrong. And the next theory (string, quantum, torsion, etc.) is likely to be wrong as well. Why?

Public science does not yield ultimate truth. What happens behind the closed doors of the military-industrial complex is another story altogether. As far as what the public is told or college students taught, it is always a game of catch up with allegiance to Einstein at all costs.

How in the world could a meditator ever know and see subatomic particles? The answer is simple. Mind (cittas) arises faster than materiality (kalapas).

Both are incredibly fast, but by watching ultimate-matter (rupa-kalapas) with "higher mind" (adhicitta), which is purified by right-concentration (samma-samadhi, defined by the Buddha as mastery of the first four absorptions), it becomes possible to record these particles-of-perception and subsequently review them. How? Just as one might record an event with a high speed camera and then review it at normal speed.

Whether or not anyone considers this a satisfying explanation, it is not a meditation "theory." It happens. Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal is well aware of people who can do it. Some even say it is necessary to do to systematically attain enlightenment in this very life. Why? The mind/heart stops clinging when it knows-and-sees that everything (mentally and materially) is radically impermanent, arising and passing away almost instantaneously.

• It is not wise to debate it when it is possible to practice it and see for oneself. Seeing is believing, whereas our thinking is deceiving. Einstein did not think, as we popularly imagine. Few mathematicians or artists do. (Eckhart Tolle, a joyful unitarian with Buddhist leanings) explains this as "presence," or thought-free awareness and inspiration, being in the now after one has struggled by rational means.

Einstein saw/intuited the big picture in an instant and developed the math to make sense of it: "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift" - Albert Einstein.

Subatomic neutrino tracks: detecting travel faster than light (Dan Mccoy/Corbis)

Neutrinos Travel Faster Than Light
Adrian Cho (News.sciencemag.org, Sept. 22, 2011)

Fat lady singing? The OPERA particle detector may have spotted neutrinos traveling faster than light, which would bring down the curtain on special relativity as an exact theory. If it's true, it will mark the biggest discovery in physics in the past half-century: Elusive, nearly massless, subatomic particles called neutrinos appear to travel just faster than light, a team of physicists in Europe reports. If so, the observation would wreck Einstein's theory of special relativity, which demands that nothing can travel faster than light. In fact, the result would be so revolutionary that it's sure to be met with skepticism all over the world. "I suspect that the bulk of the scientific community will not take this as a definitive result unless it can be reproduced by at least one and preferably several experiments," says V. Alan Kostelecky, a theorist at Indiana University, Bloomington. He adds, however, "I'd be delighted if it were true." More

• Faster-than-light particles found, scientists claim: Particle physicists detect neutrinos traveling faster than light, a feat forbidden by Einstein's theory of special relativity. It is a concept that forms a cornerstone of our understanding of the universe and the concept of time -- nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. But now it seems that researchers working in one of the world's largest physics laboratories, under a mountain in central Italy, have recorded particles traveling at a speed that is supposedly forbidden by Einstein's theory of special relativity.

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Unified Field Theory SOLVED (equation)

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And the answer is... First of all, there is a Buddhist physics? Yes, Buddhism teaches practical physics necessary for releasing the mind/heart from clinging to illusion and suffering.

And the answer is... Wait. Does an answer make sense without posing the original question? In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, we learned that THE ANSWER to "life, the universe, and everything" was "42." With that information in hand, we should have been happy. But we were not, because what exactly was the question?

"How many roads must a Man travel?" "At what age does enlightenment dawn?" ... "What is 6 times 7?"

Bodhi Dharma (above) found "zen" (jhana) after emptying his mind, just as Einstein noted that a solution cannot be found at the level of the problem. Hard at fun or fun at work, Einstein did not give up on solving the UFT equation. "Hard work" is no way to find something this elusive (The Masters of Enlightenment: Albert Einstein/Lowdensitylifestyle.com).

Similarly, amateur physicists hanker for a working equation, but most of us have forgotten the question. In the Hitchhiker's Guide, The Question was not well formed. As such, it was not properly posed to the semi-sentient supercomputer who calculated for generations to produce The Answer.

Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, and the founder of Raytheon worked very hard before Einstein died in search of the answer.

Apparently, they found it. But Einstein died just after he formulated the equation, according to the controversial author Sean David Morton. He is not speculating but reporting. His sources, unfortunately, remain secret -- at their own request. And out of deference to their wishes Morton has novelized the story of how the answer was found, where it has been all this time, and what has been done with it by the military and parts of the government we know very little about.

Rest assured, something has been done with it. It is not a breakthrough to the secretive powers that be. And the fact that mainstream scientists are allowed to report that some particles, perhaps the most numerous in the universe (shy neutrinos that rarely interact), move faster than light goes to show secret science has moved so far ahead that it does not matter if we are now openly told special relativity is far from the whole story. Oh yeah, the answer is:

S = -MgC*dsb

This is a working equation (solution) for Einstein's Unified Field Theory. It should make about as much sense as E=MC2 or 42. Fortunately, it is explained in Sean David Morton's new book Sands of Time. We believe. And there are many reasons people should look to intuitive-futurists for mind-bending solutions that elude great mathematical geniuses. As the Buddha learned under the Bodhi Tree (and possibly Newton, Adam, and Eve under an apple tree), the answer does not come from muscling, pushing, straining, or "efforting." Instead, it comes from letting go.

• [Of course, this right brain letting go makes more sense and seems more effective if it is done after putting forward extreme effort by using the left brain, as Watson and Crick found out when vision gave them the double-helix design they could not force out of their rational calculations.]

Time really is not different from space. Time-space echoes what Mahayana Buddhist thinkers may have been hinting at in the famous Heart (of Wisdom) Sutra when they spoke of what Mu Soeng [an American of Indian descent who spent 11 years as an ordained Korean Zen Buddhist monk in Korea] translates "space-time" as "point-instants" in explaining that "Form is emptiness, and emptiness is form."

• Points are kalapas (particles), and cittas (consciousness moments or cognitions) are instants in the older Theravada Buddhist commentaries Mahayana Buddhists were trying to explain and improve on. Thank you to PasaDharma Zen Group for its ongoing study of this important text:

The Heart of the Universe: Exploring the Heart Sutra

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Middle Path Reflections

Kashmir Birk

"Give me a man that is not passion's slave and
I will wear him in my heart's core"
Shakespeare Hamlet, Act III: Scene 2

The "middle path" is a Buddhist construct. But middle in the Buddhist context does not mean compromise, concession, conflict-avoidance, or tolerating being average. Middle in the Buddhist tradition means to sit in the core of a problem or situation and to realize it fully, without being affected or infected by it.

The middle path is the ability to walk through the battlefield surrounded by noise, confusion, and destruction confronting our reality by remaining emotionally still and intellectually neutral. Being still does not mean to do nothing, and neutral is not the same as being neutered, only to remove attachment to self, the obstruction of needing to justify oneself or seek approval from ourselves or anyone else for that matter.

Taking the middle path means sitting with our current reality in the here and now. Not to be caught in a past we can never fully know or a future that is yet to be. The middle path is clear when we free ourselves of attachment and still see ourselves in our own drama.

Japanese rock gardening: simplicity and emptiness and time for reflection

The middle path is our "true north." The truth emerges out of our own mind and body, because there is a practical wisdom that sits quietly underneath our chattering mind, bound by the chain of memory and cursed by the habit of neediness.

The measure of a leader, it is said, is his or her ability to act freely and do what should be done even if people expect it, the more if they do not. They act without being consumed by what others think is right or wrong, without having to prove to themselves or others that they were right.

Taking the middle path means sitting with the current reality, exploring a situation, seeing an opportunity/problem from multiple, even conflicting, perspectives without angst. It requires us to see multiple points of view without being emotionally, physically, intellectually embroiled in what is seen.

The painter who paints with effortless strokes, the musician who plucks a sonorous note or harmony out of the air, the friend who says only what needs to be said, the lover's glance that says it all, the engineer who sees the simplest path in a mass of complexity, the cricketer who hits the ball in the sweet spot of the bat and snaps it into the perfect corner of the circle -- that is the middle path. It is emergent, it is uncontrolled, it is the sum of all our practice, all our learning, all our non-yearning.

The middle path is simple but it far from easy. The middle path is our inner voice. The middle path is the sacred space where we breathe our breath and where the earth breathes in harmony with us.