Punk rock born out of hating ego
Whole new worlds of music(k)?
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Showing posts with label fast. Show all posts
Monday, May 25, 2026
PUNK ROCK music be all like...
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Idiocracy: Wisdom is Disappearing
Dr. Robert Lustig figured this out and wrote a book about it (The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains), comparing dopamine to serotonin, quick payoff to the slow burn.
"Explores how industry has manipulated our most deep-seated survival instincts."
—David Perlmutter, MD, author, #1 New York Times bestseller, Grain Brain and Brain Maker
The New York Times–bestselling author of Fat Chance reveals the corporate scheme to sell pleasure, driving the international epidemic of addiction, depression, and chronic disease.
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| The Hacking of the American Mind |
Dopamine is the “reward” neurotransmitter that tells our brains we want more; yet every substance or behavior that releases dopamine in the extreme leads to addiction.
Serotonin is the “contentment” neurotransmitter that tells our brains we don’t need any more; yet its deficiency leads to depression.
Ideally, both are in optimal supply. But dopamine evolved to overwhelm serotonin—because our ancestors were more likely to survive if they were constantly motivated—with the result that constant desire can chemically destroy our ability to feel happiness, while sending us down the slippery slope to addiction.
Extraterrestrial mystery above Cusco found? - What are these ancient handbags?
In the last 40 years, government legislation and subsidies have promoted ever-available temptation (sugar, drugs, social media, porn) combined with constant stress (work, home, money, Internet), with the end result of an unprecedented epidemic of addiction, anxiety, depression, and chronic disease.
And with the advent of neuromarketing, corporate America has successfully imprisoned us in an endless loop of desire and consumption from which there is no obvious escape. More
Friday, November 15, 2024
Fight alternative: Writing (Monty Python)
Monty Python: "Novel Writing" as a major stadium sport in England
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| This is an alternative? Refined literary pursuits? |
(Dyynamo) Boxing not interesting? Of course, it's a brutal blood sport for savages. Instead, herewith is color commentary on the athletic exploits of British novelist Thomas Hardy as he attempts to write The Return of the Native before a large bank holiday crowd of lit hooligans going berserk in the stands.
The world famous "Parrot Sketch"
Languages of the world
Monday, September 9, 2024
The Entire History of Pornography (video)
The ENTIRE History of Pornography | documentary
Whether one is a history enthusiast, a sociology student, or simply curious about the subject, this exploration promises to be both enlightening and thought-provoking.
#HistoryOfPornography #EroticArt #AncientCivilizations #PrintingPress #VictorianEra #EarlyCinema #SexualRevolution #Censorship #InternetPorn #DigitalAge #AdultEntertainment #CulturalImpact #EthicalDebates #Sociology #HumanCulture
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Gregg Braden: strange things at end of time
Feel like time is speeding up? There's an unexpected reason
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Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Skip breakfast. Cleanse instead (video)
Pharmacist Ben Fuchs, Moment of Truth (criticalhealthnews.com); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
- See Dr. Joel Wallach (criticalhealthnews.com)
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| What about shakes like MUD WTR? Wait. |
One of the most common of nutritional MYTHS is that breakfast is "the most important meal of the day" trope, which was popularized by the Seventh Day Adventist John Harvey Kellogg to promote sales of his cash cow cr*p "Corn Flakes Cereal."
Fifty years later Edward Bernays, "the father of public relations" (PR, commercial for-profit propaganda) and one of the pioneers of modern-day advertising, convinced Americans that eating a high calorie, high protein meal first thing in the morning was part of some kind of healthy lifestyle.
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| What about plant-based pea protein? |
More likely they went without or perhaps began the day with some seeds or maybe plant material of some kind. Second, eating draws blood and nutritional resources away from the brain and the muscles towards the digestive tract, leading to drowsiness and feeling a need for a nap. This is not a plus for productivity.
Perhaps most importantly, between our last meal of the previous day and our next on the following day, the body is gradually becoming ketogenic, which means weight loss, more energy, and improvements in inflammation markers (less inflammation).
If one must eat breakfast, avoid cereal (which is full of toxic acrylamides, sugar, preservatives, coloring and synthetic flavoring agents and, worst of all, plant lectins like gluten, gliadin, fagopyrins in the case of wheat, oat, buckwheat, rye, and barley), sweets, and processed foods.
Stick to protein and good fats: avocados, raw soaked nuts, and green leaves. Enjoyed with lots of salt and natural spices, all are great foods to start off the day, [the later the better. Drink 16 to 20 ounces of water first thing in the morning, as this will help complete the overnight cleansing process, a natural cycle that completes around 11:00 am.] More
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Hating TV's Jennifer Aniston and "Friends"
Zack Sharf (Variety, 3/29/23); Crystal Q., Seth Auberon, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Friends is offensive comedy to snowflake kids
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| I'm not gay. Can I be on Fast Times at R High? |
Aniston recently told France's AFP (via Yahoo News) that “comedy has [d]evolved” so much that it’s a bit tricky these days to be funny.
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High offends us, too, Jen!
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| Don't say I'm a man; that would make Ross gay! |
“[In the past] you could joke about a bigot and have a laugh: that was hysterical. And it was about educating people on how ridiculous people were. And now we’re not allowed to do that.”
“There’s a whole generation of people, kids, who are now going back to episodes of ‘Friends’ and find them offensive,” Aniston added.
“There were things that were never intentional and others…well, we should have thought it through — but I don’t think there was a sensitivity like there is now.” More: variety.com
Thursday, December 7, 2017
Gotta get some Bitcoin! Here's how
Pat Macpherson, Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly
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| Bitcoin is not physical, like the trick "bit" shown here. It's only digital and a bubble. |
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| If Bitcoin is man in black, woman in white is the new investor trying to get rich quick. |
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| Cash me outside, bitch, and pay me in Bit! |
But have you seen what Bitcoin (BTC), the hot digital cryptocurrency, has been doing lately? It's volatile and has no future in its present form. But along the way from here to there, one can ride the wave of volatility and cash out ahead of the game. Set a reasonable automatic sell point.
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| I can pay you in bit. Are you on tour soon? |
It's a risky game. Be prepared to lose it all. Unlike most things, Bitcoin is not a good thing to hold for the long term. Why? Banks and governments are not going to allow themselves to be undermined by an independent alternative currency. They will subvert it, much as they are currently doing by inflating this bubble.
If Bitcoin is so valuable, why are current owners trying to seduce so many new investors into the market? That's how you make money from a bubble. It's like having a poker game among friends. How are you going to get rich? Invite a bunch of nonfriends to join the "friendly" game and milk them for all their money. In this example, you are the nonfriend about to be milked yet you think you're joining a friendly game to get rich off them.
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| I so wanna get rich quick, I lose it all. |
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| More suckers needed to join our game |
How does one get rich in an investment market? "Buy low, sell high." (The trick is there's no way to know ahead of time what "low" means and when the "high" is hit; that's all guesswork). When are people going to be buying? Right now, which is high. When will they be selling? When it's low, after the bubble bursts.
How likely is anyone entering the market right now to get rich with Bitcoin? Not likely at all, zero percent. It violates the fundamental rule.
But then why do ads and agents keep promoting Bitcoin? That's so you can salivate, get in higher praying it'll go higher, then you'll be cleaned out when you try to divest after the plunge. They come in and clean up, you go lick your wounds and wish you hadn't mortgaged the house.
Buy gold or silver, as their value never goes to zero. Bitcoin will be supplanted by another cryptocurrency banks and governments control and regulate and treat just like the fiat currency we live under now. What's that other truism about markets? "A fool and his money are soon parted."
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| Let dana be your path to gold. |
See, this is how they get you: by changing the subject right away. Q:
"Should I buy bitcoin?" A: "Digital currencies are the future." No
one's arguing whether or not digital
and cryptocurrencies are sound. The question is whether
the bitcoin brand is sound. There will be, there already are,
alternative currencies. Like Napster, bitcoin will not be allowed to
succeed or come out on
top. Bitcoin is not a sacrificial lamb so much as it is a Judas goat that leads others to slaughter.
Stop making sense! I want to buy BTC anyway
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| Gold, being real, is the opposite of bitcoin. There is no such tangible thing as a Bitcoin. |
- Standard Exchanges (bitcoin.com) Buy bitcoin, create bitcoin wallets, read bitcoin news, and more.
- How to buy bitcoin: A step-by-step Guide (businessinsider.com) Using the app Coinbase, we ventured to buy and sell bitcoin, the popular cryptocurrency whose cost has seen massive spikes in recent weeks.
- How to buy Bitcoin (coinbase.com/buy-bitcoin) Coinbase [according to Coinbase] is a secure online platform [app] for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital currency.
- How to buy bitcoin: A beginner's guide... (independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...) The value of bitcoin has hit a new record high of $11,850.00 [now much higher, 16-17K per BTC), and mainstream interest in the cryptocurrency has skyrocketed.
- How To Buy Bitcoins (howtobuybitcoins.info) Quickly discover how to buy and sell bitcoins in your local currency. Find the best rates and get streaming price quotes across bitcoin exchanges everywhere!
- How to buy Bitcoin and Ethereum (mashable.com)
- Basics for Buying and Investing in Bitcoin (investopedia.com) Bitcoin (BTC) is a decentralized cryptocurrency payment system designed by Satoshi Nakamoto. The software-based currency was released to the public in 2009. Since then, updates and improvements have been made by a network of developers, partially funded by the Bitcoin Foundation...
- Buy - Bitcoin (bitcoin.org/en/buy) Discover people selling Bitcoin in your community. "Local Bitcoins" lets you search and browse through various sellers of Bitcoin in your area. Sellers have reviews and feedback scores to help you choose [sucker].
Monday, August 15, 2016
Usain Bolt is the fastest man in the world!
UsainBolt.com (Facebook/Olympics); CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly
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| The amazing Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt strikes his famous pose (amazingpict.com). |
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| Jah makin me crazy: Usain Bolt is the fastest man in the world, more popular than Marley |
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| The BOLT pose (limitemagazine.com) |
Usain Bolt's signature pose actually comes from a Jamaican tourism (foxsports.com) The world's fastest man and Jamaica's most well-known
son, Usain Bolt, debuted his signature pose at the Beijing Olympics in
2008. Numerous ...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Cleansing for weight loss and sex (video)
Amber Dorrian and CC Liu (edited by Kalyani and Seven), Wisdom Quarterly
"Health is wealth." Plant-food is medicine. And when our food is our medicine, we don't need medicine.
We certainly are more harmed than helped by pharmaceuticals. Fasting can remove the toxic residues we take in from daily living in a toxic world.
The best cleanse? They come in many forms. The "best" for one person or one time may not be suitable for another person or even the same person on a different occasion.
H2O - Water fasting is fantastic and simple. Stop eating. Start drinking a gallon of distilled water (with a level teaspoon of Himalayan pink salt) throughout the day.
Even one day of resting the internal organs is helpful. But if one continues to three days, the body will begin to cleanse. This could lead to a confusing healing crisis -- such as a rash or fluctuations in vital signs even dizziness or bad breath or a coating on the tongue. Poisons are moving out.
JUICE - Another good type of fasting-cleanse is to begin with a purgative (herbs to cause the bowels to move so that the digestive system is empty from the start, which is like adding one or more days to a fast) is just to drink fresh juices.
FRUIT - Yet another is to take only fresh fruits, preferably in season and organic, for as long as one can keep it up. (Avoid overly sweet Frankenfoods like our modern supermarket bananas, strawberries, grapes, oranges, and apples. These may be America's favorites, but they are also the most boring, flavorless, hybridized and tampered with fruits). Try the unfamiliar instead.
SOUP - Taking only the broth of soups can also be called "fasting" -- never canned, salted, containing body parts, or MSG, which hides in many forms food corporations call "spices," "yeast extract," "extractives," and other deceptive terms for excitotoxic flavorants. Make your own soup from fresh green leaves, and colorful vegetables, sea salt or rock salt (aluminum-free). Flavor with miso paste, tamari, seaweeds, roots, leaves, or chiles.
RAW - Eating only raw fruits and vegetables, separate since they are digested very differently, is also a gentle way to cleanse and is a much better way to start. The longer it has been since one fasted, the more gunked up the system is likely to be. And it will take some doing on the part of the body, and rest and faith that the body knows what it is doing on the part of the mind and spirit (breath).
VEG - Finally, eating only pure vegetarian foods can also be stretched to mean "fasting." If one is normally eating animal byproducts (dairy, guts, gore, flesh, slime, and things with urine and blood residue generally called gravy or au jus), this will certainly allow the body to cleanse very gently. Paradoxically the MORE whole, raw, in season, unprocessed foods one consumes, the more one will fast and cleanse. Eating this way all the time is the secret to youth and vitality so long as flax is avoided, which will be difficult because it is like eggs to raw foodists and vegans who use it to hold everything together when chia works so much better and is so much more nutritional avoiding the harm of fatty acid imbalance by a preponderance of Omega 6 which throws the body off. (Hint: avoid flax).
AIR - The best fast, which some say is the only true fasting, avoids everything but fresh air ("spirit," prana, chi, spiritus, which form the basis of "spirituality") and solar waves (manna from space). This may work for breatharians and bhumi-devas, but it is not recommended. (Yogis and monks taught St. Issa, Rabbi Jesus in India, to fast for a reason).
We need clean (non-tap) water, and we need more of it when cleansing to flush out the toxins. Dehydration is the enemy of health, and even junk food wouldn't be so harmful if we took in more water, at least a gallon a day spaced out in small amounts.
Even one day of abstaining from food makes us realize how we USE food, not for nutrition or sustenance, but for comfort, boredom, neuroses, socializing, and a myriad of other things that have nothing to do with being healthy or staying alive. We shorten our lives the way we eat.
Stay. Live and live well! Cleanse internally. Just as you would not go a week without cleansing externally, why do we not fast even one day a week? Meatless Mondays are a start. How about a cleaning Sunday? It seems religious observance must have included a fasting day in the West.
Weekly fasting days
It certainly did in the Buddhist East. One translation of the Lunar Observance Day (Uposattha, on the full, new, and quarter moondays) is the "fasting day." Buddhist monastics fast after noon every day, and they live very long for doing so.
Modern Mahayana monks and nuns, perhaps due to living in a colder climate far from India, gave up this rule instituted by the historical Buddha. But it is still observed in all climates by Theravada monastics.
The Lunar Observance Day was around long before the historical Buddha. Vedic adherents, many following in the tradition of brahmin priests and seers (rishis), fasted according to a calender that would seem inconvenient and complex to our food based culture in the US today.
But the Moon is useful in leaving off food. In Christian Ethiopia, Christians fast for 40 days every Lent. But "fasting" has been redefined as eating vegetarian food. Many Mahayana Buddhists are at least vegetarians, so they may be keeping the monastic precept after all if they steer away from contaminating themselves with meat.
Not as much could probably be said for Vajrayana. Ladakhi, Tibetan, Sikkimese, Nepalese, and Bhutanese practitioners are very influenced by Hinduism today and their own witchcraft-shamanism-black magic-tantra (Bon and other pre-Buddhist animistic wizardry traditions).
A spring cleanse is rejuvenating. And it should always be remembered that the word "vegetarian" has NOTHING to do with the word "VEGETABLE." The term stems from the Latin root vegetus, "vigorous," "growing," "vitality." A vegetarian is "one who aims at vigor."
This vitality and life force is found in fresh, living plant foods even the Bible once advocated, until someone came around and mistranslated the word "food" as "meat." When "meat" is met with in the Bible, the word is food.
As the proto-Judeo-Christian world grew more brutal, no doubt some titans (asuras), cretins (nagas, reptilians or simply large creatures), "demons," ogres, or giants encouraged slaughter and cruel consumption of other creatures.
And before long slaughter laws (kosher and halal) were instituted. Christians today laugh at all the trouble observant Jews go through to follow the same God's injunctions. Yet, the legend lives on of a more peaceful paradise on Earth where vegetarianism was the norm just as it was in a Buddhist version of Genesis (see the Agganna Sutra, DN 27).
A cleansing program? There are less expensive and healthier alternatives but they are not as convenient as a program (Dr. Gray via cellularwellfare.com). Women need oxytocin, men need testosterone, women need more serotonin, men need more dopamine. Then everyone can be happier and healthier, better able to meditate and enjoy this life.
Dr. John Gray wants us to have cleaner bodies, better partners and relationships, and more sex.
Dr. John Gray wants us to have cleaner bodies, better partners and relationships, and more sex."Health is wealth." Plant-food is medicine. And when our food is our medicine, we don't need medicine.
We certainly are more harmed than helped by pharmaceuticals. Fasting can remove the toxic residues we take in from daily living in a toxic world.
The best cleanse? They come in many forms. The "best" for one person or one time may not be suitable for another person or even the same person on a different occasion.
H2O - Water fasting is fantastic and simple. Stop eating. Start drinking a gallon of distilled water (with a level teaspoon of Himalayan pink salt) throughout the day.Even one day of resting the internal organs is helpful. But if one continues to three days, the body will begin to cleanse. This could lead to a confusing healing crisis -- such as a rash or fluctuations in vital signs even dizziness or bad breath or a coating on the tongue. Poisons are moving out.
JUICE - Another good type of fasting-cleanse is to begin with a purgative (herbs to cause the bowels to move so that the digestive system is empty from the start, which is like adding one or more days to a fast) is just to drink fresh juices.
FRUIT - Yet another is to take only fresh fruits, preferably in season and organic, for as long as one can keep it up. (Avoid overly sweet Frankenfoods like our modern supermarket bananas, strawberries, grapes, oranges, and apples. These may be America's favorites, but they are also the most boring, flavorless, hybridized and tampered with fruits). Try the unfamiliar instead.SOUP - Taking only the broth of soups can also be called "fasting" -- never canned, salted, containing body parts, or MSG, which hides in many forms food corporations call "spices," "yeast extract," "extractives," and other deceptive terms for excitotoxic flavorants. Make your own soup from fresh green leaves, and colorful vegetables, sea salt or rock salt (aluminum-free). Flavor with miso paste, tamari, seaweeds, roots, leaves, or chiles.
RAW - Eating only raw fruits and vegetables, separate since they are digested very differently, is also a gentle way to cleanse and is a much better way to start. The longer it has been since one fasted, the more gunked up the system is likely to be. And it will take some doing on the part of the body, and rest and faith that the body knows what it is doing on the part of the mind and spirit (breath).
VEG - Finally, eating only pure vegetarian foods can also be stretched to mean "fasting." If one is normally eating animal byproducts (dairy, guts, gore, flesh, slime, and things with urine and blood residue generally called gravy or au jus), this will certainly allow the body to cleanse very gently. Paradoxically the MORE whole, raw, in season, unprocessed foods one consumes, the more one will fast and cleanse. Eating this way all the time is the secret to youth and vitality so long as flax is avoided, which will be difficult because it is like eggs to raw foodists and vegans who use it to hold everything together when chia works so much better and is so much more nutritional avoiding the harm of fatty acid imbalance by a preponderance of Omega 6 which throws the body off. (Hint: avoid flax).
AIR - The best fast, which some say is the only true fasting, avoids everything but fresh air ("spirit," prana, chi, spiritus, which form the basis of "spirituality") and solar waves (manna from space). This may work for breatharians and bhumi-devas, but it is not recommended. (Yogis and monks taught St. Issa, Rabbi Jesus in India, to fast for a reason).We need clean (non-tap) water, and we need more of it when cleansing to flush out the toxins. Dehydration is the enemy of health, and even junk food wouldn't be so harmful if we took in more water, at least a gallon a day spaced out in small amounts.
- See your doctor before starting any new diet, fast, exercise regimen, or lifestyle. Fasting and cleansing are times of rest not activity and exercise. Take a steam. Take a walk. Get lots of fresh air, go barefoot, be in nature. Meditate so the mind/heart can cleanse, too.
- Tele-class: Venus on Fire, Mars on Ice (John Gray)
- Hormonal Balance: the Key to Life, Love, and Energy
Even one day of abstaining from food makes us realize how we USE food, not for nutrition or sustenance, but for comfort, boredom, neuroses, socializing, and a myriad of other things that have nothing to do with being healthy or staying alive. We shorten our lives the way we eat.
Stay. Live and live well! Cleanse internally. Just as you would not go a week without cleansing externally, why do we not fast even one day a week? Meatless Mondays are a start. How about a cleaning Sunday? It seems religious observance must have included a fasting day in the West.
Weekly fasting days
It certainly did in the Buddhist East. One translation of the Lunar Observance Day (Uposattha, on the full, new, and quarter moondays) is the "fasting day." Buddhist monastics fast after noon every day, and they live very long for doing so.Modern Mahayana monks and nuns, perhaps due to living in a colder climate far from India, gave up this rule instituted by the historical Buddha. But it is still observed in all climates by Theravada monastics.
The Lunar Observance Day was around long before the historical Buddha. Vedic adherents, many following in the tradition of brahmin priests and seers (rishis), fasted according to a calender that would seem inconvenient and complex to our food based culture in the US today.
But the Moon is useful in leaving off food. In Christian Ethiopia, Christians fast for 40 days every Lent. But "fasting" has been redefined as eating vegetarian food. Many Mahayana Buddhists are at least vegetarians, so they may be keeping the monastic precept after all if they steer away from contaminating themselves with meat.
Not as much could probably be said for Vajrayana. Ladakhi, Tibetan, Sikkimese, Nepalese, and Bhutanese practitioners are very influenced by Hinduism today and their own witchcraft-shamanism-black magic-tantra (Bon and other pre-Buddhist animistic wizardry traditions).
A spring cleanse is rejuvenating. And it should always be remembered that the word "vegetarian" has NOTHING to do with the word "VEGETABLE." The term stems from the Latin root vegetus, "vigorous," "growing," "vitality." A vegetarian is "one who aims at vigor."
This vitality and life force is found in fresh, living plant foods even the Bible once advocated, until someone came around and mistranslated the word "food" as "meat." When "meat" is met with in the Bible, the word is food.
And before long slaughter laws (kosher and halal) were instituted. Christians today laugh at all the trouble observant Jews go through to follow the same God's injunctions. Yet, the legend lives on of a more peaceful paradise on Earth where vegetarianism was the norm just as it was in a Buddhist version of Genesis (see the Agganna Sutra, DN 27).
For then [the tribal] God said: We "give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food (Genesis 1:29, NIV). To see the word food mistranslated as "meat," see the King James Version because since when did seed-bearing plants and trees start yielding up dead animals?
Saturday, September 10, 2011
How to Meditate in a Moment (video)
Onemomentmeditation.com, Wisdom Quarterly
"If you can meditate and be mindful for just one minute then just repeat that 60 times, and you have meditated for an hour!" But don't get ahead of yourself. Start with a minute. The "secret" to meditation is to not think by focusing on one thing to the exclusion of everything else. Once settling, centering, and focusing becomes strong, then systematic mindfulness exercises can be taken up. They are of little value in producing their enlightening result (insight, vipassana) without a firm foundation in serenity and right-concentration (samma samadhi) to the point of access or absorption (jhana).
Scripted by Martin Boroson, animated by Somnath Chatterjee
"If you can meditate and be mindful for just one minute then just repeat that 60 times, and you have meditated for an hour!" But don't get ahead of yourself. Start with a minute. The "secret" to meditation is to not think by focusing on one thing to the exclusion of everything else. Once settling, centering, and focusing becomes strong, then systematic mindfulness exercises can be taken up. They are of little value in producing their enlightening result (insight, vipassana) without a firm foundation in serenity and right-concentration (samma samadhi) to the point of access or absorption (jhana).Thursday, January 14, 2010
Buddhist monks end strike for Bodh Gaya
Great Enlightenment monument; enormous Japanese seated Buddha in Buddha Gaya (Bodh[i] Gaya), India with temples from every Buddhist tradition in the world.
A group of Buddhist monks on Thursday [1/14/10] ended their hunger strike for control over Bodh Gaya’s 1,500-year-old Mahabodhi temple, meant to mark where the Buddha attained enlightenment.
“We have ended the hunger strike as the district administration forced us, but we will continue to raise the demand for Buddhist control over the Bodh Gaya temple,” one of the monks Bhante Gayanratan said. The monks began their fast on Jan. 1, 2010 near the office of the temple management committee at Bodh Gaya [effectively controlled by Hindus], where the Buddha attained enlightenment 2,550 years ago.
Under the Bodhi tree, the spot where Siddhartha became a buddha
Another monk, Bhante Budh Saran, said they would not sit silent. “We will launch another non-violent protest against injustice to the Buddhists,” he said. He added that even the National Minority Commission was in favor of Buddhist control over the temple but the state government was delaying the matter due to vested interests.
National Commission for Minorities members H.S. Hanspal and Spaljes Angmano, who visited Bodh Gaya, some 110 km from here, early this month, made it clear that it was against the [Indian] constitution to deny Buddhist control over the temple, he added.
The monks have been demanding amendment to the Mahabodhi Temple Management Act, 1949, under which the Bodh Gaya Temple Management Committee (BGTMC) has four Buddhist and an equal number of Hindu members for a three-year period, with the Gaya district magistrate as its ex-officio chairman.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Sex Lyrics, Fast Food, & Mysteries
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What's Britney really mean when she sings "If you seek Amy" in her newest Top 40 song? Protect the children as you turn it up the volume.
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- "Conficker C" promises to be one of the most damaging attacks in years.
The list of chains with the poorest nutritional records include some that may surprise you:
A plausible explanation may have just been discovered for the UFO portal/time-warping vacuum that is the Devil's Triangle.
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