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| (I wonder what Dr. Ted Danson thinks?) Parties are just a distraction from entropy! Cheers! |
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| Temples of the Anunnaki: Enki's Gold |
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| Plato wrote all about Atlantis. |
9. "Student, here [in this teaching] some woman or man may be angry and much given to rage. For even when little is said, one becomes furious, angry, ill-disposed, resentful, and shows ill-temper, hate, and surliness. |
| Am I finally beautiful enough for sexist expectations? |
Surviving in the Stone Age, various species of hybrid "humans" (Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, Homo floresiensis, etc.) struggle forsaken by the "gods" (alien visitors) who genetically manipulated them in their image.
Life on the Human Plane is very misunderstood. Many of us take for granted that it means this -- the lives we currently live. It rarely means this. We live in a very privileged time that, for all its horrors and deprivations, has more information, more material sustenance, and more ease than at almost any time in history.
Samsara (the "continued wandering on" through the Wheel of Life and Death) cycles through 31 very general planes of existence, only six of which normally are spoken of in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhist art, which limits itself to the Sensual Sphere.
The Maya "Long Count" calendar and its connection to 2012 has long been a topic of controversy (INAH).
MEXICO CITY - Mexico's archaeology institute downplays theories that the ancient Maya predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in 2012. But on [Thanksgiving, 2011] it acknowledged that a second reference to the date exists on a carved fragment found at a southern Mexico ruin site.
Most experts had cited only one surviving reference to the date in Mayan glyphs, a stone tablet from the Tortuguero site [a word that means "Region of Turtles"] in the [Mexican] Gulf coast state of Tabasco. [This "Tortuguero stone" is pictured on left.]
But the National Institute of Anthropology and History said in a statement that there is in fact another apparent reference to the date at the nearby Comalcalco ruin. The inscription is on the carved or molded face of a brick. Comalcalco is unusual among Mayan temples in that it was constructed of bricks.
Arturo Mendez, a spokesman for the institute, said the fragment of inscription had been discovered years ago and has been subject to thorough study. It is not on display and is being kept in storage at the institute.
Doomsdayism: In Nov. 2011, Mark Stevenson authored an article in the Seattle Times claiming that Mexico's INAH revealed a reference to the Dec. 2012 "doomsday" date on a second glyph found at the Comalcalco ruin site, an inscription carved on a brick.[1]
The "Comalcalco Brick" [here], as the second fragment is known, has been discussed by experts in some online forums. Many still doubt that it is a definite reference to Dec. 21, 2012 or Dec. 23, 2012, the dates cited by proponents of the theory as the possible end of the [age, not] world.
Referring to past or future?
"Some have proposed it as another reference to 2012, but I remain rather unconvinced," David Stuart, a specialist in Mayan epigraphy at the Univ. of Texas at Austin, said in a message to the AP.
Stuart said the date inscribed on the brick "'is a 'Calendar Round,' a combination of a day and month position that will repeat every 52 years."
The brick date does coincide with the end of the 13th Baktun; Baktuns were roughly 394-year periods, and 13 was a significant, sacred number for the Mayas. The Mayan Long Count calendar begins in 3114 B.C., and the 13th Baktun ends around Dec. 21, 2012.
But the date on the brick could also correspond to similar dates in the past, Stuart said.
"There's no reason it couldn't be also a date in ancient times, describing some important historical event in the Classic period. In fact, the third glyph on the brick seems to read as the verb huli, 'he/she/it arrives,'" Stuart wrote. "There's no future tense marking (unlike the Tortuguero phrase), which in my mind points more to the Comalcalco date being more historical than prophetic."
The Mayan universe looks like the mandalas of Buddhist cosmology (imageshack.us).
Cryptic characteristics
Both inscriptions -- the Tortuguero tablet and the Comalcalco brick -- were probably carved about 1,300 years ago, and both are cryptic in some ways.
Tibetan (Vajrayana) monks depict the Buddhist universe in an intricate sand mandala.
The Comalcalco brick is also odd in that the molded or inscribed faces of the bricks were probably laid facing inward or covered with stucco, suggesting they were not meant to be seen.
The Institute of Anthropology and History has long said rumors of a world-ending or world-changing event in late December 2012 are a Westernized misinterpretation of Mayan calendars.
The institute repeated Thursday that "Western messianic thought has twisted the cosmovision of ancient civilizations like the Maya."
The institute's experts say the Maya [just like the Buddhists and brahmins] saw time as a series of cycles that began and ended with regularity, but with nothing apocalyptic at the end of a given cycle.
Given the strength of Internet rumors about impending disaster in 2012, the institute is organizing [yet another] special round table of 60 Mayan experts next week at the archaeological site of Palenque, in southern Mexico, to "dispel some of the doubts about the end of one era and the beginning of another, in the Mayan Long Count calendar."
The kalpas (aeons) spin round in endless cycles of creation, stagnation, dissolution, and re-evolution in Buddhist cosmology.
(Oct. 7, 2011) The banker backlash in the United States is spreading, with major rallies held in the capital, Los Angeles, and other cities. Thousands have joined to express their distress at economic inequalities, war spending, environmental degradation, and high unemployment.
The peace demonstrations began last month when protesters started pitching tents in front of the New York Stock Exchange under the banner "Occupy Wall Street." Heavy-handed police, given financial donations by the banks, were filmed using batons and pepper spray to violently disperse the demonstrators.
The Maya or Mayans knew one thing for sure. The Ages change. And this one is coming to an end. As of today, or perhaps December 21, 2012, we transition from one to another. This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.
People love to fear. It's exciting. It's one of the principal mental-defilements identified by the Buddha.
There's greed or sense desire that troubles the heart (citta). There's hatred. There's the worst one of all, delusion. Then there's fear (bhava). It's usually not listed separately because it is a kind of hatred. In fear (revulsion, aversion, panic) we kill.
All four are bound up and only analyzed to treat them individually. But to work on lessening the grip of any one of them is to lessen the grip of all of them. More generosity, more love, more wisdom all mean less fear. What will happen on December 21, 2012? I'm going to go out on a limb and declare more than two years in advance that the answer is nothing. Nothing noticeable anyway. Mark my words.
What is 2012 supposed to happen? Whereas the Buddha talked about things to come in the distant future (thousands of years from now), the Mayans weren't specific. Is the world supposed to end? Yes, the old world will change into the new world (and in that way "end").
The Mayans were only marking the end of a cosmic cycle (a 26,000 year phase), because there are or were other beings who lived long enough for those cycles to matter. In the many celestial worlds, such as the six within our own realm, lifespans are incredibly long. Humans can be reborn there, and then those cycles will really matter. So this planet will enter a different zone in space. People will be different, enlightenment easier to achieve, mythologies will be re-understood as more amazing historical than laughably quaint. But for all that, what will people see as different? Nothing.
The age (yuga) to come is one of decline, but that isn't at a sudden turning point. And the age to come after that is golden. And after that? Progressive stages of decline until we come to a time like this again. It's cyclical. Nothing is coming that hasn't come before, which means many amazing things are coming. But there was a time when things were that way, and then, as now, people acclimated and took it for granted. We're taking it for granted. Live now since now is the time to live. There will never be a better time to have meditated than now. Meditation is more than cushion-warming. It's actively being engaged in cultivating:
And how is that done exactly? The easiest and most efficient way is to begin by being mindful. That can be one of two things. It either means being wakeful, cool, clearly (and calmly) conscious, impartial, and not desperately attached to outcomes. 
KARACHI, Pakistan — Ancient Gandhara was a cosmopolitan confluence of cultures where East met West and where, thanks to the network of monasteries, reliquaries (stupas), and temples as well as state patronage, Buddhism experienced a golden age, exemplified by the relics of Gandharan art that survive to this day.
Buddhism was patronised by the area’s Kushan rulers – who had originally come from Central Asia – and experienced its golden age from the first to the fifth century AD, when it was "dealt a death blow," as Mr. Shah put it, by the White Huns, who practiced Hinduism [or early Vedic religion].
