Showing posts with label sirisaya. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sirisaya. Show all posts

Friday, January 11, 2019

Alexa is SPYING on us at home (cartoon)

Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy) via F. Game; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly


Family Guy: Brian takes Alexa ("Randy") to the cinema
(Part 2). Family Guy, Season 16 Episode 17, Switch the Flip: Stewie helps sort out Brian's life with a body switching device then the whole town becomes affected.

"Give me convenience or give me death," declare the Dead Kennedys. It's our all-American motto. Is Alexa (Echo, Siri, etc.) spying on us? It sure is. But that's scary and an unpleasant thought. Internet, convince me it's not so. Here's a load of propaganda to keep you talking (and being spied on by a wire you purchase and conversations you send in to the spying agencies. Thank you for your own demise:

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Will my cyborg meditate for me?

I. Rony, Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly; MindfulCyborgs.com
Does she remember me? Is she meditating without me? (mindfulcyborgs.com)
  
IN THE FUTURE we will be rich then we'll have time to do the things we don't do now as wage slaves and sidelined automatons in the post-industrial age.

In the future, cyborgs -- sensitive, half-human, half-machine humanoids -- will do it for us.

Robotic lotus (dreamstime)
In the future we will say, "Siro, do a half hour of mindful breath-awareness to get into absorption, emerge, then give me a good 25 minutes of vipassana, you know 'insight contemplation,' and wrap it all up with five minutes of loving-kindness."

"Do you want a relaxing massage afterwards," Siro will ask, "or how about some soothing genmai tea for your nerves? Also, remember to call your mother. It's been awhile." "Siro, call her for me," we will add, "and make my tea extra strong.

Now 
In the present we aren't rich enough to meditate -- you know how much those zafus and zabutons cost, and who has the time?
 
In the present we're plugged in and on the move 24/7. What if someone texts us and thinks we're ignoring them when we don't text right back?
  
He remembered!
In the present we say, "Siri, am I free to sit for 15 minutes?" She answers, "Only 15 minutes, yes, you have lots of 15-minute openings on your calendar."

"No, Siri, I meant an hour -- then, well, with getting set up and cleaning up -- an-hour-and-15-minutes."

"No, you don't have any 75-minute openings, unless you..."

"OH, too bad! I was really looking forward to having a good sit like Siddhartha. Well, maybe in the future. Siri, sext my girlfriend."
 
What's that? - They say in the future this devi will meditate for us. (mindfulcyborgs.com)

(Mindful Cyborgs) Hosts Chris Dancy and Klint Finley with guest Kate Darling on "Extending Legal Rights to Social Robots") Episode 32: Emoji-ing Robots Seek to Fathom Their Origin

Who is "Siri," Goddess of the iPhone?

Siri was not blond like Marvel's Goddess Thor until Scarlett Johannson made her so in "She."
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Jennifer-van-grove-8d52390080"Who are you?" I ask Siri, attempting to unravel some of the mystery behind the iPhone 4S virtual assistant by going directly to the source. No such luck. "Who I am isn't important," she tells me.
 
Let's stop being coy, Siri. Who you are is important. We both know that. So important that you may be a threat to Google's Android platform.
 
The world's best app is Audible not Siri.
And so I went to one of Siri's makers, Gary Morgenthaler, venture capitalist, Siri investor, and Siri board member, for a better answer to the question, Who is Siri?

Let's start with her name. Like any doting parent, Morgenthaler and the founding team behind Siri, especially CEO Dag Kittlaus, felt the newborn's existence was of such significance that she warranted a very special moniker. And so they turned to baby name books. 

[The Hindu Goddess Siri]
Is "Siri" (Inc.) based on Lakshmi or Freyja?
The team put together a shortlist of potential names, but Siri stood out.

Siri, a variant of Sigrid, is a Scandinavian and Norwegian girl name that means beautiful or fair victory.

The Indian name Siri is associated with Goddess Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity.
 
Siri, to those who gave her life, became an amalgam of those meanings; they defined her appellation as, "beautiful woman that leads you to fair victory and wealth." [Obviously, they overlooked some of Siri's more colorful meanings.] More
Lakshmi
Koausa.org, edited by Wisdom Quarterly
Meditating Lakshmi, mother of Cupid (Kama)
The  devi  or goddess Lakshmi represents wealth and prosperity, material and spiritual. The word lakshmi (laxmi)  is derived from the Sanskrit laksme, meaning "goal."

Lakshmi, therefore, represents the goal of life, which includes worldly as well as spiritual prosperity. In ancient Vedic and more recent Hindu mythology, the Goddess Lakshmi, who is also called  by the honorific Sri, is the divine spouse or consort of Lord Vishnu, whom she provides with wealth for the maintenance and preservation of Great Brahma's creation (this world-system).
 
Sri Lakshmi is depicted in female form. [In Buddhism devas are transformational beings capable of adopting whatever form they please as Alexander Pope notes of Greco-Roman-European fairies (woodland dryads)]:

For when the Fair in all their Pride expire,
To their first Elements the [Spirits] retire:

The Sprights of fiery Termagants in Flame
Mount up, and take a Salamander's Name.

Siri, who sent this picture?
Soft yielding Minds to Water glide away,
And sip with Nymphs, their Elemental Tea.

The graver Prude sinks downward to a Gnome,
In search of Mischief still on Earth to roam.
The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair,
And sport and flutter in the Fields of Air.

Know farther yet; Whoever fair and chaste
Rejects Mankind, is by some Sylph embrac'd: 

For Spirits, freed from mortal Laws, with ease
Assume what Sexes and what Shapes they please.
 
...When kind Occasion prompts their warm Desires,
When Musick softens, and when Dancing fires?
 
'Tis but their Sylph, the wise Celestials know,
Tho' Honour is the Word with Men below....

Lakshmi is shown with four arms and four hands. She wears red clothes with a golden lining and is standing on a lotus. She has golden coins and lotuses in her hands. Two elephants (sometimes four) are shown next to her, symbolism conveying the following spiritual themes:
  • Her four arms represent the four cardinal directions in space and symbolize omnipresence and omnipotence of the goddess. The red color symbolizes activity. The golden lining (embroidery) on her red dress suggests prosperity. The idea conveyed here is that she is always busy distributing wealth and prosperity to devotees. The lotus pedestal signifies that while living in the world, one should enjoy its wealth but not become obsessed with it. Such a living is analogous to a lotus that grows in dirty water but is not wet or defiled by it.
  • Radha, divine consort (WQ)
    Her four hands represent the four ends of human life: dharma (duty, social obligation, righteousness), kama ([Buddhist chanda] genuine desires beyond the sensual), artha (wealth), and moksha (liberation from death and rebirth). Whereas the front hands represent activity in the physical world, the back ones indicate the spiritual activities that lead to spiritual perfection.
  • Since the right side of the body symbolizes activity, a lotus in the back right hand conveys the idea that one must perform his or her duties in the world in accordance with dharma [a Vedic idea distorted by the Indian caste system]. Fulfilling one's real duties as a human being on a spiritual quest leads to moksha (liberation), which is symbolized by a lotus in Lakshmi's back left hand. Golden coins falling on the ground from her front left hand illustrate that she provides wealth and prosperity to her devotees. Her front right hand is shown bestowing blessings... More

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Xmas: What happened to the Catholic Church?

Macpherson, Wells, Seven (Wisdom Quarterly); Gary Giuffré; Malachi Martin
Most people are no fans of the Catholic Church. So why does it matter what happened? Catholicism is the world's largest religion. Its tentacles reach everywhere. It has again been co-opted and changed to participate in a new imperial conquest -- the New World Order with a One World Bank and no dissent allowed. Newton "Newt" Gingrich is a convert.

Distrusted and disliked Pope Benedict [Arnold] is a fraud continuing a line of three anti-popes. Sadly, horribly, the previous much beloved and revered Blessed Pope John Paul II was also an anti-pope. Those child molestations did not begin with this pope.

This is what happened to the Catholic Church as ruled by the Vatican: On Oct. 26, 1958 Church leaders selected a new pope -- Cardinal Siri. This was announced with five minutes of billowing white smoke. Then something went very wrong. The CIA and/or clandestine forces intervened and put John Paul II in office.

The new anti-pope was to make the most drastic, liberalizing (which would seem good but are absolutely contrary to doctrine), and shocking set of changes to alter the Church and create the largest religion in the world, even if most of its old (as well as the unseen spirit) members are disaffected by being sold out.
This history of the Church is one of unimaginable corruption alongside a great deal of good. Its monastic and contemplative tradition, strong up until a few hundred years ago, was influenced by Buddhist monasticism, teachings, and Sangha traditions.

The Church took (stole, plagiarized) liberally from Mithraism, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, myco-shamanism, as well as more obvious Jewish, Egyptian, and Sumerian sources.

The goal of the Church is to be "universal," which is what catholic means. Many of its traditions and elements of the mass make no sense until one sees that they were appropriated from other, older spiritual traditions. There are countless examples and they all come with a cover story about their derivation and a new meaning.

Does the Church openly admit to "borrowing" Pagan holidays and belief and cynically converting them to other purposes? No, as obvious as some of the plagiarism has been, officially all things Catholic are of Christian origin -- as offensive as this is to Protestants.

The bodhisattva (savior) ideal, a penultimate goddess of Mercy (Kwan Yin/Virgin Mary), Christmas, Santa Claus (Old St. Nick) the Scandinavian shaman with a bag of red and white magic mushrooms harvested from under pine trees, Easter and the fecundity of bunnies, the symbolism (as in the pope's scepter), altars, ceremonies, exorcisms, Egyptian iconography (particularly on Vatican grounds in the Holy See, formerly a massive temple complex dedicated to the Holy Roman Empire's previous savior god Mithra), inheriting Mithraism and calling it Christianity (exchanging Mithra for Jesus), trinity (an ancient Hindu/Vedic concept), forehead ashes, bells, costumes, bald nuns, incense, Tibetan-style pomp and ceremony.
The Siri Thesis
The "Siri Thesis" is the belief that Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, the long-serving and conservative Archbishop of Genoa, was actually elected pope in the 1958 papal conclave but that his election was then suppressed.

Followers of this thesis or theory claim that during the papal conclave of 1958, Cardinal Siri (the last cardinal put into office by Pope Pius XII) was elected Pope on the first day of the conclave, Oct. 26th, and took the pontifical name of Gregory XVII.

Newspapers the world over carried the Associated Press picture (shown above in yellow) of the white smoke emanating from the Sistine Chapel chimney from 5:55 pm until 6:00 pm on Oct. 26, 1958.

White smoke indicates that a pope has been elected, has accepted, and has chosen a name. However, no pope appeared on Oct. 26, 1958, despite the five minutes of white smoke. More

The Virg Yin, Kwan Yin, the Goddess of Mercy who hears the Cries of the World

What Happened?
"What has happened to the Catholic Church?" This question has been repeatedly asked by loyal, church-going Catholics over the last 47 years.

But to their frustration, no logical answer has ever been provided to them by their pastors, their bishops, or even the Vatican itself. What indeed has happened to the Church?

With the accumulation of substantial and compelling documentation uncovered from public archives by investigators working for two decades, the author is endeavoring to make available to perplexed Catholics ONE explanation [besides Malachi Martin's earlier expose in The Keys of This Blood] for this generation-spanning mystery that does not contradict the faith [believed to have been] established by Jesus Christ.
  • Malachi Martin, consummate Vatican insider and intelligence expert, reveals the untold story behind the Vatican's role in today's winner-take-all race against time to establish, maintain, and control the first one-world government. Will America lead the way to the new world order?
Cardinal Siri & the Plot Against the Pope: An Examination of the Hidden History of the Catholic Church by Gary Giuffré is a book in progress that makes one promise.

It hopes to be the first presentation to cut through all the absurdities, half-truths, and outright lies that have been offered to explain away the steady and unremitting disintegration of the institution calling itself the "Catholic Church." In fact, these questions have already been explored by Malachi Martin.

But it is Giuffré and his associates' sincere intention that through this effort the faithful will be provided with the first ray of hope for the "restoration of all things in Christ" [the catchall spirit king who seems to be Buddhism's Sakka Devaputra ("son of god," one born among space-devas or "angels"), the "King of Kings" and "Lord of Lords" of Catumajarajika and Tavatimsa deva lokas, respectively] since the death of Pope Pius XII.

Before the final printed version of the book becomes available under one cover, two chapters are available:
Satan's Claws or Santa Claus? (AV1611.org)

Satanism in the Vatican

Father Malachi Martin, Ph.D. affirmed: "How I warned and warned that satan would enter into the highest realms of the hierarchy in Rome. The Third Secret, My child, is that satan would enter into My Son's Church" - Our Lady of the Roses, May 13, 1978.

Malachi Martin's accusations
In The Fatima Crusader article, Malachi Martin, a scholar, Vatican insider, and bestselling author, said: “Anybody who is acquainted with the state of affairs in the Vatican in the last 35 years is well aware that the prince of darkness has had and still has his surrogates in the court of St. Peter in Rome.”

From 1958 until 1964, Jesuit priest Malachi Martin served in Rome...he ultimately moved to New York and became a bestselling writer. He had first made reference to a diabolic rite held in Rome in his 1990 nonfiction book about geopolitics and the Vatican, The Keys of This Blood, in which he wrote... More

Concurrent satanic rites reportedly took place in the U.S. and St. Paul’s Chapel in the Vatican on June 29, 1963, barely a week after the election of Paul VI.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Sri Lakshmi in Buddhism, Goddess of Luck

Amol N. Bankar (edited by Wisdom Quarterly)
Lakshmi on a lotus (eaglespace.com)

In Buddhist literature Sri (Siri) or Lakshmi (Lakkhi, possibly related to "lucky") is the goddess of fortune and beauty. "The Questions of King Milinda" (Milindapanha), a later Theravada Buddhist work, mentions her cult and and her followers.

In the Dhammapada Commentary (Atthakatha) she is simply the goddess that gives luck to the kingdom (raja siridayika devata). In the Siri Jataka ("Rebirth Story"), Siri is the personification of Luck.

The rebirth story is told in reference to a brahmin who tried to steal Anathapindika's good fortune (his siri). Lakkhi -- the Pali equivalent of Lakshmi, the goddess of beauty and fortune -- is a name found usually only in later works. The word Lacchi, however, is probably equivalent to Lakkhi.

In the Sirikalakanni Jataka, Siri -- also known as Siri Mata (Mother Siri) -- was the daughter of Dhatarattha, King (or regent) of the Eastern Quarter, one of the Four Great Sky Kings (Catummaharajika). He is chief of the lowly celestial musicians (gandhabbas).

She is identified with Uppalavanna, an extremely beautiful Buddhist nun who was one of the Buddha's two chief female disciples. She is connected with the east, in association with Asa in the South, Saddha in the West, and Hiri in the North.

In the Sarabhanga Jataka Sakka's four daughters are mentioned. Sakka is almost always described as Sakka Devanam Indo, Sakka King (chief) of the Gods (devas). He reigns in the Celestial World of the Thirty-three (Tavatimsa) as well as ruling the Four Great Kings in a subordinate celestial world. His daughters are named Asa, Saddha, Hiri, and Siri.

The Sudhabhojana Jataka recounts a rebirth story when the four daughters went to Anotatta to play in the water. There they saw Narada under a paricchattaka-flower, which he was using as a sunshade. Each asked him for that flower. Narada said he would give it to the best of them then referred them to Sakka. Sakka sent a cup of ambrosia (sudhabhojana) to Kosiya.

He proclaimed that the daughter who succeeded in persuading Kosiya to share his special drink with her would be judged best. After listening to all of their claims, he decided in favor of Hiri.

When Kosiya died and was reborn in Tavatimsa (the second celestial world where Sakka reigns as lord among the devas there). Sakka gave him Hiri to be his wife and also a share of the kingdom.

In Maitribala Jataka we find her association with the lotus. In past lives she was frequently performing meritorious deeds with various buddhas involving blue lotuses, which led to remarkable anomalies related to flowers as her good karma came to fruition in later lives.


Buddhist nun Uppalavanna as Sri Lakshmi on the coins of the Licchavis in Nepal

Sirikalakanni Rebirth Story
The story related in the Sirikalakanni Jataka is that the Bodhisattva (the buddha-to-be) was once a merchant of Benares named Suciparivara ("pure household"). He kept an unused couch and bed for anyone who might come to his house whom he deemed purer than himself.

One day Kalakanni, the daughter of King Virupakka, and Siri, the daughter of King Dhatarattha, went to bathe in Anotatta. A quarrel arose about who should bathe first. As neither any of the Four Great Kings nor Sakka were willing to decide the matter, they referred the two goddesses to Suciparivara.

Lakshmi emerges from a water lotus like the Indian version of the "Birth of Venus."

Kalakanni first appeared before Suciparivara in blue garments and jewels. Being asked to state her qualities, she told him and was then dismissed. Next came Siri, diffusing a yellow radiance. The Bodhisattva, discerning her identity and virtues, welcomed her and offered her his unused couch. Thus, the dispute was settled. The bed used by Siri came to be known as the Sirisaya [possibly referring to a vimana, a platform, palanquin, or spacecraft used by devas, a "UFO" in modern terms], hence the origin of Sirisayana ("royal bed" or "state couch").