cant survive growing up in a healthy manner without friends and family around expressing love and truth, for all in all how many employers really care if you showed up if it didnt cost them money, out of the amount of faces you see a day in the street or at the supermarket, how many of them would even care if you died that day, how much money does it take to take away the pain, and big a TV will create ever lasting happiness, and how ever fast your car can go, people will see through you, so treat every one with respect for who know when you will lose a lover and gain a friend, when really in the end its all the same
LOVE IS ALL WE NEED, CONCENTRATION AND ENERGY ALL WE HAVE.............MAY ALL BEINGS BE HAPPY, MAY ALL BEINGS BE HEALED AND HEALTHY, MAY ALL BEINGS BE FREE FROM HARM AND SUFFERING, MAY ALL BEINGS BE AWAKENED AND LIBERATED, MAY ALL BEINGS ENJOY INNER PEACE AND EASE, MAY THERE BE PEACE IN THIS WORLD AND THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE.............MAN IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL, ONLY THROUGH THE MIND CAN EVIL SURVIVE.............
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Luck doesnt even exist, those who actually follow there dreams usually succed, its those sittin
g on their couch saying they will do this and that, and how lucky "they" are, when in fact there just sitting down thinking about doing what "they" have done, when in life there is nothing stopping you from doing anything except yourself, dreams will never come true if you dont do anything about them, and you have no one to blame iof you feel your life is boring, going no where, or have done thing you wanted to do, get of your arse dump the fear and live your life
In the great U.S.A 17 % of children in america live under the poverty line, and 12,000,000 children dont have enough food to eat each day, but Pres Bu
In the great U.S.A 17 % of children in america live under the poverty line, and 12,000,000 children dont have enough food to eat each day, but Pres Bush wants to spend billions of dollars liberating another country while his fellow beings in his own country that he has been entrusted to take care of are suffering and cant even get food or medicines. Surely other people must see the irony here, how can people just let him do what he wants? Does any one in that country even care?
Racism is only for the weak, ignorant and insecure
And I've never none a race that has never been without its racist individuals, for its one of the first and easiest groups to identify with, for you dont need money, clothes, and you certainly dont need to be smart to belong to a group your already boxed into, and if your in the minority, theres always saftey in numbers, and its easier to judge others who dont look the same as you, because you dont need to know about other peoples personalities and certainly dont want to know about their positive attributes, and its easy to pick out physical differences and use them as way to pull others down, to bring yourself up, for any one who is racist has either no self esteem or very little, and needs to use sterotypical judgements of other races to feel better about their own self which of course is with out any faults at all, and as Mark Twain said "Travel is fatal to prejudice." And what I say is get off your arse and actually experince other cultures get out of your bubble and love one another, thats all it aint hard unless you make it hard
Is Thailands education system the worst in the world, I sure hope there isnt worse!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For any country to grow and move along with the rest of the world, a country's education system has to reflect that, but not here in Thailand, in the land of smiles of course, every one body has to pass, and I mean everybody here passes, which is why you end up with whole classes that are illiterate, and the only way you wont make it with a degree in this country is if your family cant afford the 15 years of education, cause that's all it takes to pass in the country, you can do none of your own work, copy everybody else's in the class and still get through with a degree, there is no way this country will ever stop relying upon tourism if it's people go through with everything handed to them, and I just pray that no other education system comes even close.
The easiest way to make some one feel better...................?
Hi (name), how are you, how was your day? I love you,
but the catch you actually have to listen, hey I know we are all very busy, but a few minutes a day, and you wont believe the results.
but the catch you actually have to listen, hey I know we are all very busy, but a few minutes a day, and you wont believe the results.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Australian flag 2 b banned at music festival not surprisin with da amount of racism n ignorance
in a country ruled by redneck hooligans, and addmittedly I went through such a stage but then actually grew into reality, and found how arrogant ignorant one can be in teenage years, but these days people will hang onto any indentity to feel that they belong, and that they have a group of friends who seemingly have the same views but only follow because they are to weak to form their own opinions, but in essence most Australians are immigrants and cant claim any real history to the land, except the aboriginies, so its amazing to see young ignorant arrogant racist redneck hooligans claiming rights to a country that any one can go and do, often driven by mob mentalities which neither think and only judge, and I'm not surprised by the festivals management to try and curb such behaviour which these young ignorant arrogant racist redneck hooligans try to incite by using the Australian flag, because if some one were to get hurt, they will be the first ones blamed, so ban the flag if it helps but I doubt it will for if young ignorant arrogant racist redneck hooligans want to start something to make themsleves feel better because of their own lack of self esteem and identity then they will,
"The US forces in South Korea are infected with an abnormal sexual desire and sexual abuses are
part of their daily routine," a Rodong Sinmun commentary said. Not my words so dont shoot the messager, but its not surprising coming from the NORTH KOREAN government, who are quick to judge others but then again forget the mirror when it comes to their own discrepancies, though I guess it doesnt help when allegedly "a 67-year-old woman was raped by a 23 year old private soldier in South Korea, currently in prison awaiting trial".
iF god HAD WRITTEN THE BIBLE THEN I WOULD BE ABLE TO FOLLOW IT.................................
But I dont trust any man out there, there always trying to get something from you, and some dont even know it, so there's no chance that I am going to take the word from a book hundreds of years old written by men to be my one and only law for life, sure its a great read, I mean its got everything you could want in a good book, magic, love, back stabbing, and some good honest ways for living, but I'm not going to follow it blindly just because some guy said it came from God, anyone could say that, and if it came out today who would believe NO ONE.
There seems to be a bit controsovery rearing its head up in this cyber world
Well for a start I didnt realise there were actually rules to this blogging game, but some users round here feel they are being cheated, or that others arent playing by the "rules" because several people keep their blogs/profiles private, and dont reveal certain details about themselves, but who cares, some people are just private, and the reason why I dont use my real name started a long time ago when I used to work in a supermarket, and had to wear a name badge, it always freaked me out when people I didnt know knew and used my name, I just found it really weird, and what was even more annoying was when people would ask if you worked there? "No ma'am I just liking wearing this store uniform and name badge because it helps me fUCKEN IN FIT IN WHEN I LEAVE MY HOME YOU TWAT, WHAT DO YOU THINK? So I prefer to use my real name because I dont want people I dont know using it, I know it may sound weird, but ay what can ya do?
Why is it that anger breeds within my chest, from what hell does it brew
The ingredients are lost but the feeling still remains, pent up anger and frustration with what or who, why is it easier to tell others what to do, but you yourself are unable to follow your own so seemingly simple advice, what is in my ego that needs to survive upon anger, as it heats up my mind, lying in bed describing all the petty ways which I will enact my revenge while in the morning all is forgetten, and the energy lost, my chest empty by my stomach is in a knot, will I ever be free from you, and your exiguous ways, oh why oh why do keep falling into your heated hell, while those around me suffer for my own frivolous acts.
Nothing matters but our actions, money, fame, cars TVs, houses, clothes mean SHIT
"On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero." Fight club so whats the point striving in life for shit you dont need when we are all going to die any way, unless you know a vampire, then you can send them my way, but otherwise your just wasting your time chasing emptiness all in a cruel fanatsy world dreaming about what happiness might be, then your lying on your death bed wondering where your life went and how much you wasted it on Shit you cant even take with you, but then I guess if you enjoy wasting your life, increasing your own suffering, deluded and depressed, then go right on ahead, but dont say that I dont do anything for you ;), love you all, and be good
"You are not your job" Tyler, every once and a while some one comes around speaking sense.
"You are not your job...you are not how much money you have in the bank...not the car you drive...not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. We are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world" Tyler Durden (Fight club 1999)
But does any one listen?
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Wisdom,can,never,be,judged...................................so,never,trust,those,who,do
For,I,am,tired,of,listening,to,those,who,assume,wisdom,is,due,to,their,age,or,the,lack,of,it,in,others,wisdom,only,comes,around,from,experince,and,ones,ability,to,learn,and,adapt,from,it,and,those,who,seek,to,judge,it,only,prove,their,own,foolishness,wisdom,does,not,rely,upon,age,but,ones,ability,to,also,be,honest,with,ones,self,and,make,accurate,assesments,of,mistakes,and,achievements
Whats Thailands issue with singapore, I really cant support their claims and agree with singapore
A few Thai officials have all of a sudden just become upset because Singapore allowed ousted Priminister Thaksin Shinawatra to visit the island state. For what reason I truley dont know, when he has had a whirl wind tour of the world over the past four months since he was booted out my a military coup. And why should Singapore have not allowed Thaksin when he hasnt even found him guilty of anything yet, what they thinking up there in Bangkok, a bit too much YAA BAA, and a load of jealousy, if ya ask me, also "The Thai government did not notify us (singapore) that Dr Thaksin has been charged with any offence," it said, adding that there is no restriction on where he can travel. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA)Thailand even informed Singaporean Ambassador Peter Chan that it was cancelling a visit to Bangkok by their Foreign Minister Yeo which was planned for later this month and was also cancelling civil aviation cooperation talks.The Thai government called the city-state's stance toward Thaksin "inappropriate" and expressed concern over a meeting between Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister S Jayakumar and Thaksin last week.An earlier statement issued by the Singapore foreign ministry described Jayakumar as an old friend of Thaksin and said their meeting was "purely social and private."Thaksin "had chosen to make a visit to Singapore on his own," the latest ministry statement said. "Thai nationals do not require visas to visit Singapore. There is no reason for Singapore to turn Dr Thanksin away."Singapore also noted that Thaksin had visited several other countries "without any protest by the Thai government," referring to trips to China, Hong Kong and Indonesia."We are therefore saddened that the Thai government has chosen to take this course of action," the foreign ministry said. "We hope Thailand will respect Singapore's position as that of a sovereign country. We value the longstanding friendly relations with Thailand."Thaksin was ousted by the military in a bloodless coup on September 19, while he was attending an annual UN summit of leaders in New York, and has been living in exile since. The military appointed a new government to take his place.Thailand's new prime minister, Surayud Chulanont, said Singapore's ambassador was told the city-state should be more cautious about allowing such movements "since we have already revoked Thaksin's diplomatic passport."The meeting between Thaksin and Jayakumar, "even though it was a low-key affair, sends the wrong signal to the Thai public," said a Foreign Ministry spokesman.Relations between Thailand and Singapore have been strained since January last year when Temasek Holdings, the Singapore government's investment arm, bought Shinawatra's 49 per cent holding in Shin Corp, Thaksin's business empire, for 1.9 billion dollars in a tax free deal. Many Thais saw the purchase as selling off national assets to a foreign company.Thailand's military-appointed government last week revoked Thaksin's diplomatic passport, making it difficult for him to travel without visas.While in Singapore Thaksin gave an interview to CNN - censored in Thailand - in which he vowed to stay away from Thai politics in the future. He also denied any involvement in the New Year's Eve bombings in Bangkok that killed three people and injured 40.
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Men are so easily manipulated I'm ashamed, and suprised women havent already taken over........
Never have I seen before a women in a restuarant command a whole table of men with such ease, (are men so foolish), manipulating them into buying an excess of food and alcohol, now you can argue the manipulation, or you can argue the fools who wish to be manupilated, and in a country where sex is nothing but another service one can trade with, its amazing how easily it is for a women to just command the complete attention of several men, without to much work, doubling her pay in a night and even getting a few drinks and a meal for free. If this can be done then why havent women made it to the top already, men are such fools for a short skirt, a few smiles here and there a few giggles over a crap joke, is it just the thought that maybe they are a chance to go all the way, is that all it takes for a men to forget all of his morals, throw caution to the window and just say F*&K IT, obviously alcohol here plays a part, but the wish or the thought has to be there first, but what is it about those short skirts, smiles and giggles, is that how easy it would be to take down the world?
I was born a fool, just hope by the time I die, I'm a little less the fool
Its alwys been my curse to learn the hard way, the easy way was just far to easy and painless, How could I call myself a man if I didnt suffer often, never could i just learn from one individual telling me the easy way, or the painless way, but NO, I had to go and cause some serious physical damage before I could notch a lesson learnt on my belt, so in my journey that is life all I can hope for is to be less of a fool than what I started out as, for I dont care about money, a large house or car, a glorious a respected career in only one field, and I dont care about what others think, but if they have some helpfull information then I'm all ears but I cant guarantee and results until I end up on my back writhing pain call out for any one to help me up. And all i can hope is that all the people i have wronged in this world have enough compassion and love in their hearts to forhive me, I know forgetting is much less a choice, for I did not know what I was doing
Any one claiming spiritual superiority, or any superiority should be avoided...............
Because they have clearly lost sight of the goal, and obviously we all know that no one is superior, because in essence we are all the same essence, but what differs is only ones realization, and ability to see what is, thats it, ok I'm done, just never forget that we are all the same so why would you believe that you are not worth it, you only believe what people say because you actually believe it first, so dont be the fool
So obvious y woman have been abused n mistreated for so long.........but hopefully it wont last
Because thousands of years ago some cave man realized that women were smarter, and couldnt handle it, so he got a few of his mates together to take dominance of the pack and so from then on they started a campaign to mistreat and abuse women to ensure that from that moment on they would forever struggle with low self esteem, eating disorders and be constantly abused so that dull ignorant men could feel good about themselves, and would never ever question authority, but gladly its changing, and, as most things, the equilibrium will probably shift a little too far, but then eventually nestle into a nice equal equilibrium so that both sexes no longer feel the need to dominate and live side by side happily ever after, but still far off as women still earn less for the same job, and still constantly abused by those dull ignorant fools unable to face the fear that they themselves are inadequate
All sin originates with thought, anger and hatred cant survive without thinking
Anger, hatred and any sin you can think of originate from thought, and can not survive with out the energy from thought, and is a result of your own egos needs at the time, and it begins with a choice, SO JUST STOP IT YOU PAIN-ENJOYING-NEED-FOR-ATTENTION-ENERGY-SUCKERS, why do you enjoy the pain, why do you need anger and hatred in your life, why do you need to make others suffer for your own needs. When will you grow up and stop sucking others of energy, create your own, and help others without actually wanting anything in return, hey I know it revolutionary but if we are ever going to evolve from the cave men were gonna need to make some drastic changes WHO'S WITH ME??????????????????????
the whole purpose of religion/faith should always be about an individuals quest for truth......
One shouldnt worry about land or buildings, or what others are thinking or doing, and it should never involve war, or sending others to die for your satanistic wants. Ceremonies and traditions are so empty and pointless, and only serve to cover the real issues in which an individual should be applying his/her attention to. Just being baptised, or going to church every sunday, dosent make a good christian, and only serve to be used as a form of judgement upon others, and as a way to control and manipulate others for ones own personal gain. Any God would be far more interested ina person who lives a holy life each day, rather than just turning up to a large building to gossip about who did this or that. Thepoint of these ceremonies and traditions is only to serve as a reminder and for ones own personal reflection about how they have acted, and why they have created so much suffering.
Is any one else out there of the opinion that ITS FAR TO EASY TO HAVE CHILDREN?................
I MEAN ANY COUPLE CAN DO IT, I THINK THERE SHOULD IN THE FUTURE BE A LOT MORE POLICING ABOUT IT, AND THAT FOR ONE OF THE HARDEST THINGS to do (RAISE CHILDREN), but THERE IS NO COURSE OR TRAINING ONE CAN do, MAINLY BECAUSE MOST PARENTS HAVE SUCH AN EGO WHEN IT COMES TO HOW THERE CHILDREN SHOULD BE BOUGHT UP and wont listen to any one else (who are you to tell me what i shouold or shouldnt do), AND THAT THEY OWN THEIR CHILDREN, AS THOUGH THEY ARE PROPERTY, AND DONT TREAT THEM AS HUMAN BEINGS BUT AS POSSESIONS, I WILL BE THE FIRST TO DEMAND SOME KIND OF TRAINING/EDUCATIONAL COURSE AND I WILL BE THE FIRST TO APPLY JUST AS LONG AS THE FEES ARENT TO HIGH, CAUSE KIDS ARENT CHEAP HA HA HA HA HA NOw THATS WHAT I'VE been TALKING ABOUT HA HA WHAT A HYPOCRITE AY, BUT STILL WHY DIDnt JESUS OR BUDDHA LAY ANY LAWS DOWN FOR CHILD REARING ? now that makes ya wonder ?
What fools actually believe those advertisments, ur never goin 2 get that girl with that spray.
who actually is effected by advertising and all those marketing gimickes, are people really so easily brainwashed that they believe all those manipulating experiments, obvioulsy there are a lot more delusional sheep out there than I thought, let me tell you, that amzing girl is never going to be your girlfriend because you are wearing those shoes, that amazing girl is never going to be your girlfriend because you use that spray of deoderant, and really who would want a girl that is so superficial, what is wrong with this world that people allow themselves to be manipulated into believeing fantasies that what ever they buy is going to make them popular or get that "girl", who is so easily manipulated they actually believe everything they see on the TV, when will people really wake up and experince "reality".AND STOP WORRYING ABOUT WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IS THINKING BECAUSE WHO CARES?
Monday, January 08, 2007
Its foolish to think that JESUS suffered at all, and only shows the ignorance in this world...
For anyone who walks along side God, must Know God, and who ever Knows God never s AS JESUS KNEW GOD, this only proves that people only believe because when you only believe there is still a glimmer of doubt, but when you know something there is no doubt there is only knowing, and when you walk with God there is only divine love, and when one resides in divine love one knows not of suffering, hate, lying, cheating, stealing, or any sin, but can actually reside in true freedom and love, and one can not true love, freedom, or GOD by just believing, one has to strive for knowing and anything less is paramount to an eternity of suffering, AND THE ONLY SUFFERING JESUS KNEW, AS DOES GOD, IS THAT SO MANY PEOPLE ARE STILL DELUDED AND SUFFERING FOR NOTHING, AND HAVE YET TO FULLY EXPERINCE IN THIS WORLD WHAT GOD CREATED.uffers
Do Americans even care any more about America?
Never has a country know such a steep rise in popularity so quickley as during the eighties and ninties there wasnt a thing that that country could do that was wrong, and even most countries used it as a model, but then post 9/11, there such an out pouring of emotions that the whole world were crying with all those people in America, but then as the war was created, not without the exception of two other sheep, oh i mean countries Britian, and Australia, based supposedly on those WMD,s Saddam had hiding under his bed, but that is not my issue, my issue is to do with Americans, do Americans actually care who is running the country, and I am a little biased but does any one listen to
BEN HARPER "Black Rain"You left them swimming for their lives Down in new orleans Can't afford a gallon of gasoline With your useless degrees and contrary statistics This government business is straight up sadistic
n its a black rain
ohhhhh i said its a black rain its gonna fall
Now you don't fight for us But expect us to die for you You have no sympathy for us But still i cry for you Now you may kill the revolutionary But the revolution you can never bury
n it wont be long for the poeple to fill the streets we come for you one and all
thats a black rain yeah a black rain its gonna fall
Don't you dare speak to us like we work for you Selling false hope like some new dope we're addicted to I'm not a desperate man but these are desperate times at hand This generation is beyond your command
And it won't be long 'til the people flood the streets To take you down One and all A black rain is gonna fall
BEN HARPER "Black Rain"You left them swimming for their lives Down in new orleans Can't afford a gallon of gasoline With your useless degrees and contrary statistics This government business is straight up sadistic
n its a black rain
ohhhhh i said its a black rain its gonna fall
Now you don't fight for us But expect us to die for you You have no sympathy for us But still i cry for you Now you may kill the revolutionary But the revolution you can never bury
n it wont be long for the poeple to fill the streets we come for you one and all
thats a black rain yeah a black rain its gonna fall
Don't you dare speak to us like we work for you Selling false hope like some new dope we're addicted to I'm not a desperate man but these are desperate times at hand This generation is beyond your command
And it won't be long 'til the people flood the streets To take you down One and all A black rain is gonna fall
I heard OPRAH doesnt have earn money anymore, y is that she still chosses to earn millions.....
and dont get me wrong I think shes done some quite amazing things, but how much money does one need, along with Bill Gates, when is the money ever going to be enough, those two could themselves solve all of the medical and hunger problems in the two poorest continents of the world let alone tens of countries, and there not the only ones, large buisnesses, entertainers, (sports/music/movies) how much money do you really need to survive in this world, and yet those that serve the people (police/doctors/teachers) make a pittance and yet they are saving peoples lives, THERE SAVING PEOPLES LIVES, how is that they arent making the millions of dollars a year, SAVING PEOPLES LIVES, ,,,,,,,,,,, IS IT JUST ME OR DOES ANY ONE ELSE FIND THIS CRAZY, I MEAN SAVING PEOPLES LIVES.
The easiest way to live ones life is too (part 2) ha ha ha the sheep r very obedient r'nt they
the only way really one can stop creating suffering is by taking control of your mind, and the only way one can do that is to stop worrying about the outside world, for one can not control it, and one should look more inside, and see what is actually going on in ones mind, for all action derives from thought, and all thoughts eventually eventuate into something, so one can start by cleaning up ones mind, and for once realize that all beings are the same, striving for the same wants and needs, and then you will realize how much of a waste it is what most people do, and how much time and energy they spend protecting their fragile egos, so that they dont get embarrassed, or hurt, when in the end whats the F*^%en difference ................................. AND BECAUSE OF THIS I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO OR WHERE YOU GO, FOR I UNDERSTAND ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, tHIS IS ALSO WHY I WILL NEVER STOP PRAYING FOR YOU ALL ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, MAY ALL BEINGS BE HAPPY HEALTHY AND FREE FROM SUFFERING ,,,,,,,, AND MAY ALL BEINGS HAVE WHAT EVER THEY WANT AND NEED ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
My heart and soul has been typed out upon this keyboard, but who really gives a F%$.
I MEAN OUT OF ALL THE MILLIONS OF BLOGS THAT ARE OUT WITH MILLIONS OF PEOPLE READING AND COMMENTING UPON THOSE THEY HAVE NEVER MET, DOES ANY ONE REALLY CARE, IS THIS REALLY BRINGING THE WORLD TOGETHER SINCE THAT 70% OF THE WHOLE POPULATION HAS NEVER EVEN USED A COMPUTER IN THEIR WHOLE LIFE, WERE NOT REALLY BRINGING THE WORLD TOGETHER, ALL WE ARE DOING IS JUST INCREASING CAPATALISM, AND FEEDING CONSUMERISM TO THOSE WHO ARE ALREADY FED IT 24 HOURS A DAY, CREATING A ORGIASTIC AVALANCHE OF HOPES AND DREAMS THAT WE ARE ACTUALLY MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE, WHEN OUR TIME ON THIS COMPUTER COULD ACTUALLY BE BETTER SPENT HELPING THOSE LESS FORTUNATE ..................... SO LOVE ALL THOSE YOU KNOW AND THOSE YOU DONT. LOVE ALL THOSE THAT HELP AND AND HINDER, AND LOVE ALL THOSE WHO SUFFER, AND LOVE YOUR SELF JUST AS EQUALLY AS YOU LOVE ALL BEINGS UPON THIS EARTH ................ PLEASE JUST FOR ME I KNOW YOU REALLY CARE.
The easiest way to live ones life is too...............................
not create suffering with in yourself and for those around you, its that simple HA HA HA HA LOL, AR YEAH, but as we all know of course 90% of all suffering is created with in the mind, which is insanity to think that we create our own suffering i know it sounds absurd but its true, its just a matter of programing, just like a computer, you tell it what it can and cant do, (well most of the time anyway), and the best way to do that is by ........................................................... ha ha ha please wait for this short commercial, dont change the channel we will be right back in just a moment after these short messages dont go any where ..............................
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Whats the point of believing in GOD....................
for ones quest with GOD shouldnt be about believing, but about KNOWING GOD, but you can only know God through the experience of God, you can only know real love through the experience of real love, do you believe the grass is green, or the sky is blue of course not, you know that it is, and the same with God, you will never trust in God if you dont strive to know him, to be one with him and his divine love, and you will always be left thinking "oh why did God do this", "Doesnt God love me or his people", this only arises because people dont trust and have yet to experince God. For those you have experienced God, trust in him completely and know him, they no longer have to believe, because if you only believe in God you will always live in fear and confusion. But if you know God, nothing can ever harm you.
A message from the King of Thailand, the night before his b'day
Thank you all for being here today to wish me a happy birthday. The well wishing as expressed by the prime minister is especially encouraging. I did not stand up to acknowledge your well wishing gesture since my physical strength did not permit although mentally, I am fit enough. I hope you understand that. Physical strength has its use.
For our nation, both physical and mental strength is essential. For the prime minister, he has to exercise both physical and mental strength to show how useful it is. Every other people must also use their physical and mental strength to save the country from perils. Do not leave it to the government alone since the government is not all that powerful. This government in particular is run by the elderly but being elderly is in fact a power.
For me, I am still 78 years old today and will be 79 tomorrow. I am not 80 yet and the prime minister is not yet 80 either. At the age of 80, some still can work vigorously. Old age can be an advantage in terms of accumulated knowledge and experiences. Young people who look down on the elderly are in fact inferior themselves. Old people who well maintain their intelligence and moral integrity can help the country prosper. But for those who do not know how to make use of their old age, they are just like children mentally.
This kind of people can be very dangerous. Their immaturity and inferior feeling about their old age could lead to the fall of the country. It is sad for those who keep regretting about getting old without trying to make use of it. Elderly people can make use of their old age and experiences to help other people and the country. I hope old people with good experiences will successfully work for the nation.
For old people in the government, they have no greed for themselves and deserve a compliment for their willingness to continue to serve the country although they have long worked and should have their retirement time. Although they have never taken this kind of job before, they will likely do it well thanks to their experiences.
Those people took the job in time of trouble. It is not politics that I am talking about. I do not want to talk about politics now. I am bored with it. It is the flooding that I will talk about.
Although the overall volume of rainwater this year is lower than the 1995 record, floods this year are more serious because of poor water management. With better management, the flood problem should not be as serious as it is now. I have information about flood and natural water situations with me here. With better equipment nowadays, floodwater can be drained out faster than in 1995.
This can be done in many areas especially at the Chao Phya River estuary. Existing floodgates in Phra Pradaeng can be effectively used to block a high tide from overflowing the river and flooding Bangkok. Under good timing management, the facilities can also drain out a groundwater overflow from the city at the time of low tide. The same method should be used in other areas too with some investment and labour required. When to open or close floodgates holds key to effective flood prevention.
Back in 1995, I sent out a Royal guard to check out a seaside flood station one night and he reportedly found the floodgate keeper sleeping while the tide was rising. The man said he was not aware of the timing of low and high tides but just followed his superiors' orders on when to close or open the floodgate. This explained how a high sea tide could then cause the canal linked to the floodgate to overflow and thus flood part of Bangkok. There is still about one more month left to correct what was wrong in flood prevention and it is not too late though. I just pick up the flood topic today since my tired voice about it might not be well heard once before. Today my voice gets clearer thanks to good medicine and I want to let you know about it.
Too much talking is like flooding and I do not want to talk too much myself. But I cannot miss talking about Prime Minister Surayud for the sake of his good intention and honesty in serving the country. I hope everyone will do their duty well and I will be as happy as I am at the age of 80. May everyone who works with determination and honesty and realises in the use of their old age succeed in their jobs.
For our nation, both physical and mental strength is essential. For the prime minister, he has to exercise both physical and mental strength to show how useful it is. Every other people must also use their physical and mental strength to save the country from perils. Do not leave it to the government alone since the government is not all that powerful. This government in particular is run by the elderly but being elderly is in fact a power.
For me, I am still 78 years old today and will be 79 tomorrow. I am not 80 yet and the prime minister is not yet 80 either. At the age of 80, some still can work vigorously. Old age can be an advantage in terms of accumulated knowledge and experiences. Young people who look down on the elderly are in fact inferior themselves. Old people who well maintain their intelligence and moral integrity can help the country prosper. But for those who do not know how to make use of their old age, they are just like children mentally.
This kind of people can be very dangerous. Their immaturity and inferior feeling about their old age could lead to the fall of the country. It is sad for those who keep regretting about getting old without trying to make use of it. Elderly people can make use of their old age and experiences to help other people and the country. I hope old people with good experiences will successfully work for the nation.
For old people in the government, they have no greed for themselves and deserve a compliment for their willingness to continue to serve the country although they have long worked and should have their retirement time. Although they have never taken this kind of job before, they will likely do it well thanks to their experiences.
Those people took the job in time of trouble. It is not politics that I am talking about. I do not want to talk about politics now. I am bored with it. It is the flooding that I will talk about.
Although the overall volume of rainwater this year is lower than the 1995 record, floods this year are more serious because of poor water management. With better management, the flood problem should not be as serious as it is now. I have information about flood and natural water situations with me here. With better equipment nowadays, floodwater can be drained out faster than in 1995.
This can be done in many areas especially at the Chao Phya River estuary. Existing floodgates in Phra Pradaeng can be effectively used to block a high tide from overflowing the river and flooding Bangkok. Under good timing management, the facilities can also drain out a groundwater overflow from the city at the time of low tide. The same method should be used in other areas too with some investment and labour required. When to open or close floodgates holds key to effective flood prevention.
Back in 1995, I sent out a Royal guard to check out a seaside flood station one night and he reportedly found the floodgate keeper sleeping while the tide was rising. The man said he was not aware of the timing of low and high tides but just followed his superiors' orders on when to close or open the floodgate. This explained how a high sea tide could then cause the canal linked to the floodgate to overflow and thus flood part of Bangkok. There is still about one more month left to correct what was wrong in flood prevention and it is not too late though. I just pick up the flood topic today since my tired voice about it might not be well heard once before. Today my voice gets clearer thanks to good medicine and I want to let you know about it.
Too much talking is like flooding and I do not want to talk too much myself. But I cannot miss talking about Prime Minister Surayud for the sake of his good intention and honesty in serving the country. I hope everyone will do their duty well and I will be as happy as I am at the age of 80. May everyone who works with determination and honesty and realises in the use of their old age succeed in their jobs.
Good things come to an end because..................
because of lack of understanding of the universe, and our judgements of good and bad, usually taken from a gain/loss, happiness/sadness criteria, which is so limited in the whole scheme of things, for so many times I have gained what initially I thought was a blessing which turned out to be a curse, and I have lost a few things that I loved but then was able to see down the track how much they sucked out of me, but as all good things end, so as do all bad things end, only your judgement of good and bad exists, in life there is no such thing as good or bad, life just is, a circle.
No individual who wishes to change the world wants followers they want doers
Whats the point of heading a religion or country if people just become sheep, and are unable to practice what you say is the right way, because nothing is going to change, because theres no point saying you love God if you dont love everyone, theres no point saying you love jesus if you hate, theres no point saying you are buddhist if you steal, anyone can talk the talk, saying they do this and believe that, thats the easy part, but what really makes a difference in the world are the people that actual do love, dont steal, dont cheat, and the love that God talks about is the most difficult to achieve because it is without judgement, attachment or pain, and the only way we are going to change the world is by doing it, practicing daily and not just talking about it.
Have you just wasted another year, or did you actually accomplish something this time..........
My heart aches for all those who are still stuck in there depressing delluded lives, so many people are suffering because of their fear and laziness, lying to themselves and those around them that they are actually really happy, or will be soon (HA HA HA HA LOL) while inside their crying, and its not the fact that you have no money, no friends, or that your "life" sucks, or maybe you have just realized that working at the local factory, supermaket or gas station is as good as its going to get, its how you percieve the world and your surroundings, its the fact that no mater what you get in life you will never be content, because you live in fear and dellusion, and thats how governments and your mind wish to keep it, the masses are easier to control and minpulate if they are living in fear. Are you just wasting your life wishing for something in the future to save your life from boredom, saddness or poverty, maybe you think that the next boyfriend/ girlfriend is going to save your life and actually make it worth something, but the fact is it is already worth more than you can ever be paid or win, its about being content with what you have got, life is about what you do with it, and not how much SHIT you can find to keep, and living by what you need, and not creating delluded fantasies about the bigger the TV, faster the car, the more luxurious your home, the happier you will be, poor poor fools, I cry for you and your suffering, stop wasting your time dreaming about fantasies which you are too afraid to follow, it would be far more beneficial if you actually started living in the moment, stopped worrying about the past or future, concentrate on what you are doing now, and not would could have been, or what might be, happiness will never occur in the future, if you can not be happy in the NOW you never will be, and I pray that you realize that sooner rather than later, for your own sakes, when are you going to stop harming yourselves?
Killing the Buddha..............................
Sam Harris
"Kill the Buddha," says the old koan. "Kill Buddhism," says Sam Harris, author ot The End of Faith, who argues that Buddhism's philosophy, insight, and practices would benefit more people if they were not presented as a religion. The ninth-century Buddhist master Lin Chi is supposed to have said, "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." Like much of Zen teaching, this seems too cute by half, but it makes a valuable point: to turn the Buddha into a religious fetish is to miss the essence of what he taught. In considering what Buddhism can offer the world in the twenty-first century, I propose that we take Lin Chi's admonishment rather seriously. As students of the Buddha, we should dispense with Buddhism. This is not to say that Buddhism has nothing to offer the world. One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced. In a world that has long been terrorized by fratricidal Sky-God religions, the ascendance of Buddhism would surely be a welcome development. But this will not happen. There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can successfully compete with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to. The wisdom of the Buddha is currently trapped within the religion of Buddhism. Even in the West, where scientists and Buddhist contemplatives now collaborate in studying the effects of meditation on the brain, Buddhism remains an utterly parochial concern. While it may be true enough to say (as many Buddhist practitioners allege) that "Buddhism is not a religion," most Buddhists worldwide practice it as such, in many of the naive, petitionary, and superstitious ways in which all religions are practiced. Needless to say, all non-Buddhists believe Buddhism to be a religion—and, what is more, they are quite certain that it is the wrong religion. To talk about "Buddhism," therefore, inevitably imparts a false sense of the Buddha's teaching to others. So insofar as we maintain a discourse as "Buddhists," we ensure that the wisdom of the Buddha will do little to inform the development of civilization in the twenty-first century. Worse still, the continued identification of Buddhists with Buddhism lends tacit support to the religious differences in our world. At this point in history, this is both morally and intellectually indefensible—especially among affluent, well-educated Westerners who bear the greatest responsibility for the spread of ideas. It does not seem much of an exaggeration to say that if you are reading this article, you are in a better position to influence the course of history than almost any person in history. Given the degree to which religion still inspires human conflict, and impedes genuine inquiry, I believe that merely being a self-described "Buddhist" is to be complicit in the world's violence and ignorance to an unacceptable degree. It is true that many exponents of Buddhism, most notably the Dalai Lama, have been remarkably willing to enrich (and even constrain) their view of the world through dialogue with modern science. But the fact that the Dalai Lama regularly meets with Western scientists to discuss the nature of the mind does not mean that Buddhism, or Tibetan Buddhism, or even the Dalai Lama's own lineage, is uncontaminated by religious dogmatism. Indeed, there are ideas within Buddhism that are so incredible as to render the dogma of the virgin birth plausible by comparison. No one is served by a mode of discourse that treats such pre-literate notions as integral to our evolving discourse about the nature of the human mind. Among Western Buddhists, there are college-educated men and women who apparently believe that Guru Rinpoche was actually born from a lotus. This is not the spiritual breakthrough that civilization has been waiting for these many centuries. For the fact is that a person can embrace the Buddha's teaching, and even become a genuine Buddhist contemplative (and, one must presume, a buddha) without believing anything on insufficient evidence. The same cannot be said of the teachings for faith-based religion. In many respects, Buddhism is very much like science. One starts with the hypothesis that using attention in the prescribed way (meditation), and engaging in or avoiding certain behaviors (ethics), will bear the promised result (wisdom and psychological well-being). This spirit of empiricism animates Buddhism to a unique degree. For this reason, the methodology of Buddhism, if shorn of its religious encumbrances, could be one of our greatest resources as we struggle to develop our scientific understanding of human subjectivity.The Problem of ReligionIncompatible religious doctrines have balkanized our world into separate moral communities, and these divisions have become a continuous source of bloodshed. Indeed, religion is as much a living spring of violence today as it has been at any time in the past. The recent conflicts in Palestine (Jews vs. Muslims), the Balkans (Orthodox Serbians vs. Catholic Croatians; Orthodox Serbians vs. Bosnian and Albanian Muslims), Northern Ireland (Protestants vs. Catholics), Kashmir (Muslims vs. Hindus), Sudan (Muslims vs. Christians and animists), Nigeria (Muslims vs. Christians), Ethiopia and Eritrea (Muslims vs. Christians), Sri Lanka (Sinhalese Buddhists vs. Tamil Hindus), Indonesia (Muslims vs. Timorese Christians), Iran and Iraq (Shiite vs. Sunni Muslims), and the Caucasus (Orthodox Russians vs. Chechen Muslims; Muslim Azerbaijanis vs. Catholic and Orthodox Armenians) are merely a few cases in point. These are places where religion has been the explicit cause of literally millions of deaths in recent decades. Why is religion such a potent source of violence? There is no other sphere of discourse in which human beings so fully articulate their differences from one another, or cast these differences in terms of everlasting rewards and punishments. Religion is the one endeavor in which us–them thinking achieves a transcendent significance. If you really believe that calling God by the right name can spell the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, then it becomes quite reasonable to treat heretics and unbelievers rather badly. The stakes of our religious differences are immeasurably higher than those born of mere tribalism, racism, or politics. Religion is also the only area of our discourse in which people are systematically protected from the demand to give evidence in defense of their strongly held beliefs. And yet, these beliefs often determine what they live for, what they will die for, and—all too often—what they will kill for. This is a problem, because when the stakes are high, human beings have a simple choice between conversation and violence. At the level of societies, the choice is between conversation and war. There is nothing apart from a fundamental willingness to be reasonable—to have one's beliefs about the world revised by new evidence and new arguments—that can guarantee we will keep talking to one another. Certainty without evidence is necessarily divisive and dehumanizing. Therefore, one of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest personal concerns—about ethics, spiritual experience, and the inevitability of human suffering—in ways that are not flagrantly irrational. Nothing stands in the way of this project more than the respect we accord religious faith. While there is no guarantee that rational people will always agree, the irrational are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It seems profoundly unlikely that we will heal the divisions in our world simply by multiplying the occasions for interfaith dialogue. The end game for civilization cannot be mutual tolerance of patent irrationality. All parties to ecumenical religious discourse have agreed to tread lightly over those points where their worldviews would otherwise collide, and yet these very points remain perpetual sources of bewilderment and intolerance for their coreligionists. Political correctness simply does not offer an enduring basis for human cooperation. If religious war is ever to become unthinkable for us, in the way that slavery and cannibalism seem poised to, it will be a matter of our having dispensed with the dogma of faith.A Contemplative ScienceWhat the world most needs at this moment is a means of convincing human beings to embrace the whole of the species as their moral community. For this we need to develop an utterly nonsectarian way of talking about the full spectrum of human experience and human aspiration. We need a discourse on ethics and spirituality that is every bit as unconstrained by dogma and cultural prejudice as the discourse of science is. What we need, in fact, is a contemplative science, a modern approach to exploring the furthest reaches of psychological well-being. It should go without saying that we will not develop such a science by attempting to spread "American Buddhism," or "Western Buddhism," or "Engaged Buddhism." If the methodology of Buddhism (ethical precepts and meditation) uncovers genuine truths about the mind and the phenomenal world—truths like emptiness, selflessness, and impermanence—these truths are not in the least "Buddhist." No doubt, most serious practitioners of meditation realize this, but most Buddhists do not. Consequently, even if a person is aware of the timeless and noncontingent nature of the meditative insights described in the Buddhist literature, his identity as a Buddhist will tend to confuse the matter for others. There is a reason that we don't talk about "Christian physics" or "Muslim algebra," though the Christians invented physics as we know it, and the Muslims invented algebra. Today, anyone who emphasizes the Christian roots of physics or the Muslim roots of algebra would stand convicted of not understanding these disciplines at all. In the same way, once we develop a scientific account of the contemplative path, it will utterly transcend its religious associations. Once such a conceptual revolution has taken place, speaking of "Buddhist" meditation will be synonymous with a failure to assimilate the changes that have occurred in our understanding of the human mind. It is as yet undetermined what it means to be human, because every facet of our culture—and even our biology itself—remains open to innovation and insight. We do not know what we will be a thousand years from now—or indeed that we will be, given the lethal absurdity of many of our beliefs—but whatever changes await us, one thing seems unlikely to change: as long as experience endures, the difference between happiness and suffering will remain our paramount concern. We will therefore want to understand those processes—biochemical, behavioral, ethical, political, economic, and spiritual—that account for this difference. We do not yet have anything like a final understanding of such processes, but we know enough to rule out many false understandings. Indeed, we know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man. There is much more to be discovered about the nature of the human mind. In particular, there is much more for us to understand about how the mind can transform itself from a mere reservoir of greed, hatred, and delusion into an instrument of wisdom and compassion. Students of the Buddha are very well placed to further our understanding on this front, but the religion of Buddhism currently stands in their way.
Killing The Buddha, by Sam Harris, Shambhala Sun, March 2006. http://mambo.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=2903&Itemid=247
"Kill the Buddha," says the old koan. "Kill Buddhism," says Sam Harris, author ot The End of Faith, who argues that Buddhism's philosophy, insight, and practices would benefit more people if they were not presented as a religion. The ninth-century Buddhist master Lin Chi is supposed to have said, "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." Like much of Zen teaching, this seems too cute by half, but it makes a valuable point: to turn the Buddha into a religious fetish is to miss the essence of what he taught. In considering what Buddhism can offer the world in the twenty-first century, I propose that we take Lin Chi's admonishment rather seriously. As students of the Buddha, we should dispense with Buddhism. This is not to say that Buddhism has nothing to offer the world. One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced. In a world that has long been terrorized by fratricidal Sky-God religions, the ascendance of Buddhism would surely be a welcome development. But this will not happen. There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can successfully compete with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to. The wisdom of the Buddha is currently trapped within the religion of Buddhism. Even in the West, where scientists and Buddhist contemplatives now collaborate in studying the effects of meditation on the brain, Buddhism remains an utterly parochial concern. While it may be true enough to say (as many Buddhist practitioners allege) that "Buddhism is not a religion," most Buddhists worldwide practice it as such, in many of the naive, petitionary, and superstitious ways in which all religions are practiced. Needless to say, all non-Buddhists believe Buddhism to be a religion—and, what is more, they are quite certain that it is the wrong religion. To talk about "Buddhism," therefore, inevitably imparts a false sense of the Buddha's teaching to others. So insofar as we maintain a discourse as "Buddhists," we ensure that the wisdom of the Buddha will do little to inform the development of civilization in the twenty-first century. Worse still, the continued identification of Buddhists with Buddhism lends tacit support to the religious differences in our world. At this point in history, this is both morally and intellectually indefensible—especially among affluent, well-educated Westerners who bear the greatest responsibility for the spread of ideas. It does not seem much of an exaggeration to say that if you are reading this article, you are in a better position to influence the course of history than almost any person in history. Given the degree to which religion still inspires human conflict, and impedes genuine inquiry, I believe that merely being a self-described "Buddhist" is to be complicit in the world's violence and ignorance to an unacceptable degree. It is true that many exponents of Buddhism, most notably the Dalai Lama, have been remarkably willing to enrich (and even constrain) their view of the world through dialogue with modern science. But the fact that the Dalai Lama regularly meets with Western scientists to discuss the nature of the mind does not mean that Buddhism, or Tibetan Buddhism, or even the Dalai Lama's own lineage, is uncontaminated by religious dogmatism. Indeed, there are ideas within Buddhism that are so incredible as to render the dogma of the virgin birth plausible by comparison. No one is served by a mode of discourse that treats such pre-literate notions as integral to our evolving discourse about the nature of the human mind. Among Western Buddhists, there are college-educated men and women who apparently believe that Guru Rinpoche was actually born from a lotus. This is not the spiritual breakthrough that civilization has been waiting for these many centuries. For the fact is that a person can embrace the Buddha's teaching, and even become a genuine Buddhist contemplative (and, one must presume, a buddha) without believing anything on insufficient evidence. The same cannot be said of the teachings for faith-based religion. In many respects, Buddhism is very much like science. One starts with the hypothesis that using attention in the prescribed way (meditation), and engaging in or avoiding certain behaviors (ethics), will bear the promised result (wisdom and psychological well-being). This spirit of empiricism animates Buddhism to a unique degree. For this reason, the methodology of Buddhism, if shorn of its religious encumbrances, could be one of our greatest resources as we struggle to develop our scientific understanding of human subjectivity.The Problem of ReligionIncompatible religious doctrines have balkanized our world into separate moral communities, and these divisions have become a continuous source of bloodshed. Indeed, religion is as much a living spring of violence today as it has been at any time in the past. The recent conflicts in Palestine (Jews vs. Muslims), the Balkans (Orthodox Serbians vs. Catholic Croatians; Orthodox Serbians vs. Bosnian and Albanian Muslims), Northern Ireland (Protestants vs. Catholics), Kashmir (Muslims vs. Hindus), Sudan (Muslims vs. Christians and animists), Nigeria (Muslims vs. Christians), Ethiopia and Eritrea (Muslims vs. Christians), Sri Lanka (Sinhalese Buddhists vs. Tamil Hindus), Indonesia (Muslims vs. Timorese Christians), Iran and Iraq (Shiite vs. Sunni Muslims), and the Caucasus (Orthodox Russians vs. Chechen Muslims; Muslim Azerbaijanis vs. Catholic and Orthodox Armenians) are merely a few cases in point. These are places where religion has been the explicit cause of literally millions of deaths in recent decades. Why is religion such a potent source of violence? There is no other sphere of discourse in which human beings so fully articulate their differences from one another, or cast these differences in terms of everlasting rewards and punishments. Religion is the one endeavor in which us–them thinking achieves a transcendent significance. If you really believe that calling God by the right name can spell the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, then it becomes quite reasonable to treat heretics and unbelievers rather badly. The stakes of our religious differences are immeasurably higher than those born of mere tribalism, racism, or politics. Religion is also the only area of our discourse in which people are systematically protected from the demand to give evidence in defense of their strongly held beliefs. And yet, these beliefs often determine what they live for, what they will die for, and—all too often—what they will kill for. This is a problem, because when the stakes are high, human beings have a simple choice between conversation and violence. At the level of societies, the choice is between conversation and war. There is nothing apart from a fundamental willingness to be reasonable—to have one's beliefs about the world revised by new evidence and new arguments—that can guarantee we will keep talking to one another. Certainty without evidence is necessarily divisive and dehumanizing. Therefore, one of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest personal concerns—about ethics, spiritual experience, and the inevitability of human suffering—in ways that are not flagrantly irrational. Nothing stands in the way of this project more than the respect we accord religious faith. While there is no guarantee that rational people will always agree, the irrational are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It seems profoundly unlikely that we will heal the divisions in our world simply by multiplying the occasions for interfaith dialogue. The end game for civilization cannot be mutual tolerance of patent irrationality. All parties to ecumenical religious discourse have agreed to tread lightly over those points where their worldviews would otherwise collide, and yet these very points remain perpetual sources of bewilderment and intolerance for their coreligionists. Political correctness simply does not offer an enduring basis for human cooperation. If religious war is ever to become unthinkable for us, in the way that slavery and cannibalism seem poised to, it will be a matter of our having dispensed with the dogma of faith.A Contemplative ScienceWhat the world most needs at this moment is a means of convincing human beings to embrace the whole of the species as their moral community. For this we need to develop an utterly nonsectarian way of talking about the full spectrum of human experience and human aspiration. We need a discourse on ethics and spirituality that is every bit as unconstrained by dogma and cultural prejudice as the discourse of science is. What we need, in fact, is a contemplative science, a modern approach to exploring the furthest reaches of psychological well-being. It should go without saying that we will not develop such a science by attempting to spread "American Buddhism," or "Western Buddhism," or "Engaged Buddhism." If the methodology of Buddhism (ethical precepts and meditation) uncovers genuine truths about the mind and the phenomenal world—truths like emptiness, selflessness, and impermanence—these truths are not in the least "Buddhist." No doubt, most serious practitioners of meditation realize this, but most Buddhists do not. Consequently, even if a person is aware of the timeless and noncontingent nature of the meditative insights described in the Buddhist literature, his identity as a Buddhist will tend to confuse the matter for others. There is a reason that we don't talk about "Christian physics" or "Muslim algebra," though the Christians invented physics as we know it, and the Muslims invented algebra. Today, anyone who emphasizes the Christian roots of physics or the Muslim roots of algebra would stand convicted of not understanding these disciplines at all. In the same way, once we develop a scientific account of the contemplative path, it will utterly transcend its religious associations. Once such a conceptual revolution has taken place, speaking of "Buddhist" meditation will be synonymous with a failure to assimilate the changes that have occurred in our understanding of the human mind. It is as yet undetermined what it means to be human, because every facet of our culture—and even our biology itself—remains open to innovation and insight. We do not know what we will be a thousand years from now—or indeed that we will be, given the lethal absurdity of many of our beliefs—but whatever changes await us, one thing seems unlikely to change: as long as experience endures, the difference between happiness and suffering will remain our paramount concern. We will therefore want to understand those processes—biochemical, behavioral, ethical, political, economic, and spiritual—that account for this difference. We do not yet have anything like a final understanding of such processes, but we know enough to rule out many false understandings. Indeed, we know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man. There is much more to be discovered about the nature of the human mind. In particular, there is much more for us to understand about how the mind can transform itself from a mere reservoir of greed, hatred, and delusion into an instrument of wisdom and compassion. Students of the Buddha are very well placed to further our understanding on this front, but the religion of Buddhism currently stands in their way.
Killing The Buddha, by Sam Harris, Shambhala Sun, March 2006. http://mambo.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=2903&Itemid=247
It amazing how quickly humans can use and abuse something......................................
How much of blogging has come down to "he said she said bullshit", such as, "he said I was a bitch", "she said I was a liar", such a great invention that could bring people from all over the world together, wipe out racism, sexism, prejudices and wars, and what ever other habits humans have for harming others in the name of making themselves feel better, but NO, people still have to get caught up in the bullshit that means nothing and you wont even remember when you are on your death bed!!!!!!, remember hate breeds hate, racism breeds racism, and ignorance breeds igorance, for once in your life step out of the circle take a look at life and say What the F*#K am I actually doing with my life ?
Its easy to beat death, you just have to.......
free yourself from time, and death will no longer exist, its only our minds that have created this illusion around death becasue then it ceases to exist and the egoic mind will do anything to dellude its host that this is a bad event, when in fact its not the first time you have had to go through the door, all things are transitory and empty, there have been many great civilisations, countries and even species, but all that has a beginning has an end, and where did the mind come from, for nothing can just appear from nothing,
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