SITTING DN

//////////////sitting down for more than six hours a day can increase your risk of death by as much as 40%.


////////////Kiki had to get out, get going, or she'd punch a hole in something



//////////////adomania-at 48

n. the sense that the future is arriving ahead of schedule 



////////////////////20 yr surviving retrmnt- extremely lucky


//////////////////
 meta-analysis, a set of tools for weighing and combining evidence."


///////////////////////////Neuroscientists warn us that we may have no freewill, no 'self' at the helm; their work shows that our memories are leaky reconstructions and that even our visual perception of the world is a system of illusions."



////////////////////////Fiction exists for its own purposes, and writers and readers will rightly resist attempts to turn it into "evidence" for or against anything. It's possible that neuroscience is just too new for its ideas to have permeated literary fiction in the way that those other paradigm-changers, Darwinism and psychoanalysis, did." 

SURVVING ME= SAR= SCTTR, ADPT AND RMMBR

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ARISTOTLE, MIND AND MDNSS

////////////////////No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
―Aristotle

////////ACCPTING FLR, BUT NOT ACCPTING NOT TRYING

/////////// that a great proportion of Medicare health costs are incurred in the last three months of a patient’s life.

COMPRESSED MORBIDITY- THE FINAL 3 MO

///////////////////////..........almost 40% of patients who unexpectedly returned after an initial primary care visit had been misdiagnosed.  Almost 80% of the misdiagnoses were tied to problems in doctor-patient communication,

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RELNSHPS

////////////////////Cl is married to a man she doesn't love and mother to a daughter she doesn't understand



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BRKUPISM

//////////////Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.



///////////////////////

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.                      ~ Ben Stein 

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IGHTY TIGHTY LEFTY LOOSEY

/////////////////////UR JNK IS EXTRAORDY-FEED IT PEANUTS




//////////////////CHSTTY DGNTY




///////////////////////NED SEP= PRXTN SELLING KRSTN OR OTHER WAY ROUND


////////////////////////////DWNTN ABBY- BG EPISODE- SOMEONE STOLE A SPOON



////////////////////////////3 PILLS, 2 PUKES AND A POO- IM READY TO GO



////////////////////////////630- IS THE SUN GOING UP OR DN?



////////////////////////////////HUGH JCKMN- BRING HIM HM- LE MISERAB



////////////////////////ACTOR, TK A ROLE, TK A RISK



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EVO MUSIC PATTERN RECOGN

///////////////////////When the nucleus accumbens region became active–it’s a part of the brain associated with pleasant surprises or what neuroscientists call “positive prediction errors”–they were more willing to spend money. In other words, if a song turned out better than they had expected, based on pattern recognition, they wanted more of it.




//////////////////Stanford neuroscientist Daniel Abrams determined that when different people listened to the same piece of music–in this case a little known symphony–their brains reflected similar patterns of activity. And those similarities were observed not just in areas of the brain linked with sound processing, but also in regions responsible for attention, memory and movement.




///////////////////////New South Wales scientist Gary Houseley, who says his research showed that loud music causes hearing to diminish for only about 12 hours. His study was able to demonstrate that when sound levels rise, the inner ear releases a hormone which reduces the amount of sound transmitted by the ear hair’s cells. That reduces our hearing sensitivity for a while, but it also keeps our ears from being permanently damaged.

SMTHSNIAN



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SHORT TIME BENEFIT- LONG TERM SUFFRNG

//////////////////FORTITUDE=PLOD ON
Fortitude, fortitude, fortitude. The ability to stay on your path when things get rough is one of the best qualities you can develop in yourself.



////////////////////////PHNTM- DNA PLMR


////////////////////UR DOG IS A WOLF- I KNOW



//////////////////////EVO MUSIC=Why should a collection of sounds cause the brain to reward itself? That remains a bit of a mystery, but a favorite theory, proposed almost 60 years ago, posits that it’s about fulfilled expectations. Put simply, music sets up patterns that causes us to predict what will come next and when we’re right, we get a reward. Some have suggested this has its roots in primitive times when guessing wrong about animal sounds was a matter of life or death. What was needed was a quick emotional response to save our skin, rather than taking a time to think things through.




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ON CLL CNNLA CRSS PRNTS ANXTY CRSS- SEEN ALL- ZEN IT- EXISTENTIAL IMPATIENCE- ZEN IT

/////////////////RM BLRM 1980 SN


//////////TOMRO PRNT 50TH MRRG ANNVRSRY



///////////////ZEN DIET



/////////////// "Ek rasta do raahi ek chor ek sipaahi"


///////////

Perhaps your fox can perform that trick, but that is not the way of Zen. My miracle is that when I feel hungry I eat, and when I feel thirsty I drink.

-- Bankei

Partake of food at regular intervals. Eat with moderation and never to the point of satisfaction.

-- Soyen Shaku




  

MMC- MK THM CRZ

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.    //////////////////"Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety"— Emil Cioran   /////////////////// 

KINDERFESTE, HPPY BDAY

/////////////////////Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon - Susan Ertz



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MXTHN IN SLVR CMPTR- EVERYTHING IS COPACETIC

//////////////MOORES LW


///////////OUR CMPTRS 2003-2006-2009-2012


/////////////IF DIET GOES ON


//////////SOUP, CUCUMBR AND CRRT FILLERS IF PANGS WHEN >4 HRS


//////////////////COMPRESSED MORBIDITY=50-70=Most pills consumed in last 20 years of life. Which is why u want to try and avoid chronic disease..



////////////////Aim to do 10,000 steps a day. Most people do less than 5000. A long term study on people who lost weight and kept it off found that those who were successful all increased the amounts they walked.



///////////////ALL THINGS - IMPERMAMNENT- RISE AND PASS AWAY



////////////////BE HUMBLE FOR U R MADE OF MUD, BE NOBLE THAT U R MADE OF STAR- SERBIAN PROVERB



/////////////////SELF IS A PROCESS , NOT FIXED



//////////////NOT ALWAYS SO= NAS  ZEN



/////////////////TYRANNY OF TIME AND BLACK BERRIES



////////////////SEEKING SOMETHING ELSE



/////////////////////COME TO REST TO REALITY OF BEING HER AND NOW= BHAN



////////////////////"One or Two Things"
by Mary Oliver


Don’t bother me.
I’ve just
been born.


The butterfly’s loping flight
carries it through the country of the leaves
delicately, and well enough to get it
where it wants to go, wherever that is, stopping
here and there to fuzzle the damp throats
of flowers and the black mud; up
and down it swings, frenzied and aimless; and sometimes




/////////////////////SIT AND REST IN THE WITNESSING

BDDHA RADIO



////////////////////BODY TEACHES YOU




/////////////////////////MIND= RIVER OF THOUGHTS, MOSTLY REPEATS



///////////////////////////////HPPINSS NOT FROM GRASPING THINGS



//////////////////////////////Pali chant which expresses this: 

All things are impermanent
They arise and they pass away.
To live in harmony with this truth

Brings great happiness







///////////////////////   MEDITT- QUIET OURSLF AND FIND A CENTRE



///////////////////////////LVNGKINDNESS



/////////////////////KELLER- WRLD IS FULL OF SUFFRING, ALSO FULL OF THE OVERCOMING OF THE SUFFRING



////////////////////LOYALTY TO OUR SUFFERING




///////////////////////SLF JDGMNT TO SLF COMPASSN



////////////////////DONT FEAR CHANGE AND SUFFERING- THAT IS PART OF THE DANCE



///////////////////ALL THINGS CHANGE



//////////////////ALL CHANGE PLEASE



/////////////////////MEANWHILE, MIND THE GAP




/////////////////////CLINGING TO ENSLAVES US




//////////////////////////GIVE UP GRASPING


//////////////////measure of sorrow we are all given= FMWD



/////////////////////MEASURE OF JOY ALL GIVEN



////////////////////// 

RD BK LONG WALK- DKKHA- cf NWS MSD

///////////////////////ছোটবেলার দুর্গাপুর আর কলকাতা



/////////////////CANVAS BAND- ROCKER BAND


///////////////কলকাতা  

NBL TRUTHS

////////////////////////dukkha" as "stress."

"Now this, monks, is the noble truth of stress: Birth is stressful, aging is stressful, death is stressful; sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair are stressful; association with the unbeloved is stressful, separation from the loved is stressful, not getting what is wanted is stressful. In short, the five clinging-aggregates are stressful."

////////////////////"In short, the five clinging-aggregates are stressful." This is a reference to the Five Skandhas Very roughly, the skandhas might be thought of as components that come together to make an individual -- our bodies, senses, thoughts, predilections, and consciousness.


/////////////////////ABT.COM=Buddhism is not a means to cocoon ourselves in pleasant beliefs and hopes to make life more bearable. Instead, it is a way to liberate ourselves from the constant push-pull of attraction and aversion and the cycle of samsara. The first step in this process is understanding the nature of dukkha.



//////////////////// First Noble Truth by stressing three insights. The first insight is acknowledgment -- there is suffering, or dukkha. The second is a kind of encouragement --dukkha is to be understood. The third is realization -- dukkha is understood.



//////////////////////Buddha didn't leave us with a belief system, but with a path. The path begins by acknowledging dukkha and seeing it for what it is. We stop running away from what bothers us and pretending the unease isn't there. We stop assigning blame or being angry because life isn't what we think it should be.




////////////////////////Thich Nhat Hanh said,
"Recognizing and identifying our suffering is like the work of a doctor diagnosing an illness. He or she says, 'If I press here, does it hurt?' and we say, 'Yes, this is my suffering. This has come to be.' The wounds in our heart become the object of our meditation. We show them to the doctor, and we show them to the Buddha, which means we show them to ourselves." [From The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching



//////////////////////// Sumedho advises us to not identify with the suffering.
"The ignorant person says, 'I'm suffering. I don't want to suffer. I meditate and I go on retreats to get out of suffering, but I'm still suffering and I don't want to suffer.... How can I get out of suffering? What can I do to get rid of it?' But that is not the First Noble Truth; it is not: 'I am suffering and I want to end it.' The insight is, 'There is suffering'... The insight is simply the acknowledgment that there is this suffering without making it personal." [From The Four Noble Truths (Amaravati



//////////////////////////First Noble Truth is the diagnosis -- identifying the disease -- the Second explains the cause of the disease. The Third assures us that there is a cure, and the Fourth prescribes the remedy.




///////////////////////MEDIEVAL - BAD HPPND TO THE UGLY- PHEBE, FRNDS


//////////////////////////.........crystal ball has arived at a logical conclusion about the future of mankind, which many people have already reached without extgensive research. Unfettered science for financial objectives rather than conservational aims - pollution ot the environment - wasteful exploitation of the earth's resources, slaughter of animals and warfare.....how the movie ends is pretty easy to predict.




/////////////////////////Long-term exposure to air pollution may be linked to heart attacks and strokes by speeding up atherosclerosis, or "hardening of the arteries," according to a University of Michigan




//////////////////////////////

GPIG SUN GRAZE

//////////////////////Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.                 ~ Robert Frost 

//////////////////////The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow.” ~Unknown

////////////////////the gr8 messianic hallelujah

//////////////////BG RETREAT

LT GO

RTRT 3 YRS TBT

NON MONASTIC RTRTS

DIY BDDHST

//////////////////////////////JRNALISM VS CHURNALISM

/////////////////////////////NORMAL MIND STATE LOUDER/OBNOXIOUS

/////////////////////////////////SILENT RETREAT ANNAUALLY FOLLD BY MAINTENANCE

///////////////////////////21ST CENTURY RETREAT

////////////////////////

FRST CT

////////////////50 NR
THEN 50-80 GD BYE


///////////////It isn’t what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it’s what we say to ourselves about what happens.” ~Pema Chodron



////////////////////Pain fades when we let go of expectations




////////////////Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. ~ William Shakespeare



////////////////// A global long-term cooling trend ended late in the 19th century and was followed decades later by the warmest temperatures in nearly 1,400 years, a sweeping study of temperature change showed.



//////////////////// A new study has found that mandatory gloving is associated with a decreased risk for hospital-acquired infections in pediatric units. 





//////////////////////// Teenagers are risk-takers - they're more likely than children or adults to experiment with illicit substances, have unprotected sex, and drive recklessly.


ESPLAND CNMA CRSS 82



//////////////////////////// Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat." 
- Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man




/////////////////////////////

FRST CT

#

We are here. We are queer. Get used to it

PANDIC PREGNANT PAWS

/////////////////EVO MUSIC=Evolutionary psychologists say there may have been a time when predicting sonic patterns was essential to survival. A shrill sound on the African savanna may have been a harmless monkey or a nearby lion. "By bypassing the 'logical brain' and taking a shortcut to the primitive limbic circuits that control our emotions, the mental processing of sound could prompt a rush of adrenalin—a gut reaction—that prepares us to get out of there anyway." Such theories on music have received recent support from brain scans that show an interplay between emotion and logic circuits in the brain when we listen to a piece of music for the first time. BT


///////////////RELN OVER MONEY


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PRNT RELNSHP

//////////////////////What I wonder about is why we love our children so asymmetrically, so entirely, knowing that the very best we can hope for is that they will feel about us as we feel about our own parents: that slightly aggrieved mixture of affection, pity, tolerance and forgiveness, with a final soupcon - if we live long enough - of sorrow for our falling away, stumbling and shattered, from the vigour that once was ours.


///////////////////

"The trouble with history is that there are too many people involved"— Nick Hornby

/////////////////Our sorrows and wounds are only healed when we touch them with compassion.” ~Buddha


////////////////// 

JRNY- WHOS CRYNG NW?

///////////////////////ANDY GBB-DESIRE


//////////////////////36K PPL , LNDN MRTHN


/////////////////////////8K PPL IN OHS ERN >100K/YR

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CORE VS SUN = MCLWP

///////////////////Earths liquid core is slowly solidifying. It's estimated that once we lose the liquid core, we lose the magnetic fields protecting us from cosmic rays & gamma rays. All life will cease at this point and it will happen much sooner than changes from the sun.


///////////////////////von NEUMANN PROBES AND von DRION PILL


//////////////////////PNDA PRBLMS


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HOAXOLOGY- WLTH

///////////////////To get into the top 1 per cent of world earners, you need a salary of £23,000 (the UK average is £26,500).


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TECHNOTUNE- PORT IS LEFT- C VALUE PARADOX

/////////////////////////RIJKSMUSEUM


////////////////////////////SHRT LF, VLNT DTH


//////////////////////BIG DIPPER, URSA MAJOR



////////////////////////The C-value enigma or C-value paradox is the complex puzzle surrounding the extensive variation in nuclear genome size among eukaryotic species. At the center of the C-value enigma is the observation that genome size does not correlate with organismal complexity; for example, some single-celled protists have genomes much larger than that of humans.



//////////////////////HOW OLD THEY ARE= FERN 1320
HUMAN 46


////////////////////////

Cordial but distant relnship

//////////////////////It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly."
– Isaac Asimov

/////////////////

MThr frai agm with IBS. No pt to persist with VK vst

/////////://///////givb them a chance.  Nw health not willing



/////////////////gon or bdy willing



/////////////////lomotil.  And dioralyte for now.  Mthr

COLLPSE OF KNWLDGE - YP

/////////////////// "the two biological bags of fluid" as David Eagleman describes our brain in his book Incognito, are hard-wired for stupidity, or at least the triumph of emotional over rational systems.


////////////////////the Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman in Thinking, Fast and Slow shows that we are given to all sorts of short cuts that lead us to the wrong conclusion. He divides the mind, like many others before him, into two systems – one that operates automatically and quickly, with little effort and no voluntary control; the other that allocates attention to mental tasks and requires a high degree of effort



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FAME, SUCCESS AND HEALTH

////////////////////instead that people who are successful but not famous may be predisposed to being healthier


/////////////////

SC AND MATHS

/////////////////////Einstein put it: “Books on physics are full of complicated mathematical formulas, but thought and ideas are the beginning of every physical theory.”


///////////////////At first glance the question seems rather pointless and the answer trivial; we can easily name dozens of Nobel Prize winners whose work was not mathematical at all. Most top chemists and biomedical researchers have little use for mathematics per se, except in terms of using statistical software or basic calculus


//////////////////

Thoughts are bubbles in a toilet.

//////////////////ZEN MASTER LIN CHI=

When it’s time to get dressed, put on your clothes.

When you must walk, then walk.
When you must sit, then sit.
Just be your ordinary self in ordinary life,
unconcerned in seeking for Buddhahood.
When you’re tired, lie down.
The fool will laugh at you
but the wise man will understand.

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

///////////////SHELLEY=

Drive my dead thoughts over the universe

Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!
And, by the incantation of this verse,
Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Be through my lips to unawakened Earth
The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

/////////////////DOGEN=To learn the Buddha Way is to learn one's self. To learn one's self is to forget one's self. To forget one's self is to be confirmed by all dharmas [teachings as things themselves]. To be confirmed by all dharmas is to cast off one's body and mind and the bodies and minds of others as well. All trace of enlightenment disappears, and this traceless enlightenment continues on without end. 

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