Thursday 21 January 2021

THE HILL WE CLIMB X AMANDA GORMAN X JUST IS IS NOT JUSTICE X RD BK SERENDIPITY MINDSET

 


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HAWKINS WACOD BBTBR

LIVING IN THE STOP FRAME OF THE MOMENT 

CUT THRO THE NARRATIVE STORY OF THE MIND MOMENT 

STOP CREATING STORY ... PARAGRAPH...SENTENCES....PHRASES....WORD.....LANGUAGING

I AM THE WATER NOT THE GOLDFISH IN THE BOWL

THOUGHTS FLOWING THRO CONSC 
CONSC IS INVISIBLE AND HAS NO FORM

LET GO WANTING TO HAVE THE THOUGHT

STOP MIND FROM ANTICIPATING NEXT SECOND

MIND TRYING TO GET ONE UP ON THE NEXT INSTANT IN ORDER TO SURVIVE

PERSON EXPERIENCES EGO'S INTERPRETATION OF REALITY

MONITOR MIND FEEDS INTO YOUR EARS


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SERENDIPITY MINDSET RD BK


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SG 

RUDRA - ONE WHO ROARS

BIG BANG

SERIES OF BANGS- ENDLESS UNIVERSES 

BIG ROAR - RUDRA 

CREATION HAS ROARED 84 TIMES OUT OF MAX OF 112 TIMES

WE ARE IN THE 84TH RUDRA - ROAR

63 ALREADY GONE, 21 UNIVERSES STILL DISSOLVING

CURRENT BIG ROAR

BREAK OUT OF CYCLE - PUNARAPI JANAMAM PUNARAPI MARANAM- NOT A NEW JOURNEY- LIKE ANIMALS IN A LOOP 

KOLUR BALAD 

BULLOCKS OF THE OIL MILL BLIND FOLDED - KARMA

2 DIMESNSIONS - 83 HAPPENED , BIRTH HAPPENED, DTH HAPPENING ....TRYING TO DELAY IT

KARMA V FUTURE OF MERGING WITH BRAHMAN 

ANCESTRAL NOSE GENETIC MEMORY STORY

MEMORY BINDS YOU - SADHANA CUTS MEMORY













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Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment, because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy.

—Mark Coleman, “A Breath of Fresh Air”

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Perhaps you found your spouse “by coincidence”? Or came across your new job or apartment “by accident”? Did you meet your future cofounder or investor “by chance”? Or did you “randomly” pick up a magazine just to find exactly what you needed to know to solve a problem?


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Their beliefs all reflect the idea that while chance is a real force in our lives and in the world, there is more to life than blind luck. Indeed, the word “fortune” can refer to both success and luck. Even commonplace phrases such as “You make your own luck” or “He’s a man with an eye for the main chance” all point to the idea that success in life depends on an interaction—a synthesis—between pure chance and human effort.


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Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen. FRIEDRICH HAYEK, WINNER OF THE 1974 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS


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. Inventions such as nylon, Velcro, Viagra, Post-it Notes, X-rays, penicillin, rubber, and microwave ovens all involved serendipity

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LESSER THE COVID TRANSMISSION , LESSER THE MUTATIONS 


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“Awareness is the greatest agent for change.” ~Eckhart Tolle


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Fear has been my constant companion for as long as I can remember.


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Serendipity is active, “smart” luck that depends on our ability to spot and connect the dots



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Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. ALLEN SAUNDERS, AMERICAN WRITER, JOURNALIST, AND CARTOONIST


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Krishnaji and Preetha Krishna are founders of the O&O Academy in India, which has inspired millions of people. They see the power of consciousness at the core of their success. 43 To them, there is doing (achieving success, making important contacts, etc.) and being (how we experience life). Meaningful coincidences, they argue, happen once we are in a “beautiful state” and the universe starts arranging itself into patterns to fulfill our intentions, and solutions arise out of nothing. Based on some estimates, we have between twelve thousand and sixty thousand thoughts per day, most of them repetitive and up to 80 percent of them negative. 44 Krishnaji and Preetha (also known as Preethaji) have experimented with steps that help us move from this “suffering state” into the “beautiful state


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BD PRAYER

Picture someone you have not been able to find common ground with. You may never agree, but you can notice that even this person likely wants to feel safe and suffer less. Allow yourself to gently offer these words, noticing how it makes you feel: May you be free from suffering. May you know peace and joy.

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You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don’t take. WAYNE GRETZKY, FORMER PROFESSIONAL ICE HOCKEY PLAYER AND COACH


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HA KORLE GA MELE -FTHR

Some people do this intuitively, all the time. Frieder Strohauer, the owner of a legendary coffee shop in Heidelberg, Germany (and my first boss—I worked there during high school), told me that whenever he talks with someone, he thinks about what that person tells him and how it could fit into what he or others around him are doing. When a banker randomly tells him about an enterprise that’s about to go bankrupt, he wonders who might be interested in buying it. When a neighbor tells him that he’s looking for somewhere new to live, he tries to remember if he had a conversation recently where someone mentioned anything about houses being on the market. And of course, he tells people about what he enjoys doing. Often by what he thought was coincidence, someone always knows something; somehow it always comes together. Much of this is opportunity-seeking more generally, but it can lead to serendipitous connections. 


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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. CHARLES KETTERING, FORMER RESEARCH LEAD, GENERAL MOTORS


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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. ATTRIBUTED TO MARGARET MEAD, CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGIST

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The way you deal with the unexpected defines who you are. HUBERT JOLY, EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, BEST BUY


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Most ideas seem crazy or weird at the beginning—and they have the power to become the “new normal” once there is a critical mass who support it.

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History teaches us that new ideas and innovations, and societal progress more broadly, often arise from recombinations of existing ideas or technologies—the integration of which frequently happens through networks. 43 This can happen serendipitously, based on bringing together the knowledge of people who are exploring similarly unchartered territory


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The best education is one that prepares you for your own venture into the unknown. LEE C. BOLLINGER, PRESIDENT, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY


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SERENDIPITY SCORE

1. I sometimes chat to strangers when in line in public spaces such as the supermarket or bank.

 2. I try to understand what the underlying dynamic behind a problem is.

 3. I often see the value in unexpected information or encounters. 

4. I can get excited about a broad variety of topics. 

5. I have a strong sense of where I want to go. 

6. I am not easily discouraged when faced with a tricky problem.

 7. I tend to be “mentally present” in situations.

 8. I try to understand people’s deeper motivation. 

9. Good things always seem to happen to me. 

10. I often listen to gut feeling and hunches. 

11. I trust my judgment.

 12. I tend to try to get what I want from life. 

13. I expect most people I meet to be nice, pleasant, and helpful. 

14. I tend to look on the bright side of life. 

15. I believe that errors can be turned into something positive (e.g., learning). 

16. I don’t tend to dwell on bad things that happened to me. 

17. I try to learn from mistakes that I made in the past. 

18. I consider myself to be lucky. 

19. I often meet the right person at the right time.

 20. I regularly go to events where I speak to strangers. 

21. I am well-connected within the groups and organizations that I am part of. 

22. I am part of three or more diverse groups. 

23. I often host other people. 

24. When someone tells me about a problem, I think about how I or someone else could be of help

. 25. I put myself into another person’s shoes to try to understand a situation. 

26. I am grateful for the small things in life. 

27. I often reflect on my actions and how they affect others. 

28. I surround myself with people who make me feel comfortable to explore ideas. 

29. People around me feel that they can share their ideas and challenges with me. 

30. I ask people for help when I need it. 

31. I often follow up on interesting associations between topics or ideas. 

32. I tend to be tenacious about following through with ideas even if it takes time.

 33. I am comfortable in uncertain situations. 

34. I believe that nothing is set in stone. 

35. I often use humor to lighten the tone of a conversation. 

36. I do not feel that I have to be perfect in any situation. 

37. I tend to ask a lot of questions.

 38. I live a life that feels true to my values.

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 TOTAL Add up your numbers. The maximum score is 190, and the closer you get to that, the closer you are to achieving the serendipity mindset. Many people find that their scores fall somewhere in the range of 80–100 and that by tweaking their life step by step, they will find that over time their scores will improve to around 140–160, which is fantastic. Don’t worry about how your score compares to oth



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I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. F. L. EMERSON


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Zemblanity: The faculty of making unhappy, unlucky, and expected discoveries; the opposite of serendipity



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CRONKITE "And that's the way it is."


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MANTRA CHANT X AMYGDALA 

I’ve had this discussion actually. Having been to Tibet, I was surprised that people say the phrase all the time, often under their breath. While driving, eating - even once in a car accident, the driver knelt down and said a prayer that included it. The question isn’t “are they saying it?” It’s “What does it mean?”

It literally means (as I understand it) “Praise to the knowledge in the lotus sutra.” The words themselves - praise to the lotus - are referring to the teaching that the Buddha gave where he explained how everything has relatively meaning - everything is constantly changing, who we are, what our body is, the meaning of things in terms of what we think they mean, or what they might mean. Adding that kind of judgment to things makes it harder for us to see the nature of reality.

So it’s a valuable thing to remember - of course - because anything that bothers us, bugs us, upsets us can be batted away by thinking about it from the insight this teaching gave people. It’s the equivalent of when the Dalai Lama says “I can’t control how others behave, but I can control how I react to them.” That’s how we can control our reactions - but thinking about what the Lotus sutra represents.

What’s fascinating is that Nichiren Shoshu - the monk who created NSA (SGI) came up with an identical phrase - “Praise to the knowledge in the Lotus sutra” in Japanese. “Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.” For fans of Flipside or the Backstage Pass books,, they know that our friend on the flipside Luana Anders was a devout “chanter” of the phrase and credits it with “saving her life” or made her life worth living. (Oddly enough the director Hal Ashby had her chant in the film “Last Detail” - they were friends and remain friends on the flipside.)

So that’s two for two.

The phrase doesn’t have any power per se - like words having power, they’re relative to whoever is listening. Like prayer has power - but only in relation to the person doing the prayer.

However, there are physiological reactions that can be measured - the research of Richard Davidson at the University of Wisconsin proves that meditation can “cure or alleviate symptoms of depression.” The meditation (“tonglen”) he used in the study directly affects the amygdala, the regulator of serotonin - so in essence “prayer” or “imagining that one can heal someone from a distance using the healing light of the universe” actually cures the person doing the meditation. (Instead of stopping serotonin like SSRI drugs do, the meditation fixes the amygdala - or repairs it to function properly).

So the ideation of something can have a direct effect on the brain.

Literally - and I mean this sincerely because it’s in the research (look up “richard davidson amygdala” for the medical citations) that meditating can heal a person. Meditation can “cure or alleviate symptoms of depression.” Not my opinion, theory or belief - it’s in the data.

No reason chanting something wouldn’t have the same effect.

So yes - the words can heal someone - there’s no evidence (at least in peer reviewed studies) that the words have a healing effect on others, but it’s true that imagining healing someone else does heal the person doing the imagining.

On a quantum mechanics level - we could discuss how intent and ideation (or observing outcomes) has an effect on reality. But perhaps a bit too large for this forum.

In the study done by Davidson, he used a “modified” version of tonglen. Instead of imagining healing a friend or someone else, he had them imagine “healing the earth.” That way the results wouldn’t be skewed by thinking of one person. So throughout that study, people were thinking about healing the earth. Is the earth being healed? Perhaps. I think the Earth has its own opinion about that (as reported in “Hacking the Afterlife”) - another topic for another discussion.

But yes - intent - in prayer, meditation or otherwise - does have a direct healing effect on the person doing the ideation. There is no hard evidence I’m aware of that it affects the person or planet being prayed for (some argue that it does, but I’m pointing out that there is peer reviewed studies that show that meditation can “cure or alleviate symptoms of depression”)… but let’s put it this way.

It can’t hurt. It heals the person saying it - whether it heals the thing the person is praying about may come about because the person who did the prayer or did the meditation has been healed and therefore is capable of helping someone else. A round about way of saying “Why not?”

The folks on the flipside claim to be aware of us saying their names - including saying prayers to them, about them - or asking for intercession. They say they can’t interfere with our planned path or journey, but they can help us in other ways. They point out that our guides and teachers are always tethered to us… so that’s something worth noting as well. If one is saying a prayer to help someone else - then they are aware that by doing so we are healing ourselves. And that alone makes it worthwhile.

However, one wouldn’t have to praise the knowledge in the lotus sutra - one could say a prayer about a flower, or to share love and healing with someone else - it shouldn’t make a difference. I have heard of some folks using the “Jewel tree meditation of Tibet” (focuses on anger issues) and that they have had a “direct positive result” by doing so. (The person who hated them or had ire in their direction, changed their attitude in a dramatic fashion.) So again - worth trying. Can’t hurt.



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OLDEST HUMAN

I’ve had this discussion actually. Having been to Tibet, I was surprised that people say the phrase all the time, often under their breath. While driving, eating - even once in a car accident, the driver knelt down and said a prayer that included it. The question isn’t “are they saying it?” It’s “What does it mean?”

It literally means (as I understand it) “Praise to the knowledge in the lotus sutra.” The words themselves - praise to the lotus - are referring to the teaching that the Buddha gave where he explained how everything has relatively meaning - everything is constantly changing, who we are, what our body is, the meaning of things in terms of what we think they mean, or what they might mean. Adding that kind of judgment to things makes it harder for us to see the nature of reality.

So it’s a valuable thing to remember - of course - because anything that bothers us, bugs us, upsets us can be batted away by thinking about it from the insight this teaching gave people. It’s the equivalent of when the Dalai Lama says “I can’t control how others behave, but I can control how I react to them.” That’s how we can control our reactions - but thinking about what the Lotus sutra represents.

What’s fascinating is that Nichiren Shoshu - the monk who created NSA (SGI) came up with an identical phrase - “Praise to the knowledge in the Lotus sutra” in Japanese. “Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.” For fans of Flipside or the Backstage Pass books,, they know that our friend on the flipside Luana Anders was a devout “chanter” of the phrase and credits it with “saving her life” or made her life worth living. (Oddly enough the director Hal Ashby had her chant in the film “Last Detail” - they were friends and remain friends on the flipside.)

So that’s two for two.

The phrase doesn’t have any power per se - like words having power, they’re relative to whoever is listening. Like prayer has power - but only in relation to the person doing the prayer.

However, there are physiological reactions that can be measured - the research of Richard Davidson at the University of Wisconsin proves that meditation can “cure or alleviate symptoms of depression.” The meditation (“tonglen”) he used in the study directly affects the amygdala, the regulator of serotonin - so in essence “prayer” or “imagining that one can heal someone from a distance using the healing light of the universe” actually cures the person doing the meditation. (Instead of stopping serotonin like SSRI drugs do, the meditation fixes the amygdala - or repairs it to function properly).

So the ideation of something can have a direct effect on the brain.

Literally - and I mean this sincerely because it’s in the research (look up “richard davidson amygdala” for the medical citations) that meditating can heal a person. Meditation can “cure or alleviate symptoms of depression.” Not my opinion, theory or belief - it’s in the data.

No reason chanting something wouldn’t have the same effect.

So yes - the words can heal someone - there’s no evidence (at least in peer reviewed studies) that the words have a healing effect on others, but it’s true that imagining healing someone else does heal the person doing the imagining.

On a quantum mechanics level - we could discuss how intent and ideation (or observing outcomes) has an effect on reality. But perhaps a bit too large for this forum.

In the study done by Davidson, he used a “modified” version of tonglen. Instead of imagining healing a friend or someone else, he had them imagine “healing the earth.” That way the results wouldn’t be skewed by thinking of one person. So throughout that study, people were thinking about healing the earth. Is the earth being healed? Perhaps. I think the Earth has its own opinion about that (as reported in “Hacking the Afterlife”) - another topic for another discussion.

But yes - intent - in prayer, meditation or otherwise - does have a direct healing effect on the person doing the ideation. There is no hard evidence I’m aware of that it affects the person or planet being prayed for (some argue that it does, but I’m pointing out that there is peer reviewed studies that show that meditation can “cure or alleviate symptoms of depression”)… but let’s put it this way.

It can’t hurt. It heals the person saying it - whether it heals the thing the person is praying about may come about because the person who did the prayer or did the meditation has been healed and therefore is capable of helping someone else. A round about way of saying “Why not?”

The folks on the flipside claim to be aware of us saying their names - including saying prayers to them, about them - or asking for intercession. They say they can’t interfere with our planned path or journey, but they can help us in other ways. They point out that our guides and teachers are always tethered to us… so that’s something worth noting as well. If one is saying a prayer to help someone else - then they are aware that by doing so we are healing ourselves. And that alone makes it worthwhile.

However, one wouldn’t have to praise the knowledge in the lotus sutra - one could say a prayer about a flower, or to share love and healing with someone else - it shouldn’t make a difference. I have heard of some folks using the “Jewel tree meditation of Tibet” (focuses on anger issues) and that they have had a “direct positive result” by doing so. (The person who hated them or had ire in their direction, changed their attitude in a dramatic fashion.) So again - 




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OLDEST HUMAN 

The oldest person ever to have lived to a verified age is Jeanne Calment (France), who lived to be 122 years and 164 days; however, there may be people who lived for longer, but they are not verified.


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