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 "Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you are tired -- you quit when the gorilla is tired."

-- Robert Strauss

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Walking pace could directly affect the biological aging process, research finds.

An analysis of data from 405,981 UK adults found a connection between walking pace and a biological age marker called leucocyte telomere length (LTL).

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"Is your reading and research supplementing your actions or substituting for them? Research is useful until it becomes a form of procrastination.

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely. - Anonymous

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"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

-- Marilyn Monroe

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Mixed-race faces are consistently seen as the most attractive when compared with black and white faces, research finds.

The finding is dramatic among the most attractive people, writes Dr Michael Lewis, 

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SINGER "Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge."

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BASHO "The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers."

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BK Having benevolent feelings for all generates goodwill. The power of goodwill makes the impossible possible.

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SHANKARA DIGVIJAY

Shankara Digvijaya by Madhava Vidyaranya is the biography of Adi Shankaracharya.

That Consciousness which shines forth most distinctly in waking, dream, and deep sleep; that which is the one Witness of the universe that threads all bodies ranging from Brahma’s down to the ant’s; that I am, and not anything phenomenal — whoever possesses this firm wisdom is my guru, be he a chandala or a person twice-born. This is my conviction.

I and this whole universe are but Brahman, a manifestation of pure Consciousness; all these phenomena have been imagined by me through ignorance comprising the three gunas. He whose mind is thus firmly rooted in the supremely blissful, eternal, pure, transcendental Reality is my guru, be he a chandala or a person twice-born. This is my conviction.

One who having realized, through the

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Can we solve all problems through self inquiry and meditation?

Yes. Self-inquiry is the realization that our true identity is Awareness.

We practice self-inquiry because mental insistence (I am Awareness!) only confirms the opposite.

Awareness doesn’t go around saying its name.

If you ask yourself:

Who am I, really?

You’ll remember the truth can’t be any other way.

To meditate is to return to the Source - the Awareness you are.

The things you see around you are thoughts.

To solve your problems, return to Being-Awareness.

Remember: what’s true of That (Brahman, God, Awareness) is true of you.

If it’s all-wisdom, beauty, harmony, perfection, wholeness, genius, and love, so are you.

The Source abides in its own nature, and therefore so do you.

You’re not just pressing a new cover on an old mold.

You’re realizing your own nature and enjoying the environment of your heart.

Is it hard?

It’s simple, but certain habits may seem tricky to break.

We can find it challenging to let go of past heartbreak, and return to the divine dimension, (heaven), in which it never occurred.

Jesus said:

“Forgive them, Father, they know not what they do.”

This means:

Overlook and see through, Awareness.

Erase this apparent disaster like a multiplication error.

Reset to the Truth.

Don’t allow this error any impact.

It doesn’t exist in the past, or in some would-be independent mind.

From an eastern perspective, maya (delusion) just means:

What is not.

We have to let go of what is not to realize what is.

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Q: What does "no karma can lead to Jnana" mean? A: No personal action (current or past) will result in enlightenment. Karma is action and consequences of action, but enlightenment is more of a "grace" and is not caused by anything a "me" does.

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Many of us have been intuitively accessing varying forms of awakened awareness throughout our lives — while being creative, with loved ones, or while playing sports. And some of us have experienced it when we suddenly became calm and clear during a crisis.

Some folks express that they have experienced it walking in nature, playing music, gardening, making love, driving a car, or during a special moment in their past that they long to return to.

Our identity as a separate sense of self and seeker, relaxes to reveal a wordless experience that rests in a place of “all is well.” At times like these, we feel freedom, clarity of mind, joy, connection to nature and other people, and a sense of well-being.

Awakening practices help us to live from a place of natural well being which is in fact our natural form and nature, and it is something we can all learn to return to.

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Your eyes are always the same size from birth, but your nose and ears never stop growing.

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After eating too much, your hearing is less acute.

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 The surface area of ​​a human lung is equal to a tennis court.

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There are over 160,000 miles of blood vessels in your body.

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People with more moles tend to live longer than people with fewer moles.

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Baby Bear Shows Perseverance As He Climbs This Snowy Mountain

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 Music is much more than just entertainment: it is a way for people to connect with each other

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"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." A Someone was telling me about a recent comedy (!) about someone aware of their own oncoming dementia, who says at one point: How cruel is this? You just build up a life full of memories that you then can’t remember. A  The problem of consciousness HPOC X HPOM X ADVTA  When we meditate on the nature of the mind, one of the natural beneficial side effects is that we come to experience directly how our mind is creating our reality. Our mind is primary and it is also unceasing – one moment leading to next, throughout this life and in life after life. This is radically different to the view we are usually presented with in modern society. The commonplace understanding is based on a materialist outlook that matter is the primary building block of reality and that consciousness is simply a completely inexplicable arising out of these material components that literally nobody can explain — hence “the problem of consciousness.” And yet it has become the predominant view to the point that when somebody talks about formless awareness, past and future lives, and so forth, this is seen as embarrassing. Not something we would bring up in polite company unless we immediately want to be written off as a little bit of a, you know, fringe character: “Excuse my friend, they’re really quite nice, but …” A

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However, this is the main view or outlook of thousands of years of spiritual practitioners, not just in Buddhism but in all spiritual traditions, all of which assert a continuity of consciousness. If you want to look at it, there is so much evidence out there – investigations into out of body experiences, near death experiences, people who remember their past lives, child prodigies, mind over matter, etc. There’s no other explanation. Not to mention that we can investigate the teachings and experiences shared by all the great Yogis and Yoginis of the past, who see in their own direct experience that consciousness continues is formless and continues from life to life

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There are some people who, straight away, make you feel at ease. For whatever indescribable reason, they are the ones who let you be yourself. They make you feel cared about. It’s something about their nature – a gesture or a word - that makes you feel… home.

In many ways, this is a kind of love. It’s when a person looks at you with honest, open kindness. It’s when they want the best for you, on your terms, and not theirs. You just feel they're on your side.

This approach to others is known as “maitrī” in Buddhist philosophy, and it’s one of the four essential virtues for an enlightened mind.

A lot of our interactions with people come loaded with an agenda. Sometimes, it’s transactional – as in, “I’ll give you this, you give me that”. At other times, it’s egoistic – “what can I get from this?” and “how does this make me look?”

Maitrī is the opposite of these.

Maitrī is translated as “loving-kindness”. It’s when you interact with someone as a person worthy of care. In the Buddhist Pali Canon, maitrī is compared to the love of a parent for their child. It is the unconditional, no-strings-attached, desire for someone to do well. It’s to simply smile, nod, and want the other person to be happy.

At a very basic level, maitrī is seen in civility. You don’t *need* to say thank you to someone or ask how they are, but when you do so, you acknowledge them as someone who matters - as someone who has worth.

But at it’s most enlightened, maitrī is when you instinctively, naturally want others to be “happy minded”. You take joy in another's joy and you make every effort to make sure their life is a good one.

You believe they deserve to be happy.

Maitrī is not so much “compassion” or an ethical *action* but more a disposition towards people. It’s the opposite of bitterness and sulkiness, spite and competitiveness.

Maitrī is the Dalai Lama smiling at you, because he wishes you well. It’s the wave across a street, just to say hi. It’s treating every interaction with warmth and friendliness.

Maitrī is good for you. If we believe Buddhism more broadly, it might just bring you peace. In not so many words: be kind to others. Wish them well and want them happy.

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"Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave." A  The Mirror of Dharma, boils down to: We should know that at present we have reached the human world for just a brief moment from our former lives, and we have the opportunity to attain the supreme happiness of enlightenment through practicing Dharma. This is our extraordinary good fortune. A A GURUMANTRA The disciples attain Brahman by the Grace of Sadguru . One should always meditate on Gurumantra, and ever repeat the Sadguru's name . The purpose of Spiritual Knowledge and Practice (Sadhana) the Sadhaka should have devotion to one Sadguru only. Those Sadhakas who are new to the spiritual path should definitely take advantage of the constant company and guidance of the Sadguru. Not properly guided by the Sadguru, the Sadhakas are apt to go astray when Dispassion (Vairagya) wanes and Spiritual Devotional Practice becomes dull . Giving up entirely thoughts of the worldly objectives things and giving his exclusive attention on the teaching of Sadguru one attains the Supreme Bliss easily . Therefore, by every possible effort Sadhaka must worship his Sadguru . ---Sadguru Shri Avadhootanand Maharaj . A a A A And we have the opportunity to watch a lot of movies and go traveling and maybe meet some nice people.” Or … “we have the opportunity to attain the supreme happiness of enlightenment.” Why is this important? Because we have actually experienced, as explained by Buddha, countless lifetimes in all the different realms of samsara without this opportunity. What is unique about this current lifetime is that the causes and conditions have come together for us to realize our full spiritual potential. We can listen to, contemplate, and meditate on Buddha’s teachings – receiving an explanation for why things happen, why we have the identity and personality we have, where we have been and where we are going, and so on. We learn what we can do with this unbelievably rare lifetime, which includes not only our own permanent liberation from suffering but also the supreme happiness of enlightenment. This puts us in a position to liberate others — we can help our family and friends, and their family and friends, and their family and friends, until one day we are helping all living beings. We have this opportunity provided we use this life to escape from our ignorance and transform our minds. a A Quote, Baba’s Teachings from the Holy Scriptures “Kriya Yoga regulates the positive negative fluctuations in the nervous system by magnetizing the spine. This opens the ‘sushuma’ channel, which produces tremendous calm. The spinal column becomes an open channel for divine sound, light, and vibration.” Paramahamsa Hariharananda Beloved Gurudeva, By thy divine techniques in Kriya Yoga - with deepest love - desire for God; my spinal canal remains open. Thy magnetism of Pure white light radiates up my spine, the ‘sushuma’ channel. My body becomes a field of white light - Saturated in God! Thy Supreme Almighty Lord! I’m feeling calmness, and enjoying thy blissful presence of God Consciousness, Cosmic consciousness, Supreme Almighty Lord. Om Amén Jyoti Maa a Instead of thinking that we have landed in an inherently sucky situation: “This sucks and I need to get away from it,” we know the solution, which is to transform our mind by applying Dharma. In so doing we turn situations that look like they’re inherently terrible into opportunities to attain permanent freedom and happiness. We can seize the day, which means taking advantage of every day by recognizing we can attain liberation and enlightenment “through practicing Dharma.” A A A When I was a nipper, there was an advert in the UK for “Centre Parcs” – the kind of family-friendly, woodland resort where you get to go swimming but have to pay extra for towels. It featured a mellifluous Scottish accent reading the first lines from the poem “Leisure”, by W. H. Davies. It begins: "What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare, No time to stand beneath the boughs, And stare as long as sheep or cows." Young as I was, with only a few cares exaggerated by teenage-seriousness, it struck a chord. It spoke of stillness and calm. We live in an age of busyness and business, where "alone" means lonely, and staring means creepy. It's an age where filters and portrait mode "improve" the natural world. Yet awe, wonder, and the simple enjoyment of things seen are essential to who we are. As the Stoic, Marcus Aurelius puts it, we need to, "Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them." There's perspective to be found in nature. When we sit, cocooned, in our home as the rain thunders down, it's easier to appreciate how small we are. When we see a tiny ant heft a leaf ten times it's size, the struggle and strength of it plucks at some common sympathy. When we pause to look up at the stars, we can appreciate the majesty and magnificence of the universe - a universe in which we play a role. Stoics were finely attuned to the order of things. They trusted to the universe and recognised their part in the whole. In some ways, Stoics find their Chinese counter part in Daoism - where all heaven and earth moves to the tune of the Dao. The simple pleasure that comes first from simply enjoying the natural world can deepen into a profound aesthetic-mystical experience. Many will know what Aurelius means, as they look up at the stars. They lure you in with how pretty and shiny they are, but the longer you look, there's a shift in your being. There's a peace - an "at oneness" with things. So, as Davies and Aurelius both tell us: take time to stand and stare. Put aside your phone, your worries, and your plans, and lose yourself in your senses. Dwell on the beauty in life and look up at the stars. A Rock Music May Be a Surgeon’s Best Assistant, Study Shows If I was a surgeon I would like a quiet operating theatre as I also concentrate when there is silence. Other people find silence distracting and can only concentrate when there is some background noise. According to a German study [1], surgical trainee’s speed and accuracy rises when heavy metal/rock music (AC/DC's Highway to Hell) is blaring from speakers in theatres. A A A "All this happened, more or less" A Name the smallest breed of dog Chihuahua  A How many people depend on forest products thus leading to mass deforestation? 1.6bn A That’s the key — we have to apply these teachings to our life. This opportunity is our “extraordinary good fortune” and it is worth remembering it when we get up in the morning, before the boring worried thoughts switch on and we cannot switch them off again. Right now, in this life, everything has come together to give me the optimum conditions for achieving permanent liberation from suffering and the supreme happiness of enlightenment. Instead of first thoughts being, “Oh no, I am dreading today,” we can as soon as possible take a moment to drop into our heart, clear the mental decks, relate to our potential and opportunity, and feel really happy. A A a a a a a a mistletoe berries a a a a a Most animals in the world are invertebrates. If most invertebrates are sentient, then we can conclude that most of the suffering of animals in the wild is endured by invertebrates. To add to this, most of the animals used by humans in harmful ways are invertebrates. a invertebrate sentience is a very important issue. However, it is currently not possible to know for certain which of these animals are sentient, because that would require knowing the way in which consciousness occurs. If we understood how consciousness arises, we could identify which structures are capable of making consciousness possible. But we are still very far from having such knowledge, and it seems likely that we won’t know for at least a few decades. A A a A Phylum: Mollusca, Class: Gastropoda Examples Snails and slugs Centralization Typically contain 5 pairs of ganglia, including the cerebral ganglia, which are structurally and functionally differentiated and receive and send signals across the body. Important structures Cerebral ganglia (in head). Procerebrum (in cerebral ganglia), which may contain the learning mechanism. 5 paired ganglia throughout body (typically). Comparative physiology These nervous systems are similar to those of bivalves, although a bit bigger and with ganglia serving as a brain. Other relevant information These animals may have nervous systems with approximately 104 to 105 neurons.23 The nervous systems of opisthobranchs may contain about 5,000 neurons.24 The cerebral ganglia of the land slug Aplysia californica may contain approximately 2,400 neurons.25 In snails, a pair of cerebral ganglia constitute the brain. Typically, gastropods contain 5 distinct ganglia. These are connected longitudinally by nerve cords and laterally by commissures. A study found the cerebral ganglion of a snail to be functionally and structurally differentiated. It receives convergent sensory inputs from a variety of anterior sensory organs and the posterior body wall. Its outputs include motor commands to muscles and premotor commands towards executory centers in other ganglia. The procerebrum is a differentiated region of the cerebral ganglion and is speculated to contain a learning mechanism.26 A sentience Sentience is the capacity to be affected positively or negatively. It is the capacity to have experiences. It is not the mere capacity to perceive stimuli or react to some action, as in the case of a machine that performs certain functions when we press a button. Sentience, or the ability to feel, is something different, namely the ability to receive and react to such stimuli consciously, by experiencing them from the inside. A A "Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices." ~ Voltaire Book : "Questions sur les Miracles". Publication by Voltaire, 1765. A A a Being sentient means being conscious A conscious being is a subject of experience, meaning an entity that can experience what happens to itself. An organism can only be a subject of experience if organized in such a way that they have the capacity for consciousness, and if there are structures such as a nervous system that function to actually give rise to consciousness. A A DTR CRSS- DSADA- DEPRESSED SCHIZO ALCOHLIC DRG ADDICTED A