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"To begin, begin." ################ N  ################## ################# ############# SANKARA CALLED PROCHHANNA BDDHA ############## WE FOUND  A WAY, IS WILL THERE YET?  ############### B My teacher says we can assess whether dharma is “working” by whether we are becoming kinder, more patient, tolerant, less neurotic people. ############### ################# B  IP  When we let things be what they are, impermanent, we free ourselves from suffering.  ##################### A " 'Who sows must reap,' they say, and cause must bring the sure effect: good, good; bad, bad, and none escape the law. For who so wears a form must wear the chain. Too true; but far beyond both name and form is Atman, ever free. Know thou art That, Sannyasin bold! Say: Om Tat Sat, Om!" - Swami Vivekananda, from "Song of the Sannyasin" KRMA VOLITIONAL CAUSATION V MECHANISTIC CAUSATION OF SUFFRNG  ############################ ###################### ####################### ################ B  Prayer to 12-armed Ganapati Traditionally, devotees would make a daily offering of flowers, carrots, and other sweet offerings with a simple prayer such as: Lord Ganapati, you are the embodiment of Vajra Body, Speech and Mind of the Buddhas Arising from non-dual wisdom, I offer fragrant flowers, carrots and other substances, To you, the Lord who removes obstructors, I pray to you and your entourage, Please send your blessings and siddhas upon us! Siddhas can be loosely translated as “wish-granting” although depending on context has many meanings, including the greatest of Siddhis — Enlightenment. ################### m  Atrial fibrillation is the most common dysrhythmia encountered in the emergency department. ################## Saltiness The sensation of saltiness in its purest form is produced by NaCl or lithium chloride (LiCl; Murphy, Cardello, & Brand, 1981). Other salts produce taste qualities (e.g., bitter or sour) in addition to saltiness. The rather narrow spectrum of pure tastants associated with saltiness endows the system with the ability to pick out NaCl specifically when needed, as in the case of Na deprivation (Fitzsimmons, 1979). This ability may be beneficial to survival because NaCl is essential for a variety of biological functions, including nervous function and homeostatic regulation of water in the body ########################## sulking and pique #################### KY Mr. Lahiri used to say ′′ Kriya practice is the true recital of the Vedas ′′ (Kriya-practice is the real recital of the vedas) How is Veda recitation in verb? From some excerpts of their symbolic writings (those who are seekers will understand the signs automatically) :- """ There are four Vedas in four directions: Rig, Yaju, Sam and Atharva. That is, the first Pranayama is in the east, and the meditation is in the west, that is in the spine. Omkar Kriya meets South, North and all directions. If Kriya is practiced in the world according to Vedic rules, then the age of all ages will be four hundred years. Treta, that is, the practice of verb only in the spine, can provide a longevity of three hundred years. Rig, let the tongue enter the head. Sam, with high sound in aroh voice. The voiceless tone is without sound, with sound of breathing and releasing and meditating on the west, called the sound of Sam Veda. Yaju :, Yagna between both and stay in the south. By uniting these three, four in that direction (north) will be done by stumbling action. ~ Excerpts of Lahiri Mr.'s article from his Manusanhita comment """The four Vedas are on the four sides, which are: Rik, Yaju, Sama and Atharva.That is, the first Pranayam is in the east, and meditation is in the west, i.e., in the Spine. Omkar Kriyas results in union of the south, north and all sides. If Kriya is practiced in the this world according to the Vedic rules, then in all Yugas longevity would be four hundred years. Treta, that is, Kriya practice only in the Spine, can provide three hundred years longevity. Rik is placing the tongue into the head. Sama is with sound of accent with sharp tone. The falling accent is without sound, with sound the sound of inhaling and exhaling and placing the attention on the west, which is called sound of Sama Veda. Yaju is yagya in between these two and is being held in the south. Uniting these three will results in four (north) in that side by the Thokar Kriya. ~ Excerpts from the Writings of Lahiri Mahashaya from his notes on Manu Samhita ###################### KY I remember how great was my joy on the day my father bought me a motorcycle. Soon my friends began referring to me as "the motorcycle swami," As daily I rode from Calcutta to see my guru [Swami Sri Yukteswarji] at his ashram in Serampore. But I could never feel quite as much happiness in possessing that motorcycle as in the initial pleasure I had in receiving it. Every day I wanted to feel that first joy again, but I could never do so. That is the way of desires; they always promise lasting happiness, but are powerless to deliver that fulfillment. But I did enjoy the sense of freedom this mode of conveyance gave to me. So one day I asked my guru, "Master, am I attached to that motorcycle?" (He was aware of my every thought.) He said, "Certainly not! What is the use of taking a car or tying yourself to a train schedule when you have your motorcycle?" But one day an acquaintance of mine expressed a desire for it, and I gave it away to him. I never missed it. The valiant enjoys all good things, but they are never attached. *** I saw that all the material comforts and satisfactions that desires promised me could not give unconditional happiness. But in the desire for God, in communion with God, I found the supreme happiness. Finding that, I did not want anything else. Money, cars, friends, houses---nothing else gave me that happiness which He gave me. Paramahansa Yogananda Self-Realization Magazine, Summer 2007 ######################### kalapata go......ami tomari dole.....jhorapata ############################# PAST LF Richard Martini 2yrs I simply feel that reincarnation is real, and I feel a few of my past lives. Is there any objective way at all to prove this? Is it just an illusion? I wish it was an illusion. Then I wouldn’t spend so much of time filming people remembering their previous lifetimes. I’ve been at it for ten years now. Have filmed 45 deep hypnosis sessions (between four and six hours) and have heard, filmed, transcribed many past life memories and then taken the time to prove (or disprove) the information learned from within. (Like the woman who died in Auschwitz, knew the names of all of her children, and recounted them to me on camera (in the film “Flipside”). I was able to verify who she was based on the extensive records.) Indeed there are many mediums who can offer what their “impression” is of your previous lifetime. I would offer that there is no way of proving that is accurate - unless you know the medium well, now how effective they are, accurate they are, then still you have a good idea that you might have been this person - but you have no clue as to why you chose to be this person. The best way to do that is through hypnotherapy. I recommend the method taught by the Newton Institute because I’ve filmed so many of them. In the sessions I’ve filmed, and the thousands of cases I’ve examined (via Dr. Helen Wambach or Michael Newton) I’ve found consistent reporting (that is reproducible). People claim that we all “go home” after this lifetime, and that it’s up to us when (or if) we want to return. That “reincarnation” isn’t a process like rain condensation - leaving a lake, and then returning to the lake later, although that’s a pretty good metaphor physically - but they claim that we CHOOSE what our next lifetime is going to be. They claim there’s a profound reason for that choice - it might be to work on a particular pattern we’d like to understand (could be choosing a life that included a fatal illness that we might become a doctor to cure in a future lifetime), it might be that we’ve chosen a number of lifetimes to work on a particular pattern (courage, addiction, compassion, etc.) In these reports, reincarnation is a misnomer. It’s all just incarnation. That we bring about a third of our conscious energy to each lifetime and that about two thirds is always “back home” (or doing something else.) That when the lifetime of the human ends, we “return home” - and reconnect with the rest of that energy and remember “all of our previous lifetimes.” However you can shortcut that process, if you want to, by seeking out a hypnotherapist who can guide you to those answers. I recommend those trained at the Newton Institute, but even then important to speak to them directly, get recommendations, learn the process; but you can see for yourself your previous lifetimes and if or why you chose them. One example; I have a friend, a successful tv producer, who remember dying in Dachau. I was able to look up the details of his session and verify many of them (in the book “Flipside”). I have known this fellow since high school, and at one point he said he had a dream where he was a gunslinger in a past life. During his deep hypnosis session (conducted by Scott De Tamble “Lightbetweenlives.com”) he said “Oh, I see. No, I was a watchmaker in Tombstone who got shot by this gunslinger.” (I was able to find an account of this fellow being shot in the local papers back in the 1800’s and is in the footnotes of “Flipside.”) What’s funny about this answer is that I’m saying you don’t have to just “feel that reincarnation is real” as the data supports it. If you look at the books of Dr. Jim Tucker or Carol Bowman or their mentor Ian Stevenson (UVA), you’ll find many scientific reports of verifiable reincarnation cases. (I add that Stevenson was anti hypnosis, and as I point out in “Hacking the Afterlife” that was from a misconception of how its used in deep hypnosis sessions. If thousands say the same things about the journey, no matter who asks the quesitons, then what they saw during a session becomes a dataset whatever our opinion is of what they claim they saw or experienced.) The objective way to prove it - do a session with a hypnotherapist, and ask them to ask you specific details. Names of streets, dates, countries - sometimes you can access all that information. (In Michael Newton’s case, he was a skeptic who didn’t believe in PLR until he had a client who remembered dying in WWI - Newton grilled him for details, wrote the British War office and confirmed this fellow had died there - which opened Newton up to past life research which led to his “between life” research later.) Once you’ve gathered the information you can verify for yourself whether or not these events occurred. However, it won’t help anyone else; the information you seek is really for you alone. (You can only prove it to yourself.) What I mean by that is that when I remembered a lifetime as a Lakota medicine man, I discounted it even as I was saying it. (My conscious mind saying “Wait a second, you’re making this up! You saw “Dances with Wolves!”) That’s a common experience while accessing new information while under hypnosis. However six months later, I met a historian of that tribe, and he confirmed everything I had seen but could not learn online. He confirmed details about how I was dressed, why I had two feathers in my hair, hanging down, why my name was my name (I said it was “watanka” he said that was a nickname for “wakan tanka - the great spirit - “as a medicine man they would have called you that”) including why I claimed that my wife and son had been murdered by Huron. I wondered how it could be that a Montana tribe could have interacted with a tribe from eastern Canada. He said “you’re sitting in the spot where they fought for 60 years. Eau Claire Wisconsin.” All details I could never have looked up - until he gave me the guidance to find them. But no one else is going to look at me and say “Hey I knew you back then.” Or even if a medium had said “You were a medicine man” I would not have experienced seeing my tribe wiped out by other indians, and the profound pain and loss I felt when opening up my tipi to find a dead woman at my feet. “They’ve killed my wife and taken my son.” My conscious mind said “Wait a second. There’s only one person here - what makes you think you had a son? And if you’re making this up, why is this the most painful feeling you’ve had in any lifetime, including the current one?” But I experience it - and later, after I witnessed the end of that lifetime, I met them both - on the flipside, and embraced them with all the love that I could muster. (And can see them now as I write this.) But no one could possibly experience that but me. I can recount my experience, but it won’t/can’t/shouldn’t prove it to anyone but me. (We all don’t sign up for a lifetime to know how the play ends.) So if you want to know who you were in a past life - it’s more important to ask “Why did I choose that lifetime? And why did I choose this lifetime and what do the two have in common?” The answer to that, as you’ll see, is key as to why you’re currently on the planet. My two cents. ######################### "Respect our elders. They made it through school without Google or Wikipedia." -- Author Unknown    ########################### Bhagawan AlmightyGod Shyamacharan LahiriMahashay is not a mere human guru or master. He swayam Bhagawan ParamBrahma Narayan. Parameshwar Mahadev ParaMatma... That's why He has declared in His confidential dairies..like this below.. 1. All the creations are coming from ME only. 2. Barring ME nothing exists. 3. Every where I Only am existing. 4.The totality of this Universe is coming from Me Only. and again sustained by ME only. And when the time arrives, all the creation is getting mergence into Me only...!!!! 4. I only am Durga, Kali, Jagadhatri. I only am kootastha Chaitanya Srikrishna. 5. I only am Soul Son Narayana. 6. Swayam Bhagawan. How to address Him as a guru, master like now all the devotees are calling Him ignorantly??? Should try to grow up na, and become aware of His true form. Never to call master..or make Him place along with other human gurus or deities. In which way humans worshipping Him. He will bless them in that manner only. If we worship Him, in the lower, inferior manner He will respond like our worship only. If we worship Him in His ParamBrahma form.. He will respond in that All Pervading ParaBrahma Form. Be wise and smart hey Devotees...!!!! ###################### a ############################

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What is the purpose of spiritual awakening? Why do people have them?

A spiritual awakening is like being struck by lightning. One doesn’t get struck by lightning for a reason. A lightning is not aware that it strikes a human, it is not concerned with benefiting the human by striking them, it doesn’t have any lessons to deliver to the human it strikes.

A lightning strikes, because such is it’s nature. It strikes whatever happens to stand in it’s path, be it a human, a tree, a house, a rock, earth, water. It doesn’t matter to the lightning what happens to be in it’s vicinity when it expresses it’s nature by being itself.

Awakening happens when awareness suddenly expands and becomes aware as itself, as matter. It doesn’t matter what that matter is - it can be a human, or an animal, or a tree, or a mountain. Awareness doesn’t flare up in order to benefit a human. Awareness expands because such is it’s nature. If a human happens to be in the way, as it were, the human get caught up in the experience, but the experience has nothing to do with the human, just like being struck by lightning has nothing to do with the human.

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CK  Surprisingly, many brain regions do not contribute meaningfully to experience. This is true for the cerebellum, despite having more than four times more nerve cells than neocortex. Even in neocortical tissue, the most complex piece of highly excitable matter in the known cosmos, some sectors have a much more intimate relationship to experience than others.

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CK Yet knowing the neural correlates of consciousness does not answer the more fundamental question: Why these neurons and not those? Why this vibration and not that one? Identifying some form of physical activity as generating a feeling is laudable progress. But ultimately we want to know why this mechanism goes hand in hand with experience. What is it about the biophysics of the brain, but not, say, the liver—another complex biological organ—that evokes the ephemeral feelings of life?

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CK Consciousness belongs to the natural realm. Just like mass and charge, it has causal powers. To create human-level consciousness in a machine, the intrinsic causal powers of the human brain must be instantiated at the level of the metal, the transistors and wiring making up its hardware. I will show that the intrinsic causal powers of contemporary computers is puny compared to those of brains. Thus, artificial consciousness calls either for computer architectures radically different from those of today’s machines or for a merging of neural and silicon circuits as envisioned by transhumanist

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DOMB -DTH AS MY OLDER BRTHR - HEAR BHAJN SEE  SRK PHOTO 

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Mysticism consists of a practice of religious ecstasies, together with ideologies, ethics, rites, myths, legends, magics, etc., related to the ecstasies. Mysticism is institutionalized in 90 percent of human societies. Mysticism occurs not only in scripture-based religions, but also in oral religious traditions, where it is known as shamanism, vision quests, spirit possession, spirit mediumship, and prophetism. In oral religions, mystics often assume leadership positions as intermediaries between the numina and the social group. Because book religions invest authority in scriptural exegetes, mystics are marginalized and typically seek politically innocuous ecstasies. In other cases, mystics aspire to authority and become would-be prophets. The contents of mystical experiences may be subdivided into narrative and unitive ecstasies. Both occur in states both of trance and of reverie. Trances reify imaginations as hallucinations and delusions, whose uncritical validation devalues perceptible reality and promotes dissociative philosophies and behavior. Reveries are instead self-evident as heurisms. Mystics have traditionally sought metaphysical transformations, but positive psychological growth has been demonstrated in a few cases.

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BG16.21

त्रिविधं नरकस्येदं द्वारं नाशनमात्मन: |
काम: क्रोधस्तथा लोभस्तस्मादेतत्त्रयं त्यजेत् || 21||

tri-vidhaṁ narakasyedaṁ dvāraṁ nāśhanam ātmanaḥ
kāmaḥ krodhas tathā lobhas tasmād etat trayaṁ tyajet

BG 16.21: There are three gates leading to the hell of self-destruction for the soul—lust, anger, and greed. Therefore, all should abandon these three.

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The Theoretical Foundation of the M Scale

Fundamental to mysticism is an experience of unity. Stace (1960) has contended that all mystical experiences have a common core, independent of the interpretation of the experience. This is frequently referred to as the common-core claim of mysticism. Opposing this vantage are the diversity theorists who suggest that language is not only the interpretation of the experience, language also constitutes the experience (Katz, 1977; Proudfoot, 1985). The diversity theorists, or social constructionists, suggest that Buddhists have Buddhist experiences, different from Christians who have Christian experiences,

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BAD MINUTE NOT A BAD DAY

"Don't let one bad moment ruin your day. Think of it as a bad minute, not a bad day, and you'll be OK. Stress begins when your worry list is longer than your gratitude list. Happiness begins when your gratitude list is longer than your worry list. So find something to be thankful for today. Be sure to appreciate what you've got. Be thankful for the little things in life that mean a lot."

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A brief about spirituality.. Start to end

History/Lecture/Knowledge

Shiv and Shakti are present in the human body too, having different locations of existence.

Shiv is in the brain where the part is called as SAHASTRAR, Shakti in the Guda called as MULADHAR(base of coccyx)

.. They are distant from each other and thus it is same for the Sadhak (practitioners), their long journey which requires a lot of births here (rebirth to learn ).

THE MOTIVE? To fuse the shiv and shakti and is called "sam rasya maha milan" - which leads to aatma mukti (mukti - be free from something ). This is our ultimate aim and for this we keep on taking births, but stray away from the path due to a lot of worldly pleasures and problems (maaya).

One thing that is really important for the start of real journey is the blessing/initiation from Sadhguru (not the current trending Sadhguru), your guide , your true guru.

The initiation should be without any desire for abilities or expectation .

But this is only possible when Morality/Compassion (Sanskar) shows from within. IF YOU ARE CAPABLE IN THIS REGARD AND ARE ABLE ENOUGH, SADHGURU WILL FIND YOU HIMSELF, SEEK YOU.

If you are interested in adhyatma by heart, .. From an inner point of view have a neutral/unconcerned/nonchalant attitude towards world/society/family .

You don't have greed, hatred, grudge, malevolence, jealousy inside you then you are going right .

Also one thing, breathe is the gateway to spirituality.

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a breath is the gateway to spirituality" .. this is what hanuman symbolizes in the ramayana too - praanavaayu. Uniting prakruthi and purusha.

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B CULTIVATE THE INNER LIGHT OF YOUR MIND (2/3)

This light is a point of clarity. This point of clarity allows you to see the Buddha light of your ninth consciousness. You will see the true nature of your mind, you will approach everything in this world with equanimity. When you feel that nothing matters to you in this world, your points of light and clarity will accumulate and grow into a bigger and greater mass. Once these points of light and clarity amass into substantial wisdom, a significant amount of Prajna wisdom, there will be a halo above your head. Many people don’t know why Bodhisattvas have rings of light surrounding their heads. Those are their amassed points of light and clarity, those are their halos. That is the crystallisation of their wisdom, crystallisation of Prajna wisdom.

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ADVTA HOLOPTICISM

 Holopticism: "From the Greek roots holos (whole) and optikè (see), holopticism means the capacity for an individual to see the whole as a living entity in the collective in which he/she operates. Sports teams and jazz bands operate in a holoptical context because each player perceives the team as a whole and knows what to do."

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B “To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.”

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Nature of Mind

“You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.”

“A further sign of health is that we don’t become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it’s time to stop struggling and look directly at what’s threatening us.”

“Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t know if that’s the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don’t know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don’t know.”

“We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass. The castle is ours, off limits to others. We’re willing to attack if others threaten to hurt it. Yet despite all our attachment, we know that the tide will inevitably come in and sweep the sand castle away. The trick is to enjoy it fully but without clinging, and when the time comes, let it dissolve back into the sea.”

“Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior’s world.”

“We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs – or we don’t. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to challenge them. In Buddha’s opinion, to train in staying open and curious – to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs – is the best use of our human lives.”

“It isn’t the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it’s how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.”

“Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples.”

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“We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds.”

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So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn’t sit for even one, that’s the journey of the warrior.”

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“It’s a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness.”

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“Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time—that is the basic message.”

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TIGER X STRAWBERRY 

“There is a story of a woman running away from tigers. She runs and runs and the tigers are getting closer and closer. When she comes to the edge of a cliff, she sees some vines there, so she climbs down and holds on to the vines. Looking down, she sees that there are tigers below her as well. She then notices that a mouse is gnawing away at the vine to which she is clinging. She also sees a beautiful little bunch of strawberries close to her, growing out of a clump of grass. She looks up and she looks down. She looks at the mouse. Then she just takes a strawberry, puts it in her mouth, and enjoys it thoroughly. Tigers above, tigers below. This is actually the predicament that we are always in, in terms of our birth and death. Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life; it might be the only strawberry we’ll ever eat. We could get depressed about it, or we could finally appreciate it and delight in the preciousness of every single moment of our life.”

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SUFFRNG = RES CHANGE

“When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment”

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“At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.”

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“It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play. That we take ourselves so seriously, that we are so absurdly important in our own minds, is a problem for us. We feel justified in being annoyed with everything. We feel justified in denigrating ourselves or in feeling that we are more clever than other people. Self-importance hurts us, limiting us to the narrow world of our likes and dislikes. We end up bored to death with ourselves and our world. We end up never satisfied.”

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“Don’t let life harden your heart.”

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NOCTURIA X HTN

 Nocturia — as night time urination is known to doctors — is linked to a 40 percent greater chance of high blood pressure.

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"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

-- Oprah Winfrey

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MEDITN - Use all your attention and strength patiently to push your mind to the very dead end of consciousness; just push it on and on. 

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B Those who determine to practice the Dharma should believe firmly the teachings of Mind-only. Buddha said, “All the Three Kingdoms are mind, all ten thousand Dharmas are consciousness.”

All Buddhism is but an exposition of this sentence. Ignorance or enlightenment, virtue or wickedness, cause or effect, are nothing but one's own mind. Not one iota of anything exists outside of Mind.

The Zen yogi should completely cast aside former knowledge and understanding. Here scholarship or cleverness is useless. Rather, look on the whole world as hallucinatory. What you see are mirages, mirror-images, like the moon reflected in the water. The sounds heard are hymns of the wind blowing through the trees.

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“Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks." 
 

-- G. K. Chesterton, “The Glory of Grey”

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BK Every two hours, I put a brake on my mind and tongue and become quiet: just a minute to be peaceful. I stop, relax, recharge and then re-enter the flow of daily activities.

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DTH= NON FNALITY X IRREVERSISBILITY

Understanding death does not require grasping its inevitability or its unpredictability, nor does it require understanding that death applies to all living things or being familiar with its underlying physiological causes. In minimal terms, the concept of death is simply made up of two notions: non-functionality and irreversibility. This means that all an animal needs to grasp in order for us to be able to credit her with some understanding of death is that dead individuals don’t do the sorts of things that living beings of her kind usually do (ie, non-functionality) and that this is a permanent state (ie, irreversibility). This minimal concept of death requires very little cognitive complexity and is likely to be very widespread in the animal kingdom.

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TO PLACE OF DUST WTH NO MORE SUFFRNG

 TPOD- NMOS 

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RASHE LINE

PASCAL WGR, B GITA , BBL, HIM , ND LINE 

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DETACHED LIKE A STAR

At the end of the day, on the wings of your thoughts, go beyond the cares and troubles of the world. Remove your mind from everything and everyone, and become blissfully detached, like a star.

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 I feel moksha/liberation is given the upmost importance in Hinduism but not many people work for it.

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b “Inconsequential to the path” is the best phrase that I have read so far. I’ve scrolled a bit and haven’t seen the analogy of the wounded soldier, so it’s worth rephrasing—

There was a soldier wounded in battle by a poison arrow. He was taken to a doctor, who asked him, “Was the arrow shot by a tall manor by a short man? Were the feathers on the arrow red or green? Did you see the person that shot the arrow?”

The whole debate about whether or not there is a God is like the physician’s questions. Clearly we are wounded like the soldier (we all suffer) and we need urgent care. From a Buddhist view, asking about whether there is a God, whose God is real, etc. is not at all relevant to the cure of treating of the disease that is suffering. It is at best useless and at worst a waste of precious, fleeting time.

The concept seems to be hard to grasp for many with a monotheistic worldview, but this analogy is the best way to explain it for me. Hope I paraphrased it correctly.

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b A god that we could conceptualize and “know” would be impermanent and dependent upon samsara for his actions and existence. Like- if god created man, then there was a time before man was created indicating that god changes and is restricted by time. A god with these characteristics is trapped in the same rounds of samsara as we are and to devote to him would be devotion to this material world

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poe Epicurus summed it up this way: “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”

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panentheism x neutral monism - Brahman, the universal self that is all of us.

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We know suffering because we exist as sentient beings. We stop suffering by putting an end to the arising of our sentience. The cause of our sentience is clinging to self-identity.

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The Torah lays it out btw. I put before you life and good, death and evil. Therefore choose life. It’s in our suffering we are open to spiritual growth.

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 reality is mystical, I agree, just not created.

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B Buddhism is a natural law religion, which does not believe in a creator but rather natural laws the guide and define life and existance

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B Brahma is the creator god of the the universe. But he cannot lead a person to Enlightenment. Check out the Brahmanimantanikasutta.

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