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This Existence Is A DREAM: Awakening To Your True Self & Exploring Nonduality...
When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once. Milarepa “Just as it is known t hat an image of one's face is seen d epending on a mirror b ut does not really exist as a face, s o the conception of "I" exist d ependent on mind and body, b ut like the image of a face t he "I" does not at all exist as its own reality." Nagarjuna "Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. Nagarjuna
Sadhguru's Transformative Teachings - How to Achieve for Mind, Body & Soul"...
When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once. Milarepa “Just as it is known t hat an image of one's face is seen d epending on a mirror b ut does not really exist as a face, s o the conception of "I" exist d ependent on mind and body, b ut like the image of a face t he "I" does not at all exist as its own reality." Nagarjuna "Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. Nagarjuna
AI, Humanity & Purpose - Matthew McConaughey, Jane Goodall DBE & Sadhguru at Dreamforce 2024...
When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once. Milarepa “Just as it is known t hat an image of one's face is seen d epending on a mirror b ut does not really exist as a face, s o the conception of "I" exist d ependent on mind and body, b ut like the image of a face t he "I" does not at all exist as its own reality." Nagarjuna "Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. Nagarjuna
Are You REALLY FREE? - Nagarjuna & The MIDDLE WAY..
When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once. Milarepa “Just as it is known t hat an image of one's face is seen d epending on a mirror b ut does not really exist as a face, s o the conception of "I" exist d ependent on mind and body, b ut like the image of a face t he "I" does not at all exist as its own reality." Nagarjuna "Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. Nagarjuna
Our Biggest Creditor {China} Tells Us "The good old days of borrowing are over"
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Birthplace o Independent Conservatism Liberty -vs- Tyranny As the chickens come home to roast... Unbelievable we have been this stupid. ( Reuters ) - Global leaders on Saturday arranged a round of emergency calls to discuss the twin debt crises in Europe and the United States that are causing turmoil in financial markets . After a week that saw $2.5 trillion wiped off global stock markets, they are under pressure to show political leadership and reassure markets that Western governments have both the will and ability to reduce their huge and growing public debt loads. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who chairs the G7/G20 group of leading economies, conferred with Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron ahead of a call planned for this weekend by G7 finance ministers and central bankers. "They discussed the euro area and the U.S. debt downgrade. Both agreed the importance of working together, monitoring the situation closely ...
Super Brain, Epigenetics & More: Bernard Carr, Christof Koch, Rudy Tanzi, Deepak Chopra & Sadhguru...
When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once. Milarepa “Just as it is known t hat an image of one's face is seen d epending on a mirror b ut does not really exist as a face, s o the conception of "I" exist d ependent on mind and body, b ut like the image of a face t he "I" does not at all exist as its own reality." Nagarjuna "Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. Nagarjuna
Stand Up For America...
When and How Will it End?
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Birthplace of Independent Conservatism This is America. We are an English speaking nation. We have distinct and traditional American cultural values. We have some Americans in our population who have difficulty speaking a coherent sentence. We have many who cannot construct a complete and proper sentence. Yet we find the time and the money to educate youth in Arabic and Arabic culture. Mind you this is a Federal Grant program and limited to only five select school districts. At least for now. At a cost of 1.3 millions dollars students on these select district will be required, you heard {read} right, required as mandatory part of their curriculum to learn Arabic. This is a blatant abuse of taxpayer money, and it is indicative of the future course our nation has embarked upon under the fuzzy, misguided, and incredibly deceitful anti leade...
Thoughts On the Civil War and What Precipitated It...
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth Over at Contra O'Reilly Will Hart has been running a interesting series on the Civil War and what the primary causes were. Historians continue to disagree with the root, or primary causes. However it is generally accepted among knowledgeable and unbiased experts that slavery had very little to do with the onset of the War Between the States. Causes were primarily economic and constitutional. Will, in his posts has done a good job of pointing this out with supporting documentation. This site offers the following, a July 2013 article by David Hirsch in support of Will Hart's arguments. Arguments this site wholly concurs with. Arthur Hirsch's recent article about the Battle of Gettysburg reveals a disturbing ignorance of the political dynamics that brought this nation to a war that 150 years later remains the most cataclysmic event in our history ("A defining day relived," July 2). It accepts the sh...
From a concerned writer - grist for your mill
ReplyDeleteUnderstanding the mass psychology of the right and Christian right are worth understanding, if for no other reason that you should know your opponent’s strategy and understand why they are often successful. In very simple terms, it happens when an individual is so repressed and confused by their life experiences and emotions that they eagerly give up thinking, personal freedom, problem solving, and logic to someone else, like an authoritarian leader, who in turn transmits back to them an illusion of personal power and control.
Not surprisingly, the Republicans have succeeded in trapping and using this resource. Whatever one likes or dislikes about the Democrats, their appeal to voters is primarily to logic. Whereas the Republicans long ago learned to appeal to the dark side of people’s emotions, since they had no logical or progressive policies to sell. So the Republicans have become the party of hate, misogyny, racism, bigotry, homophobia, war, and anti-immigrant sentiment affixed to a false and extremist Christian face. They now, and have been for some time, openly organizing people around these negative emotions and behaviors.
People who have fallen under the influence of an authoritarian or religious leader will hold on furiously to their dependence. They have invested their self esteem into the identity and success of these leaders, and by supporting them, they have built up their own self worth. One of the reasons right wing religious leaders can get their members to send them so much money for such ridiculous and scandalous reasons.
We cannot assume that logic and reason will prevail over emotional biases. There are too many tragic historical examples of this human failing. As we all know, Christianity is the dominant religion in America. And it has not been immune to class compromise over the centuries and in America more recently. The state allows Christianity today a favored status as long as it remains compromised, and does not pursue a class based policy that Jesus reportedly followed, one which advocated for the poor. A policy which eventually also cost the life of Rev. King and many others.
The problems which created the conditions for fascism and the religious right will NEVER be solved until they are clearly understood. Among the well know individuals that have studied the problem is Wilhelm Reich, psychiatrist and student of Freud and former member of the German Communist Party in the 1920s. His book “The Mass Psychology of Fascism” is still worth reading, especially the original version
I would consider some simple, yet emotional propositions. Such as a mass line saying: “What has he done as president? For you? For the country. For our future? He offers a future of perpetual conflict and corruption for the country. Burying our heads in the sand while American democracy crumbles will not change our fate. A Wall between us and Mexico solves nothing and wastes valuable resources. Nor will it pay your bills, solve global warming, mitigate and address racism and racial conflict, get you a good paying job, or health care insurance you can afford, or you son or daughter into college. He has turned brother against brother, and sister against sister. American against American. Enough of him.”
I MUST say BB Idaho your comment IS one of the very best I've read in recent months on this subject. You might have guessed that my own thoughts on this subject run parallel and very close to your own. Your observation that we will NOT solve the problems that created the condition for fascism's rise until we fully understand them is spot on. Perhaps the generations from the millennials going forward will gain the required understanding and "kill" the lure of fascism. It certainly is my hope that they do. We've failed miserably at t. Obviously.
DeleteThe truth of the matter IS tRump's MO is, and always has been, to DIVIDE and CONQUER. He is now positioned to do this on a grand scale and effectively DIVIDE a NATION. In the process he is enriching himself and his fellow cronies who share his authoritarian love for fascism. AS long as they are the fascists holding the reins and leading the horses. Which is why he and his cronies MUST be booted out of power and kicked to the curb .
The Christian religion has lost its way long ago BB Idaho. Christ I an POSITIVE finds the faith named after him unrecognizable. Charlatans have perverted and twisted his belief system to fit their own self interests for power and control over the minds and hearts of the "faithful". I am currently doing some focused study of this very issue and it has opened my eyes wide to the, for the lack of a better word, crap the Christian Church has been shoving down the throats of believers for centuries. I now have less use for ORGANIZED Christian religions than I ever had before. A subject for another day perhaps.
Anyway BB Idaho thank you for your most excellent and insightful comment. I shall continue to fight in any and every way I can folks like tRump, Pence, Franklin Graham and the host of other charlatans that are working to pervert Christianity as well as our system of government with its checks and balances to their will.
You give me too much credit, as the paragraphs were collected from a much longer article on the
Deletenet, but resonated strongly with my thinking. I cannot find the original, as I clear my inbox daily, but
it was by one of Daily Kos's amateur writers at the end of February..possibly a reprint from earlier.