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  ” Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality.” – Hui Neng

  It makes prefect sense to us.

  If a person holds oneself dear, let one watch oneself carefully. The wise should be watchful during at least one of the three watches. Let each person first direct oneself to what is right; then let one teach others; thus the wise will not suffer. If a person makes oneself as one teaches others to be, then being well-controlled, that one might guide others, since self-control is difficult. Self is the master of self; who else could be the master? With self well-controlled a person finds a master such as few can find. The wrong done by oneself, born of oneself, produced by oneself, crushes the fool, just as a diamond breaks even a precious stone. The one whose vice is great brings oneself down to that condition where one’s enemy wishes one to be, just as a creeper overpowers the entangled sala tree. Bad actions and actions harmful to ourselves are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do. The fool who scorns the teaching of the saintly, the noble, and ...

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  For the mind that masters view the emptiness dawns In the content seen not even an atom exists A seer and seen refined until they're gone This way of realizing view, it works quite well When meditation is clear light river flow There is no need to confine it to sessions and breaks Meditator and object refined until they're gone This heart bone of meditation, it beats quite well When you're sure that conducts work is luminous light And you're sure that interdependence is emptiness A doer and deed refined until they're gone This way of working with conduct, it works quite well When biased thinking has vanished into space No phony facades, eight dharmas, nor hopes and fears, A keeper and kept refined until they're gone This way of keeping samaya, it works quite well When you've finally discovered your mind is dharmakaya And you're really doing yourself and others good A winner and won refined until they're gone This way of winning results, it works qu...

  Oh, my Guru! The Exemplar of the View, Practice, and Action, Pray vouchsafe me your grace, and enable me To be absorbed in the realm of Self-nature! For the View, Practice, Action, and Accomplishment There are three Key-points you should know: All the manifestation, the Universe itself, is contained in the mind; The nature of Mind is the realm of illumination Which can neither be conceived nor touched. These are the Key-points of the View. Errant thoughts are liberated in the Dharmakaya; The awareness, the illumination, is always blissful; Meditate in a manner of non-doing and non-effort. These are the Key-points of Practice. In the action of naturalness The Ten Virtues spontaneously grow; All the Ten Vices are thus purified. By corrections or remedies The Illuminating Void is ne'er disturbed. These are the Key-points of Action. There is no Nirvana to attain beyond; There is no Samsara here to renounce; Truly to know the Self-mind It is to be the Buddha Himself. These are the Key...

 

 

  The video begins with chanting. For those wishing to skip the chanting the meat of the talk begins just shy of the ten minute mark.

 

  I who would follow the Teachings of Buddha Should concentrate earnestly morning and night With resolve in my heart, on these Teachings the Buddha Has given to free us from suffering's grasp. This is the first of the things to remember: Throughout all the world there is nothing that's permanent. Even the Earth has the nature of transience. Bodies are centers of sorrow and emptiness. All of my parts are devoid of self, Are dependent on causes and therefore impermanent, Changing, decaying and out of control. Expectations of permanence cause disappointment, Forming attachments that lead to wrongdoing. Observing the world in this light, may I daily progress toward freedom from birth and from death. This is the second thing I should remember: Excessive desire only brings me to suffering. Birth and death, sorrow and weariness all are from Greedy attachment to things of this world. But controlling desire cuts the root of unhappiness, Leaving the body and mind to relax. This is the th...

  House GOP Prepares to Slash Federal Programs in Coming Budget Showdown W ASHINGTON — Hard-right House Republicans are readying a plan to gut the nation’s foreign aid budget and make deep cuts to health care, food assistance and housing programs for poor Americans in their drive to balance the federal budget, as the party toils to coalesce around a plan that will deliver on their promise to slash spending. Republicans are ready this week to condemn President Joe Biden’s forthcoming budget as bloated and misguided, and have said they will propose their own next month. But uniting his fractious conference around a list of deep cuts to popular programs will be the biggest test yet for Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who will need to win the support of Republicans in competitive districts and conservative hard-liners to cobble together the 218 votes needed to win the passage of a budget plan. Privately, even some top party officials have questioned how Republicans will meet their spending obj...

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  The above screed was found on a conservative white supremacist weblog .  A weblog that daily attracts the caliber of people whose focus is actually on hating all that do not support its white supremacist views and the twice impeached and failed insurrectionist president, DJT. The screed is but a projection of the hate and ignorance of many who populate the conservative/republican party and its hateful agenda. This folks is perhaps the greatest threat to our nation, its stability, and its integrity.

 

FOX news, Tucker Caslon, and the trumpublican party are once again attempting to rewrite history and mold it into the image the lying conservative/republican agenda wants. It WILL NOT happen because honest people with integrity will not allow it . CNN   —   House Speaker Kevin McCarthy once spoke about the violence at the Capitol building on  January 6, 2021 , in starkly different terms than the narrative Fox News host Tucker Carlson is presenting with footage McCarthy provided to him, which has been selectively used to downplay the violence. In the days following the riot, McCarthy said rioters “overtook” the Capitol, speculating the rioters who he said broke a   window in his office could have kidnapped or even hung members of Congress, and called the mob attacking the Capitol “ un-American .” In other comments made  a week later on KERN , a local radio station that airs in his Bakersfield, California-based congressional district, McCarthy said anyone who par...