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Enjoy.MU-Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05294291470500321130noreply@blogger.comBlogger116125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3610187803408515426.post-29002968649395712132021-08-28T08:00:00.012-04:002023-01-29T08:43:52.493-05:00Grains of Sand<div class="separator"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQl85RQf__1qcnxHZdhltgZ3KgqedZnjrHr37S5YOZYZgyw_zV-RTxnWypmoNpRfHJLATDEvT6PnbiDACcrPdRVLOtcsCruvnu72-5nNUPcTJMHsrBWTN7fSz_V-orr25etowSKaf3MSeWuSudUfIVLo2iwkkaoPdZ_j9ae01sX_kZJXAMFQVGrkGC/s274/images%20(1).jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="184" data-original-width="274" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQl85RQf__1qcnxHZdhltgZ3KgqedZnjrHr37S5YOZYZgyw_zV-RTxnWypmoNpRfHJLATDEvT6PnbiDACcrPdRVLOtcsCruvnu72-5nNUPcTJMHsrBWTN7fSz_V-orr25etowSKaf3MSeWuSudUfIVLo2iwkkaoPdZ_j9ae01sX_kZJXAMFQVGrkGC/s1600/images%20(1).jpg" width="274" /></a></div><div class="separator"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQl85RQf__1qcnxHZdhltgZ3KgqedZnjrHr37S5YOZYZgyw_zV-RTxnWypmoNpRfHJLATDEvT6PnbiDACcrPdRVLOtcsCruvnu72-5nNUPcTJMHsrBWTN7fSz_V-orr25etowSKaf3MSeWuSudUfIVLo2iwkkaoPdZ_j9ae01sX_kZJXAMFQVGrkGC/s274/images%20(1).jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="184" data-original-width="274" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQl85RQf__1qcnxHZdhltgZ3KgqedZnjrHr37S5YOZYZgyw_zV-RTxnWypmoNpRfHJLATDEvT6PnbiDACcrPdRVLOtcsCruvnu72-5nNUPcTJMHsrBWTN7fSz_V-orr25etowSKaf3MSeWuSudUfIVLo2iwkkaoPdZ_j9ae01sX_kZJXAMFQVGrkGC/s1600/images%20(1).jpg" width="274" /></a></div><table border="1" style="width: 640px;"><tbody>
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<td>Games Without Frontiers<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="400" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/95SWMqzM_Sg" width="620" youtube-src-id="95SWMqzM_Sg"></iframe></div>Peter Gabriel</td>
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<td><strong>Some kids were playing at the beach<br />They each made sand castles<br />Defending them saying...<br /><br />"This is mine!"</strong></td><td style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj38eQzhiESMCdWmyNFPoEIfxHTQKOAfobSP94rl1IGB6YcZETNAaOE8EoLPtbcEpVLgk6DXSz-ai8h5gyjLe7f3h2c12MKvS_YqDN0HM2hZZHxTBqjPART9ijbgg4SMQmSPXk3raIRaz1K9HBMXId0h_axImuhjCHkkTn_1cbAOetZZmenjFcZ_X3y/s274/images%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="184" data-original-width="274" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj38eQzhiESMCdWmyNFPoEIfxHTQKOAfobSP94rl1IGB6YcZETNAaOE8EoLPtbcEpVLgk6DXSz-ai8h5gyjLe7f3h2c12MKvS_YqDN0HM2hZZHxTBqjPART9ijbgg4SMQmSPXk3raIRaz1K9HBMXId0h_axImuhjCHkkTn_1cbAOetZZmenjFcZ_X3y/s1600/images%20(1).jpg" width="274" /></a></td>
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<tr><td><b>When the castles were finished<br /><br />one jealous child kicked over another's,<br />spoiling all the other's work.</b></td><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxkLy-zxi_VCMS11FIB9vXrmbAqfTYXqSSVi33JpV11mcdPmqaP5U83yopO7nDXiz5O5WzTv982A2eyacibldiL-IxomXCv8uL4ZiytVrKRneBh6a-Hzcr4IzN6TBQsiHU10TPLQVuXaM/s666/1h0ljl.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxkLy-zxi_VCMS11FIB9vXrmbAqfTYXqSSVi33JpV11mcdPmqaP5U83yopO7nDXiz5O5WzTv982A2eyacibldiL-IxomXCv8uL4ZiytVrKRneBh6a-Hzcr4IzN6TBQsiHU10TPLQVuXaM/s320/1h0ljl.jpg" /></a></div></td></tr>
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<td><b>He called out to the others, saying,<br /><br />"He ruined my castle!<br />Come, all of you,<br />and help me to give him<br />the punishment he deserves!"</b></td><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIG8E84nOxVMg3vXBOJ7SvJ_Oretx8PFgFRg4kkV1-YpOK8Hzw_sQSZ1pQS3T94Vw3m__RkgdUf2mvSgDh5s1VL8NFDtkfKlEs09CfLgAnS2v2PN7z7MJh0Sj92xVDKPb5su3OVIWRMCw/s719/sparky-doodles-sandcastle_c_2009457.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="719" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIG8E84nOxVMg3vXBOJ7SvJ_Oretx8PFgFRg4kkV1-YpOK8Hzw_sQSZ1pQS3T94Vw3m__RkgdUf2mvSgDh5s1VL8NFDtkfKlEs09CfLgAnS2v2PN7z7MJh0Sj92xVDKPb5su3OVIWRMCw/s320/sparky-doodles-sandcastle_c_2009457.jpg" /></a></div></div></td>
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</tbody></table><table border="1" style="width: 640px;"><tbody><tr><td><b>Once done,<br /><br />they went back to playing<br />in their own sand castles.</b><br /></td><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGpcqncwk7-IfUvlnBMhlAQYZ3xz_xiJWFrUEajMBtX7Y3AHpgSYFLwosHdIvV-i2aaMv1PKnfjglqYh3vv4KdiIJCd249d0FYzF4z0yA99E5RwoHViVAm7nmQtSGq-ohk7m3Ymn_QBN8/s449/148cgf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="294" data-original-width="449" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGpcqncwk7-IfUvlnBMhlAQYZ3xz_xiJWFrUEajMBtX7Y3AHpgSYFLwosHdIvV-i2aaMv1PKnfjglqYh3vv4KdiIJCd249d0FYzF4z0yA99E5RwoHViVAm7nmQtSGq-ohk7m3Ymn_QBN8/s320/148cgf.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></td>
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<td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglCMiOfbUa2yvcmlWbIBUBVEIZfQsQAhncAhVox8jQ5pq4z8EdVyPjLk-ft9CHk-oAHMcPVdiADHpFFH0AeRLafjWfOKETUaLcl16uNokCGJsR9vkNr-1Be9NiWreIOBG71aHoWtAsScI/s539/cafcf49f2519cb808e2f17d13424967c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="539" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglCMiOfbUa2yvcmlWbIBUBVEIZfQsQAhncAhVox8jQ5pq4z8EdVyPjLk-ft9CHk-oAHMcPVdiADHpFFH0AeRLafjWfOKETUaLcl16uNokCGJsR9vkNr-1Be9NiWreIOBG71aHoWtAsScI/s320/cafcf49f2519cb808e2f17d13424967c.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></td><td><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Each child proclaimed,<br /><br />"This is my castle!<br />No one else can have it.<br />Stay away!"</span></b></td>
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<td>Eventually, the sun began to set<br />and it started getting dark.<br /><br />The children thought about going home.</td><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVB0gY_R40ZPycLwHLO65bkyE3fSZipoc7mFWo7CnMdnswgqwN2G73OC-1BoXwS0lfzeyS1xveU2qHIBRkKh4Y6dgP0tdfnAdqUTIWhjaA1GtfwugBl47BWHB_B3XaIaGeJSxD1XCMr78/s514/cce96a8d9ab82b73518ea392552e0f98c6d56f2361e12e5c109178c42d1076dd_1.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="514" data-original-width="478" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVB0gY_R40ZPycLwHLO65bkyE3fSZipoc7mFWo7CnMdnswgqwN2G73OC-1BoXwS0lfzeyS1xveU2qHIBRkKh4Y6dgP0tdfnAdqUTIWhjaA1GtfwugBl47BWHB_B3XaIaGeJSxD1XCMr78/s320/cce96a8d9ab82b73518ea392552e0f98c6d56f2361e12e5c109178c42d1076dd_1.gif" /></a></div></td>
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<td><span style="color: #f1c232;">No one thought about their sand castle.<br /><br />No one cared anymore.</span></td>
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<td>One child kicked hers over. <br /><br />Another pushed his down with both hands<br />Still another just stamped all over it.</td>
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<td><span style="color: #f1c232;">They turned their backs <br />and walked away,<br />heading back home for dinner.<br /><br />They forgot all about the sand castles.</span></td>
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MU-Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05294291470500321130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3610187803408515426.post-55922261650624993442020-11-02T22:00:00.002-05:002020-12-31T23:48:02.799-05:00Love Life Enough To Struggle<table border="1" style="width: 640px;"><tbody>
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<td><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><font color="#f4a900">Once upon a time, </font></b></div><b><font color="#f4a900"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>a man found a butterfly</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>that was starting to hatch</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>from it's cocoon.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>He sat down </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>and watched the butterfly for hours</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>as it struggled to free itself </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>through a tiny hole.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Then, it stopped making progress </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>and appeared to be stuck.</b></div></font></b></td><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg56lQRrwYdBzagkzqCDaRfdUavcPjQKiS5roag05p_XBVcMxbE0L8RiNvIDIJBqYEXCVleHszfAX41Fj8Mp2xV9r3Yu6S-0jRTeQRP7OSbL0fsAsHUp6YsWYjY7gfj7kyL7r6tCX7hzgc/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="602" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg56lQRrwYdBzagkzqCDaRfdUavcPjQKiS5roag05p_XBVcMxbE0L8RiNvIDIJBqYEXCVleHszfAX41Fj8Mp2xV9r3Yu6S-0jRTeQRP7OSbL0fsAsHUp6YsWYjY7gfj7kyL7r6tCX7hzgc/w344-h160/main-qimg-e4fb21ad82c76c6309d0beb555a38f1f.jpg" width="344" /></a></div></td>
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<tr><td><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><font color="#f4a900">However, that never happened.</font></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><font color="#f4a900"><br /></font></span></div><font color="#f4a900"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The butterfly</div></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: justify;">spent the rest of it's life unable to fly,</div></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: justify;">crawling around</div></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: justify;">with a swollen body and small wings.</div></span></font></td><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJvsLBnFAcgMtAhsjBTdKdAghsivjfwWUUUJSjSCwmeQO_jXr6dF0rhAN8T_pPRIv6Gx104fGgLX2GrvBGZSWFWn0aIAenrN7tsvntSpDqMOx6mwnn9MVPNgBiFb0h1UeCb02ZBC3jVRQ/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="189" data-original-width="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJvsLBnFAcgMtAhsjBTdKdAghsivjfwWUUUJSjSCwmeQO_jXr6dF0rhAN8T_pPRIv6Gx104fGgLX2GrvBGZSWFWn0aIAenrN7tsvntSpDqMOx6mwnn9MVPNgBiFb0h1UeCb02ZBC3jVRQ/" /></a></div></td></tr>
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<table border="1" style="width: 640px;"><tbody><tr><td><b><font color="#f1c232"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b>"A fallen flower returning to the branch?</b></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b>It was a butterfly."</b></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b>Arakida Moritake</b></div></div></font></b></td><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf0W4Zgaw-JCm5-PJ436r6KQf9rMjV7jCpLMTBX3Xgh5o4KEeiOJsiw_BdbDLp_3gEnsal_ftVoVnl02IGIV6WiqSH6e6FUW8FDjzHqf0I4RSEcgfxngf7efSQkrAfz2XFgN5RsJchf0g/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="931" data-original-width="931" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf0W4Zgaw-JCm5-PJ436r6KQf9rMjV7jCpLMTBX3Xgh5o4KEeiOJsiw_BdbDLp_3gEnsal_ftVoVnl02IGIV6WiqSH6e6FUW8FDjzHqf0I4RSEcgfxngf7efSQkrAfz2XFgN5RsJchf0g/s320/Fesoj_-_Papilio_machaon_%2528by%2529.jpg" /></a></td>
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MU-Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05294291470500321130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3610187803408515426.post-23939858405036627842020-05-20T10:00:00.000-04:002020-05-20T10:12:19.803-04:00Tigers and Mice and Strawberries... Oh My!<table border="1" style="width: 640px;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;"><b>and Strawberries...</b></span></div>
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<b style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-large;">Oh My!</b></div>
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<td><span style="color: #f1c232;">He plucked it</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">It was incredibly delicious!</span></td><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This Zen tale's ending<br />
has been changed from the original<br />
for a Western audience.<br />
So now, it is also a bit of a koan<br />
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The question is...<br />
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Is this a tale of<br />
a wise person<br />
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by focusing on the strawberry,<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This Must Be the Place</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">To be to #FlattenTheCurve</span></div>
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<td><b style="color: #f1c232;">#STAYATHOME</b><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;"><b>"</b>Home, is where I want to be</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;"><span style="font-family: "droidsansregular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;">But I guess I'm already there</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.6796px;" /><span style="font-family: "droidsansregular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;">I come home, she lifted up her wings</span><br style="font-family: DroidSansRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.6796px;" /><span style="font-family: "droidsansregular" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.747px;">I guess that this must be the place"</span></span><br />
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<b style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of Your Life</span></b><br />
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<td><span style="color: #f1c232;">One day a son goes to his father and asks</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">"Father, what is the value of my life?"</span></td><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</td><td>The father gives him a stone and says<br />
"If you want to know the value of your life, take this stone to the market.<br />
If anyone asks the price...<br />
Don't say a word, simply raise up 2 fingers.</td>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">He wanders around and then suddenly,</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">an old woman approaches him and says</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">"How much is this stone?"</span></td><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUx6ihgDNQd381i1qxgDdBtafY0HR-f-cmXkI00PsiS4Xy2dMqBn-ClLP68Sb3ZN6ewJ06hAnWj1iYqNSMFHlZ3AIGTuepYMyMHiAR6rwV4-Uzlqv84NFa2Zf0Ln0_85e64JcjYlcw67g/s1600/images+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUx6ihgDNQd381i1qxgDdBtafY0HR-f-cmXkI00PsiS4Xy2dMqBn-ClLP68Sb3ZN6ewJ06hAnWj1iYqNSMFHlZ3AIGTuepYMyMHiAR6rwV4-Uzlqv84NFa2Zf0Ln0_85e64JcjYlcw67g/s1600/images+%25281%2529.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
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but raises 2 fingers.<br />
The woman says "2 dollars? I'll take it!"<br />
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The son is surprised<br />
and runs back to his father saying<br />
"Father,<br />
there was an old woman at the market.<br />
She wanted to give me<br />
2 dollars for the stone."</td>
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<td><span style="color: #f1c232;">Then the father replies,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">"The next place I want you to go</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">is the museum,</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">and if anyone asks the price,</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">don't say a word. Just raise 2 fingers."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">So the son takes the stone</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">and goes to the museum.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">After about 20 minutes</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">a middle aged man approaches the boy.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">He says to the boy "Much is this stone?"</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f1c232;">The boy doesn't say a word</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">and raises 2 fingers.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">"200 dollars? I'll take it!" says the man.</span></td><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGYSo3Np7xTVXhDYBPHi6rJDscv22yd-8rYaUnFY0gfyq35rYKeEe1KswMV7Wbod-ZJlorRV48aZMbz6oU_xfeR7NooLGP1ePRW1yyPpXJeC_ul9ccEzh13C_PmzNx4yk9rrFFuV5DcaU/s1600/peace-peace-sign-color-little-kid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGYSo3Np7xTVXhDYBPHi6rJDscv22yd-8rYaUnFY0gfyq35rYKeEe1KswMV7Wbod-ZJlorRV48aZMbz6oU_xfeR7NooLGP1ePRW1yyPpXJeC_ul9ccEzh13C_PmzNx4yk9rrFFuV5DcaU/s320/peace-peace-sign-color-little-kid.jpg" width="320" /></a></td>
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</td><td>Surprised again the boy runs home<br />
to his father and says,<br />
"Father, a man at the museum<br />
wanted to buy the stone for 200 dollars."<br />
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The father replied, "Ok son,<br />
the last place I want you to take the stone<br />
is a precious stone shop.<br />
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Walk inside with the stone<br />
and if anyone asks the price,<br />
don't say a word. Just raise 2 fingers."</td>
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<tr><td><span style="color: #f1c232;">So the son runs off to the precious stone store.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">After finding it and walking inside</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">he sees an old man behind the counter.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f1c232;">And as the old man sees the stone, he jumps up</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">and screams "Oh my god!</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">You have the stone I've been searching for all my life!</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">What do you want for it? How much is it?"</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f1c232;">The boy doesn't say a word and raises up 2 fingers.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">"200, 000 dollars? I'll take it!" says the old man</span></td><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</td><td>The boy can't believe it.<br />
He jumps up and runs to his father.<br />
"Father, the old man at the precious stone store wanted to give me 200,000 dollars for the stone."<br />
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The father said, "You see son?<br />
Do you understand the value of your life?<br />
Life is all about where you place yourself.<br />
<br />
You can decide to be a 2 dollar stone<br />
or a 200,000 dollar stone.<br />
<br />
There are some people who love you<br />
and for whom you are everything.<br />
And some people<br />
will just use you as a commodity.<br />
For them, you will be worth nothing.<br />
<br />
So it is up to you, my son,<br />
to decide the value of your life."</td>
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MU-Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05294291470500321130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3610187803408515426.post-42482281715574481672020-01-12T13:00:00.001-05:002020-01-12T16:20:08.336-05:00Letting Go<br />
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<td>Two traveling monks reached a river<br />
where they met a young woman. </td><td><br />
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she asked if they could carry her across. </td>
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but the other quickly picked her up onto his shoulders, transported her across the water,<br />
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</td><td>Unable to hold his silence, he spoke out.<br />
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"Brother,<br />
our spiritual training teaches us<br />
to avoid any contact with women,<br />
<br />
but you picked that one up<br />
on your shoulders and carried her!"</td>
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the second monk replied,<br />
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"I set her down on the other side,<br />
while you are still carrying her."</td><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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MU-Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05294291470500321130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3610187803408515426.post-41054095402679751152018-03-23T09:42:00.003-04:002018-03-23T09:42:49.110-04:00The Gates of Paradise<table border="1" style="width: 640px;"><tbody>
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<b>A soldier named Nobushige</b></div>
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<b>“Is there really a paradise and a hell?”</b></div>
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<b>“Who are you?” inquired Hakuin.</b></div>
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<b>“I am a samurai,” the warrior replied.</b></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;"><b>“You, a soldier!” exclaimed Hakuin.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;"><b>“What kind of ruler would have you as his guard?</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;"><b>Your face looks like that of a beggar.</b>”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;"><b>“So you have a sword!</b></span><br />
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<td><b>As Nobushige drew his sword</b><br />
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is a collection of poems by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovid" target="_blank">Ovid</a> recounting mythological stories of transformation. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_(mythology)" target="_blank">Pygmalion</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galatea_(mythology)" target="_blank">Galatea</a> is probably the most famous story.<br />
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</td><td><span style="color: #f1c232;">Pygmalion a sculptor in Cyprus, witnesses the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propoetides">Propoetides</a> deny <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_(mythology)">Venus</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodite">Aphrodite</a>) was the Goddess of love, beauty, and sexuality. Seeing them then prostituting themselves in the streets, he refuses to marry any woman</span>.<span style="color: #f1c232;"><br /></span><span style="color: #f1c232;">From a block of marble, Pygmalion sculpts an ivory white statue of a beautiful woman. Working passionately to perfect the life-like form, he eventually falls in love with her, calling her Galatea.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;"><br /></span><span style="color: #f1c232;">Aphrodite, knowing of the love he has in his heart, sees the statue and recognizes that he has in fact sculpted her image, the image of love. Aphrodite then grants his unspoken desire for the statue to be alive and love him as well.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Caressing Galatea, he then feels she is warm to the touch and she comes to life. In love, they marry, live happily and have a child, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paphos#Founding_myth" target="_blank">Paphos</a>, together.</span><br />
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</td><td><span style="color: #f1c232;">Then said Almitra, </span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">"Speak to us of Love."</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">And he raised his head and looked upon the people,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">and there fell a stillness upon them.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">And with a great voice he said: </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">When love beckons to you follow him, </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Though his ways are hard and steep.</span></td>
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<tr><td>And when his wings enfold you yield to him, <br />
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Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. <br />
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And when he speaks to you believe in him, <br />
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Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. <br />
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For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you.<br />
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Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. <br />
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Even as he ascends to your height<br />
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And caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,<br />
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So shall he descend to your roots<br />
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</td><td><span style="color: #f1c232;">Like sheaves of corn</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">he gathers you unto himself.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">He threshes you to make you naked. </span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f1c232;">He sifts you to free you from your husks. </span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f1c232;">He grinds you to whiteness. </span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f1c232;">He kneads you until you are pliant; </span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f1c232;">And then he assigns you to his sacred fire,</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f1c232;">That you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">All these things shall love do unto you</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">That you may know the secrets of your heart,</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f1c232;">And in that knowledge</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">become a fragment of Life's heart. </span></td>
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<td>But if in your fear<br />
You would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,<br />
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Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness<br />
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And pass out of love's threshing-floor, <br />
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Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh,<br />
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But not all of your laughter, and weep,<br />
but not all of your tears. <br />
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Love gives naught but itself<br />
and takes naught but from itself.<br />
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Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; <br />
For love is sufficient unto love.<br />
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When you love you should not say,<br />
"God is in my heart,"<br />
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But rather, I am in the heart of God." <br />
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And think not you can direct the course of love,<br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">But if you love and must needs have desires,</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">let these be your desires: </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">To melt and be like a running brook</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">that sings its melody to the night. </span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f1c232;">To know the pain of too much tenderness. </span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f1c232;">To be wounded by your own understanding of love; </span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f1c232;">And to bleed willingly and joyfully. </span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f1c232;">To wake at dawn with a winged heart</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">and give thanks for another day of loving; </span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f1c232;">To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">To return home at eventide with gratitude;</span></td></tr>
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And a song of praise<br />
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<td><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">Common sense</span></b><br />
<b>carries fragments of knowledge</b><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">It knows that the people who are compassionate, people of heart, have a certain wisdom which is not knowledge, a certain insight, a certain intuitiveness which cannot be taught. They can see things, feel things. They are sensitive to things which are not available to the mind. So people start thinking that there are possibilities of the heart having wisdom. But they don′t know that the heart is your emptiness.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">And out of your emptiness a clarity, a transparency arises which can see things which you cannot intellectually infer.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #f1c232; text-align: left;"> This is wisdom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">To make it complete, </span><span style="text-align: start;">it has to be said, </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><b>"The wisdom of the empty heart."</b></span></div>
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The heart, as the physiologist knows it, is just a blood-pumping system. Out of your heartbeats no wisdom can arise. Have you ever felt any wisdom arising from your heartbeats? Has any doctor ever heard some wisdom while checking your heartbeats through his stethoscope? This heart is not the one we mean when we are talking about the emptiness of the heart. </div>
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<tr><td><span style="color: #f1c232;">Actually, we are talking about throwing away all the contents of the mind. Then, the no-mind itself becomes your heart. It is not a physiological thing. It is your no-mind - no prejudice, no knowledge, no content. Just purity, simple silence, and the no-mind can be called the empty heart. It is only a question of expression. What you want to choose, you can choose: the wisdom of the empty heart, or the wisdom of no-mind - they are equivalent. When you are in deep meditation, you feel a great serenity, a joy that is unknown to you, a watchfulness that is a new guest. Soon this watchfulness will become the host. </span></td><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</td><td>The day the watchfulness becomes the host,<br />
it remains twenty-four hours with you.<br />
And out of this watchfulness,<br />
whatever you do has a wisdom in it.<br />
Whatever you do shows a clarity, a purity,<br />
a spontaneity, a grace.<br />
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<td><b><span style="font-size: large;">Dukkha</span></b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">
Usually translated as “suffering”, dukkha is more than the subjective experience of “suffering.”</div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) spoke of what dukkha means in his first sermon in the Deer Park</span></div>
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“This is dukkha: birth is painful, aging is painful, sickness is painful, death is painful, encountering what is not dear is painful, separation from what is dear is painful, not getting what one wants is painful. This psycho-physical condition is painful.”</div>
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So dukkha is not simply how we feel, it is really a characteristic that exists in the nature of the world as we experience it.</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">Dhammapada “All conditioned things are dukkha.” </span></div>
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Is there any thing that will keep us from getting sick or old? That will keep us from dying?<br />
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<td><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"><b>Sallatha Sutta: The Arrow</b></span><br />
translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu<br />
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The Blessed One said, "When touched with a feeling of pain, the uninstructed run-of-the-mill person sorrows, grieves, & laments, beats his breast, becomes distraught. So he feels two pains, physical & mental. Just as if they were to shoot a man with an arrow and, right afterward, were to shoot him with another one, so that he would feel the pains of two arrows; in the same way, when touched with a feeling of pain, the uninstructed run-of-the-mill person sorrows, grieves, & laments, beats his breast, becomes distraught. So he feels two pains, physical & mental.</div>
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<td style="text-align: justify;">Sensing a feeling of pleasure, he senses it as though joined with it. Sensing a feeling of pain, he senses it as though joined with it. Sensing a feeling of neither-pleasure-nor-pain, he senses it as though joined with it. This is called an uninstructed run-of-the-mill person joined with birth, aging, & death; with sorrows, lamentations, pains, distresses, & despairs. He is joined, I tell you, with suffering & stress.</td><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<td style="text-align: justify;">As he is touched by that painful feeling, he is not resistant. No resistance-obsession with regard to that painful feeling obsesses him. Touched by that painful feeling, he does not delight in sensual pleasure. Why is that? Because the well-instructed disciple of the noble ones discerns an escape from painful feeling aside from sensual pleasure. As he is not delighting in sensual pleasure, no passion-obsession with regard to that feeling of pleasure obsesses him. He discerns, as it actually is present, the origination, passing away, allure, drawback, and escape from that feeling. As he discerns the origination, passing away, allure, drawback, and escape from that feeling, no ignorance-obsession with regard to that feeling of neither-pleasure-nor-pain obsesses him.</td><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">between the well-instructed disciple of the noble ones</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">and the uninstructed run-of-the-mill person.</span><br />
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For a learned person
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clearly seeing this world & the next,</div>
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desirable things don't charm the mind,</div>
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undesirable ones bring no resistance.</div>
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gone to their end,
do not exist.</div>
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Knowing the dustless, sorrowless state,</div>
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he discerns rightly,
has gone, beyond becoming,</div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>A fond good bye to all we've lost, </strong><strong>are losing and will lose</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><b>And a confident expectation </b><b>that life will go on</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: x-large;"><b>No Thing</b></span></div>
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<b>I gained not one thing from</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #bf9000;">Absolute Awakening</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #bf9000;"><br /></span></b>
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<b>and that is why it is called</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #bf9000;">Absolute Awakening</span></b></div>
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<b>(Buddha Gautama)</b></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: x-large;"><b>MU</b></span><br />
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The Japanese and Korean term mu</div>
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(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language">Japanese</a>: 無; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_language">Korean</a>: 무) or Chinese wú (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters">traditional Chinese</a>: 無; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters">simplified Chinese</a>: 无) meaning "not have; without"</div>
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is a key word in Buddhism,</div>
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especially the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Ch%C3%A1n">Chan</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen">Zen</a> traditions.</div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gateless_Gate">The Gateless Gate</a>,<br />
which is a 13th-century collection<br />
of Chan or Zen <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dan">kōans</a>,<br />
uses the word wu or mu in its title (Wumenguan or Mumonkan 無門關)<br />
and first kōan case ("Joshu's Dog" 趙州狗子). Chinese Chan calls the word mu 無<br />
"the gate to enlightenment".<br />
The Japanese <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinzai_school">Rinzai school</a><br />
classifies the Mu Kōan as hosshin <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%99%BA%E5%BF%83">発心</a><br />
"resolve to attain enlightenment",<br />
that is,<br />
appropriate for beginners seeking <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensh%C5%8D">kenshō</a><br />
"to see the Buddha-nature"'.</div>
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(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative)">Wikipedia - Mu (negative)</a></div>
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"A special transmission outside the teachings;</div>
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not depending on words or letters;</div>
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directly pointing to Mind;</div>
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realizing one's True Nature</div>
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and becoming Buddha."</div>
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Bodhidharma</div>
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First Patriarch of Ch'an or Zen Buddhism</div>
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<b><span style="color: #bf9000;">Follow your nature <br /> and accord with the Tao; <br /> Saunter along and stop worrying. <br /> If your thoughts are tied <br /> you spoil what is genuine... <br /><br /> Don't be antagonistic <br /> to the world of the senses, <br /> For when you are</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #bf9000;">not antagonistic to it, <br /> It turns out to be the same as <br /> complete Awakening. <br /><br /> The wise person does not strive; <br /> The ignorant man ties himself up... <br /> If you work on your mind <br /> with your mind, <br /> How can you </span></b><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">avoid</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #bf9000;">an immense confusion? </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">In some <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_philosophy">Eastern philosophies</a>,</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">the concept of "nothingness" is characterized by an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egolessness">egoless</a> state of being in which one fully realizes one's own small part in the cosmos.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">The understanding of 'nothing' varies widely between cultures, especially between Western and Eastern cultures and philosophical traditions.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">For instance, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9A%C5%ABnyat%C4%81">Śūnyatā</a> (emptiness), unlike "nothingness", is considered to be a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind">state of mind</a> in some forms of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism">Buddhism</a> (see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana">Nirvana</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative)">mu</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhi">Bodhi</a>). Achieving 'nothing' as a state of mind in this tradition allows one to be totally focused on a thought or activity at a level of intensity that they would not be able to achieve if they were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness">consciously</a> thinking. A classic example of this is an archer attempting to erase the mind and clear the thoughts to better focus on the shot.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">Some authors have pointed to similarities between the Buddhist conception of nothingness and the ideas of Martin Heidegger and existentialists like Sartre, although this connection has not been explicitly made by the philosophers themselves.</span><br />
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从最初的没有什么</div>
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最初は何もありませんから</div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huineng">Hui-neng</a></div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language">Chinese</a>: 惠能; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin">pinyin</a>:</div>
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Huìnéng,(638–713)</div>
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Sixth and Last Patriarch<br />
of Chan (Zen) Buddhism</div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: x-large;"><b>Quality</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">And what is good, </span><span style="color: #bf9000;">Phaedrus </span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">And what is not good -</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">Need we ask anyone</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance" target="_blank"><b>ZAMM</b></a> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><b>The Metaphysics of Quality</b></span><br />
<b>Adapted from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching" target="_blank">Tao Te Ching</a></b><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">Quality and it's manifestations are in their nature the same.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">It is given different names when it becomes classically manifest.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">Romantic quality and classic quality together </span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">may be called the "mystic".</span><br />
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<b>Simple Definition of quality</b></div>
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-how good or bad something is </div>
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-a characteristic or feature that someone or something has</div>
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-something that can be noticed</div>
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as a part of a person or thing </div>
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-a high level of value</div>
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<b>Reaching from mystery</b></div>
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<b>into deeper mystery,</b></div>
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<b>it is the gate to the secret of all life.</b></div>
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<b>Quality is all-pervading,</b></div>
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<b>And its use is inexhaustible!</b></div>
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<b>Fathomless!</b></div>
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<b>Like the fountainhead of all things...</b></div>
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<b>Yet crystal clear</b></div>
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<b>like water it seems to remain.</b></div>
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<b>I do not know whose Son it is.</b></div>
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<b>An image of what existed before God.</b></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><b>Draw upon it</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;"><b>and it serves you with ease...</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><b>Looked at but cannot be seen...</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><b>listened to but cannot be heard...</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><b>grasped at but cannot be touched...</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><b>these three elude all our inquiries</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><b>and hence blend and become one.</b></span></div>
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<b>Not by its rising is there light,</b></div>
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<b>It cannot be defined</b></div>
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<b>And reverts again into the realm of nothingness</b></div>
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<b>That is why it is called the form of the formless</b></div>
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<b>The image of nothingness</b></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><b>Meet it and you do not see its face</b></span></div>
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"And what is well and what is badly—need we ask Lysias, </div>
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in metre or out of metre, poet or prose writer, to teach us this?"</div>
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From Plato's dialogue <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaedrus_(dialogue)">The Phaedrus</a></div>
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<b style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">is HOT!</span></b><br />
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<b>Celebrating that at 149 years old</b></div>
<b>we're sexy and we know it!</b></div>
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It's easy to compare yourself with others. You look around and wonder why it's so much better elsewhere. Then again, there are other times when you wonder what the hell is wrong with those people.<br />
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Canada is not perfect. But lately, as I look around especially to our British and American cousins, I feel a deeper appreciation for living in Canada.<br />
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Sometimes the grass isn't greener on the other side of the fence. Sometimes home is where the heart is.<b><br /></b></td><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="color: red;">Oh Canada</span></b></div>
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<b>Our Home </b><b>And Native Land</b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;">The diversity of our geography and peoples is our great strength and advantage</span></b></div>
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PM Justin Trudeau greeting Syrian refugees</div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>We're bringing sexy back!
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<span style="color: red;"><b>responded to a reporter's sarcastic comment </b></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>about his knowledge of quantum computing</b></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>by giving the reporter a quick lesson on it.</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: center;"><br /></span>
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We're the True North<span style="text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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Strong and Free</div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>We're sexy and we know it!
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<span style="color: red;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;">Known for our strong arms and beers</span></b></span><br />
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The Greek word areté refers to “excellence”<br />
or “virtue” of any kind.<br />
The Greeks used this word<br />
to denote courage, strength,<br />
and the need to live up to one’s full potential.<br />
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In its time areté was what all people aspired to.</td><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">Kitto comments, “is not a sense of duty as we understand it</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;"> — duty towards others: it is rather duty towards himself.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">He strives after that which we translate ‘virtue’ but is in Greek arête, ‘excellence’ … we shall have much to say about arête.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">It runs through Greek life.”</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060589469/thbosh-20/">Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance</a></td>
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Arête implies a respect of the wholeness</div>
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or oneness of life,</div>
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and a consequent dislike of specialization.</div>
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it implies a contempt for efficiency</div>
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or rather a much higher idea of efficiency, an efficiency which exists not</div>
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in one department of life</div>
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but in life itself.”</div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">The Choice of Heracles</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">(Cacia and Arete),</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">by Annibale Carracci (1560-1609), </span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">In a fable related by Xenophon,</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">Arete (Virtue) and Cacia (Vice)</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">offered <a href="http://www.mythindex.com/greek-mythology/H/Heracles.html">Heracles</a> the choice</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; text-align: start;">between a life of valour</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000; text-align: start;">and one of luxury.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">“Then Phaedrus feels a tugging to read the passage again,</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">and he does so and then…</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">what’s this?!…</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">’That which we translate ‘virtue’ but is in Greek ‘excellence.’</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">Kitto had more to say about this</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;"> arête of the ancient Greeks.</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;"> ‘When we meet arête in Plato,’ he said,</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">we translate it ‘virtue’</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">and consequently</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">miss all the flavor of it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">‘Virtue,’</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">at least in modern English,</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">is almost entirely a moral word;</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">arête on the other hand, is used indifferently in all the categories,</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">and simply means excellence”</span><br />
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<td><span style="color: #f1c232;"><b>Earth Day: The History of A Movement</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Each year, Earth Day -- April 22 -- marks the anniversary of what many consider </span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">The height of hippie and flower-child culture in the United States, 1970 brought the death of Jimi Hendrix, the last Beatles album, and Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. </span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">Protest was the order of the day, but saving the planet was not the cause. </span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">War raged in Vietnam, and students nationwide increasingly opposed it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">At the time, Americans were slurping leaded gas through massive V8 sedans. Industry belched out smoke and sludge with little fear of legal consequences or bad press. Air pollution was commonly accepted as the smell of prosperity. “Environment” was a word that appeared more often in spelling bees than on the evening news. Although mainstream America remained oblivious to environmental concerns, the stage had been set for change by the publication of Rachel Carson's New York Times bestseller Silent Spring in 1962. The book represented a watershed moment for the modern environmental movement, selling more than 500,000 copies in 24 countries and, up until that moment, more than any other person, Ms. Carson raised public awareness and concern for living organisms, </span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">the environment and public health.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Earth Day 1970 capitalized on the emerging consciousness, channeling the energy of the anti-war protest movement and putting environmental concerns front and center. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">The idea came to Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the ravages of the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California. Inspired by the student anti-war movement, he realized that if he could infuse that energy with an emerging public consciousness about air and water pollution, it would force environmental protection onto the national political agenda. Senator Nelson announced the idea for a “national teach-in on the environment” to the national media; persuaded Pete McCloskey, a conservation-minded Republican Congressman, to serve as his co-chair; and recruited Denis Hayes as national coordinator. </span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">Hayes built a national staff of 85 to promote events across the land.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">As a result, on the 22nd of April, 20 million Americans took to the streets, parks, and auditoriums to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment in massive coast-to-coast rallies. Thousands of colleges and universities organized protests against the deterioration of the environment. Groups that had been fighting against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, raw sewage, toxic dumps, pesticides, freeways, the loss of wilderness, and the extinction of wildlife suddenly realized </span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">they shared common values.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Earth Day 1970 achieved a rare political alignment, enlisting support from Republicans and Democrats, rich and poor, city slickers and farmers, tycoons and labor leaders. The first Earth Day led to the creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency </span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">and the passage of the <a href="http://www.epa.gov/air/caa/">Clean Air</a>, <a href="http://www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/wacademy/acad2000/cwa/">Clean Water</a>, and <a href="http://www.epa.gov/regulations/laws/esa.html">Endangered Species</a> Acts. </span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">"It was a gamble," Gaylord recalled, "but it worked."</span><br />
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<td>Earth is the third <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet">planet</a> from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun">Sun</a>. <br />
It is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density">densest</a> and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System">Solar System</a>. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_planet">terrestrial planets</a>. <br />
It is sometimes referred to as "the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World">World</a>" <br />
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Earth formed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_Earth">approximately 4.54 billion years</a> ago, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis">life appeared</a> on its surface within its first billion years.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth#cite_note-age_earth1-29">[24]</a> Earth's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere">biosphere</a> then significantly altered <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth">the atmospheric</a> and other <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiotic_component">basic physical</a> conditions, which enabled the proliferation of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerobic_organism">organisms</a> as well as the formation of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_layer">ozone layer</a>, which together with<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_magnetic_field">Earth's magnetic field</a> blocked harmful <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight">solar radiation</a>, and permitted formerly ocean-confined life to move safely to land.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth#cite_note-Harrison_2002-30">[25]</a> The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geophysics">physical properties of the Earth</a>, <br />
as well as its <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geological_history_of_Earth">geological history</a> and orbit, <br />
have allowed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life">life</a> to persist.<br />
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<b>I've always wanted to fly.</b><span style="color: #bf9000;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #bf9000;">The only recurring dream I ever had was about flying. Very vivid dreams were I just lifted up and flew through the air. Its happened over and again with different scenarios but one outcome. I'm Flying!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">They are marvelous dreams and I always wake up both exilerated and very sad. Disappointed that they were dreams and not IRL. Not reality.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">Wherever I have gone traveling, working, excavating or on vacation, I have always been the first in the group to hear an eagle's cry. Always looking up for them, and whenever possible snap some pics.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"> I've had interesting sightings of royal eagles, golden eagles and even bald eagles.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">The are without doubt, majestic.</span></td><td><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-align: start;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: large;">Raptors</span></b></span><br />
<b>There is so much to admire about them.</b></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">Eagle is a common name</span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">for many large <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_prey">birds of prey</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">of the family <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accipitridae">Accipitridae</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">It belongs to several groups of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genus">genera</a> </span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">that are not necessarily closely related.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">Most of the 60 species of eagles </span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">are from Eurasia and Africa. </span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">Outside this area, </span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">nine in Central and South America,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">and three in Australia.</span></div>
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Sea eagles or fish eagles eat fish. D'uh!<br />
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Given that they need fish to hunt, they can be found by the seaside on coastal area, large lakes and the like. They like to eat their aquatic prey either fresh caught or carrion.<br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">Booted eagles or "true eagles"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">A small eagle with males about 510–770 g (1.12–1.70 lb) in weight, and females about 950–1,000 g (2.09–2.20 lb) They inhabit wooded and hilly regions, with some open areas nearby.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">Snake or serpent eagles are naturally adapted to hunting snake.</span><br />
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A rounded head and broad wings is what distinguish them. Reptiles are also part of their diet and sometimes they'll take small mammals as well.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">Snake eagles prefer open cultivated plains or arid savanna. However, they tend to build stick nests so, they will need trees.</span></td><td><b>Harpy Eagles</b><br />
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Harpy eagles or "giant forest eagles" tend to be large.<br />
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Eagles are different from many other birds of prey mainly by their larger size, more powerful build, and heavier head and beak. Most eagles are larger than any other raptors apart from vultures</div>
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Many eagle species lay two eggs, but the older, larger chick frequently kills its younger sibling once it has hatched. Adults do not intervene.</div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">- These adaptations gives eagles extremely keen eyesight and enable them to spot even well-camouflaged potential prey from a very long distance.</span></div>
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"Where are you?<br />
Where are you, little girl<br />
with broken wings but full of hope?<br />
Where are you,<br />
wise women covered in wounds?<br />
Where are you?"</td><td><strong><span style="color: #bf9000;">Today is International Women's Day</span></strong><br />
<strong><br /></strong>Women have a right to be treated with<br />
decency, fairness and RESPECT!<br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">My Wisdom, My Sweetness, My Love and My hunger for Peace."</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.internationalwomensday.com/">www.internationalwomensday.com</a><br />
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“I tell my story, not because it is unique,<br />
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<td><span style="color: #bf9000;">“Life is not easy for any of us.<br />But what of that?<br />We must have perseverance<br />and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted<br />for something and<br />that this thing must be attained.”<br /><br />Marie Curie</span></td><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;">And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children." And he said:</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"> Your children are not your children. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"> They are the sons and daughters </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;">of Life's longing for itself. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"> They come through you but not from you, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"> And though they are with you, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;">yet they belong not to you. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"> You may give them your love but not your thoughts. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"> For they have their own thoughts. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"> You may house their bodies but not their souls, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"> For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;">which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;">but seek not to make them like you. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"> For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"> You are the bows from which your children</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"> as living arrows are sent forth. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"> The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;">that His arrows may go swift and far. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;">be for gladness; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"> For even as he loves the arrow that flies, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: start;">so He loves also the bow that is stable.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">people will forget what you did, </span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">but people will never forget how you made them feel.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">There is no greater agony </span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">than bearing an untold story inside you.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">If you don't like something, change it. </span><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">If you can't change it, change your attitude</span><br />
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"Animusic, LLC is a computer animation company with the singular focus of animating music.</div>
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Both music and visuals are entirely digitally synthesized. </div>
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We "invent" imaginary Virtual Instruments by building computer graphics models of objects that appear to create the sound of the corresponding synthesized music track."</div>
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About 10 years ago I came across Animusic and fell in love. I thought it was about time I paid a small tribute to them. Their art, style and music was mesmerizing to me. </div>
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So enjoy these samples from Animusic 1.<br />
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Watch other amazing videos from these masterful guys on the<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/AnimusicLLC" target="_blank">Animusic YouTube Channel</a><br />
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and be sure to visit their website <a href="http://animusic.com/">Animusic.com</a><br />
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<b>Wayne Lytle</b> is the founder of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animusic" title="Animusic">Animusic</a>, an American musical computer animation company.</div>
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He created the piece<br />
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at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_University" title="Cornell University">Cornell University</a> in 1990</div>
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and composed<br />
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Lytle founded <b>Animusic</b><br />
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Together, they released <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animusic#Animusic:_A_Computer_Animation_Video_Album" title="Animusic">Animusic 1</a><br />
originally in 2001 (and re-released in 2004)<br />
and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animusic#Animusic_2:_A_New_Computer_Animation_Video_Album" title="Animusic">Animusic 2</a> in 2005.</div>
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Lytle performed in and composed most of the music for progressive rock bands throughout high school, and later studied classical <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano" title="Piano">piano</a>. He first envisioned his idea of animated music in 1982, while an undergraduate student in music and computer science. In 1988, he joined the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Theory_Center" title="Cornell Theory Center">Cornell Theory Center</a>, where he could experiment with his idea as a scientific visualization producer. As a long time musician, he specialized in composing and later created all the music for Animusic.</div>
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Once while lying on the floor, listening to the track Harmonic Voltage, my dog Josh curled up next to me and it was clear he heard and sensed the music. It was just hypnotic. </div>
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A delicious moment we shared together. :)</div>
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</td><td><b>One day he passed a wealthy merchant's house. Through the open gateway, he saw many fine possessions and important visitors. "How powerful that merchant must be!" thought the stone cutter. He became very envious and wished that he could be like the merchant.</b></td>
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</td><td><b>Then he became the high official, carried everywhere in his embroidered sedan chair, feared and hated by the people all around. It was a hot summer day, so the official felt very uncomfortable in the sticky sedan chair. He looked up at the sun. It shone proudly in the sky, unaffected by his presence. "How powerful the sun is!" he thought. "I wish that I could be the sun!"</b></td>
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</td><td><b>Then he became the cloud, flooding the fields and villages, shouted at by everyone. But soon he found that he was being pushed away by some great force, and realized that it was the wind. "How powerful it is!" he thought. "I wish that I could be the wind!"</b></td>
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<td><b>Then he became the wind, blowing tiles off the roofs of houses, uprooting trees, feared and hated by all below him. But after a while, he ran up against something that would not move, no matter how forcefully he blew against it - a huge, towering rock. "How powerful that rock is!" he thought. "I wish that I could be a rock!"</b></td><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</td><td><b>Then he became the rock, more powerful than anything else on earth. But as he stood there, he heard the sound of a hammer pounding a chisel into the hard surface, and felt himself being changed. "What could be more powerful than I, the rock?" he thought.</b></td>
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MU-Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05294291470500321130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3610187803408515426.post-83311978257191788412016-02-01T10:30:00.000-05:002016-02-01T10:30:16.357-05:00The Nature of Science<b>The Nature of Science
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“Not explaining science<br />
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When you're in love,<br />
you want to tell the world.”</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">CARL SAGAN</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">One of the most beautiful things about science is that it equips you to think for yourself
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<td><b>Ever since I was very young I've had an insatiable curiosity and thirst for knowledge. </b><b>I can't remember when I fell in love with science but I guess it was quite early. My mother recounts a story of when I was about 2 years old and took apart my older brother's toy tank. It spit sparks from the the gun on the turret and I wanted to know where the fire came from. The mystery intrigued me. And I just had to know.</b><br />
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<b>Science has been my passion.</b><br />
<b>It still is and will always be.</b><br />
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Science is behind all of our modern accomplishments and conveniences.<br />
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But it has also taught us how to think.<br />
And perhaps more importantly,<br />
how to think critically.</div>
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<td><b>Most people have these common questions at some point in their lives. Who am I? What am I? How am I? Why am I? </b><b>Perhaps metaphysics and spirituality are best for the why. E</b><b>mpirical science has the best answers for the physical nature of ourselves and the universe. And while I agree with my evolutionary hero Stephen Jay Gould that science and "religion" (as distinct from spirituality) are non-overlapping majisteria, I also agree with my astrophysist hero Carl Sagan that science and spirituality are rather complimentary. There is no need for conflict between them.</b></td><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Based on the book by Carl Sagan, The Demon Haunted World.</div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Conduct control experiments - especially "double blind" experiments where</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Ad hominem - attacking the arguer and not the argument. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Argument from "authority".</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Argument from adverse consequences (putting pressure on the decision maker</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">by pointing out dire consequences of an "unfavorable" decision).</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Appeal to ignorance (absence of evidence is not evidence of absence).</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Special pleading (typically referring to god's will).</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Begging the question (assuming an answer in the way the question is phrased).</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Observational selection (counting the hits and forgetting the misses).</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Statistics of small numbers (such as drawing conclusions from inadequate sample sizes).</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Misunderstanding the nature of statistics</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">(President Eisenhower expressing astonishment and alarm on discovering that</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">fully half of all Americans have below average intelligence!)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Inconsistency (e.g. military expenditures based on worst case scenarios but scientific projections on environmental dangers thriftily ignored because they are not "proved").</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Non sequitur - "it does not follow" - the logic falls down.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Post hoc, ergo propter hoc - "it happened after so it was caused by"</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">- confusion of cause and effect.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Meaningless question</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Excluded middle - considering only the two extremes in a range of possibilities</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">(making the "other side" look worse than it really is).</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Short-term v. long-term - a subset of excluded middle</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">("why pursue fundamental science when we have so huge a budget deficit?").</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Slippery slope - a subset of excluded middle - unwarranted extrapolation of the effects (give an inch and they will take a mile).</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Confusion of correlation and causation.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Caricaturing (or stereotyping) a position to make it easier to attack.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Suppressed evidence or half-truths. Weasel words - for example, use of euphemisms for war such as "police action" to get around limitations on Presidential powers. "</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">which under old names have become odious to the public" </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">(excerpted from The Planetary Society Australian Volunteer Coordinators</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Prepared by Michael Paine )</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Then you probably have discipline, patience, persistence and maybe passion too. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">The are qualities that I have seen in all the best scientists.</span></div>
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Each morning we are born again.</div>
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It is today that matters the most.<br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;"><i>Bodhi</i> is an abstract noun</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">formed from the verbal root <i>budh</i> (to awake, become aware, notice, know or understand)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">corresponding to the verbs <i>bujjhati</i> (Pāli) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">and <i>bodhati </i>or <i>budhyate</i> (Sanskrit).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;"><i><b>Bodhi</b></i> (Sanskrit: <a class="extiw" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%BF#Sanskrit" title="wikt:बोधि">बोधि</a>; and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali" title="Pali">Pali</a>)</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">in Buddhism is the understanding</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">possessed by a Buddha regarding</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma" title="Dharma">the true nature of things</a>.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">It is traditionally translated into English</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">with the word </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_in_Buddhism" title="Enlightenment in Buddhism">enlightenment</a><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">and literally means awakened.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">(The verbal root "budh" means to awaken.)</span></div>
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<b>Before he wrote the book</b></div>
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<b>The Wealth of Nations,</b></div>
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<b>Adam Smith</b><br />
<b>the father of capitalism,</b><br />
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<b>The Theory of Moral Sentiment</b></div>
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<strong style="text-align: start;">Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.</strong><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">by Americ Azevedo, Nov 24, 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">We are born with true wealth, but constantly forget to realize the wealth we already have. Failing to acknowledge our true wealth we keep grasping for more, like hungry ghosts who are never satisfied while constantly eating! Thus, we go about despoiling the earth, corrupting relationships, and twisting societies into grotesque forms that promote needless suffering for ourselves, others, and the earth-at-large. Realizing true wealth leads to personal, interpersonal, and transpersonal fulfillment. Furthermore, the long term survival of life on earth depends upon true wealth realization.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">We need deep psychological and spiritual healing of individuals, groups, communities, nations and the earth at large. The bedrock of this healing is a return to this present moment, not in a selfish, narrow way, but in a way that includes the totality of what is here-there as well as past-present-future. It is nothing less then the ancient ideal of enlightenment of all sentient beings.</span></td><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Health </div>
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contentment </div>
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the greatest wealth, </div>
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faithfulness</div>
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the best relationship.</div>
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to increase in wealth.</div>
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</td><td><span style="color: #f1c232;">We may have money but little time. We may have time but no money. We may have love but neither time nor money. Coming to a point of balance between these factors is mastery of the art of living which is true wealth.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">It’s been said, "He who dies with the most toys, wins!" This is <em>both</em> true and not-true. Some say, “money does not matter" -- but quietly and privately we fear poverty. Fear of homelessness, hunger, and a drop in social status drives many to insane focus on money at any cost. If you are poor with a positive state of mind, you may still suffer a sense of emotion degradation just from the social stigma of poverty. Such fears are well founded in societies that fail to attain true wealth, since the members of those societies know they can and do fall into poverty. A world based on fear cannot be wealthy in any real sense.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Our possessions can own us. Attach ourselves to our possessions and we immediately lose our sense of true wealth. The very desire for possessions not yet owned breeds greed and lust. We suffer endless rounds of grasping for the goods that will make us “happy and full”. We get “more”, but immediately need to get “more” again. There is no end in sight.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">“Business as usual” means a life filled with urgency, running to keep up, and without time. “Oh! If only I had more money, I would do the work I love.” Or, “If I had that big new house on the hill, people would respect and love me. My wife would stay with me.” Such conceptions of wealth are very childish.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Many of the “richest” people in the world are always “hungry”. Much shopping is for useless trinkets which act as displacements for lack of meaning and love in life. Many a parent, for example, who has no time for talking with their children, will just buy toys. Most people identify with the stuff that they own as an extension of their personal ego. Consider automobiles and houses which function as symbols of wealth, but are also destructive to the natural capital of nature.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">True wealth goes beyond the concerns of the skin encapsulated ego. True wealth includes the social, political, and transpersonal levels. What about a friend or relative who needs help? What about broader environmental concerns? True wealth goes beyond the individual, and even national, egos. What you spend your money on, changes, impacts society. Buy an SUV because you like personal leg room, but consume the air and warm the environment for everyone else as well as yourself.</span></td>
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<b><em><span style="color: #f1c232;">Time, Love, and Money</span></em></b></div>
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<em>An old man asked me, “With what do you buy your money?”</em></span><br />
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<em><span style="color: #f1c232;">I said, “With your life.”</span></em><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;"><em>He said,“Right!</em> <em>I wish I had known that when I was young. I spent my life working for money instead of living.”</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Time, love and money are the three legs of truth wealth’s stool. The time allotted to your life is utterly fundamental; a finite constantly depleting resource. Have you loved enough? Have you made money, invested money, and spent money in a way that sustains life on this earth for seven generations to come? Most don’t think we have time for these questions. We can be occupied working for money that we buy cars, drive to places, buy food from thousands of miles away, thus depleting earth’s natural capital without noticing it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Many people will say that they are making good money, but have no sense of free time. They hope that someday in the future they will have time for the things they really enjoy like family and nature. Often that day never comes. I once worked at the headquarters of Standard Oil. My life had become the company. When I went home, my mind was preoccupied with Standard Oil. One day I awoke to realize that I worked in an environment that was loveless. I had money, but love and time where in short supply.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">What is money? It’s a symbol for value, it is information; it is abstract. Humans are driven by symbols to go to war and fight for abstract causes. Money, being utterly abstract, is often valued more for itself than for what it actually buys – it is the ultimate “field of dreams”. Individuals and societies measure self-worth by financial net-worth, but this devalues the deeper qualities of awareness and soul that are the true source of all value.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Walking by a beautiful garden filled with iris flowers, someone might think: “I don’t own it, how unfortunate!” So they miss the simple of joy of the experience. You don’t need to own things in order to enjoy them. To really “have” something we must <b>be present</b> to it. Taking time to appreciate the existence of an object, a friend, or a place is really having that object before us.</span></td><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Wealth is transpersonal because it is “beyond the personal”. Everything that we do to accumulate wealth depends on past human efforts; as well as the Earth, the solar system, and the cosmos at large. You are not your own source of supply. Companies create private wealth by extracting resources from nature as if nature is "free" and unlimited. Water, for example, was always free. Industrial pollution turns water into another commodity with price barriers for the poor and helpless. This situation creates transpersonal poverty.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">There can be a wealth of time. Societies can make time for living, for singing, for family, for just sitting and watching. This wealth is greater than the focus on consuming goods and working to pump up the "gross domestic product".</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">A man can become homeless and starve to death in a big city filled with apartments, hotels, and food. It is not just lack of money that brings us to the homeless state. Depression, lack of faith in life, lack of friends, and lack of family ties can bring one to this place. Call it <em>lack of love</em>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">We cannot be truly wealthy in such societies with extremes of poverty and riches. The expansive homes of the few wealthy are beautiful, but the society is really poor and ugly. So many become restless and debased is such a society. I cannot relax in a mansion without security systems and insensitivity to the disparity around me. Just like the Buddhists who say they cannot become enlightened until everyone is enlightened, you and I cannot be truly wealthy until all are “wealthy”. Clearly, a new meaning of wealth needs to emerge for the culture at large.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">An investor will diversify her assets into different categories of assets so as to balance out risk with the changing tides of market fortunes. The seeker of true wealth balances the assets of time, love and money across the dimensions of personal, interpersonal and transpersonal – thus optimizing abundant life for themselves, neighbors, future generations, and Earth.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">A balanced wealth portfolio can be attained by disciplining the ego and personal pride. This spiritual practice has ramifications for self, society, and life on earth. Portfolios are lists of assets by categories. We could begin by playing with lists of “assets”. One simple list of categories for grouping our assets would look like this:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">1. Personal-money</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">2. Personal-time</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">3. Personal-love</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">4. Interpersonal-money</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">5. Interpersonal-time</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">6. Interpersonal-love</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">7. Transpersonal-money</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">8. Transpersonal-time</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">9. Transpersonal-love</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">These categories are not absolute; they are starting points to help us on the road to true wealth realization. Make up your own categories and lists. Begin from where you are, and expand to include larger dimensions of wealth.</span></td>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Wealth is usually defined by external measures: affluence, millionaire money levels, ownership and control of companies, and influence over people. Look deeper; and, there is <em>the</em> <em>feeling of being wealthy or poor </em>more or less independent of external wealth measures. Work with that feeling so as to become more independent of the strictly personal illusions of money-wealth and poverty.</span></td><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</td><td><span style="color: #f1c232;">Remember <b>who you really are</b>. This means giving yourself the time to contact your own ultimate wealth: the soul. Your own soul is your own ultimate wealth. As you begin to be wealthy in yourself, you will be able to extend your sense of wealth to include others and reality at large. Every soul is the same soul – only covered by different personality, history and circumstances. I could have been any one of the other people that I see everyday.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">To awaken to this very moment is truth wealth.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">This moment is in truth all we really have and own. Everything else is just on loan;</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">we must give it all back in the end.</span></td>
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was originally published in <em>What is True Wealth & How Do We Create it?</em></div>
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Edited by Verna Allee & Dinesh Chandra. Indigo Press, New Delhi, India. 2004. Pages 124-130.</div>
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<tr><td><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">One day a father and his rich family took his young son</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">on a trip to the country with the firm purpose</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">of showing him how poor people can be.</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">They spent a day and a night in the farm of a very poor family.</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;"></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">When they returned from their trip, the father asked his son, "How was the trip?"</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">"Very good, Dad!"</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">"Did you see how poor some people are? </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;"> the father asked.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">"Yeah!"</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">"And what did you learn?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;" /></span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">The son answered:</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">"I saw that we have a dog at home, and they have four.</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">We have a pool that reaches to the middle</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">of the garden, </span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">while they have a creek that has no end.</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">We have imported lamps in the garden,</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">and they have the stars. </span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">Our patio reaches to the front yard,</span><br />
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">they have a whole horizon."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;" /></span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;"></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">When the little boy finished, </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">his father was speechless.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">His son added,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">"Thanks, Dad, for showing me how poor we are!"</span></td><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">The reason we have poverty</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">is that we have no imagination.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">There are a great many people accumulating what they think</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">is vast wealth, but it's only money... </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">they don't know how to enjoy it,</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232;">because they have no imagination.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Alan Watts</span></div>
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All You Need Is Love</td>
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<td>When love beckons to you, follow him,<br />
Though his ways are hard and steep.<br />
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,<br />
Though the sword hidden among his pinions<br />
may wound you.<br />
And when he speaks to you believe in him,<br />
Though his voice may shatter your dreams<br />
as the north wind lays waste the garden. <br />
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For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you.<br />
Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.<br />
Even as he ascends to your height<br />
and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,<br />
So shall he descend to your roots<br />
and shake them in their clinging to the earth.<br />
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Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.<br />
He threshes you to make you naked.<br />
He sifts you to free you from your husks.<br />
He grinds you to whiteness.<br />
He kneads you until you are pliant;<br />
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire,<br />
that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast. <br />
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All these things shall love do unto you<br />
that you may know the secrets of your heart,<br />
and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.<br />
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But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace<br />
and love's pleasure,<br />
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness<br />
and pass out of love's threshing-floor,<br />
Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh,<br />
but not all of your laughter, and weep,<br />
but not all of your tears.<br />
Love gives naught but itself<br />
and takes naught but from itself.<br />
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;<br />
For love is sufficient unto love. <br />
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When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart,"<br />
but rather, "I am in the heart of God."<br />
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">But if you love and must needs have desires,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">let these be your desires:</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">To melt and be like a running brook</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">that sings its melody to the night.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">To know the pain of too much tenderness.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">To be wounded by your own understanding of love;</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">And to bleed willingly and joyfully.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">To wake at dawn with a winged heart</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">and give thanks for another day of loving;</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">To return home at eventide with gratitude;</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">And then sleep with a prayer</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">for the beloved in your heart</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">and a song of praise upon your lips.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Prophet</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Khalil Gibran</span></b></div>
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