Can compassion be trained or taught? His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Templeton Prize 2012 (by TempletonPrize)
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“When you know how to listen, everyone is the guru.”
— Ram Dass (via nirvikalpa)
“Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.”
— Bhagavad Gita (via nirvikalpa)
Robert Anton Wilson
“Long before quantum mechanics the German philosopher, Husserl, said that “All perception is gamble.”
Every type of bigotry every type of racism, sexism, prejudice, every dogmatic ideology that allows people to kill other people with a clear conscience, every stupid cult, every superstition, written religion, every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realising that our perceptions are gambles.
We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, we don’t even know we are making an interpretation most of the time. We think that this is reality. In philosophy that is called Naive Realism. “What I perceive is reality.” Philosophers have refuted naive realism every century for the last 25 hundred years starting with Buddha & Plato, and yet most people act on the basis of naive realism.
Now the argument is maybe my perceptions are inaccurate but somewhere there is accuracy. The scientists have it with their instruments that’s how we find out whats really real. What relativity and quantum mechanics have demonstrated clearly [is] that what you find out with instruments is true relative only to the instrument you are using and where that instrument is located in space time.
So there is no vantage point from which real reality can be seen, we are all looking from the point of our own reality tunnels. And when we begin to realise that we are all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels we find it is much easier to understand where other people are coming from. Or, the ones who do not have the same reality tunnels as us do not seem ignorant or deliberately perverse or lying or hypnotized by some mad ideology. They just have a different reality tunnel and every reality tunnel might tell us something interesting about our world… if we are willing to listen.”
- Robert Anton Wilson (January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007)
“Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.
(Illustration: It is my Will to inform the World of certain facts within my knowledge. I therefore take “magickal weapons”, pen, ink, and paper; I write “incantations” — these sentences — in the “magickal language” ie, that which is understood by the people I wish to instruct; I call forth “spirits”, such as printers, publishers, booksellers and so forth and constrain them to convey my message to those people. The composition and distribution of this book is thus an act of Magick by which I cause Changes to take place in conformity with my Will.)”
— Aliester Crowley
“If you don’t love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not capable of developing compassion for others.”
— The Dalai Lama (via nirvikalpa)
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Group meditation is wonderful, I’d really like to start a group where once a week people can join me.
“”I will work on myself, since the work on myself is going to be the highest thing I can do for it all, since I understand that as man up-levels his own consciousness, he sees more creative solutions to the problems that he’s confronting.” ~ Ram Dass”
— ~ Ram Dass
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye - Official Movie Trailer - 2012
One of my biggest inspirations Genesis P-Orridge dropping knowledge on the meaning of true love and devotion.
The Stitchin Theory.
Mining is one of the oldest activities practised by man, the oldest traces of the activity dating back more than 40 000 years.
The exact origin of the occupation, in terms of when and where mining started, is not known and it is this uncertainty that has led to a number of theories on the origins of the activity flourishing.
While most theories are fairly educated assumptions based on archaeological evidence, there are a number of more fascinating theories that border on the realms of science fiction.
One of the most popular alternative theories suggests that mining was first undertaken some 400 000 years ago by the Anunnaki, a race of alien miners who hailed from the planet Nibiru and who, incidentally, are also credited with the creation of the human species on earth.
This theory has largely been expounded by Azerbaijani-born American author and self-proclaimed scholar of ancient languages Zecharia Sitchin, who wrote a number of controversial books proposing an explanation for human origins involving ancient astronauts.
The most popular of these books, which deals extensively with the subject of the origins of mining and the creation of mankind, is The 12th Planet, first published in 1976. Sitchin’s theory on the origins of mining and of mankind itself, which he states is based on ancient Sumerian texts, largely goes as follows:
“according to the ancient Sumerian texts, a twelfth member of our solar system (if one is to include the sun, the moon and the dwarf planet Pluto, as well as the eight planets) exists – a planet called Nibiru, or ‘Planet of the Crossing’. This planet has an independent elongated elliptical orbit which passes through the planets Mars and Jupiter every 3 600 years.
It was from this planet that the advanced civilisation of the Anunnaki, a term that literally means ‘those who from heaven to earth came’, came to earth some 445 000 years ago.
Their visit to earth was no tourist expedition: the Anunnaki came specifically to exploit the planet’s extensive gold resource.”
Sitchin states: “On their planet Nibiru, the Anunnaki were facing a situation we on earth may also soon face – ecological deterioration was making life increasingly impossible. “There was a need to protect their dwindling atmosphere, and the only solution seemed to suspend gold particles above it, as a shield.”
However, gold was an exceptionally rare metal on Nibiru and so it was decided to exploit the earth’s more abundant gold resource. Thus, the Anunnaki “launched Mission Earth to obtain it”.
Sitchin goes on to explain that at first the Anunnaki tried to obtain the precious metal effortlessly from the waters of the Persian Gulf. But, as is well known, the extraction of the earth’s natural resources cannot be achieved without significant time and effort. Thus, when Operation Persian Gulf failed, the Anunnaki embarked on toilsome mining operations in Southern Africa, a region that was known to be host to extensive gold deposits.
For many thousands of years, the Anunnaki exploited the rich gold deposits in what is today South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi and Tanzania.
However, some 300 000 years ago, the Anunnaki assigned to the African mines mutinied over their dissatisfaction with their working conditions (Sound familiar?).
The Anunnaki were still in desperate need of gold so, in order to circumvent the dissatisfaction of the miners, it was decided to create a breed of miners who would effectively be slave workers on the Southern African gold mines. Sitchin states: “It was then that the chief scientist (Enki) and the chief medical officer (Ninhursag) of the Anunnaki used genetic manipulation and in vitro fertilisation techniques to create ‘primitive workers’ – the first Homo Sapiens – to take over the back-breaking toil in the gold mines.”
According to Sitchin, Homo sapiens were made in the image or likeness of the Anunnaki, although it was not an achievement that resulted overnight. Working in a creation chamber, the ‘essence’ of the blood of a young Anunnaki male was mixed with the egg of an earth-born female hominid. The fertilised egg was then implanted into the womb of a female Anunnaki in a process similar to modern day in vitro fertilisation. Through trial and error, Enki’s desired result was reached. Once perfected, the mass production of Homo sapiens took off.
However, ‘production’ of Homo sapiens could not continue indefinitely and this new breed of primitive man was given the ability to procreate. Eventually, this new breed became so numerous that some were expelled from the Anunnaki city centres and gradually spread over the planet.
According to Sitchin, the Anunnaki eventually decided to leave the earth some 6 000 years ago. He states that ancient Sumerian inscriptions report that the human civilisation in Sumer, Mesopotamia, was set up under the guidance of the Annunaki ‘gods’, and human kingship was inaugurated to provide intermediaries between mankind and the Anunnaki.
While Sitchin’s theories may be considered incredibly far-fetched and one may scoff at the idea that Homo sapiens were genetically engineered by aliens to mine gold to support the atmosphere of a far distant planet, his books have nevertheless sold millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into more than 25 languages.
“Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.”
— Susan Cain, Quiet (via mentalfornication)
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Smoke a bowl and get down outside in the sun. It’s hot in the uk!
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