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Exactly all expounded by the historical Buddha and thus contemporaneous.

I don't think the US is falling into fascism - but I do think the American system of democracy is a kind of temporary controlled fascism in the form of the President - who can use executive orders and appoint his own family into senior office and is so rulership by clique and therefore fascist. Even tho I do see that there are a lot of checks and balances - congress the supreme court and so on. But the key issue is I think not the growth of fascism or the growth of the far left - but the collapse and weakness of the centre. That's the problem - the lack of effective strong centrist voice.

Friends remembered not! And their names? I know not what, History forgot.

https://www.orthodoxartsjournal.org/heaven-round-earth-square/

whispering "be still." susurration persisting or just more silence?

whose spirits are these? Left by careless Prospero after the tempest.

Their cakes are fake.

Yep its the same guy - although I think most of the book was written by his students.

Their pies are spies.

OMG! How could I be so stupid to read your posts with non-Attention. My mind is a bitch, deluded and like a tricksy person.

Almost the same yes.

They'd love this photo of HH Karmapa

Green Jeff ... so is the 'new world' = kingdom of heaven? in which case it is 'within' and yet you don't yet know it?

Thanks - reminded me of the Monkees Daydream Believer albeit with a minimalist libretto.

I am reading this book at the moment: The Holy Grail : The History of a Legend it's not New Agey or whacky in any way and is a sensible account of the Medieval Romance and how it began and developed. But some interesting things from a spiritual interpretive perspective. The hero (Perceval usually) goes to the court of the Fisher King who is wounded or ill. He sees or is shown a ) a sword which broken and has to be mended b ) the lance which drips blood from its tip continuously and c ) the grail. But because he doesn't ask the question 'whom does the grail serve' - the Fisher King is not healed. Interestingly the land is sick (a wasteland) because the king is sick. Question: why would asking that question heal the king???? It is suggested the grail serves his father who was killed by a wicked brother (hints of Osiris myth) ... and the Fisher Kings are of a lineage starting with Joseph of Aramithea's brother in law and established when Joseph of A. brought the Grail from the Levant as it was the cup of the last supper and which held the blood of the crucified christ when J of A buried him. the lance of course is the spear used to pierce Jesus' side when he was on the cross. Anyway - anyone got an answer - why would aksing that question heal the wounded king????

Thanks Jeff, Just thought I'd put it in green so it stands out The 'motion and rest' is interesting and I take this to mean the eternal motion within the continuum of power (the Father) but I would be interested to learn what others think.

Damn those bots - I have some nostalgia for those happy days of Kunlun and KAP.

One little known fact about the DaoBums is that it was not started by the CIA but by military intelligence. Someone with responsibility for recruitment into the Navy was worried about high turnover rates and wanted to investigate methods of seaman retention. The rest is history.

Obvious reasons being?

Someone posted it on Facebook

Where they go I wonder. Used to be loads of them.

Cultural appropriation.

Proof positive.