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Just bought "The Upanishads." Have anyone read it? Also, "The Bhagavad Gita." Has anyone read any of them? Thoughts, Feelings??

That is exactly what I am doing! Reading Upanishads first! And then will be reading Bhagavad! Thank you! And yes, I got both Upanishads and Bhagavad by Eknath Easwaran!

Dr. Ken Ring published a paper in the Journal of Near-Death Studies (Summer, 1993) concerning near-death experiencers who, while out of their bodies, witness real events that occur far away from their dead body. The important aspect to this phenomenon is that these events seen far away are later verified to be true. Experiencers not only witness events from great distances, but they have been documented to hear conversations between people at the same events. Conversations such as these have also verified to be true. An even more fascinating phenomenon occurs when the experiencer actually appears in spirit to someone, usually a loved one, during their NDE and it is verified to be true by the experiencer and the loved one. It is evidence such as this, if scientifically controlled, that can provide absolute scientific proof that consciousness can exist outside of the body. A scientifically controlled NDE that can be repeated which provides such evidence would be the scientific discovery of all time. However, science does not yet have the exact tools to accomplish this. But, science is coming very, very close. This kind of evidence and others provide very strong circumstantial evidence for the survival of consciousness. http://www.near-death.com/evidence.html

Thank you! I cannot wait to finish both. I am 30 pages into Upanishads book. I know that there is also Dhammapada. Will see if I can purchase that on Amazon.com.

Awesome! Who is the translator? For me it's Eknath Easwaran.

Thank you! I usually do Spoken Word without a beat, but I think it's like therapy when I do it to the music. Helps me heal or something. I would definitely love to Collab with you! I will continue practicing! Thank you! I know Sick Sense, used to talk to him a lot back in the day. I also like Canibus, Immortal Technique, Aesop Rock, Eyedea. You have Facebook so that we can chat? Thanks everyone!

That was beautiful! Thank you so much! I was definitely sitting down!

Lol! Nah, I am happy with what I wrote. Thank you though! You can take what I wrote and re-write it, perhaps?

This week, the free and open Internet millions of Americans have come to depend on is under attack. In a procedural move, Senate Republicans are trying to overturn the rules that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) put in place late last year to help protect net neutrality -- the simple idea that all content and applications on the Internet should be treated the same, regardless of who owns the content or the website. The House already pushed through this dangerous legislation, which would effectively turn control of the Internet over to a handful of very powerful corporations. I sincerely hope the Senate doesn't follow suit, and I'm doing everything I can to make sure this terrible legislation never reaches the President's desk. While millions of Americans have become familiar with the concept of net neutrality, it's important that we're all on the same page. Net neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged. It isn't even a change from what we have now. Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet. This isn't a radical concept -- it's what each and every one of us experiences every time we use the Internet. Right now, an e-mail from a friend arrives in your inbox just as quickly and reliably as an advertisement from Amazon.com. Consumers can go online and make a reservation at a small fishing lodge in Ely, Minnesota just as quickly as they can at the Hilton. But many Republicans want to change that so that the large corporations they represent can increase their profit margins at the expense of small businesses and consumers. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-franken/net-neutrality-is-under-a_b_1082225.html

How so many people who claim to be experts in their fields in most cases get it so wrong. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JncZpwM5IQ&feature=player_embedded

So true! Does this also connect with ...those particular sounds, beatwaves? I believe it's called? Same thing? This supposedly opens ones Chakras?

This is great! Thank you!

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We've seen some stunning videos showing different visions of the future, but this video of a future desk from EXOPC might be the coolest one yet. The company's concept for a transparent touch-screen workspace, called the EXOdesk, sure looks a lot like the future. Oh, and also? It begins shipping next year for $1,299. Check out what can be yours for thirteen-large in a teaser video posted by EXOPC (below). http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/22/future-desk-exodesk-exopc-touchscreen-video_n_1107707.html EXOPC will be showing off their EXOdesk at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in January. The 40-inch HD desk will be available to consumers starting in 2012, while the "HTML5 multi-touch development kit and the bi-directional application store" will presumably be open to developers sooner. (Note to developers: Someone please make an air hockey game.) EXOPC currently makes a pair of tablets running Windows 7, but this first-look video of the company's interactive desk has launched the Canadian company into the spotlight. The EXOdesk video has gained almost 150,000 views in the two days since it was posted. The desk itself has drawn comparisons to the Microsoft Surface, a touchscreen tabletop from the software giant that is now in its second iteration. The most notable difference between Microsoft's product and EXOPC's? Price. The Surface is intended for the enterprise and retails for $8,900, while the EXOdesk looks more like a consumer product with its more manageable price tag of $1,299. Check out more visions of the future (most of them NOT going on sale next year) by viewing our slideshow.

Anyone live in Colorado? I might be going there for Work, wanted to know if there are any close states to Colorado? Will have at least half a day to travel. Will be there for a few days! Thank you!

I personally do not believe that the six realms are actual "places" that exist outside of ourselves. That being said, I do not know for sure that they do not exist outside ourselves but I'd rather focus on the here and now then what "might" happen. I see these "realms" as states of consciousness being in our present awareness created by the power of our deluded minds. After all we are not just reborn upon our physical death--we are reborn a new each moment of our lives in the here and now. It seems to me that the concept of these realms being "out there" somewhere is a bit unskillful. That is because this idea appears to fortify the unskillful view that there are "places" that are separate from our existence in the here and now. There is no "out there." It seems to simply create worry and trepidation of ending up in a "Hell" which spurs people to follow the Dharma for the wrong reasons--out of fear and desire. That being said I'd like to move on to the actual "realms" and show how they are working right here and right now. First I wish to address the "God realm." This is the state of a false sense of "getting it." It is a false reality because there is nothing "to get." We experience this "realm" when everything is going our way. We have everything we could ever want or need--we lack for nothing. We avoid anything that doesn't being us happiness and affirm our feeling of permanent greatness that is manufactured by our ego-mind. This breeds arrogance and pride. We cease to follow and practice the Dharma because we feel that we have "arrived" and thus no longer need to meditate, etc. However, eventually that "happiness" fades and we are left with nothing to show for our "wealth" because we are preoccupied with nothing but our personal satisfaction. We have done nothing to help others with our great blessings and that leaves us feeling empty, hallow and lonely inside. When this realization occurs we struggle to maintain our God-like state by grasping. Thus, inevitably the more we do this the more we suffer which of course leads to falling into the "lower states of being" and the cycle of samsara continues. http://thebuddhistblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/are-six-realms-of-buddhism-real_02.html

Thank you for sharing! Helpful!

How funny, I used to have the same problem, well there is a little bit of a problem left, but it definitely has improved. I suggest leading by example, has worked for me, hence, I suggest it to you!