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just installed a Shark Bite brand valve on a 1/2 inch copper line, so far so good. On another note I installed some brass gate valves years ago for my main shut-off to the house - that was a mistake and they will be replaced asap with high quality ball valves. (they leaked water into my crawl space resulting in a mess) it amazes me to see plumbing that is unprotected from possible cold temps in areas that have border line freezing periods...where I live it sometimes hits 20 below and you better have some protection for your plumbing!

are you going to compile a book of everything, Everything? ;-)

i might add a tangent by saying that "no-time and no-space" are also connected to all-time and all-space

another chicken or the egg problem...

one type of knowledge can not be gained or lost...all the rest can be gained and lost in time.

and there is a walrus swimming around in there somewhere...

regardless, "we all live on a yellow submarine..."

it is wise to recognize one's own times of foolishness, it is even wiser to recognize one's own times of evil-ness...

go hide in the woods or in your room and then you will be safe from interaction...until the fool destroys the woods and your room.

the mind can not uncover the master but the master can uncover the mind, in other words reveal them-self.

Read this Dr., he describes in medical detail how early and more recent variations of so called anti-depressants have very seriously damaged and done much worse to people - almost solely in the name of profit and power. So don't swallow the pills and the lies to begin with and if you did then be very careful about weaning off of them since withdrawal can be very dangerous. "Peter R. Breggin MD is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and former Consultant at NIMH and for the FAA. He is known as “The Conscience of Psychiatry” for his many decades of successful efforts to reform the mental health field. His work provides the foundation for modern criticism of psychiatric diagnoses and drugs, and it also leads the way in promoting more caring and effective therapies. His research and educational projects have brought about major changes in the FDA-approved Full Prescribing Information, or labels, for dozens of antipsychotic and antidepressant drugs. He continues to educate the public and professions about the tragic psychiatric drugging of America’s must vulnerable citizens including women, children, and the elderly. Dr. Breggin’s earliest reform efforts in the 1970s brought an almost complete stop to lobotomy and psychosurgery in the Western World. Then in the 1990s, he and his wife Ginger prevented a federal eugenics project on the nation’s inner-city children. Both his anti-lobotomy and their anti-eugenics campaigns are described in his book co-authored with Ginger, The War Against Children of Color, as well as in many scientific articles. "

one could observe the "universe" being like karma, although Grace also takes place in it.

I see this thread went quiet awhile back...anyway I don't think anyone mentioned Gopi Krisha's books/experiences with Kundalini and how he also suffered along these lines; a major cause being when balance is way off or not prepared resulting with kundalini traveling up the pingala instead of the sushumna!! Lets face it there are only a tiny handful of true Kundalini masters in the whole world that can intercept and direct her properly in their students...thus buyer beware of all the books and gurus on every street corner in California and elsewhere that are playing with fire!

it comes down to there being only one of us, (and the price paid to realize that) meaning that a whole bunch of ego's running around are not going to become a whole bunch immortal ego's running around.

but "Seeing Brahman in everything" and connected to maya is not unreal per-se either, what is unreal is limited or mis-identification.

yet I'd say the Isa upanishad warns against transcendental dichotomies...so again coming back to the title of the talk of, "Seeing God (or Brahman) in everything" - how could one also hold to seeing a so called "unreal" even if defined as changing...

does anyone hear that differently than the point made in the last post about said contradiction?

so going by the opening crux of the talk there really is no leading away from an "unreal" to the "real", thus what is needed is a leading away from an incorrect perception of (only) the real or Brahman in everything - which does not include an unreal, thus part of the ancient opening prayer states or espouses to me a direct contradiction to what then follows in the talk.

without simple and sincere honesty and a certain humbleness it doesn't matter how hard working or how smart a student is if they don't have or develop those virtues

it is recorded that Lord Brahma (as the aspect of creator ) is not immortal per-se although his lifetime is the length of a extremely long cosmic cycle...anyway even that is not enough. Btw. in Taoism The One is "born" so even the One is not immortal per-se.

that which knows it is not the the complex computer like tool and resulting RAM programs that mind is, (with lots of programs running in the background besides what is on the desktop - with some of those people and programs having code based on dharma and some based on anti-dharma along with mixtures of both...whereas all of the True Master's working code in this world is based what could be called the ROM of Self.

a chute is a nice option if the jet has slowed down enough to exit out of a normally shut emergency door - say at 15k feet, btw if four or five people have you in a death hug on your way out the door will the chute slow all of you down enough to safely hit the ground?

to paraphrase: seek God first and all things (needed) will be added unto you. Inviolate Spiritual Truth is the foundation of true and rooted power that works for and with the goodness of the lifeforce in all beings, ....as also spoken of per, "Tao follows it own ways" from chapter 25 of the T.T.C.

Rideforever, It sounds like you want to or need to be some kind of alternate know it all, but I'm afraid you are barking up the wrong tree in this sub-forum,... whereas you can probably find some young, impressionable wanna-be masters of the universe types in other forums or sites who are more likely to go along with your half-hidden and half baked repackaging of Mr. G ramblings and slants.

well the sound of one dog barking turns more or less instantly into two dogs and then three dogs barking, and from there to ten thousand dogs carrying on...but if those ten thousand dogs are wafting their tails after farting then it would be wise to return to non-form and its non-smell. (asap)