Vmarco

Yes,...excellent description of a faithful caterpillar,...grounded to the good earth,...the 5 skandha's. “Not all spiritual paths lead to the Harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more.” Lao Tzu "The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid and trapped, you cannot experience liberation." Lao Tzu

Google is a pro-knowledge site,...they worship psyche, and belittle thymos,...in fact, google shares very little factual information on thymos, that is, gnowledge. There could be said to be three kinds of people on Earth,...caterpillars (the cerebral-centric google types), caterpillars desiring to wake up, and butterfies. "at the end of the day you're either a caterpillar or a butterfly, and the only way anyone will ever have even the slightest sense of what it means to be a butterfly is to become one. There are no butterfly experts among the caterpillars, despite innumerable claims to the contrary" Jed McKenna Those who use google are caterpillars,...those who get upset at quotes are deeply caterpillar. I often use quotes, not only as a collage to point to something,...the quotes being part of the collage, that is, what an artist is pointing to, rather than some biography of the quoter,...but also because quotes often irritate caterpillars,...and thus can be easily labeled one who clings to the caterpillar mentality, or has expanded beyond such ignorance. Synonyms for Butterfly: The Tao Tathagata That which sees things as they are Nirvana Bodhisattva Prajnaparamita Dakini

No,...the Yin/Yang is not in "perfect balance"....perfect balance would instantaneously dissolve all Yin/Yang. Yin/Yang represents the Harmonic Balanced Interchange of phenomena. Because most of our society is asleep, everything is viewed upside down and inside out. For example, we display the T’ai chi T’u symbol arbitrarily. The T’ai chi T’u, or yin-yang, is a well-known symbol that shows dualities’ two primal forces that is simultaneously opposing and complimentary. Although this symbol represents the rhythm of duality within the universe and thus can be viewed in motion, there is a correct, meaningful way to display it statically. The yin, or dark, feminine energy should be located on the left, with its bright eye upward at the top, whereas yang, the bright, masculine energy, should be on the right, downward with its dark eye at the bottom of the pattern. Viewing or displaying the T’ai chi T’u any other way obscures the correct nature of duality. Duality’s reality is not a personal reality. Sciential or cerebral-centric Object-ivists hold some queer views about the nature of our dualistic reality. To understand full-spectrum consciousness, we must grasp the who’s who of polarity. For instance, yang is descending, implosive, spiral-in, warming, structuring and accumulative. Yin is ascending, explosive, spiral-out, cooling, de-structuring, and dissipating. These are not human personality traits, but words that point to the masculine-Yang-centripetal and feminine-Yin-centrifugal pulse of the universe. In polarity consciousness, male and female are equal, simultaneous, pressure conditioned movements in search of balance, the inbreath and outbreath of our reality. Duality seems the most difficult subject for people to grasp. In color theory the terms ebony, black, nigrescent, raven, and coal all express similar relationships of color. The therapeutic society argues that the terms ebony, black, niveous, raven, and virturous are synomynous. Niveous and virtueous have no similar relationship with black. Niveous and virturous imply whiteness. The therapy generation insists that females are implosive, structuring and integrative, and that is fine if one is discussing personality traits. However, in duality, implosive, structuring, and integrative are centripetal actions of heating inwardness, whereas explosive, destructing, and disintegrative are centrifugal actions of cooling outwardness. The male polarity is implosive, heating, long wavelength, low frequency, whereas the female polarity is explosive, cooling, short wavelength, and high frequency. If we said that the female polarity is implosive, we then must use synonyms of implosive for all female terms, like induction, converging, compressing, heating, gravity, etc., and not simply interchange whatever opposites seem to fit one’s feeling about what a female personality should be. In Tantra, yang is said to descend from above (compression, converging, imploding) and manifests the outward shape of the penis. Yin ascends from below (dissolution, diverging, exploding) and manifests the inward shape of the vagina. Duality is simply the diversification out of the illusion of oneness. That is to say, people often miss the fact that oneness cannot exist without duality. Oneness is duality. The many is merely a multiplication of one. There is no center without a boundary, no here without a there. If we are to transcend the struggles of separateness, of useless happiness and suffering, and instead birth human beingness, we must let go of an attachment to what is not us. We are light and love; however, very few understand what that points to. The late second century apology 1 John, says, “God is light, and in him is no darkness.” But what is this light and darkness? Reading further, one finds “darkness is in the past, but the new commandment is true and in the light.” 1 John 2:8 refers to the perceived light and dark of duality. Christian light, however, as will be disclosed, is not true, unconditional, undivided light. The view that most people have of light and dark is biased and confused. The propaganda of self-proclaimed visionaries continue to contribute to the absurd misunderstandings of duality. One visionary wrote that, male yang is “explosive, centrifugal, warming, destructuring, and dissipating, while the female yin is implosive, centripetal, cooling, structuring, and integrative.” Once again, these are ego statements, based on a human-centric viewpoint, not nature’s reality. How is dissipating or destructuring, warming? How is implosiveness and structuring, cooling? These people only encourage a world in which oxymorons are considered meaningful. The reality of duality is this: yin is feminine, spiral-out, diverging, radiative, expansive, disintegrating, explosive, discharging, centrifugal, cooling, dissipating, exhaling, and ascending (notice how these are all complimentary). Yang is masculine, spiral-in, converging, generative, contractive, integrating, implosive, charged, centripetal, heating, accumulating, inhaling, and descending. Intermixing or attributing yin characteristics to yang or vice versa because someone feels that feminine energy should be structuring and masculine energy destructuring is dishonest. There can be no full-spectrum consciousness until the basics of who’s who in duality is understood. Yin is the polarity of explosiveness, that which is spiraling from the center; whereas yang, is charged implosiveness towards the center, and has the potential to explode. As Yang explodes it becomes the yin’s explosive cycle of polarity. When the explosion symbolically fills the top of the T’ai chi T’u, its potential is to implode. The yin then shifts to yang and moves centripetally, back into density. Water is seen as Yin because it is expanding away from denser form. Some practitioners of Chinese medicine also appear confused about the nature and dynamics of duality. Yes, they concede that yin is dark and cold, while yang is light and hot. However, in the same breath, they bizarrely preach that yin is downward and matter, while yang is upward and unformed energy, the direct opposite of reality. In reality, yang is the positive, charged, electric force that manifests gravity, and yin is the negative, discharged, electric force that manifests levity. Because of this, people are media-ted misinformation about the nature and the duality of light and dark. Their prevalent societal construct suggests that light is good and dark is evil. Yet where is such a thing true? Contrary to popular belief, light is neither good nor evil, and it does not conquer dark. Cosmologically speaking, we only see as far into the universe as incandescent light allows, then there is darkness, endless darkness. Many believe that light is an all-pervading expression of wisdom, when in fact it is darkness that is all-pervading from a duality viewpoint. Unlike light, darkness has no boundary, nor does it have a center. In a sense, it is not separated from anything. On the other hand, the incandescent light of duality does have a definable boundary, thus a center. Duality’s light is inherently separate. The light of duality, that is, divided, projected light, can only illuminate the past, because it is itself the past. From a perspective of dualism, the “now” would be in darkness, an idea not very palatable to ego consciousness. This makes any contemplation of the nature of light and darkness forbidden, another taboo, or at least it rips the imagined fabric of society’s delusion and leaves it garmentless, naked and free. Rudolph Steiner, in his treatise Colour, says, “Light is the antipathic expression of duality, whereas darkness, its sympathetic expression.” In other words, darkness is as the womb of creation, through which creation dies into light. To better grasp this, consider thermodynamics. Dark yin initiates compression from cold, thus multiplying cold to create light through yang’s heat. The compressed heat expands, thus dividing crystallized light and yang’s heat back to dark, yin cold. That is the pulse of duality. The Christian God is the masculine light of duality, and in him is no feminine darkness. Such a god will never find or realize balance. Unlike the Buddhist sutras, there is little written in the Bible that suggests God or Jesus was enlightened.

Wisdom (knowledge) does not arise from samadhi,...Prajna (gnowledge) arises from samadhi. Without realizing this, any understanding of The Tao, or Tathagata, remains a concept of thought.

Wisdom literally means knowledge accumulated through philosophic or scientific learning. In other words, wisdom points to the highest and most lofty ideas of the ego consciousness of science, whose sole purpose is to sustain itself. Wisdom is to make the best use of knowledge,...yet to realize enlightenment means to let go of all knowledge. Knowledge is acquired through thinking/the Head-mind,...the truth arises only from gnowledge/the Heart-Mind. What is widom for me? Perhaps the greatest barrier to prajnaparamita. The pedestal of wisdom is a good example of how ego consciousness sustains the delusion of ignorance, and discourages any attempt to See Things How They Really Are.

I'm talking in metaphors,....although caterpillar's (the sciential minded) love talking about butterfly's (those who understand the Tao), a caterpillar cannot understand a butterfy, or one who is truth realized. "If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of your self." Lao Tzu

　 The organ associated with Heart Consciousness is the endocrine gland known as the thymus. As mentioned, when the Greeks discussed Higher Mind, they pointed to the chest, and called it thymos. Homer said, "Thymos is in our chests." The other mind, the sciential mind, the accumulating intellect, was known as psyche. From the sapiential mind arises gnowledge, whereas through the sciential gray goo, one synthesizes knowledge. To Gnow Thyself, Gnothi Seauton, one can only proceed through the thymos. An enlivened thymus or heart chakra is one of three thresholds to the conscious realization of the fulcrum upon which duality effects its motion. The danjun, thymus, and pineal or intellectual center are the three fulcrum balancing points. An enlivened thymos is a vibrant greenish turquoise. When the light of the violet crown chakra descends and the red root rises, meeting at the interlacing point of a vibrant greenish turqoise heart, and spun together, the three colors make white light. Violet, green, and red light spun together make white. 　 In the sun and Krst philosophies of Egypt, the heart-thymos was revered, whereas the brain-psyche was considered worthless. In the mummification process, the heart was preserved, but the cerebral gray matter was sucked out and discarded. Like Tantra, Buddhism, and the Maya, the Egyptians seem to have been aware that the head was the vessel for the lowest consciousness, but through the heart came the highest consciousness. As mentioned in the previous post, today’s object-ive science considers such ideas nonsense. Many today BELIEVE they are in touch with their heart, when in truth, their faith-based indoctrinations are veils which obscure the heart. The truth is, that book religions are an underlying cause of the atrophy of the thymus gland, and the atrophy of the thymus gland removes our ability to have an harmoneous physiology where cancer cannot take hold. Cancer is about "individuality." An individual, rogue cell that does not want to be in harmony with the whole. Egyptians, I have been told, would gaze at sunsets and sunrises, which would help maintain the life-force frequency of the thymos, and other organs. Light, which enters through the eyes to the pineal body, appears to continue its travel down along the endocrine pathways. In today’s chic sunglass culture, however, the tendency is to stay out of the sun, thus restricting the nourishment of life force into our physical, emotional and subtler levels. The subsequent diminishing vigor of the thymus (the physical aspect of the thymos) seems to arise from a subconscious death wish. If the thymus is the holy grail of immunology, then why is our society not equally as active in its health and invigoration as were our pre-Christian ancestors? How did the Egyptians know that gazing at the sunrise or sunset helped vitalize and revitalize the thymus? While observing sunsets or sunrises upon a low horizon, especially when the sun is still effulgent and sharply defined, that is, not so diffused and red, a green ray can be seen. This green ray is visible during the seconds of setting and rising, as the skyline aligns with the sun. The green ray is not an atmospheric dispersion or afterimage, but a green ray of light, although atmospheric conditions often make it look like a patch of green light. While I lived near the Arctic Circle, where the sun appears to slide along and under the horizon, the green ray can be seen for up to a few minutes at a time. I once heard in a Tuatha De Danaan tale, a tale from the so-called fifth inhabitants of ancient Ireland, that whoever sees the green ray will know the way home at death. I feel that any study about the Thymus Gland is one of the greatest things one can do for themselves. Today's Object-ive Science discounts the thymus gland as worthless. To them, the thymus is merely a gland that atrophies by the time puberty and sciential intellect has developed, thus has no function in contemporary adult life. Referances of Greek times has shown that their dissecting of adult cadavors found that the thymus was often larger the heart organ. He Shou Wu has been found to enhance fundamental immunological functions in mammals. It increases the weight of the thymus gland in mice, delays the gland’s atrophy process, and rejuvenates the thymus. Through shamatha the thymus can also be strengthened and its rejuvenating nectar released. The thymus is a double-lobed, butterfly-shaped endocrine gland that overlaps the upper portion of the heart. In ancient Greece, before Christianity, the thymus was reported to have been larger than the heart. In today's cerebral-centric cultures, the thymus atrophies (around puberty) to the size of a quarter, or less. No wonder Heart-Mind is so elusive,...if the vibrational field around the thymos is unable to flutter. Anyway,...He Shou Wu has worked for me. In the second month of use (1500mg twice a day), I began to feel rushes of oxytocin-like hormones from my chest several times per day. I attribute that to the rejuvenation,...but have not yet convinced my Endocrinologist to order a test. The activity of thymus thumping or perpetuating a relaxed, expansive, yin-energy sternum, unfolds an increased mindfulness that allows all activities, computer surfing, hiking and life to be more fully enjoyed. "Thymos, which is untranslatable into modern terms but denoted life force, soul, and feeling or sensibility. As Onians points out, thymos originally referred to the breath. It was the stuff of consciousness, the spirit, the breath-soul, upon which depended a man's energy and courage. Even the earliest origins of the word implied rising into flames, as a cloud, spirit, which relate it to the concept of soul and Life Energy." (Diamond, M.D., page 29) Modern science and philosophy has devalued the thymos to better fit their belief structures. However, as previously mentioned,....to understand the pyramids, we must see them as those who built and used them saw,...through Heart Consciousness. Same with Tao,...it cannot be understood through cerebral intellect. Lao Tzu said, "Recognize that eveything you see and think is a falsehood, an illusion, a veil over the truth." VMarco

To me, this reads like another neurotic argument for sciential thinking. As the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Charles Townes said, "Many people don’t realize that science basically involves assumptions and faith." I suppose "thinking" can be categorized by positive and negative thinking,...by so what,...thinking will NEVER uncover the Way Things Are. Of course,...Buddhism and Taoism point to Right Thinking as a preparation for Clear Understanding,...but not thinking as "the liberation from metaphysical spectres and meaningless nations" as the article neurotically states. At first, the article was difficult to read, but the gems of insanity piqued my interest, like: This Object-ivist thinking, to me, is more irrational than Christian-Muslim proselytizers. When are these Sciential minded folks going to realize that objects do not exist. "As a man who has devoted his entire life to the most clear-headed science to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: there is no matter as such." Max Planck All thinking, including linguistic analysis, arises from the sense organ of thinking, the brain,...the senses cannot observe the Way Things Are. Lao Tzu said, "the ego is a monkey catapulting through the jungle; totally fascinated by the realm of the senses....if anyone threaten it, it actually fears for its life. Let this monkey go. Let the senses go."

`we cannot know things as they are in themselves’....this is the fundamental premise of Buddhism and Taoism,...because knowledge arises from the 6 senses,...and the 6 senses cannot observe the way things are. Both Buddhism and Taoism promise that we can "gnow" the way things are....the Thusness of things as they are. So it appears, what the argument about the "Worse Argument in the World" points to, is to let go of an attachment to that, which cannot understand the Thusness of things as they are. Buddha, in his 4 Noble Truths, suggested the dukkha is a consequence of the desire for things to be other than they are. Dukkha, which arises from the 6 senses, cannot observe the way things are,...it is IMPOSSIBLE! Lao Tzu said, "Recognize that eveything you see and think (the 6 senses) is a falsehood, an illusion, a veil over the truth." René Descartes, concerning the senses, must have considered the impasse of object-ivity when he articulated, "All that I have tried to understand to the present time has been affected by my senses; now I know these senses are deceivers, and it is prudent to be distrustful after one has been deceived once."

To understand pyramids, attempt to put yourself in the shoes so to say, of those associated with building them. Put the alien stuff aside,...use occums razor. Egyptians and Mesoamericans at the time history suggest their pyramids were built, were cardio-centric cultures. The Christian-Muslims religions, which dominates the world today, are cerebral-centric. When 5th Century BCE Greeks spoke of Higher Mind, they used the word Thymos, and pointed to what is called the Heart chakra at the chest,....as for Lower Mind, it was called Psyche, and arose from the grey-goo in the head. 'Gnothi Seauton', as inscribed over the portico of the Temple at Delphi, means Gnow Thyself, not Know Thyself. In other words, those who say they know, most likely do not Gnow. Some cultures like the Egyptian and Maya of Mesoamerica, thought so lowly of the brain, or sciential mind, that before burials it was sucked out and discarded, whereas the heart was treasured. Today’s scientially minded may think such a philosophy as primitive, but keep in mind that the Egyptians for example were quite aware of the brain. Evidence clearly shows that the Egyptians had an intimate knowledge of brain functions, for instance that the left cerebral hemisphere controls the right side of the body. As was the case with the Tantrika and Vajrayana in Asia, and the Maya of Mesoamerica, Egyptians seemed to have been aware that the brain is the vessel for the lowest consciousness, whereas from the heart arose the highest consciousness. Ancient cultures appear to have discarded the brain because they had a higher awareness of self, a non-ego self, that has been quite veiled in the contemporary cultures of the last few millennium. Knowledge proceeds through what Buddha called the five skandhas or Aggregates, which includes sensual perceptions and conditioned experience by way of the psyche or personal consciousness. To know is to comprehend noologically, through intellect-based thought. Gnowledge is to understand through metasensory awareness and unconditioned experience through the thymos or impersonal consciousness. To gnow is to understand by way of gnosis or Right Discernment. Using Occums Razor as a guide, the way to understanding pyramids is through Gnosis,...the Heart of Essence,...not through the 6 senses of the sciential, cerebral-centric consciousness. Any attempt to understand the pyramids through sciential, cerebral-centric consciousness is futile.

Instead of looking outward,...for constellation alignments,...look at the alignments within. In the mid-90's, Gregg Braden, an accredited geophysist described the Hopi traditions Great Purification as a "shift" that will bring a zeroing-out of the electrodynamic fields on Earth for near 3 days. This temporary voidance of the EMF will bring great fear and panic to the majority of Earths human population, for the EMF is like a glue that holds together most of our beliefs. Articulating the Hopi prophesy with contemporary themes, Braden likened this Great Purification/Shift to the original computers which did not have internal batteries as our PC's now have. At the Shift, when the EMF zeros-out, will be similar to an older computer "crashing", which meant, it would lose all existing information, and would have to be reprogramed. At the Shift, most people will literally "pass out" due to the exposure of being removed from identification with their beliefs. The one's who remain awake however, their Collective Consciousness, will be the reprogram when the EMF restarts. For those who passed out, when they arise, their past will be erased, and all they will know is what those who remained awake, reprogramed them to know. Under this paradigm, those who realize and dissolve their belief patterns will be as immune to the shock of zero Electrodynamic field, and the one's to set the agenda for the next cycle. The original teachings mentioned in the Hopi Prophesy appear to go much further back, to the time before the Kali Yuga, when the "world turned another way". Those Original Teachings include the Ways of the Feminine,...not the patriarchial feminine of today,...but the authentic feminine, as in Mother Sky. They called it the time of the Blue Star Kachina,...the Birthing of HumanBeingness. There are stories of ancient temples where Initiates would be shielded from what is called electromagnetic energy; the motion of duality. Reduction in the EM field that surrounds us is said to reduce the EMF around the brain which activates and processes sensory inputs. Perception functions through an energy field. Yet consciousness is not energy. Authentic consciousness is "connected with" when we shutdown brain lobes and senses as experiments with Freethought Meditators have shown. Turning down the EMF of brain lobes uncovers the consciousness that energy has obscured. Science believes that the EM field around the brain is a byproduct of that brain,...but what if brain function arises from the EM field? Some temples in Central Asia, Egypt and Mesoamerica, through an awareness of sacred design, are said to have lowered the natural EMF in a particular area within the structure. It is said that the King's Chamber of the Great Giza pyramid, which is not commonly considered a temple, had such a sacred space. One would have to admit that the facts of its architecture is intriguing. First, there is no doubt of the sacred geometric measurements. In addition, there is no evidence that anyone ever occupied the chambers worn down, unremarkable, red granite coffer; which appears too large to have been introduced after construction. That is interesting considering coffins were the most important purchase for a tomb, often ornately decorated, with among other things, false door facades. The 5 chambered anatomy above the King's chamber is also a puzzling, especially for today's object-ive minded sciences. What was the need for such a 51 foot complex above the red granite coffer? Neither the Queens chamber, nor any known tomb appears to have no such construction. Could the King's chamber of Great Giza pyramid, when it was fully intact, have been a sacred space where Initiates could experience their conscious core by decreasing the EMF? We know today that neuroscientists (Persinger's Helmet) can envelop someone with particular wavelength patterns and have them witness Jesus, Mohammed, or a ghost. But what occurs if we enter a deep relaxation and turn down the wavelength patterns? Would we be free to witness reality through a very thin, marginal EMF filter? Could a sacred space or vehicle liberate us from the accumulated iconography of complex brain activity, and encourage a direct, wave-free experience with non-duality? Collapsing the energy supported wave function and entering a Ki point, guiding our attention towards the motionless Now, and the still Light of our Source. The EMF is the container for beliefs,...reduce the container, less beliefs can be held. Beliefs do not exist on the fulcrum (the Tao),...only upon the conditions on the lever (Yin-Yang).

The film had many, beautiful, emotional moments....also lots of talking points,...for example: The shaman says, "because we attach so much significance to nakedness, our bodies seem more important to us than our minds. To reverse this condition, we should abandon our feelings of shame and inferiority. Spiritual healing can only take place when the body is subordinate to the mind."

I'm often gay,...and love to tramp,...I'm neither a homosexual nor a prostitute. If SereneBlue's post that suggests Authoritarianism = The state’s needs are paramount; individualism is encouraged only to the extent that it benefits the state,...then authoritarianism can be a very good thing,...like Commander Adama from Battlestar Galactica. Many people crave authoritarianism,...like Christians and Muslims. Today however, more and more are worshipping their own imagined individuality. The main problem of humanity as I see it,...is the lack of truth. An authoritarian without truth, cannot serve the needs of humanity. Yet,....even if truth was realized by an authoritarian today,...it would be rejected in favor of the neurotic individual. Individuality doesn't want truth,...they want to express their individual neurosis,..at the expense of the Whole. In America, Tea Party fanatics are an extreme example of screw the whole. Thus,...while a Tea Party patriot could be called many things, I would be hesitant to ever used the term authoritarian.

"When one is ready to have Everything one thinks one knows Turned upside down and, Inside out, Then, as if by magic, Wu Hsin appears."

You must have meant wuss (Wimp & pUSS),...and compared to most, probably,...emotionally speaking. During inspirational films I really radiate emotions.

There were so many beautiful occurrances throughout, and especially during the Korean woman scenes,....beautifully hearted people unselfishly giving to others, often moves me to tears.

Fantastic video,...much appreciation for that. The Korean woman at the end was so refreshing to listen to,...and in a space with so many other shamans, extraordinary. Warning....keep some tissues handy.

If, as the links quote, Political Authoritarianism = The state’s needs are paramount; individualism is encouraged only to the extent that it benefits the state,...could the Dalai Lama be considered an Authoritarian? Is Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck an example of a great authoritarian leader? Like most perhaps, I suppose I held a negative viewpoint of authoritarian,...both political and cultural. The Patriarch of the Bible has been called an authoritarian, murderous, pro-slavery, vacillant, petty, racist, conditional God. And amazingly, a God who is so insecure, that it demands to be worshiped, obeyed and prayed to. Many "father's" of households like to emulate the authoritarianism of their imagined creator. Did not Voltaire once say, that if cockroaches had a god, he'd be a big, authoritarian cockroach? If authoritarianism is defined as "complete obedience to authority, as opposed to individuality"...then I'm in favor of authoritarianism, as long as authoritarism is based on truth.

Spiritual awareness encourages an atrophying of the testicles, and reduction of testosterone,...thus could be the hurt you feel. I would imagine the testicles of long term meditators, like Buddhists monks, are the size of a Chick Pea. A Twentyth Century Buddhist once said, "The very qualities of being a disciple are the qualities which are feminine -- receptivity, openness, trust, love, a deep surrender. And if a man becomes a disciple, he will automatically grow qualities which are female. There is nothing wrong in it. Qualities are qualities, and all beautiful qualities are feminine -- love and trust and compassion and gratitude and surrender. All beautiful qualities are feminine. It is not a question concerned with your sexuality; your being a male or female has many dimensions. One of the dimensions is that there are qualities intrinsic to females which make them easily disciples. There are men who have those qualities -- those qualities are not the monopoly of anybody. There are men who are more soft than any woman, more loving than any woman, more grateful than any woman -- but the qualities are feminine."

From my many discussions with Ralis, he has shown to have broad, hands-on experiences with most traditions within Buddhism,...likely more than myself. I've found that his personal exposure to some of the contemporary greats of Buddhism,...Norbu, Keith Dowman, various rinpoche's, etc., brings an expansiveness to any dialogue with him. To sluff him off as you do, is like tossing away nuts because you think the shells are better.

A contemporary example of emptiness would be 3D scaffling. Emptiness is not the perceived space between perceived phenomena, but the phenomena itself. When that Empty, the Empty of Form, is realized, it uncovers another Empty, the Empty of of the non-phenomena of Paranirvana. Nirvana is the opposite of dukkha,...but paranirvana is not opposite of anything. Of course, it is useless to discuss the Other Empty without first uncovering the Empty of Form,...however, I find it useful to mention, to encourage the uncovering of the emptiness of phenomena. Wei Wu Wei said, “Phenomenally, we can know no present, as it must be in the ‘past’ before our senses can complete the process of recording it, leaving only a suppositional past and future; noumenally, there is no question of ‘past’ or ‘future,’ but only a presence that knows neither ‘time’ nor ‘space.’ ”

Thanks for Parade Magazines Top 10 List of Dictators. IMO, a list of Evil People would be more relevant,...like this historical one: Top 50 Evil List 1. Emperor Theodosius - Theodosian Laws (Christian) 2. Gregory the Great - father of the Dark Age (Christian) 3. Justinian - mass murderer (Christian) 4. Tomas de Torquemada - inquisitor (christian) 5. Herod the Great -sociopath (Jew) 6. Josef Stalin - Orthodox Christian turned Communist 7. Ivan Vasilyevich - sociopath (born Christian) 8. Theophilus of Alexandria - patron saint of arson (Christian) 9 .Vladislav Tepes - sociopath (born Christian) 10.Bernard Gui - mass murderer (Christian) 11.Cyril of Alexandria (Christian) 12.Pope Inoccent III (Christian) 13.Reinhard Heydrich (Christian) 14.Mao Tse-tung (Marxist) 15.Pol Pott ( ? ) 16.Irenaeus (Christian) 17.Attaturk (Christian) 18.Adolph Hitler (Christian) 19.Tito (Christian) 20.Nero (Roman) 21.Ariel Sharon (Jew) 22.Pope Pius VI (Christian) 23.Hernando Cortez (Christian) 24.Moses (Jew) 25.Hirohito (Shinto) 26.Polycarp (Christian) 27.Deng Xiao Peng ( ? ) 28.Ayatolla Khomeini (Muslem) 29.Idi Amin (Christian) 30.Oliver Cromwell (Christian) 31.Gilles de Rais (Christian) 32.Sen. Joseph McCarthy (Christian) 33.Arnold Aimery (Christian) 34.Jerry Falwell (Christian) 35.Elizabeth Bathory (Christian) 36.Pat Robertson (Christian) 37.Adolph Eichmann (Christian) 38.King Leopold II (Christian) 39.Mother Teresa (Christian) 40.Heinrich Himmler (Christian) 41.Diocletian (Roman) 42.Tertullian (Christian) 43.Simon deMonfort (Christian) 44.Caligula (Roman) 45.Agusto Pinochet (Christian) 46.Temjin, Genghis Khan (Pagan) 47.George W Bush (Christian) 48.Benito Mussolini (Christian) 49.Papa "Doc" Duvalier (Christian) 50.Nicolae Ceausescu (Christian) I wonder what a current Evil List would look like,...I'd guess they would all be Conservatives,...and nearly all Christian, Muslims or Jews.

Most people don't realize that if the USA released 90% of its prisoners, it would still be the number 1 prison Nation. I agree,... More than half of all U.S. prisoners have been incarcerated for nonviolent offenses. Most are first-time offenders, usually people who possessed small quantities of marijuana or conscious altering psychotropic substances. Many get "punked out" and sold into slavery as sex partners for the duration of their often lengthy imprisonments. What kind of hateful society does such a thing to people for minor, victimless crimes? 　 "As long as there is a soul in prison, I am not free." Eugene V. Debs "My government is the world's leading purveyor of violence." Martin Luther King

In Buddhism, "suchness" can only be understood through the realization of emptiness. Suchness could be a synonym for the Tao. "Suchness" cannot be observed through any or all of the 6 senses.

Ah,...zero,...a study of mine since 1974. After exhausting all known works on the subject, I spent 2 years in mesoamerica studying the Mayan conch in the 90's,...even wrote two books focused on the subject. Look forward to your Zero thread.