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True... just a play on psychology... because really that is what they want you to become... I think this is the error of western students and why they take it so lightly / not at all... in a way they mock the teachings...as unnecessary Really a true Buddhist/Taoist will attain or strive for the same level of Virtue that Christianity etc imposes. Via its method of communication. One will see striving for virtue is the true freedom... some people must suffer a lot to see this. (I am still learning too... haha, I am not saying I am all virtuous) When we are young naturally we don't understand and lash out at everything... I have even read accounts of people growing up in Buddhist communities... and rebelling against...later turning to Christianity ...it is a funny thing... adolescence I don't think any religion east to west truly accepts gays or lesbians. I guess some have been watered down// or again ignored. The Japanese have the right to defend themselves... Zen + War ... if Zen is the closest thing to nature...? Nature can be warlike. I havn't looked too deeply into the Japanese side of things regarding that... There is always 2 sides to the story... I have read of the games played by the US government and others to draw USA into WW2... very devious stuff Who is innocent? And the way the allies manufuctured Pearl Harbour..+ the knew of the attack and did nothing to prevent it... it was intended to be used as a way to bring USA into the war... + gain public support. Similar to 9/11 and other false flag events. Now we see the deeds of USA (gov) and friends today... we know what they are capable of. I once asked... why has the nuclear attacks against Japan never been considered a war crime? One response was... who cares... they deserved it I have spent time in Japan... they are very nice people... History is a strange thing.

I think a good example of... "Freedom is Slavery"

I think the morality of the church is in some respects... valuable. You don't really understand these things until you gain a better understanding of the world + people. For example "sexual freedom" .... I saw an article the other day saying that more americans will have STD then have jobs... haha :/ http://www.ijreview.com/2013/03/43825-americans-with-venereal-diseases-could-surpass-those-with-jobs-by-the-end-of-obamas-second-term/ Scary stuff Buddhism also has strict morality.... that people love to ignore / thinking Buddhism is anything goes... so they like it. Haha hence the lazy... a little cheeky / not talking about All.... just most. Tell me you havnt met such people? Plenty of Buddhist here that practice "compassion" while chewing on a piece of steak.

Communism killed 60 million some est 100 million Chinese Communism killed 100 million some est to 150 million Russians Then you also have: North Korea Vietnam Cambodia etc + South American Communist regimes ... millions killed WW1 + WW2 both instigated by communists .... WW1 never really ended. Funded by the same International banks killing the planet today. You will find supposed Capitalist "democractic" nations poured millions $ into communist regimes... Communism + Capitalism arn't so removed. Communism was a tool to destroy nations and steal all its wealth. Germany was put into a far worse position than what Greece etc are in today... Germany was being bled dry, its people dying... and it witnessed the genocides at the hands of communists. It was do or die for Germany... as it is do or die for many countries today. Anti "Nazi" material was burned yes.... such as communist works + all manner of depraved material including pornography ... it was a cleansing of the spirit. Hollywood is full of communists hence you will never see a movie condemning communism... despite it truly being the most wicked ideology / instrument ever concieved.

Stop globalisation... (eggs in 1 basket) Give each nation back it's sovereignty / collapse the UN + EU Nationalize the banks. Commonwealth of the People. ^ Autarky Make usury illegal. ?? How do you change a criminal organisation from within? that is the question? Generally, lawful people raid the criminal organisation, arrest and jail everyone involved and sieze all assets.

What is so spiritual about the east? They are as devotional as western religious systems... offerings of food / incense... prostrations...they also pray to Buddhas etc and other entities. No difference really... some still practice witchcraft + ritual animal sacrifices. Maybe a handful in the east practice "true cultivation" - though who is to say devotional love is not a worthy practice or what true cultivation is... I think rather than devotional love to plastic statues... we should practice devotional love to our family and friends. I have seen monks + taoist practicing "longevity" look as deathly in old age as anybody. The majority of longest lived countries are western. 1 Japan 82.73 79.29 86.96 2 Switzerland 81.81 79.31 84.12 3 Hong Kong 81.61 79.04 84.30 4 Australia 81.44 79.12 83.75 5 Italy 81.37 78.58 83.98 6 Iceland 81.28 79.49 83.05 7 France (metropol.) 80.95 77.48 84.32 8 Sweden 80.88 78.78 82.93 9 Israel 80.69 78.36 82.87 10 Singapore 80.60 78.48 82.71 11 Canada 80.54 78.18 82.81 12 Spain 80.48 77.22 83.75 13 Norway 80.45 78.12 82.71 14 Austria 80.24 77.41 82.88 15 Netherlands 80.20 78.05 82.19 Western countries having no special energetic cultivation techniques. I think east or west... only a few really attain anything of significance. I think the "spiritual" east is a fable. + a way to mislead western folk from their own spiritual traditions or digging up the past. Most in the west drop Christianity and are sold Buddhism. They have never really looked deeply into Christianity or its mystical paths... nor have the looked into the vast philosophical archives of the west, both ancient and present... nor have they endeavoured to seek even more ancient shamanic practices of Europe (Europe is covered in megolithic structures / sacred sites / man made meditation caves with astrolgcal alignments etc etc)... a lot has been done to hide these things. Buddhism really is for lazy people. Meditation is a waste of time without developing reasoning ability + worldly knowledge // Buddha never really helped anyone... he was trying to escape suffering... not trying to stop suffering. In the west I think largely we have stopped suffering... perhaps we have become too comfortable now... but this will balance out I think in the end. Conquering death is another issue. If the west continues it's technological development... in harmony with nature (we are seeing a good move in this direction... how long this will take is unknown...if money is put in the correct places... by 2100 we could all be living in paradise... rebirth wouldnt be so bad afterall? though to develop + keep memory would be key, for me anyway.

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When I read... go toward the blue light... I think of a bug zapper... I am not that trusting... I need to investigate things myself - Buddhist or not... sometimes the sweetest things are the most bitter. Question everything

One week to live...

So you are telling me... you can't tell the difference between a cat, a cow or a human? That must make life interesting I guess as you consider there to be no difference... and not a fan of fear, violence, separation etc you would be vegetarian at the least right?

Yes lets look at genetics... I'm sure you've heard it before; humans and chimpanzees are about 98.8% similar. What does that really mean though? This number refers to comparing single nucleotide changes in the DNA, or changes in the sequence of the A,C,G,T code. Comparing genetic duplications in genes, the number lowers to 96%. What's a duplication? As Even Eichler of University of Washington says, if we consider the genetic code as a book, entire pages will be repeated in one species but not the other. So conservatively, we are 96% alike with out closest cousin. Here's some other common animals and our genetic similarites (these numbers are consistent across all reliable sources): Cat: 90% Cow: 80% Mouse: 75% Fruit Fly: 60% Banana: 50% http://genecuisine.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/human-dna-similarities-to-chimps-and.html Those very, very small differences... ha We are all humans? Meow... I mean yes...

It is more than just how someone looks. Blood transfusion between different races can be potentially deadly... It is worth having a look at some medical journals. To say race is superfical is an insult to the Absolute who created such diversity. If the absoluted wanted one people... we wouldnt have such diversity and would all be clones. Nature is infinitely more complex than just skin colour.... Ridiculous totally illogical argument based on absolutely nothing. If the Chinese arn't interested in western student I think we should respect that. Or should we put a gun to their head and teach them tolerance?

If nuclear weapons don't get us... HAARP will GMO will Toxic water supply will // unless you are aware of these things The really enemy is within... hmm

You raise good points. You may find interesting a common text among... Vatican Judaism + Freemasonry = Kabbalah The Kabbalah and Freemasonry Rooted in the ancient Egyptian Mysteries, three different versions of basically the same teachings can be identified by three different spellings: Kabbalah, Cabala and Qabalah. The Kabbalah is an essentially Jewish mystical or esoteric school. Although the Christian Church Fathers of the first century were demonstratably Kabbalists, mystical or gnostic elements within the Church largely disappeared within the first three centuries, only to reappear as a Christian Cabala during the Renaissance. A third, often hidden, stream of mystical Western philosophy absorbed many Egyptian, Jewish and Christian mystical elements and termed them the Qabalah. http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/texts/kabbalah.html Yahweh, prior to becoming Yahweh the national god of Israel and taking on monotheistic attributes in the 6th century BCE, was a part of the Canaanite pantheon in the period before the Babylonian captivity. Archeological evidence reveals that during this time period the Israelites were a group of Canaanite people. Yahweh was seen as a war god, and equated with El. Asherah, who was often seen as El's consort, has been described as a consort of Yahweh in numerous inscriptions.[1] The name Yahwi may possibly be found in some male Amorite names.[2]Yahu may be found in a place name. Evidence from ancient Egypt According to Botterweck and Ringgren, the earliest known occurrence of the name "Yahu" is its inclusion of the name "the land of Shasu-y/iw" in a list of Egyptian place names found in the temple of Amon at Soleb (see also Shasu of Yhw), from the time of Amenhotep III (1402-1363 BCE).[3] The place name appears to be associated with Asiatic nomads in the 14th to 13th centuries BCE. A later mention from the era of Ramesses II (c. 1303 BCE – 1213 BCE) associates Yahu with Mount Seir. From this, it is generally supposed that this Yahu refers to a place in the area of Moab and Edom.[4] Whether the god was named after the place, or the place named after the god, is undecided.[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh_%28Canaanite_deity%29 // Moloch (representing Semitic מלך m-l-k, a Semitic root meaning "king") – also rendered as Molech, Molekh, Molok, Molek, Molock, Moloc, Melech, Milcom or Molcom – is the name of an ancient Ammonite god.[1] Moloch worship was practiced by the Canaanites, Phoenician and related cultures in North Africa and the Levant. As a god worshipped by the Phoenicians and Canaanites, Moloch had associations with a particular kind of propitiatory child sacrifice by parents. Moloch figures in the Book of Deuteronomy and in the Book of Leviticus as a form of idolatry (Leviticus 18:21: "And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Moloch"). In the Old Testament, Gehenna was a valley by Jerusalem, where apostate Israelites and followers of various Baalim and Caananite gods, including Moloch, sacrificed their children by fire (2 Chr. 28:3, 33:6; Jer. 7:31, 19:2–6). Moloch has been used figuratively in English literature from John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) to Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (1955), to refer to a person or thing demanding or requiring a very costly sacrifice. ... The Hebrew letters מלך (mlk) usually stand for melek "king" (Proto-Northwest Semitic malku) but when vocalized as mōlek in Masoretic Hebrew text, they have been traditionally understood as a proper name Μολοχ (molokh) (Proto-Northwest Semitic Mulku) in the corresponding Greek renderings in the Septuagint translation, in Aquila, and in the Middle Eastern Targum. The form usually appears in the compound lmlk. The Hebrew preposition l- means "to", but it can often mean "for" or "as a(n)". Accordingly one can translate lmlk as "to Moloch" or "for Moloch" or "as a Moloch", or "to the Moloch" or "for the Moloch" or "as the Moloch", whatever a "Moloch" or "the Moloch" might be. We also once find hmlk "the Moloch" standing alone. Because there is no difference between mlk "king" and mlk "moloch" in unpointed text, interpreters sometimes suggest molek should be understood in certain places where the Masoretic text is vocalized as melek, and vice versa. Moloch has been traditionally interpreted as the name of a god, possibly a god titled the king, but purposely mispronounced as Molek instead of Melek using the vowels of Hebrew bosheth "shame".[2] Moloch appears in the Hebrew of 1 Kings 11:7 (on Solomon's religious failings): Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and lmlk, the abomination of the Sons of Ammon. In other passages, however, the god of the Ammonites is named Milcom, not Moloch (see 1 Kings 11.33; Zephaniah 1.5). The Septuagint reads Milcom in 1 Kings 11.7 instead of Moloch. Many English translations accordingly follow the non-Hebrew versions at this point and render Milcom. The form mlkm can also mean "their king" as well as Milcom, and therefore one cannot always be sure in some other passages whether the King of Ammon is intended or the god Milcom. It has also been suggested that the Ba‘al of Tyre, Melqart "king of the city" (who was probably the Ba‘al whose worship was furthered by Ahab and his house) was this supposed god Moloch and that Melqart/Moloch was also Milcom the god of the Ammonites and identical to other gods whose names contain mlk. Amos 5:26 reads in close translation: But you shall carry Sikkut your king,and Kiyyun, your images, the star-symbol of your god which you made for yourself. The Septuagint renders "your king" as Moloch, perhaps from a scribal error, whence the verse appears in Acts 7.43: You have lifted up the shrine of Molechand the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. The star is... John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667), Moloch is one of the greatest warriors of the fallen angels, "First MOLOCH, horrid King besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents tears, Though, for the noyse of Drums and Timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard that passed through fire To his grim Idol. Him the AMMONITE Worshipt in RABBA and her watry Plain, In ARGOB and in BASAN, to the stream Of utmost ARNON. Nor content with such Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart Of SOLOMON he led by fraud to build His Temple right against the Temple of God On that opprobrious Hill, and made his Grove The pleasant Vally of HINNOM, TOPHET thence And black GEHENNA call'd, the Type of Hell." He is listed among the chief of Satan's angels in Book I, and is given a speech at the parliament of Hell in Book 2:43 – 105, where he argues for immediate warfare against God. He later becomes revered as a pagan god on Earth. ... Later commentators have compared these accounts with similar ones from Greek and Latin sources speaking of the offering of children by fire as sacrifices in the Punic city of Carthage, a Phoenician colony. Cleitarchus, Diodorus Siculus and Plutarch all mention burning of children as an offering to Cronus or Saturn, that is to Ba‘al Hammon, the chief god of Carthage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch Canaanite civilization was a response to long periods of stable climate interrupted by short periods of climate change. During these periods, Canaanites profited from their intermediary position between the ancient civilizations of the Middle East — Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia (Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, Babylonia), the Hittites, and Minoan Crete — to become city states of merchant princes along the coast, with small kingdoms specializing in agricultural products in the interior. This polarity, between coastal towns and agrarian hinterland, was illustrated in Canaanite mythology by the struggle between the storm god, variously called Teshub (Hurrian) or Ba'al Hadad (Semitic Amorite/Aramean) and Ya'a, Yaw, Yahu or Yam, god of the sea and rivers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaan

Manno, You are getting close to something here... China + USA situation are not seperate things. They are possessed by the same (demonic) ideology... many nations have been throughout history. This ideology is Judaism, Christianity as it is known today being a pawn of the Judaic ideology. It is interesting to note... the rise in Communism... with the rise of Judeo-Christianity? Judeo-Christianity is for the slaves.... Judaism is for the masters. I think the bible still holds much value however.... what is being taught is very different... For example God who made the world and all that is in it, being Lord of both Heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands, nor is He ministered to by human hands, as though He had need of anything - seeing that He is the One who gives to all men life and breath and everything else. Acts 17:24,25. ^ isnt that a blast? There is significant ground to cover regarding this. It has been discussed already here somewhat in regards to Yahweh + Talmud etc May explain the actions of Israel today... and how they justify such actions. One would need to look into the history of Communism (method of social enginnering /conditioning... destruction of knowledge + native culture) + re evaluate the history of China in terms of the "Cultural Revolution" ... 60 million Chinese died... they are not cowards. They have been fooled like many before them however... this is due mostly to their good nature/ innocence. The "Russian" Bolshevik "Revolution" was very similar.... Also resulting in the murdering of the native peoples ruling family... the Russian Tsar + the Chinese Emperor and their kin. One also needs to look at who was behind the opium wars... and who really controlled Britain (Empire)... Waterloo was a significant event regarding that. But I believe it predates that... Caesar was assasinated by these people... Jesus Christ was crucified by these people... JFK + other USA leaders... + more recent Mid East leaders... All having one thing in common... $$$$$$ + the control of. Amschel Bauer Mayer Rothschild, 1838: "Let me issue and control a Nation's money and I care not who makes its laws". JC + The Cleansing of the Temple... This is all very relevant to the global economic situation today. The history of usury will also make a number of things very apparent.

This is true. I found out that "Natural flavours" means... that is tastes like something natural... but it itself isnt haha. We need a system to regulate and define these terms. I agree with NAJA, we really need to become self sufficent again. Physically and spiritually... hm interesting that.

^ Wow look at all those stars... haha

Never tried such myself... though I have read all the different things... shrooms, DMT etc all have a different tales to tell. What Ayahuasca will show you will be different to what Iboga will show you... Or all the different types of mushrooms... having a different experience/ story? Or the plants have different spirits/ personalities / teachings etc... Some refer to some plants being very gentle others not so... Some plants re enforce your own beliefs ... others destory. I heard one person having a lot of experience with Aya saying in his experience is was mirroring his own... So if he had a buddhist model the aya would build on that deeply... so the non being stuff... could be an interesting experience... how do you experience non being... now that is an interesting question haha... Somewhat like your profound experience... of the de constructing of the idea of profound. @_@ ha Ultimately I think we are the writers, directors, producers, actors etc all in one. *shrugs* haha

He is... perhaps becoming more of himself/ unfolding In terms of the spiritual stuff... the way he speaks I feel he has really experienced it. The... there is no you or I... seemed a little bought expression wise. I think the rest was 100% him. I wouldnt say he is enlightened... well to a degree we are all enlightened. But to what and how much? To experience those bliss states is nice... and knowing that it is possible to feel like that is cool.

In my view The Tao/Absolute is both one and many... we can't discard either. The Tao/Absolute is infinite/ infinite expression / creativity / diversity Imagine having only 1 type of butterfly or 1 type of flower... All these things are completely unique. I am of European origin. I enjoy studying eastern texts/ teachings and appreciate them very much. I understand however that I will never be Chinese or Taoist. Taoism is the unique expression of the Chinese people. I can not take or become the pattern and colours of another butterfly. I have my own pattern and colours. But I can admire the pattern and colours of other butterflies. I am what I am. I think that race is much more than skin deep. It is everything, it shapes everything. It is culture. Just look at all the different forms of buddhism and how that has been expressed/ interpreted racially. The Japanese + Zen compared to Chinese - who can say these things are the same? Why this difference? It is biological. See, plants/flowers are a unique expression of the land.... of the spirit of the land. Some grow way up in the mountains, others by the seashore... some under the sea. I think people are like flowers. Culture is the spirit of the people... which is their very being... it is hardcoded into their DNA. Just as the expression of the flower is hardcoded into its DNA. If the flower isnt home... it will not grow. It needs its own soil. You can speak perfect chinese but you will never be Chinese. Just as a tiger can mimic the roar of a lion... it doesnt make the tiger a lion. The tiger and lion have their own paths to walk. ////

Ha! haha I would like that comment... but I can't get (out of my head)

Just a slight correction sorry... By 1975 all of the members of OPEC agreed to sell their oil only in shekels.

Don't live in Zion.