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According to PokerNews, Assistant United States Attorney Kimberly Frayn's argument for opposing the request was, "The defendants are not lawfully present in the United States. They are present only until this criminal matter is resolved and then they will be expelled. They are charged with crimes connected to unlawful gaming activities, which they conducted clandestinely on casino premises and which were furthered through associations made and maintained through poker gambling salons located within the casino."
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Sep 26, 2013 - 3:44 am
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There are many posters on this board who have found that changing their lives to thinking much less about the future and trying to live more in the present has been very helpful in increasing the quality of their lives. In this regard, I will share my experiences in totally changing my life by learning how to live totally in the moment without judgement and from a love space. My wisdom comes from years of study with spiritual teachers including Osho, Jesus, Buddha, other spiritual masters, and books by Ken Keyes, and Eckhart Tolle, and especially and most importantly, A Course in Miracles. However, for this exercise, I wlll use the advice of Jesus because that is the Prophet that all are familiar with. Now, my program probably has not been seen by any reader before, but before you disagree, ask yourself, "Can you think of a better way to live?"
Living totally in the moment non-judgmentally is the final key to bliss, and this is a mind problem, as are all the negative emotions of depression, fear, hate, judgmentalism, envy, and on and on. It is possible to eliminate all of these thoughts, but I cannot detail the process in just a few sentences, but I will give you a taste of what needs to be done, which is simply to understand what must be done to make the changes happen, which is not an overnight process.
Jesus taught: Love thy enemy as thyself. Lets understand love first. Love to be love has two necessary components: 1) It must be unconditional. In other words, you love without qualification. No one has to qualify for love. 2) It must be equal for all. This means that you love the most undeserving with the same quality that you love your Mother or your children. Now, before you stop reading, go further and see how this may be possible for you. Most think of love as verb, an action. Now as a verb, you can either love or not love. There is a choice. I love that one, but I do not love the other one. As long as there is a choice, equal love for all is impossible because the human mind will always be deciding who is worthy of love and how much. But lets look at love not as a verb that requires action, but rather as a noun which is a fact that is constant and unchanging. 'I am love." Once you understand that you are love and this cannot change ever, you no longer have the ability to decide who to love. I am love, therefore, I love all my brothers and sisters equally. Spiritual love does not create suffering; special or conditional love will always create suffering. When special love loses the object of its love, there is always huge suffering. Spiritual or real love recognizes the loss, mourns the loss and goes on loving all the other Brothers and Sisters in the Family of Man.
OK, but how do you know that you are Love? The only thing Human can positively know about "God" is that it is a higher spiritual consciousness than that which any man can possess or understand. You cannot understand or chose a higher spiritual decision or consciousness than those that you know about. The highest spirituality Man knows about is Love. Jesus often talked of love as the highest quality of Man, and of the Loving Father. So, God, or the Creator, must be a higher form of love, and we call that pure love. God created Man, but God is pure love, so the only thing that is possible for him to create in offspring is also pure love. A horse cannot birth a chicken. So, if you believe in any concept of a Higher being, you have to accept that you are Pure Love, or the very same nature as the Father. That is the way you were born and is your essence. And if that is your true essence, then you have NO choice about who you love or who you do not love, and Jesus, your teacher is the example to follow. This one thought can start the transformation of your life.
But Jesus also said, "You are born a sinner." So, if you are born a sinner and also pure love, how does that work? Sin comes from the same Greek word,and in the time of Jesus, sin meant to miss the mark, or in our vernacular, to make a mistake. It is similar to the Muslim concept: "Islam teaches that sin is an avoidable act that harms the perpetrator's own soul. This means that there is no innate or inherited nature that prompts a person to disobey God. That is to say, it is a person's free choice whether to sin or not; and one's disposition to sin is only as much as, if not less than, their inclination to do good." You certainly were given free choice, so how can you be doomed from birth with the "Sinner" tag?
So, what Jesus was talking about is that you are born to sin, that is, to make mistakes. Why? When you make mistakes, you suffer, and when you suffer, you will not make the same mistake again, and next time you will see a higher choice and make that, i.e. spiritual growth. This concept is found in all religions that I know of, including Buddhism. If sin has the popular meaning taught by churches that sin means to transgress against the laws of God, then that is against all that Jesus taught. There is NO instance of Jesus ever judging anyone. Calling someone a sinner in this vein is very judgmental and separating. You are a sinner, I am not, therefore you are not as worthy. However, you make mistakes, I make mistakes, we are Brothers and equal. If you doubt this, go look in a mirror and say, "I am a Sinner!" three times. Then see how that feels. Then do the same, but say, "I make mistakes!!" See which makes your heart feel the best. Thinking you are a "Sinner" in the church sense takes your power away with the idea that you need to be dependant on some outside source for Salvation. It blocks spiritual progress, (which may be the intent to keep you dependant on the church and not responsible for everything that happens in your life. Free yourself from the false teaching of "Sin")
Now, getting back to our main objective of being able to create a better quality of life by disciplining and learning more effective thought processes, we now have a new concept that may have a huge jump in our spirituality as well. There is much more to this, of course. However, here is a taste. If you want this to continue, I am happy to do so, but often new thought may not be welcome.
Love, Rakendra
A Course in Miracles can be read on line at coursein miracles.com Here is the introduction:
Introduction to A Course In Miracles
This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary.
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Herein lies the peace of God.
Sep 26, 2013 - 7:09 pm
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Keep on enjoying the moments of life.
Sep 27, 2013 - 7:38 pm
Your post was awesome. Thank you. I look forward to reading "miracles"
Thank you,
Sep 28, 2013 - 7:21 am
Thank you. However, I am aware that this is not for everybody, but that is fine as well. Remember, the purpose here is to reprogram the mind to think in ways that produce bliss and love, and this will take a lot of work over a period of time. Learning to BE love is our goal and to train the mind how to stay in that place. But how is it possible not to judge but to love the drug dealers, the pimps, the murderers, the politicians, and the low lifes? They are just crap and worthless, right? Well, either comparing or judging will create suffering for the originator (you) but not for the unworthy. So, what to do? Comparing is easy to quit - just stop, but judgmentalism can be a tough one. Going back to Jesus, one of his strongest points was: Do Not Judge.
Imagine the room you are now in has ten thousand layers, stretching from the floor to the ceiling. Each of these layers represents a choice, a conscious decision. The layers nearest the floor are the most damaging and most unconscious decisions, the ones that harm others. Those decisions at the very top are the highest, but we cannot imagine what they would be because no one can see a higher decision than what exists in their own bracket. However, we can see the lowest decisions, but our consciousness is evolved enough so that these low decisions are really not available to us. These decisions are outside of our available bracket. These lowest decisions are where the drug dealers, the pimps, the murderers, the politicians, and the low lifes chose their decisions from. Everyone is choosing from a specific bracket of decisions that are available to them, both high and low. The bottom bracket decisions are the ONLY decisions that the bottom feeders can choose because they are the only decisions they can see. They do not have the choice to see any decisions but the lowest ones, because the bracket they are in does not include high choices. Murderers in prison think that the decisions they made at the time was the correct one. Low lifes cannot make high decisions because they are outside of low life bracket. Of course, some who are in a higher bracket deliberately make lower choices. You can always go down or up. Look how cocaine, crack, speed, alcoholism, sex addiction can bring high people down.
Look at it this way. A black kid in Harlem with no father and a coke head mother has no chance to see or learn high choices. His family will be the street gang, and that bracket will contain his choices. On the other hand look at a child of a Kennedy or a Busch, and the choices that they will have and will be able to see. Now, how can you judge the black kid? He is just operating in his bracket, the same as you, and the same as Bush and Kennedy.
Another way to look at it this: one man eats meat, the other is a vegetarian. To the vegetarian, eating meat is a low spiritual choice. He does not choose to support the killing and torture of his fellow animals, and does not choose to cut up their dead bodies and carry the corpse around in his stomach. Eating animals is a low choice that exists outside of his bracket, and one that is impossible for him to make. However, in the consciousness of the meat eater, he does not even see or consider this. It is a higher choice outside of his bracket. Someday, he may change as his consciousness grows. So, the point here is this: how can you judge anyone for any behavior when we all are operating from our particular bracket? Do you judge the meat eater for his consciousness?
Understand that that everyone is doing what he is here to learn and what he is here to do. Your judging of the Other is totally out of place and totally YOUR problem that will cause you suffering, and hopefully, teach you that judging sucks. Love all your brothers, no matter which bracket either they or you are existing in at this moment.
Another idea. Understanding "God" for me has been impossible until I had an awakening. I am love, created by love, by the Father, the Creator. But the ONLY clue I have about the Father is that it is pure love, but I have no idea in what form that love exists. So, I see God not as a being, but as a state of being. In other words, I have totally dropped the idea of a personification of God. I understand the concept of being love, not choosing it, but being it. So, the Creator is love, as I see it, but not a being. When I see God only as a state of being and that state is the same state I am creating for my consciousness, it gives me opportunity in each moment to feel as if I am connecting with the Source directly.
Now, about the Course. This will NOT be an easy course, but it is guaranteed to be successful. My recommendation would be to first skim it, only looking at the points that catch your interest. Then check out the lessons, but do not expect to understand them at this time. They are outside of your bracket!!!LOL!!
Where this is taking you is to the idea that there are two worlds. The world of man and the world of God. Man's world, the world Man creates, is duality, floods, airplane crashes, death,wars, hatred, and violence. The world of God is Oneness and Love and Eternity. Only the world of God is real and can exist. The world of Man is NOT real, and, in fact, cannot exist.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal can exist.
Herein lies the peace of God.
Love, Swami Rakendra
Sep 28, 2013 - 3:17 pm
Thank you S. Rakendra for your deep insight and healing words.
Sep 29, 2013 - 4:02 am
Some guys are born with a particular gift and in you it seems to be the ability in describing things with a simplistic tone clear enough for us all to understand it.
I have wondered why you would salute everyone in this forum with the ending greeting of "Love, Rakendra". I know what's behind it now.
Please continue with your fantastic posts.
Sep 29, 2013 - 6:16 am
Thank you. My heart sings.
Once again, this is about reprogramming our mind. In our lives, we all have tried to do our own mind programming which is always done on a hit or miss basis, which turns into a slow learning process accompanied often with pain, and for many, in the end, simply turns out to not wanting to take further chances to avoid more pain and, instead, to protect what we have. It would be far better if we could just go to Bill Gates or Steve Jobs and have them do the reprogramming for us. Of course, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are not in that business, so who is?
Well, it is all the great spiritual teachers of the past who are saying, "Come listen. I am the mind guy who can reprogram you." But there are problems here as well. First, when the student finds out that it is not about getting a new Cadillac and requires a lot of inner work, it is often game over. And secondly, after the death of the Master, Humans come by and adapt the religious teachings of the Master into the business of Religion and political control, and the original teaching is lost. It is about your personal tripand it is up to YOU to find YOUR own distinct path which is unlike any other. Spiritual teachers do not give you YOUR answers. You have to find those for yourself. The teacher is merely a sign post pointing the way. There are many paths to the top of the mountain; you have to chose which one is right for you.
My life was a total mess. I had severe Manic Depression and a huge inferiority complex, but also came from a very wealthy family that was totally dysfunctional. My mother was Manic and Schizophrenic, and a total alcoholic who, in her whole life, was never able to cope and was continually involved in divorce and scandal. I had deep resentment about not being loved. Now I see that my mother was perfect, because she did for me the ONLY thing she was capable of: she gave me money, and I would not have survived without that. You cannot ask for more from anyone than what is possible to give. I was miserable and spent my day seeing how miserable I could make everyone else, and I was very good at it. And, this "no love gift" of my dysfunctional family that the Unverse gave to me worked. It prompted a need to change. One day I read, "Handbook to Higher Consciousness" by Ken Keyes. I immediately saw another way and went to study with Ken in St. Mary Kentucky, and later, when he moved to Coos Bay, Oregon. Ken's system was called, "Living Love" - http://livinglovesystem.info/.
The first step was to memorize the Twelve Pathways of Living Love. For those who want to start now, this is a good place. So, here is Ken Keyes:
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Whenever you feel worried, angry, jealous, fearful, anxious, or any other uncomfortable emotional feeling, life is giving you a message. It is always telling you that you are not following the Twelve Pathways. Your next step is to find the ones that you are not using and let them show you what to do to feel beautiful again.
Stop churning over the usual questions that you ask yourself (which have not helped you find solutions). If these usual ways of talking to yourself were effective,you would be happy, peaceful, serene, and loving-here and now. Instead of using your past way of talking to yourself, just keep going over the Twelve Pathways. Remember that their purpose is to keep you centered, tuned in, conscious, and loving. They are not designed to help you manipulate the people and things around you to make them fit your inside addictions. The Twelve Pathways will help you reprogram your mind so that ALL of your addictions become preferences-and then you can live peacefully. The more you are uptight, the more important it is for you to stop worrying about the outside condition that you feel "makes you upset." Instead, concentrate on the inner addictions or expectations with which you hassle yourself.
The Twelve Pathways will show you what it means to be truly alive. You will look back to your present state of consciousness and realize that you have been far more dead than alive. Everything you need will come to you in a seemingly miraculous fashion as you live with these Pathways. The peace, love, and effectiveness that you have always wanted will be yours.
The Twelve Pathways
1. I am freeing myself from security, sensation, and power addictions that make me try to forcefully control situations in my life, and thus destroy my serenity and keep me from loving myself and others.
2. I am discovering how my consciousness-dominating addictions create my illusory version of the changing world of people and situations around me.
3. I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute-to-minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.
4. I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now unless I am telling my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.
5. I take full responsibility here and now for everything I experience, for it is my own programming that creates my actions and also influences the reactions of people around me.
6. I accept myself completely here and now and consciously experience everything I feel, think, say, and do (including my emotion-backed addictions) as a necessary part of my growth into higher consciousness.
7. I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feelings, since hiding in any degree keeps me stuck in my illusion of separateness from other people.
8. I feel with loving compassion the problems of others without getting caught up emotionally in their predicaments that are offering them messages they need for their growth.
9. I act freely when I am tuned in, centered, and loving, but if possible I avoid acting when I am emotionally upset and depriving myself of the wisdom that flows from love and expanded consciousness.
10. I am continually calming the restless scanning of my rational mind in order to perceive the finer energies that enable me to unitively merge with everything around me.
11. I am constantly aware of which of the Seven Centers of Consciousness I am using, and I feel my energy, perceptiveness, love and inner peace growing as I open all of the Centers of Consciousness.
12. I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness.
Now, this MAY be your starting place. As the Course teaches, this is a course everyone must take, whether you do it with choice or without choice, you are always going to be enrolled in the course. It is far less painful for you if you accept your responsibility to YOURSELF and get on with it. You have my blessing, and good luck!!! Love, Swami Rakendra
Sep 30, 2013 - 10:33 pm
First, the Living Love website will close down on Oct. 8. There is much good info there, so if you have interest, download for the future.
Now, back to understanding the spiritual brackets by looking at three stages. C is in the bottom 10%, B is at 40%, and A is at 60%. C cannot see the choices of B, nor can B see those of A. However, A is not better than B, and B is not better than C just because they are in a higher bracket. All three are equal, because each one is where they need to be to experience the lessons they need to move up the scale, just as you are where you need to be for your lessons as well. Suppose that you think this is all just BS and you do not choose to play. You do not have that option. The Universe will continue to give you the lessons that you need to grow, regardless of what you choose. As the Course teaches: Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time.
In other words, the lessons are already laid out for you in your life plan, and you have no choice in that. However, you can choose what lessons you want to learn or ignore in any one moment. The lessons will come regardless. It is up to you how you handle them. However, there are only two outcomes from lessons: either you start to change and start moving up, or you suffer. And, if you do not get the lesson the first time, no problem, it will surely be repeated.
Sixty years ago, there was not much help to teach you, and Higher Consciousness was hard to understand and come by. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi became the spiritual teacher of the Beatles, and the Beatles literally changed the consciousness of the world thru their music and new found spirituality taught by the Maharishi. And now there are many books and teachers available to all. It has never been easier to be Enlightened than it is today. But, make no mistake – this is a lifetime process, because no matter how far you go, there is always higher.
Now, lets look at my version of Buddhism. Yoga means the stilling of the changing states of the mind. The Lord Buddha taught this thru Meditation and denying the temptations of the world. The message was that all suffering was created thru the mind. Of course, that explanation is too simplistic, and there is much more. So, briefly, lets look at the mind and some of the teachings of Lord Buddha.
There is Wrong Thought, Wrong Speak, and Wrong Action, and each creates its own degree of suffering. The opposite is Right Thought, Right Speak, and Right Action. The "Wrong" is all negative and that negativity will come back to you. "Right" is all positive, coming from Love, and will create Oneness with all. The degree of suffering is different for each of the three actions. Wrong Thought causes the least suffering in severity and time span. Someone bumps you hard in the Mall, and does not apologize. You think "Ugly prick!" Well, you have just earned yourself some suffering. Probably for the rest of that day, you will feel unease and separate, and your mind will churn back to the incident. But, it probably will be forgotten in a day or two, and the suffering will stop. That is Wrong Thought.
Same scene, but now, after he bumps you, you turn and say, "What is the matter with you? Rude Prick." Now you have earned yourself a higher level of suffering in Wrong Speech. Now your mind will really churn, and you will think of this over and over, for a few weeks maybe, and for sure, your day is ruined. You WILL pay a price. Thus a more severe suffering because a more serious transgression is created. Now, you will tell your friends, and your mind will involve itself in all kinds of mental gymnastics, you will miss the here and now because your mind will stay in that negative moment of the past, and you will miss the beauty of the present moment entirely and end up losing the whole day. Your life will be dominated by your past negative action. And this suffering will last much longer because the memory does not fade so easily, and you will make lots of unpleasant judgments as well.
Wrong Action: You do all of the above, but also grab his shoulder," OK, Smartass, You need to have a lesson!!" Well, you just joined the Major Leagues. First of all, this can go anywhere now, and might end up with serious consequences. But as for suffering, you now have created a negative MEMORY, and that can haunt you and make you suffer for the rest of your life. It is permanent suffering for no matter how long you live, your mind may at times go back to this incident. This suffering is by far the most severe of the three, and I will guarantee that the above is a fact. So, maybe you think it may not work that way, so how do I know?
This lesson is a difficult concept, and will be our next lesson. I know you will suffer, because your world is illusion. In fact, the Other is in reality You and your are harming yourself. The Course teaches,"I do not know the thing I am, and therefore do not know what I am doing, where I am, or how to look upon the world or myself." And Lesson 3 : I do not understand anything I see in any place or anywhere." You do not understand because your world is not real. You see the Other who bumped you as separate from yourself, where in fact, you and the other are One, not separate at all. So you think you have negative action to the Other. In fact there is no other, and when you harm the other with negative thought or negative action, in reality, you are harming yourself just as if you put your pen thru your hand. That is how I know you will suffer, not because you do harm to the other(who in Reality does not exist) but because you are harming yourself, because the Other only exists in your delusional mind.
I will leave you here for our next lesson.
Love, Swami Rakendra
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal can exist.
Herein lies the peace of God.
Oct 01, 2013 - 6:44 pm
I would just like to add that, from use of the word "God", one doesn't have to infer the Christian God. God means different entities to different people. I have no religious inclinations, yet the God/love/Universal Spirit is as relevant to me as breath itself. Energy medicine is built on the understanding that there is a huge power out there that can heal. The science of epigenetics is recognizing this. Our thoughts and recognition of the higher power can affect our genetic expression—switching oncogenes on and off, for example. This is very exciting as it is literally bridging the gap between science and religion. Thank you again SR.
Oct 02, 2013 - 7:04 am
Thank you for your input. We will pause here and consider some of the ideas of Osho on this matter. Here are excerpts from some of his teachings.
"I am not a religious person in your sense. I have a totally different definition of being religious. To me the religious person is one who is totally alive, intensely alive, aflame with love, aware of tremendous beauty all around; has the courage to rejoice each moment of life and death together. Only a man who is so capable of rejoicing in life and death – his song continues. It does not matter whether life is happening or death is happening, his song is not disturbed, his dance does not waver?"
Only such an adventurous soul, only such a pilgrim of existence is religious. But in the name of religion man has been given poor substitutes, false, phony, meaningless, just toys to play with. Worshipping statues, chanting man-made mantras, paying tributes to those who have been cowards and escapists and who were not able to live life because they were so afraid of death, and calling them saints, religion has distracted man from true and authentic religiousness.
Judgment is moral, and morality has nothing to do with religion. That misunderstanding has to be dropped. People always confuse morality with religion. Morality has nothing to do with religion; a moral man is not necessarily a religiousman. An atheist can be moral, perfectly moral. You can find the moral man in Soviet Russia – there is no need for the moral man to be religious. A religiousman is a new dimension.
The religious man can drop his morality because now he has his own eyes; he need not have any other guides. His eyes are enough. It is as if you were blind and you used to have a stick with which to walk around, to grope your way, to find your way with the stick…then one day your eyes open. Will you still carry the stick? You will throw it away. Now it is meaningless, now you don't need to grope. Now the walking stick is no longer a help, it will be a burden.
See the distinction. It is of immense import. The religious man is one who is not concerned with doing good, but whatsoever happens through him is good because he has surrendered himself to God; and all is good through God, through surrender to him. He cannot do wrong. It is not possible. It is impossible to do wrong when you are alert. It is as impossible as to walk through the wall or to try to walk through the wall when your eyes are open. You will find the door! It is as simple as that.
But a blind man sometimes tries to get out through the wall. He cannot; there is no possibility. But a blind man is a blind man; he cannot see where the wall is and where the door is. The religious man is one whose eyes are open and he sees where the door is. Then there is no need to carry any idea that one should always go through the door – one simply goes through the door. When you know, that very knowing becomes your virtue.
Socrates says, "Knowledge is virtue" – a very pregnant statement. To know, is to be right; to know, is to do right. Through knowing, right comes on its own like a shadow. Virtue is a by-product of right knowing. It need not be practiced. If you practice it, it is false. The practiced morality is a false morality, it creates only hypocrites. Morality is that which is not practiced at all, it happens simply because you know – your eyes are open, you can feel, you are sensitive, so the wrong cannot happen anymore. The religious person is neither moral nor immoral, he is simply religious. Religion is a higher standpoint than morality. Morality is an effort to pretend to be religious.
A religious person cannot be Christian, Hindu or Mohammedan. To be religious is to be so vast you cannot confine it in such small prisons – churches, sects, creeds, dogmas.
A religious man has no catechism.
Christians in India asked me again and again, "Why don't you make a small book containing your religious vision, just as we have the Christian catechism?"
I said, "You can, because you are not religious. I cannot, because I am religious.My experience is so vast that no words are capable of containing it."
Religion has not ever existed up to now. Only once in a while has there been areligious person. And whenever there has been a religious person, soon the pseudo-religious people, politicians with religious masks, gathered around. It is not Jesus who created Christianity. It is not Buddha who created Buddhism. It is not Mahavira who created Jainism.
The ordinary religious man leaves the world; the really religious man leaves ambition, leaves hoping, leaves imagination. Knowing through experience that every hope comes to a point where it becomes hopelessness, and every dream comes to a point where it becomes a nightmare, and every desire comes to a point where nothing but discontent is left by it in you – knowing this through experience, one becomes seasoned, mature. A growth happens in consciousness. Out of this growth one drops ambition, or the ambition drops by itself out of this growth. Then a person becomes religious.
One lives the moment, and lives it so totally because there is no hope and no desire in the future. One brings his whole being to the moment and then the whole life is transformed. It is fun, it is a feast, it is a celebration. Then you can dance and you can laugh and you can sing, and to me this is how a religious consciousness should be: a dancing consciousness, more like children, less like dead corpses. Your churches, your temples, your mosques are just like graveyards – too serious.
A religious man is one who sees that he is ordinary. A religious man is one who sees that he is exactly the same as others and he does not pretend to be special, because the very idea that "I am special" is foolish, the very idea that "I am the chosen one" is egoistic. And a religious man cannot claim that. A religious man has no claim. He simply accepts and he realizes that he is a part of this cosmos as you are a part of this cosmos. He never puts himself above you. This is his superiority, that he never puts himself above you. This is his "aboveness," that he never thinks that he is extraordinary or special in some way. He never carries the attitude of "holier than thou." He knows that you are also gods and goddesses. Maybe you don't recognize it – that's the only difference.
You may not see who you are, but I am seeing who you are. The day I recognized who I am, I recognized everybody's innermost core. A religious person cannot think he is special. And a religious person cannot think that you are condemned, that you are sinners. A religious person starts laughing. He laughs at you because you are a saint and thinking yourself a sinner. He laughs at you because you are God and thinking yourself somebody else. The whole thing seems to be absurd – what a drama. Everybody is having a mask and has completely forgotten his own original face. Your original face is God's face.
Love, Swami Rakendra
Oct 08, 2013 - 4:42 am
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Yesterday it rained from the moment I left the house to the moment I got to work: not heavily, but sustained. That much water can wet the dryest biscuit, and by the time I reached my destination all of me, including my gloves, was decidedly damp.
The only drying mechanisms we have in the other office are those rubbish electric space heaters; those and the microwave, which I'd have tried were it not for the plastic fittings on the gloves. I turned the thermostat up on a heater until it just went click—so a couple of degrees above early-morning ambient—and laid my gloves on the grille, not covering it but sat in the upward airstream. I came back to check them a couple of times and they were drying nicely.
Come the end of the day, and I went to reassemble the slightly fussy list of accoutrements that the long-distance cyclist requires. I got to the heater to find it off, and my gloves dry only on the outside. "Who turned the heater off?" I wondered out loud, and someone said "Me."
"Why? My gloves were drying. It was only on a bit."
"Well, it seemed a bit indulgent, to be honest, seeing as it's so warm in here. And they felt dry to me."
I suppose it was indulgent, but then circumstances had meant that I'd had to sit all day in the office that didn't contain my change of clothes, and I wanted something to be dry by the end of the day: when I pulled my socks up a few hours previously they had proved clingingly cold and wet. It wasn't as though I'd turned one up to full blast and then left it on over the weekend, as I've discovered more times than I can remember. Still, as I put on my now slightly smelly gloves, and geared myself up for my 10-mile ride home; and as the person who had turned the heater off got into their warm, dry fourbefour to make a journey half that length to their own; I reflected: in times of emergency, we must all make sacrifices, mustn't we?


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It's pretty much the off season for triathlon right now, but there are still multi-sport events happening and this weekend saw athletes from DRC tri keeping their hand in doing Aquathon (Swim Run) and Duathlon (Run Bike Run)
Trish Mansell and Chris Young TOTY (our new Triathlete of the Year) headed over to Tewkesbury for the first event in the 6 series winter Aquathon. Cold but clear conditions made for a very enjoyable event and some good completion. Mansell took an early lead with a great swim but a continuation of Young's good recent running form saw him peg it back to ultimately take the honours in the club rivalry. Both finished with respectable times for the 400m swim and 5km aquathlon event, 31:47 and 33:40 respectively
Meanwhile over in Cirencester 4 of the team participated in the muddy off road duathlon, the recent rain and north-westerly breeze made for a cold and slippery first run over undulating terrain, but by all accounts, by the time the athletes hit the mountain bikes conditions had improved and resulted in more traction on the grass, gravel roads and tracks than has been reported in previous events. The event was excellently organised and marshalled by Triferris. First home for DRC tri was Richard Pitts in 1:28:54, and closely followed by Andrew Oborne in 1:30:06, the other 2 competitors Phil Young and Debbie Seal completed the short course option in 56:54 and 57:42 respectively.


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Design Thinking
Design Thinking has become fashionable over the last few years, with several books being published and presentations at conferences. Different authors have different perspectives on it, and below I will try to distil these. I have chosen to represent the various strands of thought as different levels, for ease of understanding.
Level 1 – Include a Designer on the Team
At its simplest and most basic level it is a push by designers, and by that I mean industrial designers, i.e. the ones who went to art college rather than university to study engineering, for companies to take industrial design, i.e. aesthetic design more seriously, and include their input in the design of a product. This is on the basis that all other things being equal, a customer will choose an aesthetically pleasing product over one that isn't, which is undoubtedly true, if indeed all other things are equal (price, performance, reliability, brand values etc). Moving on from that, industrial design is seen as a way to generate distinctiveness and a brand in the market place, with the potential of being able to charge a higher price.
Of course in many industries, designers have played an important part for ages; the automotive industry being the classic example. But in others there has not been that tradition, e.g. white goods, medical devices and a host of others, although that has been changing over the last few years.
Level 2 – Design Method with the Designer as the Leader
At the next level up, rather than the designer being part of the team, there is a push for the designer to be the leader of the team, and for his 'design method' to be followed.
One of the major proponents of leading by design has been Tim Brown of IDEO. His definition of Design Thinking is "Design thinking is a human-centred approach to innovation that draws from the designer's toolkit to integrate the needs of people, the possibilities of technology, and the requirements for business success."
He talks about the design thinking process as a system of overlapping spaces rather than a sequence of orderly steps and says there are three spaces to keep in mind:
- Inspiration
Inspiration is the problem or opportunity that motivates the search for solutions.
- Ideation (I hate that word)
Ideation is the process of generating, developing, and testing ideas.
- Implementation
Implementation is the path that leads from the project stage into people's lives.
And he says that innovation happens in the sweet spot where human desirability, technical feasibility and business viability overlap.
Similar ideas are embedded in the design method put forward by The Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University (d.school). Their process of design thinking has 5 stages:
- Empathise
Who is my user? What matters to this person?
Learn about the audience for whom you are designing, by observation and interview. I would go further and say walk in their shoes, embed yourself for a while in their world.
- Define
What are their needs? Create a point of view that is based on user needs and insights.
- Ideate
Brainstorm and come up with as many creative solutions as possible – Wild ideas are encouraged.
- Prototype
How can I show my idea? Build a representation of one or more of your ideas to show to others. Remember a prototype is just a rough draft
- Test
Share your prototyped idea with your user for feedback. What worked? What didn't?
You can see elements of both waterfall and agile here – elicit & set down some requirements first, but then quickly show something to check them and their interpretation out.
Another take on Design Thinking comes from Roberto Verganti, Professor of Management of Innovation at Politecnico di Milano. He introduces the idea of products and services having a 'meaning'. An unusual word to use in the context of an inanimate object (and his idea might have got a bit lost in translation into English from Italian), but he is talking about redefining a product – giving a completely new reason for customers to buy them.
Thus rather than relying on the traditional levers of market pull or technology push, an inventive designer can see beyond these to create a radical change in meaning (how a product is perceived and used), which when combined with new technology creates a sweet spot or a technology epiphany as some people call it.
Level 3 – Design Thinking as a Business Process
In Level 3, Designers and Design Thinking take over the world, or at least the business. Just like Six Sigma has been stretched by certain promoters of it from its manufacturing and quality roots to become a business process, so some of the avant-garde in the Design Thinking world are now promoting Design Thinking and their Design Method as a business process.
The idea is to take Design Thinking beyond just designing products and to use the Design Thinking approach and a Design Method in business generally. This could be by
- Designers bringing their methods into business by either taking part themselves in business process, or training business people to use design methods. This interpretation has been described by Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO. And it sounds eminently appropriate that a designer should be CEO, given that IDEO is a design consultancy.
- Using the 'human-centred' approach of Design Thinking to make businesses more 'human-centred' and creative.
- Using Design Thinking as a problem solving approach – Define the problem, create and consider many options, refine selected directions, and repeat if necessary. Pick the winner and execute. (Isn't this what people were doing anyway, without calling it Design Thinking?)
Comments on Design Thinking
All of this sounds quite good, although the cynical might say it is all a cunning plan to get jobs for designers and design consultancies, and then for them to win the power battle over engineers, manufacturing people, sales & marketing and finance, ending up with them running the company.
However it has been shown to work, but it seems to me it only works well if you have good designers. And by that I don't mean the ones that draw the prettiest shapes, but the rare few that understand all the other processes and give them equal weight. In other words, if you have got Leonardo Da Vinci (a designer, engineer and inventor) it will be fine, but if you have got Michaelangelo (a very good artist, but that is all he was), or worse still Tracey Emin, you will be heading for trouble.
In my experience there have been too many cases of designers (in the motor industry they are called stylists, or the 'yellow-shoelace-brigade') coming up with pretty shapes that don't work.
Take the first Ford GT in 1964 as an example, as first designed by the Ford stylists (who like to be called designers). Note the lack of a rear spoiler. Ferrari had them since 1961.
Beautiful isn't it, and I must admit that I fell in love with it as a young boy. The problem was that it was great as a piece of sculpture, but not as a car. It was aerodynamically unstable and didn't cool the engine. So this is what the engineers and drivers had to do to it to get it to be half reasonable before it could be raced.
So which would you prefer when you are doing 200mph down the Mulsanne Straight?
Beautiful but dangerous, or ugly but safe?
And its not just cars where designers make cock-ups. It's the simple things too. We have a butter dish that looks very nice until you place a standard size piece of butter on it and then try to place the cover over the butter. It won't fit. This kind of poor design drives me mad. What happened to 'Form follows Function'?
So if you are thinking of Design Thinking make sure you have a designer who can actually think!
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The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is a professional human resources membership association headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. SHRM promotes the role of HR as a profession and provides education, certification, and networking to its members, while lobbying Congress on issues pertinent to labor management.
Founded in 1948 as the American Society for Personnel Administration (ASPA), the organization operated on a volunteer basis until 1964, when it established headquarters in Berea, Ohio, and began hiring staff members. In 1984, the headquarters was moved to Alexandria, Virginia, and in 1989, the organization changed its name to the Society for Human Resource Management.[4]
SHRM was ranked the twelfth largest association in the United States in 2015,[5] bringing in $114.56 million in revenue. The association has more than 575 chapters in the United States and around the world, which provide certification, education and networking opportunities. The organization is currently focused on the Department of Labor's new overtime regulations, health care reform, the skills gap, workplace flexibility, sexual orientation nondiscrimination, and compensation equity.[6]
SHRM has more than 400 staff members and more than 300,000 members in 165 countries. The President and Chief Executive Officer is Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP.[7]
The organization's Survey Research Center[8] produces research on workplace issues and their implications for the HR professional and business leaders. Among its products are the annual Employee Benefits Survey[9] and Employee Job Satisfaction and Engagement Survey[10] and the monthly Leading Indicators of National Employment (LINE) report.[11] SHRM conducts Customized Research Services for organizations.
SHRM holds annual conferences and regional student conferences. The individual state conferences are organized by SHRM's State Councils.
SHRM's national conferences include:
- The Annual Conference & Exposition,[12] attracting around 18,000 attendees annually in June, There are hundreds of concurrent sessions, and an HR marketplace.
- The Employment Law & Legislative Conference[13] is held in Washington, D.C. every March,
- The Talent Management Conference & Exposition[14] is held in April, designed for recruiters, HR generalists and managers with recruiting responsibilities.
- The Leadership Development Forum[15] held every year in September, is designed for mid-level managers looking to move into HR leadership .
- The Diversity & Inclusion Conference & Exposition[16] in October
Lobbying activity[edit]
SHRM lobbies governmental bodies regarding workplace law and industry practice. For example, in April 2008, SHRM announced in a press release that its representatives had appeared before the US Senate to petition for changes in the administration of the Family and Medical Leave Act.[17]
The organization announced in the November 2003 issue of its HR Magazine that it had submitted a position paper to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suggesting factors the agency should consider when determining how to amend the definition of the term "job applicant" for the purposes of record keeping required by companies in order to comply with affirmative action and anti-discrimination laws.[18]
In 2003, SHRM conducted an e-mail survey of its members to gauge the effectiveness of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) It presented the results of this survey to the EEOC at a meeting on September 8, 2003.[19]
In November 2006, the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) of the U.S. Department of Labor established an alliance with SHRM to encourage and promote the employment of people with disabilities.[20]
In 2015 and 2016, SHRM worked to oppose the United States Department of Labor's Fair Labor Standards Overtime regulation. The rule greatly increases the salary under which employees are eligible for overtime and the number of the employees who qualify for it.[21]
Academic Alliances[edit]
The SHRM Body of Competency and Knowledge™ (SHRM BoCK™), which is based on the SHRM Competency Model outlines the content of SHRM's certification examinations, the SHRM Certified Professional (SHRM-CP®) exam for early-career and mid-level practitioners, and the SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP®) exam for senior-level and executive practitioners.
The University of Dubai, in partnership with SHRM, has developed a HR program to support capability building of HR professionals in UAE.
See also[edit]
- ^ a b "2014 Form 990: Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax". Society for Human Resource Management. Guidestar. December 31, 2014.
- ^ a b c "About SHRM". Society for Human Resource Management. Retrieved June 5, 2017.
- ^ a b c d "2016 Form 990: Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax". Society for Human Resource Management. Guidestar. December 31, 2016.
- ^ "SHRM History". SHRM.org. Archived from the original on 10 December 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
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14 March 2019
Channel 4 move will help inclusive growth, says LEP chair
Channel 4's move to Leeds will impact the region far beyond inward investment, according to Roger Marsh, chairman of the Leeds City Region Local Enterprise Partnership.
Speaking to Insider at MIPIM today (13 March 2019) Marsh said the decision by the broadcaster, which was taken in October last year, would help address the social divide that sits behind economic development.
It is part of a growing narrative in the regional cities about inclusive growth, which are seeking to create cities and city regions that 'work for everyone'.
Marsh said: "It helps brand the city and city region, but our campaign was all about creating a spark in the digital and creative industries and that means more opportunities for young people.
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Marsh said focusing on key sectors that supported growing productivity and pushed up living standards were essential in order to create the "social dividend from economic growth that is the real prize".
He added that while the city region had a lot to celebrate it also had one in eight homes that still lived in fuel poverty, which "is not acceptable".
Following the Channel 4 announcement, production companies including Workerbee (formerly Endemol Shine North) and broadcaster UKTV have announced plans top open offices in the city.
Marsh added: "An important point is that after London, Leeds City Region produces more STEAM (science technology, engineering, arts and maths graduates) than anywhere else in the country.
"We also have the largest teaching hospital in Europe, the Open Data Institute and the largest concentration of health analytics in the country. We have got all the ingredients to be competitive and be the northern solution to the UK problem in terms of growth.
"As a region that is a fifth of the Northern Powerhouse, if we don't really knock it out of the park, it will be suboptimal."
Marsh is also the chair of the NP-11, the group of northern LEPs which was brought together by government to explore opportunities to collaborate.
He said progress was "so far, so good".
"We have decided some of the areas – such as trade and investment – where we could make the case more meaningfully for each other. If health tech is a strength in the Leeds City Region, let's get behind that as the north."


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Panel rivets are generally available
from anyone that sells Volvo parts.
IIRC there are two styles for the front.
Start with any place that sells
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Same sheet metal - You're good.
Panel rivets are generally available
from anyone that sells Volvo parts.
IIRC there are two styles for the front.
Start with any place that sells
OEM to nail...
You're probably reading about newer Volvos.
As stated previously, the AWD system in a P80
AWD is ENTIRELY mechanical. No electrics at all.
The VC is what engages the rear diff with stacked...
Pull the drive shaft. Nothing will flop around.
A large percentage of P80 AWD owners have
done this, usually due to mismatched tires.
If the noise goes away, get on with your life.
If not, the...
Appropriate Response - Good Question, Jim! [thumbup]
Pretty short tempered and uncool response... You can do better. [nonono]
What Jim means is that there are different reset procedures...
The OP does indeed have 2000 - It's Geoff69a1 from post 5 that has the 2001 P2.
I would agree that comparing a 2000 to a 2001 is a whole different kettle of fish.
The 2001 goes from basic module...
Based on your reference to an immobilizer message popping up,
I suspect that you have an XC that is newer than Model Year 2000.
The cars in this sections MY range haven't got text based displays....
IIRC, the speedo only reads from the FL tone ring sensor,
but there are plenty of other failure points that can disable
ABS/TRACS resulting in those two lights.
You may have a bad sensor at...
You DO have TRACS, and it's an ABS system based feature - ABS goes out, TRACS follows...
What you don't have on a '98 is STC - Stability Traction Control. That came later. ;)
Sounds like an ABS issue, alright.
This is a great resource for the Volvo community:
Read Up! ;)
Like the door latches, it's all an integrated unit.
The major difference in the tailgate are all of the
linkages. Be sure to take a lot of pictures and get
a good handle on which linkages go where...
The switch is built into the tailgate latch.
It's not unusual for the switch to fail after
a decade or so. You may also have some
damaged wiring in the harness that runs
through the left hinge....
No, that method will make no difference at all.
You'll kill the AWD if it's not already trashed.
All the important stuff is between the tranny
and the tires. Find a way to get a flatbed.
Maybe not the wrong forum section on this site,
but as far as traffic, you'll probably do a lot better here:
VolvoXC has kinda been...
I would argue that "value" is a relative term...
This whole story sounds pretty unusual.
First off, these diffs RARELY fail. I mean never.
Unless you were running it without any lube,
it's highly unusual for these rear diffs to lunch it.
IPD has several items for the shifters in these cars.
Have a look at the Shifter Knob Button Repair Kit.
This should solve your sticky shifter button problem.
The ignition lock is connected by a small cable to the shifter.
It's there to be sure that you have the car in park when
the key is removed.
Check for a sticky shifter button or a shift lock...
$1,000 for a driveshaft? Contact http://www.coloradodriveshaft.com .
I think you'll be pleasantly surprised with the cost and quality.
You'll also get considerably more than 35K out of one of their...
That's all sounds like pretty incidental stuff.
The fuel sensor is probably the biggest hassle.
What's the mileage? How are the body and interior holding up?
You're sniffin' up the wrong tree...
The 2005 is a totally different car than
the 98-00's discussed in this forum section.
Chains? I don't think that car will be very happy about having chains...
Cables, or better yet, SpiderSpikes, but chains are most likely going to
hose your plastic wheel wells. Leave'em in the...
This is not a conventional suspension system. All P80 XC's are equipped with Nivomat self-leveling shocks:...
That's not your VC - You have a picture of your front CV joint.
It lives way too close to the exhaust downpipe and the boots get
baked and fall apart. The heat doesn't do the grease any favors,...
FYI - You're posting in the
forum section for '98-'00 XC's.
You own a very different car.
+1 for having your existing module repaired.


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Harvey, Smith named NTL Athletes of the Year.
By: Ed Weaver | NTL Sports | May 20, 2019 | Photo courtesy Ed Weaver
By: Ed Weaver | NTL Sports | May 20, 2019 | Photo courtesy Ed Weaver
North Penn-Mansfield's Brooke Harvey and Northeast Bradford's Zak Smith were named the NTL's Athletes of the Year at the league's end of year banquet on Sunday, May 19.
Harvey, who competed in volleyball, softball, and track & field, is 6th in her graduating class with a 101.25 GPA and participates in High Honor Roll, National Honor Society, Student Leadership Council, FBLA, and is a Youth Leader of Tomorrow nominee.
Smith is a National Honor Society member, has organized and assisted multiple blood drives, helps organize and direct the Pink Panther 5K, raises money for Tracy's Hope, and is a NEB Youth Basketball Camp Counselor.
In addition to the athletes, Towanda's Bill Sexton was named the Coach of the Year and Nate Williams was named Official of the Year.
NTL Female Athlete of the Year Nominees
Ariana Gambrell, Athens
Tamara Hess, Canton
Karmen Short, Cowanesque Valley
Krista Hallet, Northeast Bradford
Savannah Doney, North Penn-Liberty
Brooke Harvey, North Penn-Mansfield
Camry Lane, Sayre
Cheyanne Brown, Towanda
Katherine Polakowski, Troy
Emma Poirier, Wellsboro
Ella Durst, Williamson
Melody Kneller, Wyalusing
NTL Male Athlete of the Year Nominees
Aric Westbrook, Athens
Dennis Saar, Canton
Kurtis Easton, Cowanesque Valley
Zak Smith, Northeast Bradford
Brandyn Choplosky, North Penn-Liberty
Garrett David, North Penn-Mansfield
James Esposito, Sayre
Preston Rogers, Towanda
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