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I've Found A Faith-Based Life.
"The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. …To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness."
~ Albert Einstein – The Merging of Spirit and Science
I've Found A Faith-Based Life
My life has become faith-based.
I follow my faith,
but I'm not affiliated
with any organized religion or other belief system.
After many years of questioning,
I've found faith beyond belief,
beyond dogmas or theology.
I've found faith in everything everywhere,
and in the impenetrable Mystery
beyond every form or phenomenon.
I've found faith in my Self and in Nature.
I've found the faith to follow my Heart.
Mine is not a blind faith based on fear or doubt,
or on inculcated or adopted ideas of others.
It is an abiding inner knowledge,
flowing from a long life
of reflective personal and trans-personal
experience and observation;
An insight arising from – but transcending – reason,
consistent and harmonious with
the highest welfare and unity of all Life.
My life experience has shown that our universe
is a magnificent, marvelous, miraculous and awe-inspiring "reality";
That immanent in each life-form and in all manifestation
is an ineffable eternal Awareness:
An Intelligence or Divinity
which is the mysterious matrix,
Essence and Source of our reality.
My life experience has thus
indelibly instilled in me
an abiding faith in that Source*
As a purposeful evolutionary impetus in each of us;
A faith that from that Source
we get what we need when we need it,
Assuring that ultimately everything happens for the best,
to promote our evolution;
A faith that we are inevitably evolving toward
harmonious universal expression of greatest good –
As Peace, Truth, Joy, Love, and Compassion.
With such Faith, I am empowered to follow my Heart,
without worry, fear or doubt;
To accept inevitable and inescapable
life difficulties and uncertainties,
and yet to live openly, spontaneously and authentically.
So, without any religious affiliation,
I've become a faithful follower:
I follow my Faith;
I follow the Way;
I follow my Heart.
And this above all,
It is my Faith that enables me to be true to my Self.
*Innumerable names – God, Love, Nature, etc. – may be used to signify that Source or any of its infinite aspects. Or as in the Jewish tradition it may be acknowledged that no name can denominate "That" which is beyond conception or expression – since naming limits the illimitable and ineffable Infinite Reality.
Ron's audio recitation of "I've Found A Faith-Based Life"
Ron's 2019 epilogue to "I've Found A Faith-Based Life"
Dear Friends,
The foregoing poem explains insights arising from previously unimagined paradigms of "reality" and "self-identity", experienced following a profound 1976 midlife awakening. It was composed during a post-retirement reclusive period, and first posted soon after the 2010 launching of SillySutras.com.
Since composing "I've Found A Faith-Based Life", I've kept experiencing an evolutionary awakening process, and sharing further spiritual insights therefrom. And since then I have continued to be more than ever blessed with a "faith-based life".
My miraculous survival and healing from a 2014 near death taxicab rundown, has sparked subtly significant attitudinal changes, bringing unprecedented happiness and gratitude for this precious human lifetime, with evolutionary acceptance of Life beyond that described in the above original essay/poem.
With enhanced faith in the Divine, rather than mere belief, I have now given my 'irrevocable power of attorney" to The Lone Arranger to resolve all worldly problems and sufferings, and to forgivingly 'adjudge' all those who ignorantly cause them.
And more than ever before, I now see this world mostly as a Divine play of consciousness – like a marvelous movie, or mental mirage or simulated holographic 'reality' – without fear of physical death, and with absolute Faith in its ultimate Divine denouement.
These verses are respectfully offered to inspire our ever expanding
faith-based acceptance of Life, as it is,
With ever growing Peace, Truth, Joy, Love, and Compassion.
And so may it be!
Ron Rattner
Awakening to the "Secret of Secrets"
"If you could get rid of yourself just once,
the secret of secrets would open to you.
The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe
would appear on the mirror of your perception."
~ Rumi
"You will know the truth,
and the truth will set you free."
~ John 8:32
"You are "gods";
you are all children of the Most High."
~ Psalm 82: 6
"You cannot teach an ego to be anything but egotistic,
even though egos have the subtlest ways of pretending to be reformed.
The basic thing is therefore to dispel, by experiment and experience,
the illusion of oneself as a separate ego."
~ Alan Watts
"People can't be talked out of illusions. If a person believes that the earth is flat, you can't talk him out of that, he knows that it's flat. He'll go down to the window and see that its obvious, it looks flat. So the only way to convince him that it isn't is to say, "Well let's go and find the edge"
~ Alan Watts
"The individual is separate from his universal environment only in name.
When this is not recognized, you have been fooled by your name.
Confusing names with Nature,
you come to believe that having a separate name makes you a separate being.
This is—rather literally—to be spellbound".
~ Alan Watts
"Consciousness is always Self-Consciousness.
If you are conscious of anything,
you are essentially conscious of yourself."
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
Awakening to the "Secret of Secrets"
For millennia there has been a tacit taboo or 'conspiracy of silence' against disclosing to all Humankind our true spiritual and immortal identity.
Except for those raised in so-called 'primitive' or indigenous societies, or those imbued with Eastern religious philosophy, most people have been acculturated from time immemorial into societies with "an unrecognized but mighty taboo — our tacit conspiracy to ignore who, or what, we really are." ( Alan Watts: The Book, On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, Preface.)
From childhood we are taught to self-identify only with an illusory and disempowering ego image; with a separate name, gender, and story about who and what we are. We are taught that we are each born into Nature as limited beings; but, not that Nature is our nature, or that we are Beings of Light sharing limitless immortal common consciousness with all life-forms.
Nor are we ever taught the greatest "secret of secrets": that we are not mere powerless perceivers of our "reality", but also its co-creators – that we co-create our reality with our thoughts, words and deeds; that everything we think, do or say changes this world in some way; and, that this worldly "reality" is dependent upon the awareness with which we envision, experience and co-create it.
To experientially realize that greatest "secret of secrets" is to Know Thyself. And to Know Thyself, is to know the Whole – the Truth that will set us free.
For countless ages sages, seers and mystics have been trying to tell us that we are not what we think we are! That we suffer from perception-deception – with self-identity and reality not what they appear to be; that it is possible to experientially transcend the inevitable suffering of ordinary human existence through self-realization of and self-identification with an undivided eternal spiritual reality – which is the common essence of all space-time causality reality.
Mystics say that we share common Self identity – as Cosmic Consciousness or Non-Duality Reality; that we are not merely our mortal bodies – their names, genders, features, colors, religions, beliefs, emotions, habits or stories – or the 'voices in our heads'. We are non-dual immortal spirit experiencing fleeting earth lives from infinite perspectives in transitory physical vehicles. But we're all the same 'under the hood'.
Yet until now that greatest secret has been mostly concealed or denied: predominantly by subconscious suppression or psychological inability of humankind to accept or entertain non-experienced facts which contradict or threaten their cherished illusionary beliefs about "reality"; sometimes by institutions and individuals seeking selfish hierarchical exploitation of our precious planet and all its life-forms and resources.
Until now ignorance of our true identity and immortality, has resulted in humanity's hallucination of separation from Nature, from each other, and from our sole Self and spirit, with consequent destructive insanity, selfishness and suffering.
But now, facing ominous and enormous ecological, interpersonal and international crises which cannot be resolved from the same levels of consciousness which created them, we are at long last being awakened from our delusion of separateness and powerlessness. Spurred by increasing suffering and awareness of imminent catastrophe, we are finally dispelling the ignorance which has spawned these crises.
And we shall soon reach a tipping point, when a critical mass of Humankind will have awakened to the "secret of secrets", uplifting all human consciousness and resolving harmoniously and compassionately the critical mess created by our prior unawareness of that "secret".
Thus awakened, we shall harmoniously, cooperatively and lovingly resolve our common crises for our common good.
And so it shall be!
Ron's Commentary on why we ignore who, or what, we really are.
The foregoing essay was inspired by Alan Watts': "The Book, On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are", ©1966.
Watts was a brilliantly insightful, erudite and articulate UK philosopher, author, and teacher, with post-graduate degrees in Theology and Divinity. After five years as an ordained Episcopal priest, he 'converted' to Zen Buddhism and in 1951 moved from the UK to Marin County, California. Thereafter, until his death in 1973, Watts became a counterculture icon, best-known for introducing Eastern philosophical and religious thought to Westerners.
I first learned about Watts' teachings listening to KPFA Pacifica radio, Berkeley, which posthumously broadcast his lectures on Sunday nights, while I was driving for visits with my aged parents. Those broadcasts helped me to learn about Eastern wisdom and philosophy of spiritual evolution – of which I was previously ignorant.
Only after launching the Silly Sutras website in 2010 did I discover and read Watt's 1966 essay "The Book, On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are". By that time I mostly concurred with Watts' assertions about what causes the illusion of a separate ego self, and how that illusion is central to our ominous and enormous ecological, interpersonal and international crises.
Moreover, I had already learned about how cognitive dissonance can cause subconscious suppression or psychological inability of humankind to accept or entertain facts which contradict or threaten their cherished illusions about "reality". And how powerful government and corporate institutions and psychopathic individuals insanely seeking selfish hierarchical exploitation of our precious planet and all its life-forms and resources can 'brainwash' and propagandize ordinary people into rejecting truth-tellers, and the factual truths which they reveal, by pejoratively ridiculing them as "kooks", "foreign agents", "communists", "socialists", or "conspiracy theorists" and blatantly lying about their truthful revelations.
So I concurred with Watts' contentions concerning a tacit taboo or conspiracy of silence against revealing our true identity and infinite potentiality. Thus I have composed the foregoing essay, and endorse Watts' book "On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are", linked below as an audio book file.
May these writings (and prior quotes) help us awaken to "the secret of secrets", and to realize ourselves as uniquely interdependent expressions of ONE universal and eternal reality – a cosmic Self in all life everywhere.
Audio: Alan Watts: The Book, On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are.
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In Silence Sweet
~ Ron's Memoirs
"Yoga is the cessation of mind."
~ Patanjali, Yoga Sutras
"Silence is the language of God,
all else is poor translation."
~ Rumi
"Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me.
Be silent."
~ Rumi
"When the mind is completely empty – only then is it capable of receiving the unknown." …… "Only when the mind is wholly silent, completely inactive, not projecting, when it is not seeking and is utterly still – only then that which is eternal and timeless comes into being."
~ J. Krishnamurti
"Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself.
If the soul attend for a moment to its own infinity,
then and there is silence.
She is audible to all men, at all times, in all places, and if we will
we may always hearken to her admonitions."
~ Henry David Thoreau
There is something greater and purer than what the mouth utters. Silence illuminates our souls, whispers to our hearts, and brings them together. Silence separates us from ourselves, makes us sail the firmament of spirit, and brings us closer to heaven.
~ Kahlil Gibran
"Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence."..
"Let silence take you to the core of life."
~ Rumi
In Silence Sweet
In silence sweet
we may retreat
from every care and woe,
and there we'll learn in perfect peace
all we need to know.
In silence sweet
we shall meet
the thrill of ecstasy.
and thus we'll learn in perfect peace
we've nothing more to be.
In silence sweet
we shall find
all we've ever sought.
And thus we'll learn in perfect peace
that all our wants were naught.
In silence sweet
we shall see
that everything is light.
And thus we'll learn in perfect peace
there's naught to fear but fright.
In silence sweet
we shall greet
our own true Self and Soul.
And thus we'll learn in perfect peace
we are the timeless Whole.
In silence sweet
we shall enjoy
Eternity's repose.
For perfect peace we e'er shall be,
Peace no mortal knows.
Ron's audio recitation of "In Silence Sweet"
Ron's dedication and explanation of "In Silence Sweet"
Dear Friends,
The foregoing poem " In Silence Sweet" is dedicated to my beloved Guruji, Sri Dhyanyogi Madhusundandas, whose blessings inspired and permitted its composition.
In recent "Why Be Here Now?" memoirs I proposed that the essence of all spiritual teachings is to exist in thoughtless presence (as Universal Awareness or Cosmic Consciousness) rather than in the past or future, as an ego-mind story of a supposedly limited and separate mortal being. And I recounted how by faithfully following (for many years) my beloved Guruji's emphatic instructions to "meditate regularly" I'm learning about living with a stilled mind.
Today to clarify those memoirs I'll try to explain why much more important than Guruji's spoken words to 'meditate regularly' was his immense and intense spiritual Presence, demonstrating his realization of Truth; his silent cosmic energy emanations from an infinitely enormous life-force energy field, which Hindus call Kundalini "Shakti" .
"Kundalini is the cosmic power in individual bodies.
It is not a material force like electricity, magnetism, centripetal or centrifugal force.
It is a spiritual potential, Shakti, or cosmic power.
In reality it has no form."
~ Sri Swami Sivananda
Experiencing Guruji's Shakti.
After my midlife spiritual awakening experience I became claresentient, and e.g. began seeing and sensing human auras. (See https://sillysutras.com/kundalini-kriyas-a-potpourri-of-peek-experiences-rons-memoirs/) So on meeting Guruji two years later, I was immediately impressed with his extraordinarily powerful emanations of "shakti", and his extremely luminous silvery subtle aura unlike any other I'd ever before perceived.
Gradually thereafter I learned that Guruji's energy field was independent of his physical vitality, and even his physical presence. Moreover, I learned that Guruji not only emanated intense shakti but that he was one of those rare yogis who could intentionally transfer it to others not only by touch, gaze, or mantra sound, but also by thought. Thus on occasion I experienced Guruji's shakti even when not in his physical proximity. And I have experienced intense shakti emanating from Guruji's body even when it was very weak.
My most amazing and memorable experience of Guruji's immense energy Presence happened two years after Guruji had left my San Francisco apartment in 1980, and returned (physically debilitated) to India.
In January/February, 1982, for the first time in this lifetime I had journeyed to India on a guided spiritual pilgrimage tour with Sant Keshadavadas, a devotional Indian spiritual teacher then known as a 'singing saint'. That guided tour was, and remains for me, the most important trip of this lifetime. (See https://sillysutras.com/synchronicity-story-miraculously-manifesting-memories-of-a-spiritual-pilgrimage-to-india-and-nepal/ )
Throughout the pilgrimage tour I was constantly seeking to advance my spiritual sadhana , as a quest for "enlightenment". By the time the tour ended in New Delhi, I was quite weary from following the intense travel schedule. But I was determined and anxious to remain in India to pay my respects to my beloved Guruji, and to receive his guidance and blessings for my sadhana.
Guruji's body was then approximately 104 years old and physically very weak. So he was living reclusively with Indian devotees, who cared for him as he recuperated. Because of his debility Guruji's whereabouts were kept confidential, and known to only by a few trusted devotees. Only after 'miraculously' overcoming an amazing series of extraordinary obstacles was I finally able to locate and visit Guruji in a small Gujarati town, Godhra.
There my aspirations for his guidance and blessings were fulfilled in an amazing silent satsang where Guruji spoke only two unforgettable words: "Meditate regularly."
(For details see https://sillysutras.com/a-long-but-short-guruji-satsang-story-rons-memoirs/; satsang is a sanskrit word meaning being with a sat guru or being with "highest Truth" – https://endless-satsang.com/nondual-advaita-satsang.htm)
On arrival at the house where Guruji was staying, I was pleasantly greeted and told that Guruji was then in the garden, but that he would soon come in to greet me. I was brought into a lovely altar room with fresh cut flowers and a prominent throne-like seat for Guruji. As I waited there, my 'monkey mind' became quite active.
Despite many wondrous spiritual experiences during the pilgrimage tour, I was busily dialoguing with "the voice in my head" about my possible questions for Guruji. So when Guruji entered the altar room to sit enthroned in front of me, I was feeling far from mentally peaceful, as I sat there waiting for him to entertain my anticipated questions.
He appeared much weaker than when I first met him four years earlier. But he was emanating indescribably intense 'shakti' life-force energy, which seemed as powerful as ever. His energy field was so extraordinarily immense that it soon enveloped mine, and transformed my previously agitated state of mind. So, as I sat there gazing at Guruji, I began harmoniously resonating with his supernal 'shakti' life-force, and thereby feeling unusual peace of mind.
Thus my questions for Guruji gradually seemed to melt into silent infinite awareness. But they didn't all dissolve. So after sitting there in silence for a while, I asked Guruji a preliminary question. But he remained silent, and kept intently gazing at me without answering the question.
Whereupon, supposing that he might not have understood me, I asked Guruji another question. But he still remained silent. Finally, as my appointment time was about to expire, I desperately exclaimed:
"Guruji, I've come halfway around the world to see you.
Please tell me what I should do for my sadhana."
After a pregnant pause, Guruji at long last replied:
"Meditate regularly!"
We had no further dialogue. And soon I was politely informed by Guruji's host that it was time to leave.
As you might imagine, the unforgettable memory of Guruji's profoundly silent 'satsang' has remained indelibly imprinted in my heart and on my 'mental software'. His words "Meditate regularly!" were not merely spiritual instructions, but a timeless heartfelt blessing or sankalpa that my deepest aspirations for Truth might be fulfilled through regular meditation!
Moreover, beyond words but only with deep mental silence, Guruji eloquently demonstrated that the eternal LOVE we all seek is within each of us; and he ineffably validated Rumi's profound observation that
"Silence is the language of God,
all else is poor translation."
~ Rumi
Since 1982, by faithfully following my beloved Guruji's emphatic instructions and blessing for me to "meditate regularly", I've been learning about living with a stilled mind.
Perhaps fifteen years after that unforgettable satsang, my 'monkey mind' seemed to cease its ceaseless chatter, permitting me the option of using it or not, and of choosing to enjoy moments of choiceless awareness. Instead of constantly swinging backwards and forwards, like a pendulum, between the past and the future, it seemed to rest in a sort of 'default position' when not activated by conscious thoughts.
Whereupon I've enjoyed precious moments of Being with a stilled mind which have transformed my experience and deep understanding of incarnate human life, in previously unimagined ways.
In 1996 (after Guruji's 1994 mahasamadhi and during my extended post-retirement period of reclusiveness), I was inspired to compose the above poem "In Silence Sweet", which only hints at Guruji's profound blessing bestowed in that unforgettable silent 'satsang'.
In grateful dedication to Guruji, I have republished the poem today with the foregoing authoritative explanatory quotations.
May everyone everywhere enjoy the blessings of Silence Sweet and of those quotations.
And so may it be!
Ron Rattner
Why Be Here Now?
~ Ron's Memoirs
"That which is timeless is found NOW."
~ Buddha
"Life can be found only in the present moment.
The past is gone, the future is not yet here,
and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment,
we cannot be in touch with life."
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
"Always say 'yes' to the present moment…
Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life –
and see how life starts suddenly ..
working for you, rather than against you."
~ Eckhart Tolle
"If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am only for myself, what am I?
And if not now, when?
~ Hillel
Life is NOW
Ever NOW
Never then.
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings
Tao and Zen
are NOW,
not then.
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings
"Remember then: there is only one time that is important – Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power."
~ Leo Tolstoy
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions,
that they exist in the present,
which is what there is and all there is. "
~ Alan Watts
The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You're only here now; you're only alive in this moment.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity. Thought is time. Thought is born of experience and knowledge which are inseparable from time and the past. Time is the psychological enemy of man. Our action is based on knowledge and therefore time, so man is always a slave to the past. Thought is ever-limited and so we live in constant conflict and struggle. There is no psychological evolution."
~ J. Krishnamurti
Why Be Here Now?
Today's memoirs posting "Why Be Here Now?" explains how the memorable book title "Be Here Now" became for me an inspirational spiritual slogan, encapsulating the essence of all spiritual teachings: viz. to live in thoughtless presence (as Universal Awareness) rather than in the past (as an ego-mind story of a separate mortal being); because Life is NOW, ever NOW, never Then!
This universal teaching has so significantly advanced my spiritual awakening process, that I am now experiencing life in ways I couldn't imagine when I first learned about being in the present moment. So I often share it to help others (as hereafter explained).
Learning to live moment by moment, ever NOW.
Here is a summary of my process of learning about living NOW, as Universal Awareness:
Soon after my midlife spiritual awakening, I attended "est", an impactful self-help seminar, on the urging of a long-time friend. There I was first exposed to certain (unsourced) Eastern spirituality principles cleverly collected and presented by Werner Erhard, est's founder, to motivate participants to radically transform their lives by 'getting IT'. The key est teaching was to:
Always accept "what is". [See Ron's Memoirs: Getting "IT" at est]
After attending est in 1977, I started to learn that for millennia there have been spiritual teachings about thoughtlessly accepting "what is" {sometimes called "letting go" or "surrender"). This began happening when I read an extraordinary book called "Be Here Now", which told about the spiritual transformation of Dr. Richard Alpert, Ph.D, psychologist, into Baba Ram Dass, a Western teacher of Eastern wisdom, after meeting his Hindu guru – Neem Karoli Baba.
Discussion re "Be Here Now" as Root Spiritual Teaching.
"Be Here Now" was my first memorable exposure to Hindu and other sourced Eastern spiritual teachings. It was an extraordinary book, unlike any other I'd ever before seen or read. Filled with beautiful calligraphy, art, and photos, it imaginatively presented a fascinating melange of Eastern ideas previously unknown to me, with many suggestions or 'recipes' for spiritual practices, some of which I later followed, though I didn't immediately adopt any of them.
Apart from the book's contents, its "Be Here Now!" title gradually became a memorable guide for my spiritual awakening process; a reminder to live with a quiet mind in the present moment. Gradually, I found this reminder repeated so often in other spiritual teachings and books that, ultimately, I considered it to be the root essence of all spiritual teachings. I deemed this teaching so crucial that (with poetic license) I once called it "The Sacred Secret of Life". (See https://sillysutras.com/secret-of-life/)
My realization about the crucial importance of living as thoughtless presence, was especially advanced by the teachings of world renowned spiritual philosopher J. Krishnamurti, that
"Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity."
~ J. Krishnamurti
Much later I approvingly concurred with the writings and lectures of contemporary author/teacher Eckhart Tolle, which skillfully emphasized "The Power of Now." (Another memorable book title which became a popular spiritual slogan.)
Probably I best learned about living with a stilled mind by faithfully following for many years my beloved Guruji's emphatic instructions to "meditate regularly". Ultimately, after thus meditating regularly, my 'monkey mind' finally ceased its ceaseless chatter, permitting me the option of using it or not, and of choosing to enjoy moments of choiceless awareness.
These chosen moments of living with a stilled mind changed my experience and deep understanding of incarnate human life, in previously unprecedented ways. For example, they bestowed new insight into Patanjali's root aphorism that
"Yoga is the cessation of mind."
~ Patanjali's Yoga Sutras
Also I realized that many people (like French philosopher René Descartes) have mistakenly confused "thinking" with "being". So I wrote an essay critique of that mistaken belief, to remind us that "being" as Awareness exists and persists perpetually, whether or not we are thinking. (See https://sillysutras.com/cartesian-critique/)
And precious moments of thought-free awareness confirmed and validated spiritual insights from other mystical experiences. For example, they were reminders that human consciousness remains beyond death of human bodies and brains; that consciousness creates brains and subtle thought bodies which inevitably survive death of physical bodies. (See https://sillysutras.com/brains/)
Whereby I observed that most people (like Shakespeare's Prince Hamlet) mistakenly believe that death of the physical body and brain, ends all consciousness and thought.
Thus Prince Hamlet incorrectly equated physical mortality with timeless Awareness in his famous "To be, or not to be" soliloquy contemplating his possible suicide. (William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1)
And to share this realization about Hamlet's confused suicide speculations,
I composed this sutra:
"To think or not to think, that is the question."
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings
which implies that Being is perpetual, not optional, whereas thinking is optional and does not end on bodily 'death'; but that paradoxically the less we think, the more we are Being ('here now') as perpetual Awareness.
Essential Message of "Be Here Now".
Through the process of learning to live with a stilled mind in the present moment, I've discovered that:
Being is timeless. But thought is time (and space). So, when we egoically think of ourselves merely as entities separate (in space) from each other and Nature, we mistakenly preclude or deter our realization of spiritual Freedom as eternal Being beyond space/time.
Instead, we experience our existence only as an ever impermanent past illusion, or mental mirage, but never NOW. However as we self-identify moment by moment as thoughtless, choiceless awareness, we are Being NOW.
And we learn that
"The more we live moment by moment,
the more momentous our lives;" and that
"When all thoughts cease, we are at peace."
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings
Ultimately we discover
"That which is timeless is [only] found NOW"
~ Buddha
Each of us has a unique karmic history and space/time perspective. So each of us has unique challenges and a unique karmic 'recipe' for spiritual opening. But the 'ingredients' in every such 'recipe' are the same– only proportions differ.
And Presence – 'being here now' – is crucially important for everyone, not just for spiritual aspirants. For example, being present is sometimes called being "in the zone" with a stilled or focussed mind. Have you ever noticed how star artists or athletes perform at their highest levels while "in the zone"?
Thus today's quotations, memoirs and discussion are offered to inspire our ever expanding realization that "life can be found only in the present moment", and that ultimately the Eternal happiness we all (knowingly or unknowingly) seek is beyond space and time, but paradoxically immanent ever here NOW.
May everyone everywhere experience ever expanding happiness by increasingly living moment by moment in precious presence, with ever quieter minds.
Thereby may we all radiate love and joy, which blesses the world, ever NOW.
And so shall it be!
Ron Rattner
The Truth That Sets Us Free
"You will know the truth,
and the truth will set you free."
~ John 8:32
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is, in itself, a part of the liberation, and a foundation for inner security."
~ Albert Einstein ( N. Y. Times , March 29, 1972)
The Truth That Sets Us Free
Trapped in earthly domain
of fear, death and pain,
we long for liberty.
Jailed in cages we've wrought,
with hoary thought
that mere body/minds are we,
We're deceived by perceptions,
and caught by conceptions,
of supposed mortality.
But prison's illusion,
and we suffer confusion
of our true identity.
For we're beings of light
Eternal and bright,
and so shall ever be.
We shall know this Truth,
and it shall forsooth,
release and set us Free.
Ron's audio recitation of "The Truth That Sets Us Free"
Ron's Commentary on "Truth That Set's Us Free"
Dear Friends,
Today's posting "The Truth That Sets Us Free", is a sutra poem (with voice recitation) about Spiritual freedom as a fundamental evolutionary goal. This poem's title and subject were inspired by Jesus' teaching "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free".
For millennia mystical teachings of all perennial wisdom paths have identified spiritual Freedom or Self realization as an ultimate evolutionary objective.
Most people associate "freedom" with personal, political, and economic liberty. But spiritual freedom is an extraordinarily rare state of mind which can be inwardly attained even by those who do not enjoy external freedoms, like felons imprisoned for life. Knowingly or unknowingly everyone/everywhere longs for Freedom as our divine birthright.
I first deeply reflected on philosophical concepts of "freedom" during the 1950's when I read "Escape From Freedom" by then prominent author-psychotherapist Erich Fromm. But after becoming a San Francisco civil litigation lawyer I rarely thought about about inner freedom, until after a memorable exchange with my beloved Guruji, Shri Dhyanyogi Madhusudandas.
While residing in my apartment (just prior to his 1980 return to India), Guruji told me:
"Rasik, a yogi's body is like a baby's body.
Your body is like a prison.
I am like a jailer with the prison key.
I come and go as I please."
Thereupon, I became extremely curious about Guruji's revelation that my body was like a prison. And I wondered how and why 'I' was 'imprisoned', and how 'I' could get out of 'jail' – free like Guruji. (See https://sillysutras.com/human-body-a-precious-prison-rons-memoirs/)
So I began exploration of "spiritual freedom", as distinguished from personal, political, and economic freedoms.
Whereupon, I was reminded of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legendary "I Have a Dream" speech, and wondered why his words
"Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last"
were so deeply powerful.
I realized that those words were rooted in the biblical Exodus Passover story; and intuited that spiritual "freedom" is the esoteric essence and mythical message of that story. And I concluded that the Passover story symbolizes escape from outer bondage to a Divinely 'promised land' within – viz. escape from enslavement by mistaken beliefs in false external Gods or goals to an inner 'promised land' of ONE eternal Divinity immanent in each of us.
"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is ONE!"
~ Deuteronomy 6:4
Also I believed that Jesus prophetically alluded to such spiritual freedom by teaching:
"You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
~ John 8:32
I intuited that Jesus was teaching we find freedom (from mentally self-imposed imprisonment) only when we transcend entity-identity to self-identify as ONE Divine spirit – the kingdom of heaven within – rather than as supposedly separate embodied personalities.
Ultimately, I concluded that our limited and limiting ego-mind ideas about self-identity and reality confine each of us within a sort of psychological prison in which suffering is inevitable, and which restricts realization of our infinite potentialities.
However, the mystic masters teach and demonstrate that we can psychologically transcend that mental "prison" and emerge "free at last" from our self-woven karmic cocoons, no matter our outer circumstances.
Thus, Rumi reminded us:
"Be empty of worrying,
Think of Who Created Thought!
Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?"
~ Rumi
The encouraging possibility of getting out of jail FREE is explained in the foregoing verses and quotations.
May they advance our spiritual evolution toward realization of precious inner Freedom, our divine birthright.
And so may it be!
Ron Rattner
Tuned Out, to Tune In –
Being in the world, but not of the world
"That which is timeless is found now."
~ Buddha
"Life can be found only in the present moment.
The past is gone, the future is not yet here,
and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment,
we cannot be in touch with life."
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Tao and Zen
are NOW,
not then.
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings
"Fools follow the desires of the flesh
and fall into the snare of all-encompassing death;
but the wise, knowing the Self as eternal,
seek not the things that pass away"
~ Katha Upanishad 2:1:2
"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold;
happiness dwells in the soul."
~ Democritus
"Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants."
~ Epictetus
Tuned Out, to Tune In
I've temporarily tuned
out of temporality,
And tuned in to timelessness.
And an inner voice says silently:
Now it's time to live
in timeless temporality –
In the world,
but not of the world –
Ron's audio recitation of "Tuned Out, to Tune In"
Ron's explanation of "Tuned Out, to Tune In"
Dear Friends,
The above whimsical poem, "Tuned Out, to Tune In", is about living timelessly in time, and thus being in the world but not of the world – a spiritually significant state.
Spiritual teachings often stress importance of living compassionately in the timeless NOW, while dispassionately letting go of ego attachments to constantly changing outcomes and occurrences.
Yogis and mystics in other times have attained and maintained elevated states of detached awareness by taking refuge in forests, on mountains, or in caves. But such stress-free environments or circumstances are now increasingly rare in wealthy materialist societies. Spiritual aspirants living in crowded and polluted urban environments are especially challenged to maintain such mindfulness, while acting skillfully and compassionately in this turbulent age of mental malaise, rife with suffering of most life forms on our precious planet.
Today's whimsical verses were composed years ago, after I'd begun wondering about how to best live timelessly in time, in the world but not of the world.
Initially I was inspired by Jesus' teachings to abjure earthly treasures and pleasures, but seek treasures of heaven. (See https://sillysutras.com/seek-more-than-meets-the-eye/) Thereafter, Hindu teachings about vairagya (dispassion), and Buddhist scriptures about avoiding attachments were influential.
And by observing the compassion with dispassion of my beloved Guruji, Shri Dhyanyogi Madhusudandas, and other spiritual masters (like the Dalai Lama), I gleaned great inspiration.
Thus, gradually I learned that with stilled minds and opened hearts it's possible for us to psychologically transcend ego-mind attachments to outcomes of ever impermanent and uncertain worldly happenings, even though we have deep concerns about social injustice and suffering. And I have long aspired to attain such a skilled spiritual state.
Living dispassionately, skillfully and sanely in our stressful culture is an evolutionary challenge for all of us. So, "Tuned Out, to Tune In" has been posted today to encourage us to live more and more in the timeless present, yet to follow our heart while dispassionately letting go of ego-mind's attachments to constantly changing outcomes.
May we thereby bless all Life by compassionately and dispassionately being in the world but not of the world, while letting go of ego.
And so may it be!
Ron Rattner
Seek More Than Meets The Eye
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth,
where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal,
but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
where neither moth nor rust consumes
and where thieves do not break in and steal.
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
~ Matthew 6:19-21
"For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle
than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God."
~ Luke:18:25 ; Matthew 19:24
"Fools follow the desires of the flesh
and fall into the snare of all-encompassing death;
but the wise, knowing the Self as eternal,
seek not the things that pass away."
~ Katha Upanishad 2:1:2
"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold;
happiness dwells in the soul."
~ Democritus
"Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants."
~ Epictetus
"What really counts in life can't be counted."
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings
"Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury – to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind."
"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible."
"The most precious things in life are not those one gets for money". . . . . Money only appeals to selfishness and always irresistibly tempts its owner to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Gandhi with the moneybags of Carnegie?"
~ Albert Einstein
Seek More Than Meets The Eye
Do not cherish
that which will perish.
Do not treasure
fleeting pleasure –
Or what you can measure.
Do not believe
what you perceive;
And do not seek
what you can speak.
Seek the ineffable
and it is inevitable
That you will know
the Unknowable –
The Inconceivable!
That you will find –
Beyond your mind –
Eternal Peace!
Ron's audio recitation of Seek More Than Meets The Eye
Ron's Explanation and Dedication of "Seek More Than Meets The Eye"
Dear Friends,
The foregoing poem, "Seek More Than Meets The Eye" was inspired by Jesus' teaching to lay up "treasures in heaven", rather than earthly treasures. [Matthew 6:19-21].
Before discovering that scriptural passage, my midlife spiritual awakening had apparently activated previously subdued ascetic propensities – perhaps from other contemplative lifetimes. So, I had begun following a life-style much simpler and more reclusive than during my married years. And I became evermore convinced of the wisdom of living a simple and virtuous life, largely detached from worldly pleasures and treasures, while focusing on infinite spiritual treasures within.
So after discovering Jesus' teaching about forgoing worldly treasures I was inspired to poetically share its essence, which was consistent and harmonious with my deepest intuitions and tendencies. And soon I found many more inspiring parallel teachings in all other enduring wisdom traditions, like the quotations preceding the poem.
These teachings seem especially important today in affluent corporate capitalist societies where people are constantly importuned and 'brain washed' via ubiquitous and often insidious advertising and marketing techniques to acquire things and experiences they don't need, in order to be happy.
But pleasures from such possessions and experiences are always fleeting, and can never bring enduring happiness and peace of mind. As the Dalai Lama observes:
"Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely,
we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy.
In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
So the foregoing poem and quotes are offered to remind us to lay up "treasures in heaven", rather than in unneeded earthly things and pleasures.
May we thereby discover that the enduring happiness we all (knowingly or unknowingly) seek is never in superfluous possessions or pleasures, but ever in our sacred hearts and souls.
And so may it be!
Ron Rattner
"Sitting quietly,
doing nothing,
spring comes,
and the grass grows by itself"
~ Zen Proverb
"When no one's a "doer"
nothing's undone."
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings
"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."
~ Lao-Tzu
"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning."
~ Lao Tzu
Nothing is old,
if nothing is new.
Nothing is false,
if nothing is true.
Nothing's undone,
if there's nothing to do.
Ron's audio recitation of "Nothings"
Ron's explanation and dedication of "Nothings"
Dear Friends,
Of all writings and quotations on SillySutras.com I've been most inclined to appreciate (and sometimes compose) epigrammatic and enigmatic aphorisms, proverbs, sayings, and sutras, leaving interpretation to the reader/listener.
Thus, since discovering the pithy non-dualist teachings of the Taoist and Zen Buddhist spiritual traditions, I've especially appreciated them. And sometimes they've inspired composition of apt sutra sayings and verses which I 'channelled' during a ten year reclusive period after retirement from legal practice.
For example, from a Taoist or Zen perspective, (in addition to above "Nothings" verses) I've written:
Tao and Zen
are NOW,
not then.
Tao is now,
Tao is one,
Tao is doer,
Tao will be done.
Tao will be done.
So let Tao do it.
There's nothing to do,
nothing to say,
or nothing to know;
but to let go,
and 'go with the flow'.
There's nothing to say,
but words point the way.
The above-titled "Nothings" verses were previously posted online when I launched the SillySutras website in May 2010.
May their republication in 2019 rekindle our ever increasing realization of THAT –
timeless Truth beyond words, to which they point but cannot say or explicate.
And so may it be!
Ron Rattner
All We Need is Love
"Sometimes the questions are complicated
and the answers are simple."
~ Dr. Seuss
"Love is joyous consciousness.
That consciousness is the Creator,
and it is out of Love and joy
that (S)He creates."
~ Swami Amar Jyoti
"Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it."
~ Rumi
"There is only one religion,
the religion of Love."
~ Sathya Sai Baba
"If there is love in your heart,
you don't have to worry about rules."
~ Sri Dhyanyogi Madhusudandas
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them humanity cannot survive."
~ Dalai Lama
"God is love;
and he that dwelleth in love
dwelleth in God, and God in him."
~ 1 John 4:16
"When one realizes that life,
even in the middle of so many contradictions, is a gift,
that love is the source and the meaning of life,
how can they withhold their urge to do good to another fellow being?"
~ Pope Francis – 2017 TED Talk
"Our purpose is process –
Metamorphic process.
Gleaning meaning in matter,
We learn all that matters –
We learn all that matters is LOVE!"
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings
Let us let go of ego, and
Let Life live us as LOVE!
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings
Dear Friends,
To brighten our holiday solstice season – and the rest of our lifetimes –
today I'm privileged to share a sure cure for all our earthly sufferings –
a true panacea for transmuting all our sorrows and sufferings to eternal Joy.
Thanks to John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and The Beatles, I have 'discovered' an open-Source solution for all of Humanity's problems –
problems which cannot be solved from the same levels of consciousness that created them.
All of our problems and sufferings have arisen from apparent lack of LOVE.
So, to solve and cure them
"All we need is LOVE, LOVE, LOVE."
Accordingly, I have posted the above wisdom quotes about "Love" and have embedded below a video of the original 1968 Beatles recording session of their classic song, "All You Need Is Love", followed by the lyrics composed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
May these inspiring "Love" postings help brighten our holiday solstice season – and the rest of our lives.
And so may it be!
Ron Rattner
Video: The Beatles – "All You Need Is Love"
Lyrics – "All You Need Is Love"
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
There's nothing you can do that can't be done
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
Nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game
It's easy.
Nothing you can make that can't be made
No one you can save that can't be saved
Nothing you can do, but you can learn how to be you in time
It's easy.
All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love,
Love is all you need
All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need
Nothing you can know that isn't known
Nothing you can see that isn't shown
There's nowhere you can be,
that isn't where you're meant to be
It's easy.
All you need is love
All you need is love
~ John Lennon, Paul McCartney, The Beatles
Mute The Mind
"Yoga is the cessation of mind."
~ Patanjali, Yoga Sutras
"When the mind is completely empty – only then is it capable of receiving the unknown." …… "Only when the mind is wholly silent, completely inactive, not projecting, when it is not seeking and is utterly still – only then that which is eternal and timeless comes into being."
~ J. Krishnamurti
"I think with intuition. The basis of true thinking is intuition.
Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. "
~ Albert Einstein
To think or not to think,
that is the question!
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings
"Life is not a problem to be solved,
but a reality to be experienced."
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Mute The Mind
Bliss abides when thought subsides.
When all thoughts cease, we are at peace.
Spirit speaks when mind is mute.
Mute your mind to hear your heart.
The power to think is a great gift;
but, the power to not think is a greater gift.
So, to think or not to think, that is the question.
Ron's audio recitation of "Mute The Mind"
Ron's comments on "Mute The Mind"
Dear Friends,
When you hear the word "yoga", what do you think of?
You probably think of a widely practiced art of physical postures and related practices, not necessarily associated with religion, for harmonizing body, mind and spirit. But you don't think of mental stillness or mind control.
However, according to Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the most ancient and central Sanskrit yoga text, yoga is defined as "cessation of mind", not merely as methods to achieve such a state of thoughtless awareness. The word "yoga" is rooted in an ancient Sanskrit term meaning to unite or integrate. And for millennia Vedic seers called Yogis have followed various disciplines – such as wisdom enquiry, devotion, meditation, service, body postures, austerities and breathing techniques – attempting to merge their apparently limited human consciousness with Universal Awareness or Brahman.
The foregoing poem and quotations are about the importance of stilling the mind, without suggesting any method for achieving "yoga". They are dedicated to helping us lead happier and more fulfilling lives, while hastening our spiritual evolution, whether or not we achieve "enlightened" states of awareness.
Until meeting my Guruji, Shri Dhyanyogi Madhusudandas, who was a great Yogi, I knew virtually nothing about yoga or yogic science. But inspired by his teachings and example I gradually have experienced countless blessings from an often silent mind.
Before meeting Guruji I was philosophically mostly influenced by the world's 'great thinkers'. But now I'm mostly inspired by the world's greatest non-thinkers — mystics, intuitives and shamans (from various traditions), and others who have authentically and instinctively lived a secular life, like Albert Einstein.
Einstein taught that we can best solve human problems by emphasizing intuition over intellect, thereby raising our level of consciousness beyond that which created our problems. And he observed that:
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
May today's postings inspire us to more and more honor intuition over intellect, and to still our minds so we can hear and follow our Hearts to lives of ever increasing fulfillment and happiness.
And so may it be!
Ron Rattner


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Roland Garros-2019: nervous start Serena Williams, Wozniacki fiasco
Serena Williams, Roland Garros 2019, Simple Dames 1er Tour, Photo : Philippe Montigny / FFT
In the Open championship of France on tennis among women continues to the first round.
Ex-first racket of the world Serena Williams my statement
Paris started with 2:6 from Vitalina Dyachenko, standing in the world ranking beyond
top 80. After the launch failure of an award-winning American recovered quickly –
the rest of the match Williams-senior made 5 breaks, and won with first serve
21 of 24 draws. In the second round Serena will play the winner of the match
between Kurumi Nara and Dalila jakupovic.
Caroline Wozniacki in the third time in his career in Paris could not
to overcome the first round. The Dane, last year suffering from rheumatoid
arthritis, in a match with Veronica Kudermetova showed competitive tennis only
in the first set. In the final set, Wozniacki came back on, but after the reverse
break immediately gave his serve and accepted defeat, which became for her
four in a row.
Champion of Madrid, Kiki Bertens with the first match beginning
to confirm his excellent form – the fourth racket of the world in 1 hour and 30 minutes
dealt with Pauline Parmentier, making breaks in each set. Bertens noted
a very solid game on his serve, winning 92% of points from the first ball. For access
in the third round of the strongest tennis player of the Netherlands will compete with Victoria
The results of matches of seeded players:
Polona Hercog (Slovenia) — Alexander Sasnovich (Belarus,
32) – 4:6, 6:2, 8:6
Johanna Konta (Britain, 26) — Anthony Lottner
(Germany) – 6:4, 6:4
Kiki, Bertens (Netherlands, 4) — Pauline Parmentier (France) –
6:3, 6:4
Veronica Kudermetova (Russia) — Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark,
13) – 0:6, 6:3, 6:3
Kaia Kanepi (Estonia) — Julia Gerges (Germany, 18) – 7:5,
Ashleigh Barty (Australia, 8) — Jessica Baguley (USA) – 6:3,
Donna Vekic (Croatia, 23) — Ludmilla Samsonova (Russia) –
6:2, 6:4
Anastasia Sevastova (Latvia, 12) — Luksika Kumkhum (Thailand)
– 6:1, 6:4
Elise Mertens (Belgium, 20) — Tamara Zidansek (Slovenia) –
6:4, 3:6, 6:2
Serena Williams (USA, 10) — Vitalia diatchenko (Russia) – 2:6,
6:1, 6:0
CE Shuwei (Chinese Taipei, 25) — Victoria Golubich
(Switzerland) – 6:4, 3:6, 6:0


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Living in Brighton is great for many reasons and clearly, it's music is a huge part of that. With so many great bands starting up left, right and center, there's a huge demand for rehearsal rooms. I've lived here for quite a while now and I've rehearsed in ALOT of rooms! Some great, some OK, some awful. I've put together a list here of the ones I know to be good. They vary in size, equipment quality and rates but all have these have something to offer and their own place in the scene.
How To Book Your First Gig in Brighton
Fancy booking your first gig in Brighton but don't have a clue what to do or who to contact? I've put together a detailed guide of the venues and promoters who will let you book your first show. This includes contact details, how best to get in touch with them, what NOT to do and some other tips to help you stand out and get a decent gig.


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When selecting a web hosting package, you need plenty of storage space. You don't just need storage space for now. You need storage space for all of the things you're going to add to your site in the future as well. Some web hosting companies offer unlimited storage space, but you have to watch; some of these come with a hitch. Make sure you are aware according to your plans how much space you will need, and this will make this part of the selection process much easier on you.
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The quality of support you will receive as you manage your site is very important. Do they offer support by email, phone, chat, or all of the above? You want to make sure there is a good customer support system in place.
The price of the plan is very important, but it should not solely make your decision for you. You need to find a web hosting company that is affordable, reliable, and provides a quality product.
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Darche Noam/David Shapell's College of Jewish Studies—S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program
Goal of Program
The Yeshiva program and experience facilitates the whole student's growth as a Torah personality. Character development, morality and values, and the inner side of Torah are integrated with conceptual and practical study leading to independent learning throughout life.
Attitude Towards Israel and Medinat Yisrael
Close to 40% of our alumni make Aliyah and live in Israel (need we say more?)
Attitude Towards University Studies
Almost all of our students arrive after having completed a university degree. Graduate university studies are encouraged on an individual basis.
Attitude Towards Extracurricular Activities
Students are encouraged to participate in Chesed programs both in and outside the yeshiva, where appropriate to the student's personal growth and development.
Preparation for Post Israel
Preparation for a life with Torah learning and Halacha at its centre is discussed both in regular Hashkafa and Mussar classes as well as in the many individual meetings students have with their Rebbeim, Mashgichim and Roshei Yeshiva.
The "Successful" Student
What will a "successful" alumnus be doing in 5 years? In 10 years? Regardless of the profession or livelihood they choose, they will all be leading a life of continuous growth and development with Torah as the guiding source.
Socks and long pants are required in the Beit Midrash.
Guidance Personnel
The Mashgichim and Roshei Yeshiva meet regularly with individual students and are always available for special discussions.
Our students are older, post university age and are mature enough to behave responsibly without supervision.
50-60% of of time is spent on Talmud versus other subjects. There are 8 different levels of learning. Emphasis is placed on independent learning skills and thinking
Courses Offered
See http://www.darchenoam.org
Daily Schedule
No information provided
Language of Instruction
All classes are in English.
Ulpan or Hebrew Class
We have 3 levels of Hebrew classes.
Assessment and Grading
Transcripts are available on request
Shana Bet
Students are able to stay as long as they are progressing through the levels of our program.
Joint Program
YU Joint Israel Program
See our faculty page at http://www.darchenoam.org/
Extra-Curricular Activities
Interaction with Israelis
There are arrangements made for interested students to visit alumni around the country on out Shabbatot.
Special Informal Programs
Informal programs around Shabbatot and holidays are regular parts of Yeshiva life, helping to connect students to one another and with their rebbeim.
Sports Facilities
There is access to sports facilities in the neighborhood and a weight room on campus.
Programming for Shabbat and Yom Tov
Generally, one out of every three weeks is an In Shabbat. Twice a year, in addition to the 'in Yeshiva' Shabbatonim, the entire student body, staff, and their families spend Shabbat in communities outside Jerusalem. The Shabbaton, one of the highlights of the year, includes an Oneg Shabbat, a visit to the community led by a resident, shiurim, and an always lively panel discussion. Among the topics previous staff panels have addressed are, 'Living with the Security Situation,' 'How did you develop a connection with Torah?' . Motzaei Shabbat opens with sports and arts & crafts and closes with a Kumzitz,. Sunday includes an all day tiyul in the area.
Field Trips
Monthly Tiyulim cover the length and breadth of the country. The Tiyulim are educational and physically challenging.
Level of Learning Offered
Beginner – no previous Talmud experience required
Intermediate - beginning to independently study a Talmudic passage
Advanced – able to independently study a Talmudic passage
Hebrew Knowledge Required
Beginner – ability to read Hebrew, and familiar with some Hebrew words. Shiurim are all in English
Intermediate – shiurim are in English
Advanced – shiurim are in English
Religious Observance Required
Our students are often Baalei Teshuva, but everyone has made a commitment to Shemirat Shabbat, Kashrut and improved Shemirat Hamitzvot
Type of American Student
Students who have completed at least one year of University
Overall Number of Students (Kollel, Israeli, Foreign)
Foreign Student Percentage
Number of 1st Year American Students
Number of 2nd Year American Students
Other Nationalities
There are students from other nationalities
Number of Students per Class
Classes are small and interactive between 6 –12 students. There are many levels to each subject, with a stress on obtaining skills. Total faculty to student ratio is 1:4
Living Quarters
A mature, responsible and highly motivated student body means there is little resemblance between life in the Yeshivat Darche Noam/David Shapell College residential wing and that in a university dormitory. Rooms are not large, but they are relatively new and each has a private bathroom with a shower. Rooms are shared by three students, with individual closets and shelf space.
Availability of Private Kitchen Facilities
There are refrigerators available for students.
Facility use during Shabbat and Yom Tov
The Yeshiva is open every Shabbat, but no meals are available when not an "in" Shabbat. Students wishing hospitality are placed with friends and alumni of the Yeshiva throughout Jersualem and the country.
Students who stay bein hazmanim are offered assistance in finding hosts for all Shabbat and YomTov meals.
As our student body is made up of older college and post college students, we do not have a curfew.
Security Arrangements
We conform, meet, or exceed all security standards of MASA and Onward Israel. In addition, our building has a monitored alarm system and personal safes in each dorm room.
SINCE 1978, Yeshivat Darche Noam/Shapell's has provided intelligent, motivated men from around the world with expert instruction in Talmud and classical Jewish literature together with responsible guidance in the area of spiritual growth. Our program caters to adults committed to making Judaism the center of their lives, whether they go into business, the professions, Jewish education or the rabbinate. Our campus is located in the lovely, residential neighborhood of Beit Hakerem in Jerusalem.
Accrediting Universities
Darche Noam / David Shapells College of Jewish Studies is a Yeshiva University S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program School.
Additional Information
The program is designed for mature college (after 1st year) and post college students.
Contact Information
Darche Noam/David Shapell's College of Jewish Studies
U.S. Office
226 Smith Street
Woodmere, NY 11598
Phone: (516) 812-5301
Fax: (516)908-6020
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Israel Office
Rabbi Shmuel Jablon
5 Rechov Bet Hakerem
(mailing address) P.O.B. 3151, Jerusalem 96343
Phone: (02) 651-1178
Fax: (02) 652-0801
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Company business professionals that graduated DAN Digital Academy
About DAN Digital Academy
DAN Digital Academy is a digital marketing training programme of the global communications group Dentsu Aegis Network and is now available also in Latvia. The Dentsu Aegis Network (DAN) group is represented in Latvia by the media agencies Vizeum, Carat and digital performance agency iProspect.
Our programme's study courses will give answers to these questions:
The aim of the Digital Academy is to provide knowledge of the most efficient use of digital platforms and increase effectiveness of company communications and advertising campaigns.
DAN Digital Academy's programme has been successfully implemented for several years in many countries represented by our agency's group – in Germany, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and elsewhere.
For the second time in Latvia!
Dentsu Aegis Network Digital Academy is successfully operating in many European countries - Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and others. In 2016 DAN Digital Academy was launched in Latvia as well, providing practical knowledge training in an efficient and well-organized program.
To whom it may be interesting?
The Digital Academy programme is intended for anyone working in marketing, public relations, communications or mass media and who is responsible for communications planning, implementation or cooperation with media and advertising agencies – thus everyone wishing to improve their knowledge of the digital environment, media development, and the possibilities and implementation of effective communications campaigns.
In order to take part in the Digital Academy, basic knowledge and interest in digital media are required.
Company business professionals that graduated DAN Digital Academy
"Great training for those who wish to learn about the newest digital marketing in today's phase of development and gain understanding of the development tendencies of the future."
Māris Naglis
Dentsu Aegis Network Latvia, Managing Director
The training is divided into five modules, taught over the course of two months. Following conclusion of the training, there is the possibility to take an exam (it is not obligatory). Upon conclusion of the course, participants receive a diploma reflecting their participation and a certificate for successful completion of the course.
The number of participants for each training module is limited to 15. Training takes place in Latvian, unless indicated otherwise.
The training is based on theory and analysis, as well as application of practical instruments that participants use in group works , solving real case studies and challenges. Participants work with real challenges and tasks, as well as share in their knowledge and inspire the others. The training includes company case studies and analysis, as well as shared experience and presentations from media representatives.
The training will be led by the best digital marketing and media experts from the Dentsu Aegis Network in Latvia and global representatives from iProspect, Carat and Vizeum. According to the subject matter being studied, other specialists will also be involved.
In the programme: lecture presentations, practical individual and group assignments, media representatives and company case studies.
It is particularly important for companies today to use digital media effectively and appropriately. The development of the digital media environment has significantly altered the path of how a consumer makes decisions regarding purchase and brand preference, known as the "consumer journey" – how to understand it and how to integrate this knowledge into a company's advertising communications plans – this is what the first academic module is about.
In our first course module we will look at the entire media and in particular the digital media environment in 2016 in Latvia and the world. This study module will provide knowledge for the effective development of a digital media strategy, analyse actual case studies and provide an opportunity to hear company representatives and media owners experience.
In this module we will review in detail advertising investments and possibilities in digital channels. The module content is about how to correctly plan a campaign, depending upon analysis and data of the target audience's habits and media usage. We will also discuss how to determine the return on investments made in the advertising budgets of specific media.
Most companies increase their advertising budgets allocated for the digital environment from year to year. This means that it is increasingly important to correctly apply digital analysis tools in order to determine the effect of the current digital campaign, using insights about visitors' behaviour on the company webpage or campaign landing page.
Digital analysis tools help to understand advertising results online, effectively analysing dataflow regarding visitors and webpage data. Which data to analyse and how to effectively transform it into useful insights for the further improvement and optimisation of campaigns – that's what this training module is about.
Everyday over 1 million searches are made on the Google search engine in Latvia. How effectively do companies reach their audience looking for products and services?
It is possible to analyse all online activities, in order to optimally reach your audience and ensure the highest return on your investment.
This module will provide an overview of the leading social media networks and the possibilities for these platforms to effectively reach the necessary target audience and to interact with it. In dialogue between social media and the audience, the main thing is appropriate content and audience reach. How to analyse the needs and interests of target audiences, how to develop content strategy on the basis of these data and how to measure the effectiveness of communications on social media – that is what this academy module is about.
With optional exam
May 25th from 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Guest Lecturers
The Digital Academy project in Latvia is being led by Linda Saulīte, Head of Vizeum Latvia.
The training will take place at the Riga Graduate School of Law, on 4a Strēlnieku Street.
The cost of the training.
*Company entrance card – a company ticket for all five modules. It may be used by various company employees, depending on module content – each module may be attended by a different company employee, depending upon how the content of the specific module matches the employee's needs and interests.
**Module 1 plus any other module. When registering, please indicate whether you wish to visit any other two modules of your choice.
Number of participants is limited.
Linda Saulīte, Head of Vizeum Latvia
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The First Line of Defence - Umbrella Cloud Solutions
In the past, desktops, business apps, and critical infrastructure were all located behind the firewall. Today, users don't need to be on the corporate network to get work done.
It is predicted that by 2021 the average company will have 25% of its corporate data traffic bypassing the network perimeter. When a user is off-network, they are more vulnerable and the organization lacks visibility and protection. If you rely on perimeter security alone, you're not fully protected. These gaps open the door for malware, ransomware, and other attacks.
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A Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane operated by Ethiopian Airlines crashed shortly after taking off from Addis Ababa on March 10, killing all 157 people on board. "The investigation of the accident is well underway, and we will learn the truth," Gebremariam said on Monday, adding that "many questions on the B-737 MAX airplane remain without answers, and I pledge full and transparent cooperation to discover what went wrong." Amid ongoing investigations, recent reports indicated that despite Ethiopian Airlines is among the first to install a training simulator on the new Max 8, the captain of the crashed Flight ET-302 was not trained on the simulator.
However, Gebremariam stressed that Ethiopia's flag carrier has been providing the training effectively. "As it is well known in our global aviation industry, the differences training between the B-737 NG and the B-737 MAX recommended by Boeing and approved by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) called for computer-based training, but we went beyond that," an Ethiopian Airlines Group statement quoted Gebremariam as saying on Monday. According to the CEO, after the Lion Air accident in October last year, Ethiopian pilots who fly the Boeing 737 Max 8 "were fully trained on the service bulletin issued by Boeing and the Emergency Airworthiness Directive issued by the USA FAA." "We are the only airline in Africa among the very few in the world with the B-737 MAX full flight simulator. Contrary to some media reports, our pilots who fly the new model were trained on all appropriate simulators," Gebremariam said. "The crews were well trained on this aircraft," Gebremariam said, adding "immediately after the crash and owing to the similarity with the Lion Air Accident, we grounded our fleet of Max 8s." "Within days, the plane had been grounded around the world. I fully support this. Until we have answers, putting one more life at risk is too much," he added.
Gebremariam also noted that Ethiopian Airlines flight mechanics are certified by the FAA. Ethiopian Airlines also stressed that it operates with "one of the youngest fleet in the industry, our average fleet age is five years while industry average is 12 years." Ethiopia's flag carrier, which serves more than 11 million passengers annually according to figures from the airlines, has relatively better safety record in the aviation sector with minimal incidents in over 7 decades of its operations. The French air accident investigation authority BEA is investigating the crashed plane's black boxes.


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Alex Hepburn – I Believe
Written by The Dutch Guy on February 27, 2018
Now I know she's signed to Warner, so I am stepping outside my usual independent unsigned box here. But damn, if you hear her powerful, emotive and raspy vocals, you immediately know (and feel) she's special!
'Cause compared to her earlier Pink-like work, I'd say this sister finally found her heart, soul and voice! So signed or not, put me down for a copy of her album when it drops later this year!..
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Emodin extends lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans through insulin/IGF-1 signaling pathway depending on DAF-16 and SIR-2.1 Xuan Zhao Lulu Lu Yonghao Qi Miao Li Lijun Zhou 10.6084/m9.figshare.5335954.v1 https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/Emodin_extends_lifespan_of_i_Caenorhabditis_elegans_i_through_insulin_IGF-1_signaling_pathway_depending_on_DAF-16_and_SIR-2_1/5335954
The naturally occurring anthraquinone emodin has been serving primarily as an anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory agent. However, little is known about its potential on anti-aging. This investigation examined the effect of emodin on lifespan and focused on its physiological molecular mechanisms in vivo. Using Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) as an animal model, we found emodin could extend lifespan of worms and improve their antioxidant capacity. Our mechanistic studies revealed that emodin might function via insulin/IGF-1 signaling (IIS) pathway involving, specifically the core transcription factor DAF-16. Quantitative RT-PCR results illustrated that emodin up-regulated transcription of DAF-16 target genes which express antioxidants to promote antioxidant capacity and lifespan of worms. In addition, attenuated effect in sir-2.1 mutants suggests that emodin likely functioned in a SIR-2.1-dependent manner. Our study uncovers a novel role of emodin in prolonging lifespan and supports the understanding of emodin being a beneficial dietary supplement.

Emodin promotes lifespan and antioxidant capacity of C. elegans through insulin/IGF-1 signaling pathway depending on DAF-16 and SIR-2.1.
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$3500 Three bedroom House for rent
- Price $3,500.00
San Antonio, Bexar
Texas, USA
Sublet.com Listing ID 2901009 HOUSE DESCRIPTIONYour home has been renovated and sits in beautiful Olmos Park. 30 Day Minimum. Available Oct. 1.HOUSE DESCRIPTION-3 Bed, 2.5 Bath...newly built Master Bathroom, and Office-Original hardwood floors-Large master bathroom-French country kitchen-Stainless steel appliances-Leather furniture-Patio with BBQ Pit and lounge tablechairs-Gated property -Wireless Internet, Cable-WasherDryer Ive lived in it for over 5 years working to make it comfortable, and a home for whomever chooses to stay in this 1930 historic charmer-Gym is located on the end of the street-Bus stop is on the end of street-Grocery store and convenience stores both within walking distance-Restaurants are easily accessible and within walking distance
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Jess is awesome and my dog Max absolutely loves her. What can I say. When she arrives at the door he gives her an even bigger welcome that I get... LOL!! It's great to see and because I can trust her 100%, I always know Max is in good hands when she's looking after him.
Jessica is the best walker we have ever had. Our two special needs dogs received the love, care and attention they needed while we were out - it's a lot easier being away from your furbabies when you know they are being really well cared for. Jessica was nothing short of amazing. I'm thrilled and relived to have found her, she is someone me and my puppies have grown to fully trust (it's not easy ...
Jess is kind, honest, and passionate about animals. She took care of my sick dog as if it was her own. Sadly, my dog went to heaven recently and I wouldn't have been able to go through these trying times without Jess. The amount of time she went above and beyond my expectations in my times of need is truly appreciated. Having dogs of her own, she can relate how anxious and guilty we feel ...
About Jessica
All you need is love and a dog!
I have strong compassion toward animals, especially for abandoned animals. I work with a couple of animal organizations to find loving home for abandoned dogs & cats. I host pet adoption events, raise funds, and find volunteers to help with local animal shelters. I love animals so much that I started a none-profit three years ago. My mission is to build an eco-friendly, sustainable animal sanctuary. I want happy animals roaming around on lush green ...
What Jessica would like to know about your dog
I must know if your fur baby is dog friendly, baby friendly, toddler friendly, and kid friendly. Any aggression or anxiety? Command words? off leash ok?


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- advertising in newspapers or directories [online or offline?]
- bulk mail advertising (mailshots)
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David Frum
David Frum worked as a journalist before taking a job as a speechwriter for George W. Bush. He is currently a senior editor at The Atlantic, and the author of New York Times Bestseller The Right Man, and the novel Patriots, among numerous other titles.
Whether it is the latest foreign policy debate or the inner workings of the White House, David offers refreshing and clear insights of complicated issues of the day. The Wall Street Journal dubbed him one of the leading politician commentators of his generation for his work in The Atlantic, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, and CNN. He has been called one of the top 100 public intellectuals in America.
In his quest for the truth, David has been a long-time voice for shaking up the polarized U.S. political system. He provides fascinating insight into what political outcomes mean for specific audiences around the world.
As a speaker, David has the rare ability to engage audiences at a deeper level: that of their belief systems. Audiences appreciate his thought-provoking style and ability to boil complex subjects into digestible bites. David captivates audiences as a speaker, but isn't afraid to interject humour.