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Money, A Memoir
Women, Emotions, and Cash
Liz Perle
Henry Holt and Co.
Money, A Memoir
1SECRETS AND LIESTHE ONLY TIME I EVER HEARD MY ELEGANT GRANDMOTHER use a Yiddish word, I was nine years old. Sitting on one of the twin beds in her bedroom (it had been years since she'd slept anywhere near my grandfather), I watched her search through one of her bureau drawers as she kept up an uninterrupted monologue detailing her version of the facts of life. These had nothing to do with biology, but with an unwritten but inexorable code of behavior to which all young women must militantly adhere. My mother had died a year earlier, and ever since that bewildering August day, I had been the regular recipient of tokens of my grandmother's philosophy: white gloves, random costume jewelry, a sanitary napkin belt that looked like a medieval torture device, embroidery lessons, and other flotsam that reflected her sense of what a girl needed in order to survive and triumph. Mostly this involved serious training in the artof becoming a marriageable young woman (that being the end goal of everything).This day, she was on a tear. Drawers opened, stockings shoved aside, scarves pushed into corners, each new thrust released the scent of Chanel No. 5. Her search took on a kind of urgency I hadn't seen before. Finally, she pulled out a strange and tiny woven metal sack from the bottom of a drawer of underwear. The object fit in her hand and seemed to be made of spun gold. It had some kind of cap on the top and a pin so a woman could securely attach it to her clothing."It's a reticule," she said, opening the mouth of this misshapen and minute bag. Seeing my completely blank expression, she continued. "It's something a woman wears to keep her valuables hidden."This I had never seen.My grandmother went over to her pocketbook, a black patent leather rectangle with a silver clasp that I liked to snap open and shut. She removed a $20 bill, folded it twice, and stuck it into the bizarre purse, which she then handed to me."This is the beginning of your
" she said, pronouncing this alien word "kah-nipple." "It's a woman's private stash. Every woman needs one. A just-in-case account. Every woman needs money of her own that her husband never knows about. So she can do what she wants. What she needs. Remember that."Long after my grandmother died, I recalled thisconversation and its promise of secrecy and peril. It would be thirty years, though, before I would really understand what she meant.
SO IT WAS that before I learned the facts of life, I was instructed in the facts of money. Money would take care of me. I should do whatever it took to get some and squirrel it away. Money would come from my husband and possibly protect me from him at the same time. With it, I would be safe. But this path to security was indirect, extremely secret, and very, very important.I received one other explicit money instruction from my grandmother. It had to do with not talking about it. On one of my frequent afternoon visits spent playing with the earrings and necklaces in her white leather jewelry box, I asked her if she and my grandfather were rich or poor. "You never talk about money," she pronounced. "It's private."End of story.In my grandmother's hierarchy of what mattered in life, money silently reigned. She believed that at the end of the day, a woman's safety and security (not to mention social position) depended on it. It clearly didn't matter by what desperate or devious means a woman acquired this money--just so long as she had it. But God forbid anyone should talk about it. This big important thing that would be so critical to my safety and freedom.Until a few years ago, my grandmother's message satpristinely in my gray matter, intact and unexamined, largely because I wasn't even aware of its presence. But that didn't stop her perspective from informing my thinking. Sure, my understanding of money and income had been updated. On the surface, I behaved like a financially responsible and frequently rational fiscal creature. I worked, saved, and paid my bills (well, most of them). Experience had taught me that my grandmother was right--that with my own income, I was sovereign over my life. But emotionally, my feelings about money's importance hadn't advanced much. Unfortunately, my stubborn refusal to look at these feelings led to occasional outbreaks of indirect, often manipulative behavior around people who could supply cash, erratic episodes of compulsive spending followed by anxious hoarding, and a general and omnipresent lack of trust about who could best provide for me.
WHETHER WE WANT to admit it or not, each of us has a relationship to money that goes beyond the getting and spending. Money is never just money; it's our proxy for identity and love and hope and promises made and perhaps never fulfilled. It's our social sorter. It's the ticket to our dreams. Yet there's a conversational force field around the topic that repels discussion. "Don't count your money in front of the poor," a friend once snapped at me after I'd mentioned how much I'd paid for a leather skirt. For the life of me, as I looked around, I couldn't see the poor person to whom shewas referring. But all these many years later I can still feel the sting of humiliation at being exposed as insensitive, selfish, and greedy. Few topics are as guilt inducing and taboo as this one.Our silence doesn't serve, however. It seals in dubious advice (like my grandmother's), allows outdated moral prejudices to persist (money is filthy lucre)--not to mention gender roles (it isn't ladylike to be materialistic)--and protects serious social inequalities like the fact that men and women remain unequally compensated for the same jobs. The need to be secretive robs us of a way to examine our ambivalent feelings about our materialistic and emotionally dependent attitudes and impulses. Silence shields us from seeing how, unconsciously, we broker invisible deals to make sure we get what we want and stay safe and secure. And it keeps us from examining the toll those agreements exact. Finally, our silence means women can't be released from the low-level and often undetected feelings of anxiety, guilt, envy, anger, hunger, and fear that money inspires.There's nothing I want as badly that I'm more ashamed of wanting than money. No wonder I don't like to talk about it. Yet how will I ever address my relationship with this forbidden subject if I don't?
WOMEN RELATE TO money much differently than men do. There are many reasons large and small why this is true. When I ask Stephen Goldbart, a prominent psychotherapistand codirector of the Money, Meaning, and Choices Institute, about these differences, he tells me that they are ancient and deeply embedded psychologically and biologically in both sexes. These differences are so old, so deep, and such a part of our basic wiring that they cannot be ignored. "There are strong gender differences when it comes to money--differences of identity and of historical roles. For men, the interplay of money and love and power has not really changed in thousands of years; they have always been the providers, and their identities and power come from this old survival-based role."Goldbart has spent years observing how both men and women commingle money and power, which, he says, they need to do in order to survive. While men directly equate money and power, women, who have traditionally had no access to money, combine the two in a very particular way that has a lot to do with romantic love."Historically, money was melded with being provided for and taken care of. Thus it's a challenge for women to separate out love and money," Goldbart points out. "The degree to which a man provided for a woman has been her sustenance and her life. Therefore, for a woman, a man's success and his sharing of that success financially is more than just what we see in her lifestyle. On an unconscious level, it has to do with knowing that she and her children will survive. When we talk about money, we're talking about providing for basic human needs; this is basic human wiring. And while these providing and dependent roleshave changed in the last seventy-five years, to brain stem psychology, that is no time at all."The way we're raised also has much to do with the different approaches men and women have to money. Somehow I sincerely doubt my grandmother pulled either of my male cousins into her boudoir and handed them a secret sack with a $20 bill in it. They weren't told that their social and financial security would be determined by their marriages or that talking about money was "not done," immoral, selfish, tacky, or just plain bad manners--quite the contrary. Joline Godfrey, the CEO of Independent Means and author of
Raising Financially Fit Kids,
reassures me that my family experience is far from unusual. Godfrey, a financial educator, feels that our culture remains stuck in the belief that we must take care of girls. She observes that we still expect too much from boys financially and too little from girls, and explains that for boys, the issue around money is shame because money is more directly tied to their manhood, whereas womanhood is still very much connected to a girl's beauty and to her ability to connect to others in relationships. Godfrey believes it is easier for women to disconnect from financial responsibilities because our identities aren't at stake if we do. But for boys and men? Money and providing determine their feelings of self-worth.My male cousins understood quite clearly that they'd be judged by their abilities to go out, club the money dragon over its head, and haul home that cash. Holiday dinner conversations centered on what happened in the stock market,other people's (lousy or lucrative) investments, football, and "Did-you-see-the-Shermans'-new-Vista-Cruiser?-Someone-must-be-doing-well" observations of others' good or ill fortunes. We all absorbed the import of these conversations, but as in most families, the emotional impact of these messages differed depending on whether you were the girl cousin or the boy cousin. All of us learned that money would determine our social standing and whether or not we were perceived to be "successful." Indeed, we all went on to have good jobs and good careers. But looking around the table, it was clear for the girl cousins that we had two paths to this achievement: We could get there by work or by marriage.For the most part, men know that society sizes them up rather two-dimensionally by how much they do or don't make. Most (if not all) men grow up with the lurking suspicion that the job description of "manly man" still includes the task of being the classic "provider." "How do men rank their self-esteem?" Goldbart asks. "By their productivity in the world and whether or not they are successful. Most men would still define success in terms of their work and their finances first and their families second." Goldbart feels that the way men view their purpose and judge their value remains unchanged by the fact that women now contribute to family income. "There was a women's--not a men's--revolution," he concludes.Although this bottom-line assessment of a desirably successful man is broadening in tiny increments to include the unquantifiable (and uncompensated) nurturing skills offatherhood, men still understand that their very worth is measured by their financial prowess. They think--and not unjustly--that women evaluate them by how much wealth they can create and how much money they can provide. This is something women don't like to admit they do, but Pamela York Klainer, a financial consultant and the author of
How Much Is Enough?
has seen it for years in her clients. "Many men tend to want to exaggerate their differences through money. Someone has to be 'top dog,' 'alpha man.' It's clear that men use money as a differentiator. They will show their power by buying expensive gifts for those around them to show that they have 'made it.' It's a form of power. Whereas women will use money to form bonds and friendships."But it's different with women. We may keep a beady eye trained on the wardrobes and kitchen appliances of those around us, but part of keeping pace with our friends lies in the fact that we don't want money to separate us. Put six women together in a room with a range of incomes, and all will find a safe middle ground in order to minimize our differences. We intuitively know that nothing divides us faster than money.Where men use money as shorthand to determine who has the power in a relationship, women will let it be a surrogate for love and attention. This frequently shows up in divorce settlements, where, as Stephen Goldbart has seen, a woman will want a certain amount of money because, psychologically, that money represents all the love the husbanddidn't give her. In this way money compensates for emotional disappointments.Obviously, a continuum of these money behaviors exists on which women and men inhabit both ends of the spectrum and all points in between. But the gist of their comments is clear: With money, men do more than provide; they create social and political hierarchies. They draw their power and position from these fiscal disparities. (It doesn't even have to be their own money. All they need is access to it and the power to dispense it.) But women will downplay their financial differences for the sake of harmony and connection out of the basic female biological and psychological drive to be connected to other women in order to feel safe and to survive. We do this even if it means denying or minimizing our fears and desires.I have one friend I'll call Magda, whom I admire deeply. She's one of the smartest women I've ever met. She's no-nonsense, and she tells it like it is. We enjoyed (and still do) one of those friendships where we could and did tell each other everything, knowing we would call each other on anything where we were kidding ourselves.Then she inherited $60 million.I would be lying if I said her windfall had no effect on me. I started walking on eggshells around her for fear she might think I was her friend only because she was so damn rich. At the time, I was mid-divorce, still homeless, sleeping on the lower half of my best friend's youngest daughter's leftover bunk bed. Magda's sudden abundance short-circuitedme for a while. My first thought on hearing of these astronomical millions was "Gee, can't she spare one of them? She'd never miss it, and I could really use it." The truth is, all I could see was her wealth and my neediness. Her money mirrored back my own emotional feeling of scarcity. I was ashamed of these feelings, and our friendship became, for a time, stained by the secret I now kept from her--that of my envy and my fear of how she'd suddenly see me.As Cyndi Lauper sang, "Money changes everything."
THE THERAPISTS OLIVIA Millan and Karina Piskaldo take these observations one step further. "Men are raised to see the world as hierarchical and competitive," they say. "There's always a one-up and one-down position, a winner and a loser. Women see the world as cooperative and democratic; they share. In addition, they are allowed--even encouraged--to be needy and vulnerable, while men are discouraged from such display." 1These may be gross generalizations, but that doesn't make them any less true.Needy and vulnerable. Two red flags that create a state of alert in me. I don't want to be either one of those things. I don't know a single one of my girlfriends who wants to be one of those things either. But as I push aside my irritation at the adjectives, underneath I feel a bit caught out. Needy and vulnerable apply to me more than I would ever like to admit. In fact, it's precisely my fear of being either one thathas done the most to spur my economic autonomy. Yet it's exactly these two qualities that are my inheritance, because I learned how to be a woman from someone who, like all her ancestors, had to depend on men to survive.It's as simple as this: On the one hand, as a creature of the postwar, baby-boom, women's-movement times of the latter half of the twentieth century, I grew up defining myself as an independent, self-supporting woman. I don't even question it. It's my identity, it's my economic reality, and it's my right. I depend on my independence.And yet there's still that other part of me--the one that wants to reserve the option of depending on someone else. That ancient desire may have primitive roots in survival, but it also feels familiar. Growing up in my mother's and grandmother's worlds, I learned that part of being a woman meant taking care of the children and home while husbands took care of the financial security. In that world, it feels normal to maintain the illusion of financial dependency. It's a place where I can step away from my worries about whether I am smart enough or interested enough to properly invest my IRA or whether I have enough rainy-day money set aside for when I'm laid off or fired. Because I have often confused care with cash, there have been times when, sitting in the middle of a semicircle of income tax forms, I want nothing more than to pack it all in and let someone else show me how much they love me by taking away all my financial burdens.Besides, women worry about money more than men do. A survey conducted by
magazine in conjunctionwith
Smart Money
magazine found that fully one out of every three women classified themselves as worriers, versus less than one in five men.2 Much of this has to do with our legacy as women and the fact that, for most of recorded history, we weren't allowed to have money of our own. (In many cases, we
the money.) Instead, our currency involved beauty, strength, health, and the ability to reproduce like bunnies. Because we were forbidden to own or inherit property, our path to financial security lay through men. The better we were at the womanly arts of nurturance and care, the more attractive we were. The larger our fathers' fortunes and thus our dowries, the better our chances were of survival and safety. Law and custom ensured that we had to depend on men, institutions, or families to provide for us. We did whatever we could to be safe and guarantee our children's safety. We learned to trade ourselves for cash in the most direct of ways.But in the last fifty years, all that changed. Sofia, a nurse in her midforties, remembers growing up in the 1970s in New York. "My mother was a part-time switchboard operator; my father was a bartender. I watched my mother beg my father for money as he lied about where his paycheck went. He drank and gambled, so sometimes nothing was left even the day he got paid. But as I was growing up with all this, the women's movement was going on in the background, and it informed my feelings about how I was going to be as an adult. I swore I would never be a victim like my mother. All of a sudden, there were alternatives."Any woman born after the end of World War II experienced an explosion of role models, whether or not she or her mother actively participated in the women's movement. The simple fact that women began to gain economic independence and equal status was enough to thoroughly upend the economic model that had been the norm for the middle class. Suddenly, women's lives and financial realities changed radically--but much of the rest of how we defined and valued ourselves as women did not. No revolution erased my grandmother's admonitions or my mother's stay-at-home-wife life or those brain cells of mine that at age six recorded Snow White singing, "Someday my prince will come."Reconciling roles and expectations hasn't been so easy for Claire, a tall, stunning brunette in her early thirties. She's on her third "career" (speech pathologist) and digging out from credit card debt from "career" number two (Internet writer). "I was raised not to think about money, and then there was this vicious backlash where I was supposed to generate it," Claire says with an edge in her voice. "We weren't rich or anything. I went to public schools and had to babysit and all that. But we weren't poor either. My mother stayed home and raised us. Until I was in my teens, I never saw her earn a cent. Instead, it seemed that money flowed in and out and wasn't a big issue," she remembers. "Then one day it became clear that to be a success in my parents' eyes, since I hadn't gotten married to a handsome, rich man, I had to earn a certain income. I've never felt I've measured up to theirexpectations, even though I kind of blame them for not clueing me in earlier."Claire felt a sense of betrayal when she realized she was completely unschooled in how to take care of herself financially. As a girl, she watched as her father drilled her older brother on the need to make money. "Your sisters will get married, so they will be okay," he would say to Claire's only brother. "But you're going to have to make it on your own." Claire shakes her head as she remembers this. "My sisters and I never got that message. It was assumed that someone would take care of us."When Claire was in high school, her mother started teaching. "She wasn't terribly interested in business, but she liked to shop, and she liked not having to ask my father for money," she recalls. "But really, I saw two very different approaches to money growing up." Now Claire is trying to navigate between the two roles. "It's left me with a real love/hate thing when it comes to money. I need to make a living, but part of me resents the fact that it isn't ever going to be for me like it was for my mother.""We are still at the very beginning of a huge transition in sex roles, and the result is confusion," Stephen Goldbart observes when I tell him about the women I'd talked to who, like Claire, felt both unprepared and torn between historical gender roles. "The outcome of this confusion is anxiety, identity confusion, and depression. Obsession with money can also be a symptom of the difficulty of feeling solid in one's identity. All this," he concludes, "makes it allthe more urgent for women to come to terms with their money issues."
ALL I HAVE to do is take a look at my own family tree to see how rapidly financial roles have changed. Two generations back, my maternal grandmother catapulted out of poverty by marrying my grandfather. When we were little, she would tell the story of her marriage as though it were a fairy tale. "I was a great beauty," she would tell her granddaughters (the rest of the sentence went, "too bad none of you inherited anything from me"). "Your grandfather fell in love with me at first sight." From there, the story went downhill rapidly since it turned out that, while they lived a materially comfortable life, they never really liked each other very much. But never mind, the lesson went, make yourself as beautiful and as marriageable as possible so that you have financial means.One generation ago, my mother went to college (something my grandmother never would have dreamed of for herself), married my father, found a job, but stopped working when I was born in the mid-1950s. She, like most middle-class women, expected that she'd depend on my father for money. When my grandmother took over for my mother, she taught my cousin, Ginger, and me how to cross-stitch so we could embroider our eventual husbands' pillows and hand towels. According to her script, this dubious (actually ludicrous) talent would ultimately convert intomarriage and, thus, financial security. But within fifteen years of my first sampler, I assumed something she'd never dreamed of: that I would be my husband's full and equal financial partner.That's a lot of territory to traverse in a few short decades--from financial dependency to self-sufficiency, indirection to direction. In the 1950s, the number of women who outearned their husbands was so small that the information wasn't even systematically gathered. But fifty years later, almost one in three women do and our numbers rise every year.3 We control $4 trillion in yearly consumer spending. We make 62 percent of all car purchases. We take 50 percent of all business trips. We control more than 50 percent of all personal wealth in this country.4 And we do this while shouldering the majority of family responsibilities. We've gotten caught in a time warp where our economic realities have changed faster than our expectations and identities.We may be the first generation to experience widescale economic independence, even as old behaviors die hard. We keep quiet about any pride we take in the money we earn for fear of losing not only our feminine appeal but also the relative high moral ground on which we base our sense of un-materialistic identity. It's no longer our parents who silence us. We've taken over the job ourselves. We give ourselves the mixed message that money is simultaneously vitally important and something we shouldn't show we care about. Or if we must, it should be in the service of caring for our families.The fact is that we are caught between two different identities and value systems when it comes to money. As Lois Frankel states in her book
Nice Girls Don't Get Rich,
"On the one hand, we're taught about the value of money and the need to spend and save it wisely. On the other, we're implicitly or explicitly taught that it's equally important to be kind, nurturing, and collaborative; that our real roles revolve less around money and more around relationships." 5 This double set of money instructions follows us into every situation--work, love, family--and, because of the mutually exclusive nature of these two paths, ensures that no matter what, we feel we've done something wrong with every money decision we make.Most of us go to work every day in rigid environments that were designed for and by men--ones that our presence hasn't changed all that much. It's not surprising that the making of wealth is prized in that environment since that's how men have historically judged their success. But this definition causes a real conundrum for women. In a landmark study on women's quality of life conducted by the Whirlpool Foundation, women overwhelmingly concurred that money and materialism were too important in people's lives. They felt that "materialism, greed, and selfishness increasingly dominate American life, crowding out a more meaningful set of values centered on family, responsibility and balance in their lives." While women weren't "anti" money, those studied felt it should be brought into proportion with "the nonmaterial rewards of life."6The disconnection between a material measurement of our success and a more relational, spiritual one creates a painful emotional conflict for women, one that shadows everything we do. Ask a woman about what truly defines her, and money rarely enters into the equation. But ask her about the center of her worries, and money is always present. A 1995 study by the Merck Family Fund that examined women's work/life balance issues succinctly summed up the problem: "Women are deeply ambivalent about wealth and material gain. While we decry the crass materialism of our society and its consequences, we also want 'success' for our children and ourselves. Most people express strong ambivalence ... they want to have financial security and live in material comfort, but their deepest aspirations are nonmaterial." 7Ten years later, the impact of materialism shows up on our emotions. Too much focus on the material can lead to depression, which makes sense if a good deal of our time is spent worrying about what we can and can't afford. When we think about everything we want or what we could have if we only had the money, it necessarily leaves us in a hungry state of mental deprivation. Yet we also must devote time and energy to making money and caring for ourselves financially, or dire consequences result. As we try to balance these material needs and material desires, we must constantly negotiate between these competing urges, even if we don't realize it. "Any conflict can create tension and anxiety," says Louann Brizendine, a psychiatrist and the director ofthe University of California's Women's Mood and Hormone Control Clinic. "And we all naturally want to avoid those feelings. It's no wonder we don't like to focus on something that leaves us feeling so unsettled." And, according to Brizendine, women experience depression more than twice as much as men do.
THERE'S ANOTHER ANXIETY that often stops our investigation of our relationship with money: Nothing worries us more than the fear of going broke. Anne Richards, the former governor of Texas, once said that her number one worry was ending up living in a trailer in her daughter's driveway. When I asked women about their top five nightmares, winding up a bag lady featured in almost all their scenarios, right along with not having enough money to retire safely. Yet when I asked those same women how much time they spent focused on investing for their retirements, almost all of them said either that they didn't have any money to invest or that they left the management of what they had to husbands or professionals.Here's something that keeps us up at night, that we spend most of our days trying to procure, that we don't care about for its own sake, and about which we either lie with regularity or are completely silent. And too often our response to the conflicted feelings we have is to avoid taking care of ourselves. We bury our feelings at quite a price, however. The fact is that we spend more on face cream and shoesthan we do on our retirement funds. Women routinely don't save enough to survive on when we become widows--which 50 percent of us will be by the age of sixty.8 Women still earn only 78 percent of what men earn for the same jobs,9 and only a third of us have positions that even offer retirement plans.10 And because about half of all working women take time off at some point in our work lives to care for our families, the value of what retirement funds we do have is lowered even further by these interruptions.11 Sometimes the only way to do everything on our plates is to cut back to part-time work. So it doesn't come as a great surprise that 61 percent of all part-time workers are women with little or no access to 401(k) plans.12 More than 58 percent of female baby boomers have saved less than $10,000 in a pension or 401(k) plan. 13 Between one-third and two-thirds of women now thirty-five to fifty-five years old will be impoverished by age seventy.14 The average female born between 1946 and 1964 will likely be in the workforce until she is seventy-four years old due to inadequate financial savings and pension coverage and will not have the resources to maintain the same standard of living she had prior to age sixty-five.15No wonder we get anxious about the whole subject.
LIKE THESE WOMEN, I want to know the money is there. I want to know I won't be on the street at seventy. But I have no desire to read
or follow the stock market. To sayI'm contradictory or irrational on this topic severely skirts the issue. I'm in plain old denial.These fears were my real inheritance from my grandmother. According to her, I wasn't supposed to have to worry about all this. According to her, it was my right as a woman to be cared for, or, if I wasn't, to have secretly cared for myself. But when I had to re-create my life from scratch, it became clear that I literally couldn't afford those ideas anymore. I realized that all that time, I'd been toting around more than a $20 bill in that little sack she gave me. Her very value system was pinned to my metaphoric undergarments. But I no longer had a choice about opening up that magic bag and examining the silent instructions, prejudices, and values it held.Copyright © 2006 by Liz Perle
Liz Perle
, who worked in book publishing as an editor and publisher for more than twenty years, recently joined the nonprofit world where she is the editor in chief of Common Sense Media, the nation's leading nonpartisan organization designed to help families make the best media choices for their children. She is also the author of
When Work Doesn't Work Anymore
. Perle lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children.
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What does science has to say about enlightenment or the consciousness of an enlightened individual ?
All religions speak of a non-dual consciousness state which can be experienced individually. My question is what does science has to say about enlightenment that has been experienced by Buddha and other present day enlightened individuals ? What can it say to help us in pointing towards that non-dual state of consciousness ?
I have been fortunate enough to have access to an enlightened individual. So I have been witness to how different they are. I want to know what does science have to say about the consciousness
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Minh DoMar 24 2011: In the buddhist definition, nirvana is defined by no longer experiencing suffering, no longer being reborn, seeing into the essential nature of reality (which includes seeing/experiencing all thing as impermanent, seeing things as essentially not having a self, and seeing things as ultimately unsatisfactory).
Essentially, an awakened person, through practice that leads to insight into the nature of their own minds (and reality) is no longer subject to the negative emotions that tend to govern and control our lives. In a lot of ways, it can be said that an awakened person is the king of their domain and has full control of all their actions because they see through a lot of the nonsense that makes up our daily lives. For example, an un-awakened person would get hit by a friend and react with anger, sadness or whatever. The awakened person, in the same situation might respond with compassion for the person, or with sensibility or whatever. This is because the awakened person sees the big picture (or the ultimate picture), he is not caught up in the details of why this person hit him or how or how he should react in retribution. In Chinese Zen, a term was coined as "host" and "guest"...The awakened Master is the host and the students are the guests. Because the host hosts emotions and experiences whereas the guest is controlled or conquered by emotions and experiences. The host knows the whole house and reacts accordingly. The guest only knows one room and reacts accordingly.
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Minh DoMar 25 2011: Hi Birdia, Wow. That's a broad stroke of different schools of thought and practices that I'm not sure I could answer comprehensively. But I will try my best here...
From what I have studied in Zen (Ch'an) Buddhism, they are all linked. Chinese Zen takes its roots through Indian Buddhism (Bodhidharma) and Japanese and Korean takes their roots from Chinese. In Zen, they consider the unbroken lineage of Masters as paramount. A sidenote on that though, if you check out one of my favorite books, Swampland Flowers which features talks, letters and responses from Master Ta-Hui. In the introduction they make reference to a rather famous quotation in Ch'an, that "half a man is better than no man", which means that sometimes a Master cannot find a successor that is equal in his level of realization but is enough to pass on the torch to the next generation. Having said that, there's also famous stories (specifically in Ta-Hui's case) wherein the student's realization surpasses the Masters and the Master has full acknowledgment of that (Ta-Hui's Master actually used to come down from the pulpit and sit and listen to his own student's lectures). You can make of that what you will...
My knowledge of Hinduism (philosophy and especially practice) is very limited so I'll refrain from making comparisons there, but will say that I think that the thesis that "all religions point to the same realization" may be a bit hasty, especially given the above.
If we want to look at orthodox Mahayana schools (and also evidenced in root Theravadin texts) there are certainly different levels of realization. At the root of the Mahayana awakening is compassion and the vows to stay in this world until all suffering is over (arguably never). In non-Mahayana, one only seeks to leave samsara and end suffering for oneself. The types of mental practice are certainly different and arguably lead to different mental experiences.
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Minh DoMar 25 2011: Anytime! This is certainly one of my favorite topics. And i do hope that neuroscience will take greater interest in the topic. Theres a book titled Zen and the Brain but i have yet to open it up. Now if only the mind as byproduct discussion was less cluttered we could get into some meat. Hehe. Although i have been loving some statements people have been making. Your take?
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Minh DoMar 28 2011: Birdia, I know what you mean. It seems people don't like to stick with hard facts and argue through the validity of statements. Nevertheless, one of the things I did like was Kathy K's statement that thoughts are not generated by the brain but pass through the brain. Not sure how true this is, but it is certainly provocative. But then we would have to come up with a more agreeable definition of "thought".
Apr 5 2011: I guess it would be better to say an awakened person allows emotion to pass through them, rather than allowing the emotions to run around the center of an ego or an individual identity with the transient ( body , achievements , possessions etc )
A zen master can display anger too. Just wanted to say that here.. from what you have said it would seem like all masters are compassionate, and they cannot display a "negative" emotion per say.... But would say that they donot allow emotions to affect the peace within, be it anger or compassion :)
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I work in the fashion department at FITNESS, so I'm super familiar with your line EleVen (we featured a tie dye version of this skirt in our July/Aug issue!), and think you and your team of designers are doing a great job. What inspires you when designing new looks? I really think that inspiration comes from within and that's what makes the line a little bit different. I try to design pieces that are different, fun and bright – things that are really me – but not too different because you don't want to step too far away from your roots, you know? We want the line to be relatable, so we're always looking to find a happy medium. I want people to see my clothes and say, "Wow, that's so exciting!"
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Two recently launched NASA missions won "Best of What's New" awards from Popular Science magazine. The two missions, the Space Infrared Telescope Facility and Galaxy Evolution Explorer, which both probe the far reaches of our universe, are among the winners featured in the magazine's special December issue.
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The Space Infrared Telescope Facility, launched August 25, 2003, studies the universe in infrared wavelengths, while Galaxy Evolution Explorer, launched April 28, 2003, uses ultraviolet detectors. Examining the cosmos at various wavelengths reveals different objects and phenomena. The Space Infrared Telescope Facility completed NASA's suite of Great Observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope, Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and Chandra X-ray Observatory.
The Space Infrared Telescope Facility pierces cosmic dust to study celestial objects too cool, too dust-enshrouded or too far away to be seen otherwise. It will observe galaxies, stars, and dusty discs around nearby stars, which may be "planetary construction zones."
"I'm delighted to receive this honor on behalf of our entire team, which has worked diligently to ensure the mission will gather revolutionary science data and beautiful images," said Project Manager Dave Gallagher, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Galaxy Evolution Explorer will scrutinize a million galaxies across 10 billion years of cosmic history. The data will help astronomers determine when the stars we see in our nighttime sky had their origins. The mission will help scientists understand how the Milky Way and other galaxies were formed.
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JPL manages the Space Infrared Telescope Facility mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, and conducts flight operations. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., was responsible for building the Infrared Array Camera.
The Space Infrared Telescope Facility Science Center at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, will handle all aspects of science operations, including data processing. Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Sunnyvale, Calif., is responsible for spacecraft design and development, and observatory systems engineering, integration and testing. Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation, Boulder, Colo., is responsible for the design and development of the cryo-telescope assembly and integration of the science-instrument cold assemblies into the cryostat, and is subcontractor for two science instruments.
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Is it possible for our planet to "crash" due to being a closed biological system?
After watching a wonderful video by Mike deGruy, I was very impressed by the illustrations he used regarding closed biological systems.
Please take the time to watch the TED event talk below, and chime in with your insight and/or opinion, on whether our Earth will eventually end up like the other three examples given in the video.
Some feel this is a very big problem, and offer many different solutions.
What is your take on this issue? Is it an issue? Or is the Earth able to continue producing indefinitely?
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Feb 20 2012: My answer is yes, irrespective of how you define crash, a sudden change, or otherwise. I could just point to limits to growth book, but it's basic thermodynamics. Collapse will happen once the energy flows that sustain the considerably complex human structures stop, or when the climate system driven by energy flows shifts to a new dynamic equilibrium as has done so many times in the past in our planet and in others. A subsequent question you might want to ask is the extent to which humans drive this process.
Feb 20 2012: So in your opinion "crash" is inevitable......it can just maybe be accelerated by the way we humans are acting.
Hmm.....I really find this hard to believe.....well, of course, I am no expert. But it's just what I have seen as far as the Earth's ability to come back from devastating volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, fires, and the like...
My curiosity is mostly dealing with what I saw in the deGruy video....I really do not agree with his premise...that like the three examples he gave prior to speaking of the Earth, he considered us to be a closed biological system headed for destruction because the Earth can only produce so much....Although a powerful delivery....I found it to be inaccurate.
Perhaps we will have to wait and see.
Feb 20 2012: Of course Earth is still here, with us... having come back from every single catastrophe.
Homeostasis as is referred to in the video. Us however, like the algae in the video we use the nutrients and face the odds. Increases in efficiency will only delay this, if the same consumption patterns and processes are kept in place. One caveat is the so called demographic shift where the birth rate of countries decreases as the living conditions and well being of their inhabitants increases.
Now, having said that the vast majority of people, more than 4 billion have not gone through this transition, hence their rates of multiplication are high and exacerbate the problem of resource or nutrient depletion. This places us in the following conundrum, in order to control population growth by lowering population increase rates we have to raise standards of living, and this of course requires that an unbearable burden to the planet's resources if all of us are to live like Europeans do, let alone the Americans...
Finally, contrary to the video we can use something outside the petri dish, namely solar energy instead of the closed system's nutrients.
Of course as is the case often, this is more easily said than done...so all bets are off as to how this plays out...
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Volume XV WEBER COLLEGE, OGDEN, UTAH, MARCH 19, 1952 Number 8 Pres. Dixon Urges Four-Year Status And R.O.T.C. Unit for Weber College Utah's second most populous area will "slip downhill for lack of educational opportunities," claimed President Henry A. Dixon, unless its college can be given a four-year status and an R. 0. T. C. unit. Occasion for the speech was Weber's annual "Weber Day", March 5, complete with ground breaking of the new campus and a musical revue, "This is Weber", where Dixon delivered his address in the evening. Dixon reprimanded those who were sceptical about giving Weber its four-year status because they claimed it would cost too much. As argument, President Dixon offered seven reasons why the state could afford such a college: 1. Costs per student at Weber are less than at any other state institution of higher learning. 2. Because the state appropriates money on a per student basis, it would not cost any more to educate Ogden students in Ogden rather than in Salt Lake or Logan. 3. In some respects we already have a four-year set-up in Ogden only on a more expensive basis. There are 388 Ogden students taking U.S.A.C. and U. of U. classes taught at Weber in the evening. It certainly costs more for the U. or the A.C. to operate these classes here than Weber could. 4. Ogden students must be furnished with state-financed dormitories if they have to go away to school. 5. Other savings would come through prevention of unemployment, divorce, dependency, crime and delinquency. The prevention will only come through proper education.6. It is far more sensible and economical to give candidates for military service education at home rather than wait for the government to do it at federal expense. 7. Weber's plan calls for only four year instruction in the fields of liberal arts, education, business and home economics, not in the expensive courses such as medicine, law, dentistry and engineering. Dixon believes that the Ogden area is carrying the burden of filling the state's draft quota because it has no R.O.T.C. unit to defer the eligible students while all the other centers of population have. "Ogden is being bled white" of its ambitious young men because of a lack of R.O.T.C. opportunity for continued education, said Dixon. He thinks that the students are laxing on the what's-the-use idea knowing full well they will have to go into service. Sigma's Flannel Dance Set Friday Sigma Delta Phi's Flannel Frolic will be held at the college ballroom Friday, March 21, 1952 at 9:00 p. m., a club spokesman said Tuesday. The dance will be sport with music by the Rythmaires. Admission will be one dollar per couple. Sigma spokesman said the club's handbill distribution earlier in the week gave an erroneous impression of the dance. Rather than a "compulsory" nightgown dance, the club said, the dance is to be also an informal sports dance and should rank as one of the most interesting social functions of the college year. By the cheap date they meant only the inexpensive $1.00 admission, he said. ' Former Weber Student Dies in Korean War Funeral services for former Weber student, Caroll Edvalson, killed in Korea December 9, will be at 1 :00 p. m., March 22, at the Lindquist Mortuary. Edvalson, who attended the college in 1950, was a member of the 17th U. S. Infantry regiment of the Seventh division. Weber Places High In Oregon Forensics Weber college speakers placed high in a recent forensic tournament held at McMinnville, Oregon, March 6, 7, 8, taking second place in women's debate and second in oratory. Jane Powell teamed ,up with Kay Jon Mildon to grab second in the debate competition. Miss Milden also was given second place in oratory. Dick Richards and Myron Child won four out of six debates in the men's division, and Richards reached the finals in extempt. Called the "Tournament of Champions", some 36 colleges in the West participated. Leland H. Monson attended as advisor. Social Committee Sets YC Dinner Dance Date, Mar. 28 Annual dinner dance, sponsored by the student body of Weber college, will be held Friday, March 28 at 9:00 p.m. in the college ballroom. Under the direction of the Social committee and co-chairmen Beth McFarlane and Rey Arnold, the dance will carry a "Manhattan Cafe" theme. During intermission a floor show will be presented as the featured attraction of the evening. Ben Trimble and his orchestra, currently starring at the White City Ballroom, will provide music for the evening. Heels and home will be in order, officers said. Committees have been chosen and are working on the different phases of the social, under the supervision of Mae Welling, dean of women. Corsages, boutonieres will not be in order. Admission will be $1.50 per couple. Tickets may be purchased at the student registration or from any member of the social committee. Military, What Shall I Do? The military draft has raised a veiled barrier across the educational pathway of the youth of Weber college. Complication in the law and half-truths from various agencies cause many to think they have met the barrier when they have not; disinterest and disillusionment'cause many to drop from the pathway of education when in reality the barrier can easily be pierced. Do not (1) enlist, (2) transfer into an R.O.T.C. at another school, or (3) quit school for a job without knowing the facts You won't meet the draft barrier at least until after June 30th, until you are more than 20 years old. When you are ordered to report for induction, a statutory deferment will keep you on the educational pathway until the end of the then current academic year. Thereafter, the opportunity for further deferment exists. Also, marriage and parenthood, adverse changes in physical condition 'and instances of severe hardship which arise during the period you have a student deferment will give you the right to further deferment for these additional reasons. 1. The opportunities for those who enlist are no better then for those who wait to be drafted. Furthermore, the Armed Forces agreement denying enlistment to those who 'have had their pre-induction physical' examination which goes into effect after March 31, 1952, unless postponed again, will not affect students; a student deferment erases the pre-induction physical examination that a student gets. 2. What about R.O.T.C? An Air Force R.O.T.C. will admit Weber college graduates or transfers. If you do not finish the R.O.T.C. while you are getting an A.B. degree, you will be deferred to get an advanced degree while you complete R.O.T.C. Physical fit fellows with a B average can apply for admission into Navy R.O.T.C. at the end of their freshman year at Weber college. (Continued on Page 2) "We&ef Bay" CSai " '- y 'i st I - ' ' r I j ' ' Y - if i (. iA President David O. McKay, leader of L.D.S.- Church, gives encouraging words for the future Weber college and recalls the days when he was second principal of Weber academy. Occasion was Weber Day revue, March 5, before the packed Ogden high auditorium. "Newsletter" Praises Weber College Weber college was highlyf praised on four separate counts in the February rsewsieuer oi the Northwest Junior College Association, it was learned this week Cooperation between school and community, evening school, school, reading clinic, and new campus were the items mentioned in the publication.' Citing new courses in economics, psychology, and production which the college is offering at the Clearfield Naval Supply depot, the Newsletter went on to say that "excellent cooperative relations have been developed through the years at Weber college, Ogden, under the leadership of President Henry A. Dixon. . . ." Later, following a report of night school activities throughout the Northwest, the publication quotes from President Dixon's report on Weber's evening school and says the statement "merits exact quotation because of the philosophy of community-college service which it expresses." "People are crowding into the evening school because of the offerings and opportunities afforded them," President Dixon's report said. "To some persons night school classes mean an opportunity to better their employment situations, while to others it means a chance to accumulate academic credits toward a college degree." The President continues by pointing out the hobby interest, or homemaking interests, or strictly cultural interests makes this night program "in line with the general Weber College philosophy of a community college."The recently instigated reading clinic was also reported by the Newsletter. "Students are referred to the clinic by teachers of all departments, but especially advan- n Two weeks ago today Weber college brought to a close its first Weber Day which was hailed by many as one of the most successful celebrations ever staged by the college and community. In the main address of the day President David O. McKay of the L. D. S. Church expressed his congratulations to the college and particularly to its president, Dr. II. A. Dixon. President McKay said that character building was the "prime purpose for which the college was organized." He also went on to recall the trials of the school from the time of its beginning as a high school, called Weber Stake Academy through its various stages as Weber Academy, Weber Normal Academy and finally as Weber college.On "Weber Day", March 5, classes were dismissed for the duration of the day at 11:00, at which time a student body assembly was held in the Moench auditorium under the direction of Dr. Jennings G. Olson. At this assembly Douglas Stringfel-low, Weber college class of '43, was master of ceremonies. Stringfellow introduced the other speakers on the assembly which in-, eluded President Dixon, Dr. Creer, members of the first classes at Weber Academy and charter members of the faculty. Following this a luncheon was held for the alumni in the cafeteria and was presided over by Doug Burnett, president of the Alumni Association and Maurice Richards, County Attorney. Shortly after 1:30 a parade of Weber students, faculty, and floats proceeded along Washington Blvd. The floats in this parade were made and sponsored by the different deT partments on the campus. Officials of the college said they were especially gratified over the response and cooperation received from the merchants and military installations in the vicinity. That afternoon, at 3:00, the Groundbreaking program got under way with President Dixon introducing numerous speakers. After this the crowd moved to the groundbreaking site at which President Dixon and student body prexy Fred Ball turned the first shovels full of soil to begin construction on the new campus. That evening at the "This Is Weber" program President William Critchlow of the South Ogden stake of the L. D. S. church offered the invocation. This was followed by speeches from Dixon and McKay. The musical revue which followed was directed by John O. Kelly who also was over-all director for the day. The script of the show was written by Wayne Carver and Dean Farnsvvorth of the Weber college faculty. Dick Slater presented the old spirit of Weber and Ron Ross depicted the new Weber spirit. These members of past and present eras compared the two eras and finally came to the conclusion that the attributes of Weber college had their beginnings in the first class at Weber Academy. tageous use of the clinic has been made by the instructors of basic communications." According to the report, increases in reading rate of "more than 100 or 200 per cent on the part of individual students are common." On the back page of the Newsletter a two paragraph report of developments on the new campus is given. "Current plans call for the college to occupy the new campus during the fall of 1953", the report said.
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|Signpost (Weber, Utah), 1952-03-19, Vol. 15, No. 8
|Weber College
|Associated Students of Weber College; A generous grant from the Utah State Library and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
|Weber's current student newspaper, the Signpost, first appeared on September 29, 1937. For two years prior to that time, campus news was disseminated via announcements posted on a bulletin board known as the "Signpost". As a result, the masthead of the first issue of the paper itself featured a rudimentary wooden sign with the title spelled out in rustic-looking letters. Over the years the paper has been published continuously, though the look, size and style has changed several times.
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