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I've seen many testimonies and case studies lauding the benefits of transcendental meditation. It is said that it isn't a religion and people of all religions participate in this practice. As a dedicated Christian my only concern is that partaking in this practice would violate teachings of my faith. Does transcendental meditation conflict with any Christian beliefs?
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While it's not always the most reliable source for knowledge, a quick trip to Wikipedia's article on Transcendental Meditation gets us a bit of well-referenced history on the whole Transcendental Meditation movement. Included in the article is this:
I included the above because of your statement: "It is said that it isn't a religion and people of all religions participate in this practice.", and the fact that at least part your question seems to be centering around the question of "Would participating in this be participating in another religion".
The movement absolutely had it's roots in Hinduism, so on the one hand, there is cause for scrutiny.
However, simply meditating... Is that the same as worshiping Hindu gods? I don't know that I'd be dogmatic on that. This appears to be one of those gray areas, and ultimately, this is something that you will have to decide, and it will be between you and God.
I come from a denomination that has members that believe that everything even remotely related to evil has no place in a Christian's life. Harry Potter? Satan's attempt to introduce our kids to witchcraft as harmless... Rock music? Satan's tool for stirring up anger. Dance? Satan's tool for stirring up lust.
To them, the idea of participating in Transcendental Meditation is no different than worshiping idols. Me, I'm not so sure. I personally don't see that practicing a meditation technique is the same as converting to Hinduism or worshiping their gods. The technique ma be based on Hindu teachings, but that does not mean that the technique itself is Hinduism.
This may be far-fetched, but as a comparison - suppose someone were to come up with a cure for cancer and the person who came up with the treatment did so based on teachings of a Wiccan herbalist. Would taking that cure be the same as participating in Wicca? I don't think so.
Your question also includes the following: "Does transcendental meditation conflict with any Christian beliefs?"
That is going to be next to impossible to answer, because there are a wide variety of Christian beliefs. Again, there are plenty in my denomination that would say "yes". And there would be plenty that would say "no."
The real questions here are:
Does anything in TM conflict with your Christian beliefs.
Should I participate in it?
We can't answer the first one for you at all. You should know what you believe. If you're unsure of what you believe or should believe, then I'd focus on that first. Once you know what you believe, you could study about TM yourself and keep your eye out for patently non-Christian elements. Knowing what non-Christian or even anti-Christians teach can be beneficial. At any rate, you'll need to make your own mind up on that.
As for the second question, there is precedent in Scripture, which may completely nullify my answer to the first question.
Participating in TM is very comparable to eating food sacrificed to idols in this regard. Paul is teaching that eating food sacrificed to idols in and of itself has no effect on the saved Christian. The Christian isn't worshiping the idol, and meat is meat. (1 Cor 8:4-8) Similarly simply meditating using TM isn't the same as practicing Hinduism. Meditation and relaxation techniques are just meditation/relaxation techniques.
However, reading on in 1 Cor 4: 9-13, you need to be aware that people are watching you. There may be non-Christians who are watching your actions. Maybe people you've witnessed to, and if they see you participating in TM, they may think that there's nothing at all wrong with it, either. They, unlike you , may not know what is Christian and what is not.
Another good comparison would be martial arts. I was in martial arts of varying types when I was younger. Almost all of the martial artists I hung out with fancied themselves to be Zen Buddhists to one degree or another. If they weren't quoting Bruce Lee, they were quoting Zen Buddhist sayings. Some of them went further and got sucked in completely, some were just posers. As a Christian, I feel confident that I could practice martial arts again, without getting sucked into the eastern mysticism that tends to go hand-in-hand with the martial arts culture.
TM is pretty similar. I feel pretty confident that I could sort out the mysticism, determine what is patently un-Christian (if anything), and participate with a clean conscience.
However, I know plenty of people that wouldn't be able to sort it out. non-Christians, or those that are Christians in name only (raised in a Christian home, and somehow they think this is enough). They might say "Hey, if he can do it, so can I. They could go in and get sucked in, because they don't have the background and knowledge that I have. (That isn't meant to sound as arrogant as it does. I just mean I know what I believe, and some haven't given it much thought.)
So, personally, for their sake I wouldn't participate. This is exactly what Paul was talking about in 1 Corinthians.
About meditation in general, I can recommend you Ascent to Mount Carmel by saint John of the Cross, a famous 16th century mystic. It's not an easy reading, but it's a good guidebook of Christian mysticism. Along with few things that are good to do, author warns against many dangers in spiritual life, which may seem marginal in the beginning but may lead you astray finally.
According to John of the Cross, meditation and emptying yourself from anything that isn't God is good, but there are many things that seem to be God, and these are often very hard to distinguish. 99.9% of Christian mystics need some living person to give them feedback and lead them - otherwise they would fall in some of these traps. This guide needs not to be a mystic or even a "perfect" (mystical term for "very close to God") mystic, but they need wisdom of Holy Spirit and know something about mysticism. Remaining 0,1% are hermits who are so well guided by Holy Spirit that they don't need a human guide (and of course don't need anyone to teach them how to meditate).
This is why I would be suspicious about TM or any other non-Christian meditation. About meat sacrificed to idols, knowing what you believe is enough. But emptying yourself is much more delicate and if it's hard for Christian mystics not to make some grave mistake, it's even harder outside Christian tradition. The meditation techniques may be similar or maybe even the same, but without guidance of Holy Spirit your meditations can't lead to their aim - to bigger opennes to Holy Spirit. If your guide is trained to rely on his own spiritual abilities, they can't lead you on the way of Holy Spirit. And if they are trained in some non-Christian tradition, it's very likely that you will be taught some pagan elements such as mantras invoking Hinduistic gods.
I would definitely avoid such a practice without guidance of someone capable of distinguishing what is of Holy Spirit and what is against him. This means someone full of Holy Spirit with charisma of distinguishing of spirits or at least with great experience with Christian meditation. But such people are usually capable of teaching you Christian ways of meditation, so you don't need to bother with something like TM.
Just a comment to David Stratton's note on martial arts: from martial arts you usually expect to learn to fight. From meditation you expect that it helps you spiritually. It's much easier to distinguish a martial art from spirituality behind it than to distinguish meditation from spirituality behind it.
If we were perfect, our every thought would have it's foundation in God. What I mean is, if you "dive deep" into your thoughts, or even try to "empty" yourself, God becomes everything.
Not that I have ever been able to do that very well, but the deeper you go, the more you as a Christian will find God.
So to answer your question, go for it, but your aim should be drawing close to God. But maybe then it becomes something other than transcendental meditation.
You should ask yourself these questions... Is my reason for meditation for good or for ill? Do I meditate for God or for myself? Do I replace God with meditation? Does my meditation harm my body, mind, heart, or soul? Does my meditation hinder my relationship with God or does it promote it? Do I do "Christian" meditation or only transcendental meditation (consider doing both)? Does my transcendental meditation cause me to directly sin?
As Christians, the material, buzz words, we come across while thinking about meditation will be:
Transcendental Meditation
Traditional Christian Meditation
Modern Christian Meditation
Biblical Meditation
We are taught to pray, fast and meditate, but lack basic teaching on the last. It would be helpful to list out, then, a framework to guide us in our efforts. What is good and what isn't.
Transcendental meditation is removing thoughts, emptying the mind, and calling out to God, through chanting, to touch us. The problem with this is that we don't know if it is the right way, and several cases have been reported about ill effects. Surprisingly, teachers of the technique will admit the results are unpredictable. I have personal knowledge of people requiring treatment for psychological illnesses after practicing TM.
Traditional Christian Meditation, of which John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila are the names most called to mind, as practitioners, also share the same techniques as other mystics. Their aim is to be touched by God. Their method is to remove worldly thinking and fill the mind with Scripture. The problem is that they treat the actual words of Scripture as entities with power. I'm not surprised they experience the Dark Night of the Soul, spiritual dryness, in the process. It should sound an alarm if the journey from immaturity to wisdom is progressively distressful, when God's Word is described as a Lamp unto our feet, something that brings peace and joy as the destination nears. It saddened me to learn that the longest period of alienation on record is that endured by Teresa of Calcutta, who reportedly suffered depression for nearly 50 years.
Modern Christian Meditation adopts some dubious techniques, and when I use the label "Modern Christian", I guess I am addressing the problems that writers like Foster throw up when they teach the practices that they do in books like "Celebration of Discipline". A little survey of the criticism, in articles on the Internet, he provoked should enlighten one about the grey areas he drifts into in recommending his methods. These border on being parallels to the centering and actualisation techniques taught by New Age practioners.
Biblical Meditation
Some people differentiate between studying the Bible and meditating on the Bible, but I think that the distinction is uncalled for.
Biblical meditation IS study of the Bible, carried out in conjunction with praying to God for assistance, and just as water, bread, medicinal cures and light are life giving, so also is the study of the Bible nurturing, healing and enlightening.
The Holy Spirit helps in many ways, sending direct revelation of the meaning of the text, as well as indirectly by bringing to our notice people, books, techniques and other resources varying from knowledge about competing philosophical world views to analogies from the world of art, and even technology, to open the meaning of the Scriptural material.
TM is about bieng empty ,but only sofar as to allow GOD to enter. The human EGO (E dging G od O ut)has to be diminished to allow room, so to speak.If your always thinking you cant notice 'GOD' all you notice is thoughts about GOD.A test i use to remind myself about the obsessive thinking of us humans is to aask if most people can choose not to think for a minute,or 30 secods ,or even 10, most will say ' no,oh no i can't' , that sounds out of wack to me. To be only aware of thought =lack of clear noticing of external/oneness reality. So no it's not compatible but more like a requirement,TM or some form of thought limitation even if for 2x5mins a day,critical many think , try it :).
Transcendental Meditation makes your mind empty of stress not empty of itself. When your mind is empty of stress and your nervous system is pure enough, you can experience the Christ's saying - The Kingdom of God is within you. I myself practice Transcendental Meditation for 8 years.
I checked through the posts here, but didn't see any mention of Christian Meditation as taught by John Main, a Benedictine monk. It has a worldwide following and in my city there are more than 40 groups which meet on a weekly basis: http://www.wccm.org/ It's a form of mantra meditation and is very similar to Transcendental Meditation; the main difference I think, being the mantra. I've practiced both and see no inherent danger or conflict with either. Nor do I place one above the other. In my experience, both take me to the same place when I meditate. Not to the Christian God, nor to the Hindu God, but to both or none. To the inner Divinity, call it what you will. We tend to get so hung up on our way, that we tend to be blind to the universality of all ways. So in response to the original question: "does Transcendental Meditation conflict with any Christian beliefs"? If those beliefs are understood correctly, then I would say no.
I do not believe it does at all, infact, i think that is what jesus was teaching after all. Many scriptures support meditation when in fact, all meditation means is concentration. Just because you empty your mind of thought, doesnt make you empty. In fact its very healthy. Thought alone is the main cause of mental illness. Stress, anxiety, fear, jealousy, etc are all caused by thought.. Transendental meditation is about clearing your mind of everything and finding yourself, finding god. I believe the church is more scared of what you will experience and realize, completely changing what the church has framed our minds into believing. I too have realized, being a devout christian and all, one night I hit rock bottom, I prayed with tears and passion, wanting my love for god, that passion to come back. To give me that light to strive for once again. I asked god for the truth, to show me some hope, just something to grab on to to re light my faith, and literally over night my life changed. Its been a series of events, that led me into meditation. A domino affect of still occuring events that still baffle me, even my wife supports me and is witness to the drastic change. I quit drinking over night, began my transendental meditation and a whole new world appeared to me. I still believe in god, and jesus, but my way of belief is different now from what the church has taught. In fact, there is more fact in what I have learned now that makes the bible make sense than the actual church does. Look into it for yourself, try it yourself. Do your research and be passionate, you will find exactly what your looking for and more. Its amazing. remember, prayer is talking to god, meditation is listening to him. please, dont get me wrong, im not saying the church is bad. Im just saying the answers about god that you may seek are found in meditation. God will show you who you really are, and who he is as well. You will come to find, he is not very far away at all. Hes literally a prayer away and through meditation, you will find him. just like it says in the bible, the kingdom of heaven is within each and every one of us.
No, not at all if it is centered in Christ.
Meditation is food for the spirit. Just like we feed our bodies food, we must feed our spirit God. That's all meditation really is.
So in prayer/meditation we shut out everything, we cut out the "words", mind chatter, (true meditation needs no mantra) outside influences to reach Him.
Getting involved with some group could lead to conflicts but true meditation in it's purest form will only reveal more of God's nature.
There are many forms of meditation but the fundamental and main purpose is to drop the ego and turn to your higher self, the part that is of God and Jesus ask us to do this many times, in many different ways.
For example, I went to Greece to visit the cave where Paul was imprisoned. There was an Greek Orthodox priest in the cave and he was chanting his prayers. His eyes were closed and it appeared to all of us that he was in a trance! Never seen anything like that at Church here. My point, he was doing the same thing as when you see the yogi's in India chanting.
Nevertheless, meditation can be rooted in Christ.
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In your experience, what GIS solutions provide the greatest ROI for local government's responsibilities?
Examples: Parcel management, managing CRM cases from the public, emergency response, etc.
In your experience, what GIS solutions provide the greatest ROI for local government's responsibilities?
Examples: Parcel management, managing CRM cases from the public, emergency response, etc.
For some, and perhaps most uses, the answer may be 'none'. In many cases fancy systems are being implemented, being fed with poor data, not updated, and therefore not used succesfully. Prior to thinking about a GIS solution, you should think about why maintaining data in a GIS system might add value, and at which cost (cost of maitaining the data, without considering the system). Local governements have functioned without GIS for a long time, jumping on a quickly changing technology may offer less benefits than one might initially assume.
Envista has studies showing how much money can be saved by coordinating activities of different departments. I don't want this to sound like an advertisement for them - I think other GIS solutions can also achieve similar ROI.
With the understanding that ESRI Press are vendor-driven case studies, they do have some good books and topics on this subject that you can take some value from, regardless of vendor choice. Take a look at:
All contain useful stories and studies on ROI for government/business.
You should look at your current business process and see how GIS can improve your current workflows. That being said more often than not the biggest bang for the buck in terms of GIS for Local Governments is often Enterprise Asset Management. These implementations when done correctly often provide increased efficiency, a common operational picture, and insight into how money is being spent. It also offers a great opportunity to infuse GIS within the fabric of your organization. That being said these are also very expensive projects which often is an hindrance to getting them green lighted. If this is the case focus on a single workflow that can be greatly improved by the application of GIS and use this as a test case to prove the value of GIS.
A paper at the 2011 Washington URISA Conference was presented by King County (Seattle, WA) talking about ROI in local government.
Go to their link for presentations and scroll down to Paper #23, "ROI: King County Measures the Benefits of GIS". This presentation also references a few other studies done from other agencies in the US that you might be able to find good references from.

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Is there a Jewish tradition of naming your child using the first letter of the name of a recently deceased relative?
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My understanding is that there's a tradition (particularly in Ashkenazic families) to give a child the [Hebrew/Jewish] name of a deceased relative. This carries on the memory of the relative and also, through some metaphysical mechanism, causes the good deeds of the child to enhance the standing of the relative.
This is a custom, but not a binding precept of Jewish law, so there's a great deal of flexibility available. When the relative's name is not suitable for whatever reason, some people like to fulfill something like this custom by giving the child a name that is somehow related to the relative's name or to the relative. Using the same initial first letter is one version of this, and I've also seen people using a synonym of the name or a name that describes the relative's character.
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According to Rabbi J. David Bleich (in the first class of of his Ishut series in 2010, which alas YUtorah.org does not have. Here is the first class the next year, which hopefully includes him saying that link), the value of naming after a relative is Kabbalistic. He went on to say that this Kabbalistic benefit* only takes effect if in fact the name is identical. So if I name my child Moshe because it was my grandfather's name, or Chaim because it was my other grandfather's name, some sort of benefit goes to those relatives. If I name him Moshe Chaim, no such benefit goes to either of them.
However, Rabbi Bleich thinks the value of making family happy is greater than the value of Kabbalistic benefit. So, naming with an initial, or a gender-flipped equivalent, or a translation, or such does not achieve Kabbalistic benefit. It does achieve happiness of family (presumably), and as such is of value for that reason.
*(This benefit may be to the deceased who get some form of extra credit from their namesake's mitzvot over and above the credit the relative would ge for descendant's mitzvot. Alternatively, it might be that the baby gets extra doses of good midot from the deceased (which frankly could work without Kabbalah, and merely through psychology). Or it could be both. I am not a Kabbalist.)


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I woke up not long after with a really clear picture of the dream, but went back to sleep and had almost completely forgotten everything by morning. This seems to happen a lot to me.


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My approach to tofu these days is to coat it in some kind of spice mixture before doing anything else. This is a great way to add lots of flavour to the otherwise neutral bean curd. After coating with spices you can fry it, grill it, coat it with sauce . . . whatever suits your fancy. This tofu is dipped in soymilk and coated with bread crumbs (cereal, actually) to provide some crispy crunch. I think these would have been even better with some kind of dipping sauce, so I am open to suggestions.
- 1 pkg extra firm tofu, cut into sticks
- 3/4 cup soymilk
- 1/2 tsp apple cider vinegar
- bread crumbs, or crushed cereal
Spice Mix
- 2 tsp (smoked) paprika
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp ground thyme
- 1/2 tsp ground bay leaves
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp ground pepper
- cayenne pepper to taste
1. Mix together ingredients for spice mixture in a large bowl. Add in tofu sticks and gently toss to coat.
2. Mix together soy milk and vinegar. Dip a tofu stick in mixture, then toss in bread crumbs or crushed cereal to coat. Repeat with remaining sticks.
3. From here you have two options: 1. Fry in 350 degree oil; or 2. Bake on a parchment-lined baking sheet in a 450 degree oven for 20-25 mins, turning half way through.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Crispy Cajun Tofu Sticks
My approach to tofu these days is to coat it in some kind of spice mixture before doing anything else. This is a great way to add lots of flavour to the otherwise neutral bean curd. After coating with spices you can fry it, grill it, coat it with sauce . . . whatever suits your fancy. This tofu is dipped in soymilk and coated with bread crumbs (cereal, actually) to provide some crispy crunch. I think these would have been even better with some kind of dipping sauce, so I am open to suggestions.
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- Tofu Mom (AKA Tofu-n-Sprouts) said...
So excited to try these! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the new Smoked Paprika I got a few weeks back and have been experimenting with it ever since. How did I live without the stuff???
- February 27, 2010 at 10:24 PM
- Adrien said...
Oh man- they look so good, I cannot wait to try these out! Thank you! I've been looking for something like this for so long!
- February 27, 2010 at 11:16 PM
- Claire said...
These need cocktail sauce! That is, ketchup enhanced with a little prepared horseradish (and Tabasco sauce, if you dare).
- February 28, 2010 at 12:17 AM
- Whitney Lauritsen said...
Wow, those look really good! ~ Eco-Vegan Gal
- February 28, 2010 at 5:46 AM
- Shannon said...
Maybe some vegan remoulade. I think that's what I would try. Otherwise maybe vegan aioli or, since you mentioned smoked paprika, romesco. Mmm, now I want to make these just to have an excuse to eat the sauces.
- February 28, 2010 at 6:45 AM
- Virginie Péan said...
I don't know very much Cajun Recipes. So, unfortunately, I don't have any sauce suggestions, but I'm opened to your Cajun recipes ! Thanks.
- February 28, 2010 at 7:05 AM
- kirsten said...
these look really yummy!
I think a mustard and maple syrup dipping sauce would be tasty
- February 28, 2010 at 9:59 AM
- Claire said...
Orange chili dipping sauce -
1/4 cup veganaise
2 TBSP orange marmalade
1/2 TBSP sweet chili sauce
It's a friend's recipe, it's absolutely phenomenal.
- February 28, 2010 at 10:08 AM
- Belle Dee said...
Those look yummy and easy to make! I might try these tonight.
I wanted to know: Was this tofu pressed at all to drain out the water? and What particular bread-like coating is used on the sticks in the photo? I ask because it looks like there might be some oat in there.
- February 28, 2010 at 11:48 AM
- Shirley said...
These look really good. What kind of cereal would you recommend?
- February 28, 2010 at 2:32 PM
- nothoney said...
Hi, I made your recipe tonight with bread crumbs and baked them in the oven. They are delicious with the remoulade from "Vegan Brunch." Thanks for posting!
- February 28, 2010 at 7:48 PM
- Nita said...
We made these tonight and liked them! I used a slightly different mix of spices, and served them with mango chutney. Tasted great!
- February 28, 2010 at 8:01 PM
- Jessica said...
Maybe instead of plain tofu inside, you could mash the tofu up with some spinach and maybe some spicy peppers or nutritional yeast. Then it's not so.. tofu-y, and more nutritious. As far dressing, some sort of veganized ranch dressing would be fantastic.
I'm going to make these this week!
- March 1, 2010 at 5:36 AM
- pulltaffy said...
Wow those look good! My cooking experiments are barely edible, let alone picture-worthy!
I have a question: is there a trick to getting the coating to stick to the tofu? I usually press my tofu before I do anything to it, but then if I try to put a breading on it, the coating won't stay on. Would it be better not to blot the tofu before I start?
- March 1, 2010 at 7:36 AM
- Mary said...
Oh, yum! Those look kind of like fish sticks, so maybe tartar sauce (vegenaise+pickle relish)?
- March 1, 2010 at 8:58 AM
- Whitney said...
Hi Vegan Dad! (I started to type "VD," but changed that!)
Looks great! What kind of cereal did you use -- something oaty? Or something more akin to corn flakes?
Clearly I am a novice cook who is not willing to take chances. ha!
Your blog fan,
- March 1, 2010 at 1:53 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
Any flaked cereal will do, really. I usually go for corn flakes or something, but this was some kind of multi grain thing because it was the only cereal I had lying around.
- March 1, 2010 at 2:03 PM
- Money Funk said...
I love to coat my tofu sticks in panko crumbs. Yum! This looks pretty tasty too. No sauce ideas off the top of my head.
Oh wait, how about taking soy yogurt and mixing with a chipolte pepper in adobo sauce. Spicy!
- March 2, 2010 at 11:23 AM
- Lauren said...
I am a fairly new reader... made these for dinner tonight... big hit!
Thank you!
- March 2, 2010 at 8:54 PM
- vegebon said...
Hello !
Your recipe looks so yummy and easy to do, thanks a lot for sharing it !!
As for a sauce I would go for a tomate-based one (ketchup or salsa)... which is not a very exotic suggestion, I bet you have already thought of it ^^ ! I'm sorry I'm quite a cook beginner...
I love your blog and have bookmarked you in mine :).
- March 3, 2010 at 6:37 AM
- Natalie said...
These look delicious and very easy to make. I would probably go with some fruit-based dipping sauce like mango.
- March 3, 2010 at 8:21 AM
- cowabunga said...
I had trouble getting the breading to stick, am I doing something wrong? It just slip-slided right off!
What did stick, however, was delicious. :)
- March 3, 2010 at 11:59 AM
- whatiwore said...
These look fabulous! Thanks for sharing :)
- March 3, 2010 at 12:00 PM
- The Vegan Snorkeler said...
Yum! I'm going to try these tomorrow! Thanks for posting such an easy and delicious recipe. I think I'll whip up a Vegenaise/hot sauce mixture to go with them.
- March 6, 2010 at 10:09 AM
- James said...
Sauces that work for this I've used were sweet chili sauce, thai chili sauce, honey mustard, curry dip (curry powder, pepper and veganaise) and mango chutney.
- March 8, 2010 at 9:37 AM
- Vegan Dad said...
Dipping in the soy milk then breading usually solves this problem. I have never had the breading fall off (not that this helps you at all).
- March 8, 2010 at 3:37 PM
- Karen said...
Oh. Yum. You just scored your 1495th follower! I am so excited about your recipes! Technically we're a vegetarian family. I've been vegan before and would like to do it again. My husband, however, is a cheese lover. If he has to cook for himself, it's usually with cheese.
- March 8, 2010 at 4:26 PM
- Cassie - Vegan Fox said...
Those look so delicious!
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I've seen the book Otzrot Hayyim recommended as the best first text to use when starting to learn the system of the Ari. When was this book published and where did it come from? References to Kitvei Ha-Ari in seforim usually cite Eitz Hayyim or Pri Eitz Hayyim. Wikipedia says that an additional set of books called the Shmoneh She'arim were published relatively recently, after previously circulating only in manuscript and only in Eretz Yisrael. But Otzrot Hayyim does not seem to be one of the works that made up the Shemoneh She'arim.
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The Arizal hardly ever wrote at all (however, the Cairo Geniza has recently surfaced several piyutim that he wrote while living in Egypt). Thus, his teachings come to us from the students who learned from him during his short time in Tzfat. Most of these teachings were written by his closest disciple, R. Chaim Vital. There are, however, books by other students such as Sefer HaKavanot (R. Trinko), Kanfei Yonah ( R. Menachem Azariah of Fano), and Emek HaMelech (R. Seruk).
The most important, and perhaps most complex, of R. Vital's works are the Etz Chaim books (Etz Chaim, Pri Etz Chaim, and Nof Etz Chaim books). Much of the work deals with kavanot and secrets for mitzvot, as well as laying down the foundations of Lurianic kabbalah.
The Shmoneh Shearim are the "eight gates" that are considered less complicated, often go over the Etz Chaim topics, but also range into Tanakh, Gemarah, meditation, Zohar, and reincarnation (they are Shaar Hagilgulim, Hakavanot, Hahakdamot, Hamitzvot, Hapsukim, Maamarei Rashbi, Maamarei Rashbi, and Shaar Ruach Hakodesh). They are each separate works, but generally stick to R. Vital's teachings.
Otzarot Chaim is from another category: those edited by R. Yaakov Tzemach (he was R. Meir Pepperos's student, who edited the Etz Chaim books). It incorporates other students of the Arizal besides R. Vital in framing the system of kabbalah.
The best first texts to approach the Arizal, are the Etz Chaim, Shaar Hahakdamot, and Mavo Shearim (also ed. by R. Tzemach). Etz Chaim is really the foundation of foundations on the Arizal, and according to R. Aryeh Kaplan, "for one who has mastered the contents of this work, the rest is essentially revealed." Shaar Hahakdamot repeats many of themes of Etz Chaim, as does Mavo Shearim (which does mean Introduction to the Gates). Thus, those 3 works are usually the first works studied.
One last note; the very name of kabbalah indicates that such learning need be taught by those capable and fluent in them. A reliable, smicha rabbi is called to the task for one proven to have already filled his stomach with the bread and meat of Jewish sustenance: Tanakh, Mishnah, Gemarah, Halachah, Rishonim and Achronim. B'Hatzlacha!
Otzrot Hayyim was written by Rabbi Chaim Vital Zatzal, the foremost disciple of the Arizal.
From getting more familiar with the subject, I've learned that the book Etz Chaim, the most important and most popular book of the teachings of the Ari, was put together by editors from several writings left by Rabbi Chaim Vital. One of the writings was Otzrot Chaim. Whenever in Etz Chaim a passage is marked 'mahadurah tinyana' it is from Otzrot Chaim. These passages are interspersed throughout Etz Chaim (along with passages from the other sources, which are marked 'mahadura kama' and 'mahadura batra'). So, if you have Etz Chaim, you already have Otzrot Chaim, just broken up and interspersed among passages from other sources. But Otzrot Chaim is also available as a separate book and in this form it has been recommended as a text for people first approaching the Ari's teachings because it is less complex and less discursive than Etz Chaim.


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If you're just looking for long talmudic text, there are others in Brakhot with little commentary: See Brakhot 56b, 58.
Difficult sugyas with little Talmudic text and plentiful Tosafot/Rashi are qualitatively longer (and scarier!) than the more aggadic, pshat texts. There are a few in Niddah that make you hold your breath when you first turn the page onto them: See Niddah 10a, 18, 67a.
The longest battle, imho, are the four days studying masekhet kinim.


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There is a very basic theorem for the Zariski topology.
Let X = Spec(R) and Y=Spec(R/I) for I some reduced ideal. Y obtains a topology two ways, one is the subspace topology as a subset of X and another as the spectrum of a ring. These topologies are the same by the correspondence between ideals of R containing I and ideals in R/I.
Is there a close statement to this in the etale toplogy? There are two natural ways to understand open sets on Y, those which come from etale neighborhoods of X base changed to Y and those which are etale neighborhoods of Y.
I did a computation today in a very special case and it seems that both of these topologies seem to be 'the same'.
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In "Les Trois Mousquetaires", we have a lot of sword fights. We have a dozen different people who are described as really good sword fighters. What sword schools were active during the 17th century in France? Do we still have fighting manuals from that period?
There are quite a few historic manuals linked from ARMA's page of manuals. The majority are pre-17th century, but there's a good dozen from that period.
As to schools, my understanding is that practically every fencing master would claim his/her own style.
As far as French manuals go, I know of only one from the late 16th century, entitled (deep breath):
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The title is nearly longer than the book.
Essentially, it became a bit of a gentlemanly sport by the 17th century, leading to the development of the foil, and modern fencing is largely derived from the French school of sword work. Unfortunately, having done no fencing since high school, this is all I can recall.


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Hehe, I didn't either. It really probably would help, given the heavily CPU-bound nature of the benchmark. People with 7950s (!) and LGA2011 are beating me on another forum. Curious to see how an FX would do!Savyg wrote:(Didn't close out any of my apps, but I wouldn't when running the game either so there's that.)
Really? I would have expected better. I wonder if it's that old Nehalem processor holding you back? ┐(´∀`)┌2x4 wrote:all maxed out at 1920x1200 - 5935
Savyg wrote:What boggled my mind was that the game had more files than win7 and the 30 other games on my hard drive put together
Hehehe. Mine's overclocked to 1202Mhz, too. CPU's faster, too.JustAnEngineer wrote:72.7% of the Titan's score at 28.8% of the price.
Yah, I meant mine. I've got a 1Ghz clock rate advantage on you, and a small process advantage too (IVB vs. SNB). Hehe.JustAnEngineer wrote:My Core i7-2600K is bone stock (3.4 GHz).
DX9/DX11 has very little to do with the MT-friendliness of the game. If the game wasn't pretty multi-threaded, there's no way people with 3930Ks would be beating me!Savyg wrote:The game is still directx 9, it's very likely to focus on one core for graphics work. If they actually upgrade the engine to dx11 it should be a lot better balanced.
But if they haven't yet for ARR I'm not expecting anything before next year.
auxy wrote:DX9/DX11 has very little to do with the MT-friendliness of the game. If the game wasn't pretty multi-threaded, there's no way people with 3930Ks would be beating me!
Well, I guess, unless their CPU clock were a lot higher than mine. I suppose a lot of those guys with 3930Ks and 3960X probably have exotic custom watercooler loops going. Hehe.
Well, the game looked this good 2 years ago when I played in the closed beta for the original FFXIV release. The game looks fantastic; that was never its problem!credible wrote:If the game looks anything like this benchmark I will play it for the visuals alone
I'm curious too. ¦3c Particularly given that this is a PS3 and/or possibly PS4 (?) title, the results could be interesting.jihadjoe wrote:Anyone with more than 4 cores care to post a task manager screenshot as the bench is running?
Curious to know how well threaded this is.
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Think back on the coolest LEGO creation you ever made when you were a kid. Maybe it was a tower, or a colorful White House, or a robot that broke the second you tried to make it move. If you were lucky, you got your hands on a LEGO Star Wars kit so you could make a decent looking TIE fighter or something. Our point is, whatever your proudest LEGO creation was, it's going to look like a crap mountain compared to ...
#7. A V-8 Engine (That Runs)
OK, that looks like it would be a pain in the ass to make even if it was just intended to look like a V-8 engine made out of LEGOs. But this sucker has all the moving parts, including pistons and a drive train, and clocks an impressive 1,500 rpms. Watch it in action, it's insane:
You can make one yourself, if you like -- all you need is about $400 and to devote about an hour a night to the project for, oh, the next year or so.
He's working on a Maserati, but the LEGO airbags present a real challenge.
This is the work of Dutch LEGO nut Barry Bosman, and all it took was 2,862 parts, 300 hours, and far too much patience for a regular human. Oh, and it runs on air, if you were wondering how you combust gasoline in something like that without it exploding into a mass of molten plastic.
Bosman made it so he would have something to take to LEGO events, and we are assuming the people who attend these things are suitably impressed. But maybe not, considering that they may also see ...
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Arthur Sacek
Which of course means using them for dicks and bongs.
A guy named Arthur Sacek built this one that can carve a block of floral foam into a perfect real-world representation of a model. And the only non-LEGO piece of the machine is a small drill bit that meticulously grinds away at the foam, fleck by fleck, in order to reveal the chiseled visage hidden below. If he's lucky, Arthur ends up with a bas-relief head or another cool design. If he's unlucky, he adds the creation to the pile of dicks the LEGO printer already arbitrarily printed.
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"Yes, The Empire Strikes Back is my favorite movie. Why do you ask?"
Arthur's 2.0 printer effort has a badass robot-handed lathe that carves foam in full 3D. So instead of three different motors working like slaves to produce a picture, Arthur's got a rotating pig spit that holds the foam as the drill carves away. We're not sure what's scarier -- the idea that Sacek is clearly paving the way for a LEGO version of that laser that sucked Jeff Bridges into Tron World, or that the resulting sculptures look like animated Disney heroes.
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Sadly, no amount of LEGO craftsmanship can make that haircut look good.
#5. Massive Automated Assembly Lines
So already you can see that while you weren't paying attention, the LEGO scene got downright serious. Which brings us to LEGO Mindstorms.
This is a joint LEGO/MIT project that put programmable software and LEGO robots in the hands of kids who may never know the simple joy of making a cross out of two long bricks and telling everyone it's an airplane. And while our idea of "LEGO Wars" meant throwing tiny bricks at each other from behind our blanket forts, today kids all over the world are competing against each other in LEGO robot competitions.
So what sort of things do they come up with? How about rows of cold automatons that will surely take our jobs one day? Look at this shit:
That is an assembly line that automatically sorts LEGOs and is itself made of LEGOs. That's the creation of Chris Shepard, and it uses light and color sensors to know when different colored LEGOs come onto the belt, which puts his robots ahead of toddlers in the smarts department. The four arms move in three directions, driven by air and OCD to sort the blocks into their proper bins.
A task so difficult that no human child has ever done it correctly.
And they only get more sophisticated from there. Here's another LEGO sorting factory commissioned by a company to demonstrate their manufacturing system. It sorts by size, color, and shape, and once a container is full, it is taken away and replaced with an empty one. It's like an industrial metaphor for reincarnation, which is probably what they were intending all along.
We're guessing asshole LEGOs get reincarnated as one of those shitty neon circle pieces.
But probably our favorite has to be this one, which uses about 7,000 separate LEGO pieces to fold and launch paper airplanes.
We must have one of those. We must.
#4. Functional Roller Coasters
Once again, if somebody just made that track out of LEGO and nothing else, we would declare them a genius, or at the very least, unemployed. When LEGO enthusiasts like Adam Tucker make fully working model roller coasters, all we can do is stare in awe:
For authenticity, the bottom has a wiener LEGO guy waiting for his friends
after wussing out halfway in line. His name is Craig.
The best part about Tucker's ride is that it never ends. The carts are on an infinite loop of awesome or awful, depending on how you feel about imagining yourself on a never-ending roller coaster.
"The hard part was engineering LEGO-scale vomit."
Another LEGO fan wasn't content to let tiny invisible people enjoy roller coasters without the rigmarole that accompanies going to an amusement park, so when he built his LEGO ride, he added the crap the rest of us have to put up with: turnstiles, lines, stairs, and itty bitty acne-scarred roller coaster operators who make you wonder if this was the best way to spend $50 and a day off.
On the plus side, everyone is exactly tall enough for this ride.
All the fake waiting pays off, because the fake LEGO patrons (who coincidentally look like the Village People) get to experience an inverted roller coaster with a corkscrew and a loop. It's more impressive when you realize that this is all one guy's design, not a kit or a deity or a wizard who magicked up tiny roller coaster realms to lord over.
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For example, I issue the following command:
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CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 1 2 3 8 9 10 11
CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
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Windows to the Universe Partnership Application Form
Please complete the form below, providing your contact information, information about your academic background, your interests in partnering with Windows to the Universe and NESTA, and your education and outreach experience, if any. Please click "Submit" when you are done. We will respond to you within a couple of business days