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Heaven Cracks, Earth Shakes: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Death of Mao's Chinaby James Palmer
When an earthquake of historic magnitude leveled the industrial city of Tangshan in the summer of 1976, killing more than a half-million people, China was already gripped by widespread social unrest. As Mao lay on his deathbed, the public mourned the death of popular premier Zhou Enlai. Anger toward the powerful Communist Party officials in the Gang of Four, which had tried to suppress grieving for Zhou, was already potent; when the government failed to respond swiftly to the Tangshan disaster, popular resistance to the Cultural Revolution reached a boiling point.
In Heaven Cracks, Earth Shakes, acclaimed historian James Palmer tells the startling story of the most tumultuous year in modern Chinese history, when Mao perished, a city crumbled, and a new China was born.
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"This material is irresistible, and British journalist James Palmer does a good job with it.... Outside the cyclone of brutality, Palmer offers a good description of what it was like to live in Maoist China."
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"The Chinese have many sayings about heaven and earth, and the relationship between divine and mundane order. One of them is encapsulated in the title that Palmer, a perceptive British writer living in Beijing, gives his study of 1976 China, the year the bloody chaos of the Cultural Revolution finally ended.... In his epilogue, Palmer nicely captures just how far China has come over the last 35 years."
Wall Street Journal
"Mr. Palmer takes us through these events with skillful ease, weaving history, politics and geophysics into a complete narrative."
Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"A devastating temblor is the least of the shocks in this vivid history of a pivotal year in China?s journey from communism.... Palmer gives readers a lucid, canny portrait, filled with telling details, of a society tamped down by repression, regimentation, and drab poverty, but seething with antiauthoritarian rage. His is one of the most illuminating studies of this little understood period, and of the crucible from which modern China emerged."
Frank Dikotter, The Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year 2011
"I devoured James Palmer?s mesmerizing book on the end of Mao?s reign in one sitting."
"Palmer eloquently portrays an era and a regime in its death throes as a transformed, modern China begins to emerge."
Christian Science Monitor
"The story of the 1976 earthquake, which destroyed the city of Tangshan and killed hundreds of thousands of Chinese, coincides with the tumultuous final decade of Mao?s reign. British historian James Palmer?s account of events not only re-creates China in the 1970s in vivid detail but also sheds light on the China of today."
Christian Science Monitor
"The China Palmer describes has eerie echoes of North Korea: a scary realm where entertainment ? in any form ? was nearly non-existent and the memory of hunger was never far away. Palmer gives texture to his story by sprinkling his account with glimpses of ordinary Chinese and their lives.... His quick, highly readable account of a pivotal moment in China?s recent past makes good reading for all hoping to better understand the global giant?s present and future."
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"A stunning work of journalism and history, written with a mesmerizing clarity."
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"James Palmer?s account is as dispassionate as it is detailed; his subject matter is so bizarre that he can let it speak for itself..... Palmer?s book is a timely reminder of the supreme horror of the alternative that could so easily have been."
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"Palmer...has written a gripping narrative of this period that showed the upheaval brought about during one year and launched China to become the country it is today. Thoroughly documented and accessible, this is political reporting that provides a better understanding of China and its people."
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"For all the magnitude of that tragedy [the earthquake], the more gripping story here concerns the plotting in Zhongnanhai, the palace complexes attached to the Forbidden City, where the party elite lived."
Winnipeg Free Press
"In this superb account of recent Chinese history, British author James Palmer, a Beijing resident, paints a disturbing picture of the country a few years before its economic boom began in the early 1980s.... Heaven Cracks, Earth Shakes is full of fascinating and disturbing stories about an especially dark time in Chinese history. It is well worth reading for anyone with even a passing interest in the Asian powerhouse."
The Guardian
"James Palmer?s book weaves together these two narratives of natural disaster and elite political intrigue to provide a lucid account of one of the eeriest moments in modern Chinese history.... Palmer?s account is written in enviably elegant prose. The narrative never flags and its judgments are humane and nuanced.... This account of the links between natural disaster and elite politics in China is a fine work of history. But its real relevance may be that it shows how much has changed in China, and yet how little, since 1976."
Colin Thubron
"China?s year of death and resurrection was never described with more lucid understanding or to more forceful effect. A mesmerizing book."
Alan Paul, author of Big in China
"James Palmer understands China, and in this fascinating, gripping book, he shows how the natural disaster of an earthquake helped end the unnatural disaster of the Cultural Revolution."
Frank Dikotter, author of Mao?s Great Famine
"This is a terrific book, gripping yet humane, and essential reading for anybody wishing to understand how Mao?s reign came to an end."
Isabel Hilton, editor, chinadialogue
"James Palmer has written an incisive and gripping account of one of the most dramatic moments in recent Chinese history: political intrigue and natural disaster in the closing days of Maoism."
Kirkus Reviews
"A compressed, fast-moving survey of the waning rule of Mao Zedong, precipitated by the horrendous Tangshan earthquake of 1976. Beijing-based author Palmer efficiently lays out the devastation wrought by 10 years of the Cultural Revolution, and how over the space of a few months the Chinese people managed to rebound and move forward.... A riveting précis of the fatal weaknesses in Mao?s dictatorship."
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French presidential frontrunner Francois Hollande says he will raise taxes on banks, big firms and the rich to help him wipe out the public deficit while pumping more funds into education and state-aided job creation if he wins power in May.
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It's time for Tuesday to be just another day
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March 1, 2017
Farewell to a friend
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February 14, 2017
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February 2, 2017
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January 25, 2017
Notes from the dockside: really cold
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December 25, 2016
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...but if we did, we'd extend mad props to one JL Watkins, aka Lost Little Robot - who picked up three (3!) more Emmy's this weekend for his madcap work as photog /tech geek impresario way down there in the Upstate. Not bad for a nerd from the great Northwest.
...We'd also like to dip our lens in the general direction of Winston-Salem, where one Jon Lowder tries his hand at cameratology and gets a bad case of the shakes. In Lenslinger I Ain't, the otherwise respectable family man laments his lack of acumen and credits me with being far better than I am.
...Lastly, there's a loyal reader and casual acquaintance I must acknowledge, because he insists on acknowledging me. I don't know Charlie Layno well, but the El Ocho engineer seems to read my thoughts daily and he isn't even afraid to admit it. Thanks, Charlie. Remind me to break something in your honor very soon.
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Thanks for the non-shout-out. I feel myself being slowly, but surely, being lured into multimedia. God help me.
Also thanks for picking my favorite self-portrait. There's a reason that if I do anything it will be behind the camera.
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The author of your letter of Feb. 17 has written a thinly veiled call to a vegan diet.
Using Lent as a smokescreen, she cleverly insinuates that animal torture is widespread without sinking to use the term "mule skinner."
Is it cruel to ride a donkey? Who rode donkeys (asses) in the Bible?
Today I saw a TV ad from a group wanting to defend such attacks against farmers and farming. I cannot see a stampede — no pun intended — toward a vegan diet or the general use of phony manufactured fake supermarket meats and phony veggies.
Author's note: The following three premises are essential to this column: 1) None of us see the past or present with absolute clarity; 2) Each of us has the capacity for glimpses of informed insight that draw from and reflect our personal values; and 3) Cordial, forthright exchange of those insights enhances our mutual well being.
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Author's note: The following three premises are essential to this column: 1) None of us see the past or present with absolute clarity; 2) Each of us has the capacity for glimpses of informed insight that draw from and reflect our personal values; and 3) Cordial, forthright exchange of those insights enhances our mutual well being.
The Harriman City Council is considering forking over $10,000 for computer tablets to get electronic versions of agendas and other documents involving city business. (See story in today's Roane County News)
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There have been encouraging signs on Capitol Hill of late that Congress's long slide into irrelevance may be slowing.
Agreements on Medicare reimbursements in both houses, and on Iran, No Child Left Behind, Pacific trade and other issues in various committees this spring led to a chorus of relieved approval both in Washington and in the press.
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A robust, inquisitive congressional oversight process should be capable of revealing what is too often hidden, but it's not. We need journalists to do it.
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The question usually comes toward the end of a public meeting. Some knotty problem is being discussed, and someone in the audience will raise his or her hand and ask, "OK, so what can I do about it?"
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So the Browns have two first-round picks – their own selection (fourth overall) and the Colts' pick (26th overall). On Sept. 18, they traded Richardson, an underachiever thus far who was picked third overall in 2012, to the Colts in exchange for their 2014 first-round choice.
It seems premature to predict which prospect the Browns will target with their top pick because the team is still searching for a head coach after firing Rob Chudzinski Dec. 29. However, it's a safe bet it'll be a quarterback, and several national writers have linked Texas A&M's Johnny Manziel to the Browns because the front office supposedly loves him. Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports reported Saturday that the Browns are "very high" on Manziel. Draft analysts widely consider Louisville's Teddy Bridgewater and Central Florida's Blake Bortles the other top-rated quarterbacks in this year's class.
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Types of conflict ! By: Erin Kollath
Character vs. society
This happens when a person or group is vs. the community.
Example: In Middle school the worst years of my life its Rafe vs. the whole school. Also in that book its Rafe vs. the community in his town.
Character vs. Nature
In the book the lion the witch and the wardrobe its the family of kids vs. the nature of the forest like the animals and the trees.
In the book Geronimo Stiltion its Geronimo vs. the dragons and the rainbow dragon helps Geronimo.
In the same book it's Geronimo vs. the storm and the weather when he was going to the kingdom of fantasy. The definition of character vs.
nature is a characters vs. the weather or
nature of something living.
Character vs. character
This type of conflict happens when two different characters do not agree and then that makes a character vs. character conflict.
Example: In Number of the Stars: Its Papa vs. the solider he said Ellen is part of his family and she is Lise.
In My Brother is a Big Fat Liar its Rafe vs. the teacher. In 11 Birthdays in the begining its Leo vs. Amanda because of there birthdays. And in
Chrissa its her vs. the bully.
Character vs. Self
In my brother is a big fat liar its Georgia vs. the whole school. This also happened in the book Geronimo Stiltion but instead of Georgia it's Geronimo.
These are some examples of character vs. society books.
Character vs. self is a character vs. his/hers emotions or feelings.
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Illinois Gov. Signs Ephedra BanMay 26, 2003 | AP
As he signed the nation's first statewide ban on ephedra, Gov. Rod Blagojevich urged other states and the federal government to adopt similar bans.
Blagojevich was joined by the parents of a teenager who died of a heart attack last fall after using ephedra. The diet supplement has been blamed for nearly 120 deaths.
"It's a good first step but it's not enough," Blagojevich said of the signing Sunday.
Ephedra drew national attention after officials investigating the February heat stroke death of Baltimore Orioles pitching prospect Steve Bechler linked it to a diet pill containing ephedrine, ephedra's active ingredient.
The herbal supplement is sometimes marketed as an athletic performance enhancer.
The drive for a ban in Illinois began last September with the death of 16-year-old Sean Riggins of Lincoln, whose father said he was taking the supplement to help make the first-string football team.
"We have to make sure that (young athletes) can no longer go to the store and buy ephedra as easily as they can chewing gum," Blagojevich said. The ban took effect immediately.
Riggins' parents, Debbie and Kevin Riggins, are working with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, in seeking a nationwide ban from the Food and Drug Administration.
"With the signing of this bill today, we are the benchmark," Kevin Riggins said.
Earlier this month, nutritional supplement retailer General Nutrition Centers said it would stop selling products containing ephedra. Florida Gov. Jeb Bush signed a law last week banning the sale of all diet supplements to children under 18.
The American Heart Association has urged a ban on ephedra sales, and the NFL, NCAA and International Olympic Committee have banned its use by athletes. The National Football League banned ephedra after the 2001 training camp heat stroke death of Minnesota Vikings offensive tackle Korey Stringer.
State Sen. Barack Obama, D-Chicago, the ban's senate sponsor, thanked the Riggins family for pushing the bill.
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Dear highlights reader, the list continues very busy, with more new posters almost
every day. These are not the highlights, they are just a semi-random selection of
posts that appealed to your faithful editor, who is mostly just struggling to keep up
with just reading all the posts.
Tim Jane:
thanks Harsha fo the opportunity to respond:
"Harsha" wrote:
> The radical perspective that Oneness permeates all reality and IsThe Reality cannot be fully embraced unless one is ripe for it. It is
not enough to say intellectually that I am god.
> Satsangha and spiritual practice set the context to Recognize whatOne Already Is.
I agree. And this body-mind-system often wants to deny the
understanding because of fear of standing naked, the fear of being
shamed or at least being touched at old shame-points. So there was a
long period of hiding.
What "practice" do you recommend in this case? What is you path?
> Most religions and traditions speak of practices and behavior thatare
> supportive of spiritual aspirations and enlightenment or Self-Realization.
> The seeking of and abidance in the "I AM" awareness indicates thedeepest
> longing of the Soul to be in Communion with IT Self.An
> To Recognize the Self, the mind needs to become peaceful and calm.
> agitated mind gets in its own way.the mind
> Right Vision, Right Conduct, and Right Practice are conducive to
> subsiding in the Self. The mind becomes peaceful when we learn tonever
> distinguish between that which is ever-changing and That which is
> changing.Translated this into my concept there is just pure being (never
changing), formless, all and unlimitted. And this awareness is in
everyform, becoming consiousness, and here it is (ever-changing)
experiencing the limits.
I myself found AVATAR as a practical tool very helful to operate with
the "agitated mind" which you say "gets in its own way."
Than what is "right vision, right conduct, and right practice" ?
Where is "right" coming from? It is a word from the "ever-changing"
part, isn`t it. And in this where is the reference-point from
where "I" state "right" and "not-right"?
When there is nothing beyond this, everything in the "ever-changing"
is just the same than the "never-changing!"
Ma words fail right now, to make my point clear.
How do you decide what is "right"? Please Harsha, I want to
>do not
> When we truly learn the difference between the Real and Unreal we
What is the difference? Is pain in the world of phenomenon "unreal"?
Why this duality?
> cling because we know it is not possible to possess anything oranyone and
> it is not possible for anyone or anything to possess us. That iswisdom.
> Wisdom is detachment. Detachment does not mean leaving people orgoing away
> from family and friends. It is simply coming to andyour nature.
> abiding in your Self while you carry on activities compelled by
> No one can give up action as compelled by their nature (karmas).nonviolence
> Right conduct is that conduct which is colored by the feeling of
> and amity towards other living beings. It helps to dissolve fear,anger, and
> guilt and makes the mind suitable for higher meditation. Rightpractice is
> that spiritual practice which reveals the nature of the Self.Sounds very clear to me, at the same time who decides which spiriual
> Love to all
> Harsha
practice "reveals the nature of the Self"?
I ask these questions because I want to know from where you make
these points.
Thank you for sharing!
Jutta H.M.
Right is that which minimizes the violence in one's life. In Yoga, Ahimsa is
the first principle.
Ramana Maharshi used to say that for a Yogi, Ahimsa Param Dharma -
Nonviolence is the First Principle.
All other higher principles for living are derived from it.
You further asked Jutta: What is the difference? Is pain in the world of
phenomenon "unreal"?
Why this duality?
I say that it is for you to decide Jutta whether the pain and the suffering
is real. If it is not real for you, then the question is moot.
You also say Jutta: Sounds very clear to me, at the same time who decides
which spiriual
practice "reveals the nature of the Self"?
I say my dearest Jutta, Self Reveals It Self to It Self. Therefore, Sages
say follow any spiritual practice in the context of Ahimsa that appeals to
you with amity for all.
Love to all
Dear Hans,
what a touching topic!
You write:
> What is this passion for the Self if one cannot express it!A billion times Yes !
And for me, experienced through "Piet Hamburg" (sharing this PC with
my wife Jutta), it feels that the passion for the Self, the singing,
the dancing, the fire, kept waiting patiently impatiently all the
times when I did not remember to remember ...
Does such a passion grow and become stronger over years and years not
only by learning to express it, but especially through the opposite,
through the suffering of it's shameful denial?
It seems so for this being!
I was also very touched by what Pou wrote,
and more so, when I read from his words:
> >" It is my own personal belief system after having worked for manyneurosis that unless we sing and dance everyday and praise God, and
> years in the field of shame and addiction and certain aspects of
have the ability to praise God when and where the feeling arises for
us in our unique individual way, that fear and separation,
righteousness will be the expression of the day. "
It feels very much, that it is important, not only that I become more
and more aware of what the beliefs are, that I experience and act
through, but also that I keep learning to express on a daily base
(with no clever exuses) - just by keeping listening, when the feeling
arises for me ...
Remembering death can come any moment, the ability to express and
share and sing and shout and radiate is so precious!
Dear Sarlo
There are no more life times..even this life time is not yours.. why? you
know the answer to that one
You are the Master... dreaming you're a disciple... it's a lovely day
for a day dreammmm...
And hey... what's wrong with dreaming.. this whole thing is a dream play
Yeh.. and I'm dreaming I'm Pou.. only this is not a dream... this is a
Dear all,
My name is Melissa
I live in the 'hood' with Pou and I use his computer.
The work in 'Consciouness scene', satsang, enlightenment, enlovement.
Self-enlovement-realisation - is a pretty incestuous scene here in
Europe. In other words there are a lot of people but doesn't appear
to be a hell of a lot in the Satsang scene, do you know what I mean?
Most of the teachers here are coming from America. Anyway, I'm just
writing to let you know I'm here, to warn you I'm a blonde, so my
responses to your letters in future might be more enlightened than
rest of you because I believe everyone is more enlightened than
everyone else and I'm a strong believer in doing more with less!
Dear Sarlo,
I love your honesty, I really do.
What kicked me, I was sitting in front of my teacher and he asked
that question "Where is this I?".
It was very clear, I will never find one.
All the masters always said, we are dreaming of an I. What does that
My be it is so simple as it sounds? No big deal?
There is no fucking I! It was always true. But I can decide to dream
of one always.
Because each God, master, enlightenment appear as a thought on my
The real problem I have is hearing about this great states of
awakening. Endless bliss, no suffering, because no identification...
all that stuff...
I suffer, I do have all feelings, I feel separate.... but whenever I
look for the I that created I can't find one. On a very practical
level, nothing spiritual about.
No long bearts required, no meditation, no endless love...just
experiencing without "I".
What fascinates me more at the moment, how did I create the dream of
having one? It is quiet an effort!
The difficult point here, now the work starts. All the projections
(Hitler is bad, not me, Richard Gere is smart, not me....) are
obviously not valid. For me that is a shock, again and again.
I believe to avoid this shock is the only reason to postpone
awakening. To avoid the responsibility that occurs.
Oh shit it's work..
So please wake up and help me!
Dear Judi
What does GRACE really mean? I am trying to understand.
I would describe it as ...
...that what IS when I am not
...abscence of everything
...that what I am (?)
...that what happens when I am not
...gift (?)
...spontaneous understanding (as a result of grace)
...the gap in duality experienced within duality
Isn't everything happening out of grace? The child that is hit by a
car as well as the monk having a great realization?
Lots of Love
Blessed be, Tamara:
That "there is no absolute truth"
is not absolutely true.
The only thing that penetrates
everything is everything else.
Nonduality can't be expressed
either in duality or nonduality.
There is only truth.
Anything said about it is a lie.
Dear Tamara,
A perspective:
There is no 'whole' - merely
'edgelessness'. A whole requires
a boundary.
To be unmoving is to empty from that
which being bounded can move, which is simply to
be aware of boundary as self-construction.
The human being as bounded entity,
wanting and needing, moves
in the sense of having a motive to "get",
and is therefore emptied.
To want to be loved is to want to get something.
When there is nothing to get, edglessness is.
Edgelessness is not the dissolution or terminating
of being human, nor is it the ending of
love. It is to fully die *as* being human.
It is the opening in which human being is fulfilled,
and in which love opens as "universe".
Aware that a perspective is a view, and a view
is a bounded reality.
May I come in?
Speak to me lord of what is true and what is not
Truth is the beforemoment that is perceived never
known. It is seen as a marker in the daily round, a
sign that tells you, confirms to that which is a seed
and indicates to it that it can come out now, express
itself, say hello, live .......
Love emerges and with it the thousand things - guilt,
fantasy, the mind to mention just a snippet.
And in that love, the turning wheel, identity arising,
rigidity and finally death and rebirth - expansion and
contraction in a narrow waveband - on and on and on
and on and
blink - the truth - and the seed gets the sign,
cracks, and a new birth and......?
Love to you and your friends
Dear Jerry,
I hold the belief that "we are not human beings having spiritual experience,
we are spiritual beings having human experience."
I welcome discussions on your website about this human experience and, as a
white South African, I was interested to hear some German views about the
holocaust and shame. I grew up in South Africa while the holocaust of
apartheid was in full swing. As a child I learned to cut off my love from
black people and to treat them with disdain. I feel the shame of this now.
I also know that I am still pretty cut off and that there is plenty more to
be felt. Spiritual life seems to demand that denied aspects of myself, such
as my racism, my coldness and lack of love, come up to be fully felt,
blessed and integrated. It is hard work!
Thank you and love from
Betty Barlow
Hello, Betty. Thank you for your confession. It feels
healthy to hear it, as though a bad wound is receiving
needed air.
By keeping the main door to NDS always open, which is what
we've always worked at, it sends a signal to keep all kinds
of doors open.
If a person hangs around her long enough they'll hear knocks
on doors they never knew existed!
It can be a challenge to listen to those knocks and walk
toward that door.
Hi Alex and mazu,
Welcome to NDS! Very interesting topic, enlightened function and
contemporary teaching!
Let me chime a bit about this stuff. The term "enlightened function" is
more a Buddhist than an advaita term. A very good example of enlightened
function in everyday life (not necessarily in teaching circumstances) is
the final picture in Ox-Herding Pictures from Zen. Have you seen the
Ox-Herding pictures? They are a pictorial parable of the process towards
enlightenment. The ox represents the afflictions, the mind, ignorance,
craving and aversions. The ox-herder represents the process of taming the
mind, and is often interpreted as the person or the practitioner himself.
The ox-herder is in the wild wilderness, he must find the ox, set about
taming it, getting it supple and controllable, etc. Some books tell the
story in 6 pictures, some give 10.
In any case, in one of the latter pictures in the set, the ox-herder has a
moment of satori, signified by the famous Zen circular brush-stroke. But
funny enough, it is not the *last* picture! After satori, the world comes
back, and then in the very last frame of the set of pictures, the ox-herder
is seen returning to the marketplace with the supple and pliant and
responsive ox.
This is a parable for the enlightened function, which is most often
described as transparently responding to conditions. If a loud voice is
required, a loud voice appears, if a soft voice is required, a soft voice
appears. It includes functioning in the absence of personal prejudices and
tendencies. To put it very down to earth, it's like one not having
personal baggage or agendas, so that one is totally avaliable to be, to do,
to serve others according to *their* needs at the moment. That's regular
Then, in the arena of teaching spiritual things, enlightened function
describes "upaya," or how skillful and expedient means appear. When
expedient means appear in a teaching context, then questions and problems
are met with the teaching response that will be best for that particular
questioner. The Buddha is said to have been supreme at teaching with
skillful means. In teaching the Dharma, if the aspirant he was talking to
needed emphasis on ethics, the Buddha would emphasize ethics, if the
aspirant needed meditation, then the Buddha would emphasize ethics. If the
student had nihilistic tendencies, the Buddha would emphasize teachings of
the self. If the student had tendencies to grasp onto phenomena as though
phenomena had independent inherent existence, then the Buddha would
emphasize emptiness and dependent arising. If the person needed simple
human kindness, then just that would appear. Etc.
I think mazu might agree here!, that in modern spiritual teachings with the
guru/disciple model, the notion of enlightened function (usually not called
that same thing) is part of the package that the satsang attendee inherits.
Many students come to idealize the teacher, attributing the perfections of
absolute consciousness to the man or woman sitting up in front of the room.
The answers to the satsang questions are thought to issue directly from
Consciousness Itself! This idealization is in the air, the long-timers in
that satsang social context might believe these things and repeat them.
And it comes partly from bhakti yoga, where the aspirant's chosen object of
devotion is that teacher herself. Then, if/when anything untoward or
immoral or seemingly unenlightened is done by the teacher, this set up
great tensions and cognitive dissonance in the student. Some teachers
purposefully play on this, saying that their own (i.e., the teacher's)
promiscuity or abuse itself is an expedient means!
I agree with something I think mazu said in a previous post that teachers
are not part of a teaching tradition. They might claim a lineage and say
they have nothing to teach, no students, not a teacher, etc. The attendees
are led to believe that the sayings of the teacher are mysterious uncaused
oracular nuggets of truth coming right from the Self. But in private, many
of these same (non)teachers say very, very different things, and there's
lots and lots of investment in the role of teacher! Envy about the size of
other teachers' sanghas, their satsang gigs around the world, media
coverage, and lots more!
Welcome to both of you!
Pansy Todd:
Dear Mazu and Nonduality Salon members,
a friend sent me your letter on the concept of nonduality being used as a
way to hide.On the basis of your letter I join the the Nonduality Salon.
My first experience of non duality was with an Advaita teacher,but then I
"lost it" and was disappointed to find my "unawakened" traits as strong as
ever ,or more apparent and looked for some other work to discover and
expose my identities which are good screens to hide behind.
I am interested in working at both ends of the polarity,nonduality and with
the psyche.Some conflict here as I find a lot of my energy taken up with
defending my identities.
I'm new to computers and this is the first website I have visited I'm
stumbling about but I can see its worth mastering, thank you, Pansy Todd
Judit Dawn:
This is a great challenge-all kind of identities revieling themselves-"the
teacher", "the wanting to do it right"..
Dear Hans,
some respons to your "what is the understanding of No I if I can't even feel
and express my needs". I had some similar thoughts.
Some exploration reveiled another identity - "the spiritual" the one that
wants to dwell and float in the clouds - having nothing to do with
humanness. The denier of responsability, feelings, the divine, love, the
Meeting with people blinded and victimised by th first worldwar the other
day - an encounter of reality-men talking about their experiences from being
prisoners of war in Japan. For me an encounter of something completely
unknown - war is on TV or on the movie the closest I have been with it. An
encounter of my denial, denial of feeling what they talked about. One man
said "people don't know the truth and it is my responsability to tell the
truth of what happened.
I am exploring my humanness - that is divine and sometimes hard work.
Love Judit
Michael Read:
Dear Friends,
I have been reading the highlites only for the past two weeks.
Welcome to the new listers from Germany!
Oh what is enlightenment
That state of being sublime
Grace granted state
Opening to what is.
A hot meal on a cold winter's day
Icy lemonade in summer's heat
Uniqueness of individuality
Breathing the Oneness of all.
Now the many worlds suffer
Now they rejoice
And who will not join the dance
When the music plays?
Laid aside that reason
For the search within
Through dusty caverns
Mining jewels of glass.
Go by turns fully mad then filled with joy
>From the lowest of the lowTo the highest of the high
We are no different, You and I.
This is what I must do.
Throw it all away.
No harm.
No help.
HAHAHAH and HOHOHO!
Peace - Michael
welcome back.
Love, Mark
Holding on
Holding on to the coals in winters past,
My mother held me in her warm arms.
Holding on
Holding on to the lore of wisdom teachers,
I have learned much about being kind.
Holding on
Holding on to the rudder in the tall grey waves,
I managed to survive the night.
Holding on
Holding on to the love that breaks my heart,
I know you and am so glad to see you.
Holding on
Holding on to the newness of Life,
I let go of what is no longer necessary.
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