Sunday, April 19, 2015

Love is infectious,  amour est contagieux,  el amor es contagioso,  Любовь инфекционные,  אהבה היא זיהומיות,  liebe ist ansteckend,  爱是有传染性الحب هو المعدية...

  Annata-     -that-   which is   beyond    name  and   form,   beyond   thinking...  

 Where matter exists change is constant. There  is only lasting resolution  in   the   unchainable.
annitcha   The eternal irresolvable    insoluble incongruity (where there is no time nor change)
is  the  pheromonal  predicament  of perpetual change.  A fundamental  principle  of   Huna   is    Aloha,   which  partially means to hear what is not said, to see what  cannot  be  seen  and  to * know  the unknowable.

*Once awareness is wise to the conscious mind and the subconscious has been positively reprogrammed, attention and concentration bring us into subsuperconscious states. We begin to breathe regularly and diaphragmatically (balanced and even.)  We become aware of only one thing at a time in the physical world, allowing one thing to attract our attention, rather than continuing to ramify. This practice begins to weave awareness into subsuperconscious, perceptive states.

As Arjuna said to Krishna: "The mind is restless, turbulent, powerful and obstinate. I deem it as difficult to control as the wind."    The Bhagavad Gita


― José Micard Teixeira

Upon death, I suppose the quest for re-entry into a more desirable lifetime ultimately is  beyond our control . We may however quite possibly exert some influence in this destination based upon our behavior in this present lifetime.. ©
                                                   Three Kinds Of Karma
Karma is threefold: sanchita, prarabdha and kriyamana. Sanchita karma means "accumulated actions." It is the sum of all karmas of this life and our past lives. Prarabdha karma means "actions begun; set in motion." It is that portion of sanchita karma that is bearing fruit and shaping the events and conditions of the current life, including the nature of our bodies, personal tendencies and associations. Kriyamana karma means "actions being made." It is the karma we create and add to sanchita in this life by our thoughts, words and actions, or in the inner worlds between lives. While some kriyamana karmas bear fruit in the current life, others are stored for future births. Each of these three types can be divided into two categories: arabdha ("begun, undertaken;" karma that is "sprouting"), and anarabdha ("not commenced; dormant"), or "seed karma." 

Brilliantly incapable of average comprehension is the idiot savant. The complex  mind  has  many  layers,  and  it  requires   studious introspection and analysis to recognize when these disparate units and  partial  selves  are   functioning  correctly  or  are demanding  specialized attention. Even a complete simpleton possesses  layer upon layer of compartmentalized sectors, vying for energies in the psycho dynamic scheme of things.©

I believe the soul never dies (purusha) it is persistent, all pervading and complete in and of itself; aksara, "imperishable, indestructible, fixed, immutable" The prakriti is the physical aspect of matter, and that is what differentiates souls from  mere bodily containers of spirit. We are all a separated and singular piece of the great soul, the atman. Our individual  karma  are  the reason  we  are  here.    It  is  the   sole   catalyst  that    separates   and   differentiates   us    one from another.  It is only fully known to the one  eternal absolute soul,  God  Brahman. ©


Maya is the false perception and illusion that matter is not changeless and is not subject to corruption, decay and transmogrification. Christ having such knowledge said: 

*"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal."  Matthew 6:19

*Reality is  an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
                          Albert Einstein

                                Thank  G_d  for  a  mute button.

 “Tree, Oh tree, why won't you speak to me?"             ☯                Om mani padme hum
  Because, you speak enough for three.©

"The worst of all deceptions is self-deception."

Isaac Asimov

*The   mind   can  be   likened  to   a   trap   for   consciousness, a labyrinth, or a prison.  It is not that you are in prison, you are the prison. The prison is an illusion.  If you are identified with an illusory self,   then   you  are asleep.  Once you are aware of the prison, and you fight to get out of the   illusion  then you are treating the illusion  as  if  it  is  real  then  you  remain  asleep.  The  dream   becomes  a  nightmare.  You’ll be chasing and running from  shadows  forever.  Samadhi is     the   awakening  from   the dream of the separate self or the  ego  construct.   Samadhi   is  the  awakening  from   the    prison  called  me.  You can never  actually  be  free   because    wherever   you   go   your    prison     is    there. Awakening   is   not   about  eliminating    the  mind  or  the matrix.  On   the  contrary   when you are not identified with it then you can experience the play of life more fully, enjoying  the show  as it  is  without  cravings  or  fear.  The divine game of lila, the game of  playing  in  duality.  


                                                  Dancing With Siva


Human consciousness  is a  continuum,  on  one  extreme,   humans    identify  with material self, on the other extreme is samadhi, the  cessation itself. Every step we take  on  the continuum toward samadhi, brings less suffering.  Less suffering does not mean life is free from pain. Samadhi is beyond the duality of pain and  pleasure.  It  means  there  is  less   mind  and   less  self    creating resistance to whatever is to unfold. Non resistance is  what  creates  suffering.©

“Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude, and even at times are very frightened at the prospect of being alone. Many people suffer from “the fear of finding oneself alone,” remarks André Gide, “and so they don’t find themselves at all.” 

                   ― Rollo MayMan's Search for Himself

You know how sometimes at night you see in windows the glowing blue hue of people watching televisions? If you could see love there would be a similar brilliance glowing in homes where love prevails; an incandescence of full life force.©


Somewhere your own next incarnation exists and is waiting to be happily dissolved by your actions and efforts in this timeline.©

Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be. *Bhagavad-gītā 2.12
*Gita of Nirmāṇakāya/Bodhisattva/
*Afterlife, lyrics   song-psalm

Hermes Trismegistos is made to say: “To speak of God is impossible. For corporeal cannot express the incorporeal . . . That which has not any body nor appearance, nor form, nor matter, cannot be apprehended by sense. I understand, Tatios, I understand, that which it is impossible to define—that is God”. 

A grandfather recites a plight to his grandson:
Grandfather: I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. Grandson:   Which wolf will win the fight in your heart, Grandfather?
Grandfather: The one that I feed.

Oh I consider much of dreams to be more a mammalian brain function as opposed to some mystical oracle of auguries. It's a crap shoot so to speak.   However   if  a genuinely conscientious  person continues  denying a problem, it will  surface in  dreams.  In that (pushing into consciousness) the analog becomes the  digital; the brain becomes the mind, the repressed becomes known, and a dynamism of truth (that which is repressed) demands that it show  itself.  ©         
 I surmise that we,  throughout the day, perceive far more than we can comprehend and logically comfortably assimilate,  so the brain  requires some time to pull together the unfathomable quagmire of a loosely bound myriad  of images  and ideas.  Thus, this is why sleep is essential.  This phantasmagoria seemingly becomes a kaleidoscopic  mush  which nevertheless  must be somehow managed, and somehow miraculously transcribed by a finite mind.  Our computer like mind requires time to acquire ample disk space for the brain.  Our brain (not mind) is capable of retaining great detail in each day of observations, so much so that much, if not most, must be filtered in order  to maintain an equilibrium. Thus it is partially a mechanical dynamism and function of thought (mind).
An abstruse amorphous algorithmic ad hominem of a priori antinomies, and smarmy snark. (an aside)

Do not confuse verbal dexterity for moral superiority.

A person can be highly intelligent, but if they forgo being delicate with people, they’ve upended their intellect.

On Sigmund  Freud:

His compartmentalizing the psyche is literally a roadmap to honesty and self-understanding. The psychodynamics of repression, oppression, denial, and other clever tricks the mind cunningly applies to avoid some pressing matter is the stuff of neurosis, some psychosis and the co-morbidity of complexes. The Oedipal state applies to boys and girls. Jung's archetypes and shadows (animus/anima) are examples of conceptual awareness that can bury a healthy mind in confabulations that apply reaction formations and defense mechanisms. These shields and rogue thoughts are the mainstay characteristics of personality disorders. Sigmund Freud was nothing less than a genius. I suppose his relevance is dependent upon one's values. Certainly any self examining analyst endeavors after that which is inscrutable, mysterious and layered in guile.  "The highest measure of his meaning may derive from the echoes of his voice in artistic work." That statement is profound and astute. Freudian psychoanalysis is a foundation for many "artistic works" that require a clear understanding of the minds' convoluted machinations that squirm between instinct and intellect.

"Super-ego," a cold, censorious spoilsport whose favorite phrase is "Thou shalt not."  For some people, whose spontaneous awareness is strangled in a network of inhibitions, prohibitions, guilts, fears, repressions and other unlovely products of a puritanical conscience, the weakening of the super-ego generates a certain Dionysian ecstasy, a fuller, richer sense of being, a liberation.

Jung writes:


His personal sense of identification is not bound up in gender, race, body, status, income, ideology… or ego construct...  brahmachari is a celibate student, often under simple vows. Some titles have feminine equivalents, such as sadhvi, yogini and brahmacharini. The Vedas explain, "The brahmachari moves, strengthening both the worlds. In him the devas meet in concord; he upholds earth and heaven." 

Anata- that which is beyond name and form, beyond thinking.   (in Theravada Buddhism) the belief that since all things are constantly changing, there can be no such thing as a permanentunchanging self: one of the three basic  characteristics of existence

Hell is a state in which your whole life is concentrated on your perceived agony.

Unmitigated honesty is the best writing tool by which to assure utmost authenticity.

On a raft of obscure and recondite verbiage which  stubs the rigidity of the ordinary toe, offends the things they hold most dear, and deploring  the banal and mundane  average usage which is a literary artisan's foe.

A lunatic is entitled to his temper, but artistic temperament is often a self declared  license for misbehavior; the sneering cynical maladroit among the masses of averageness...

Octave Mirbeau*

I  posit that  suspected victimization is often used to limit one's abilities (defense mechanism)  by scapegoating and blame-saying to remain in a fixed state. A mediocre homeo stasis of  intransigence based on the extreme need for comfort.  *The crimes of others you deplore, but of yourself you don’t keep score.   *Todd Rundgren

The attempted use of  reasoning to define and conceptualize something beyond the comprehension of all minds combined, is an exercise in futility. The dogmas and doctrines and creeds come into play; creeping little labels of ownership and authorization  that turn the one against the other.  Each warring and quibbling and demanding some entitlement of exclusivity, some divine sense of holy propriety and territoriality. (anthropomorphizing)

Astronomy 101:  I  succumbed  into  a  stupor of inconsolable incredulity upon discovery of black holes. I was never a really stable person in the first place, but that was     sufficient   to send me   off   into       an   abyss    of    imagination   similar   to   that   of   an autistic  child  dumbstruck  from  beholding  and relishing   the   pure   intricacy  of   things.  My  professor  waved  his  hand  in front of my face as one would do to ascertain  if   someone  had  vision.   I was out to lunch before the whole class.

A word processor won't make you a writer. A  calculator won't make you a mathematician. A stage and a microphone won't make you profound, eloquent, articulate, a thespian, or talented...

Some people are so invested in their hate and fear that peace is the most threatening thing they can imagine. They have become accustomed to conflict as stimulus, as a homeostasis.

anhedonia |ˌanhēˈdōnēə, -hi-|
noun, Psychiatry
inability to feel pleasure.
anhedonic |-ˈdänik| adjective
ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from French anhédonie, from Greek an- ‘without’ + hēdonē ‘pleasure.’

For many  hippies there was the humane conclusion that blindly seeking financial security at the cost of the soul, (personal happiness and phony ethics)  was a dead end unfulfilling lifestyle. 
The quest  through drugs was mostly to find alternatives to alcohol, tobacco and other  socially acceptable but  destructive  substances.  I  rarely use  metaphors,  but  one man's  meat is  another  man's  poison.  Alcohol is  difficult to manage for neophytes.   Generally 
if you weren't  dedicated to working, paying taxes and being a "contributing member of society" you risk being a cast out.  The American constitution provides a person's individual right to pursue happiness, it doesn't explicitly define the course one undertakes to achieve said happiness. Originally (for hippies) it was all about love and peace, destructive drugs then entered the scene. Just prior to  this time,  I believe it was considered effeminate or sissified for a man to talk about love (outside the church). The hippies were unafraid and unashamed of love.

Poets make lousy friends because  eventually they’ll  skewer you with their poison pen; their  insulting  writ of relentless invective and opprobrious apoplectic venom. The naked foist of un-allayed aggression as art-form whereby  the vitriol of familiarity slices like a knife. The very nature of chumminess turns adversarial.   A quirk, an idiosyncrasy, a malevolent adherence so committed to  unmitigated truth that it is as a fist to the face,  a shocking starkness of  incivility justified by a requisite expedience hastened by the anxious need to blow you off forthwith. A lunatic is entitled to his artistic temperament .

I don't want knowledge, I want certainty
I'm as constant as a star, constantly in the darkness
get back to me when you can explain black holes without swallowing hard
God's sewer system
nothing entirely disappears, it merely changes shape
we never really die 

“The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change -” Heraclitus 

I regard all life as phenomena that is beyond exact description or definition.  Therefore you have mystics philosophers, oracles and religions.  Most people are simpletons with enough curiosity to know that life is devoid of any entire  elucidation, and religion makes things tidy, knowable and then forgettable.  The Bible probably has as much bullshit as beauty, and that sounds like life in general. Nihilism isn't defeat as much as it is reconciliation with the absence of continuity.


*This is an ancient stratagem and many have used it: The way of the monk, the way of the hermit or the recluse is the way of one who tries to obtain victory by avoiding the battle. He makes a fortified position in a remote place and hopes that the enemy will not find him. There were days when men and women in thousands flocked to the desert, lived in caves, remote hermitages, perched like storks on the tops of tall columns. Does such a retreat ensure victory? Not necessarily. It simplifies the struggle but the hermit, too, has his problems. There are devils in the desert, as St. Anthony discovered. Besides, as a permanent way of life, it is sterile. A year's retreat into the desert may be profitable but a lifetime in the wilderness -- that is another matter. A man owes something to the society that produced him even though he may dislike that society and reject its values.     
                                   The Master Game

You are the descendant of millions of years of yearning. Defining the inexplicable is impossible.  Language does breakdown when broaching the predicament of phenomena,   something  for   which   language  is  not    and   was   not    ever intended.  Ensnared by the necessity for empirical results;  reliable  duplication, crucibles of criterion that result in  replication,  necessitated  by  a  reductionist 
world,  whereby  only  'facts'  have  validity  and  the separation from the spirit world creates another chasm.

"When you find someone who is industrious, studious, compassionate, loved by friends, and neighbors, tolerant in religious views, and who can point out to you the magnificence and efficacy of God in the simplest of things, you have found a mystic." "With these qualities, whether one is attired in sacerdotal robe or in the overalls of a mechanic, one is none the less a mystic." ~ Ralph M. Lewis


Samadhi is the awakening from the dream of the separate self or the ego construct. Samadhi is the awakening from the prison called me. You can never actually be free because wherever you go  your prison is there. Awakening is not about getting rid of the mind or the matrix.  On the contrary, when you are not identified with it then you can experience the play of life more fully, enjoying  the show  as it is  without cravings or fear. 

 The divine game of lila, the game of playing in duality; dancing with Shiva.  Human consciousness is a continuum, on one extreme, humans  identify with material self, on the other extreme is samadhi, the cessation itself.  Every step we take on the continuum toward samadhi, brings less suffering. Less suffering does not mean life is free from pain. Samadhi is beyond the duality of pain and pleasure. It means there is less mind and less self  creating resistance to whatever is to unfold. Resistance is what creates suffering.

A Movie Review
   The movie Men,Women & Children, is a dark almost dystopian drama revolving around the information age of the internet, smart phones , pornography, gaming and the social estrangement and conflict that it can sometimes cause. Several families and many stories comprise this psychologically penetrating film. This rendering is a contemporary depiction of how the anonymity of a veiled identity can lead to an insatiable greed for power, deceit, isolation and the peculiar dilemma of emptiness in the midst of "company." It is a story of how young people are exposed to too much too soon; indeed, how all of us are susceptible to becoming emotionally hobbled, psychically injured, morally corrupted, cynical, confused and dissociated. Not for the faint of heart, the film is at times briefly explicit with pornography and crude language to depict the identity crisis and abuse of power so prevalent in this odd era of cyber space and its ubiquitous surveillance society. The use of sexual imagery is not designed to appeal to prurient interests and is more a cogent instrument of teaching: a minimalist study with maximum intricacies.

Directed by Jason Reitman. With Kaitlyn Dever, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ansel Elgort, Jennifer Garner. A group of high school teenagers and their parents attempt to navigate the many ways the Internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives.


Adolf Hitler

Jew who bears this logo is an enemy of our people-slogan of the week Nt, 27J1942 / Central Publishing House of the National Socialist German Workers Party NSDOP (Nazi Party), Munchen (Munich)

Jude Wer dieses Zeichen trägt ist ein Feind unseres Volkes- Parole der Woche Nt, 27J1942/ Zentralverlag der NSDOP The National Socialist German Workers' Party, (Nazi Party) Munchen (Munich)

The evil of racism is that it is a violation not only of another’s dignity, but also of one’s own person or soul; the failure of connection with others is a failure to understand or feel what it is one’s own humanity consists in, what it is to be alive, and what it is to see both oneself and others as being ends not means, and as having souls. However much anodyne talk there is of ‘one’s kind’, a society that is racist is a society that cannot accept itself, that hates parts of itself so deeply that it cannot see, does not want to see – because of its spiritual and political nullity and inanition – how much people have in common with each other.   Hanif Kureishi

Saturday, April 18, 2015

First Americans

Cochise (/kˈs/; in Apache: Shi-ka-She or A-da-tli-chi - "having the quality of strength of an oak″

Great American Nations

Smithsonian  National Museum of American Indians

Actual footage of Native Americans from the 1800s

Chief Seattle's 1854 speech on the environment:

His father's grave, and his children's birthright are forgotten. He treats his mother, the Earth, and his brother, the same, as things to be bought, plundered, sold like sheep or bright beads. His appetite will devour the Earth and leave behind only a desert.
I do not know. Our ways are different from yours ways. The sight of your cities pains the eyes of the red man. But perhaps it is because the red man is a savage and does not understand.
This we know - the Earth does not belong to man - man belongs to the Earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected.
Whatever befalls the Earth - befalls the sons of the Earth. Man did not weave the web of life - he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
Even the white man, whose God walks and talks with him as friend to friend, cannot be exempt from the common destiny. We may be brothers after all. We shall see. One thing we know, which the white man may one day discover - Our God is the same God. You may think now that you own Him as you wish to own our land, but you cannot. He is the God of man, and His compassion is equal for red man and the white. The Earth is precious to Him, and to harm the Earth is to heap contempt on its creator. The whites too shall pass, perhaps sooner than all other tribes.
But in your perishing you will shine brightly, fired by the strength of the God who brought you to this land and for some special purpose gave you dominion over this land and over the red man. That destiny is a mystery to us, for we do not understand when the buffalo are slaughtered, the wild horses tamed, the secret corners of the forest heavy with scent of many men, and the view of the ripe hills blotted by talking wires. Where is the thicket? Gone. Where is the Eagle? Gone. The end of living and the beginning of survival".
Chief Seattle
1854   Crazy Crow Trading Post   First American Indian Gallery