100 Faces of War Experience

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Kevin Kelly_Not Since Stewart Brand

http://www.kk.org/newrules/blog/
http://www.asiagrace.com/

"His name is Kevin Kelly, and not since Stewart Brand have we had such an inspired visionary. He has formulated what he calls the New Rules for the New Economy, and I think everyone should read them. In keeping with our post on Yvon Chouinard, I want to mention that Kelly is another person whose worldview has been profoundly shaped by late 20th century Buddhism in America. He also has quite a love affair going with Asia, chronicled on a state-of-the-art blog you just have to see. Kelly is the founding executive editor of Wired. We expect no less."
thanks to
http://tibetanaltar.blogspot.com/2009/09/kevin-kelly-not-since-stewart-brand.html

MEDITATION AS SACRIFICE

The practice of meditation is largely based on some kind of sacrifice
and openness. Such sacrifice is necessary and has to be personally
experienced. Ordinarily, we might sacrifice something for the sake of
developing goodness, or because we are willing to suffer on behalf of
humanity. However, the sacrifice that has been recommended in the
Buddhist tradition is to sacrifice something without any
purpose....Sacrificing something without a purpose is outrageous and
precisely heroic and fantastic; it is very beautiful. The practice of
meditation is sacrifice and openness without techniques, without
means, without gloves, pliers or hammers. You have to use your bare
hands, bare feet, bare head, to relate with the whole thing.

From "Is Meditation Therapy?" in THE SANITY WE ARE BORN WITH,
condensed from pages 183-184.

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THE PING PONG BALL HAS A GAP

It is possible to undo the mythical, fictional aspect of the
cessation of suffering and to experience a glimpse of cessation as
reality, although it may be only a very short, small glimpse. The
first step is to realize you are in the samsaric mess, the mess of
confused existence. Although many people have heard this for years,
they still do not actually recognize that they are being Ping-Pong
balled. That is precisely why you are in samsara, confusion --
because you know what you are doing, but you still keep doing it.
However, in being a Ping Pong ball there are still gaps of not being
one. There are gaps in which something else is experienced. In fact,
during that Ping-Pong-Balling, another experience takes place
constantly: the experience of awareness. You being to realize what
you are, who you are, and what you are doing.

From "Awakening and Blossoming," in THE TRUTH OF SUFFERING: and the
Path of Liberation, Page 66.

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RECYCLE THE LEFTOVERS

The setting-sun approach is that you have a giant vision, which you
can't consume, and you end up throwing most of the it away. There is
not even a program to recycle the leftovers. Everything goes to the
dump. It is no wonder we have such big problems disposing of our
garbage. Some people have even thought of sending our garbage into
outer space: we can let the rest of the universe take care of our
leftovers, instead of cleaning up our earth....As long as we have a
pleasurable situation, we forget about the leftovers or the greasy
spoons and plates. We leave the job of cleaning up to somebody
else....In contrast to that, Great Eastern Sun vision is a very
ecological approach. The way of the Great Eastern Sun is based on
seeing what is needed and how things happen organically.

From "The Dawn of the Great Eastern Sun," in SHAMBHALA: THE SACRED
PATH OF THE WARRIOR, pages 56 to 58.

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Purusha Is Sanskrit For: Human Being

The Sanskrit word for "human being" is purusha,
which basically means "something that possesses power."
Being human means having power; specifically,
the power to accomplish whatever we want.
And what we want goes back to the basic biological urge
to be happy and to avoid pain.

âYongey Mingyur Rinpoche, The Joy Of Living, Pg. 179, Harmony Books,
2007.

Vaccination Laws

http://home.hiwaay.net/~becraft/VaccinationLaws.html