Here’s a recent article summarizing many of the current theories on ghosts.

http://www.realtown.com/articles/haunted-real-estate-a-primer-for-real-estate-agents

How does one become enlightened, spiritually liberated, at one with the Godhead or All-Suchness?

It is by knowing our own mind as it truly is.

It is not by knowing thoughts, but by knowing our mind, which is that empty screen upon which thoughts arise or appear. The thoughts are not us — they are just passing scenery int he mind. It’s the Mind that’s YOU, it’s the mind you want to find.

The fundamental substrate of  mind is at one with God, the ultimate nature, Brahman, Buddhanature. By knowing, by realizing it, by experientially realizing or "seeing" its true nature you become enlightened. The awareness you have is the awareness of theultimate nature, so the only way to know the original nature is to find the source of that awareness. That source is behind, beneath thoughts.

That knowing or realization of mind is self-realization, for it is knowing your own mind. That realization is free of thoughts, for it is known by wisdom insight (a non-conceptual experience) and not by mental activity, for mental activities only appear in it like a movie that appears on a projector screen. Knowing our mind as it truly is is realizing, experientially, that our mind is empty and absent of all forms and appearances. That is what matches with the original nature.

So how do you reach that? Meditation — at first the stilling or pacification of thoughts. And then the shedding of all thoughts entirely, including tiny, refined thoughts that almost seem non-existent. In detaching from thoughts, they eventually die down themselves and pass away without any efforts needed on our part. So meditation teaches you to shine awareness on them without involvement, and eventually one can abandon them entirely because the habit stream dies down.

What’s left?

Your own mind as it really is.

It is mind through which you will known enlightenment, not through matter, not through thoughts. All mind and matter have the same ultimate origin int he universe, but while one cannot trace matter back to Mind and original nature, one can trace mind back to Mind and original awareness which empowers little mind.

That’s the method.

 

Without going into the details, here are some of the ways to kill off infections which you should research when antibiotics and antivirals don’t seem to be working:

1. hydrogen peroxide – after being taught by a 70+ year old PhD nutritionist (who was diagnosed as terminal from a case of bronchitis so severe she could not lie down or sleep and had spots form on her lungs, and) who cured herself with it, I’ve used it myself to get rid of bronchitis two or three times over the years AFTER antibiotics failed, and yes it’s all it’s cracked up to be for lung diseases

2. ozone therapy

3. true colloidal silver – yep, I’ve used the product from www.PurestColloids.com to get rid of all sorts of infections where everything else failed

4. blood electrification – there’s a product coming out this year that is a solid state Rife machine with drift that can therefore mimic pretty well a analog Rife device

5.  immune boosters from the natural supplement, vitamin, mushroom, and herbal field such as hyperimmunized egg powders, garlic, transfer factors, etc.

6. Chinese "poison" therapy TCM – this may be the only hope for the newest drug resistant cases of sexually transmitted diseases like gonorrhea, wherein the Chinese physician uses a TCM recipe of poisonous scorpions, centipedes, etc. to destroy the disease. The method is called  "using poison to fight poison." 

7. intravenous Vitamin C … and yes, Linus Pauling outlived his critics by decades!

When I was young, my three brothers and I used to listen to comedian George Carlin, who is famous for his Seven Dirty Words routine that encompassed "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television." You can look them up on Wikipedia if you’re that interested.

George has been making a resurgence in these last few years, though he’s still using those dirty words in his comedy routines (and more). I was recently made aware of some videos of his comedy sketches freely available on the web. George likes to make fun of contemporary American culture and many strange things people do.

Enjoy….but be careful about the Dirty Words if that offends you (seems Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock and lots of other comedians are using them, so Carlin is no stranger there).

Religion:

The Ten Commandments:

Quite a few people put their trust in the Biblical story of Genesis that all of creation was created in less than one week, and that human beings were created within this period.

If you cannot recognize that this story was symbolic, I certainly cannot help you with your wisdom stores. You have to remember that all such stories or talks or teachings for people are performed by men, and usually they are men who either have the Tao (enlightenment) or just samadhi. That’s why we call them saints or sages, because they’ve cultivated and reached a stage of union with the ultimate fundamental substrate of All.

It’s absolutely clear from the Bible, without a doubt, that Moses only had samadhi, and low stage samadhi at that … which was why he always needed external help and was constantly in trouble with "God’s favor."  The methods he used can all be recognized as low samadhi vehicles combined with some human planning, preparation and execution.

Now here’s the scoop. When you have samadhi and you want to help the people as a teacher or leader, you  try to  lead them using whatever stories  or means  they can understand and accept. Ignorant, uneducated, non-cultivation people you lead with simplicity. Simple thoughts, simple stories, simple ways. If you are teaching those already well advanced on the spiritual path, you can teach MUCH MORE because they already know all the basics and have the means of verification for higher teachings. But for regular people (which the elites today refer to as "cattle" they want to control): "If you cannot give them heavy weights, you give them lighter weights to carry".

It’s a rare time that a fully enlightened Buddha can come to the world and fully reveal many high level teachings. Why?  Because the timing must be right, the students must be excellent with the capability to reach high stage Tao themselves, and the world karma must also be there. Those karmic timing instances are difficult to find. Buddhas  and Bodhisattavas can incarnate all the time, but only when all those conditions (and more) are right can they really reveal the whole she-bang in a very complete and detailed fashion. Otherwise they just come and go to carry out their own self-appointed goals and functions.

So in short, don’t believe in the literal line by line story or Genesis, or you’re betraying a big lack of wisdom. Proof? Cultivate samadhi yourself and you’ll see what actually happened. And go read the Lotus Sutra to see how what sages teach to common people is all a function of skillful or expedient means. That’s all it is.

Now what  these lieralists also don’t typically realize or recognize is that the story of Genesis is found in several traditions much OLDER than the Old Testament Bible, which seemed to borrow much of  the Genesis stories from those traditions. And what is the Genesis story of the creation of man?

The story of Adam and Eve is generally that God created a man and woman, they were of a pure spiritual mindset and lived in a heavenly state, then they ate something, started discriminating with thoughts, and then they were kicked out of heaven.

Edgar Cayce, the Sleeping prophet,  produced thousands of trance readings on reincarnation and the history of the Bible. He wasn’t a sage and didn’t have samadhi, but really had fantastic clairvoyant abilities with a high degree of accuracy, though his readings, too, had to be simplified for his audiences.

What did Edgar Cayce say about the origin of human beings while in trance? The Fall came from the materialization of higher spiritual beings into matter. This limited their consciousness and trapped them in the material plane (matter). I also do believe he said those beings ate something on the earth which made their etheric-type bodies more coarse, and they could not longer leave this plane of existence. I tried to find that quote in my old Cayce books but couldn’t, so maybe someone can  confirm it for us.

What does Buddhism say?

Shakyamuni Buddha actually explained to his high stage students, with samadhi and clairvoyance and other superpowers, that our human ancestors were beings from the Abhasvarah (Sound and Light Heaven) within the Form Realm. Their bodies were made of light, which we can call highly refined spiritual essence for this dialogue. Once they visited this earth, these beings kept eating of it (I believe the taste was salty)  and consequently their bodies became heavy and they couldn’t return. This was the start of human life on this planet, though the story of pre-Ice Age beings is yet another tale.

What about the first origins of the beings of the Abhasvarah heaven? They themselves had originally come from the Formless Realm heavens. And the Formless Realm beings? Buddha refused to discuss this because it would fall into theorizing into the origin of the first being; Buddha refused to talk about such things not because he didn’t now, but because they don’t lead to cultivation progress. It just leads to more and more questions and arguments rather than any spiritual achievements. Go ahead and memorize all you want and see where that’s going to get you.

In fact, there is a famous story called the Ten Questions that Don’t Lead to Edification where someone came to Buddha and asked him about the origins of the world, and other such questions, claiming that if Buddha could answer them he’d stay a monk and if not, he’d become a layman.

Buddha refused to explain these things telling the man, Malunkyaputta, that he never said he’d tell those those things, but teach him the way to cultivate to liberation, the Tao, enlightenment. Shakyamuni Buddha said that people would spend all their time debating and discussing those questions that lead nowhere. Actually, so did Socrates which is why Socrates avoided them altogether as well. 

Buddha said all this radical preoccupation on these questions, which they could not prove anyway,  was like a man shot by a poison arrow who — rather than have it removed as it’s killing him and time is of the essence — first demands to know what type of arrow it was, what poison was used, who shot it, why did they shoot it, how much force did they use, where did they come from  and all sorts of other interesting but useless questions to the main need of saving his life.

Buddha said, "Look, you’re confronted with suffering in the human realm. That’s the fact in front of you. You know it. It’s real. Incarnation after incarnation you’re faced with this fact until you can attain enlightenment and escape, which is control of the process. This you know. This is in front of you. This is what’s real.

The only solution is cultivation. You also know that. And your time is short, because you never know when in this life and all future lives you’ll have the chance to cultivate and have the chance to come upon the true cultivation dharma (teachings) again. So that’s what you should concentrate on, not all this speculation. I’m not going to talk about all this other stuff, though I know the answers, because it does not lend to your edification. I’m not falling into that trap of yours. You’ll end up wasting time and arguing this or that or what not. It’ll become dogma and you can’t even prove it until you get high stage samadhi or enlightenment anyway. That’s what I teach …how to reach liberation, self-realization, enligthenment, the Tao. Focus on that, not on speculation. That’s the real task in your hands in front of you."

It’s 2000+ years later, and Buddha has been proven correct again. You have so little time to cultivate in this world even if you know  the true dharma of cultivation. Secondly, look around you — it’s so rare to come upon cultivation teachings in this life. In your subsequent  lives to come, who can guarantee you’ll even come close to  them again (because of the lack of merit — we’re lowly humans of poor good karma in a universe of many higher beings who have the dharma and good karma, so it’s no secret that we have so little teachings  on true spiritual practice)? All people  want to do is waste the time on a new X-box, or  computer or  TV story or so forth. Good luck next time in coming upon the dharma again!

So there you have the Biblical account, Edgar Cayce and Buddhism. I shall not go into  Hinduism or Taoism or other schools, but just cherry picked those.

I once asked my teacher what he thought about the origins of life and he said something akin to (if I translated it right), "Based on my own thinking, life first came about because the right causes and conditions  came  together."

At first this explained nothing to me and then, when you think anthropomorphically about the whole universe, you realize it explains everything … and that there is no other explanation.

There is no being, entity, personality etc in the universe — those are only false thoughts. From the standpoint of the original nature, nothing real exists. A separate life, entityness, etc.. don’t exist.  However, from a conventional standpoint, everything we see exists though it is empty of real existence. 

So how does everything come about? Through cause and effect, through interdependent origination. It all arises together, and you can say cause and effect, or progressive evolution when you look at it through the prism of time, requires that causes produce effects which produce more causes and effects and the right ones came together and BINGO! – we had the rudiments. But we’re not talking about amino acids and RNA/DNA and enzymes here — we’re talking about consciousness somehow "appropriating form," even rarified form such as of the Formless Relam.

So  first life  somehow came to being through the conjunction of consciousness (false thoughts) and the appropriation of  refined essences in some way or fashion, however that might occur. In other words, the right causes and conditions came together. You don’t have to know how or why, but you can say the right things came together. Brilliant! And of course, if you cultivate you can find out. And one more thing – what about consciousness and its origins? Buddha removed all superstitution on that topic by teaching about the alaya consciousness, but these teachings are much too high stage to go into here. I reserve them only for my Stages students.

Go read the Sutras to see Buddha’s explanations of the begining of galaxies, the universe and so forth. Microscopic worlds, galaxies, the stages of beings could even be referred to as "dimensions" if you like. In countless worlds, a infinite number of awakened Buddhas are teaching the beings of those worlds according to their time and place and conditions, hoping to help them cultivate Buddhahood, which is the term for complete enlightenment (not samadhi-hood but perfect and complete, full, no more  learning enlightenment).

Don’t think it’s just this Shakyamuni Buddha — Buddha also made that clear but people always seem to get it wrong. They even confuse Buddhism with a religion when Buddha just stands for "enlightened being," religion-less, but we put that term on top of this set of teachings and people mix up Buddhist religion with Buddhist philosophy or Buddhist cyultivation methods for enlightenment. However, even Buddha said that the next time a fully enlightened Buddha can teach so openly and completely, in Maitreya’s time, the teaching will appear in a different form and have a different name as well.

Understand? Most people NOTTTTTTT….

Oh, and one more thing — Buddha said "Don’t believe me, or the sagas of old, or what you read in some holy book, or tradition. Test even what I say and prove it by your own experience. If you cultivate correctly in this way XX, then YY will happen. At this stage of gong-fu QQ you’ll experience ZZ. If you go here to SS you’ll see or experience MM."

Everything he taught was to be proven, not accepted on faith or belief, unlike the Western Orthodox religions which are still arguing with each other. Their adherents cannot even interpret what was said in these religions because they’re clinging to old parchments  and lacking cultivation gongfu, wisdom, knowledge and experience themselves, are still trying to fathom out the meaning, all the while championing their religion and personal views as supreme while the next generation adds yet a  new interpretation on top of the old. 

Anyway, just thought you should see how these traditions, when interpreted through the idea of varying degrees of revelation, actually agree with one another.

The whole truth is never given to people without wisdom because they have no gongfu or insight and could not understand it (and thus not accept it) anyway. Hence a good teacher explains the truth by simplifying it in allegories and symbolic tales such as we see in the Bible or even when a President addresses his country – he boils things down to a simple story in order to lead the people and gain their acceptance. He figures the truth is too complicated or hard for them to handle, so he really simplifies things, leaving out pertinent facts and so forth.

And you think leading people with religion is any different? 

 

 

 

I’ve always liked Winston Churchill. You may have disagreed with him or disliked him or even opposed him, but you had to respect him. A cultured man, a cultivated man, a wise man, a useful, pragmatic man. In his own way, we can say that he was somewhat kin to Benjamin Franklin in that he was multiskilled, a statesman politician, extremely literate, a learner and a student of history….the best of the best.

I remember reading a book on favorite books, and in it the History of The Second World War (by Churchill) was cited by several Harvard professors as the most influential  book  on their careers. That’s something.

Some of Winston’s conclusions from studying history:

* Statesmen (not politicians) have 4 qualities:
  – a bedrock of principle 
  – a moral compass
  – a vision
  – an ability to build consensus to achieve the vision

* When you analyze the rise and fall of nations, it is ultimately because of the decision of individuals (not large anonymous social, economic forces)… yes, individuals [ex. specific acts by Bush, Rumsfeld, etc. rather than "forces"]

* The Middle East, often cited as the cradle of civilization, has been the graveyard of countless empires despite both good or bad intentions, and will probably continue to be so. The Romans and so many other peoples have learned that. [ex. Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, etc.]

* Technology and science cannot ultimately save you or free you from history’s lessons. They are not your ultimate salvation. [see the blog post on Nan Huai Chin's book for an apt quote]

* Freedom is not a universally, globally shared value and neither is democracy. However, greed and the desire for power ARE universal.

 

More wisdom food! 

Can bacteria cause cancer? Can viruses or microbes cause cancer?

Heresy!

Let’s crucify the guy who says this. (I wonder if this is a reverse "hate crime" in persecuting such opinions, even though there’s tons of research backing it up. LOL!).

Here’s a great snopysis of the literature on microbes and cancer, and the fact there is a connection but "pathologists, dermatologists, infectious disease specialists, oncologists, virologists, microbiologists, and basically all medical scientists … have ignored a century of cancer research pointing to cancer microbes."

The author Alan Cantwell  explains why. The explanation is very believable and UNDERSTANDABLE as even saying this makes you a threat to the medical establishment, with billions at stake and hundreds of very red, embarrassed faces. As the author wrote, "As I see it, the identification of simple-to-see cancer microbes would cause havoc in the scientific world and in the cancer treatment industry. It would be the biggest embarrassment to befall modern medicine."

http://bacteriality.com/2007/09/11/cantwell

Incidentally, the author Alan Cantwell  mentions that bacteria can cause scleroderma (a skin hardening disease that can kill), which Dr. Brown found out ages ago. That’s one reason I wrote a book on Scleroderma and told people witht he condition to seek a rheumatologist who can administer the Dr. Brown-Mercola antibiotic protocol which has saved thousands of lives – PROVEN! Every now and then I even get a letter from someone telling me how it saved their child’s life.

And you know what?

Though a prescription antibiotic protocol works in reversing scleroderma, and though this knowledge is no threat to the medical establishment because it still involves the use of establishment drugs and thousands of "incurables" have been saved, it’s still not accepted by the establishment.

Imagine that. Reminds me of the case where that Australian doctor proved the bacteria H.Pylori was causing many cases of stomach ulcers and the pharmaceutical medical establishment, with billions of dollars at stake since the cure cost less than $10, lined up not to see if he was correct but to try to defeat him. Hmmmmmmmm……money at stake, but in this case what’s at stake?

As I say with nearly everything — the internet is in front of you. Do your research. Be independent. Think! You’re so lucky to have the internet….I had to buy and READ hundreds and hundreds of books over the years to learn all these things, and now they are yours at zero expense and at your very fingertips on demand. Make use of it as you never know if it will be taken away.

 

When one studies Zen, they are first introduced to Abhidharma theory, which is like Catholic catechism of definitions for all the factors of the mind. Within this field of study, one is taught all the factors within the form, sensation, conception, volition and consciousness skandhas. Masters who later awaken typically first master Abhidharma  theory, and then practice various  meditation techniques to let go of these categories of mental events (illusions) which arise in the mind. Abhidharma theory helps you recognize the mental factors you observe in shamatha-vispassana practice, and thus observing, you can realize you must let go of them.

That’s how you make meditation progress…it’s called "wisdom insight." From introspection, you recognize the factors  of mind constraining you, and then let go of them once you realize you’ve been holding onto, or clinging to THEM.

One of the factors that always intrigued me in Abhidharma training are the "omnipresent mental factors of mind" present within the skandha of volition. It’s easy to get rid of the coarse thoughts of form and sensation skandha, more difficult to get rid of the refined thoughts of the conception skandha, and as for these — wow, it’s difficult to cultivate through the volitions skandha!

The omnipresent mental factors, as explained in Measuring Meditation, are ever present mental factors involved with all mental states. (Measuring Meditation by the way, has the most extensive explanation of these factors found in the English language and  that section alone took two plus  years of compilation using every English reference available at the time in addition to Master Nan’s lectures on Vasubandhu’s writings, which you can find through Numata Press. So if you want to learn more about the skandhas, pick it up.)   Since these are omnipresent events which accompany every state of mind, and since spiritual cultivation involves liberating ourselves from attachment to various mental states, in cultivation it helps to understand a little of the nature of these five omnipresent factors. It helps to know what you must stop clinging onto.

When we analyze the ten omnipresent mental factors that accompany all states of mind that belong to the skandha of volition, we find that they can be divided into two groups of five components each: the (1) basic omnipresent factors and (2) object-determining events (mental states which determine an object).

The five basic omnipresent events which are present no matter what activity the mind is involved with, include:

 (1) attention, mental engagement, or intentional action (concentration)
 (2) contact
 (3) feeling, or sensation
 (4) perception, cognition or discrimination
 (5) intention, or volition (also called penetration)

Various meditation methods actually try to tie up one or another of these factors to help you realize enlightenment, but that’s such a high level discussion that it’s not appropriate here.

The second set of five mental factors are called "independent" mental events, or "object-determining" mental states, because they occur in conjunction with objects of sense. They are determinative in regard to objects, meaning they are responsible for determining objects. These five mental factors include:

 (6) zest, interest or aspiration
 (7) determination, resolution or resolve
 (8) mindfulness, or recollection
 (9) concentration, one-pointedness, samadhi or stabilization
 (10) discernment, insight, wisdom or prajna

Okay, enough of this. Why bother to go into this, especially as it hurts the head? Indian culture loves this sort of hair splitting definition scheme, but  Chinese typically hate this sort of thing. Nevertheless, in the evolution of  religion,  theology, culture, etc. every school goes through this type of definition specification. The difference with Abhidharma theory is that it’s used  to help you awaken, whereas most schools simple want consistency or the intellectual development of dogma. Abhidharma theory is a tool to help you categorize mental states in meditation.

So why all the fuss? 

Because I want to discuss "determination" – one of the  factors within the Volitions skandha – determination. 

Determination is the act of staying with something. It is the activity of remaining firm with something you have selected for investigation because of your interest.

Now here’s the MAIN POINT, and the purpose of this blog post …

In many regimes, the government goes about punishing people for having "wrong thoughts." As my teacher says — an expert at controlling thoughts, emptying thoughts, analyzing thoughts —  this is ludicrous since absolutely everyone sports incorrect and nonvirtuous thoughts at times. It’s like Jimmy Carter honestly admitting he lusted in his heart, and the whole world gasped as if they never did. 

Big deal, everyone does that, so why persecute people just for having differing thoughts? Yet many governments or people punish, persecute, or even imprison you for having "wrong thoughts" or think people SHOULD punish or persecute or ridicule you. The living Hell is when they cannot defeat your facts or logic so they  try to assassinate your character for your thought independence from their norm, what THEY want you to think. My advice: be brave — we admire in history those who were brave int he face of this.

In other words, many people persecute independent thinking….and this problem is getting bigger and bigger today. In fact, it’s the hallmark of Communism, tyrannies and totalitarianism. And it’s encroaching into democratic societies.

Beware of this — and remember that it’s usually done by people  of little culture themselves event though they’re standing up pretending THEY’RE the ones with a higher standard. Nonsense.

If you are critical or disagree with some religious or political policy,  history   shows you are often accused of all sorts of crazy names – a standard smear tactic because it immediately changes the subject. Now instead of people talking about the topic, they totally ignore the substance of your claims and start talking about your personality and what you’re like as a person….as if that mattered to the truth of the topic at hand and somehow negates the importance of the points you raise. It’s like I always say about reincarnation: opinions don’t matter, belief doesn’t matter — it’s either a fact or it’s not a fact, a truth or a falsity. What you believe has nothing to do with it being a fact or not, and the facts tend to support it more than dismiss it.

Anyway, as Dan Kennedy says, if we always "killed the messenger" because we disagreed with the message (the "thoughts") we’d all be dead. There are  times you just have to stand up for what’s right and speak it, offense or no offense, to arrive at a policy good for all.

You can see it on TV now where  commentators now just call you names when they disagree with you because they cannot debate your facts. You’re attacked for an idea, a view, an opinion. They cannot challenge your facts, so they revert to name calling. low class — as I said, men or women of little culture. People who lack cultivation.

Well, calling people names because you disagree with them  is just nonsense. Consider this: most everyone holds a religious conviction different than the rest of the world’s population,  and the world still goes on, and you don’t DARE call those disagreeing with you names. You respect their views, period. They have amazingly different opinions (errant views by your account since their religion differs), and yet everything still functions, the world goes on without a hitch. 

Frankly, the press can "make a sinner a saint, or a saint a sinner," so you should ignore this type of smear campaign. You are wiser than that, or I hope, as a reader of this blog, that you are … otherwise I’m wasting my fingers typing this.

Judge people by what they do, not by what is said about them. And furthermore, don’t trust the press 100%. Do your own investigations and thinking for that’s what cultivation teaches you.

For instance, even as I write this, there’s a  Republican political candidate running for President — Ron Paul — who keeps winning most of the straw polls and it’s been kept out of the news, or it’s on purpose reported that only a few hundred or dozen people show up at his speeches when it’s in the thousands and he’s nearly  the top campaign funds champion out of all the Republican Party candidates. The establishment doesn’t want him to win since he’d change ALL THE RULES, so there’s an unspoken news embargo on the guy so that you can’t find out about him. Bet you didn’t even hear of him or know he was doing so well … thanks to the popular press people so trust. Point made. (Apologies — I had to use some current issue). Go to google video or YouTube to find out about him. Great stuff to consider even if he doesn’t win.

Getting back to our main story, it’s now become popular once again, as it was in the Middle Ages and in Communist and totalitarian countries, to punish people  or inflict harm or reputation damage or even imprison people  for having "wrong thoughts" (see Germany).

This is wrong, extremely wrong as everybody  "errs" along these lines. EVERYONE!  It’s Communistic to be doing this. Ex-President Jimmy Carter was honest when he said he lusted in his heart. No big deal. I don’t know a man who escaped this sort of guilt. The big deal would be if he did something about it over and over again, and even there it would depend on WHAT he did if anything at all. What’s his business is his business. The point is – if you have "wrong thoughts" or "errant opinions" or "disagreeing opinions"  or a "difference of opinion" vis-a- vis others over some subject, does that mean you should be punished, persecuted or what not? 

No! Never punish someone for wrong thoughts.

This is where I big time disagree with the politically correct, the hate crimes people , the people ready to call you a bigot or anti-Semite or anti-American or racist or immoral or whatever at a moment’s notice. It’s all nonsense. You are allowed to hold whatever thoughts you want, or to criticize any policy you want (because that’s how you improve things), or say whatever you want.

HATE CRIMES are a big attempt at control. If you steal, kill, rape, or whatever,  the laws are good enough as is to find you  guilty … you don’t need to add an extra topping  on the cake to make that determination, which is just going to lead to all sorts of manipulations and attempts to gag people from speaking their mind. If someone broke the law they broke the law and that’s good enough, so the idea of categorizing crimes as "hate crimes" is actually an attempt at imposing censorship.

Abhidharma theory teaches that what you really have to worry about, at least in terms of cultivation or when you are trying to teach your children, is the case of afflicted determination, which is wrong resolve. Not false thoughts or wrong thoughts, but wrong resolve.

You do not have to worry about random wrong thoughts, but wrong thoughts held with determination and resolve as a barrier to cultivation. Determination is basically the activity of holding onto a particular thing without allowing the mind to be stolen by something else. 

Even there, that’s not the problem society-wise, just cultivation-wise which is your own personal concern. The problem societywise is acting detrimentally on afflicted  determination to commit a crime. Not even thinking about something with afflicted determination is the crime (knowing what they do, you’d have nearly all the men in the world arrested for lust – LOL!), or just acting on it, but acting on afflicted  determination to commit a crime.

That’s why we just ignore crazy people in the world as long as they don’t do anything wrong. They’re always operating in the realm of wrong thoughts and wrong thoughts held with determination, but unless they commit a crime you just ignore them. The world’s a big place, you should not try to kill all the germs. Sometimes germs are useful – they do have a role to play.

Now think about this slowly … in today’s world, has society progressed that you are now in danger of being criticized, ostracized or persecuted and attacked for having "wrong thoughts?"   What type of "wrong thoughts" ? Who’s to say your thoughts are wrong and theirs are right? Is it because they’re int he position of power and you aren’t? Probably.  If discussion is the means by which we arrive at correct thinking, policies, views or ways, why is it so wrong or dangerous  to talk about difficult subjects and consider conflicting opinions? Our country was born that way, and now it’s considered a threat or vice? So who’s to say your thoughts are wrong?

Answer: Vested interests. Those  in power who want THEIR agendas to reign, not yours. Put someone else in power and then THEY’LL do the same thing.

And who (what groups) typically threatens you with persecution on this account, having the gall to mix your right to personal opinions (or even active criticism)  with a crime?

Be careful of any groups that try to do this to you. Most likely, they are the ones trying to pull something over on you. Just to bolster you a bit, please remember that the attack is a low class attack, an attack showing lack of culture, and so that double calls to mind the fact that their views and positions better be  carefully examined.

Everyone has wrong thoughts, wrong habits, wrong prejudices and pre-dispositions. You ignore them for the majority of people int he world every single moment of every single day. Thoughts are your own personal karma, and it’s your job to cultivate to get rid of them in order to achieve enlightenment, not someone else’s job to put you in a straight-jacket just because your thoughts disagree.

Do you march into someone else’s church and shout obscenities, saying they’re all wrong? Do you do that to a mosque or a temple? Of course not, but you so disagree with the views of these other groups because you most probably DO have a religion of your own.

That in itself tells you to ignore the name calling when it happens. It’s usually someone trying to hide something or protect something — a vested interest that really, under scrutiny, cannot be defended.

So that’s afflicted determination held with the intent to commit a criminal act….the only thing to worry about.

And as to cultivation and meditation …

Yes, the key to eliminating ALL wrong thoughts is self-cultivation to reach the state absent of thoughts, including the thought of being an ego, individual or separate being. In self-cultivation, the target is to silence the mind and abandon "false thoughts." Then you can be free of  the 5 errant or deviant perspectives or prejudices that are ALSO components of the volition skandha. What are those?

* the view of taking the body, identifying with the body as the self
* taking one-sided views or extreme views
* holding false, errant views – views of untruths proven by facts to be wrong
* holding your own views as supreme (self-cherished views, clinging to your own subjective perspective)
* the view of holding rules and rituals as the way to spiritual excellence, the Tao

When you cultivate enlightenment, you actually free yourself from these 5 errant perspectives, so for someone to call you prejudiced is just laughable when you are a real cultivator with accomplishment. It’s their own agenda at play, that’s all. Upon enlightenment and the smashing of the ego  you can call yourself one with God, and so forth, though of course, you’ll probably get killed or be persecuted when that happens as was the case with Jesus, al-Hallaj, and so forth. Typically, the higher your Tao, the more "yin" that will arise to attack you because you are now "yang." That’s another reason why masters proclaiming the way are typically killed.

Anyway, the path of cultivating away false thoughts is why I champion stopping & seeing, cessation-contemplation, shamatha-vipassana practice in the MeditationExpert.com website, as well as in my book on Socrates. That practice  of self-cultivation is not only the  way to empower people with a tool for self-improvement,  but a way to help people become self-correcting, and a way to strengthen society and eventually free it of prejudice.

Forget about the people who call you a bigot, racist, traitor, non-patriot, anti-American, anti-Semite, anti-Christian, Communist, Socialist, fascist, conspiracy nut, immoral,  gay lover, nut case, disloyal, evil, criminal, non-progressive, reactionary, and all the other terms popularly bandied about with vehemence when you happen to pull away the curtain on some issue that some people want  to keep secret, or propose change that threatens vested interests. They have their own issues. Just work on yourself with spiritual cultivation.

 

There’s a very famous book entitled "The Autobiography of Han Shan." It dates from the 1500’s and you can find translations of it on the web.

www.hsuyun.org/Dharma/zbohy/Literature/HanShan/hanshan-home.html
www.abuddhistlibrary.com/…/Han%20Shan/Autobiography/Han%20Shan%20Autobiography%20and%20Maxims.rtf
www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings/Translations/TheAutobiographyOfHanShan.pdf

The autobiography features the story of the Zen monk Han Shan, and how he cultivated enlightenment via the method of listening to sound as well as other techniques.

Because of his subsequent samadhi concentration, Han Shan could copy a sutra, recite a mantra, and carry on a conversation simultaneously — ALL at the same time (see his Thirty-third Year (1578-9)). 

Even when people came to try to break his conversation by disturbing him, we would make no error in his text copying or mantra recitation, and could do multiple things at once. Such is just one of the powers of samadhi concentration….it’s not limited to Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Taoism, Hinduism or any other school. Whoever cultivates samadhi can do wondrous things.

Why this story?

It seems that you can also train your mind, in a mundane fashion, so that it can carry out multiple tasks at the same time.

This is very interesting — Harry Kahne: Multiple Mentality http://www.rexresearch.com/kahne/kahne.htm . Harry claims that you don’t need an extraordinary mind, just training.

Interesting….

 

Sometimes I am asked, "Is meditation causing my headaches?"

Firs of all, use your common sense…does anyone anymore  dare risk saying anything to an unknown stranger in such a litigious society, especially someone you don’t know and  don’t see in person? If a doctor doesn’t do that, why would you … especially when the answer only involves commonsense? 

The standard answer for any health question/issue is: if you have a health issue, see a doctor.  See a physician.

Now, if you asked a different question, "Can meditation cause headaches?" or "Can  headaches occur as a result of strenuous cultivation?" –  that’s a different issue. You can read the story of Zen master Hakuin (and the So Cream meditation) for an answer to that; Tibetan medicine contains all sorts of formulas for problems caused by unbalanced FORCEFUL meditations, which is why I don’t recommend them unless you have a teacher at hand. Ardent cultivators of the forceful form schools in yoga, Taoism, and Tibetan Buddhism typically screw themselves up if they don’t know what they’re doing.

I remember meeting a Chinese student of the Wang Yang Ming neo-Confucian/Taoist cultivation school who  picked the wrong mountain to cultivate in (he thought he was smart), used the wrong Tao school techniques and unleashed all sorts of errant dragon chi currents in his body he could not control — it would take him two years of Chinese TCM on a weekly basis just to get his intestines back into order because of the things he practiced, mistakenly thinking he was brilliant in knowing how to cultivate  forceful techniques. As Master Nan likes to say, which is why he doesn’t teach the esoteric school, the  guys that practice the forceful techniques and esoteric techniques are typically the WORST disasters in cultivation … even the wrong habits they create tend to persist across lives.

First remember, that meditation means letting go of thoughts. If you are letting go of thoughts, and are thus mentally peaceful, why do you have headaches? That should answer most people’s questions. Meditation does not cause illness or sickness. On the other hand, it may REVEAL latent illnesses that are laying dormant.

If you are holding on to thoughts, then just as in regular life due to holding on to stress, a mental worry, or some other problem in life, maybe you are causing yourself headaches. But that’s a different issue than letting go of thoughts. If you can’t differentiate between those two, how can you understand anything in regards to cultivation? So first you have to do some personal diagnosis.

Now if you are letting go of thoughts and your chi starts arising subsequently, you’ll tend to feel it. When the chi channels have opened somewhat to the area of the brain, and the chi starts trying to open up the chi channels in the head because you’ve made this meditation progress, then all sorts of symptoms can come out – more dreams, headaches, pressure int he head in certain obstructed regions opening up, dizziness, hearing voices, etc. In Tao and Longevity, these are discussed with a cool, clear , logical analysis. You can find some of them discussed in the free Chapter 4 of Measuring and the free Stages page download, too. But this happens after you’re making progress, and you should notice allsorts of subsidiary signs to know where you are on the gongfu ladder. So if you start meditating today, and one week later you have headaches, sorry but you’re assuming just too much progress.

Can you have samadhi or be enlightened and still get headaches? Good question. Sure! Once Buddha got a terrible headache and his students asked why. Buddha said, "In a past life I was a little boy, and they drained a pond. I went to the empty pond and started playing with a fish lying there in the drained pool, flopping it up and down and hurting it. Now that karma has matured and I’m experiencing a bad headache as a result."

Everything has a karmic cause …

You can also get irritated even though enlightened. Once Buddha just got tired dealing with all these unruly monks, and made his way into a forest to get away from them for awhile and be by himself. He bumped in to the king of the elephants, who was also a bit tired from dealing with all the troubles of dealing with his clan, and who was there to get away himself for awhile. Recognizing the same situation, Buddha laughed a bit and pat him on the head saying, "You and I are both perturbed." Moral: Even the enlightened get mentally fatigued and need a break, so don’t bother them so much, especially with trifles. The same was said of Moses in the Bible even though just a samadhi master.

You can still get sick, too, with samadhi attainments and even enlightenment, especially catching colds or the flu. Why? In Chinese medicine it’s called a "wind invasion" – your chi channels are open and easily invaded by external wind (chi) which results in sickness. This has nothing to do with negative thoughts, unlike what the New Age crowd likes to say (all sickness is caused by bad thoughts" yada yada). So people meditating often find they have to start wearing more clothes, protect their heads by wearing a hat, and so forth (except for some individuals that live in particular weather regions, such as Southern India, which is why some masters even learn to cultivate without much clothes) . 

Protecting yourself from wind invasions is especially important during and after sexual relations, too. As I relate in the Sexual Cultivation Cd, do NOT drink cold things or expose yourself in front of a draft or air conditioner just prior to, during and after sex for just such reasons. For regular people you’ll probably feel nothing (even if you experience a wind invasion) — for meditators you’ll probably catch a cold or get a headache and feel it the next day or within a week or so. It can even cause more serious illnesses. Once again, look up Chinese medicine if you want to find out more.

And yes, you can be enlightened and die of cancer. You can also get rid of it if you want, or let past karma manifest. You can read the story of Maharaj (a Hindu samadhi master) where he rejuvenated himself with kaya kalpa two times but just let cancer take him the third time. Same with various other Hindu and other masters. When it’s time, it’s time. So Buddha’s foremost student in superpowers, Mahamaudgalyayana, had his skull cracked open and was dying but used his superpowers to heal himself, taught one more lesson to a village expecting him, came back to Buddha, said it was time to go, and then passed away. Then again, if you put yourself in the third-fourth dhyana, you can get rid of all sickness if you want, too. Mahamaudgalyayana proved that and there is lots of information available on this.

Now is there a way to open up the chi channels in the head quicker if you do start to feel pressure there because of cultivation work?

First, congratulations on your progress! Second, there is some Chinese medicine available for this and too many wind-caused-dreams, but it tastes yucky, doesn’t work too well (as far as I’m concerned) and the best solution is more meditation anyway. The more the chi goes through because of emptiness meditation of letting go, the less problems there are. It takes time – congratulations on the progress.

If the problem is caused by the bones being out of proper position in the neck, there’s chiropractic manipulations. Those cant get the Atlas bone fully in the proper position, whereas NCR (neural cranial restructuring) possibly can and has been known to get rid of long term migraines in as little as 4 sessions. Then again, magnesium deficiency and other things could be causing headaches, too.

So the answer is: it’s complicated to discuss things like this. So many possibilities are involved. You can’ t do it over the phone, you can’t do in a letter or email. You have to see the person, know their stage of cultivation, know medicine, know all sorts of things. It’s even more complicated than I laid out with this brief synopsis. That’s why I tell you you have to study everything. In life you end up picking up these wisdom rules naturally (without study) from cultural rules /traditions handed down in society  (like the Chinese rule never to eat duck or goose when you have a cold or flu, and to eat ginger with crab because otherwise it’s too yin-cold for the body), but they only take hold after people study them and start writing about them.

Where to go for basic principles about cultivation and the body?

Tao and Longevity.  It’s probably about $10-15 on amazon. I always tell people that if you think you know meditation or spiritual cultivation and you don’t know the basic material in this book, then you don’t know anything. Really. I hate the translation, but what can you do since the material is invaluable and doesn’t even appear in yoga texts?

 

Many people start meditating, trying some new technique, and feel nothing.

Others IMMEDIATELY feel heat, or energy currents, or various movements of chi and physical fluctuations from some meditation technique. It’s almost as if they start  picking up where they left off their cultivation practice in a past life.

Welcome Home!

Then, after awhile, the magnitude of those inital reactions naturally tones down and then disappears as the chi smoothens out.

Other people — being advanced meditators — try new methods from time to time and eventually bump into a new one that gives them all these chi current reactions that were missing when they tried other techniques. Advice: stay with that one for awhile. It could just be coincidence, or it could be that you found a meditation method wherein you’re FINALLY letting go when you practice so that your chi immediately arises.

If you REALLY let go of mental cli ging, your chi changes INSTANTLY. It’s like a billionbubbles or river streams rushing up at once. Try to get into that state without analyzing it at all, and just let it happen….if you try to analyze it, it will immediately stop. Don’t add interpretation or analysis on top of what’s happening. you don’t have to know what’s happening. Not knowing – knowing that you don’t know –is correct to let the body transformand not interfere with chi currents at this point. Adding inferences just interferes with the proicess.

Why all the differences betweemn people and techniques and their reactions? Everyone has different propensities, karmic merit, cultivation groundwork,  prajna wisdom and so forth. That’s why gong-fu (kungfu) exhibits itself differently in different people.

Typically people will feel all sorts of reactions from meditation. Taoism, Buddhism and yoga all have lists of these "standard" reactions such as feelings of hot, cold, heaviness, lightness, weightlessness, stretching, itching, pliancy, etc.

Big deal — your chi is awakening and your body is trying to transform. Just ignore it. Just as you couldn’t guide your body through puberty, you can’t do it here either. You don’t know what’s goingon and what’s supposed to happen, but your body does. Whatever happens is natural – it’s not going to kill you because it’s NATURAL — so let it do its thing without interference.

Tao and Longevity, by Nan Huai Chin and Wen Kuan Chu, is probably the best book in existence on these initial reactions that occur due to meditation.  The free Stages Course page download also goes over some as well. But this is just the passing scenery of the path: don’t get transfixed on it, think it something ultimate, or feel you’re special — you’re the ONLYONE who this has ever happened to. It’s all due to chi and mai (chi channel) changes within the physical body.

 

I always try to teach people to use their noggins to try to decipher what goes on in the world. Even if they’re wrong, this is how you have to train yourself  if you want to become a leader. People read history where everything in the past seems clear, but never train themselves to use the signs in front of them to read the probable future, which is what matters as that’s where you’re going to live.  Even if you’re wrong, you have to start training yourself to think about things. You’ll be wrong at times, and may reach different conclusions from others (just as doctors presented with the same facts often reach different diagnoses), but you have to start training yourself anyway.

As an example — and sure I could be wrong –  but here’s my take of recent developments in Russia….

Just recently a B-52 bomber was loaded with nuclear weapons and flown over American airspace (against the law and a BIG breach of security and protocols) to land at Barksdale airport base, which is only used for staging operations for Iraq. That base is never used for decommissioning atomic weapons.

http://freeworldsurvey.blogspot.com/2007/09/6-nukes-fly-over-us-big-problems-with.html

The big hubabbaloo is, "How could this have happened as it’s against policy, the law, security and protocol? Who screwed up?"

Whether this was a tip off to the American public (by someone high up inside the military) that we’re preparing to use nuclear weapons in Iran, or the Chinese are showing us they’ve gained control of our secure military communications system (from successful cyber attacks), or just an extraordinary  procedural glitch mistake is unknown. We’ll never know. Watching "60 Minutes" over the years, you learn that the military rarely ever fesses up to anything, and the people at the bottom of the chain of command typically get blamed for the mistakes/orders of those higher up the chain. Maybe the mistake admission is even a "deliberate leak" intended to serve as a veiled warning to Iran, letting it  conclude the missiles are bound for Iran. If so, such strategies are designed with the word "think" in mind.

But let’s proceed, but before we do, a reminder that because of this goof, the US is having a military plane "stand down" on September 14, just as there was a NORAD stand down ordered for 9-11. Strange with all the posturing about not revealing things to potential terrorists that you would publicly announce to terrorists  that all military fighters  will be standing down on day X . Of course, recent terror events, such as London July 7, 2005, have occurred when drills and exercises went live — it’s a well used technique of controlling intended operations.

Now, it’s no secret the US is preparing to attack Iran and has prepared military plans to that extent. Much has been written on this already in the news and President Bush has shown he just as much wants to go into Iran as he wanted to go into Iraq, with those plans actually having been set well before 911:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inyCkCvqRO0&v3

So the will is there, the planning is done, the stage is set. All you need is an excuse  trigger or just a "go ahead" decision if it’s something you’ve really been planning to do.

Today the Russians explode the world’s strongest thermobaric weapon, a mid-air vacuum bomb that creates pressure shockwaves exactly like an atomic weapon without the radiation side effects. It’s a mega-bomb.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1155952320070911

Why such timing?

Let’s review:  the US wants to attack Iran…known. Possibly the US wants to use nuclear weapons in Iran proactively, and has even changed military policy to allow this to happen.  Preparations are near completion ….commonly known.   Iran talks to Russia. Russia now detonates a non-atomic weapon – the "Dad of all bombs" – with just as much destructive killing power as an atomic blast, without the radiation, to demonstrate its capabilities.

Translation: Russia is saying to the US — if you do X, we can do Y, WITHOUT resorting to nuclear weapons and escalating matters. Be careful. Choose.

Another "think" scenario.

Of course, every nation likes to demonstrate to others its military capabilities as a deterrent. It’s just good policy – show you have a strong or unbeatable hand, and no one bothers to challenge you. When new superweapons are unveiled, timing is a critical factor selected to maximize military purposes. It’s Strategy 101 – you’re stupid if you don’t. So with the timing this is yet another plausible way to interpret the tensions brought out by the Mideast.

Everyone has opinions, so I could be wrong. So could you. So could they. So could us. So could them … and what about those guys? So could … you get the point. Who cares — the point is to get the brain working, like playing chess for the mental exercise. As citizens we don’t do enough of that mental questioning anymore, especially when trying to figure out the long term consequences of policies we governmentally institute. If you had access to actual military and intelligence reports and communiques on a daily basis, it’s more a question of knowing something rather than guessing anything, so thinking is what you have left due to lack of information. Prediction is a game of futility for half of the people in the stock market every day, and yet it must be done even though you’re often wrong…the successful are those who outthink the others.  All I want you to do is start thinking with wisdom, even if your conclusion is wrong you have to start training to exercise the noggin and linking the dots. 

For instance, take the plane that hit the Pentagon on 911 — you’ve seen dozens of plane crash  pictures  on TV news reports over the years, but in this case no plane wings debris was found at all, no plane engines were found, no luggage was found or passengers were found. The hole  in the pentagon’s wall was smaller than the nose of the aircraft (just the size of a missile), no windows broken on the side of the impact circle, the videotapes from a hotel across the way were confiscated within 5 minutes of the crash (wow, that was quick) and have never been publicly released (as if it’s national security?), expert pilots have testified that THEY could not fly the flight trajectory after years of training and terrorists were supposed to be able to do this after just a few weeks, etc, etc. Exercise your brain — even a teenager can do this to reach a logical conclusion,and you don’t want to be embarrassed by the unbiased mental deductive abilities of a teenager. LOL! A teenager can outthink talking heads to arrive at logical conclusiosn simply using the famous Sherlock Holmes saying: "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however, improbable, must be the truth. Sometimes the unthinkable is the truth, so you have to start thinking wider, deeper, longer to train to consider the improbable, implausible, and so forth. That’s actually how ordinary financial careers are made great careers on Wall Street.

This is wisdom training.

You have to learn geopolitics too. In The Evil Empire, by Alexandre De Marenches (previous head of head of the Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage  or SDECE, France’s external intelligence agency – equivalent to the CIA), he often lamented that people don’t look at maps or learn to run such scenarios through their heads as training vehicles. People don’t study PAST history, and they don’t run scenarios through their heads as plausible future paths either. In Liar’s Poker, we learn that this scenario playing (institutionalized by Shell Oil) with the figuring out of lateral consequences is one way  to prepare for successful financial trades. So all I’m doing is reciting three other fields where people say you should try to learn to think this way just as a matter of course in life. The only way you can learn and get better at it is via practice. Humor me and start trying it.Itdoesn’tmatterifyou’rewrong,

As to Iraq and Iran — Winston Churchill pointed out in his histories that this area of the world has been the graveyard of countless empires, something the Romans and so many others have learned time and again. Let us hope we do not have to learn the very same lesson so many others have due to stupidity in foreign policy.

I have an unfinished translation in my hands of Master Nan’s "Youth in the 21st Century," which I wanted to one day publish as "Understanding this Chinese Generation." The problem is just that — the translation is unfinished. After thousands of dollars and 7+ years waiting, it looks like it will never get done, so what am I to do?

I can’t get any translator to finish it – most aren’t qualified because of the terms used, or are busy with other projects, or uninterested or too expensive. For his books, only a few translators in the world are ever qualified because they need to know classical Chinese, ancient Chinese, Buddhist Chinese and Taoist Chinese….all very different vocabulary sets. A regular Chinese book is easily translated, but not  this type of work. I’ve used Chinese translators for years – Thomas Cleary, JC Cleary, Bill Brown, Doug Wile, Bill Porter (Red Pine) etc. etc. Go look up their books on amazon and then you’ll realize I know what I’m talking about and that if I say it’s not easy then it really isn’t that easy.

The budget is used up anyway, and since I’ve never yet recovered the costs of publishing any of his books or most of my own, it’s probably no use throwing more good money at this project. Which is, by the way, another reason why you’re lucky to have  these cultivation and meditation materials available in the first place at all since you can’t find the contents elsewhere,  they take an awful amount of time and money to produce, have the same production costs as normal books if not more  other than the $1-2 it costs to print a  paperback, and  Top Shape Publishing doesn’t make $100K a year, or $50K, or $25K, or  $12.5K or even half that again ($6K) on them, and of course that’s before labor costs.  LOL!

You should make your own vows to use the information  made available because it’s very, very hard to come upon the real dharma. Real cultivation dharma is practically non-existent in the world while unproven New Age psycho-babble garbage abounds, growing larger every year and collecting buckets of money  by spouting nonsensical claims internationally on the definition of spirituality, the spiritual path and the way of personal cultivation. No one wants to talk about the real cultivation because it requires work and is just too hard; everyone wants to say they have it or are cultivating it. Well, each of us in life have our own vows, motives, purposes, needs and objectives. All I can tell you is beware of ignorance.

So what do I do about this book … an example of the thinking process of a traditionally trained Chinese scholar, expert in history, Zen master and esoteric master, with his own views on the world? Take a peek at some of these quotes:

Today, universal education and the boundaries of knowledge grow with each passing day at a rate unheard of more than thirty years ago. Yet, the dedication and spiritual “zeal” of our youth to the ideals of the “movement for national renaissance” cannot compare to that of the generation before them. As we pattern ourselves on the advances of material civilization, we trade in our inhibitions and self-control for the good life, seeking refuge in its promised future of comfort and security. Blindly pursuing the development of commerce and industry, each frantic moment of our precious time is devoted to the attainment of wealth, even as our love of learning and self-realization become impoverished. As a result, we have fostered a social milieu that slavishly stresses the potential of the natural sciences, but treats the exploration of humanist thought as a profligate squandering of time. We continue to avert our eyes from the tragic future certain to result from the grotesque juggernaut of natural science as it feeds off the remains of humanist culture, like a “parasite in the belly of a lion, consuming its mighty host.”

If we truly desire to chart a new ideological course for the nation and the world, we must first come to terms with the struggles of modern life and the realization that they are the symptoms of a cultural war. Whether we look to the regions of communist control or the Free World, the industrially advanced First World or the underdeveloped Third World, as in the past we remain lost between the goals of spiritual realization and the necessities of practical existence. In other words, our frustrations are a product of the competition between man’s quest for economic equality in the face of scarcity and his search for spiritual rebirth and peace of mind. In our struggle, two preliminary issues emerge: the unabashed borrowing of capitalist economic devices by modern communism, and our own wrongheaded worship at the altar of materialism. Therefore, other than the current focus of modern youth on learning the skills necessary for everyday life and the struggle for national renaissance, there are two important topics that urgently need to be addressed by the best of this generation:

1. How to shape a new economic philosophy for the benefit of mankind

2. How to synergistically unite and harmonize the cultures of materialism and spirituality.

In the process of working towards this goal, we must proceed with the understanding that our endeavor is an outgrowth of the humanist ideal and a challenge worthy of the best among us, requiring deep reflection, a love of learning, and an inductive approach. Our task is not one of hasty plans and hurried work. While it may be true that there is an ocean of difference between our quixotic goals and the reality of the world around us, “diligent study ultimately leads to success.” Applying this wisdom to the honorable pursuit of humanist ideals will lead us to the inner realm of self-understanding. If, however, we limit our strategies to the goals of personal success and the necessities of individual life, then the historic opportunities now within our reach will be lost. We must seize our present situation and exchange it for an everlasting reality, grab hold of our individuality and transform it into an historical destiny. If we do see to it that these notions take on a renewed sense of worth in the minds of our young, we run the risk of becoming the laughingstock of future generations as we leave a legacy of blank pages to the next sixty years of scholarship.

This actually touches upon one of my own goals in life, which is to provide the materials to help forge this union. No one else seems to be doing it with REAL self-cultivation as the basis. That’s why I talk about both cultivation AND real life integration with wisdom knowing and action. 

You need cultivation, and you need real world knowledge – science, medicine, technology, economics and so forth. I’ve already written about the five great fields you need to  master to become a Bodhisattva – just studying cultivation is not enough. 

A Benjamin Franklin may exhibit the best of humanistic self-cultivation, but is missing the stages of spiritual ascent. A Hinayana meditation master may have the spiritual stages, but is missing the humanistic involvement with society. Society – regular people – need a means / system of guidance in their busy lives that incorporates how to mix self-improvement,  personal accomplishment/achievement and personal excellence, self-perfection, compassionate / charitable societal involvement to make the world a better place with culture, business, technology usage, economic survival, AND spiritual cultivation.

So I’ve done my duty and written a variety of books along these lines to plug in the patches and link things. White Fat Cow is one such book. Socrates is another. Kuan Tzu is another. The USP book is another. Insider Guide is another. The STAGES material and MEASURING are others. Upcoming books (if I ever get the time) on entrepreneurship/business purpose, educating children, lessons of history and governance, supercycle investing across the generations, Christian cultivation, and so forth will fill other gaps. But who has time to write since people don’t read anymore and the books don’t make money? …LOL. Even this blog post took  more than five hours of writing and editing, doesn’t make money and can’t be outsourced — what am I thinking????

Every now and then I write something as my own personal vow to help my own country or the world, like my books on Antibiotic Alternatives  or What to Do Healthwise if a Dirty Bomb Ever Hits. Antibiotics are no longer working which is an issue of  national security, as is agirculture but I don’t have time to go into that. There are natural antibiotic alternatives that work (H2O2, real colloidal silver, blood electrification, immune boosters,…), but  pharma firms will not  investigate these other paradigms/methods unless there is monopolistic money to be made via patents … and it’s not to be made with what does work. So I have to write it. Who else will do it?

As to helping the nation with the Radiation book, I’m sure someone somewhere has already somehow twisted  the contribution  as making me a threat rather than as someone who has spent the time providing the only public resource out there  on what to do if an atomic bomb ever explodes in a city, what to do in an emergency if you’re left on your own even though the government hasn’t produced anything onthis topic other than "take potassium iodide."  Go check — I’m the only one who’s put anything together for the nation after spending several years scouring the literature for whatever I can find reported that worked at Chernobyl, Nagasaki, etc. so folks can use it in an emergency – www.RadiationDetox.com .

Strange thinking to vilify the extremely good guys, but I guarantee you it’s done all the time. Strange. And the highlights for your benefit just in case: stay away from sugar and grains during a recovery period, eat lots of kelp and seaweeds, sodium alginate, other heavy metal chelators and products like "Modifilan." There … now you have most of it in a nutshell other than the immune boosting and blood building protocols for those exposed to extreme radiation exposure, and a few other things.

Another thing the world needs … even  the elites always talk about a universal spiritual harmony and understanding, a unity of religions, yada  yada. Nonsense, because what  they actually want is THEIR religion to prevail, or they want a boiled down pablum version of things that doesn’t amount to anything and actually leads nowhere. But basically, each envisions something under THEIR umbrella. The Christian Armageddon-Rapture crowd is already operating with a subconscious blueprint in their mind guiding their decisions along the lines of  "I’m a good Christian destined for heaven and the Rapture take-away, and want Jesus to come, so let’s make this happen."  Other groups are encouraging this because it prompts the US to make big policy mistakes in THEIR interest. As Master Nan often pointed out from surveying world history, whenever people in power operate government affairs according to religious notions, they typically weaken the country and usually destroy it. 

Reiteration: do not make national security, military, and strategic policy decisions etc. based on theology.

If you carefully look at the materials on the MeditationExpert.com website, you’ll see they reveal  the only universal framework for this stated goal without all the gobbely-gook because what’s revealed actually IS the common non-sectarian framework beneath everything. It’s not my framework — it’s the framework beneath all the genuine spiritual paths that work. The true dharma actually does link all these schools in just the way people claim they want and the world needs — spiritual cultivation and personal cultivation – but people don’t actually want the true dharma. It’s also true because it’s what works (rather than just blind faith and belief, worship, religious memorization, and following special religious rules and injunctions). The sticky problem is  that it involves effort. LOL! It involves recognizing or understanding that:

* the spiritual path involves meditation and other commonly used mental/concentration practices to silence/empty/calm/detach from thoughts; religions commonly use one or another of these commonly shared techniques which  depend upon the same fundamental principles of mental training to ultimately free one from thoughts - cessation-contemplation
* various clear / high/ refined spiritual mental states will be produced from success in these practices
* the best of these states are the samadhi – dhyana mental absorptions, which are what make someone a guru, saint, prophet, etc.
* these samadhi-dhyana states are non-denominational and the SAME spiritual states mentioned/taught/shared by religious saints and sages across the world
* there are stages to these states, and some saints do achieve higher stages than others, plain and simple; the highest in self-realization usually provide teachings that become religions with few problems, the lowest provide teachings that become religions with lots of problems
* physical gong-fu transformative changes are involved with achieving progress along these lines, as are psychic and paranormal abilities (abilities to perform "miracles")
* the samadhi and gong-fu are just the signposts of progress whereas realizing the Tao (the stage of selflessness, realizing non-ego, totally abandoning thoughts so you are one with the original nature without anything small self-created) is the real target of all spiritual practice — enlightenment, self-realization, liberation
* virtue, ethics, self-improvement, compassion and charity are necessary components of this path
* there are lots of spiritual beings throughout the universe (including unseen ones in this world) above the level of the human being, and an infinite number of populated worlds of all types with ours by no means the highest, and none of these higher beings/gods/deities is the ultimate since they’re all cultivating to reach the Tao through methods appropriate to their conditions
* the teachings of various religions are given expedientally/skillfully/according tot he situation by spiritual masters who’ve reached various stages of realization, which accounts for their differences in excellence and completion … over time other non-spiritual teachings get added into the fray and the original message twisted, lost or misconstrued as happens with everything
* there is an ultimate Tao-God-Allah-original nature-Brahman-fundamental being-Buddhanature-dharmakaya behind everything but it is NOT a person, being, entity, deity, life as people assume making images int heir minds  … you cannot say the original nature is real or non-real, existent or non-existent but you can realize it by cultivating and letting go of everything mental that stands in the way of its realization (i.e. thoughts)
*  the stage of selflessness or non-ego is the stage that realizes this state
* karma or interdependent origination of cause and effect links everything together in this conventional realm of unreality

Of course these principles — while the basis of Advaita (Vedanta), Sikkhism, Buddhism, Taoism, real Christianity, Sufism, etc. – go against the fact that  Christians want Jesus to reign supreme, the Jews want their religion to reign supreme, Moslems want their interpretation of Allah to reign supreme. Yet these are the fundamental, common, non-denominational principles — and if you search the accounts of various saints, sages, and religious greats you’ll see it. The key is to cultivate yourself to PROVE IT FOR YOURSELF,as that’s all that matters rather than intellectual acceptance.

But enough of that. I just always wanted to give you a short synopsis of some of the main principles  of the path. Continuing …

Here’s another quote from Understanding this Chinese Generation I particularly like, and it concerns Master Nan Huai-chin’s constant dealings with University professors, especially non-Chinese with worldviews that just don’t get it. Suffice it to say, most university trained Americans and British really do NOT understand the Chinese and China, the power that’s becoming the next world giant:

Four years ago, a certain American professor of sociology on summer vacation was visiting the Orient. Because he had read an English translation of my book The Unique Problem of Chinese Society, he made special arrangements to have an interview with me. 
 
 At one point during our conversation, he commented, "Throughout history, China has gone through many periods of near national destruction. However, not only were her people and culture not destroyed, but instead, after each historical disaster, she has returned more resilient and radiant than ever. I don’t believe there is a similar example of this in Western history; what is the source of this strength?" Offering a clear and concise answer, I replied, "It is the power of cultural unity."
 
 Although his pen did not once stop as he listened to my reply, his expression seemed full of doubt. Not waiting for the next question, I stated, "During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, we were actually just like Europe, with numerous feudal states of all sizes, each with its own written and spoken languages, economies, and forms of exchange. However, with the implementation of the ’standardization of language and transportation’ during the Chin and Han periods, not only was the political system integrated, but also in the process Chinese culture itself was unified. Of course, over the next two millennia, isolated by great distances, her regional dialects, customs, and habits were able to develop and maintain their own individual linguistic characteristics. However, China’s written language and cultural ideology have remained entirely consistent, even becoming widely adopted in Asian countries such as Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. So, while China has endured generation after generation of political upheaval, the unity of her national culture even in the face of historic change has remained irreversible. If in its classical period, the written language and culture of Western Europe had been integrated, then it would resemble China, and the West and its history would not be what they are today. It can also be concluded that it is precisely this different cultural and historical background, with its diversity of viewpoints, which led to the advances of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the eventual rise of modern American power. The cultural tradition of our spiritual, Confucian, and Taoist ideologies, however, all demand unity and order."
 
 Eventually he touched on the concept of "the great unity" as detailed in the chapter on the "The Evolution of Rites" in the Confucian classic, The Book of Rites, asking, "Isn’t it actually true that this traditional Chinese political ideology has much in common with the social ideals of communism?" Hearing this I broke out into uncontrollable laughter, laughing so hard in fact that his expression began to appear very uneasy. After regaining my composure, I said, "I am so sorry. I was really out of line, but your question made me think of your country’s so-called China experts. Doesn’t it seem reasonable to assume that they hold the same mistaken notions you do?" He said, "I don’t know whether the notion is mistaken or not, but it is our opinion and most people agree with it." I then said, "This notion is not only a mistake, but a quite serious one at that. The individual awareness of our humanity is at the core of the sociopolitical ideals contained in "The Evolution of Rites". As each of us individually seeks to elevate the morality of his own character, these ideals hold that the perfection of the collective morality of society will naturally follow. The way of the enlightened monarch detailed in The Spring And Autumn Annals, the so-called three ages of peace, order, and prosperity spoken of in The Kung-yang Commentary to the Spring And Autumn Annals, and the Taoist prescription patterned on natural ‘non-action’ all emerge from this same cultural tradition. As for the ideals of communism, they are simply a means of obtaining the political power necessary for the construction of a communist social system. In a word, this system which demands total acquiescence to the exercise of its power is not only completely devoid of any genuine freedom, but also ignores the cultivation of human virtue. When you equate the ideology of ‘the great unity’ with communism, your view is not only flawed, but actually misses the world of difference that exists between the two."

Four years back I had a series of conversations with an American graduate student studying in China. Our discussions, which he transcribed and planned on translating into English, focused on issues relating to Western and Chinese culture. On one occasion, when the issue of freedom and democracy came up, I remarked, "In our modern era America alone carries the flag of Western cultural glory, championing democracy and freedom.  But what Americans like to call democracy and freedom is actually the ‘American style of democracy and freedom.’ Although this style is by no means suitable for most other people and places, it is especially inappropriate for the five thousand year old culture of China. However, not only do Americans not understand this fact, but you also refuse to even consider its possibility. So your good intentions and American style of democracy and freedom are matched by an equally powerful response of antipathy wherever they turn up."
 
 "What exactly do you mean when you say the American style of democracy and freedom," he asked. I replied, "The answer requires quite a complex discussion of two hundred years of contributing factors, from the founding of your country to the present. To summarize though, from the eighteenth century to the present, as America’s forefathers flocked to the New World, they carried with them the culture of the European industrial revolution. However, coming from many different countries such as England, France, Germany, and Austria they carried with them the unique cultural perspectives of their individual ethnic backgrounds. These perspectives, combined with an ideological inclination toward the promotion of the general welfare, helped form the spiritual foundation of your nation – ‘of the people, by the people, and for the people.’ However, regardless of what shape it assumes, hiding in the framework of liberalism and democracy has been the secret ingredient of the market forces that drive industry and commerce. This was true at the birth of your nation, and after two hundred years remains true to this very day. To be honest, the behind-the-scenes bosses who actually manage your democratic politics are inseparable from the capitalist and commercial industrial complex which surrounds them. Yes its true! Even today, America’s territorial ambitions abroad have been quite limited. However, the same thing cannot be said of your desire to occupy foreign markets. This hidden agenda, when added to the tangle of your democratic politics and an unsophisticated provincial populace, has resulted in hesitation, inconsistency, and fence-sitting on the international scene. If you really want to live up to your superpower status, you must combine your international political experience with an in-depth study of the Chinese classic The Spring And Autumn Annals. Only then will you grasp the righteous principle of ‘restoring the nation and insuring its posterity." Having returned home, today this American colleague has begun teaching The Spring and Autumn Annals and its related commentaries at Harvard University.

His stance on society today, and what we must do to shape it, is summarized in this interesting quote (this is how a traditional Chinese scholar thinks and writes, which reveals a literary style largely unknown in the West):

 In his Spring and Autumn Annals, Confucius, China’s most universally recognized sage, placed responsibility and blame on the elites who had the power and position to influence national policy. The pros and cons of this thesis involve historical and philosophical issues that we will put aside for now. However, at the very least it should be understood that during the Spring and Autumn period education and learning were not widespread. Because of this, the elite feudal literati did indeed have an inescapable obligation to society at large.

 During the same period, the Indian sage Shakyamuni, who founded Buddhism and spread the Buddhadharma, considered social turmoil to be the result of the collective karma of humankind and all living things. Like a fiery wheel spinning out of control, once the momentum of this shared karma was set in motion no hand could stay its course; any attempt to halt it merely feeds its power and leads to greater chaos.
 
 At the heart of Confucian philosophy lies the principle of "seeing the world in terms of man," hence the Spring and Autumn Annals take the feudal literati to task for the ills of the day. Shakyamuni’s reasoning, however, similar to Lao Tzu’s concepts of "non-action" and "cause and effect," "sees man in terms of the world." Therefore, the tone of the Buddhadharma is one of sad lament for the intractable collective karma of the mass of living beings.
 
 If we analyze Shakyamuni’s theory of history from the point of view of "seeing man in terms of the world," then we do indeed find his philosophy well founded. However, the natural outcome of this logic is for one to stand paralyzed by the sidelines with hands in pockets, mourning the sad fate of all living things! If, however, like Confucius we "see the world in terms of man," then we must conclude, "the rise and fall of nations rests in the hands of men."

 As heirs to the past, if we are to pass on our legacy and forge ahead into the future, meeting our responsibility in a time of dramatic historical change head-on, then we must approach the ideological and psychological issues of today’s youth through deep soul searching and develop a new path forward. In the process of analyzing the morbidity afflicting the thoughts and psyche of modern youth, we must also trace its root causes within the course of historical and cultural evolution. We can then focus our efforts on the search for a prescription to treat this morbidity.

So what do I do with this unfinished manuscript? I think I’ll give it away for a short while. You’ve put up with me for awhile, so if you’d like to download it, here it is: Master Nan Huai Chin’s Unfinished Translation of Youth in the 21st Century. Hurry before I change my mind — I have been known to do that.

And by the way, what are you doing to forge the new path that links spiritual practice with humanism and the modern struggle for existence and achievement? It’s not my job. As I always point out, the effort is up to you.

I was having a family conversation the other day, and happened to quote something I found in a book a long time ago which explained why people complain that a lot of lawyers have no ethics. I like to give credit where credit is due (Stages students know I have hundreds of footnotes in their materials), but unfortunately, I can’t remember where it’s from.

It went somewhat as follows (and you have to excuse my memory for the exact wording): "Since lawyers are basically trained to take any side of an argument, it’s not that they are trained to be open-minded. It’s that they are taught to lose their moral center."

Think about it — you’re taught to take any side of an argument, not the RIGHT side, and thus some take this as a lesson to lose their moral center….which is often why many will take on all sorts of cases, even unjust ones, just for the money.  Not everyone, of course, but some — yes.

That explains some of the negativity people hold about lawyers, including a claim about a lack of ethics, aside from their tactics and other items. Don’t take this as me badmouthing lawyers as a group, because I have plenty of fine, outstanding lawyer friends and have no such conceptions. I just want you to think, in a wisdom way, about how exposure and slow acculturation works. To everyone – no. To some – yes. Hold on for the rest of the teriyaki sauce lesson…

What about salesmen?

Motivated by pressure or income or bonuses or the need to sell to keep their job (or whatever — greed or survival), Salesmen are taught to go to extremes/do whatever it takes to sell goods and services, and therefore it is not surprising that they often fall victim to exaggeration or eventually outright lying in order to sell products.

Same for marketers who fall too deep into their field of practice, and don’t watch themselves. The net result is slipperiness, or just outright lying. This "slipperiness" or "greasiness" factor is an interesting choice of words, because in facial fortune telling, one subset of characteristics for some liars is that they sometimes do extrude excess oil from their skin in conjunction with this liar-prone character.

Another interesting facial fortune feature of empty talkers and even liars or just boasters — no fine/defined lip line for their upper lip (hard to describe this – you need someone to show you). Of course if you want to spot people lying, watch where the pupils of their eyes go versus when giving factual responses, see whether they touch their nose or face, and so forth. For instance, Clinton’s blinking rate when denying his affair with Monica Lewinsky went up to 120 times/minute versus the normal 35 times, and he also ended up using a hand and arm in exclamation which he never uses normally. But enough of the body language lesson …

Someone once told me, of the police who turn to crime, "In being exposed to crime day after day, at first they are appalled and repelled by it, but by-and-by they learn to tolerate, accept and then embrace it." 

Hmmmmm. Stage (1) be appalled, stage (2) acclimate to it, stage (3) accept it as normal, stage (4) embrace it as a normal way of life.

Similarly, in Communist China, lying was essential for survival and promotion, so this habit (and other related lacks of ethics necessary for survival) became accepted as normal and many Chinese still carry this over into today’s world to the consternation of all who deal with them, even though Communism, for all intents and purposes, is dead (and thankfully so).

By the way, socialism, which is trumpeted by many "elites" today, has its own set of problems leading to no good ends that they just cannot understand because they brainwash themselves with crazy thinking just as idealistically wrong, Utopian, Messiah-like, impossible and spirit-numbing as believing in Communism. I suggest they go read Intellectuals by Paul Johnson to show how wrong the intellectuals are with all their wishful thinking that throws aside an understanding of basic human nature.

What about corporations?

"Corporations act to make profits, and in pursuit of profits (or corporate employees running after bonuses), are willing to destroy culture and communities, human rights and even attack (in order to destroy) helpful competing items in society in pursuit of more profits. All that matters is profits –  anything in the way of higher profits is crushed or destroyed if possible, even if it serves a societal function."

Corporations do not ask, "Is it ethical, is what we’re doing right?" Corporations ask, "Is it profitable, is it profit maximizing?"

The amazingly outrageous fact to realize is that sometimes individuals within corporations commit gigantic-mundo magnitude scale crimes and their personal benefit is a meagre  $10,000 bonus within the corporate gears. It simply amazes me the damage people will do not for BIIIIIIIG MONEY, but for a relatively minor amount of money. A common heard justification to help the self-talk numb out the conscience, "It’s Okay if it’s legal." Along those lines, when governments pass  laws to persecute various religious groups, that makes it right????

Frankly, the profit motive of corporations has done so much to destroy so many things in pursuit of profits that it’s amazing. I’m a big promoter of business — without it no one has work, or income and there is no money for services and taxes etc. , but just warn you of the excess when corporations make the rules. The pure profit motive destroys humanistic concerns. It actually imperils a nation.

Witness, as two examples, seeds with terminator genes designed so an agribusiness can have monopolistic control over food supply. That’s a recipe for disaster (and a concern at the level of strategic national security no one seems to be addressing, as is the lack of adequate government seed banks spread throughout the world – we can spend billions on war but not a few million to protect our seed supply in case there ever is an attack on us – stupidity supreme) when finally some crop disease or blight comes along, and then and only then will politicians wake up and say "Why didn’t they know this might happen?" Well, I’m telling you now it’s just a matter of time….use your common sense and legislate against this as otherwise you imperil the nation and put it at risk.

Or, how about the corporation push for water privatization? I am pro-business and champion business inthe extreme, but I seriously question whether business entities should be allowed to make political campaign contributions because  of the wellproven principle and track record of money corrupting politics to no good ends.

You must always practice introspection, and have a business objective other than just "to make money," because frankly "to make money" as an objective without any other purpose for existence justifies selling drugs, products that don’t work, financial fraud and so forth. If you are in business, you have to think about what you are doing, including the karma of a situation. Buddha actually spoke of this and the need for ‘"right livelihood." Confucius spoke of this as well, as did Mencius. Confucius said:

Wealth and high position are what men desire but unless they can be obtained in the correct way, I will not dwell in them. Poverty and low position are what men dislike but if they are obtained by following the correct way, do not avoid them. If the True Gentlemen abandons benevolence, how will he be able to make a name for himself? The True Gentleman does not act contrary to benevolence even for the short time it takes to eat a meal. He must hold to this when in favorable circumstances as well as in times of difficulty. …

 The True Gentleman thinks of virtue, the inferior man thinks of land [wealth]. The True Gentleman thinks of the law [acting contrary to ethics], the inferior man thinks of profit.

Of Szuma Chien, the Grand historian of China, it is written:

As the Grand Historian was reading Mencius, he unconsciously put the book down and sighed when he came to the place where King Hui of Liang asked Mencius, ‘How will you profit my country?’ The historian said, ‘Ah, profit is truly the beginning of disorder. That is why Confucius seldom spoke of profit, always shoring up the source.’ The source is the beginning. Whether it is found among the upper classes or the lower classes, the degeneracy of lust for profit is basically the same. When those in public office profit unfairly, then the law is disordered. When those in the private sector profit by deception, then business is disordered. When business is disorderly, people are contentious and dissatisfied; when law is disorderly, the citizenry is resentful and disobedient. This is how people get to be so rebellious and belligerent that they don’t care if they die. Is this not a demonstration of how, ‘Profit is truly the beginning of disorder’? The sages and saints were deeply cautious and aloof from profit, giving honor and precedence to humanity and justice. But in later times there were still those who deceived each other in hopes of profit; what limit is there to those who destroy morality and ruin education? How much the more serious is the problem when the path of adventurous profiteering is publicly espoused and pursued; under these conditions, how could we hope for the world’s morals and customs to be upright, and not be thin and weak?

From Good to Great discusses the need for a corporate purpose other than just profits (highly recommended), and for years I’ve struggled with the outline of a book on this topic and entrepreneurship, etc. but so far, no luck.

For instance, we have drug companies that try to crush, destroy and eliminate any helpful natural alternatives that are in the way of higher profits. (As Master Nan said, beware if you’re a pharma exec instituting such policies and strategies because one of the karma side effects of so doing, despite whatever beautiful sounding label you put on your efforts, is that in some life you will be denied access to the medicines you need.)

In pursuit of profits,  mining companies and  timber companies have been known  to strip mine or cut down all trees on a mountain and destroy the land. The history of banking in the world shows that bankers have been known to start  wars because of the profit potential – not finance wars because of profit potential, but help START them, initiate them in order to make money from the interest that must be paid on the debt that will be accrued. I’ll leave it to you to go read the dozens of books on this topic. 

We also had the famous baby formula case I was taught in my MS Nutrition program where as a profit maximizing strategy in poor countries, baby formula  companies gave away their product for free during the early stages of a mother’s breastfeeding but stopped the free samples after their lactation dried up, which led to hundreds of thousands of babies dying in impoverished countries when the poor mothers could not afford the milk (and now could not feed the  babies because they no longer produced milk).

This is the problem with corporations that only act as profit maximizers. And by the way, this is why some CEOs wisely hire external consultants as their ethical consultants and voice of conscience, because they are often too close to the situation and get involved with their own group think. A good strategy to consider –

On to intelligence professionals …

We absolutely need intelligence agencies – you’d be crazy to think a country can survive without a CIA-KGB-MOSSAD-MI5-etc. You’re crazy to just blindly criticize a CIA or MOSSAD. All countries need intelligence agencies, and you’re probably not qualified to rule/lead if you’d think otherwise (the question of their abusing their power is a different issue entirely). But the problem with spies is that after lying for a living, lies come too easily in life. They cannot be trusted for almost anything anymore in regular life. Lying becomes ingrained as a way of life, and people can sense this. Same goes if you become an undercover agent.

Anyway, just a few random thoughts along the lines of "lawyers are trained to take either side of an argument, right or wrong, and so are taught to lose their moral center."

Not all, of course, but and interesting viewpoint…don’t misconstrue it and say I’m anti-lawyers, anti-salesmen, anti-police, anti-corporations, anti-profit making, anti-anything. Just teaching you one of the principles you can apply to your thinking at times to understand how things eventually develop over time.

Moral: If you soak the meat in teriyaki sauce  a long time, after a while it tastes like teriyaki sauce. That’s all you need to know.

 

I warned you to watch the Aaron Russo video where he recounts his interviews with the Rockefellers, and told of the banking plan to eventually chip everyone for control purposes.

Well luckily California has tried to nip this chipping in the bud before it ever happens, and you should, too.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-scan31aug31%2C0%2C2715647.story

Why the story? To show you that the plan is already in motion … it’s already happening. AT THE GOVERNMENT LEVEL IT’S HAPPENING RIGHT BEFORE YOUR EYES. It’s not nonsense, it’s already here. It’s not fiction, over-reaction, or conspiracy theory 101 — they’re already doing it or trying to do it.

Solution: Oppose it. Identity cards as well. You already have enough identity.

And, oh, by the way ,those chips they want inside you cause cancer. Here’s another article summarizng the fact that the RFID component of those chips causes cancer – you don’t want this inside you:

http://www.dailytech.com/RFID+Chips+Linked+to+FastGrowing+Cancer/article8796.htm

I laugh when I go to the airport and my ID is checked 5, 6, 7 times before I get  on the plane, supposedly for security purposes. How does the extra 4-5 times make things more secure? If someone blows up the plane, now they know the name. Did the excess name checking help? 

As for tagging human beings with computer chips, don’t fall in love with scientific advancements or sci-fi.

You should never let someone put THEIR foreign body inside yours, especially for "Identification" or other purposes. Even having them mark you in some invisible ink sort of way is wrong. This is what happened to the Jews in WWII and look at the ultimate purposes, and think of the potential abuse. And as for the fact that the chips an have RFID capabilities, which means you can be tracked (or people can find you "in case of an emergency"), that’s even of more concern and worry.

Think back 10, 20, 30 or even 50 years…do you mean to tell me that  what we’ve used for ID or security or other purposes over that time didn’t work?

Ridiculous.

You should oppose this hair brained scheme wherever you find it. The potential for abuse is enormous. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Solution: deny even a foot hold.

And when the scanners-readers break down for these things anyway, since being machines they will eventually break down at some time or another (ever been held up in customs or at a cash register because it broke or the computer went down?), what will they have to fall back upon anyway? The good old, old-fashioned methods that work without any problems, compared to this new suggestion that costs extra. Since you still need the old system, it’s another reason to leave well enough alone.

I prefer using sunshine to melt ice rather than spending money on expensive solutions or coming up with elaborate, ridiculous schemes like this for marginal benefits, at best, over what is….and for secretive motives that go unvoiced, but are planned for the future…or which are unplanned by anyone, but the system design makes it vulnerable to such.

Just as during Joseph’s day the Israelites didn’t know what they were ultimately getting into when they went to Egypt for food, use your wisdom thinking to see how this will ultimately develop and become used and abused  if the idea eventually becomes accepted as OKAY and commonplace….the old slow encroachment and acclimitization tactic.

When you study the I-Ching, you learn to recognize the meaning of a hexagram (gua) and what it portends. As my teacher often taught me, everything is an I-Ching gua hanging there, you just have to learn how to interpret it. Well, Aaron Russo already told you how to interpret this, and this timely news article shows it happening. When you see all the preparations that have been carefully made for the institution of martial law, you can guess what the plan is there as well.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you … if they chip you you become cattle, plain and simple, despite whatever excuses / benefits they can come up with. The path to enlightenment requires you to use your human eyes, and wisdom eyes. You can read history and ask yourself, "Why didn’t they just stand up and DO something?" Well, at least in telling you I’m doing my share. What about you? People always ask what they can do to create merit that costs little, and thisis one of those things — insist that your state governemtn and the federal government forbid chipping because of the potential of abuse … no ifs, ands or buts. History shows what you already know — if you give it an inch, they’ll eventually take a foot; original intents are eventually diverted to elsewhere goals.

I’m sure some official will cite  chipping is for "terrorism" purposes, or national ID purposes, or for your own medical protection (we’ve dropped to #17 in the world because of our medical "improvements" over the last decade, and this is to help further?) or some other such nonsense (remember the $10,000 bank deposit reporting rule designed to help stop the flow of drug money laundring …yeah, right). See through to the facts. Even with 5, no 10, no 20, no 1000 times these benefits, the CONS outweigh the PROS, plain and simple.

It seems we may need a constitutional amendment for personal  privacy as well as for your right to use whatever medical/health procedures you deem fit, as it’s your body and your choice.

 

 

P.S. http://www.policestateplanning.com/implanted_microchips.htm