Fun Stuff

March 17, 2010

Mambo Italiano

And now for something fun and completely different to break up your day ….

And now for the real thing … listen for the lyrics that they left out when Dean Martin or Gérard Darmon sings …

I know people love Micheale Buble but Dean Martin did an excellent job with SWAY …

And when I want a little fun I like to watch this now and then … their story is inspiring:

People who meditate tend to become a little too serious. Relax and enjoy culture now and then. That’s the lesson.

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November 27, 2009

Sun Wu Kung and Hanuman

Lesson Notes for the Teleseminar on Hercules, Western Alchemy and Hanuman and Sun Wu Kong. The point is, literature encapsulates cultivation teachings including true stages of gong-fu. This si the literature that lasts rather than the Harry Potter kind.
 
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Hanuman represents the mind. In this part of the story,  chi (prana/air) and consciousness are linked so when the mind is struck dowen all the chi   is removed from the world … later Hanuman is given all these gifts by the gods meaning the mind has all powers.  Note he’s given mallets as weapons. Sun Wu Kung goes down to the bottom of the ocean (perineum or hai-di) to pick up a needle to use as his weapon. Guess what that is …
 
 
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Journey to the West videos – this is the old 1986 Chinese version of the story, and I agree this is still the best  because of the acting. The voice of Sun Wu Kung is great. Who cares that the special effects are 1986? They were very creative and did excellent casting. In later years, the Chinese may not be able to make television/movies as good as now when they cost less. 
 
Sun Wu Kung is born from a stone — consciousness is born of heaven and earth. He goes down to King Yama of the Hells and wipes out his name from the book of the dead – mind is immortal.
 
Sun Wu Kung seeks a Teacher and Cultivation Teachings. His teacher is named Subhuti, a take-off on the   Shakyamuni Buddha’s student foremost in wisdom. His teacher hits him 3 times and he goes for lessons at the third watch of the night, a take-off on the story of the Altar Sutra of Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch of Zen.
 
 
Sun Wu Kong is  taught all sorts of transformations; the mind has endless functions and can do all sorts of things.
 
 
Being appointed “protector of the horses”; horses = chi just like Hanuman’s story there is a relationship.
 
After making trouble in heaven, the mind is imprisioned via attachment to the body of 5 elements. Sun Wu Kung originally thinks he can get out of the Buddha’s palm but the miraculous powers of the Buddha nature are beyond the sixth consciousness.
 
 
Later Xuan Zong is taught a mantra to keep the monkey mind in chekc. The pig represents our 5 sense consciounesses. The horse the monk rides represents using breathing methods. The monk represents the sixth consciousness. The stories are stages of cultivation.
 

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January 10, 2009

How a Kiva Loan Works (and You get Your Money Back)

Just watch:

http://vimeo.com/2769845

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December 29, 2008

Holy Catfish

Sent in by Bruce Marsh:

“For all those crazy guys who go ‘noodling’ for catfish and & stick their arms down the fish’s throat!! This would be ‘all the catfish you can eat.’

“Each year, a few people were drowning or disappearing mysteriously in Huadu’s Furong Reservoir ( China ). It was not until recently, when the son of a government official went swimming in the reservoir and was drowned that the secret was revealed.

“It is a 3-metre long man-eating catfish whose head alone is 1 metre wide! After cutting up the catfish, people were surprised to find the remains of another man inside!

“Swimming in the reservoir is now forbidden because it is feared another similar man-eating catfish is still lurking in the waters.”

True picture.

catfish

Brian writes in, however:

“I think you might have been hoaxed with the giant “catfish” on your blog.  Google images for “whale shark” and “mekong catfish”.  There ARE giant catfish in Asia, but this photo looks like a smallish whale shark.  The clue is the dorsal fin – catfish are bony so their dorsal fin looks like a bat wing, sharks are cartiliginous so their dorsal fins are smooth.  You also notice that the pectoral fins have been removed?  The Chinese like that shark fin soup don’t they? The story could be true, but to me that picture is not a catfish. :)
I’m thinking the picture is true (perhaps falsely identified), but the story is made up. Who can tell with what comes from China nowadays? Ha  Ha Ha. At least it’s a big interesting “swimming thing”!

Nigel Thompson writes in:

“Just want to let you know that the animal pictured in your recent ‘HolyCatfish’ blog entry is actually not a catfish but a whale shark.  The story of the man-eating catfish appears to be another Internet-based urban legend.  Not only is it a whale shark, but whale sharks are filter-feeders and mainly eat plankton and algae.  It’s one of the large, relatively peaceful animals that exist in the world.  These  animals cavort gently with scuba divers.  On top of that, it’s an endangered species.  (I’m no marine biologist, I just did some checking.) I’m positive you’ll want to know this.”

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December 23, 2008

Stephen Wiltshire: The Human Camera

An amazing demonstration …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8YXZTlwTAU

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December 11, 2008

An Honest Craig’s List

This ad recently appeared on Craig’s list, and has been requoted everywhere.  It’s about why a man with wealth shouldn’t marry a girl just for her looks. I’ll save my comments for the end because I alwasy wanted to write about this. The Craigslist ad starts off with a girl looking for a guy.

Girl Asks – What am I doing wrong?

Okay, I’m tired of beating around the bush. I’m a beautiful (spectacularly beautiful) 25 year old girl. I’m articulate and classy. I’m not from New York . I’m looking to get married to a guy who makes at least half a million a year. I know how that sounds, but keep in mind that a million a year is middle class in New York City, so I don’t think I’m overreaching at all.

Are there any guys who make 500K or more on this board? Any wives? Could you send me some tips? I dated a business man who makes average around 200 – 250. But that’s where I seem to hit a roadblock. 250,000 won’t get me to central park west. I know a woman in my yoga class who was married to an investment banker and lives in Tribeca, and she’s not as pretty as I am, nor is she a great genius. So what is she doing right? How do I get to her level?

Here are my questions specifically:

- Where do you single rich men hang out? Give me specifics- bars, restaurants, gyms

-What are you looking for in a mate? Be honest guys, you won’t hurt my feelings

-Is there an age range I should be targeting (I’m 25)?

- Why are some of the women living lavish lifestyles on the upper east side so plain? I’ve seen really ‘plain jane’ boring types who have nothing to offer married to incredibly wealthy guys. I’ve seen drop dead gorgeous girls in singles bars in the east village. What’s the story there?

- Jobs I should look out for? Everyone knows – lawyer, investment banker, doctor. How much do those guys really make? And where do they hang out? Where do the hedge fund guys hang out?

- How you decide marriage vs. just a girlfriend? I am looking for MARRIAGE ONLY

Please hold your insults – I’m putting myself out there in an honest way. Most beautiful women are superficial; at least I’m being up front about it. I wouldn’t be searching for these kind of guys if I wasn’t able to match them – in looks, culture, sophistication, and keeping a nice home and hearth.

The Guy Replies – We would call you a trading position, not a buy and hold

I read your posting with great interest and have thought meaningfully about your dilemma. I offer the following analysis of your predicament.

Firstly, I’m not wasting your time, I qualify as a guy who fits your bill; that is I make more than $500K per year. That said here’s how I see it.

Your offer, from the prospective of a guy like me, is plain and simple a crappy business deal. Here’s why. Cutting through all the B.S., what you suggest is a simple trade: you bring your looks to the party and I bring my money. Fine, simple. But here’s the rub, your looks will fade and my money will likely continue into perpetuity…in fact, it is very likely that my income increases but it is an absolute certainty that you won’t be getting any more beautiful!

So, in economic terms you are a depreciating asset and I am an earning asset. Not only are you a depreciating asset, your depreciation accelerates! Let me explain, you’re 25 now and will likely stay pretty hot for the next 5 years, but less so each year. Then the fade begins in earnest. By 35 stick a fork in you!

So in Wall Street terms, we would call you a trading position, not a buy and hold…hence the rub…marriage. It doesn’t make good business sense to “buy you” (which is what you’re asking) so I’d rather lease. In case you think I’m being cruel, I would say the following. If my money were to go away, so would you, so when your beauty fades I need an out. It’s as simple as that. So a deal that makes sense is dating, not marriage.

Separately, I was taught early in my career about efficient markets. So, I wonder why a girl as “articulate, classy and spectacularly beautiful” as you has been unable to find your sugar daddy. I find it hard to believe that if you are as gorgeous as you say you are that the $500K hasn’t found you, if not only for a tryout.

By the way, you could always find a way to make your own money and then we wouldn’t need to have this difficult conversation.

With all that said, I must say you’re going about it the right way. Classic “pump and dump.”

I hope this is helpful, and if you want to enter into some sort of lease, let me know.

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Okay, now for my comments I’ve always wanted to write. To read them, please see

http://www.meditationexpert.com/life-wisdom/l_honest_craigs_list.html

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October 2, 2008

Amazing New Cyber Cleaner

This amazing new cyber cleaner cleans your computer montior from the inside – try it:

http://www.actrix.co.nz/special/cyberclean.html

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September 27, 2008

The Bulgarian Nostradamus

Previously I’ve written about the “Chinese Nostradamus” books based on the I-Ching, which so far have about a 100% hit rate and predict  a new sage to be born in China this century quite soon … and because people ask I’ve dug up the most famous “Russian” (actually Bulgarian, though  the predictions relate to Russia) forecastor – Vanga (Vangelia) Pandeva.

Here’s the history of how she developed her abilities — note that she became blind, which is one of the five possibilities for someone to be able to predict the future:

http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/notes-from-history-baba-vanga/id_13025/catid_3

Here are Baba Vanga’s upcoming predictions for the world, including the dire November 2010:

http://russianfun.net/interesting-galleries/vanga-predictions-for-this-world/

2010 (Nov) – 2014 (Oct) – Nuclear and Chemical War
2014 – Most people have skin problems
2018 – China becomes the new world power
2033 – Melting of polar ice caps and world oceans rise

You can study how these tally with Mother Shipton’s prophecies.

http://www.crystalinks.com/shipton.html

Frankly, I always tell people that you cannot depend on prophecies. They are very changeable, or often just false from the start. Many people feel they can predict the future or see it at low stages of cultivation, and it’s just false.

A big problem today is that many people crack open the Old Testament or even Revelations and try to say XYZ is going to happen, but who can really decipher those texts? People without any cultivation attainments don’t even know the regular cultivation meaning inherent in the Bible, so they have no quality to even try to begin an interpretation. Even if the Bible does have prohpecy, that type is very changeable.  Usually you just have wishful thinking on people’s parts when they read this stuff  … and some  even take steps in policy to try to make the  things they think it says happen, thinking it’s the word of God. Irresponsible! The karma that comes to us, whatever it turns out to be, is made by us, not God . If you try to make destruction happen, rather than work in the opposite direction, what type of crazy notions are you following?

Anyway, fun reading. It’s a lazy day and someone sent this to me, so take a break and have some fun.

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August 28, 2008

Is the Globe Growing Larger?

These interesting videos were sent to me by a friend, and make you wonder why everything fits together so nicely. Not just in one or two or three or ten or twenty but in COUNTLESS places … and then on Mars, too!

http://www.nealadams.com/nmu.html

and this video:

Incidentally, in one lecture Shakyamuni Buddha explained how the earth had formed, and how beings from the Form Realm came here, tasted the earth, and liked it. Intime, from eating the tasty earth they changed their bodies’ density and could not leave. The sutras say he then demonstrated this by supernaturally extending his hand deep into the earth to retrieve some of it which he let the assembly taste.

Now why did his hand have to stretch DEEP into the earth to do this? Has it gotten bigger over time, perhaps growing just as we grow though in a process we don’t understand … for instance one involving chi or other unseen forces that involve inflation?

Who knows? I have no opinion on the matter since I have no science on the matter. The videos are interesting regardless.

 

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August 11, 2008

Filipino Ghost Stories

I know quite a few Filipinos who love to tell me about their nation’s ghost stories. They’re not exactly stories of ghosts but of supernatural creatures that live in the remote jungles and forested countrysides of the Island.

Let me recount a few …

First there is the story of a type of being that looks human, but whose upper body can detach from the trunk, and fly off to find its food. What does it look for? Human babies or a pregnant woman carrying a child… the stories are not clear on this. It can kill a child or cause a miscarriage because it feeds on the baby’s chi.

The Chinese and Japanese have a similar story of beings who look human but whose heads fly off at night and secretly sit atop rafters above a baby’s crib. Then the being extends a long thin tongue down to the resting infant, reminiscent of the  poisoned thread once used by a ninja to try to kill James Bond, and tries to suck the baby’s chi to feed upon it.

Another story is of water ghosts, and China has this same type of ghost as the Philippines, attested to by hundreds of stories. It seems that there are certain water ghosts who cannot be reborn as humans unless they find someone to take their place, and so they try to drown people to find a replacement for their position. Usually they live near a bend in a river where other people have drowned. When people claim they hear talking at night on a river or lake even though no one is around, that’s often this type of ghost.

One of my friends was actually playing with friends in such a spot and was sucked into and underneath the water even though it was only thigh deep. Two of her friends drowned and their bodies were found days later "stuffed" under rocks in the shallow water. She managed to escape by praying and struggle, but lost a bracelet tied to her ankle. To this day she swears she felt she was being pulled under by a hand and could not understand it in a river only waist deep. However, all  her friends knew to avoid that spot but for some reason they all partied there the day of the accident. She  felt something bad might happen because they saw a flock of crows leaving the spot right before they settled, recognizing it as a bad omen, but they all set about the partying anyway. Such is karma.

Another being in the Philippines looks like a centaur and kidnaps young girls as a bride, while various female forest denizens seeking husbands will invite men to stay with them who, even though refusing, find out that their brief conversation has cost them  a month in human time, which they discover upon completing their journey through the forest paths and returning home. Of course this is a great cover story for a man who wants to hide his extracurricular activities, too, but I have friends whose chaste relatives were psychic and have experienced this in the Philippines, being targeted probably because of their psychic abilities in the first place.

There’s also the case of Filipino giants who smoke cigars and whose footprints can be found in soft mud. Sometimes their rolled up tobacco leaves, several feet long and inches thick used to make cigars, are often found discarded in the forests and end up perplexing the infrequent travelers who see the burnt ends.

Now some of these stories are made up, just as we can see in the Strange Tales of Liao Zhai, but of course some are real. There are lots of "invisible" beings in the world made of chi. There are dragons, nagas, fox spirits, turtle spirits, giants, elves, mahaghoras (GIANT, and I do mean BIG, snake spirits), and all sorts of minor heavenly beings as well.  Some good, some bad … just like the human realm. The number of invisible creatures on this world alone numbers in the  thousands.

I’ve had  a few encounters with such things, and my teacher has tons of stories as well, but I never seem to bump into "ghosts" while everyone else does. I’ve had friends visit Macau, a gambling mecca, and found their bed shaking in the night with little headless beings appearing in the clothes dresser room. I’ve heard lots of ghost stories from friends who have seen things first hand, but not me. I’ve had Chinese generals and tight politicians, who dare not tell such stories in public because of the ridicule, tell the most interesting supernatural stories … and mafia people who are supposed to show no fear recount their own tales of the supernatural.

Elves or sprites? I’ve had friends recount stories of how the young boys in their village threw sticks at the mounds where the elves live, and when they woke up in the morning they were covered with cuts and bruises that smelled of rotten fish and would not heal until the village elders apologized to the elf mounds, asked forgiveness, and offered a banquet of food. I’ve heard many stories of how  "worm" spirits are bred, trained and then fed to people to control them as a sort of evil yin magic. This happens in Vietnam and China. Stranger things still in Malaysia and Indonesia.

As to asuras or demons, I’ve got stories on these beings too — some good, some bad as usual. Even these beings cultivate. It’s best if your eyes are closed when an asura visits in near or it could produce redness around the eyes.

I’ve got many stories of these things. Some real, some fictional nonsense, of course, or just the details mixed up. They’re fun, interesting, and basically just teach you (1) to be a good human being, a virtuous person and (2) that there are other beings  in this world, too.

Don’t ever think the human being is at the top of the totem pole in the universe or in this world. Anyone who cultivates quickly finds out that above us are the asuras, then the Desire Realm heavenly beings, and then Form Realm beings. There are even Formless realm beings that are hard to reach because of the level of cultivation required. Shakyamuni Buddha categorized the beings in the universe in many ways, and this Buddha land (galaxy) has different beings than other Buddha lands. All of them are seeking the Tao, which means enlightenment or spiritual liberation. That’s the one commonality. The methods used in the different galaxies differs, but the principle of reaching our original nature and fundamental essence (while navigating karmic obstructions) stays the same highest goal.

The problem for us, as humans, is that some religions provide a path and means to attain samadhi and the Tao, and others do not, but simply provide religious rules to help you be a better person and earn good karma for a better rebirth. But if you really want to make spiritual progress then you have to cultivate. That’s why many spiritual beings of all types will come to listen to an enlightened master teach when he does because they all want spiritual progress. Nations have protector deities. Even the local police station and court house have protector deities and invisible beings discharging their duties, whatever they may be. They have their own independent world, sometimes a parallel world, and sometimes a function that links witht he fates of humans.

Is there anyone in charge of the whole thing? No. It just forms naturally over time, you can say from karma or evolution or however you want to describe it. It’s like a man who goes and makes a home in the middle of a desert. After finding out how to survive, by accident or planning other individuals join him and quickly create a lifestyle and culture that lets them survive. This links with the environment, local wildlife, weather, and so on. As time goes on, rules and regulations develop for the gorup as well as philosophy, cities, religion and economic development. It’s all a natural progression. As the city grows, its relationship with other cities and local wildlife, etc. develops in its own special way. So some spiritual beings develop a relationship with man in the same way, and then order themselves just as we develop our own laws and rules and regulations. And of course, some have nothing to do with humans. The variety of beings and relationships is infinite, and you can only speak in general terms. China and India have many stories on these things, and doubtless the ancient Egyptian, Aztec and Assyrian cultures must have had stories as well.

Over time this relationship,whatever it is, develops into a system and the whole thing keeps turning, turning, turning with transformation. There’s nothing special about it. You just don’t know about it because you  can’t see it. But yes, there is an Indra as the Hindus state, and a Mahesvara, and so forth … but there is no ultimate creator that is a person above everything. All this is just empty appearances. It’s all just empty interdependent origination. You can read books and say "No, it isn’t" but after you cultivate to a high enough stage ou find out that "Yes, this is th way it is."

The only real thing is the Tao, the fundamental nature, the original nature we call "God" in the West, "Allah" in Islam, and so forth. The question for us is how to realize THIS UNDERLYING ONE, the Unborn ONE. Sages awaken and teach this. When they are high stage they usually do a great job; low stage samadhi masters (like Moses) usually do a poor job and leave out lots of materials.

The point is — you have to cultivate and awaken for yourself. None of these beings can give you enlightenment or save you. They can teach you the way if they know it and have achievement themselves, but not usually. That’s why they too study under enlightened beings such as Buddhas and Bodhisattvas who have already reached the original nature. Ask Indra or Mahesvara the origin of the universe an dthey’ll say, "I don’t know, please ask a Buddha." Only someone who aciheives complete union and perfect enlightenment with It can understand and teach it.

So the question you must ask yourself is, "Do you know the way and do you have a method to practice it and are you doing so?" If not better start because it’s not about beliefs or ceremonies or membership in some sect or religion. Those things are useless. It’s all about cultivation progress.

 

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June 23, 2008

George Carlin Has Passed Away

Sadly, funny man and social commentator George Carlin has passed away. Last September I did a blog post on him and featured his video skits on Religion and the Ten Commandments. Today, everyone is replaying his popular skit,  "Religion is bullshit."

Recently over the past few weeks I’ve been seeing more and moe intelligent people saying that religion is nonsense. But they are missing something. What they usually are referring to is the facts that many religious dogmas are fictitious creations. They also commonly object to the "meaning" behind various religious ceremonies and so forth which do have a positive function in society. But let’s put that aside.

What they cannot negate is the fact that if you take the religious coverings away from spiritual paths — whether from Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, Christianity and so forth — there still is a cultivation path, there still are cultivation results, you still can cultivate gong-fu and attain samadhi and possibly the Tao. That is for sure. Whether you believe in religion or not, this is the true part you cannot negate. Whether there is a physical person called God, whether he wrote a contract with the Hebrews or whether Jesus was his son, whether this, whether that, … those are items of dogma that have little to do with the self-proof of spiritual cultivation.

The self-proof of spiritual cutlivation means this: just as Buddha said, if you do this then that will happen, if you achieve this sateg then expect this, if that stage then expect that, etc. and so on. In other words, you can prove the stages and results yourself just from personal practice and no dependence on any dogma whatsoever. The basis of practice is cessation-contemplation, and mindfulness of emptiness at each and every stage of attainment. That’s it.

When a teacher reveals the particulars of the spiritual path, it’s usually free of religious coverings but later generations wrap everything with religion and thereby play a positive role in keeping a tradition alive. Most people are not wise, so they cannot accept the highest cultivation truths no matter what religion reveals them; the masses like simple messages like sinple foods to digest. Over time the deep cultivation content and cultivation message of most religions is lost, and the wrapper becomes the real thing for converts and adherents when that isn’t the message at all. The lowest common denominator usually wins, just as bad money drives out good money in  the long run. Most intelligent people, after reviewing what’s become of the whole  mess over time, then object to the wrapper and  criticize religion in general and religious functionaries. That’s the general pattern.

But remember, even if there is truth in the criticism of modern religion, there is also much good in the ethical training and social cohesiveness religions provide for society. Furthermore, amd most importantly, no one can deny that:

* there is a cultivation path within religions, even if you don’t believe in them, that leads to supernormal mental-spiritual states
* cultivating that path successfully does lead to gong-fu, and physical changes in the body and sometimes special abilities; the cultivation does involve the chi and empty, calm, quiet mental states of "letting go"
* people can and do cultivate  samadhi and sometimes achieve enlightenment regardless of whether you do or don’t believe in religion
* saints, sages, gurus, prophets, masters, etc. when they are genuine, are pople who have succeeded in either cultivating some stage of samadhi or the Tao (enlightenment) from that path, but they are few and far between
* what they teach is often just a remedy for the times, expedient skillful means and not absolute rules of conduct to last forever

So you can criticize religion, but that doesn’t mean all the content is fictitious. The big thing to remember is that there is a cultivation trail, there are genuine cultivation methods, they do produce results, you can and should prove cultivation to yourself because that’s what religionis about, but if you do think that religion is about the dogmas and ceremonies then yes, you are lost.

And so we can laugh at George Carlin’s words when we are firm in our own knowledge of cultivation — what it is, and what it is all about.

 

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March 27, 2008

The Official 60s Site

I like this site — it brought back lots of memories because I DO REMEMBER milk being delivered to our house, the transister radio, phonograph records, and the radio songs you can hear here. Plenty to remember and reminisce about.

A wonderful set of memories encapsulated on the web.

http://the60sofficialsite.com/

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March 9, 2008

Indian Dancing

Many of my friends are into Indian dancing, and I thought I’d share one of my favorites that I love watching:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiIL-w_jD8o

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November 12, 2007

Karma Calculator Getting Started

I’m almost done with the  Karma Calculator website but even though unfinished, orders have already started pouring in.

I started putting up some sample Fortune Readings for people in the news who I randomly chose to investigate since the news was so big. I just sit there, notice someone, and then out of curiosity compute the fortune and see what it has to say, wondering if it will spotlight the big events and issues in the year for that person.

That’s how you know if it will work, for you and I can only know the BIG things that happen in their lives that are big enough to make the news. As to all the other secret things and private, personal incidentals going on in their lives, we have no way to know about them or confirm them. The 3 pages of Karma Calculator readings per year will surely spotlight them, but only they can really know the truth of the information.

For instance Benazir Bhutto  returns to Pakistan and there’s a bomb attempt on her life. Curious, I compute the fortune and there it is – the shocking, frightening affair would quickly settle down and everything will be alright. "In such a year, an official may suffer an evil and treacherous attack, and a scholar has a sign of confusion at first, but success later. A commoner may have lawsuits and loss. An old person will face a life-threatening crisis, and a child will be frightened. As for the seven days, that is the time limit." Yep- (1) treacherous attack on her life, (2) lawsuit she’s getting over (3) life threatening, (4) quickly settles down.

Last week impeachment proceedings were started against Dick Cheney. Let’s see if it’s there in the fortune …"The inferior man is like purslain: he is firmly determined to get rid of him." Yep, those who hate Cheney want to get rid of him, but if Cheney follows the Karma Calculator advice those efforts will come to naught.

Joseph Estrada, ex-President of the Philippines, is arrested for corruption and sentenced to life Imprisonment.. Let’s see if that’s there — yep!  "He may even be imprisoned and sentenced, and there is no hope for him to enjoy a glorious and happy life." That’s rare for the President of a country, and yet the Karma Calculator said it would be so. Amazing. It even talks about his character flaws that came out during the trial and caused his downfall — indulgences and greed. Hmmmmm. This thing is an unbiased, third party, not-to-be-bribed moral commentator. If it says it then it says it — family argument settled.

Britney Spears is in the news, losing her children for her behavior in the home and being publicly reprimanded: "a commoner is not kind at home, and often receives slanders and reproaches." The fortune says the problem for her is lack of obedience (and not believing/listening to what people tell her). The poems, which offer advice for changing the fortune, tell her to stop spending her time in foolish pursuits/activities and exhaust herself to gain nothing. Sounds pretty accurate from what I’m reading in the press as to what she’s spending her time doing. If she followed the advice in the three poems then YES SHE WOULD HAVE CHANGED HER FORTUNE DRAMATICALLY and she still has that chance.

That’s why you want a Karma Calculator Fortune because it tells you how to change your fortune and avoid all this heartache and grief. For Cheney it already gave him the strategy to use. For Britney it tells her she should change her behavior for this year.

Let’s see … Paris Hilton went to jail this year over driving with an expired license. It says she’s frightened to death this year (yes, the prospect of jail did frighten her and she stopped eating in jail because she was frightened people would take pictures of her). So that’s one of the big issues to face this year – a big fright. Says she has no vitality – she stopped eating in jail so her sentence was initially cut short. Says she wins the trust of the townspeople, so she is still popular. Says she will receive "punshment" – in  Chinese culture that means imprisonment and nothing else, and that is what happened this year. Good hit for a socialite!

If she was married it would have been the husband, too. Says relatives and neighbors  will have disasters also, and it seems they’re quite a few of her friends headed for jail this year or other difficult situations as well. As to closer internal family situations and circumstances, we have no idea and no way to tell (except by looking at the Karma Calculator). Says the big problem she suffers from  is lack of self-examination, and with self-examination she could have avoided the whole thing. Good advice for a young girl.

The Karma Calculator is great because unlike other fate forecasting methods, it not only tells you the EVENTS to expect every year, but how to avoid  them or change them. What other method can do that? Actually, we’re all dying to know just that sort of advice to create a better life. We want to know the future, we want to know how to control  it. In these cases I’m citing, I’m just going over the big picture. there are far more details than that, but what do you do in 2 sentences or so…

The Karma Calculatoris designed with  self-cultivation in mind as you are not only told your future, but are told, as a mentor would tell you, how to cultivate yourself ethically and morally….and for financial, family, material, prosperity success as well – even fame if you want it.  You’re also told various strategies as to what to do to handle certain issues, circumstances, challenges, problems, difficulties that arise during the year — good or bad.

It’s a fortune telling system with built-in self-cultivation and self-accomplishment, or life enjoyment advice. If I had only had this when I was younger. As one of the clients wrote me:

"What’s most exciting to me is how I can now see how to handle situations that will come up in my future.  The readings give great advice about what I should do when I have legal troubles, and how to handle situations in my business, and my relationships with family.  Of course I’m excited about the fact that it tells me that the next two years will be VERY good financial years for me, but the most exciting part of the whole thing is that I now feel like I have a reference resource for my future. It’s as if I can now see the choices that will "work" best for me."

Let me check what the fortune said when inexperienced, small time governor Bill Clinton won his first presidency: "He may become famous without taking the imperial examinations, or receive promotion without writing a single word. He may even preside over the writing of the country’s history and institute laws. He has the absolute power to mete out punishments and rewards."

These are writings from 1,000 years ago, and he DID win a position where he would be making history (not writing it like a scholar), writing laws, and be the absolute power in country. Pretty good for an ancient secret Karma Calculator from one thousand years ago, isn’t it?

You can only find it here, only one place in the world where it’s available, at www.KarmaCalculator.com. The site is not 100% done, but   you can see samples of the types of Karma Calculator Fortunes you will get at:

KarmaCalculator.com/sample-readings.html

How to read a report can be found at:

KarmaCalculator.com/chinese-astrology-horoscopes.html     and    

KarmaCalculator.com/karma-calculator-explanation.htm

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October 27, 2007

Straight Talk on Pharma Drugs, From Comedian Bill Maher

 

Bill Maher gives a monologue on why you should get healthy instead of turn to pharma drugs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHXXTCc-IVg

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