If we do not take care of each other, who will?I invest in people. I send someone to a dentist for a check up. Bought clothes for a person on TV.Made blankets for several groups and gave art to artist.Giving in your own way. Find your path of kindness.How can I help other persons sucess?I lived this in Alaska. Juneau with my Lover James Brandon Rhode who invested in me.Died Aug 10 1991in Anchorage. Recent news about my best friend. She is going to have a baby.
Teach us, and show us the Way
By Chinook (Anonymous)
(18th Century)
"Not seeing is the perfect seeing."
We call upon the earth, our planet home, with its beautiful depths and soaring
heights, its vitality and abundance of life, and together we ask that it
Teach us, and show us the Way.
We call upon the mountains, the Cascades and the Olympics, the high green
valleys and meadows filled with wild flowers, the snows that never melt, the
summits of intense silence, and we ask that they
Teach us, and show us the Way.
We call upon the waters that rim the earth, horizon to horizon, that flow in our
rivers and streams, that fall upon our gardens and fields and we ask that they
Teach us, and show us the Way.
We call upon the land which grows our food, the nurturing soil, the fertile fields,
the abundant gardens and orchards, and we ask that they
Teach us, and show us the Way.
We call upon the forests, the great trees reaching strongly to the sky with earth in
their roots and the heavens in their branches, the fir and the pine and the
cedar, and we ask them to
Teach us, and show us the Way.
We call upon the creatures of the fields and forests and the seas, our brothers and
sisters the wolves and deer, the eagle and dove, the great whales and the dolphin,
the beautiful Orca and salmon who share our Northwest home, and we ask them to
Teach us, and show us the Way.
We call upon all those who have lived on this earth, our ancestors and our friends,
who dreamed the best for future generations, and upon whose lives our lives are
built, and with thanksgiving, we call upon them to
Teach us, and show us the Way.
And lastly, we call upon all that we hold most sacred, the presence and power of
the Great Spirit of love and truth which flows through all the Universe, to be with
us to
Teach us, and show us the Way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer
Henry Reed is so interesting.A yes man ,not clear on anything. It looks like Clinton won't be a vice president because most feel she is dishonest and can't be trusted.
Remember the clear light, the pure clear white light from .
Let go into the clear light, trust it, merge with it. It is your own true nature, it is home.
-Tibetan Book of the Dead
Rappelez-vous la claire lumière, la pure lumière blanche clair à partir duquel tout dans l'univers venu, à qui tout dans l'univers retours; l'originalité de votre propre esprit. L'état naturel de l'univers unmanifest.
Laissez aller dans la claire lumière, confiance en elle, fusionner avec elle. Il est de votre propre nature véritable, c'est la maison.
I just happened upon your site (through google while doing some research for a project I'm
working on concerning the design differential of the genital bud as it progresses from the
gender neutral form to the expressed male or female form... for some reason, you are listed under google search "genital bud").
I too am an artist (mostly portraits).
We seem to have very similar spiritual, artistic and political interests.
I only scanned through briefly; but, have now gone back to read through more carefully.
I look forward to continuing my journey through your observations.
Thank you for sharing your interesting self with the rest of us.
peace,
Peter
The womb is the empty space in which life takes form.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. - Anne Frank
Étant donné que les semences ne contiennent pas d'autres que les semences, même les fleurs et les fruits sont de même nature que les semences: la substance de la semence est la substance de les effets, aussi. Même dans ce cas, la masse homogène de conscience cosmique ne donne pas lieu à rien d'autre que ce qu'il est par essence. Lorsque cette vérité est réalisé, dualité cesse.
- Yoga Vasishtha
Since the seed does not contain anything other than the seed, even the flowers and the fruits are of the same nature as the seed: the substance of the seed is the substance of subsequent effects, too. Even so, the homogenous mass of cosmic consciousness does not give rise to anything other than what it is in essence. When this truth is realized, duality ceases.
-Yoga Vasishtha
Mugabe leave your office and give your nation freedom, you take all the color from the world. Power comes from the votes of the people.
Charcoal My idea about what the goverment is saying lies.Tears for the troops.Small town not bitter.Exhibiting intense animosity.Etymology:
Middle English animosite, from Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French animosité, from Late Latin animositat-, animositas, from Latin animosus spirited, from animus
Date:
1605
: ill will or resentment tending toward active hostility : an antagonistic attitude
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Pencil charcoal color penciles.]Robert F. Williams 2008
I am not detachment nor salvation,
Nor anything reached by the senses;
I am behold all thought and form.
I am everywhere, and nowhere at all-
I am Consciousness and Bliss.
I am Shiva! I am Shiva!
“You are within God. God is within you.”What exchange will a man give for his soul
What does it mean to be of service to others?The trees are blooming and they have shadows. long black shadows. They mixed with the green lawn and spread out.I have been comsume by hopelessness for the world.
Gatemouth
Have you heard of a concept called remote viewing?
Best done with music and cheese
Middle Eastern Dance, or Belly Dance was part of Easter this year. It help me understand the other world.The arabic world.We are bodies of light,
Noor est le lien qui lie actuellement à la connaissance dans le soufisme. Le mot lui-même signifie lumière. Chaque particule de lumière qui se reflète de la «miroir du cœur" des projets en fonction de la connaissance spirituelle types distincts de couleurs. Un soufi peut différencier entre ce qui suit.
Noor est la lumière spirituelle d'une personne. Elle émane essentiellement du front, mais il peut fleurir à partir de l'ensemble du corps. Une spiritualité de la personne peuvent être jugées par la noor émanant de lui. Noor est descendu du ciel, pour atteindre le Kabatulallah à Makkah. De là, il est distribué à tous les Masaajid. Il se manifeste dans ceux qui sont spirituellement incliné.
Noor is the link which binds being to knowledge in Sufism. The word itself means light. Each particle of light that is reflected of the "mirror of the heart" projects spiritual knowledge according to distinctive types of colors. A Sufi can differentiate between the following.
Noor is the spiritual light of a person. It emanates primarily from the forehead, but can bloom from the whole body. A person's spirituality can be judged by the noor emanating from him. Noor is descended from the heavens, reaching the Kabatulallah in Makkah. From there it is distributed to all the Masaajid. There it manifests in those that are spiritually inclined.
Ihsan (or Ehsan or Ahsa) is an Arabic term meaning "perfection" or "excellence." In Islam, Ihsan is the Muslim responsibility to obtain perfection, or excellence, in worship, such that Muslims try to worship God (Arabic Allah) as if they see Him, and although they cannot see Him, they undoubtedly believe he is constantly watching over them. That definition comes from the hadith (known as the Hadith of Gabriel) in which Muhammad states, "[Ihsan is] to worship God as though you see Him, and if you cannot see Him, then indeed He sees you." (Al-Bukhari and Al-Muslim).[citation needed] Ehsan.Out walking in the woods with Henry David Thoreau.
Give your life for that cup of divine wisdom. How can you succeed without endurance and patience? To wait for the sake of that cup is no hardship. Show patience, for patience is the key to joy.
-Rumi, "Mathnawi"
I want too draw the world. So many faces that are full of light and beauty and pain.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2070685553239955663
Autismo abre tu mundo donde hay más contacto con los ojos. Algunos alimentos son todo lo que come. Su sonrisa es mía y los ojos contact.Clapping fuerza de las manos como si en prayer.Taking los grandes y los pequeños y habiendo me mire. Las mariposas y los errores y el tiempo son sus vacaciones delight.Special pulgadas como el gusano de día y de diamantes day.This es lo que vivimos con el mundo y el amor por el autismo day.His fe es tan fuerte y lo hace bien en la vida. Los adultos tendrán un gran mundo por un jefe de ellos. Sólo la figura de mi hermano gemelo había autismo. Ahora mi amante tiene autismo y estoy muy prould de él. Su mundo es él mismo, a menudo pido a buscar en mí. Pero su mundo se centran en cuestiones, el amor es real y es tan feliz que se sabe en torno a me.I ama me.That es todo lo que matters.Faith te through.He tiene un TV Show. Orador películas y es A cargo de la producción. Él escribe su libro informes para la show.He flims,. Autismo necesidad lugares donde los adultos pueden obtener together.Please no el primero, y hacer comentarios groseros o reír en voz alta en el autismo. Piense primero.
Autism opens your world where there is more then eye contact. Certain foods are all he eats. His smile is mine strength and eye contact.Clapping of hands as if in prayer.Taking the great and the small and having me look at it. Butterflies and bugs and weather are his delight.Special holidays like inch worm day and diamond day.This is what we live with and love for world autism day.His faith is so strong and he does well in life. Adults will have a great world a head of them. Just figure out my twin brother had autism. Now my lover has autism and I am very prould of him. His world is himself, often I ask to look at me. But his world is focus on matters, the love is real and he is so happy to be around me.I know he loves me.That is all that matters.Faith will get you through.He has a TV Show .He films and is in charge of production. He writes his book reports for the show.He flims,.Autism need places where adults can get together.Please don't stare and make rude remarks or laugh out loud at autism. Think first. 
A carbon tax a new idea.Nouriel Roubini Special intrest groups took us down the road of poorness.
I want to put out the fires of Hell, and burn down the rewards of Paradise. They block the way to God. One day, she was seen running through the streets of Basra carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When asked what she was doing, she said:I do not want to worship from fear of punishment or for the promise of reward, but simply for the love of God. Rabia Basri.She was born between 95 and 99 Hijri in Basra, Iraq.
"Follow your flower"may the protection of the ancestors
be yours. -consciousness can be transformed by spiritual practice.
The worst is yet to come in the economic market. Wanting to plant outside but it's cold. Flowers are appearing and trees are in bloom.Singing birds and more of them and they are truning yellow right in front of me. Limbs from trees are down and old leaves enter the yard. Spring Flowers appears." The beloved returns and all is bounty. "Planting some Gladiolus Yellow and Purple Duet 10 Some Canna The President. It likes the heaT so in summer when my other flowers go this will stand out 1ea. 5 Crocomia Emberglow.More 10 Gladiolus Mon Amour Dutch Bulbs
Not all my prayers are in English.Ce ne sont pas tous dans mes prières sont English.Freedom for Tibet. May all be free. May this be so. Oh ah hum.Slowly come out of meditation. It may help to mentally recite the OM AH HUM for a brief period.
It is traditional and auspicious at the end of a meditation to silently dedicate any insight that you might have achieved to the happiness, liberation from confusion, and freedom from suffering of all sentient beings.
Bullshit! Everything from thr entire world ,sounds like bullshit.
Recommended Books
An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911, Translated by Stephen Owen
The Poetry of Zen: (Shambhalla Library), Edited by Sam Hamill / Edited by J. P. Seaton
Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry, Edited by Wu-chi Liu / Edited by Irving Yucheng Lo
Three Chinese Poets: Translations of Poems by Wang Wei, Li Bai, and Du Fu, Translated by Vikram Seth
To Touch the Sky: Poems of Mystical, Spiritual & Metaphysical Light, Translated by Willis Barnstone
Poem by Wang Wei `Alone I sit in the bamboo grove, playing the qin (zither), only the moon finds me here
No one is seen in deserted hills,
only the echoes of speech are heard.
Sunlight cast back comes deep in the woods
and shines once again upon the green moss.
Lies and no truth about the economy.You can see it for yourself.Mr. Harry Paulson has been not telling the truth to the people.The economy is worst than the government reports. Mr.Harry Paulson can bail out a bank that sold for $2.00 a share. Not helping out homeowners in debt. America needs a bail out! They said all Americans can have a home but this turned into a nightmare for all Americans.We are at wits ends about the economy. What next? This war is costing us a lot. I don't know ,it just my sense of it all.
Deaths reported in Tibet protests.
We must be the change, if we want, to see change happen in the world
Stones were thrown and buildings burnt in Lhasa.
Clashes between protesters and security forces in Tibet's main city of Lhasa have left at least two people dead, according to reports.
An emergency official told AFP news agency that many people had been hurt and an unspecified number had died.
The US-based Radio Free Asia quoted witnesses who said they had seen at least two bodies on Lhasa's streets.
Rallies have continued all week in what are said to be the largest protests against Beijing's rule in 20 years.
British journalist James Miles, in Lhasa, told the BBC that rioters had taken control of the city centre.
"Some of them are still attacking Chinese properties - shops, restaurants, owned by ethnic Chinese," he said.
One monk was kicked in the stomach right in front of us and then beaten on the ground
Eyewitness: 'Kicked to floor'
Analysis: Beijing's dilemma
Nepal agrees Everest ban
"Some of them are looting those shops, taking out the contents and throwing them on huge fires which they've lit in the street."
Another eyewitness said there were tanks on the street and he had seen people being carried away on stretchers.
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Radio Free Asia, which is funded by the US government, quoted one Lhasa resident as saying: "[The rioters] ransacked Chinese shops and the police fired live ammunition into the crowd. No-one is allowed to move around in Lhasa now."
TIBET DIVIDE
China says Tibet always part of its territory
Tibet enjoyed long periods of autonomy before 20th century
1950: China launched a military assault
Opposition to Chinese rule led to bloody uprising in 1959
Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama fled to India
In pictures: Tibet protests
Quick guide: Tibet
Media remains silent
The rallies began earlier this week when a number of Buddhist monks were reportedly arrested after a march marking the 49th anniversary of a Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule.
Hundreds of monks took to the streets to demand their release. The protests have gathered momentum over the past four days and campaign groups say ordinary people are now involved.
The Dalai Lama, who heads Tibet's government-in-exile in India, released a statement expressing deep concern.
He called on the Chinese leadership to "stop using force and address the long-simmering resentment of the Tibetan people through dialogue with the Tibetan people."
He added: "I also urge my fellow Tibetans not to resort to violence."
Chinese authorities have blamed "the recent sabotage in Lhasa" on the "Dalai clique".
Unrest has spread to other areas of Tibet and neighbouring provinces. There are reports of hundreds of monks rallying in Gansu.
Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)
http://www.bgay.com/news/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=259&Itemid=23
Ja en nee in mijn orbit.Sorrow omringt me.
Geen antwoorden Niet doen "wu wei''I nutteloos geworden en ik ben vrij. Judson Het is in het weeds.No waar spreken en niet wordt noch het geheel noch de afgrond.
Yes and no in my orbit.Sorrow surrounds me.
No answers Non doing "wu wei''I become useless and I am set free. Judson It is in the weeds.No where speaking and no being nor the totality nor the void.
Espoir et de changement qu'est-ce que cela veut dire? Donnez votre blancheur et la noirceur. Mais qu'est-ce que la croyance? Qui êtes-vous vraiment Monsieur BarackObama? Que ferez-vous avec le pouvoir? Vider le masque. Devenir comme les gens. Retirez-nous de notre état raciale. Produire moral authority.I avez des questions? Serviteur> leadership. Qu'est-ce que voulait de moi comme un américain?
If your mind becomes firm like a rock
And no longer shakes
In a world where everything is shaking,
Your mind will be your greatest friend
And suffering will not come your way.
-Theragatha
Guten Tag!Wie geht's?Trying to get free language tapes for German.Have you notice that getting pictures from the internet is harder. Small pictures of people.
http://fora.tv/2008/01/18/Shelby_Steele_on_Racial_Masking
Check your bank. Banks are going under with this market.
PTSD is a normal reaction to an abnormal sItuation.Ideas about hope and change
Hope and change what does it mean? Give up your whiteness and blackness. But what is the belief? Who are you really Mr BarackObama?What will you do with power? Empty the mask. Become like the people. Remove us from our racial state. Produce moral authority.I have questions?Servant > leadership.What is wanted of me as a american?
Enlightenment--that magnificent escape from anguish and ignorance--never happens by accident. It results from the brave and sometimes lonely battle of one person against his own weaknesses.
Mhmud Shabistari
Timeline (1250? - 1340)
·Some 1,400 women beaten to death by partners in U.S.Walden Pond
English version by
Andrew Harvey
Original Language
Persian/Farsi
Recommended Books
Beyond Faith and Infidelity: The Sufi Poetry and Teachings of Mahmud Shabistari, Edited by Leonard Lewisohn
Perfume of the Desert: Inspirations from the Sufi Wisdom, by Andrew Harvey / Eryk Hanut
The Secret Rose Garden: Mahmud Shabistari, Translated by Florence Lederer / Edited by David Fideler
What are "I" and "You"?
Just lattices
In the niches of a lamp
Through which the One Light radiates.
"I" and "You" are the veil
Between heaven and earth;
Lift this veil and you will see
How all sects and religions are one.
Lift this veil and you will ask --
When "I" and "You" do not exist
What is mosque?
What is synagogue?
What is fire temple?
Wat zijn "I" en "U"?
Just roosters
In de nissen van een lamp
Via die de Ene Licht straalt.
"I" en "U" zijn de sluier
Tussen hemel en aarde;
Til deze sluier en je zal zien
Hoe alle sekten en religies zijn een.
Til deze sluier en u zal vragen --
Wanneer de "I" en "U" bestaan niet
Wat is de moskee?
Wat is synagoge?
Wat is brand tempel?
Robert Evans (born Robert J. Shapera June 29, 1930 in New York, New York) is an American film producer best known for his work on Rosemary's Baby, Love Story, The Godfather and Chinatown as well as his hedonistic lifestyle and seven marriages.Robert Evans
I wonder about the site?. Who reads this site. Does it matter that I do this art and drawing and some writing. I just wonder?EMAIL and let me knowJudson
"It is true that you may fool all the people some of
the time; you can even fool some of the people all of
the time; but you cannot fool all of the people all of
the time."
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that
unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of
my country. ...corporations have been enthroned and an
era of corruption in high places will follow, and the
money power of the country will endeavor to prolong
its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people
until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the
Republic is destroyed."
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If
we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we
destroyed ourselves."
"To stand in silence when they should be protesting
makes cowards out of men."
-Abraham Lincoln
Today I get my talking books for the blind and physical handicap. Can't wait until the books are here. Witch one will I listen too. Sometimes you don't like the voice on the machine.I can read again and listen to so much. Wow, Only books for taking books topics.I read Thomas Merton , "Thoughts of the East" Enjoy the book and it teaches you about this Western man meetings truths from the East.Great for a collection. The book fed me , gave me drink on the kindness of Merton . Another book I am listening to is called" The Spiritual Athlete" This is a marvelous collection of stories about spiritually well developed individuals who represent a variety of religious teachings. As the title suggests, if you are physically fit, you are only half done concerning being in "great shape.I started prostrations again. Forgot the intense Sense of your body and energy. It all moves and a happy sense for fullness runs away with me. Like being in a open meadow and knowing all the space before you. 400 wonderfull prostrations. Coming home to my Lama and mother and father. Taking off my shoes and really doing practice for all in need.A burning off and a release that takes you into the heavens. You develop a smile and its very real.You daydream from it. It removes restrictions to space and time. You float in a warm mass.I wonder how long before China becomes a debt nation?. The west wants China to have credit cards debt and no more savings.Chinese save 50% of savings.From the way it looks were a debt nation.The interest for these cards is crazy. 
The other day we had a tea party.We had some people over to see the new house we live. Its so pretty we have a big lawn and big trees in our front yard. A artist came over and she was drinking the chinese tea she did drawing while on she visit. Never dawn on me too draw while I was in someone's house. I think from now on. I will take a sketch book where ever I go .
http://www2.free-burma.org/graphics.php
http://www.flickr.com/groups/479791@N25/pool/
Kabir
Assalamu alaykum wa'rahma-tullahi, wa'barakatahu,
("May the peace and blessings of God be upon you"),
Timeline (15th Century)
English version by
Sushil Rao
Original Language
Hindi
lift the veil
Recommended Books
The Bijak of Kabir, Translated by Linda Hess / Translated by Shukdeo Singh
The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, by Stephen Mitchell
Kabir: The Weaver's Songs, by Kabir / Translated by Vinay Dharwadker
Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, Translated by Daniel Ladinsky
One Hundred Poems of Kabir: Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, by Kabir / Translated by Rabindranath Tagore
lift the veil
that obscures
the heart
and there
you will find
what you are
looking for
Truth, Sojourner, Isabella Baumfree (ca. 1791-1883)http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/truth-sojourner-isabella-baumfree-ca-1791-1883
Results of home made blankets
From the JCC the blankets were put to good use
On behalf of the JCC. I want to thank you so much for the beautiful hand-crocheted blankets which you recently donated. We thought about the best use to make of these, and decided to use them in the Jewish Family Services “Elder Day Club” group respite program for the elderly members who attend that program. Frequently we find that one or two individual members complain about being too cold in the program room, so this will be a really nice addition to our ability to take good care of our older adults!
Today I will listen to my heart. I learning how to be at rest. Allowing awareness to cover me . Not bad or good just the moment. Resting in that compassion. I discover Trust.I will not cheer for Bush.Nor clap my hands in joy of him. Today my heart knows that war crimes have been commited by my government. I know in my heart that birds eat seeds that I provide. I can't be afraid anymore, there is hope in change and I know in my heart that Obama will be the president of the United States. No more white men running the country. I know in my heart that it reminds me of 1960 and 61.When we had a future.Like night and day. Nothing wrong with white men, we just need a new gift of freedom in our land, Are we able to change and endure the changes needed. Our policy with China is all wrong. China is not Free and does not want freedom. They spy on our counrty and work against our intrest in the world. They suppress buddhist and national freedoms. They want to settle on the moon and have plans for the moon as a home. We have too much of a trade deficit and we have so much in debt to China. We should uunderstand how much we need China. But China is not Free.We owe China a lot of Money. Then we buy chinese items at the store. And still we owe China all the money we borrow. Nippon as well.
My study of Hermann Hesse (pronounced [?h??man ?h?s?]) (2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game (also known as Magister Ludi) which explore an individual's search for spirituality outside society
If you wish for light, be ready to receive light.
Nourish your ego and be deprived of light.
If you wish to find a way out of this prison,
do not turn away;
bow down in worship and draw near.
-Rumi, "Mathnawi
Si vous souhaiter pour la lumière, être prêt à recevoir la lumière.
Nourrissez votre ego et d'être privé de lumière.
Si vous souhaitez trouver un moyen de sortir de cette prison,
Ne pas tourner le dos;
Prosternent en adoration et de s'approcher.
- Rumi, Mathnawi
i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of all nothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
Robert F. Williams
picture I made, Artist Judson Laird 2007
With warm good wishes for an auspicious and harmonious Tibetan Year of the Earth Mouse,
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
TO UNDERSTAND LIFE LOOK TO THE HEART. "We cease to recognize reality,"
Vote
In dark night live those for whom
The world without alone is real; in night
Darker still, for whom the world within
Alone is real. The first leads to a life
Of action, the second to a life of meditation.
But those who combine action with meditation
Cross the sea of death through action
And enter into immortality
Through the practice of meditation.
ANNE FRANK
So have we heard from the wise.
-Isha Upanishad
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Mother of Robert and me at Xmas
With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow,
And with my own hand labour'd it to grow:
And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd -
"I came like Water, and like Wind I go."
Into this Universe, and why not knowing,
Nor whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing:
And out of it, as Wind along the Waste,
I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing.
If you have a long face and a chip on your shoulder, if you are not radiant with joy and friendliness, if you are not filled to overflowing with love and goodwill for all beings.... one thing is certain: you do not know God.
--Peace Pilgrim
Peace Pilgrim is one of the best examples of spiritual happiness in action that I've encountered. I never actually met her in person, but recently spent a year scripting and editing a one-hour documentary about Peace Pilgrim's life, and do feel as though I know her fairly well.
Peace wasn't always the perfect example of spiritual happiness. Her childhood was quite pleasant, as were her teenage years. But then she married a fellow who turned out to be living on a very different level of awareness and spiritual maturity than the one she was quickly evolving into.
Mildred - which was her name before becoming "Peace Pilgrim" - had been through a great deal of spiritual maturation in her youth. At a very young age, she took the golden rule, "do unto others as you would have them do unto you," as a personal motto. While watching war mentalities taking hold of the world and seeing aggressions such as McCarthyism running rampant in the United States, Mildred became more and more dedicated to the cause of bringing peace to the world.
Mildred's husband, Stanley, had really only wanted a domestic wife who could cook and make babies, and soon discovered that he hadn't exactly gotten his right "wife order" in. Mildred was proud, strong-willed, opinionated, stubborn, and certainly not docile - nor was she interested in cooking or making babies. She wanted to help create world peace.
When the United States Army drafted Stanley, Mildred asked him not to go. She said that if he went to the camp, she would not visit him or have anything to do with him while he was there. Stanley chose to serve, in spite of her request. One of his officers read a letter that Mildred had sent, and told Stanley that her words were grounds for divorce. Soon, Mildred was single again, and became even more actively dedicated to the cause of peace.
At one point, Mildred had gone for a walk deep into the woods, in a disturbed state of mind. She prayed to God, walked, prayed some more, and continued walking. She cried out, "Take me! Take all that I am. I withhold nothing!" And she meant it. The ears of the universe always hear when we really mean it.
During this walking prayer, Mildred had a vision of walking across the country as a penniless pilgrim in the name of peace. She even saw the map of her future routes through each state in her mind's eye. After this vision came many more years of life lessons and personal growth, until the time finally came for Mildred to bring her vision to life. At age forty-four, she shed her outer life and became completely identified with and dedicated to her inspired cause.
She would be a peace pilgrim, traveling the country, and touching person after person with her kindness, wisdom, and passion for peace. One by one, she would change the world. She put on a blue tunic with the words "Peace Pilgrim" sewn into the front and "Walking Coast to Coast for World Disarmament" on the back, and walked out of the door of her house, leaving Mildred behind. From now on, she was living in faith. She was Peace Pilgrim (hear her roar!) The year was 1953.
Peace spent nearly thirty years walking back and forth across the country seven times - taking roundabout routes that brought her into every major city, and through Mexico and Canada as well. Her vow was to remain a pilgrim until mankind had learned the way of peace, eating only when food was offered, and sleeping only where shelter was offered - although sometimes she would sleep in a field or by a bus stop. She would not ask for either food or shelter; they had to be offered. How's that for dramatically upping your level of faith? And it worked.
People would see Peace Pilgrim walking by, and would ask about the words on her tunic. She would eagerly tell them about how the world is so in need of peace, and how we can each help by creating peace within ourselves and in our own lives.
Peace Pilgrim had found what she called her comfortable "need level," (which obviously differs for everyone). In fulfillment of her faith, all of Peace's needs were provided for nearly three decades, until her death in 1981 in a car accident on a rural road, during a rare car ride to one of her early morning speaking engagements.
From the day Peace began her pilgrimage, all she owned was one set of clothes, a pair of shoes, a toothbrush, a comb, and a pen. As she told one high school class, with her arms raised in freedom, "This is me, with all my earthly possessions. If I want to travel somewhere, I just stand up and begin walking!" Can you imagine being so happy without a house, without health insurance, without a car, without money for your next meal, and without a second pair of shoes? Yet, Peace used to often exclaim, "I have health, happiness, and peace -- things you couldn't buy if you were a billionaire!"
Peace was living in harmony with her deepest longings and fulfilling her greatest potential. In India's philosophical terms, Peace Pilgrim was living in accordance with her personal and individual dharma of being a wandering sage for peace. Living in harmony with our true and most righteous nature is called dharma in the Sanskrit language, and dharma is a great path to walk in the land of spiritual happiness.
Wherever Peace Pilgrim went, she would fascinate the media. While scripting and editing the documentary about her life, I sorted through hundreds of enthusiastic newspaper articles and newsreel stories about her.
Peace didn't start a huge organization with thousands of employees to propagate her message, yet her message found its way into the world gently and steadily -- through radio interviews, television interviews, and while giving inspirational lectures and discussions in every possible kind of church and school. Although many wanted to follow along on her pilgrimage, Peace maintained her freedom. She would give her love and wisdom in one place, and walk on freely to love and give some more in the next.
During Peace's 28-year pilgrimage, the world did become more peaceful, due to her efforts, along with the efforts of other peacemakers. The earlier glory of war and fighting began to fade into an increasing universal wish for world peace. Although the world still struggles with issues of war and peace to this day, Peace Pilgrim truly demonstrated just how powerful a majority of one can be in helping to uplift the consciousness of a person, a city, a country, and the whole world. As she would often say, "If you want to make peace, you must be peaceful."
Peace Pilgrim's mission was fueled by spiritual happiness, along with dedication, service, optimism, and extraordinary faith. You could hardly ever find Peace without a beautiful smile on her face and a joyful cadence to her walk.
Eventually, Peace's hair turned totally white, and her face was covered with the creases of age - especially after walking outside in the sun for three decades. Nevertheless, when you see her on the television screen, she has the freshness and exuberance of a child. She moves with freedom, and sings out her message without fear of revealing her deep wisdom and innocent faith. Peace Pilgrim is a great example of someone who found the ever-flowing stream of spiritual happiness and dove right in, in her own unique and individual way.
Of course, very few people are called to live such an austere or eccentric life. Your job is to find your own simple or dramatic path to personal fulfillment and spiritual happiness
Meaning:
Every morn I decide to repent at night
For embracing the joys of heart and sight
Yet every night, what seems right
With all my might, embrace delight.
Fitzgerald:
Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring
The Winter Garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To fly--and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.
German:
An jedem Tag nehm' ich mir vor aufs neue,
Daß ich das Trinken laße und bereue;
Doch nun voll Rosenduft erschienen ist
Der holde Lenz-bereu' ich meine Reue.
'be it falcon or storm or another magnificent song?
I find you, Lord, in all Things and in all
By Rainer Maria Rilke
(1875 - 1926)
English version by Stephen Mitchell
I find you, Lord, in all Things and in all
my fellow creatures, pulsing with your life;
as a tiny seed you sleep in what is small
and in the vast you vastly yield yourself.
The wondrous game that power plays with Things
is to move in such submission through the world:
groping in roots and growing thick in trunks
and in treetops like a rising from the dead.
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It seems that today. I realize that I see in portions. Bits of this or that creating the storie in my head or heart.I found out that the truth is subject to that which tells it.Justice is a idea vs action.I don't understand why people where cheering Bush. He has lied and kill many people.He is not the president but a foe of truth and justice.Is he the new America dream?.No child left behind is a terrible program.The cheers are a insult to America.He is a lame duck president and should be brought on charges againts his treatment of the military. He hids behind the flag and veterans the VA Hospitals and mental health is a joke and allows people to harm them selves everyday, We the American people are now afraid of so much. Fear rules our passions. We have come to doubt the American dream.Cheers for Bush speech the other night,shows how much we have a dark side in America.We need to become a part of the world and find real leaders. Vote, Vote Go too HEll Bush Miss Rice should resign.
Recommended Books
Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke, Translated by Stephen Mitchell
The Best of Rilke: 72 Form-True Verse Translations, Translated by Walter W. Arndt
The Book of Hours: Prayers to a Lowly God, by Rainer Maria Rilke / Translated by Annemarie Kidder
Duino Elegies, by Rainer Maria Rilke / Translated by David Young
Engendering Inspiration: Visionary Strategies in Rilke, Lawrence, and H.D., by Helen Sword
Buddha in Glory
Center of all centers, core of cores,
almond self-enclosed, and growing sweet--
all this universe, to the furthest stars
all beyond them, is your flesh, your fruit.
Now you feel how nothing clings to you;
your vast shell reaches into endless space,
and there the rich, thick fluids rise and flow.
Illuminated in your infinite peace,
a billion stars go spinning through the night,
blazing high above your head.
But in you is the presence that
will be, when all the stars are dead
My heart wants me to belly dance. Intresting idea. Heart spirit feels music and knows he got that from his mother. Faith brightens and I am set free with music.
(1875 - 1926
My feeling is more like a field.That is growing and needs tender loving care it needs weeding.Looking and feeling with the heart. The mind is resting as the heart takes over. I find it to be better for me and spirit. Heart spirit and myself go on trips. With music and art and reading from that book or that.The mind thinks war. The heart feels heart.
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Hello and goeda dag to you. Onthaal aan de plaats. Lk trek met potloden en houtskool. Ik houd van gezichten.Onthaal aan de plaats The het Nederlands is wonderfull. Wijj zyn trots van de miletairen die voor vriyheid dienen
Everything comes to pass, nothing comes to stay.
-Matthew Flickstein, "Journey To The Center"
I feel like change is coming.... it is hopeful and wonderfull.. What does it mean?
Scaring the pious man of losing his sight for so much looking
Once a man addressed his pious friend
So much looking around your eyes offend.
In reply to his friend that man told
Eyes are either blind or can behold;
If eyes can see Divine Light, say no more
In such state who will need keep the score?
And if not, what do I need my eyes for?
To such eyes, better close the light’s door.
Worry not for sight, with Christ inside
Walk ye not astray, ride forth with pride
For Christ, your Soul, inside you resides
Ask him to reveal the gifts that he hides.
Yet enslave him not to your body’s demand
Think not Christ is there at your command.
Not unlike the fool in the story
Whose life was so idle and so sorry.
Ask not of your Christ for body’s lust
How can Moses ever Pharaoh trust?
In your heart think not of your daily bread
In His presence many feasts are spread.
This body is soul’s tent in midnight dark
Soul is Noah, body is much like the Ark.
Forsaken, inside the tent, naked, stark,
Sacred, to beloved, heavenward embark.
The universe is nothing more the a machine making gods.
"As rivers lose their private name and form
When they reach the sea, so that people speak
Of the sea alone, so all these sixteen
Forms disappear when the Self is realized.
Then there is no more name and form for us,
And we attain immortality."
"The results of karma cannot be known by thought, and so should not be speculated about. Thus, thinking, one would come to distraction and distress.
"Therefore, Ananda, do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others."
\"Los resultados del karma no puede ser conocida por el pensamiento, por lo que no se debe especular sobre. Así, el pensamiento, uno llegara a la distracción y la angustia.
"Por lo tanto, Ananda, no sea el juez de las personas y no hacer suposiciones sobre otros. Una persona es destruido por la celebración de juicios sobre otras personas."
- Anguttura Nikaya Develop what is skillful.' But because this development of what is skillful is conducive to benefit and pleasure, I say to you, 'Develop what is skillful.'"
-Anguttura Nikaya
The creatures that inhabit this earth--be they human beings or animals--are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama
How many times have I listen to my mind instead of my heart. I in this New year may I listen to my heart and be at rest. It's going to take some time as I forgot my heart. My mind is controlling and has sides. From life itself is the heart and it has mercy and it is timeless. Bright light everywhere unlike the mind that has control and needs room to roam. Judson with the light of heart I am all ready in the pure land. With abuse I learn to have the mind save me. But no it's safe and I can go back to the heart. The abusers person wants you not to have heart. You give in to the mind of it. It's your last defense It saves you from more abuse and you think about how to get away too a safer space. The heart allows you the light that makes the mind better and more compassion it allows more space and you feel safer and the lights heals and srrounds you.Go to your heat and awake it from it's sleep and clam down the mind as center of affairs. Give and take. Breathing in and out . Space and breath and life . Trying to escape the abuser thinking as it affects me.
Judson Laird
I am reading " Diary of a Mad Old Man" I like the book and how it is written it takes you to a older Nippon .The old man has many health problems and it take into medical terms and resources . The old man cries and it feels like the tears are such a joy to living. The book is rich with thinking about beauty and art and roles of man to women in costume .Men and tears. Junichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965) - written also: Jun'ichiro .Many styles of pain and pleasure. I enjoy the old man's thinking. He takes you into old age and how intent with sexual feelings you still are. No matter what age you are. You observe his life and it is a easy read, but holds the heart intact. I like how he carries himself and his love for women, His medical jargon. Poems abound and you learn what the book is, A beauty to be hold with jewels.
"Half hidden by the pines along the shore
The moon sinks toward the sea
Have you awakened from this world of dreams
To dwell in the pure radiance of Paradise?
Willow catkins fly, my friend has not returned.
The plum blossoms and the warbler were lonely,
my empty dreams remain.
I have spent ten thousand coppers for the wine of the Capital.
I stand by the balustrade in the spring rain,
looking at peonies
What is a balustrade?
A balustrade is a row of repeating balusters -- small posts which support the upper rail of a railing. Staircases and porches often have balustrades
Japanese novelist who dealt with the influence of the West on the old cultural heritage of his native country. After publishing novels written in a fairly orthodox style, Tanizaki fused traditional Japanese storytelling and experimental narrative. He emphasized the fabrication as the basis for fiction, stating that in both his reading and his writing he was "uninterested in anything but lies."
"I read somewhere the other day that men who are too fond of the ladies when they're young generally turn into antique-collectors when they get old. Tea sets and paintings take the place of sex." (from Some Prefer Nettles, 1928)
Junichiro Tanizaki was born in Nihombashi, in the commercial district near Tokyo Bay. His family owned a printing press, founded by Tanizaki's grandfather near the rice merchants' quarter. "Grandfather was very fond of me, his last grandchild; and sometimes in later years I suddenly felt I could hear his voice calling my name - "Jun'ichi, Jun'ichi," as he had during my earliest years, while he was still alive. A much-enlarged photograph of him was always prominently displayed in our house, so I got to know his face well, and could call it to mind and so encounter Grandfather whenever I wished." Aften falling on hard times Tanizaki's family had lost much of its former wealth. Tanizaki worshiped his mother who breast-fed him until he was 6. Despite financial problems, his parents pampered him and took him to countless theatrical performances, which early gave birth to the author's passion for drama and the traditional Japanese arts.
Tanizaki's studies at the university of Tokyo ended in 1910 in shortage of money - or according to some sources his nonpayment of fees was an act of rebellion. At the age of 24 he published one of his best short stories, 'The Tattooer', which show influence of Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde and the French Decadents. Wilde's Portrait of Dorian Gray Tanizaki also translated. In the story the character of a young woman starts to change when she has taken a tattoo. When in Wilde's novel the painting displays the decay of the subject, in Tanizaki's tale the artist's design is the cause of the woman transformation. The theme of feminine beauty and moral integrity marked his following stories, among then 'Whirlpool' in which an evil woman poses as a Buddhist saint for an artist's drawing.
--...Standing aside, he studied the enormous female spider tattooed on the girl's back, and as he gazed it, he realized that in this work he had expressed the essence of his whole life. Now that it was completed, the artist was aware of a great emptiness.
--'To give you beauty I have poured my whole soul into this tattoo,' Seikichi murmured. 'From now on there is not a woman in Japan to rival you! Never again will you know fear. All men, all men will be your victims...'
(from 'Tattoo')
The turning point in Tanizaki's life was the great earthquake in Tokyo region in 1923. His house in the fashionable residential area was leveled by the quake. Tanizaki left his wife and child and moved to the Osaka area which was much more old fashioned. There he stopped using Western models and started to take interest in traditional literature, especially the classical Japanese tale GENJI MONOGATARI (The Tale of Genji), which was written by Lady Murasaki Shikibu (c. 980-1030). Tanizaki'a first novel from this period, serialized in the mid-20's, was Naomi (trans. in English in 1985), in which a 28-year-old engineer, Joji, goes through his love affair with a young femme fatale, who is totally immersed into Western culture. "As Japan grows increasingly cosmopolitan, Japanese and foreigners are eagerly mingling with one another; all sorts of new doctrines and philosophies are being introduced; and both men and women are adopting up-to-date Western fashions. No doubt, the times being what they are, the sort of marital relationship that we've had, unheard of until now, will begin to turn up on all sides." (from Naomi) In TADE KUU MUSHI (Some Prefer Nettles, 1928-29) Tanizaki continued the theme of the conflict between traditional and modern culture and made Tokyo and Osaka symbols of the conflict between traditional and modern culture in Japan. The protagonist, Kaname, considers himself a modern man, but eventually abandons the modern world.
At the time of writing 'Professor Rado' (1925-28), an erotic story about an eccentric bachelor professor, Tanizaki's second marriage was ending. Her third wife, Matsuko, become again for the author a target of worship, as many other women in his life.
Tanizaki's years of immersion in Japanese history produced some of his finest works. The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi (1935) was set in the the 16th-century civil-war period. In the story Lady Kikyo set out to revenge the murder of her father and mutilation of his face. But the culprit is not her won husband, as she thinks, but her lover, the Lord of Mushashi, whose bizarre sexual obsession is behind the whole plot. Tanizaki's admiration for old Osaka is seen in SASAMEYUKI (The Makioka Sisters, 1943-48), a recreation of Osaka family life in the 1930s. The first chapters of the novel appeared during the World War II, but further publication was stopped by censorship of the military government. Tanizaki continued writing and published the first part at his own expense and delivered the copies to his friends. The second part appeared in 1947 and the third part was first printed in a serialized form in a magazine.
Although Tanizaki's used his own wife and her three sisters-in-law as models - and the author himself plays a small part in the middle of the story - it is not a roman à clef. Tanizaki wanted to record the vanishing cultural milieu of Osaka, its dialect, and the daily life of a middle-class family. The story is about four sisters, who are trying to find a suitable husband for Yukiko, the third sister. She is a woman of traditional belief and has rejected several suitors, and remains almost unmarried. Until Yukiko marries, Taeko, the youngest, the most Westernized, must wait for her turn according to the social convention.
His nostalgic love for the traditions and remnants of the past, even rustic and worn-out, Tanizaki expressed in the essay 'In Praise of Shadows' (1933-34). Tanizaki juxtaposed in it Western harsh light and the ''muddy'' Japanese complexion: ''I would call back at least for literature this world of shadows we are losing. In the mansion called literature I would have the eaves deep and the walls dark, I would push back into the shadows the things that come forward too clearly, I would strip away the useless decoration.''
Tanizaki's characters are often driven by obsessive erotic desires. His famous post-war novels include FUTEN ROJIN NIKKI (1962, Diary of a Mad Old Man), which depicts an aged diarist who is struck down by a stroke caused by an excess of sexual excitement. He records both his past desires and his current efforts to bribe his daughter-in-law to provide sexual favors in return for Western baubles. KAGI (1956, The Key) was a story of dying marriage examined through parallel diaries. "If now, for the first time, my diary becomes chiefly concerned with our sexual life, will she be able to resist the temptation? By nature she is furtive, fond of secrets, constantly holding back and pretending ignorance; worst of all, she regards that as feminine modesty. Even though I have several hiding places for the key to the locked drawer where I keep this book, such a woman may well have searched out all of them." The two protagonists start to use their diaries as a means of communication by tacitly agreeing to read each other's diaries while outwardly pretending that they do not. The diaries reveal their problems of understanding each other and separateness even during the shared activity of sexual union. The Key was adapted into screen by Kon Ichikawa in 1959, and later by Tinto Brass. In the short story 'The Thief' Tanizaki again studied the theme of fabrications and the truth. The narrator is a young student who is suspected of stealing from his comrades. "It also struck me that if even the most virtuous person has criminal tendencies, maybe I wasn't the only one who imagined the possibility of being a thief." Finally the protagonist admits his guilt but defends himself that he told the truth in a roundabout way.
Several of Tanizaki's stories have been made into films, in Japan and in other countries. He received the Imperial Prize in 1949 for The Makioka Sisters. Tanizaki lived his later years mostly in the Kansai, the area around Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe. He died in Yugawara, south of Tokyo, on July 30, 1965. His childhood memoirs appeared serially in a Japanese magazine in 1955-56, and were published in English in 1988.
For further reading: Tanizaki Jun'ichiro ron by Noguchi Takehiko (1973); The Moon in the Water: Understanding Tanizaki, Kawabata, and Mishima by Gwenn Boardman Petersen (1979); Visions of Desire: Tanizaki's Fictional Worlds by Ken K. Ito (1991); Three Modern Novelists: Soseki, Tanizaki, Kawabata by C. Van Gessel (1993); The Secret Window by Anthony Hood Chambers (1994); Tanizaki Jun'ichiro: Kitsune to mazohizumu by Chiba Shunji (1994) - Film adaptations: Oyu-sama, dir. by Kenji Mizouchi, 1951; Okuni to Gohei, dir. by Mikio Naruse, 1952, Akuto, dir. by Kaneto Shido, 1965
Selected works:
1953-2007
If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding. -His Holiness the Dalai Lama
To paint and draw you need models . I take pictures from books and copy figures.Models are the suff that artist need. Be a model today.Eat Art!
Learn to look in silence, if you don't want noise to drive away the beauty of fragile things that are before your eyes."
Path to action.
10,000 prostrations for 2007. Enjoy and take some for yourself.. May all be free and wishes come true.May this be so. 
The Afgans and baby blanket went well "Anchorage of Alaska Hospice" went as Christmas Gifts the staff love the colors and the blanket is for a baby boy just born. Thanks for your help everyone that comes to the site.We did it.I think now for every drawing sold I will plant a tree. So please buy my art and plant a tree.
“The role of the artist is to disturb the human being.”
El Afgans y manta bebé estuvo bien "de Alaska Anchorage Hospice" fue como regalo de Navidad el amor personal de los colores y de la manta es de un bebé varón nacido justo. Gracias por tu ayuda a todo el mundo que llega a la site.We hizo it.I pensar ahora vendidos por cada dibujo me planta un árbol. Así que, por favor comprar mi arte y plantar un árbol.
10000 postraciones de 2007. Disfrute y tomar algunos para usted .. Que todos sean libres y desea venir true.May este ser así.
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Para cada uno de nosotros debe llegar un momento en que todo el universo se demuestre que ha sido un sueño, cuando nos encontramos con el alma es infinitamente mejor que en los alrededores. Es sólo cuestión de tiempo, y el tiempo no es nada en el infinito.
- Sai Baba
To everyone of us there must come a time when the whole universe will be found to have been a dream, when we find the soul is infinitely better than the surroundings. It is only a question of time, and time is nothing in the infinite.
-Sai Baba
SHRIDI SAI BABA
February 26, 1925 – October 15, 1996
Robert F. Williams He wrote ''While God Lay Sleeping''the career of Robert F. Williams, an overlooked civil rights pioneer who indelibly stamped and shaped the movement during the '50s, '60s and beyond, but who has received precious little exposure, discussion or credit from the mainstream media.Looking like Frederick Douglass in his old age,
"The work he did should go down in history and never be forgotten." –Rosa Parks
Study of Robert F.Williams
Robert Franklin Williams (February 26, 1925 – October 15, 1996) was a civil rights leader, author, and the president of the Monroe, North Carolina NAACP chapter in the 1950s and early 1960s. At a time when racial tension was high and official abuses were rampant, Williams was a key figure in promoting both integration and armed Black self-defense in the United States.rt F. WilliamRobert F. Williams Escribió''Aunque Dios Lay Sleeping''the carrera de Robert F. Williams, un pionero de derechos civiles pasa por alto que el sello indeleble y en forma de la circulación durante los años 50, años 60 y más allá, pero que ha recibido muy poco, debate o Crédito de la corriente principal media.Looking como Frederick Douglass en su vejez,
"El trabajo realizado debe pasar a la historia y nunca será olvidado." - Rosa Parks
El estudio de Robert F. Williams Robert Franklin Williams (26 de febrero de 1925 - 15 de octubre de 1996) fue un líder de los derechos civiles, autor, y el presidente de la Monroe, North Carolina NAACP capítulo en el decenio de 1950 y comienzos de 1960. En un momento en que la tensión racial en gran parte, y oficiales de los abusos que imperaba, Williams fue una figura clave en la promoción de la integración y ambas armadas Negro legítima defensa, de las Naciones States.rt F. Williams
Abraham dijo: "La paz esté con ustedes! Voy a implorar el perdón de mi Señor para ti, porque él ha sido amable para mí
Abraham said, "Peace be with you! I shall implore forgiveness of my Lord for you, for He has been gracious to me
Por pigmea (Anónimo)
(18 º Century)
En el principio era Dios,
Hoy es Dios,
Mañana será Dios.
¿Quién puede hacer una imagen de Dios?
No tiene cuerpo.
Es la palabra que sale de su boca
Esa palabra! No es más,
Es pasado, y todavía vive!
Así es Dios.
Christmas card says :
"I wish you a attractive Christmastime and a new year full of happines"Hero
judsonMen, women, childern if you're hit or hear abusive words don't take it, get away from that person or persons. Tell someone. Get away. This is not good for your mind and heart. You deserve better. You can find the stength and save yourself from a terrible person. Save your family. And most of all stay away from this form of abuse. Control is one of the things abusive people try to take away. Don't make up with them. Run away and be safe. I felt shock the first time I was hit and thrown on the floor and beaten. I was so angry at myself and took the abuse. I tried to make it up to the abusive person. Thinking it was my fault. That got no where fast. It lasted for years. I joined the Army and still the abusive person tried to control me. Just don't put up with what people say. Fight for yourself. You will find the stength. Your crazy if you stay, smart when you leave. Don't give in to them. Learn to love yourself first, then your family. No one should put their hands on you or tear you down. Give your self the power of yourself and have faith. My abuser hated everyone but acted nice to them. He hated my success.
Hombres, mujeres, infantil si está afectado o abusivas escuchar palabras que no tienen, apártate de esa persona o personas. Dile a alguien. Aléjese. Esto no es bueno para la mente y el corazón. Usted se merecen algo mejor. Usted puede encontrar el stength y salvarse de una terrible persona. Guarde su familia. Y la mayoría de todos mantenerse alejados de esta forma de abuso. El control es una de las cosas abusivas de la gente trata de tomar distancia. ¡No se deben hacer con ellos. Huir y estar seguro. Me sentí choque de la primera vez que fue golpeado y arrojado al suelo y golpeado. Estaba tan enojado en mí mismo y tomó el abuso. Traté de hacerlo a la persona abusiva. Pensando que era mi culpa. Que donde no obtuvo ni rápido. Eso duró años. Me uní al Ejército y aún la persona abusiva tratado de control de mí. Simplemente no se conforman con lo que la gente dice. Lucha por usted mismo. Usted encontrará los stength. Tu loco si estancia, inteligente momento de su partida. No se someten a ellos. Aprenda a amar a ti primero, y luego su familia. Nadie debe poner sus manos sobre usted o usted lacrimógenos. Déle a su libre del poder de ti y de tener fe. Mi abusador odiado pero todos actuaron agradable para ellos. Odiaba mi éxito.
AUM has three sounds. Those who meditate on A
Come back to earth, led by the Rig Veda,
To lead a pure life, full of faith and love.
Those who meditate on the first two sounds,
A and U, led by the Yajur Veda,
Go to the lunar world, full of pleasure,
From which they come back cloyed to earth again.
But those who meditate on A, U, and M
Are led by the Sama chants to the sun,
Where freed from sin, as a snake sheds its skin,
They see the supreme Lord, who lives in all.
-Prashna Upanishad
I am the Word of God living through His Essence. I am the Food of the soul, the Spirit of purity. I am the Fountain of the Water of Life. I deliver the lovers of God from death. If your greed had not raised such a stench, God would have poured a remedy of water on your graves. I accept the warning of the Sage; I will not allow my heart to be sickened by ridicule.
-Rumi, "Mathnawi"
If you have no eyes, do not walk blindly;
take a staff in your hand.
If you have no staff of insight,
do not walk without a guide.
-Rumi, "Mathnawi"
Soy conazon y mente aceptables para buddha. Trabjo con el corazon, Es may different en conifiar en a su uno mismo.
Esconderse detrás de la bandera de los Estados Unidos, entonces la mentira al pueblo norteamericano que sucede a todos mucho. ¿Cómo se puede luchar contra otro pueblo y tomar sus tierras. Cuando se demuestre, nos están conducir a otra guerra con nuestros hermanos y hermanas de Irán. ¿Está la CIA roto? ¿Es posible una mejor CIA? ¿Quiénes son estas personas que actúan como nuestros agentes para nuestro rostro en el mundo? Estoy tan mal de tener miedo acerca de cuándo vamos a tener otro ataque. Todas las mentiras me han hecho cansado y frustrado. El presidente es una amenaza para el propio pueblo norteamericano. Los crímenes de guerra actos. Impeachment de Bush. Miss Rice debería dimitir. ¿Acaso todos se reúnen en un lugar donde no hay ninguna nación, ningún gobierno, la paz y la abiltiy para hacer dinero en los mercados libres. Madres infantil y sería el grito de guerra. La verdad es que Don t cuidar de nuestros seres queridos. La vejez no es una enfermedad. Tratamos a las cosas como son. Usted puede conocer su libre mejor cuando usted comparte su vida con sus pares. Las mujeres desaparecen de allí homes.Watch él morir en th arbusto
Hiding behind the American flag, then lying to the American people happens all to much. How can I fight another people and take their land. When is it proven, we're being lead to another war with our brothers and sisters of Iran. Is the CIA broken? Is a better CIA possible? Who are these people that act as our agents for our face in the world? I am so ill from being afraid about when we will have another attack. All the lies have made me tired and frustrated. The president is a threat himself to the American people. War acts crimes. Impeachment of Bush. Miss Rice should resign. Do we all meet in a place where there is no nation, no government, peace and the abiltiy to make money in free markets. Mothers and childern would be the war cry. The truth is that we don;t take care of our loved ones. Old age is not a disease. We treat it like it is. You can know your self better when you share living with your peers. Women disappear from there homes.Watch him die on thr bush.
With China going to the moon and will have bases there. I wonder what the rest of the world would feel.I had a dream where a building had gardens and many flowers and trees growing out of it. Maybe this is the future.A Earth building.
Happy Hanukkah, I light the candles last night had a feeling of freedom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiyc9Ak3EtQ&feature=related
"Go to Hell Bush "and he is going going gone.Miss Rice should resign . She is terrible
Stein by Picasso
On the web I could only find small pictures of this. So I blew it up.
I just got a book called "Heavy Breathing''
Me gusta que me consigue a través del día y la noche. Es como una de las partes por escrito en prosa. Mezclas de las palabras y el sentido de captar la atención de usted con su conciencia y en el contexto vacío. Al igual que beber té y disfrutando de su calor y de vapor busca en la mezcla de hojas de té. Para un revelador de su fortuna. Escrito por Philip Whalen
I like it it gets me through the day and night. It's like a party in writing prose. Words and mixtures of meaning grab you with attention to your awareness and emptiness in context. Like drinking tea and enjoying its heat and steam mixture looking into the tea leaves. For a telling of your fortune. Written by Philip Whalen
My Lord, my desire in this world is to remember You above all other things of this world and the next and, out of all who are in that world, to be the one to meet with You alone. However, this is what I say: "Your will be done."
The real work is in the Heart:
Wake up your Heart!
Because when the Heart is completely awake,
Then it needs no Friend.
http://www.fen.bilkent.edu.tr/~gunes/rabia2.htm
My Joy
My Hunger
My Shelter
My Friend
My Food for the Journey
My Journey's End
You are my breath,
My hope,
My companion,
My craving,
My abundant wealth.
Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree)
Do not underestimate your ability.
-Geshe Chekawa, "In Advice From a Spiritual Friend"
850 prostrations for 3 December 2007
9000 for the year of 2007. 150 more for a thousand then 10,000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwdKSbARwM
''Don't ask, don't tell Veteran Here ''Judson Laird
VA Hospitals Mental Health is joke and out to lunch. Terrible liars and do more harm then good because they have no idea what Mental Health is about.
''Living or dying
All is bright fire.''
Oscar WildeThe actual quote is: "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." Some sources say something along the lines of "One or the other of us has got to go." Supposedly these were among his last words. Or within his last few days.
Check your mind,
Be on your guard,
Pull yourself out,
As an elephant from mud.
— xxiii.8
This picture was made in pencil. Then I painted it.It looks old which was the affect I had wanted to try. Mark Twain 81/2 by 11
Contrary Ways
What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind. If a man speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering follows him as the wheel of the cart follows the beast that draws the cart.
He insulted me, he hurt me, he defeated me, he robbed me. Those who think such thoughts will not be free from hate.
For hate is not conquered by hate: hate is conquered by love. This is a law eternal...
(Translation by Juan Mascaro)
When I take my pills I wonder and say prayers for good health. Heal
thy self.I seek the earth bowing and sliding I notice a ant and the earth and where I will go. Return I stand up and see the heavens. Midway I feel my heart/ spirit/mind. "Om Ah Hum". Prostrations. The moon is out tonight and it's so bright and blue. Rain is coming. At different times of life you try to make sense of your family. No luck as I lived it. Still very confused. Shame was the control factor. Hidden truths and the need for authority. Justice does not enter. Truth does exist for me, playing music very lould I hear truth and do not know where to turn, Family Matters. Lies and just being so mad. My feelings turn inward and out comes a greater truth. It was not my fault! There you are off the hook.Now what do I do? My family would never understand the Buddha. They would think of him from another country, they would see his brown skin. They would run away and think of him as evil. I am so lucky that I have fought against such small minds. I have gained so much from Buddhist ideas. I am set free and that is very important for growth. I know lies and are used to them. It seems like the lies of the US. Government just lies and lies and the truth it not come out for years. Waiting for the truth somewhere
in my life.
Norman Rockwell
http://www.astraeasweb.net/plural/rabbithowls.htmlthis is my sister. Don't know what to think. She wrote a Book Called "When the Rabbit Howls. This is her book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truddi_Chase. Coming out to you about my family
Al-Ghazali's Deliverance from Error
Moto is the phrase of the Sufi Shants of Tabriz. who said " The man of God is a place in a ruin."
Making blankets for hospice care in Alaska. Making blankets for gifts.
'' They have a wound in their soul''
''Blessings that are always poring forth"2004 byJudson Laird.
Sometimes in the passing of time a sense of your benefactors 
in your life take hold. Reflect and allow yourself the goodness of others. Living and dead they come bearing you gifts and holding you up. Taking into your own goodness and rewards . Heal youself now and take youself away from the world of suffering. judson
I added some color to the picture. What do you think a improvement? Lets see maybe charcoal and putting some ink in needed spaces. I will work on this piece and let you see the difference. Here it is. What you think?
Not all my prayers are in English.... judson being human
"He said the he could smell change."
"If You Go Away"
http://www.btinternet.com/~c.fynn/tibetan/calligraphy/Tibetan-Calligraphy.html
http://www.lrc.cornell.edu/medialib/ti/twc/chapter_01/twc01-03.html
Had to get the world out of my head and take birth in another language.We take care of a Nun and Monk and they are learning English so I thought why not learn what there language is about. Writing to them is hard but I will attempt their language. Learning a new language bear with me as I take notes and place them on the site. Have as much fun as I am having learning how to read and write all over again,like crawling again.New sounds and ideas about words that appears out of magic.The first time a word that appears to you that you undertand.Your brain goes wild and you grow up a little.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_Me_Quitte_Pas_(Jacques_Brel_album)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFWs5kWP-us&feature=related
Each American Family pays a lot for these wars. We have created a monster of the Military spending. Will we become like other contries where the military takes over and is control of the country?Hell were all ready there today.
In the name of God,
Most gracious most merciful;
Praise be to God,
The cherisher and sustainer of the worlds;
Most gracious, most merciful;
Master of the day of judgment.
Thee do we worship, and Thine aid we seek.
-Sura Fateha (1:1-5)
''The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again. No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal.''
Henry Miller
khan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUcXI2BIUOQ
Everytime I see a white wall I want to paint it...
Smart 7.
jpg judson j. laird
Gainsborough
Our-Lady-of-Guadalupe-with-Mexican-Flag-Print
http://members.home.nl/tolsma/
My nature is light,
Nothing but light.
When the world arises
I alone am shining.
-Ashtavakra Gita 2:
Football and living in the south, got some money together and bought some new art pencils and carbon itching pencils, they look like the colors of fall. Greens and pale yellows and red, brown and skin tones colors. Now I will turn them inside out drawing something.I see the leaves turning colors. I wonder what I turn into.Where are my leaves.
http://www.spiritandhuman.com/JudsonLaird.html Please think about buying my art.
http://www.shemgroup.org/index.html Give for text books, No books for the childern of Tibet. Well worth giving to.
http://web.mac.com/kcwaters/Site/Welcome.html
Luke O'Brien 03.15.07 | 12:00 PM
Yu Ling, 55, last visited her husband in a Beijing prison March 5th. She boarded a flight to the United States the next day, intent on holding Yahoo accountable for helping unmask him to the repressive Chinese government. View Slideshow
FAIRFAX, Virginia -- Early one Sunday morning in 2002, a phone rings in Yu Ling's Beijing duplex. She's cleaning upstairs; her son is asleep, while downstairs, her husband, Wang Xiaoning, is on the computer. Wang writes about politics, anonymously e-mailing his online e-journals to a group of Yahoo users. He's been having problems with his Yahoo service recently. He thinks it's a technical issue. This is the day he learns he's wrong.
Wang picks up the phone: "Yes?"
"Are you home?" asks the unfamiliar voice on the other end.
"Yes."
The line goes dead.
Moments later, government agents swarm through the front door -- 10 of them, some in uniform, some not. They take Wang away. They take his computers and disks. They shove an official notice into Yu's hands, tell her to keep quiet, and leave. This is how it's done in China. This is how the internet police grab you.
Five years later, Yu, 55, sits in the dining room of a small house in Fairfax and weeps softly. She is a slight woman -- 100 pounds and barely 5 feet tall in slippers. Her eyes betray her exhaustion; but she is determined, too. She carries a thick stack of notes with her, and she has scrawled more on her left hand.
"Yahoo betrayed my husband and deprived him of freedom," Yu says through a translator, her voice trembling. "Yahoo must learn its lesson."
Yu's husband is now in Beijing Prison No. 2, serving a 10-year sentence for inciting subversion with his pro-democracy internet writings. According to the written court verdict, the Chinese government convicted Wang, in part, on evidence provided by Yahoo.
After a year of preparation, Yu flew into Washington, D.C., last week for one purpose: to find a lawyer and sue the internet giant. She told her story to Wired News in the Virginia headquarters of The China Information Center, a nonprofit advocacy group headed by former dissident Harry Wu, who helped arrange Yu's travel to the United States.
Now that she's here, Yu says she's not leaving until she has held Yahoo accountable. Her life, as she puts it, is "broken." Without Wang, she doesn't go for walks anymore, once a favorite pastime. She no longer takes vacations with her friends. It's hard for her to look at happy couples.
"I cannot think about the past together with my husband," she says. "I can only hide it in my heart. Without my husband, I never have a full meal. I don't feel whole."
Legal experts are doubtful of Yu's chances in court. But her presence in the United States puts an inescapable human face on the pain caused by the uneasy alliances American technology companies have forged in the last five years with China's repressive regime. These partnerships are the price of admission to China's booming market, but they are not without their casualties.
It's also a trade-off that Yahoo is not alone in making. To comply with government requirements, Google's China search engine blocks access to sites the government deems objectionable. Microsoft launched its Chinese blogging service in 2005 with filters that prohibited sensitive words such as freedom and democracy in blog titles. And Cisco supplies internet backbone equipment the Chinese government uses in the so-called Great Firewall that shields citizens from websites about Tibet and the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Technology firms are "compromising their duties as responsible corporate citizens," Rep. Chris Smith (R-New Jersey) charged in a blistering opening statement during congressional hearings on the issue last year. "Women and men are going to the gulag and being tortured as a direct result of information handed over to Chinese officials."
Yahoo and its subsidiaries, which provide web mail and the Yahoo Groups service to the Chinese market, have faced the harshest criticism. The company has been called out no fewer than four times by human rights groups for complying with Chinese government demands for sensitive information about journalists and online dissidents. Writers such as Shi Tao, Li Zhi and Jiang Lijun are all in prison for "crimes" similar to Wang's -- and Yahoo allegedly helped put each of them there.
"We are required to follow the laws of those countries and that's what we've done," says Jim Cullinan, a Yahoo spokesman. "Law enforcement agencies in China and elsewhere don't explain to us or telecom companies or anyone the reason why they're demanding specific information. We can't tell the difference between a legitimate national security issue and something else."
Cullinan says Yahoo is strongly opposed to repression of free speech and is working to develop a set of operating principles to guide its engagement in countries with repressive governments. He adds that Yahoo had not heard of Wang's case until now, though it was widely reported last year.
"We haven't seen the court documents," he says. "But we condemn what happened."
The court's verdict clearly illustrates that Yahoo had a role in the case. The court writes that a Yahoo subsidiary, Yahoo China, first blocked Wang's Yahoo group in 2001. Yahoo Hong Kong, a separate subsidiary, then submitted written testimony linking that group to a specific Yahoo e-mail address in China. Cullinan disputes parts of the court's account. "There is no exchange of information between Yahoo Hong Kong and mainland security forces," he says.
On Wednesday, Hong Kong's privacy commission cleared Yahoo Hong Kong of wrongdoing in the separate, but similar, case of imprisoned journalist Shi. The commission reported that Yahoo China turned over information to Chinese authorities, but the Yahoo Hong Kong subsidiary was not involved. "Yahoo Hong Kong did not exercise control over the affairs of Yahoo China," the report says. "Such control was in fact exercised wholly by Yahoo Inc."
In a 2005 merger deal , Yahoo transferred its China properties to Alibaba, China's largest e-commerce company and acquired a 40 percent interest in the merged operation. Critics charged that the merger was partially intended to shield Yahoo from responsibility for its actions in China. In any case, the merger is likely to make it harder for Yu to prevail in a lawsuit against the American company -- a prospect experts say is already complicated by the international flavor of the case.
"The normal rule is that when you're doing business in a foreign country, you're obligated to comply with the law," says Allen Weiner, associate professor of international law at Stanford University. "We may not like the law. But Yahoo is in a difficult position.
"She's presumably going to have to establish that this was a human rights violation," says Weiner. "Whether arbitrary arrest would count is something that the courts haven't really decided.... The next thing to figure out is whether Yahoo aided and abetted it.... The bottom line is that it's pretty hard to prevail in these cases."
If Yu's legal prospects are dim, her husband's are nonexistent. In 2003, Wang appealed his case to the Beijing Higher People's Court. He lost. According to the court's written ruling, Wang had edited, published and contributed articles to 42 issues of two political e-journals, advocating for open elections, a multi-party system and separation of powers in the government. In his e-journals, Wang called socialism a "totalitarian and despotic political system," and wrote that the Chinese government was "outwardly democratic but inwardly despotic."
Confronted with a rap sheet like that, the court ordered Wang to serve out his sentence.
Yu says she's not giving up. "I think Yahoo should follow the world human rights standards," she says. She wants Yahoo to pay damages and, less realistically, she hopes U.S. legal action might somehow result in her husband's freedom. "I want my husband released from prison.... Money cannot pay back my husband's freedom, his life."
Yu last saw her husband March 5, the day before she flew to California, then Chicago, now Virginia. She spoke with him through a glass window. She says he is coping well, even though the guards rarely let him go outside. Wang lives in a crowded cell with nine other men. He sleeps on bunk beds and does push-ups to stay in shape. Prison food consists of tasteless vegetables. Yu brings him books to read. She once called the prison and begged that her husband be allowed to visit his dying mother in the hospital. Wang's captors said no.
But her husband has kept busy behind bars. He's still writing, Yu says. Still writing the same things that he wrote before he went to prison, when his phone was tapped and strange men would follow him and Yu on the streets. He doesn't plan to stop, even when he gets out of prison. He doesn't care if the government calls it subversion. He calls it freedom.
"He's a stubborn guy," Yu says. Then she smiles.
By Michelle Mi
Epoch Times San Francisco Staff
Apr 25, 2007
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110607A.shtml
Yu Ling, whose husband is imprisoned in China for his pro-democracy views, has just filed a lawsuit against Internet giant Yahoo! for providing information to the Chinese communist regime which resulted in his arrest. (Michelle Mi/The Epoch Times)
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SAN FRANCISCO—The wife of a Chinese dissident came to San Francisco to file a lawsuit last Wednesday against Yahoo! for revealing her husband's identity to the Chinese communist regime. Her husband, Wang Xiaoning, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for simply voicing his pro-democratic opinions on the Internet.
Yu Ling, 55, appears at first to be a frail woman of small stature. The determination that shines from her eyes, however, shows her to be anything but weak.
"Yahoo!'s action took away my husband's freedom," Yu said through an interpreter. "I am here to let them know that what they have done is wrong."
Yu's life was forever changed on Sept. 1, 2002, when a group of Chinese national security agents arrested her husband and ransacked her home without any warning. After taking away their computers and related materials, the agents threatened her and told her to not mention the incident to anyone.
She didn't see her husband again until more than one year later. "He had aged so much from when I last saw him," Yu recounts after seeing her husband in March 2004. "His physical state was very frail, his eyes were dazed, and he had no facial expression. He was constantly coughing. His hair was completely white and he appeared extremely old."
Since his arrest, Yu has been in a state of constant pressure, filled with anger, fear, sadness, loneliness, and pain. She is not able to truly disclose this to others, but has been silently bearing it on her own.
Her husband, Wang Xiaoning, edited and wrote for electronic journals such as Free Forum of Political Reform and Commentaries on Current Political Affairs . These writings call for democratic reform and a multi-party system in China. During the years 2000-2002, Wang also posted pro-democracy articles on websites inside China and abroad. When the website administrators blocked his actions, he started sending out his journal anonymously to individual e-mail addresses.
Yahoo! HK, a subsidiary of Yahoo!, provided the Chinese government with identifying information that linked Wang to the pro-democracy Internet communications. With evidence provided by Yahoo!, a Chinese court was able to convict and sentence Wang to 10 years in prison for "incitement to subvert state power." Wang was detained at the Detention Center of Beijing State Security Bureau, and was eventually put into Qincheng Prison in 2004.
"The verdict booklet was a total of 14 pages," says Yu as she held out a copy of the document. "In nine of those pages Yahoo!'s name was mentioned, and throughout the document were email addresses and user IDs listed as part of court evidence. Therefore, I think Yahoo! has major responsibility."
And so she came to the U.S. to seek justice, at a great risk to her personal safety.
Though Yahoo! and several other tech companies had to testify before the Human Rights Caucus of the U.S. Congress in February of 2006, little seems to have changed since then. An Amnesty International article states: "So far we have no evidence to suggest that Yahoo! has made the most basic attempts to ensure that they were operating according to international standards."
Though nothing can undo the pain and suffering Yu and her family have been through, with the lawsuit, Yu hopes to bring about change.
"I hope that Yahoo! will take considerable action to call for the release of my husband and others like him who are detained for voicing their different opinions." Yu also hopes that major tech companies will no longer comply with the demands of the Chinese government that result in the prosecution of innocent people.
Confucius said, "Lead the people with governmental measures and regulate them with laws and punishment, and they will avoid wrongdoing but will have no sense of honor and shame. Lead them with virtue and regulate them by the rules of propriety, and they will have a sense of shame and, moreover, set themselves right."Plant trees for today and fill the world with trees. Fight back what were doing to the world.
115 dollars a barrel 4.40 a gallon is the future. Clean water and no bees Look America out for China and India as markets replace the American one. The cold war made a fake world market and the cold war is over. Freedom in world markets has come into place. We must relize this . Make ours selves better for this new form of world markets.We depend on China too much because they will win the oil. They have been doing this for years opening oil markets.America should have people of the world in it's market.Ideas and inventors and a return to a gold stardard. Money is just printed. Why is the dollar going down is the question not the oil? We are smart and a brave people and will work for a better place in the world markets.Brave men and women will help us get out of this short sighted mess.We could learn from the Chinese statement that making money is good and a way to freedom from control of the government. We own another country and it has oil. War is not the way for free markets. Speak up today. Write the President, Congress .Stop the occupation of Irag. Lets get with a none war country. And make money in the new world markets. In our prostrations we invite our mother and father and many aspects of many faiths and who ever we meet or joins you in prostrations. The imprison and torture wounded come as we well, we all fall to the earth. And slide into the light . Form is form. Emptiness is Emptiness. Form is form and emptiness is emptiness.
We answer with "May all your wishes come true, may none be left behind." Many live in fear we transfer it into peace of mind and healing prayers.Take in the sun and the light that sets you free from human bondage. The light is the way and the faith of all that feels it. In the light there is no conrty or nation or god . Light of many life times and other events take place. The lights tells you not to try to understand it.Pouring and surounds you always in life journey.And you are disclosed into you inner light which welcomes you.Prostrations greets you with your emotions and your become allies in wonderment and a growing universe.You are much more then wars. Or fighting with your brothers and sisters. You are peace all ready.
Today is God
By Pygmy (Anonymous)
(18th Century)
In the beginning was God,
Today is God,
Tomorrow will be God.
Who can make an image of God?
He has no body.
He is the word which comes out of your mouth
That word! It is no more,
It is past, and still it lives!
So is God.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 18 — The Pakistani president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, plans to run for another term while still serving as army chief, but will resign his military post if he is re-elected, his top legal aide told a Supreme Court panel on Tuesday.
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The announcement, the clearest indication from General Musharraf’s camp of his political plans, came in a statement introduced in hearings on a set of petitions challenging his eligibility to run and his dual role as civilian and military leader.
Filed by General Musharraf’s legal counsel, Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada, the statement read, “If elected for the second term as president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf shall relinquish charge of the office of the chief of the army staff soon after the election, but before taking oath of the office of the President of Pakistan for the next term.”
General Musharraf’s current term runs out on Nov. 15, and by law presidential elections must be held by Oct. 15. The constitutional amendment allowing him to hold the top civilian and military posts expires Dec. 31. The information minister, Muhammad Ali Durrani, said that if re-elected, General Musharraf would resign from his army post prior to Nov. 15, before taking the presidential oath.
Government officials called the announcement momentous, and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz issued a news release saying it was “a clear reflection of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s firm belief in democracy.”
But the statement was immediately met both with criticism and skepticism by opposition lawyers and political parties, who questioned whether the general would hold to such promises and what he would do if not re-elected.
Outside the court, Dr. Tariq Hassan, an opposition lawyer and the former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, said the statement was “steeped in mala fides” and “political blackmailing.”
“The uniform will have a bearing on the elections, on the political process,” he told reporters. “So, the timing of taking off the uniform is itself suspect.”
Dr. Hassan asked: “What is he going to do if he is not re-elected? Is he going to declare martial law? Is he going to declare emergency then? We don’t know.”
The fall election has become the focus of the deepest political crisis the general has faced, as two exiled prime ministers, Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, have mounted popular campaigns to return and restore civilian rule. Mr. Sharif returned briefly to Islamabad last week, but was deported within hours to Saudi Arabia, where he had been exiled after General Musharraf ousted him in a coup in 1999. Ms. Bhutto has announced her return for Oct. 18.
The judicial panel was led by Justice Rana Bhagwandas. The chief justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, chose not to serve on the panel. He was reinstated by the Supreme Court in July after fending off an attempt by General Musharraf to dismiss him.
Political analysts said that it was understandable that the opposition parties were critical of the announcement, but that it could be seen as General Musharraf’s willingness — no matter how reluctant — to give up some of his power.
“From the point of view of the president, this is a huge concession,” Najam Sethi, editor of Daily Times, a leading newspaper from Lahore, said in a telephone interview, but he added that it was more of a concession to the Supreme Court.
“President Musharraf knows that the Supreme Court is looking at his re-election plans with disfavor,” he said. “If the Supreme Court says he can go ahead with the elections, then he is through. He can then appoint a new army chief and announce general elections under a caretaker setup.”
The opposition holds that the general, who appointed himself president in 2001 and was then elected in a referendum in 2002, has already served a second term, the maximum allowed.
Muhammad Akram Sheikh, who represents Qazi Hussain Ahmed of opposition party Jamaat-e-Islami, told the panel that the statement had no credibility because General Musharraf had reneged on two earlier promises made to the nation — first by breaching a military officer’s oath of not taking part in politics and second, by not taking off his military uniform by Dec. 31, 2004, as he had pledged to do.
One of the nine judges, Muhammad Nawaz Abbasi, remarked that a statement made before a court was different from commitments made outside.
A senator from Ms. Bhutto’s party, the Pakistan People’s Party, echoed Mr. Sheikh’s argument.
“It is difficult to trust the gentleman as he has backtracked on his promises in the past several times,” said the senator,
