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Many have heard the story of the great World Teacher ,and the hope he is going to spread all over the world.Today their are millions everywhere who agree that as a race we have strayed far off the path that God has intended for us to follow.We are living in a world where 80% of the worlds resources are used and wasted while we have millions who will starve in agony for want of food that lies rotting in the warehouses of the developed world.For how long must we put up with this shame and carry on as if nothing is wrong.We here in the west are living out our lives in a very selfish satisfaction,but this will not be for very long as more people from all over the world will see the deeper problems and will be appalled . 
                                                                                                                                                   If the entrance into the New Age going to work as planed then we must implement our will and of course be ever ready to stand tall ,and to stand in spiritual Being .Me and many other collogues who are involved with the reappearance have our work to do within whatever City that may be,and the world is a very big place. There are millions of people in the world at this time whose lives are governed by good will  ,and they can be found all over this world,working within the various fields  such as being doctors,Politics,good will communities ,the occult, science,medicine ,and so many other avenues of humanitarian endeavor.These people of goodwill all over the world these day are known as the ‘’ New Group Of World Servers’’ .and many of them are very advanced humans who have come a very long ways ,and could be very old and seasoned souls who have eons of learning and experience ,and can be relied upon to get the job done.

 

The Lord  Maitreya will not be the only teacher to come forward,but coming with him are a rather large group of Masters who have reached a very high state of development during eons past,and many of them do not die as they have perfected their bodies and all have light bodies.They don't eat,sleep and are always in telepathic rapport with each other no matter what the distance is,and they are even in communication with the spiritual hierarchy of all of the planets within our solar system .. For long ages they have been dwelling within the mountains and the deserts of the world ,and overseeing our evolution from behind the scenes ,ever hoping for the time when humanity can be ready to tread the path of initiation.In this coming new age there will be millions who will deem themselves ready to pass through the ancient Mystery Schools which will be established all over the world,such as it was during the Atlantean root race when the Gods themselves [Masters] walked side by side with each other.During this coming time all peoples everywhere will have the basics ,such as food,housing ,medical care,education and so on, and humanity will have a chance to re-discover themselves in a new light.The art of self realization will be a major goal in many of the great educating centers all over the world.The coming New Age will provide many the tools to let their creativity flow ,and everybody will have a chance to really  be some body …….Yes my friends,we are seeing the dawning of Aquarius.

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Great blog on the phantasms and ghosts our mind can conjure up to fool us.

Growing up versus waking up is a recent Buddhist Geeks podcast featuring John Welwood, who's both a Buddhist practitioner and a psychologist, and in it he talks about why it's so common for people to meditate diligently for decades and still be an emotional mess. He says it is because Buddhism tends to be more about working on growing the intellectual/spiritual element of life, while often repressing the emotional growth of humans. And he talks about including emotional growth in your practice, so that you can be more wholistically healthy.

The talk is about a half an hour, and it doesn't start to get especially interesting until the second half, so hang in there. :-)

(Also, I'd like to amplify his caveat about it not being easy to find a good psychotherapist! I've found it easier to split up the job of therapist between books (for the theory and practical suggestions) and friends (for the support) and the internet (for sharing my stories). This approach seems to be more reliable than finding a therapist who actually understands what I want.)

I found a great zen center in my new neighborhood in Saint Paul and it got me meditating on a regular basis. I feel like there's more time in my day and like I make better use of it. I like how the meditation tries to sort of peer through the illusion of thought and see the world for what it really is.

Do any of you practice meditation regularly? What do you think of zen buddhism and how it compares to other branches of the Buddha's teaching?

Gasan instructed his adherents one day: "Those who speak against killing and who desire to spare the lives of all conscious beings are right. It is good to protect even animals and insects. But what about those persons who kill time, what about those who are destroying wealth, and those who destroy political economy? We should not overlook them. Furthermore, what of the one who preaches without enlightenment? He is killing Buddhism."

Size of average hat * 20 = Huge Hat
Size of Hat = Holiness
Organized Religion = Spirituality + Politics

Politics is a greek word for many combined with Tics, the name of a small, blood sucking insect which can cause Lyme desiese, a very unpredictable condition that fucks your shit up and kills you.

To a novice Western practitioner of the Buddhist faith, the first glimpse of wrathful deities can cause uncertain judgment amongst the practitioner. Without proper education and insight the western mind could perceive this as invitation into occult paraphernalia.

Wrathful deities are dark, ugly, and terrifying. Their imagery are composed to "scare" bad or negative influences. The manifestation of wrathful deities are to serve and protect the Buddhist faith. Wrathful deities are often the liberation of Hindu gods and goddesses.

People ask why wrathful deities are usually black or other fierce hues. The hues represent the colors of the universe. Black, being the ultimate absence and true color of emptiness.

Lets take a look into the wrathful deity Vajrabhairava. Vajrabhairava is dark, ugly, has a devilish apperance, and has death all around him.

In Tibetan Buddhist practices, there are three main forms of (Vajrabhairava) Yamantaka – the red Yamantaka, Ratktaymari, the black Yamantaka, Krishnayamari, and the Vajrabhairava, the Diamond Terrifier. (http://www.exoticindiaart.com/product/TK74/)

According to the popular version of the mythological origins of Yama (the god of death), a holy man was once told that if he spent fifty years living in deep meditation in a cave, he would reach enlightenment. On the night of the twenty-ninth day of the eleventh month of the forty-ninth year, two robbers entered his cave with a stolen bull whose head they proceeded to cut off. When they realized that the hermit had witnessed their act, they decided to kill him. He begged them to spare his life, explaining that in a few minutes he would reach enlightenment and that all his efforts would be lost if they killed him before the expiration of the fifty years. The thieves ignored his request and cut off his head. Immediately, he assumed the ferocious form of Yama and put the bull's head on his own headless body. He then killed the two robbers and drank their blood from cups made from their skulls. In his fury, he threatened to destroy the entire population of Tibet. The Tibetan people appealed to the deity Manjushri (the Bodhisattva of wisdom), to protect them from Yama. Manjushri then assumed the form of Yamantaka , defeated Yama, and turned him into a protector of Buddhism, in order to save the people. (http://www.exoticindiaart.com/product/TI10/)

Vajrabhairava/Yamantaka is the wrathful manifestation of bodhisattva Manjushri, the essence of the wisdom of all Buddhas. The term 'Yamantaka' means one who puts an end to Yama. In Buddhist pantheon 'Yama' is the lord of Death and 'antaka' means one who ends. Thus Yamantaka means one who ends death. Yamantaka is the secret terror so that the no one ever betrays the precepts of Shakyamuni Buddha. Yamantaka is the fusion of two aspects – the blessed aspect and the irate aspect – the emanation of the double aspect of Manjushri. He is so fierce as to destroy all forces contrary to Dharma. He is thus a god of redemption, one who fights against evil and triumphs. (http://www.exoticindiaart.com/product/TN27/)

Yamantaka is also known as Vajrabhairava, 'Adamantine Anger'. It is said that this form of Yamantaka has associations with the Brahmanical deity Mahabhairava, a special form of lord Shiva, who in this form destroys the universe at the end of the eon. The Buddhist Yamantaka tantras combine aspects of both deities (Yama and Shiva) into the cult of Vajrabhairava-Yamantaka, in Tibetan Buddhism. (http://www.exoticindiaart.com/product/TN27/)

The present form of Yamantaka is called Yamantaka Ekavira, Ekavira means, 'solitary hero', in this form Yamantaka does not embrace his consort. Yellow complexioned Yamantaka Ekavira has nine faces, three on each side of the main head and one above it, each with three eyes. The main head is that of a fierce buffalo with horns. The topmost head is of Manjushri. The eight wrathful heads wear skull crowns, and their hair rises upwards, signifying the deity's enlightenment. Yamantaka wears an elephant-skin cloak, a garland of freshly cut human heads, and bone ornaments. He is naked except for his adornments. He is naked except for his adornments. He is naked except for his adornments. He has thirty-four arms. The two main arms hold a cranium and vajra marked chopper. His remaining hands hold tantra symbols. His each arm with attributes fights for his devotees to evil beings. Yamantaka has sixteen legs, eight on each side. Lying face down under his bent right legs are one human male and six animals that one human male and six animals that are, in turn, stepping on four devas. Under his outstretched left legs, eight birds are also stepping on four devas. There is wisdom fire aureole behind him. (http://www.exoticindiaart.com/product/TN27/)

People ask why do Hindu gods want to become liberated through Buddhism? I don't really hold the answer to this question. From my studies, I can assume that Hindu gods want to attain liberation from samsara.

The tantra to vajrabhairava is:

ya ma r¯
a ja sa d¯
a me ya ya me d¯
a sa ja r¯
a ma ya/
ya da yo ni ra pa ks.e pa pa ks.e pa ra ni yo da ya
(http://www.scribd.com/doc/17113013/G-Buhnemann-I-Buddhist-Deites-and-Mantras-in-the-Hindu-Tantras Pg.315)

Are wrathful deities evil? Not at all!
Are the demonic? Not at all!
Are they compassionate? Yes!
Do the serve and protect the Buddhist faith? Yes!

Enjoy!

- Razorfalcon




Sources:
http://www.exoticindiaart.com/product/TI10/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamantaka
http://www.khandro.net/deities_wrathful.htm
http://www.exoticindiaart.com/product/TN27/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/17113013/G-Buhnemann-I-Buddhist-Deites-and-Mantras-in-the-Hindu-Tantras
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I wrote a little story about my trip to India last year, particularly Vulture Peak. Read it here.

The Buddha would like yard sales. He’d view them as perfect opportunities to practice detachment.

After years of my belongings falling from grace and sinking into my dusty basement, it was time for a little cleansing. Before 7:00 a.m., signs had been posted and the dealing had begun. Things were going fast: games galore, a TV, multiple lamps of differing styles, necklaces & purses, dozens of books, an unused mega-kite, lacrosse & hockey sticks, Beanie babies with and without tags, an ice cream maker, bric-a-brac shelves, candle holders, and several VCR tapes. It felt great seeing all that clutter hauled away. Feeling detachment, I had no regrets… except one: my 17-foot Canadian-made Kawartha fiberglass canoe in pristine condition. It was the last item to go.

Granted, it had been collecting dust, but I maintained an attachment to it primarily because of it’s potential. Though I hadn’t used it for years, I refused to concede that I would never launch it again.

At first, the portly bearded man told me the price I was asking was a great one, but added that his wife would kill him if he bought it. Later in the day when he returned, I thought maybe he’d killed her instead. But in fact, she sat smiling in the front seat watching him as he walked timidly up to me.

He cleared his throat. “Would you go any lower?” he asked.

Knocking off $25 sealed the deal, then began the hardest part my lesson in detachment. It was time to truly let go.

I helped portly bearded man shove my pristine canoe into his beat up old Chevy Suburban. We shook hands, then I just stood there and watched until he drove around the corner and out of sight. Only a touch of trepidation lingered but I had done the right thing, cleansing my basement and my conscience at once.

It felt good to move on, and felt even better knowing that the Buddha would be proud of me.

I'm wondering how to best practice compassion when the person requiring compassion, who is suffering, is also causing other living beings to suffer. How does one discern what is the best path one can take to encourage the relief of suffering for all involved?

I am searching for a scary Buddhist wallpaper to inspire me to practice.

Preferably the Wheel of Life, but most I found are pretty tame.

The scariest(and most awesome) I found so far are these, although they are merely Tibetan art, not Buddhist.



http://io9.com/5506269/tibetan-artist-turns-hulk-and-spider+man-into-himalayan-heroes/gallery/1

Could anyone recommend a sangha/temple/center in Philadelphia (or close surrounding areas)? I know there's Buddhist directories online, but I'd like to hear from actual people where they go and what it's like.

P.S. Not SGI please

Thank you, I'll try to post in here more.

Hi. I've revived my old journal, but made it friends only. Just wanted to invite people to comment to join, if they like.

There's been some discussion of a New York Times essay by the Dalai Lama. Some of the contention has come from a broader claim made elsewhere, or the claim implicit in the title "Many Faiths, One Truth"--which, of course, may have just been a headline writer's misguided summary.

The essay itself doesn't claim that all faiths believe in the exact same truth. Instead, it argues that four major religions, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Hinduism, all have compassion as a "central" or "core" element.

So what do we do with this broad pronouncement? Does this mean that anything presented as a religion, including Scientology, Branch Davidians, Heaven's Gate, etc., are all equally compassionate? I would hope not. Does this mean that people who are not religious don't have compassion as a central guiding principle? I would hope not as well.

It's problematic because of the idea of a "center" or "core." The Buddha taught that an individual's center is impossible to define, using the analogy of a cart, which I update to the analogy of a car. Is "the car" the same as the tires? The body? The engine? It isn't. You can replace those parts and it's still considered the same car. A person is like that, the Buddha says. We swap out parts of the self and become different people, but there's still a kind of continuity. What, at its core, is this continuity? In a sense, any name we give to it will be not quite right.

The name "Buddhism" refers to a vast web of stuff. Buddhism includes temples and books, chanting and prostrations, Tibet, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Japan, Detroit. One of these many elements included is compassion. If we swapped out all the other stuff and replaced it, would the compassion alone still make it Buddhism?

It actually reminds me of the study of literature. When you read a book for a class, you can expect the question, "What is this book really about?" Your answer comes in the form of an essay, essay meaning "try," an attempt to pin down a core knowing that an equally intelligent person might say it's really about something else.

Over time, literary theory developed particular ways of thinking, systems used to point in a direction for the "really about" question. Feminist theory tends to answer, "The story is really about the different perceptions of men and women." Marxist theory tends to answer, "The story is really about the struggle of the working class." Perhaps if we follow the Dalai Lama's advice here, we develop a kind of "compassion theory." We look at any religious teaching or text and find a method of interpretation so that we can faithfully say, "This story is really about compassion."

Why this worries me: schools of theory can tend to put us in blinders, paying only selective attention. When we learn about another religion, are we paying attention to what we'd like to think it's saying, what will confirm what we already hope to believe about it? Are we going to say as soon as we hear the word "compassion," "Yup, I get it. Say no more. We have compassion in my religion too"?

If you want to study compassion theory and study it well, my advice is to follow the avenue of questioning. Even if compassion is at the core of religions, it's because the founders of those religions each had something precise to say about compassion. They started religions because they wanted to correct people's misguided definition of compassion, because what people would like to think about compassion, according to these sages, was incorrect. So if you want to know that Christianity is about compassion, figure out precisely what the Gospels say about compassion, and how it differs from what the Dhammapada says about compassion, what the Quran says about compassion, what Star Trek says about compassion. Don't be afraid to take a stand and say when something is wrong.

The question "What is compassion?" is too big for one religion to answer. Maybe to accept diversity of religions is to accept that different answers are an essential part of it. We won't see that if we assume all religions, and all religious people, are all saying the same thing.

I wonder what it must be like to breathe in oil, to have it covering your body, to swallow it down your throat as you try to eat, to be born into oil and instantly smothered by it... I look at the trees outside my window and the grass and wildflowers and birds and imagine them covered in oil. I drink crystal clear filtered water and imagine it tainted with oil.

This is too large a sorrow. This is too large a catastrophe for any of us. How many beings have died smothered by oil? How many will die smothered in oil in the future, as we continue to drive our cars mindlessly and imagine that nature can recover from any violence done to it?

We're fond of saying "Never again" for genocides, and yet they keep on happening. I can only hope that if we as a people gather the strength to say "Never again" for this oil spill ecocide, that we'll mean it, and we'll keep our word. Part of me worries, though, that when we finally stop using oil, it'll be too late. Part of me worries it might already be too late.

The first Osho talk that has me really shaken up. Opinions wanted! Please discuss.

OSHO,
I KNOW MY LOVE STINKS, SO WHY DO I CLING TO THE SMELL?
Prem Amrito,
WE LIVE according to the past: our lives are rooted in the dead past, we are conditioned by the
past. The past is very powerful, that’s why you go on living in a certain pattern; even if it stinks, you
will go on repeating it. You don’t know what else to do; you have become conditioned to it. It is a
mechanical phenomenon. And this is not only so with you, Amrito, it is so with almost every human
being – unless he becomes a Buddha.
To become a Buddha means to get rid of the past and to live in the present. The past is immense,
very huge, enormous, of millions of lives. You have lived in a certain way. Now, being here, you
may have become aware that your love stinks, but that awareness is also not very deep, it is
very superficial. If it becomes really deep, if it penetrates to the very core of your being, you will
immediately jump out of it.
It is like if your house is on fire you will not ask anybody how to get out of it. You will not consult the
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, and you will not wait for some wise man to come and tell you, and
you will not consider whether it is appropriate to jump out of the window or not – you won’t bother
about anything. Even if you are taking a bath naked you will jump naked out of the window; you
won’t even bother about clothes. When the house is on fire, your life is at risk; now everything else
is secondary. If your love stinks – this has become your experience – then you will come out of it.
You will not simply ask a question, you will jump out of it.
But I think that it is just an intellectual idea, because each time you are in love, some misery arises.
Each time there is some conflict, some struggle, some fight, some jealousy, some possessiveness.
So you have started taking an intellectual standpoint: ”My love stinks, so why do I cling to the smell?”
Because it is not yet really an existential experience for you.
And it is your own smell. One becomes accustomed to one’s own smell. That’s why when people
are alone they don’t experience that smell, they experience it only when they are together with
somebody.
When you are in love, then you start showing your real face. Love is a mirror. The other starts
functioning a mirror. Every relationship becomes a mirror. Alone, you don’t experience your own
smell – you cannot; one becomes immune to it. You have lived with it so long, how can you smell it?
It is only with the other that you start feeling that he stinks and he starts feeling that you stink. And
the fight starts.... That is the story of all the couples all over the world.
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”Where are you going with that goat, Juan?” asked the policeman.
”I’m taking him home to keep as a pet!” replied Juan.
”In the house?”
”Sure thing.”
”But what about the smell?”
”So what? He ain’t gonna mind the smell!”
Your own smell is not disturbing to you. In fact, if it suddenly disappears you will feel a little jolted,
you will feel a little uprooted, you will not feel your natural self; you will feel something has gone
wrong.
If you love and there is no jealousy you will start wondering whether you love or not. What kind of
love is this? There seems to be no jealousy! You love a man, and if the man goes with another
woman once in a while, you don’t make much fuss about it. You take it for granted – it is perfectly
good for a change. And if your man is happy, why not let him be happy? You love him. If you really
love him you will respect his happiness too. And he is not going forever.
In fact, if once in a while couples are allowed a little freedom, they will not separate; the divorce
rate will drop in the world. Divorce exists only because marriage is too tight. Let marriage be a little
more relaxed and divorce will disappear. Divorce is only a by-product of marriage. The tighter the
marriage system, the more divorce becomes an absolute need. And if divorce is not allowed, then
you have double lives: one to show to the society and one to live.
It is because of marriage that prostitution exists in the world. The whole blame goes to the marriage
system. If people are a little more loving and less jealous and if they understand human nature, it is
simple.
You eat the same food every day; you get fed up with it and once in a while you would like to go to
the hotel. And the hotel food may be worse than what you get in your home, but even that is good –
at least that makes your home food look better. And when you come back the next day you feel so
relieved that you are back home, and you are so happy to have the same food again!
The more man’s mind is understood, the more and more marriage will have to be relaxed. It is
perfectly okay to give a few days off in marriage. The woman should be allowed to have her
boyfriends and the man should be allowed to have his girlfriends – at least, just as you have Sunday
religion, a Sunday marriage! And you will be surprised that your own wife looks far better. Again a
honeymoon starts – a mini-honeymoon. You again start from ABC.
And being with many women and with many men does not destroy marriage – no, not at all. It
is a very nonsensical idea that has prevailed over humanity: that it is destructive to marriage and
family. It is not so – it is very supportive. It will help the family to be more joyous, less quarrelsome.
Otherwise, the woman is constantly spying on the husband and the husband is constantly spying
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on the woman. And what love can exist between two persons who are constantly at each other’s
throats?
Yes, your love stinks, as everybody else’s love stinks, but you feel it only when you are in relationship.
You have not yet felt that it really has something to do with you. Deep down you still feel it must be
something wrong with the other. That’s how the mind functions: it throws the responsibility on the
other. It accepts itself and it is always finding faults in others.
Several people are sitting in the front row of a movie theater. The show has already begun when
suddenly there is a terrible smell.
One of the spectators turns to the man sitting beside him and asks, ”Did you shit in your trousers?”
The man beside him answers, ”Yes, why?”
People accept themselves totally! Whatsoever they are doing is right: ”Why? What is wrong in it?
They are his own trousers, so who are you to interfere? And freedom is everybody’s birthright!”
Amrito, if your love stinks, then try to find out what exactly it is that stinks. It is not love, it is something
else. Love itself has a fragrance; it can’t stink, it is a lotus flower. Something else must be in it –
jealousy, possessiveness. But you have not mentioned jealousy and possessiveness. You are hiding
them. Love never stinks, it cannot; that is not the nature of love. Please try to see exactly what it is
that creates the trouble. And I am not saying to repress it. All that is needed is a clarity about it –
what it is.
If it is jealousy, then I would only suggest one thing: be more watchful of your jealousy. When it
arises next time, rather than becoming mad, close your doors, sit silently, sit in meditation, watch
your jealousy. See exactly what it is. It will surround you like smoke, dirty smoke. It will suffocate
you. You would like to go out and do something. But don’t do anything; just be in a state of nondoing,
because anything done in a moment of jealousy is going to be destructive. Just watch. And I
am not saying repress it, because that is again doing something.
People are either expressive or repressive, and both ways are wrong. If you express you become
destructive to the other person. Whosoever is your victim suffers, and he is going to take revenge.
He may not take revenge consciously, but unconsciously it is going to happen.
Just a few months ago, Krishna Bharti fell in love with a woman. Nothing extraordinary about it, but
Deeksha got mad! Deeksha could not accept the idea. For centuries we have been told that if a
man loves you or a woman loves you and the man or the woman goes to somebody else, that is a
rejection of you.
That is utter nonsense. It is not rejection; in fact, it is just the opposite. If a man loves the woman
and he enjoys the woman, he starts fantasizing how it will be with other women. It is really the joy
that this woman has given him that triggers his fancy. It is not that he is rejecting this woman; it
is really an indication that this woman has been such a nourishment that he would like to see and
know how other women are. And if a little rope is given he is not going to go very far, he will come
back, because with the other woman it may be novelty, it will be something new, but it can’t be that
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nourishing because there will not be any intimacy. It will have something empty about it. It will be
sex without love.
Love needs time to grow, it needs intimacy to grow. It needs a really long time. It is not a seasonal
flower that is there within three, four weeks, but then within three, four weeks it is gone too. It is a
long long process of intimacy. Slowly slowly, two persons melt and merge into each other; then it
becomes nourishing. The other woman or the other man cannot be nourishing. It may be just an
adventure, a thrill. But then suddenly the feeling will arise – it is bound to arise – that it is good as
fun, but it is not nourishing. And the person will be back.
And Krishna Bharti would have been back, but Deeksha went mad. She behaved just like any other
woman! But I was waiting... sooner or later she was going to take revenge. Now she is taking
revenge. Krishna Bharti fell ill, he was in hospital, and Deeksha had a little freedom. She fell in love
with her own handyman! He really proved handy! Now K.B. is in hell.
There is no need to be so worried about it. I have given K.B. a message: ”Wait, don’t be worried.
Just let her take revenge. And it is good that unconscious burden is finished.”
If we understand each other a little more, if we understand human nature a little more, there should
be no jealousy. But it is a past heritage of centuries.
So, Amrito, I cannot say you can drop it right now. You will have to meditate over it. Whenever it
possesses you, meditate over it. Slowly slowly, the meditation will create the distance between you
and the jealousy. And the greater the distance, the less jealousy will arise. And one day, when there
is no jealousy, your love releases such a fragrance that no flower can compete with it. All flowers
are poor compared to the flowering of love.
But your love is crippled because of jealousy and possessiveness and anger.
It is not love that stinks, remember, because I have seen people who think it is love that stinks so
they close up, they become closed, they stop loving.
That’s what has happened to millions of monks and nuns down the ages: they became closed to
love, they dropped the whole idea of love. Rather than dropping jealousy, which would have been
a revolution, rather than dropping possessiveness, which would have been something of immense
value, they dropped love. That is easy, that is not much; anybody can do that. To be a monk or a
nun is very easy, but to love and not to be jealous, to love and not to be possessive, to love and let
the other have the whole freedom is really a great achievement. Only then will you feel love and its
fragrance.


And yet this same pdf Osho speaks of the stupidty of sex and its external focus.

Trolls were bad last time I was here - anyone able to link me another active comm. I can inquire this topic some more?

Just recently we were all disturbed by the off shore oil drilling accident that took place under the auspices of BP. Subsequently, millions of gallons of oil even now at this very moment are pouring into and polluting the Gulf of Mexico. In addition to this fiasco, we also must be reminded of the huge plastic and non-biodegradable island that's twice the size of Texas currently floating in the Pacific Ocean. It continues to grow daily due to the fact that plastics adhere to other plastics. Therefore, this already enormous plastic island quite literally attracts other plastics towards itself, thus continuing to grow. It has been estimated that this Plastic Island currently weighs about 3.5 million tons. Large ships continue to dump their waste of all sorts into our oceans. Now that's just on the outskirts of the United States!

Within these contiguous United States, we have a very serious problem with water quality due to almost nonexistent EPA regulatory controls on tap water. We currently have a variety of industrial manufacturers dumping their waste products into our lakes and water tributaries. Many water tables have not, are not, and will not be tested by the EPA. Those that are tested by the EPA have such loose standards that carcinogenic chemicals known to be present in tap water are allowed to extists below certain levels. Regions found to be in violation are given time periods to clear certain environmental hazards without alerting the unsuspecting public. In most cases, the local city, county, or regional water supply facilities have more strict toxic level standards than that of the federal government when water quality concerns itself with either tap or bottled water.

Though standards for the production and distribution of bottled water are generally higher than that of tap water. The standards are still so loose that over 20% of all bottled water contains some type of coliform, or pathenogenic bacteria that could pose a problem to immunocompromised consumers. Various types of pseudomonas were also found in over one fifth of all water tested by the National Resources Defense Council testing laboratories. The NRDC also found detrimental levels of arsenic, trihalomethanes, chloroform, nitrates, and phthalates within bottled water.

Bottled water standards are frequently skirted by the labeling on the bottle. If the bottle is only labeled as "water", then all bets are off! Anything could be inside the bottle without any safeguards at all! If the bottle reads "disinfected water" or "purified water", these labels only mean that some effort has been made to clean the water in some particular manner. Disinfected water could very well mean that certain bacteria have been removed to a certain degree, but chemical toxins might very well be present. Purified water could mean that certain chemical toxins have been removed to a certain degree, but there may be some bacterial contaminants present that have not been detected or even tested. Some water that has been bottled simply says, "Bottled Tap Water". This means that you're paying sometimes 1000% more than the same product you could have just gotten out of your own tap at home.

Let's just face it! Our water quality is crap and the government will continue to turn its stupid head while we, the consumers, continue to get ripped off and worse, TRICKED!