Appreciation

God is an atheist. It is a conciousness that denies the conciousness as it does not need to exsit in any context or under any condition.
While walking down a corridor, the idea that I am a woman, a stranger, a foreigner, a loner, a colored person, jumping from country to country, from nationality to nationality, from job to job, from situation to situation, from role to role and constantly re-shape, change, transform or revolutionize, it is truely a sign of fortune of having so much opportunities to appreciate the world and humanity from so many angles and perspectives, both disadvantaged and advantaged, poor and comfortable, relaxed and stressed, to show me the relevance, the illusions and the ultimate truth.
I am lucky and I am thankful.

Stranger

From town to town
country to country
nobody knows and there is no need.

I pass by like a breeze
Observe like a leave in the tree.

Architect, poet, holy man,
teacher, musician, prostitute,
carpenter, politician and sans papier.

These are you. Who am I?
I am time's timer.

Divan of Shems of Tabriz - Rumi

When my bier is carried on the day of my death
Don't think my heart remains in this world.

Don't weep for me or cry, "Woe!Woe!"
Such sadness is the devil's snare.

When you see my hearse, don't cry, "He's gone, gone!"
Remember, union and encounter are mine in that hour.

When you commit me to the grave, don't say:"Good bye, good bye."
The grave is a curtain concealing the community of Paradise

After looking upon descent, consider resurrection;
To the sun and the moon, is setting a calamity?

To you death is setting; in truth it is rising.
Though the grave seems like a prision, it comes as the soul's release.

What seed buried in earth doesn't grow?
Why doubt the growth of the seed in man?

What bucket lowered doesn't come up brimming?
Why should the spririt's Joseph complain at the well?

Shut your mouth on this side of death, open it beyond.
Your song will be trumphant in nowhere's air.

Emotional Insecurity

A person who is emotionally insecure lacks confidence in their OWN value, and one or more of their capabilities, lacks trust in themselves or others, or has fears that a present positive state is temporary, and will let them down and cause them loss or distress by "going wrong" in the future.

Overall, a person who is insecure always needs "reference points" to confirm his confidence, without which he is not clear about his own state of mind.

A few signs:
"Need to have a setting of authority to feel power and confidence"
"When opposed, feel the urgency of fighting back and straigthening things up. Can not take a losing situation"
"Rarely let go, good or bad"
"Need to have money to feel rich and always feel that there is not enough"
"Say things like "This woman married a man 20 year her senior for his money, just for his money" - a sign of pessimism of self-value and natural charm"
" Feel proud sleeping with someone younger or beautiful or rich or famous"

 

Marriage Solution

Woman: "Let's get married!"
Man: "Why do you want to get married?"
Woman: "That would make me happy."
Man: "Are you not happy now?"

The woman thought a while and applied a customer centric approach: "I keep you well fucked; I let you financially and emotionally burden-free; I make you spiritually lifted."
Man: "Let's keep it this way then!"

God saw that they can not reach a conclusion and turned them both into gays. They went to the street to protest in order to get married.

 

May 8th - White Lotus Day in momory of Madame Blavatsky

History has not been kind to the controversial Helena Petrovna and her passion for spiritual truth. But then history may be too short a time to give us a real perspective on the Immortals. For such the stubborn genius Blavatsky most certainly was…and is.

The Golden Stairs as written by her.

A clean life, an open mind, a pure heart, an eager intellect, an unveiled spiritual perception, a brotherliness for one’s co-disciple, a readiness to give and receive advice and instruction, a loyal sense of duty to the Teacher, a willing obedience to the behests of TRUTH, once we have placed our confidence in and believe that Teacher to be in possession of it; a courageous endurance of personal injustice, a brave declaration of principles, a valiant defence of those who are unjustly attacked, and a constant eye to the ideal of human progression and perfection which the Secret Science depicts: these are the golden stairs up the steps of which the learner may climb to the Temple of Divine Wisdom.

Principles

Live in the know; Die progressed

The True Human and Happiness

The philosophy of Plotinus has always exerted a peculiar fascination upon those whose discontent with things as they are has led them to seek the realities behind what they took to be merely the appearances of the sense.

The philosophy of Plotinus: representative books from the Enneads, p. vii^[11]

Authentic human happiness for Plotinus consists of the true human identifying with that which is the best in the universe. Because happiness is beyond anything physical, Plotinus stresses the point that worldly fortune does not control true human happiness, and thus “… there exists no single human being that does not either potentially or effectively possess this thing we hold to constitute happiness.” (Enneads I.4.4) The issue of happiness is one of Plotinus’ greatest imprints on Western thought, as he is one of the first to introduce the idea that eudaimonia (happiness) is attainable only within consciousness.
The true human is an incorporeal contemplative capacity of the soul, and superior to all things corporeal. It then follows that real human happiness is independent of the physical world. Real happiness is, instead, dependent on the metaphysical and authentic human being found in this highest capacity of Reason. “For man, and especially the Proficient, is not the Couplement of Soul and body: the proof is that man can be disengaged from the body and disdain its nominal goods.” (Enneads I.4.14) The human who has achieved happiness will not be bothered by sickness, discomfort, etc., as his focus is on the greatest things. Authentic human happiness is the utilization of the most authentically human capacity of contemplation. Even in daily, physical action, the flourishing human’s “…Act is determined by the higher phase of the Soul.” (Enneads III.4.6) Even in the most dramatic arguments Plotinus considers (if the Proficient is subject to extreme physical torture, for example), he concludes this only strengthens his claim of true happiness being metaphysical, as the truly happy human being would understand that which is being tortured is merely a body, not the conscious self, and happiness could persist.

Plotinus offers a comprehensive description of his conception of a person who has achieved eudaimonia. “The perfect life” involves a man who commands reason and contemplation. (Enneads I.4.4) A happy person will not sway between happy and sad, as many of Plotinus’ contemporaries believed. Stoics, for example, question the ability of someone to be happy (presupposing happiness is contemplation) if they are mentally incapacitated or even asleep. Plotinus disregards this claim, as the soul and true human do not sleep or even exist in time, nor will a living human who has achieved eudaimonia suddenly stop using its greatest, most authentic capacity just because of the body’s discomfort in the physical realm. “…The Proficient’s will is set always and only inward.” (Enneads I.4.11)
Overall, happiness for Plotinus is "...a flight from this world's ways and things." (Theat 176AB) and a focus on the highest, i.e. Forms and The One.

菊

玲珑玉佛千手

挺秀秋菊一枝

２０１３ 对联

上联：为人处世不争无忧
下联：天地道理无中生有
横批：自然如此

上联： 一人一佛一炉香
下联：听风看雨晒太阳
横批：家在蓬莱

The greatest gifts in life

One of the greatest gifts I got in life is my mother, so that I learn to not to become a person like her.
Another greatest gift is my husband, so that I learn that I should not live for other people's perception and for vanity.
The last greatest gift is the squirrel, so that I learn that one can be happy for so little & trivial things or nothing!
 

An idea to make time and space disappear

Imagine a fly and a moving train. Imagine that the wagon signifies the passing of time - it crosses a space at a speed and with its passing, there is passing of time. Time is light travels through space.

If the fly is outside of the train, if the moment when the trains passes it is "present", then the moment when the fly saw the train approaching would be "the past", and after the train passes it, the "future". To the fly which is in another space than the train, time exists.

If the fly is inside the train, it is "with the light", the train will not pass by it, the fly is always in the "present". So time stops because the fly is part of the traveling light. However, in this case, to the both the fly and the train, there is still the change of space. Space exists.

The fly's limitation is that it can only be at one place at a time (outside of the train or inside of the train) and it can not be the train which is the light.

However, imagine a "being" that is so vast that it encompasses all the universe, meaning that the traveling light is part of it, so is the space outside it. It is omnipresent and impermeable to everything existent. To this "being" which is all light, all space and objects, nothing exists despite all the movements and perception of time and space perceived by various objects.

Is this the "Void" in Buddhism? Or is this God in all religions? Can this theory be scientifically confirmed?