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IAN GARDNER
2016
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My Body, My Soul and I. 15
Civilization. (1) 16
The 'World'. 16
Sublime Patience. 16
A Dream. 18
Life's Events. 18
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Meditation. (1) 20
Telepathy/Thought Transference. 21
Thought. 21
Meditation. (2) 22
Enlightenment. (1) 22
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Money. (1) 23
Regarding Yourself. 23
Life is a Stage. 23
Enlightenment. (2) 23
An Unsustainable Civilization. 24
Killing. 24
Enlightenment. (3) 25
Forgiveness. 25
Blowing Bubbles. 26
Synchronicity. 26
Civilization. (2) 26
Joy. 26
Enjoy. 26
On Loving God. 27
Without Emotion. 29
Attaining Nirvana. 32
Speaking. 32
Emotional Self-sufficiency. 32
The Jellyfish. 32
Animal Instincts. 32
Freedom of Expression. 33
Arrogance. 33
An Interesting Prediction. 33
Emotions. 35
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Split Souls. 36
Inner Poverty. 37
Karma. (1) 37
Money. (2) 38
Time. 39
The Truth/Reality. 41
Ones Independence. 41
A Truth Is a Truth. 41
Life. 41
Hurt Feelings. 42
Blisstasy. 42
Love is a Manifestation. 43
Two Perspectives. 44
Truth. (1) 44
Creation of Disease. 44
Opposing Forces. 44
Mind/Soul. (1) 44
Mind/Soul. (2) 45
Quo Vadis? 45
Mind/Soul. (3) 45
The Road. 45
Mind/Soul = Moul. 45
Apologies. 45
Wonder Full. 45
The Now. 46
Words of Value. 46
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Futile Pursuits and Escape. 46
Wealth. 47
Karma. (2) 47
Offence. 47
Spiritual Growth. 47
Love. (1) 47
No Thing Matters. 48
You. 48
Enlightenment. (4) 48
Enlightenment. (5) 49
Jealousy. 50
Invest to Divest. 50
Minor Details. 51
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Non-attachment. 51
The Reality. 51
Universal Balance. 52
Contentment a metaphor. 53
Hope. 54
Resonate. 54
Parallel Paths. 54
Quo Vadis? 54
Deification. 54
Karma. (3) 55
A Succession of Choices. 56
Casting Stones. 56
Cessation of Karma. 57
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Enlightenment. (6) 57
Words of Wisdom. 57
Riches. 57
Evil. 57
Technological Progress. 58
Experiencing Knowledge. 59
Despair of Life. 60
Love. (2) 60
Enlightenment - progressive. 61
The Ladder. 63
Oneness? 63
Hope. 64
Genesis. 64
God. 65
Karma. (4) 65
Nirvana. 65
Thought Manifests. 66
The Illusion. 66
OM 66
Success. 67
Negative Motivation. 67
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Your Body. 67
Civilization. (3) 67
Spiritual Evolution. 67
We Creators. 68
Trapped in a mindset. 68
IT. 68
I AM. 68
Friendship. 68
Pointless Pointing. 69
Realisation. 69
A Pleasing View. 69
Ones Philosophy. 69
Would you? 69
Xenophobia. 70
Insult. 70
The Unnatural. 70
Ideas. 70
Spirituality. 71
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Perception. 71
Spiritual Progress. 71
The Truth/Reality. 71
Enlightenment. (7) 71
Karma. (5) 71
Disappointment. 72
Clarifying Spirit/Soul/Mind/Moul. 72
The Reality/Truth. 73
Tools. 73
To Love. 73
IN CONCLUSION. 74
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My Body, My Soul and I.
My body is mine, but my body is not me,
My body is an expression of my soul.
My soul is mine, but my soul is not me,
My soul is an expression of me -
for I am.
The Journey up the Mountain.
There are those who, having found a spring on the lower reaches of the
mountainside, shout to those climbing past, "Stay! for we have found the
spring. You need climb no more." Some cease their search and stay, whilst
others continue upwards and, reaching the top, find that there is no water
there - for none is needed.
Choices and Ripples.
When we toss a pebble into a still pond it creates ripples which move out
from the source and affect the surface and all objects in their path. At times,
they rebound to the source.
In life, we are constantly making choices (tossing pebbles into the pond)
and, where these affect others, they, like the ripples, have an affect.
So, be mindful of your choices.
Time and "Now".
Using approximate times, let us say that it is noon in Maleny. It is then 3
a.m. in London, 6 a.m. in Johannesburg, 8 a.m. in Colombo, 10 a.m. in
Singapore and 10 a.m. the previous day in Washington DC, and so on any-
where in the universe. Yet, although the time varies, it is "now" everywhere.
Ponder this.
The Illusion in Context.
When one focuses totally on one's true identity, the "I am", worldly life is
but a faint and shallow mirage on the distant horizon. In troubled times this
awakens one to the Reality and soothes the troubled mind.
Controlling the Mind.
Being aware of what the mind is doing helps you control it. Therefore, ob-
serve the mind in action, observe what it is doing and what it is saying. You
then see it as something apart from yourself and can treat it accordingly.
Perception and the Truth.
One's perception is one's truth until the arrival of wisdom.
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Civilization. (1)
Civilization is not necessary for the spiritual progress of the individual.
However, it does provide the opportunity to learn that the empty pleasures
and apparent benefits that civilization brings are actually worthless - mere
illusion - and the opportunity to eliminate the desire for (the attachment to)
these. The only progress that matters in the long run is spiritual progress.
Historically, all civilizations have collapsed as a result of their own excesses;
they are impermanent.
The Voice of Conscience & The Voice of Mind.
The voice of one's conscience is often eclipsed by the voice of emotion, or
the voice of emotion comes into play first and is followed by the surfacing
of the voice of conscience after one has reacted to the voice of emotion.
The voice of conscience is of the Spirit and the voice of emotion is of the
mind, hence the importance of cultivating the ability to subjugate the mind -
to make it one's servant instead of one's master.
The Nature of Mind.
The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual
nature".
Litigation and Karma.
To resort to litigation is to deny or avoid karma.
Acting According to Your Conscience.
Act according to your conscience and disregard possible consequences to
yourself. The mind will feed you with all sorts of things, but it is surprising
how often the consequences are quite unexpected and quite unlike the often
fearful warnings of the mind. Be aware that the results of acting according to
your conscience are precisely what you need. These can be postponed but
not avoided (in the normal course of life, that is).
The 'World'.
The 'World' at any time accurately reflects the collective human conscious-
ness, and is in harmony with it.
Sublime Patience.
This is the patience with life as it unfolds for one, not the patience of waiting
for some thing. Sublime patience comes from the understanding of the pur-
pose of life as we know it and accepting our responsibility for that life.
To hand over this responsibility to 'God', or anything or anyone else, is to
duck one's own culpability.
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Sublime patience comes from acceptance of one's self as the cause - and,
therefore, one's self as the 'cure' - and acceptance of what life brings, whilst
being aware that the remedy lies with one.
Hence, the Edgar Cayce Reading, "Be content, but be not satisfied."
The Seed of Truth.
The seed of the Truth (Reality) lies within every one. All that is required is
to cultivate the soil, sow the seed and nurture its growth. The harvest follows.
Hence, one aspect of "As you sow, so shall you reap."
Love and Relationship.
The emotion generated by love i.e. the emotion of love, depends for its exis-
tence on there being a relationship of one kind or another. However, a rela-
tionship is not dependent on love.
By understanding relationship itself one is aware that, whereas the emotion
of love requires relationship, relationship does not require either love or emo-
tion because love and emotion are merely aberrations, or overlays, of rela-
tionship. Hence, without love and emotion, relationship acquires its true val-
ue: that of being only the foundation, the basis, on which either emotion or
love stand either alone or combined.
N.B. The same applies for any other emotion.
Pleasure and Rewards.
Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are
the pleasures and rewards of the Reality.
Blind Eyes & Ignorant Minds.
In 'time', as blind eyes will regain sight so will ignorant minds regain wisdom.
The Body as a Vehicle.
This was written on Feb. 25 2006 at a time when I had cancer of the tongue
with possible metastasis elsewhere and had decided, in line with my philo-
sophical understanding, to either cure it myself or succumb to it.
"Not surprisingly, I am detached from what is happening to my body. Yes, I
do feel the pain and discomfort but there is no emotional reaction to them or
the situation as such. Taking the analogy in "The Milk Is White" of the body
being as a vehicle, it is now as if I were driving my car which has developed
rust that is weakening its structure. As the driver, I am aware of the effect of
this but I accept it for what it is and what it means, without emotional reaction
- that is, with detachment. When the car falls apart I will scrap it and get
a new one - one more suitable to me, should that be necessary."
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A Dream.
Following the entry The Body as a Vehicle I decided to attend the meeting
referred to below.
Yesterday I was due to be at the hospital at 8 a.m. for examination by the
team of "Head & Neck" surgeons and consultants and before I awoke I had
this dream:
Thought creates,
Creation manifest,
Thought manifests.
In these three lines is the answer to all questions about all things.
Two Perceptions of Dreams.
When one awakens from a dream one perceives it as a dream. When ones
body dies, and one awakens from life, one perceives life as a dream.
General Spiritual Progress.
Contrary to appearances spiritual progress is occurring. What is occurring is
like a long play: the story and stage remain the same whilst the actors
change constantly and, having polished their performance, move on.
The Oneness & the Illusion.
From the Oneness one looks out upon the Illusion.
The Mind & the Conscience.
To the mind the conscience is often a nuisance which is heeded reluctantly
or not at all.
The Illusion.
In the illusion the stage is created by the collective superconscious* whilst
the characters are created by the individual superconscious.
* The Great Spirit or Oneness.
OM
O - o - o - o - o - o - m - m - m - m - m - m* is the earthly sound of The
Great Spirit, The Oneness, The Creative Force, The First Cause; utter it and
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you get the earthly image of The Great Spirit. Expand that image to infinity
and you have the unearthly image of The Great Spirit . . . . . . . Incompre-
hensible
to the mind.
*The o is similar to = the French eu
Success.
Achieving material success in earthly life which perpetuates death and rebirth
into lives of pleasantness and unpleasantness is not success. Success is
achieving the spiritual growth which ceases death and rebirth into lives of
pleasantness and unpleasantness.
Your Lifes Compass.
Measure your ments* and actions against your self. There is no other com-
pass.
*See Ians Dictionary.
Negative Motivation.
Any motivation that is for ones own gain is selfish no matter how the result
of that motivation appears to be, and anything with a selfish motive is spiritu-
ally negative and generates negative karma.
Your Body.
Look after your body for it is not only your vehicle in this life but also a repre-
sentation of your mentality.
Words and Meanings. (2)
In the present words and meanings are not what they were in the past so be-
ware of their transcription, translation and interpretation. However, searching
within is going to the source direct - so do it. Let it be your ultimate reliance.
Civilization. (3)
Our civilization, much touted as a great achievement, is a human and spiritual
failure. A human failure because it has created great inequality to its
peoples and great damage to its environment, and a spiritual failure because
its motivation has been incorrect. However, all failure eventually leads to suc-
cess even if this success is at a high price.
Spiritual Evolution.
Self-discipline is an integral part of spiritual growth and as the rules and
regulations applied to us in our Earthly testing ground decrease our need to
apply self-discipline increases.
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Our Most Critical Earthly Problems.
The most critical problems facing us on Earth at present are overpopulation,
ill health and the environmental degradation we have caused in recent times.
Had we remained in the wild where stress was minimal, families small, the
average lifespan enough for spiritual needs and where we lived in harmony
with the Earth we would not be facing either these problems or our huge
spiritual challenges.
Where the reaction to this reality is to point to the benefits of civilization
the reactor is advised to wisely contemplate what is stated above.
We Creators.
I am, you are, we are all IT - as droplets are to the ocean or sunbeams to
sunlight.
As IT, we, individually and collectively, imagined and imagine what we
perceive to be reality. We exercised our creative imagination.
Hence, the statement that we are Co-creators with God.
In this fantasy we play out our fantastic experiences and lessons, in lifetime
after lifetime on the treadmill of the fruitless cycle of birth and death, in
imaginary bodies, until we relearn our real status and end this self-imposed,
tedious cycle. We then find the immeasurable tranquility of our pristine state.
Trapped in a mindset.
Most of us are trapped in the mindset that leads to the realisation of failure -
until we become aware if this and opt to change.
IT.
As long as IT is sought through the mind (moul) it is perceived as an object.
When IT is sought by bypassing the mind (moul) it is perceived as nebulous.
The Illusion - similar processes.
Moul Brain Perception
Film Projector Picture
Program Computer Picture
I AM.
I am; and Ian is my creation for this life of mine on Earth.
Friendship.
True friendship needs no nurture.
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Pointless Pointing.
The mind does not grasp the abstract reality. Hence, the moul does not un-
derstand.
Therefore, pointing to the abstract reality is pointless. It is best that
the entity discovers it for itself.
Realisation.
We come to realise:
1. What IT is.
2. What we are.
3. The reality of the Illusion.
With this realisation comes calm.
Cause and Effect.
The mentality of earthlings has been, and is, having a negative effect on their
Earth and its surrounds. The wise will see that it is the common failing of
earthlings to treat symptoms as if they are the cause and disregard the cause
itself. What is required is a spiritual change not a material one.
The remedy is not to be clever with finding material solutions but to be wise
and change the mentality which is the cause.
A Pleasing View.
From the vantage point of IT I am aware of billions of spirit entities, who
once lost their way, make their tortuous way back through enlightenment
and refinement of spirit.
The Illusion - Everything.
Everything reduces to the individual and collective menting of those of us
trapped in the cycle of birth and death, the individual and collective mentality.
Refinement of the Truth.
What one distills from information gleaned becomes ones truth and this
truth is progressively refined by one until it corresponds with the Reality.
Ones Philosophy.
Ones philosophy is not ones belief system but ones way of life - ones
state of being.
Would you?
Would you venerate yourself?
Would you worship yourself?
Would you idolise yourself?
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Would you bow down to yourself?
Would you glorify yourself?
Being mindful that you are IT
Would you venerate IT?
Would you worship IT?
Would you idolise IT?
Would you bow down to IT?
Would you glorify IT?
Xenophobia.
Xenophobia is the dislike or fear of dissimilar people in, or coming in to,
ones territory. Xenophobia washes away with the awareness that we are all
identical spirits on the same fundamental journey whose characteristics and
situation in one life may be the same as someone elses in another life.
Insult.
From The Milk Is White:
An insult is only an insult if it meant to be one - the rest is just perception.
Of course, anyone can judge something to be an insult but that becomes
that judges responsibility whilst the originator remains free of responsibility.
The Unnatural.
The more we absorb the unnatural into body and moul the more we become
unnatural in body and moul. The natural state of the body is perfection and
the moul has no natural state.
The Metaphysical Reality.
The metaphysical reality is only for those who can neopt it; for the rest con-
centration on the knowable and the doable is sufficient.
The Truth. (2)
The Truth is the Reality; its only variation is in its perception. Perception is
an activity of the mind, or moul. The moul does not exist: it is an aberration
of the spirit. Hence the Truth is inviolate.
Ideas.
Ideas are positive or negative depending on their motivation, implementation
and consequence.
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Everything Is As It Should Be.
Everything is exactly as it should be and everyone is learning from the expe-
rience.
Life is serving its purpose.
The Purpose of Earthly Life.
Since by our imagination we created senses and sensations and got attached
to them life is a sequence of experiences designed to rid ourselves of our at-
tachment to senses and sensations.
Spirituality.
Spirituality is the thread from which we have woven, cut and sewn the
divers garments that are religion.
Perception.
Perception, peculiar to each individual, is a creation of each mind (moul)
which in turn is the sum of the individuals experiences in life, over thousands
of lives, to the moment.
Spiritual Progress.
Scrutinise your attitude towards all other fellow beings and all other things;
the honest result indicates where you are on the spiritual path.
The Truth/Reality.
In The Milk Is White I stated, Another analogy of the Truth is that of a mul-
tifaceted diamond. Imagine one hanging in the middle of a group of people.
Each person has a different perspective depending on such things as light
intensity, angle of reflection, the height of the person, their distance from the
diamond and so on. If they choose to move around they will encounter vary-
ing aspects of the stone as well as varying aspects of the light. Yet, the stone
and the light essentially are unchanged.
In due course each one no longer sees the facets; each one only sees the
diamond.
Enlightenment. (7)
Enlightenment is not dependent on what one knows but upon what one is.
Karma. (5)
Karma is an inflexible law simply because it is absolutely precise: every nu-
ance of motive and consequence applies.
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The Gestation Room.
Create a gestation room and place in it your unanswered and uncompre-
hended questions. In due course the answers will emerge into your con-
sciousness.
Disappointment.
Disappointment is the result of expectation. It follows that where there is no
expectation there is no disappointment. However, this is no excuse for
mentivity or action because they can be done without expectation by only
having a motive.
Clarifying Spirit/Soul/Mind/Moul.
Firstly, here is an extract from The Milk Is White:
The Soul's "Wardrobe".
When a soul enters a life it consists of two aspects built on to,
or in to, it's Spirit 'self'. One is the combined pattern of countless experiences
acquired over many lifetimes, and the other is expressed as a specific
body required to fulfil the needs specific to the particular life. In the case of
the former, only that part of the whole that is useful in the particular life is to
the fore and forms the personality.
The personality can be compared to a wardrobe of garments in
which there is a wide range to cater to divers situations, climactic conditions
etc. A garment, or set of garments, is an expression of the personality in any
given condition. For example, when we are in a situation of confrontation
we put on certain garments (display certain traits), when we are in a situation
of peace we put on others, in a situation of fear yet others and so on.
In this context the expression "The clothes maketh the man1" is correct.
However, as with any wardrobe one can discard, darn, patch, change
colours, acquire new ones etc.
12.04.11 note: I am somewhat surprised by the concise clarity of this 1996
description but will take this literary attempt further. Secondly, let us simply
call the a wardrobe of garments analogy above clothes. So, initially, in our
primary state of spirit, we get progressively involved in Earthly phenomena
(energy/matter). We can equate this progressive involvement in matter to
dressing in clothes: as we progress we put on more clothes and also add to
our wardrobe of clothes which we call upon as needs be for the various earth-
ling experiences. What we wear affects the way we look, feel, move and act.
We now have a combination of sorts: spirit wearing clothing, and we will
call this combination soul. The clothing affects the way the spirit (now soul)
appears, feels psychologically, feels physically and acts. It also affects the
spirits mentality - the way its mind works or ments (thinks as it is commonly
termed). As a result of our experiences in each of our numerous lives our
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clothes change; we add some and discard some and, when we start getting
enlightened we start to discard more than we add. Thus, our clothes reflect
our experiences over many lifetimes and what we have learned from them.
Consequently, the soul is the sum total of its experiences over many lifetimes.
Eventually, we have no more clothes - the wardrobe is bare!
If the soul is the sum total of the spirits experiences over many lifetimes
what is the mind? The mind too is the sum total of the spirits experiences
over many lifetimes. Hence, what we call soul and what we call mind
are the same. Hence also, my word moul, for mind + soul, for the purpose
of clarity of communication.
1 For man substitute 'human'.
The Reality/Truth.
Many an uncut diamond is discarded as stone and many a stone is religiously
clutched as diamond.
Tools.
All sensations that have an opposite are of this illusory plane of duality and
are but tools for your use in this plane. You are not of this plane and when
you finally leave it all tools cease to exist.
What Others Think Of You.
What others think of you does not make you: it makes them.
To Love.
To love people is to understand that there is a purpose in the existence of
each on Earth and to respect, without reservation, their inalienable right to
make decisions and choices whatever the motive or consequences.
Corrections to lifes course.
If one voluntarily diverges from ones destined course in a life and adheres
to that course there will be an involuntary correction at the appropriate time.
Karma - a distinct probability.
It is very probable that karma can be expiated, or mitigated, by one genuinely
visualising an event where one mented or committed something which
caused mental and/or physical pain to another and, by this visualisation, ex-
periencing the physical and/or mental pain experienced by the other. Fur-
thermore, a genuine surfacing of conscience, empathy and sympathy would
be necessary. This probability arise because, as we know by now, all that
happens is an illusion taking place in the individual and collective imagination.
Thus, karma, manifesting in the hitherto described manner, is only occurring
in the mind and it follows that one could create the same result by mentally
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re-enacting an event to re-experience it and do so in its true light: that is,
without bias.
Note: I state this as a probability because I am not sure that it manifested, in
its essence, as a neoption. It is true, however, that I did get the essential pic-
ture this time as I have done many times before, but I have yet to get that
usual sense of certainty which has prompted my inclusion of them in this
File. Perhaps, the absence of this sense of absolute certainty is due to the
extent of mental effort it has taken to put this into words.
Making things happen.
There is no need for anyone to make anything happen on Earth: individual
and/or collective thought will do what is needed by one and all.
IN CONCLUSION.
*Thought creates,
Creation manifest,
Thought manifests.
*In these three lines is the answer to all questions about all things.
So, what is going on? What is Thought? What are we? Why are we here?
The answer is IT.
*IT - the indescribable and undefinable.
Although it is commonly conceived as such IT is not light, yet IT is not dark
or darkness - IT is simply without light. IT is neither light nor darkness.
*As IT, we, individually and collectively, imagined and imagine what we
perceive to be reality. We exercised and exercise our creative imagination
and in this fantasy we play out our fantastic experiences and lessons, in life-
time after lifetime on the treadmill of the fruitless cycle of birth and death, in
imaginary bodies, until we relearn our real status and end this self-imposed,
tedious cycle. We then find the immeasurable tranquility.
Spending Money.
After spending money on your needs (not wants), before or during subse-
quent possible self-indulgence ask yourself, Who needs this money more
than I do?. However, do not feel guilty just be mindful.
Being Mindful.
When you open a water tap be mindful of the woman squatting by a basin of
water in a dry part of this world and adjust your water use. It matters not
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whether your part of the world has plenty of water; this mindfulness and con-
scious change will be another step up the mountain.
Karma (1).
To admire attracts neutral karma; to lust after attracts negative karma. Your
choice! . . . . . . and the best choices are the wise ones.
Life Is a Duality.
The Australian outback is like our cycle of life: a cycle of drought and flood.
So, when in a drought phase lay the foundation for a lesser flood and, when
in a flood phase lay the foundation for a lesser drought, whilst always being
aware of the goal of absolute balance.
Self-discipline.
Self-discipline is fundamental to spiritual growth so, with self-discipline, live and
ment frugally and discerningly. Let your needs be few and your wants even less.
Soon you will automatically live this way with satisfaction and contentment.
Punishment.
As much as you may feel like punishing someone, or feel that someone should be
punished, always remember that karma takes care of it. You do not have the burden of
being judge and jury.
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Habits.
Because wastefulness is a spiritual negative check your habits; many of them are
wasteful; especially in the developed societies where wastefulness is highly de-
veloped.
Spiritual Growth.
Chalk absorbs moisture but remains unchanged. A plant absorbs moisture and grows.
If spiritual awareness is water which will you be - chalk or plant?
Interesting Reactions.
Telling a person that one can sense the impending death of another usually
elicits a negative reaction from that person whilst telling a person that one
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can sense the impending acquisition of riches by another usually elicits a
positive reaction from that person. Why?
Hedonism.
Our adoption of hedonism has corresponded to the upward movement of the lower
extremities of female attire.
Creating.
Since we created all things we started to recreate things and create more things to ex-
ercise our creativity. Whether this activity is positive or negative depends on the
motives and the consequences.
Threats to humanity.
With global warming gas production, food and water shortage and other factors
threatening humanity we seem to be sticking to our perennial solution of treating the
symptoms and not the cause and, the cause being human mentality, most humans are
loath to tackle the cause.
Our Mentality.
With reference to us in the first world, judging by our apparently almost all-con-
suming need for fun, laughter and smiling faces we must be extremely unhappy
people. When we are hungry we eat, and when we are starving we overeat.
There is no nourishment in this fun, laughter and smiling faces!
It is perfectly true that manis the only animal whose presence on Earth is unneces-
sary. This is so because all other life forms on Earth are part of the whole and form an
entity in perfect balance. This being so, if any one form is removed, imbalance results
in the whole. On the other hand if man is removed from the Earth balance will be
restored.
Man is the odd man out simply because man, collectively, is the creator of Earth
and all things. Thus man stands outside creation and, in turn, the Earth. This Real-
ity applies not only to the Earth but to the entire universe of matter.
Choices.
If, as may happen in many public places, you find yourself separated from
where you want to be by a flower or plant bed would you walk through the
bed or walk around it?
Earthly Life.
Our earthling experience has taught us that earthly life has upsides and downsides. If
your life is without downsides you are doing very well.
"I say/write a number of things that, whilst being spiritual fundamentals, are
largely impractical in the world as it is today but they can act as beacons for
each one of us for it is by the light of such beacons that we slowly change
ourselves and, in turn, life itself."
Lack of Reasoning.
A lack of incisive reasoning often results in a childlike acceptance and a consequent
delay in spiritual growth.
Other universes?
Why not? Who is to say, No? After all, Thought is without limit and:
Thought creates,
Creation manifests,
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Thought manifests.
Dying Children.
When most lose a child through death they feel great loss; when a child dies some-
where reasonably close many rush to place flowers at the site; but when 340 children
are dying every minute through starvation what do we do?
Note: This is but one of numerous such questions that can be posed regard-
ing a variety of subjects.
Climate Change.
The long drawn out debate about what action to take about climate change is a chal-
lenge to selfishness.
Being Rich.
Since the emergence of civilization, being materially rich has been an idea and ideal
for earthlings exposed to civilization. Now, when a country or its people are referred
to as rich it does not mean rich in mentality, principles and non-material values. This
is one of the misfortunes of the modern mind.
Riches.
The real and lasting benefits of material riches only accrue when the riches are giv-
en to those in need.
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The Purpose of Life.
The purpose of life for each one of us is the same although the experiences in any one
life differ. We are all governed by the same spiritual laws and will attain the same
spiritual goal.
Curious Justice.
As we increasingly create judicial processes for the prosecution of war criminals we
increasingly create more sophisticated killing tools for such people to use.
Progress? (1)
When we find that progress is causing damage to the human body we seek to treat
the body instead of treating the cause. Rather than forsake the activity that is the
cause we cling to the activity and look for a remedy elsewhere.
Progress.
Progress on Earth has developed such momentum that we are unable to stop it despite
the damage it causes to the material as well as the spiritual being.
What a waste!
When one dies earlier in life than expected we most often hear the lament, What a
waste!. This lament is a statement of ignorance and is completely untrue because we
all have a predetermined, defined time on Earth in each life and a specific purpose
and/or mission. When we accomplish what we have to do we depart the body. There-
fore, instead of a lament like What a waste! there ought to be something positive
and celebratory as there is reason for rejoicing.
Truth.
It is correctly said that truth is the first casualty of war. It is also true that truth is a
casualty of progress because, in the world today, truth exists more as an absence
than as a presence.
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Truth exists, if at all, across the spectrum of qualities ranging from outright truth to
outright lies through disinformation, misinformation, spin and other forms of devious
manipulation as well as simple inaccuracy due to ineptitude or laziness, with a view
to financial profit and/or power.
Truth is perverted on a grand scale and with grand sophistication!
The Paranormal.
Since the paranormal, where it is not simply a creation of the mind, is, in fact, the
reality or the normal, it is time a new word is coined for the normal or the per-
ceived reality.
Opinion.
It is unwise to form an opinion from a position of ignorance and/or prejudice or bias.
The two realities above are, of course, two expressions of the same thing.
As it happens, there is nothing new in this because for a couple of thousand of years
at least, Hindu ceremonies like fire walking and the significant though painless pier-
cing of flesh have been practiced without pain of physical damage. I have observed
both at close quarters.
Wreaking Vengeance.
Often people become hell bent on wreaking vengeance on someone and pursue this
with missionary zeal whilst ignoring, being unaware of or not being mindful of the
Christian, Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord! and the corresponding fact of karma.
In pursuing their perceived mission people also, sadly, demonstrate a range of negat-
ive traits and actions which generate, for them, negative karma.
The whole exercise is self-indulgent and spiritually counter productive so we
would do well to observe self as we too are liable to behave in a similar manner, even
if to a lesser extent, as this behaviour would attract negative karma to ourselves.
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A. Because, with regard to those at present* on Earth, the negative energy (vibes or
vibrations) generated by the many are far greater than the positive energy generated
by the few.
* 24.09.2001.
Justice. (1)
Is it just if irresponsible acts result in pain or death?
Is it just that helping another results in one being helped by another?
If the answer is Yes to both why do we lament the former whilst condoning the lat-
ter?
Inevitable collapse.
The self-indulgence of the majority in the developed and developing world funded
by politically expedient tax reduction or minimisation, results in the non maintenance
of essential infrastructure and services with the ultimate consequence of the need for
huge and unavailable expenditure resulting in chaos and collapse.
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The Consequence of Blind Self-gratification.
In many countries the people demand from their governments increased in-
come to fund ever increasing self-gratification whilst they baulk at the need
for them to fund this or essential government services. Scant attention is paid
to the fact that the governments source of income is the very people who do
not want to pay and will vote out any government that attempts to force the
issue.
Taking Responsibility.
Terrorists were responsible for the demolition of the Twin Towers on 07.11.2001 but
who was responsible for the toxic materials in the building which were to affect the
health of so many?
Fairness.
In business or professionally one is at liberty to charge at will but if such charge is
unfair and morally indefensible one will face the appropriate karmic consequences at
the appropriate time.
Success.
Do the best you can and be content with that. That is success!
Killjoys.
People like me are killjoys until the pleasure seekers realise where the real pleasure
is.
The Dreaming.
The spiritual foundation of the Australian aboriginal peoples is The Dreaming or
Dreamtime.
Is it possible, even probable, that the origin of this belief is the now forgotten aware-
ness that what is perceived as reality is, in fact, an illusion - dreamlike?
Karma (2).
The law of karma cannot be casually accepted. It can only be accepted in its full con-
text and considering its ramifications insofar as they affect individuals and groups;
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the latter irrespective of size and, therefore, ranging from family to nation to race
and so on.
N.B. The law is very simple yet, paradoxically, its ramifications are vast.
Information (1).
Created by us as spirit: The Akashic Records.
Created by us as mouls on Earth: Cloud computing.
Note: This is a classic example of the difficulty in putting a neoption into words but
some readers may get the picture.
Global Priorities.
If your house is on fire do you scrabble for your cash or work to put out the flames?
* Assuming that approximately 50% and 70% respectively of the total population on
Earth is developed.
Information (2).
Our refusal, often arbitrary, to accept information is often caused by our unwilling-
ness to confront the reason for our refusal.
Progress? (2)
Q: What happened to the humble, quiet broom which collected dirt and gave its user
exercise?
A: It was replaced with the extremely noisy, polluting motor blower which disturbs
the peace, does not give its user any worthwhile exercise and spreads dirt around.
Universal Duality.
Watching the Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2010 reminded me forcefully of our innate
capacity to create, through high discipline, great beauty of spectacle and sound; a ca-
pacity sadly only equalled by our capacity to inflict misery, pain and physical death
on our fellow earthlings.
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Excesses.
Does the explosion of excesses across the spectrum of our lives over the last fifty
years - excesses in adjectives, waste, noise, self-indulgence and so on - generate its
own implosion?
Degrees of awareness.
I believe = 1. To accept (a statement, supposition, or opinion) as true;
2. To accept the statement or opinion of (a person) as true;
3. To be convinced of the truth or existence (of);
4. To have religious faith.
N.B. I have hitherto used the word aware as the third level but that word is too close in meaning
and association to know and is, therefore, unsatisfactory.
Shine!
The suns fuel lies within; it shines during the day and at night be the sky cloudy or
clear, whether we appreciate it or not and whether we like it or not.
Be the sun!
Free Will.
We all have free will and we can use it negatively, positively or neutrally.
Be careful.
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The Path To Enlightenment.
The path to enlightenment is really quite simple: just one law, the law of karma, no
rules and endless choices until final success.
Doing.
One of the things one can do with something is do without it.
Worship.
Worship is respect taken to excess.
Marketing Morality.
When the insidious artifice of pricing such as 3.99, 12.99, 16990.00, 30999.00, etc.
becomes 4.00, 13.00, 17000.00, 31000.00 etc. the practice of marketing will have at-
tained a commendable increase in morality.
Modern Neros.
As Nero fiddled while Rome burned we play without a care about the spiritual and
material consequences of our play although the damage this has caused is evident to
all who care to see. However, this human trait is not new: what we are doing we have
done before with disastrous results.
Proof.
When seeking something abstract the line of reasoning sometimes passes the point of
creation and, after this point, no proof is possible because proof is only available
where space and time exist.
This is the stumbling block that faces scientists as, habitually, they require proof.
We Do Not Die.
We do not die; we simply switch off material perception. Reality, as perceived by us
all, is unreal, an illusion - and when we die all we do is switch off that perception
as we so often do, or try to do, when we cannot face something in life and switch
off.
Hence my new word: somp [switch off material perception].
Neoption.
Neoption is involuntary.
For me it manifests mostly between 3 a.m. and 3.30 a.m. But can, and does, at any
time, whether I am active or inactive.
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Personal Responsibility.
You are not responsible for the ments and actions of another. All you can do, and
need to do, is ment and act responsibly. There is no need to fret over what goes on
outside you; in fact, it does you only harm.
Jobs.
Jobs going offshore is the cost of the good life onshore. We create our world.
World Peace.
I/We want world peace (as long as we can do what we can do what we want). is the
common catch phrase (and unspoken qualification) of those in power.
Abnormal Genes.
Scientists are using the term abnormal genes with reference to some genes they
discover. This term is erroneous because all genes are purpose specific spiritually and
physically. There may be some genes which are unusual but none which is abnormal
in this sense.
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Motivation.
If the motivation behind an apparently negative statement is to positively motivate
the reader or hearer is the statement positive or negative?
Wasted Food.
In the so called first world a huge quantity of perfectly good fresh food never reaches
the shop shelves because it is discarded for aesthetic reasons - a market dictated re-
quirement for visual perfection which we have been inculcated with.
Economic Growth.
The present world economy is based on growth - growth and more growth, with no
mention of an end point.
What happens when something grows without limit? Bubbles burst, trees fall over
and most things die.
In The Dark.
If we submerge ourselves in the ocean the deeper we go the less light we see until,
beyond a certain point, we cease to see the light. So it is with the Earthly experience:
the more we are submerged in it the less we see, and the less we can see, of the Real-
ity.
Breeding.
Firstly, we bred, by natural means, domesticated animals to suit our needs; then we
bred further, by the same means, these animals to suit our fancy, and now we seek to
breed, by unnatural means, our bodies to suit our convenience.
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Crusade.
There is no need for one to crusade: it suffices to make the change in oneself that one
would wish to make in others, for as each one changes so changes the collective con-
scientiousness.
Conscience.
Many a conscience resides in the purse.
Contentment. (1)
True, unassailable contentment comes from state of mind not belief.
Burrowers.
There is a multitude of life forms which burrow in the surface of the Earth and bene-
fit the earth thereby yet there is one life form, human, which burrows deep and pol-
lutes the earth, water and air thereby. This life form sees itself as clever.
Problems in Life.
We create problems out of challenges and challenges are a matter of choices with
choices often encumbered by attachments.
Homosexual Partnership.
Re. marriage, civil union et cetera.
Human Intelligence.
Human intelligence is good enough to bend nature to its will but not good enough to
foresee the consequences.
dispassionate
[dis-pash-uh-nit] Show IPA
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adjective
free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm.
To suit himself man created mans law which permits even killing, in self-defence,
in these circumstances but mans law is ignorant of the overarching, and immutable,
law of karma [though not the law of physics because the law of physics only applies
to matter.].
Perhaps it is necessary to remind the reader that the law of karma applies negatively
and positively precisely in accordance with the thinking or act which activated it and
that there is no retribution in the process. The process itself is benign: it is only the
cause which determines the result. - and all to the ultimate benefit of the individual!
To do ones best one can learn from past experience and/or plan for future action but
this activity is about the past and the future respectively. Learning from past experi-
ence and implementing what is planned can only be done in the present at some time.
Thwarting Idealism.
When something needing self-sacrifice from us needs to be done we tend to react by
adopting the mentality of, or stating, why it cannot be done instead of how it can be
done.
Do or Try?
From the way the English language is now constructed in both writing and speech it
seems that people no longer do things but only try to do things: a definite intention or
prospect is qualified by an indefinite verb or adverb.
Is this a cop out of some sort, a reflection of a reluctance to act or just plain bad
English?
Note:
When I drafted this I could not recall examples. Some of these I now have
and give below in case they help:
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The word possible followed later in a sentence by may. [The indefinite
word possible means the indefinite word may.]
The word expect followed later in a sentence by might. [ as above]
Example of a sentence: It is likely that his departure may lead to trou-
ble.
The example used to be written or spoken as, 'It is likely that his depar-
ture will lead to trouble.' Thus, an indefinite word is followed by a defi-
nite, qualifying word - and makes sense.
N.B. The question posed in my primary post was to do with where we are go-
ing mentally and questioning whether the human species is losing its capacity
to reason logically.
Health.
Where people have not been exposed to civilization their bodies are superb ex-
amples of good health although their lifespan is considered by civilized peoples to
be short. On the other hand civilized people are actually, mostly, in poor health and
have a relatively long lifespan often attained by artificial means.
From a spiritual perspective the length of lifespan is of little importance essentially.
Creation.
To create objects by perception is infinitely easier than to create them physically hav-
ing first created energy and, from that, matter. Consider my previous direct or indirect
references to creation in this context.
Easter Commemoration.
The Easter commemoration of Jesus the Christs crucifixion and resurrection could
symbolise the often extremely difficult lives of some earthlings and their eventual
and inevitable attainment of nirvana and full enlightenment.
Teachers.
We are all teachers: Every day we all teach by example at least. Hence, be mindful of
what you teach.
This reminds me of the biblical saying, By their fruits ye shall know them.
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Copyright.
The application of a copyright is caused by a sense of possession and a fear of loss. It
also restricts availability.
1. to throw or cause to fall upon a surface or into space, as a ray of light or a shadow.
2. to cause (a figure or image) to appear, as on a background.
3. to send forth or transport in the imagination: to project oneself into the future
4 to cause an image to appear (on a surface).
5. to externalise, externalize.
On page 102 of The Milk Is White, under the heading The Body - Its Making is the
diagram below which is an illustration describing, inadequately, how we create the
image, through the moul [here termed the soul], perceived as the body.
From this illustration we can see how the body image is affected, or influenced, by
the moul - our mentality or state of mind/being.
Spirit Self
Love. (1)
It is understandable that most people baulk at what I say about love.
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This is because we have a very deep-seated need of it and seek it constantly: We are,
in fact, addicted to it - we are attached to it. Consider this in the context of drug or
alcohol addition where those addicted have a very deep-seated need of it and seek it
constantly.
The attachment to love has been inculcated in us to such an extent that even
God is said to be not only loving but love itself; to many of us love and God are in-
separable. Furthermore, because religious and spiritual teachings have love as there
foundation, or a fundamental part thereof, it is difficult, if not impossible, for teachers
thus orientated to comprehend that love is an emotion and, therefore, a thing of the
mind (moul) - and, as I have said before, the mind does not exist. It follows that love
does not exist. For such teachers to jettison the concept of love as presented would be
to pull the rug out from under their and their pupils feet and, as those who have liter-
ally experienced such an event, this is extremely alarming.
So, what, in Reality, is akin to love? Mindfulness? - a word attributed to the
Buddha in translation into Sanskrit and Pali but what word in what language did the
Buddha actually use? Unfortunately, the word mindful seems to refer to the mind, a
more suitable word would be aware which, as I see it, is consistent with our core state
of being, Thought. Therefore, this awareness can be termed empathy which has all the
qualities of love but none of the attachment love engenders. However, the word sym-
pathy is unsuitable because it implies the presence of emotion.
In the final analysis, as in the case of any attachment, we have to attain non-at-
tachment to be free of the bondage that love creates - the addiction of its highs and
lows.
Saints.
It is surely the height of arrogance for anyone to create a category of person called
Saint and arbitrarily bestow, on the basis of selective criteria, this title on people who
are not even present to give their consent? This is a greater step than stating that a
marriage is not valid unless it is blessed by a man.
Disturbance.
This civilization has conditioned, and is continuing to condition, most of us to
almost constant background sound and visual stimulation with the result that
they cannot cope with stillness and silence - prerequisites for contemplation
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and introspection. This state of unnatural disturbance causes, in the long
term, dis-ease which manifests in the body and brain as disease.
What Is Taught.
For the original message of the teacher one has to go to the original words and, if
these are not available, to the Source itself. The reliance on translations is unwise and
deeming translations to be infallible is foolish.
First Principles.
When considering spiritual truths always return to first principles.
Corruption.
Is it just selective media reporting or is corruption rampant almost everywhere - par-
ticularly amongst those controlling the affairs of the world?
Karma. (3)
With karma one can create a painful patch of thorns or a garden of beautiful flowers.
Preparation.
Before one harvests one has to till the field.
Before one tills the field one has to know agriculture.
Before one knows agriculture one has to want to know agriculture.
So it is with growing awareness of the Reality.
Puzzling Mentality.
We spend billions to prolong human life beyond natural dictates, then spend ten times
more searching for and implementing ways and means of solving the immense prob-
lems this creates.
Peace of Mind.
Find a place where people live, and have lived, a self-sufficient, fully contented life
with general peace of mind; put a road into that place - because, of course, you know
best - and watch what happens to the self-sufficiency, contentment and general peace
of mind.
Disturbed?
Disturbance is the absence of stillness.
Inflation (monetary).
People living self-sufficient and fully contented lives in places unaffected by civiliza-
tion have no monetary inflation. This is because they need nothing. In the civilized
world there is a constant desire for more and it is this that creates inflation.
Obsession.
Obsession with illnesses and their causes, because of an illness one has, can cause
more damage than the existing illness.
Escape.
In advertising, and perhaps the media, there is a preoccupation with Escape: We are
urged to escape through this television program or that, this film or that, or escape to
this place or that or via some music or other and so on. For this theme to be so preva-
lent we must seek release from something! . . . . . And, if we seek release from some-
thing we must be stressed by that something.
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Nanotechnology.
Nanotechnology is a replication of the original means by which we created things out
of energy: Thought energy matter things.
N.B. From my previous writings:
Thought creates,
Creation manifests,
Thought manifests.
Personal Integrity.
No matter how successful ones Earthly life is deemed to be one is a failure if one is
without personal integrity.
Meditation.
Meditation is time spent with ones self, ones spiritual self, the I AM, Spirit, or
whatever one may term it, detached from the Earthly experience - a period of rest
and reconnection.
Foolhardy Zealotry.
Countries like Iraq and Afghanistan have a very long history of established customs
and social structures, loosely knit to form a whole, and it is foolhardy for zealots with
delusions of grandeur to assume the power, indeed the ability and the right, to change
this in a short time, if at all. Furthermore, the mentality promoting the gun as the first
option and thus creating a train of quicksands in a country with a long history of effi-
ciency in war in extreme conditions adds to the foolhardiness.
Any change in these countries will come at its own integrated pace and interference
only delays this.
Killing Is Killing.
Killing is killing whether by remote control or by ones hands and the law says un-
equivocally, As you sow so shall you reap. - the immutable law of karma. There is
no escape for those responsible, either individually or collectively, through promoting
or condoning this for, in some way, some perfectly appropriate way, they will meet
themselves.
Attempting to create the illusion of reduced culpability by devising and using re-
motely controlled devices may assuage the mind but does not assuage the law.
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Global Economic System. (1)
When a structure is beyond repair there is no point in its creators trying to repair it.
The structure will collapse and a new structure needs to be designed and built by
those with new, commendable ideas, values and goals.
IT. (1)
It is said that we were/are created in the image of God (IT) yet most of us, as Earth-
lings, create God (IT) in our image!
IT. (2)
The use of different terms such as God, Allah and Yahweh for what we pay fealty to
and/or worship creates schisms and confusion in the multitudes paying fealty to and/
or worshiping the one nebulous entity. It is to eliminate the schisms and confusion
that I now use the term IT.
Many will be uncomfortable with IT because a) they are used to and are condi-
tioned to another term, b) they see it lacking dignity - again the result of conditioning
and c) it is commonplace: it is everywhere; it is not special. However, if we reflect
beyond an initial negative reaction we will note that IT - my unifying term - is ac-
knowledged, under the various other terms, to be omnipresent, omniscient and omni-
potent . . . . just like the humble it and just like IT.
Resistance.
The meniscus is the resistant outer layer of water formed by atmospheric pressure
and the moul is the resistant outer layer of Spirit formed by worldly pressure.
Spiritual Burden.
Pupil. Who carries the greater spiritual burden, the rich or the poor?
Teacher. The rich, because they have more to relinquish but cannot.
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Pupil. But some have.
Teacher. Yes, but they are no longer rich.
Courtesy or Profit?
Would it be correct to say that whereas in the past people acknowledged or replied to
communications as a matter of courtesy they nowadays only do so if they profit in
some way?
Learning by Experience.
At any given time on Earth there is a number of people learning by experience. At
present that number exceeds 7 billion.
Human Noise.
When the noise of human mentality gets uncomfortable one can withdraw from it
without entering a monastery or convent. A prerequisite is the ability to shed virtually
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Non-attachment.
Non-attachment is that wherein one has neither a negative nor a positive reaction to
or feeling towards something.
Thinkers.
There are those who make no effort to think, the thinkers, the lateral thinkers and,
yes, the omni-dimensional thinkers. You have the capacity to be the last mentioned so
cultivate the ability to be this.
Choices. (2)
Life certainly is a succession of choices but none is irrevocable - not even
that made on the death bed - for life is continuos and other choices lie ahead.
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Coming Down To Earth.
The heads of the Anglican Church and the Roman Catholic Church may not be aware
of it but, as it is for anyone not fully enlightened, for the Queen of England and the
Pope the pendulum of life swings.
Opinion.
In the final analysis the only opinion of you that counts is your own, but this
opinion has to be the result of wise and unemotional evaluation.
Unnatural Evolution.
Natural viruses are known to jump species by spontaneous mutation so who
is to say that humanly genetically modified organisms will not do the same?
Miracles.
There are no miracles: They exist only in the context of ignorance.
Failure.
If, despite ones best efforts, something one attempted to achieve failed to
meet ones expectations it was not meant to succeed. Therefore, to have
negative feelings about the failure is unnecessary. Simply accept it, let go and
move on whilst taking with you what you have learned from the experience.
Human Negativity.
It appears that negative human mentality and behaviour has been on the in-
crease and is now at an all time high but is this simply appearance or is it
that, whilst there has been a great increase, the increase is due to the great
increase in the population: that in relative terms, the increase is minimal or
nil? If, on the other hand, the increase is actual it means that more spirits
have come to Earth for self-improvement or that more spirits have come to
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to do so. Eventually, of course, all will succeed and, since time is non-existent
in fact, it will not take long.
So it is!
Attention To Detail.
Lost in the vast canvas of mans inhumanity to man are the many details por-
traying mans humanity to man.
Unaccountable Profligacy.
Not many years ago people travelled frequently by car too and fro over short
distances in their local area and this contributed massively to the pollution of
Earths environment. Now, in addition to that, they travel by plane too and fro
over short distances frequently in their, now greater, local area with increas-
ing frequency although the pollution caused by these flights is about four
times greater than that of cars.
What happened?
Contemplate and then -
Thought creates,
Creation manifests,
Thought manifests.
Justice. (2)
There is nothing more just than someone experiencing the experience to
which they subjected another and learning from it.
Parental Example.
It is often said that parents set the example for their children. This is so but it
must be stressed also that the children have freedom of choice to imitate or
not.
Those unaware of the spiritual reality will assert that a child is unable to make
such decisions but those aware know that it is precisely for that challenge
that the spirit which is the child is in that family.
This Civilization.
This civilization needs to continue for the time being. Collectively we cannot
go back to our old ways because we have to continue as we are doing so as
to realise the error of our ways. However, individually, those who have re-
alised the error of our ways, and adjusted to this realisation, may not return
until conditions prevail for their further enlightenment.
Profligacy.
Wastefulness has nothing to do with availability: It is a state of mind.
Semantics.
Logical and lexical semantics are in a rapid state of flux with a minority of
changes, possibly initially made intentionally, beneficial and a majority detri-
mental to clear communication. Examples are rife amongst individuals and in
the media and are obvious to the thinking person.
Are we heading for a breakdown in clear communication, with its attendant,
possibly, serious, consequences or is this a sub-conscious means to an end
currently unknown?
Human Mentality.
Is the collective human mentality (psyche) worse now than it has been or
does it just seem so because the population has increased?
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Fashion or Titillation?
Who in recent years decided that it was de riguer for the display of cleavage
in womens dresses and why was this not accompanied by a similar lowering
of the zip puller in mens trousers?
Quantum Leaps.
In our spiritual progress two quantum leaps we make are the realisations that
life is continuous and that what we perceive as real is an illusion.
The Snowball.
As the snowball rolls down the slope it gathers momentum as well as mass.
So it is with our wants: we want more, bigger and better at the same time that
there are more and more of us aspiring to the mirage of happiness. To fully
appreciate this one needs to extrapolate this momentum to its conclusion.
Certain Questions.
There are certain questions to which the answer has to be, If you need to ask
this question you will not understand the answer.
The Truth.
The Truth is not some bodys perception, opinion or reality it is the Reality: it
is the purpose of life.
N.B. The separation of the two words some and body is intentional.
Idolatry.
The reason why the wise ones advocate against the creation of idols, be they
statues or pictures, and idolatry is that, firstly, those represented in the idols
are only messengers and, secondly, because what starts as respect of the
idolized becomes a dependency, and responsibility for menting and actions is
handed over to the idolized by the idolizer - thus abdicating responsibility.
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Future Archeology.
In archeological digs of recent and present times discoveries have consisted
of simple finds and signs of habitation and way of life. When the time comes
for our archeological history to be unearthed the mind boggles at what will
emerge and what precautions archeologists will have to take against toxic
pollution.
Indulgence.
In the developed and developing worlds why is the cost of living continually
increasing in leaps and bounds? Because it keeps pace with our continually
increasing indulgences - mostly involving things created by our indulgence of
our creative ability. Thus one indulgence creates and perpetuates another.
Duplicity.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary:
2. (of food) recently made or obtained; not tinned, frozen, or otherwise pre-
served.
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Due to the duplicity of those employed in marketing and those who employ
them we are continuously and systematically conned into believing that what
is not fresh is fresh and we are inured to this deception.
What Is Happening?
Q. When we feel that nothing is happening would it be correct to say, Nothing
is happening. ?
A. When nothing is happening something is happening - and that something
is nothing!
P.S. When I wrote this I could not help smiling at the curiosity of the answer:
be it correct or not it certainly activates the mind!
Karma. (4)
Because of the law of karma there are no loses and winners: everyone is a winner.
Justice. (3)
When you are on the side of justice you are on the side of no one, whatever you do.
Tragedy.
The term tragedy, once selectively used but now freely used with less dis-
crimination, is applied to a range of situations and occurrences but the real
tragedy is that these situations and occurrences will continue for millennia to
come because billions of us spirit entities have still to experience these time
and again on their long journey to enlightenment. Of course, the length of the
journey and the severity of the situations and occurrences is what we create
for ourselves.
Country Of Birth.
There are those who, when talking about their country of birth, speak of it as An
accident of birth. If only they knew how incorrect that is!
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Democracy.
The democratic process, defined as being for the people by the people, will only work
ideally when money is not a factor in the electoral process. Until then the people are
hostage to the power of money wielded by the unscrupulous.
The power to change this lies with the voters and it lies unused.
Stress.
Any type of stress indicates an attachment which needs to be converted to non-at-
tachment.
Religion.
Does religion, as a system, change human nature or is it too often just a pious veneer
loudly proclaimed by an individual or by individuals on behalf of a nation?
Hard Lessons.
On Earth we have created, and are now bringing to a conclusion, possibly extreme
conditions conducive to the numerous and diverse learning experiences of many bil-
lions of spirit entities and this creation must run its course.
Priorities.
All the enormous, and enormously expensive, sporting events staged in the world in
recent decades are an indictment of all of us because there is, and has been, a colossal
need for money for humanitarian relief at the same time; a need left unfulfilled. Yet
we show absolutely no sign of regret.
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Hijacking the Truth.
Preconceived notions and suspicions lodged in the mind often result in us misconstru-
ing information received and jumping to erroneous conclusions.
Freedom.
If you are a slave to your senses and your mind, free yourself for not only are chains
a burden but shackles are painful.
Genetic Modification.
Scientists may be slowly learning genetic modification but we all have been modify-
ing genes for eons because:
Thought creates,
Creation manifests,
Thought manifests.
Excess.
Excess devalues appreciation of that which is in excess.
Note: In the modern developed world excess is rampant across the board: it is, in
fact, a way of life.
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Detachment and non-attachment.
In my spiritual writings I almost exclusive use the term non-attachment instead of the
word detachment and some readers may wonder why I do not use the latter which is
more commonly used. The reason is that whereas non-attachment has only one mean-
ing and is generally accepted as being used in a spiritual/religious context, detach-
ment has diverse meanings and contexts; some of which are listed below to illustrate
the point. Note that, in # 5, detachment is classed as a feeling whereas what I refer to
is a state of mind - not necessarily the same or understood as the same.
Furthermore, the verb detach also has diverse meanings whereas a verb for non-at-
tachment does not exist in use.
Detachment n
Balanced Diet.
For a balanced diet guide study the food types ingested per day by hunter-gatherers
unaffected by modern civilization.
Fate Sealed.
A dictator who ill-treats his or her people has sealed his or her fate long before any
uprising appears to seal it.
Stimulation.
In the modern developed (affluent) world we have a want for constant stimulation -
an indication of a void needing to be filled. This void is within and, instead of filling
it from within, we attempt to do so from without with vacuous indulgences and
meaningless activities: all amounting to spiritual triviality. This preoccupation ap-
pears to be affecting our intellect adversely.
White Supremacy.
With the large number of dark skinned people now amongst the athletic elite of the
world are the surviving white supremacists still searching for excuses by which to
perpetuate their self aggrandisement?
Advertising.
This has become the art of seduction. How many unthinkingly succumb?
Allergies.
In the last two decades or so human allergic susceptibility has increased greatly and
this is attributed to our progressive lifestyle and what it produces in the name of
progress and to satisfy our constant wants. We, or most of us in the parts of the world
primarily responsible for this, are aware of what we are doing, or what others are do-
ing at our subconscious behest, yet there is hardly an effective protest. It is as if the
human race is hell bent on mass suicide! The problem is that it is not suicide but
murder because the effects will not be met* by those now living.
[*N.B. The spiritually enlightened will be aware that the above, whilst being true enough for the vast major-
ity of humans, does not represent the true reality whilst being true enough to has devastating consequences.]
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Economists.
Economists abound in the world today and are constantly analysing, advising and
speculating but how many of them have been correct and how many of those have
got it correct consistently?
Their problem is that economics, as it exists today, is really controlled by the
vagaries of the minds of millions of people and the mind of one is impossible to read!
Choices. (2)
Life certainly is a succession of choices but freedom of choice is an integral part of
choosing. Of course, there are consequences - pleasant and unpleasant - in our exer-
cise of this freedom and we need to accept responsibility. On the other hand there are
so many people worldwide who have no qualms about their selfish determination to
obstruct the choices of others.
Ones Body.
Ones body is a representation of ones state of being and, therefore, mentality and
the body looks, acts and reacts accordingly.
Non-attachment.
Non-attachment is the non-existence of emotional dependence on any thing or any-
one. Therefore the elimination of all dependence leads to non-attachment and emo-
tional self-sufficiency.
Politicians Weakness.
Often the party and the person seem to be the means to attaining the cause but too of-
ten the means supersedes the cause.
Celebratory Milestones.
Each of our lives is an achievement and the conclusion of each is, therefore, a mile-
stone worthy of celebration.
Lacking in Intelligence?
Are we developing a world for those with intellect but lacking in intelligence? We
seem to be fostering the former whilst allowing the intelligence to stagnate under a
preoccupation with the self; a preoccupation with the superficial?
Progress or Regress?
The historical benefit of the natural, rotational and seasonal variation in diet items to
which the human body has adapted over millennia has to be adversely affected by the
continuous availability of such items in the developed world as a result of develop-
ments in transport.
Spontaneous healing.
What is meant by the terms "spontaneous healing" and "mind over matter"?
How does "spontaneous healing" occur? Some medical doctors use these
terms but most, if not all, are unable (or unwilling) to answer these questions!
Helium balloons.
If you knew that helium balloons of the type usually used by people for en-
joyment and/or celebration, by releasing them singly or by the hundred or
thousand, cause death and suffering to many species of marine life would
you use them?
Equality.
Below is an extract from The Milk Is White and dates back, therefore, to c.
1996.
What would the situation be if the world society were so structured, willingly by all,
so that each person had an income of, say, $25,000 p.a.*?
To achieve this, entrepreneurs would limit net profits to this goal, doctors, lawyers
etc. would be able to practice a calling, a vocation, as opposed to a business, and be
happier doing it as the prime motive would be the use of their skills.
*This figure is arbitrary but, no doubt, a suitably accurate one can be calculated.
Could you, or would you, do this for the greater good of all?
Caring.
Would you put your shod or dirty feet on something others are meant to sit,
sleep or eat on?
Natures exception.
Why is Homo sapiens the only animal not to have a breeding season?
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Sport.
If and when you watch a non team sport do you cheer the mistakes of the
opponent of your favourite?
As a stadium spectator of a sport, at a time when a player needs maximum
concentration on his own to achieve something vital to his team - and his
team is not your preferred team, are you one of those who do their best to
disturb the player so as to derive benefit for your preferred team?
At the dentists.
If you were in a busy dentists waiting room for attention to a filling in a slightly
painful tooth and you overheard the receptionist talking to someone on the
phone who obviously needed urgent attention but did not have an appoint-
ment, would you tell the receptionist to give the person your place and make
another appointment for you even though you had no idea when she would
be able to fit you in?
Advertising.
If you were paid a lot of money to promote, by advertising or other means, a
product you did not use or did not sincerely believe in would you do so?
Genius.
How does the quality of genius manifest; particularly in very young people?
The answer would apply equally to exceptional ability.
Memory recall.
When you recall an occurrence, place etc. for the purpose, say, of writing or
relating it, how do you effect the recall; what is the mechanism? [To give
clues could be counter-productive.]
Please think this through carefully before answering - better still, try it and ob-
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serve what you do.
I am very interested in how others do this.
Intelligence.
How do we acquire intelligence?
Please read the note below before answering.
NOTE: It seems evident that, in people, the degree of intelligence varies with the in-
dividual and, also, there is a difference between intellect and intelligence. I have ex-
plained this difference in the extract from The Milk Is White below.
"Let us here differentiate between intelligence and intellect. Intelligence is an innate
ability to perceive, comprehend, reason and understand whereas intellect is to do
with the acquisition of knowledge of an academic nature. Intellect is dependent on
intelligence but intelligence is not dependent on intellect. Many highly intelligent
people are not intellectual, mostly because they have not had the opportunity of edu-
cation and some because they have not had the inclination to study, and many highly
intellectual people are not intelligent outside their specific sphere of intellectual
study. Those with intellectual deficiency are actually highly intelligent. The prover-
bial "absentminded professor" would be an extreme example of this. Therefore, no
one need feel unqualified to seek, or at a disadvantage in seeking the spiritual Truth.
If anything, the intellectual has a greater tendency to experience mental blocks or
tunnel vision than the purely intelligent person."
Stockpiling.
Sometimes, it happens that events create, or are likely to create, shortages in
commodities which are, or are perceived to be, important to people e.g. petrol
food and water. In these circumstances do you rush out and buy to stockpile
or do you just stick to your usual routine?
Human nature.
List improvements* in human nature (human mentality) that have occurred in,
say, the last two thousand years.
* Disregard quantitative improvements due to population increase.
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The noisy physical trainer.
This is about the activities of a physical trainer (personal trainer?) from about 5.45
a.m. to 7.00 a.m. most mornings on show-grounds also used a lot by itinerant cara-
vaners, walkers and those seeking the quiet of this time of day.
Below is a written dialogue between two people about this and the question is:
Would you have adopted the attitude of the trainer?
Message 1.
Dear Xxxx, with reference to the article in the latest Xxxxxxxxxx Times it is good note
you beneficial work but, sadly, there is one big black mark - being a public nuisance.
You may not be aware of this but your loud music and shouts of encouragement and
instruction to your tribe are a disturbance to residents in the area, caravaners, walk-
ers and others who cherish the peace and tranquility of the early morning.
I sincerely hope this motivates you to happily make a change.
Good luck.
Reply 1.
Dear Xxxxx,
I am happy to meet with you to discuss the points you raise
and invite you to call me on xxxxxxxxxx to make a time.
This is the first email I have received making such claims and I have been
operating in that location for over 2 years.
I appreciate your email but do note that you have commented on me affecting quite a
few different groups. Are your their spokesperson?
Look forward to hearing from you if you wish. In the meantime I will certainly keep
the music levels much lower , that is something I can control.
Regards
Message 2.
Dear Xxxx,
There is nothing to talk about as it is simply a matter of conscience. One does not
need to be told what the effects of one's actions are on others; a little lateral thinking,
and caring, is all that is needed.
Life is a succession of choices determined, often, by one's conscience.
With respect.
Reply 2.
Please then do not contact me again, especially as I have not given you
express right to do so via this business email address of mine. if you do so
from this point onwards I shall advance the matter as one of personal
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harassment.
You have been given the right to front up personally with your allegations
and have chosen not to accept my invitation.Like you say, choices.
Regards
What is help?
This question was put to me by a sixteen year old boy from a Himalayan country
about four years ago.
I know the owner of a small shop. One day, the owner was busy when a customer
who had bought a cigarette was looking for the lighter. I knew where the lighter was
and went to get it for him but I was in two minds because by giving him the lighter I
was helping the owner and the customer but, at the same time, I was helping the cus-
tomer damage his health.
What should I have done?
Courtesy on a bus.
This question was also put to me by the sixteen year old boy from a Himalayan coun-
try about four years ago.
Every morning I go to school by bus and go to the bus stop early to get a good seat.
However, it most often happens that very soon on the journey and old person or a
pregnant woman boards the bus where, because the bus is crowded, they have
nowhere to sit and I give them my seat.
Should I go early for the bus when all I seem to have to do is give up my seat?
On a foot path.
When you walk on a foot path do you respect, and defer to, the needs of others using
the same space?
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Karma. (1)
1. If you meet someone who has a positive effect on you do you say it is your kar-
ma?
2. If you meet with an accident and become paralysed do you say it is your karma?
3. If someone breaks into your home and threatens your family would you kill him?
Choice.
If, because of action taken against you by someone, you have taken legal action, and
this legal action is distressing you for one or more reasons, would you persist with it
or let go?
Armaments.
Armament manufacturers must be rubbing their hands with glee at what is going on
in the world whilst raking in the profits from the bloodshed - profits which are passed
on to shareholders.
1. Are you one of these shareholders?
2. If you are would you sell your shares?
3. Would you sell them at a loss?
Responsibility. (1)
If you are an employee in charge of the work and welfare of a group of workers does
your moral responsibility lie with the workers or the Company?
Self-esteem.
Provided that you have a reasonably accurate assessment of yourself the question is:
Is your self-esteem affected by what others think of you?
However, bearing in mind that, often, even the perpetrator is unaware of why, at the
precise moment, he or she acted as they did, it is not possible to know the truth.
Now, having carefully considered the above and even added to what I have said,
would you serve on a jury in a court of law?
Choices of Lives.
Given freedom of choice which of the following lives would you choose for your
next five lives?
Billionaire.
Millionaire.
An average person in the developed world.
One living in the slums of India.
One of the women amongst the displaced people in Africa.
Escape.
In advertising, and perhaps the media, there is a preoccupation with
Escape: We are urged to escape through this television program or that, this
film or that, or escape to this place or that or via some music or other and so
on. For this theme to be so prevalent we must seek release from something! .
. . . . And, if we seek release from something we must be stressed by that
something.
What could it be?
Life Experiences.
In the case of people experiencing the physical condition of Downs syndrome or
anything similar would you support sterilisation or other means of preventing des-
cendants?
A good deed.
Your housebound neighbours son and his daughter arrive for a few days by plane
and have no car. Although your finances are in a delicate state you offer the use of
your car for a day so that they can do something with regard to horses in which the
daughter has a great interest.They accept gratefully and on their return offer to fill the
tank with petrol.
Would you:
1. Accept their offer?
2. Thank them for their offer and say something like, There is no need. When you
get the chance to do something similar for someone, do so.
3. Act in some other way? If so, how?
Close neighbours.
If you live where your neighbours can easily hear the noises you make are you al-
ways aware of the noise you create and do you, or would you, take care not to disturb
them?
Responsibility. (2)
If the collective human psyche - the collective human mentality - is the cause of the
world being what it is today to what extent have you contributed, and are you con-
tributing, to it?
You as a book.
Shame prevents most people from being open about themselves. Are you an open
book or a closed one?
Addiction.
If you own a mobile phone are you uncomfortable without it?
Are you uncomfortable without sound?
Shopping. (1)
When shopping, if you discover that you do not need something in your trolley or
basket, do you take it out and leave it on a shelf where you are at the moment or do
you return it to the spot from which you took it?
Self-image.
Do you need designer wear and/or accessories to boost your self image?
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If you wear such, think carefully before answering.
Building a house.
If you built yourself a house to live in would you design it to please yourself or
to impress others?
Bad moods.
If someone or something has upset you are you brusque with others or in any
way negative towards other people or other things?
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Contentment. (1)
At times during a day do you smile to yourself in true contentment because of
your awareness of your true self; your true identity?
Contentment. (2)
Given all the worldly wherewithal do you think you could find permanent, con-
tinuous, complete contentment on Earth?
Ageing of the body.
1. When your hair started to turn grey did you do anything to maintain the
original colour or when your hair starts to turn grey will you do anything
to maintain the original colour?
2. If Yes why?
Note: Before considering the answer to #2 above please apply the advice
given HERE
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Wants.
Is there anything emotional or material without which you will feel deprived,
discontented or unhappy?
Perception.
What colour is usual, or common, grass?
Shopping. (2)
Do you shop because something is necessary or as a pastime?
Hidebound.
As earthlings we tend to be hidebound - confined by our physical state; some more
than others.
1. Have you liberated yourself?
2. Do you want to?
Giving.
You have $100 to give to a charity and you favour charities A and B. You feel
that A is slightly more deserving and see that B will give you a 30% tax bene-
fit. Which do you choose?
The Gift.
You give someone a gift and that someone, not having a use for such, gives it
to someone and you find out.
What do you feel?
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Shaving.
Prior to the late twentieth century men used a cup of water and a rinse of water for
shaving their face. Since then many men shave whilst under the shower.
Are you one of the latter?
In a dispute between a friend and a member of your family would you lie to
the benefit of your family member?
Principle.
You live in a small town where shopping needs are well met by local shops
and a large supermarket chain wants to put a store in town despite the objec-
tions of 80% of the population. On principle you too are against the proposal
and decide that, if it does eventuate, you would not use the new store. When
the campaign was on and commitments avowed, a local was heard to say,
Given time, principle will succumb to convenience!
The townspeople lose the battle and the new store is established.
Will your principle stand the test of time especially if, at some time, the new
store has something you want and it is not available elsewhere in town?
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Killer flesh.
To test whether a certain flesh would kill you would you:
1. Feed it to your pet dog or cat?
2. Feed it to a dog or cat in a laboratory?
An advanced civilisation.
We refer to our current civilisation as advanced yet in our First World, in ap-
proximate figures, in one country the average weekly wage is $1,000 which is
what some people in the Third World earn in three years whilst still others
have no income, no food - nothing!
Is ours an advanced civilisation?
Note: Remember that, because of the law of karma, everyone is where they
are in life for a very good reason but this does not mean that we condone a
cavalier attitude or be indifferent to the plight of these people. Unselfish com-
passion is the essence of our true nature although most do not demonstrate it
even in mentality.
That tomato.
When doing your grocery shopping and selecting some tomatoes for yourself
you cause one to drop to the floor. Do you put this tomato with your selection
or put it back and take another unbruised one? Do you even leave it on the
floor or kick it out of sight under a counter or some such place?
Trust.
This is an example only and the reader should apply the principle to their own
possible situation, actual or imagined.
Your daughters partner has a secret bank account for the purpose of gam-
bling on the races about which your daughter is unaware. One day he men-
tions this to you in the course of a relevant conversation and asks you to
keep it secret. Some time later the relationship disintegrates and remains that
way.
For how long do you maintain the secret entrusted to you?
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Karma. (2)
Do you attribute occurrences in your life to karma and, if so, is the attribution to the
good or bad occurrences or both?
The backpack.
If in a shop you were asked by one of the staff to open your backpack for examina-
tion for stolen goods would you consider it to be an insult and, if so, why?
A matter of principle.
Would you risk your job by speaking out for the better treatment of your fellow
workers?
Artificial.
Assuming that you do not, and would not, eat artificial* vegetables do you, or would
you, take artificial medication when natural ones are available?
* e.g. Plastic, paper.
Ruminating.
Ruminants ruminate their cud but do not ruminate as we can.
You do not chew the cud but do you ruminate on what you receive via your senses?
The business of caring enough.
You run a business, or work in one, and are involved in customer service. China cof-
fee cups and mugs is one of your product lines.
The cups and mugs have no cubic capacity marked on them so a customer asks you
what the capacity of the mugs is. You are surprised by the question, have no answer
and it is the customer who takes the initiative in an attempt to find an answer.
What would you have done, or do, in this situation? (There are quite a few things.)
Losing.
In sports, games and the like can you take defeat with equanimity?
Appointments.
You have an appointment at a specific time with someone and are, or will, possibly
be a few minutes late. Would you advise the other party if it is possible to do so?
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Sport and the needy.
What is more important to you, your countrys sporting prowess or the way it cares
for its needy?
Communication.
When going away from your home or business do you, to inform anyone who calls,
leave a message like this in a suitable place?
BACK IN 15 MINUTES
Spring.
For vegetation, and all life forms, spring commences on the equinox which occurs on
or about the 22nd September or March each year, depending on the latitude. Civil-
ised man, however, has determined that it should start on the first day of the the
month and we foolishly follow this highly unnatural edict which is not many decades
old! Even farmers - admittedly in the 1st World - seem to ignore the true commence-
ment day!
What has happened to our values that we value an artificial day over a natural one
when our bodies and all life, of which they are a part, react to the natural?
Upset by others?
Does it upset you if someone you feel should be visiting/communication with you,
particularly someone close to you, does not do so for no apparent reason?
If yes, why?
Ethical Investment.
If you invest in the share market do you confine yourself to ethical investment or
if you were to invest in the share market would you confine your investments to eth-
ical investments?
Conscientious objection.
If your country went to war would you:
1. Volunteer to fight: that is be willing to kill or facilitate killing in any way?
2. If there was conscription would you be a conscientious objector?
Wasteful mentality.
In these days of a worsening global shortage of natural, fresh water, requiring a
change of awareness and attitude in all people, do you have a daily shower or bath:
3. Out of habit?
4. Because you need it?
5. Because habit make you feel that you need it?
Borrowing.
Borrowing something with every intention of returning it as soon as it has served its
purpose and then forgetting to do everything possible to return it without delay and,
finally, forgetting altogether is a common occurrence with many people.
Are you one of those?
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Disposable paper tissues.
Some sixty years ago it was probably these tissues, omnipresent in the civilised
world today, whose advent signalled the start of the throwaway culture and opened
the door to the latent mindlessness awaiting release.
1. Except when there is no alternative are you a user of tissues and one of the
throwaway culture?
2. More importantly, if the answer is yes, would you change your mentality for al-
truistic reasons?
Global warming.
If you are one who does not believe that humans are responsible for, or contribute to,
global warming would you write a letter to be handed to your descendants that you
had this belief and, therefore, did nothing to mitigate matters?
Living life.
When you discover an insect in your house do you go for the insect spray or find a
way to put the insect outside to live its life?
What is the Mind?
Surely the brain is not the mind! True, the brain is a highly complex organ of
the body responsible for the unconscious functions of the body as well as the
more abstract functions we need for our mental/ physical bodies. In the latter
respect it is more like a computer which consists of the screen, registering
thoughts, experiences etc., the disc/s storing these and the system that ef-
fects this as well as recall for re-usein many ways. Both the brain and the
computer utilise energy for power. Both are 'mechanical' in their function, and
both need external input to function fully. This input comes from the Mind ex-
cept where the autonomous activity is concerned. Both need the 'human ele-
ment' to function and, when 'the plug is pulled' or 'half pulled' function ceases
or goes on standby.
The Mind consists of three intermingled elements v.i.z. the conscious, sub-
conscious and superconscious. This terminology implies levels or layers but
that is not the reality. To, by description, approximate the reality we can take
the analogy of water vapour in the atmosphere which, depending on varying
conditions influenced by local and global factors, forms clouds of varying
density, colour and potential whilst stillbeing water. The result of what is
formed creates shade, darkness of varying density, storms, clear skies or
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rain. Similarly, the Mind creates peace and placidity, gloom, fear and turmoil,
happiness or emotions. The structure, so to speak, of the Mind is formless
and in a continual state of flux, responding to the interaction between existing
'data' and the constant influx of new 'data', and underscoring this is the in-
nate 'data' of the soul or, responding to the interaction of the conscious, sub-
conscious and the superconscious. Hence, the brain is not the Mind but a tool
of the Mind, and is free to function independently of the mind whereas the
converse is not the case. The Mind is a reflection of the soul. The body and
the personality of an entity incarnate are not the Mind but only a creation of
that part of the soulrelevant to the soul's purpose and/or mission in any given
life.
Like the Great Spirit the Mind is beyond description - it just is.
Mental Drift.
This is the condition where we, individually or collectively, drift through life
without thought; we just go with the flow created by society and culture.
Sometimes, thought kicks in and we become aware of our thoughtless drift -
and, sometimes, with this awareness we realise that we are on the wrong
road and do something about changing direction.
Mind/Thought.
The mind is that state of Thought which is limited to the five senses. Thinking
- where the brain isthe transformer to the physical (plane) - is an activity of
the mind and is Thought in action. Thought itself isa constant.
When the Buddha said that there is no such thing as the atman or soul he
was correct. The soul is merely the sum total of past experiencesand is,
therefore, not an entity in itself; it is merely an "attachment" to the Spirit entity
or, figuratively speaking, the "garments" of the Spirit entity. It is these attach-
ments or garments that are shed in the process of enlightenment.
The Buddha posed the question, "What is it that thinks?" and answered it by
saying, "It is thought that thinks." The Great Spirit, God, The Creative Force is
Thought and we are created in It's image. Hence, although there is no soul as
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such, we are Spirit, which is Thought; and as humans we are Thought mani-
fest in human form or Thought manifest "in the flesh" (from the Latin in +
carno, with carno meaning flesh.)
Does the brain think? No, it is only a mechanical organ, a transformer be-
tween the soul and the physical being, and a device programmed to perform
autonomic physical functions. Does the mind think? Yes, if we consider this
activity in terms of mental "thinking", but it is only mental activity which we
term thinking. Does the soul think? No, as it is only a bank of experiences.
Thus, we arrive at the question "What thinks?" Thinking is not Thought be-
cause Thought does not involve activity - it just is, but Thought creates, and
one thing it creates is the activity of thinking - it is the origin of thinking but is
not, of itself, thinking. If
we coined new words such as ment (mental) for 'think' or a 'thought', and
menting (mental activity) for 'thinking', we remove the confusion with Thought
caused by our use of the words 'think' and 'thinking'.
As the mind shrinks at the will of the initiate, thought flows in to fill the spaces
so created.
If awareness is a pond, a Thought* is the bubble that rises from the depths
and bursts at the surface.
For Thought manifesting one might best refer to the common expressions "It
dawned on me." and "It occurred to me." in which is implied the absence of
mental activity; in other words no menting or mentivity.
NOTE
The inquiring mind will wonder why we are the way we are and the wise will
read my writings which set out the answers - the same answerswhich others
have set out over at least 2500 years. Quo vadis, my friends?
Self-justification.
When, in a country, self-justification, particularly at the highest levels, is entrenched
that country is on a slippery slide.
Nuclear weapons.
It seems that there is an I am holier than thou! attitude prevailing in the countries
currently armed with nuclear weapons and it is pertinent to ask on what basis is it de-
cided that a country is allowed to have them or not - even those countries which deny
having them but do?
Technology. (1)
Boon or scourge?
Think fully, laterally and widely.
The rainbow.
The aspirational rainbow painted by modern culture is just that - a rainbow.
Vegetation.
The plants of today were, or are derived from, the weeds of yesterday and the plants
of tomorrow are the plants and the weeds of today. Hence, be mindful of this when
creating the next weed eradication mindset.
Positive change.
Very often it is the awareness of the negative that is the catalyst for a change to the
positive.
News media.
The news media loses its validity and credibility when it starts to manufacture sensa-
tion to attract attention to itself rather than the news. It started this some years ago
and the habit is now well entrenched.
Unemployment.
If over the last few decades the mean level of unemployment is, say, 5% it amounts to
some 300,000,000 employable people being unemployed today. What does this say
about our much vaunted system of world management and way of life either lived or
aspired to?
Modern youth.
More freedom = more choices = more responsibility to self, others and the Earth.
Prudent saving.
In China today we see the official discouragement of the prevalent prudent peoples
habit of saving money for the sake of the imprudent government policy of spending
to sustain growth although even a child knows that bubbles burst.
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A concept of success doomed to failure.
The world controllers are mired in the quicksand of a concept of success, and a sys-
tem designed to achieve and maintain this concept, which is unachievable because its
foundations are fundamentally flawed from a practical as well as spiritual point of
view. Practically, because no system can succeed which is based on consumption of
goods (A bit of lateral thinking extrapolating this illustrates this point) and spiritually,
because it is based on a spiritual negative - desire/craving.
An in-depth view.
When you next see a coastline take a different perspective, mentally remove the wa-
ter from what you see to expose the land beneath and you will see what is.
Seedless fruit.
We find seeds in fruit we eat inconvenient so we breed them out of the fruit. This is
our mentality but what are the long term consequences of such foolishness?
Love.
Love, that enigma which is almost universally considered to be essential and import-
ant to us, the reason, in fact, for our very existence is ephemeral and in various situ-
ations it is highly variable: depending on the objects and/or people it is directed at, it
lasts for varying periods, exists with varying intensity, and is unpredictable. It is also
the cause of anger and hatred.
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Out of site, out of mind.
How often, if at all, do we stop to consider what is happening to the billions of organ-
isms, vital to the functioning of our world, beneath our feet and the grinding wheels
of our vehicles?
Circulation booster.
For sale in a pharmacy: Circulation Booster $ 299.95.
In other words pay $300 for what you can do by a short walk!
Artificial life.
In the not too distant future some 33% of the population of the developed world will
be kept alive by pharmaceuticals much to the glee of the shareholders of pharmaceut-
ical companies although many of them will simply be recouping expenditure.
World politics.
To support a child because of family ties despite its belligerence, paranoia and in-
transigence neither helps the child nor its classmates who feel the brunt of its negativ-
ity.
Ethical advertising.
Wasnt there a time when it was a legal requirement that advertising be truthful?
Toys.
As children we played with toys we made or bought and some of us grew up and
played with grown ups toys like guns for sport, cars, motorcycles etc. Now, for
young and old we have Information Technology toys which young and old use - often
to excess.
Technology. (2)
We have made huge strides in technology but have we made even a small step in im-
proving our mentality?
Speculation.
The section of the world which is exposed to the media seems to be fixated on specu-
lation. Essentially, this is living in the future which does not make for peace of mind
and, therefore, wellness.
Deaths.
If we are truly concerned about the number of deaths, discounting those from natural
causes, we would prevent the design and manufacture of the causes.
Baby vegetables.
Eating baby vegetables is an indulgence of the rich whilst the poor starve. Will this
continue when, in the future, there is a world shortage of food - as is predicted?
White tea.
Black tea contained silver tips which were the result of the apical bud of the two
leaves and a bud traditionally picked. These added a special taste to the brew. How-
ever, in relatively recent times it became the practice to extract these tips, call them
white tea, and market them at exorbitant prices with no reduction in price of the black
tea which is degraded. Only the wealthy can afford white tea.
Energy fields.
The human body, like any object, is, essentially, energy as in all matter. Energy exists
in fields and these fields interact with one another. The consequences, therefore, of
the almost continuous exposure of the body to man-made energy fields so common
today - fields to which the body is possibly naturally unused - are unknown.
Records in sport.
With the evolution over the years of sports laws, equipment, venues etc. the compar-
ison of performances is largely a waste of time.
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The mountain builders.
Unlike the mound builders of pre-history we in the civilised world are mountain
builders but, unlike the mound builders, we build mountains of our rubbish in the
oceans, under ground, on the ground and in the sky and, not satisfied with that pro-
gress, we want to colonise the moon, Mars and possibly other planets!
We are fiddling while Rome burns!
Tourism.
Tourism is productive, and often necessary, for the economy but destructive for the
environment and native culture.
National donations.
We plan eight years ahead and invest billions for lavish sporting events but constantly
fail to deliver on our promises of emergency aid to suffering refugees from crises. In
democratic countries it is the people who have to take responsibility because it is they
who vote for the government.
The Holocaust.
The past event of the Holocaust does not justify the later continuos persecution of
another peoples. It should have created the opposite mentality. However, fear is no
diplomat.
Note: In Aramaic, the language of the Essenes, the word for rope and camel is the
same.
Aphorisms.
An aphorism, where it relates to a spiritual truth and where it does not appear to fully
explain something, can be the wrapping of a precious gift.
The body.
When the body gets old, as it must, and starts presenting the painful symptoms of
ageing we should happily acknowledge the reality and let nature take its course with
only natural amelioration of pain and discomfort as much as possible.
No quick fix.
In this life alone my spiritual discoveries took 54 years to coalesce and another 15
years to crystallise.
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World improvement.
If this world is to become a better place, even one conducive to living in, there has to
be a change in the mentality of the collective human psyche. This has to start with
each individual and, thereby, to the collective - a change from the inward focus to the
outward focus - that is, a change from selfishness to unselfishness.
Pie in the sky? Flying pigs? Anything is possible . . . Although not probable.
A special day.
A special day for goodwill to others implies a lack of goodwill to others on
other days. But then, in modern times we have a plethora of special days -
which seem to make little difference to us.
Exploitation of labour.
So, we have it again; big name garment producers demanding, to maximise their
profits, unfairly low manufacturing costs from low labour cost countries and thus en-
couraging, even necessitating, the exploitation of labour, and then purporting to be
unaware of the exploitation etc.
Titles.
The adjective millionaire has almost been supplanted by the adjective billionaire
but now these adjectives are used as titles such as Doctor, Father, Sir, Count etc. This
is how important money is to us - no matter how it was earned.
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Mass shootings - U.S.A.
If you live by the sword you die by the sword. This quote is from the Bible so
Christian prayers in particular are no remedy.
Human failings.
Paedophilia and sexual misconduct in the Christian Church is not the fault of the es-
sential Christian teachings but a matter of human failings both in respect of the
thoughts and acts as well as the institutionalised cover up due to a misguided defence
of the Church. A reference to the teachings would have made this defence untenable.
The world.
It is now being said that obesity is a bigger problem than hunger - what an irony . . . .
and what an indictment of our constantly much vaunted progress.
12,000 toys.
In Australia yesterday, a body connected with children in care announced that in re-
sponse to a request for donations of toys, with a target of 8,000, the number of toys
received, in just the main place, was 12,000.
Game hunting.
Normally this term starts with the word Big - but let us generalise.
This game, called hunting, involves a human animal going into the wild with
weapons it has invented, to kill a fellow animal purely for pleasure, whilst ignoring
the pain and suffering it can cause to that animal or other animals that escaped
wounded - perhaps mortally.
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Household pesticides.
What the advertisements do not tell us, and what we do not read, is that these
products are poisonous to us and that, therefore, as we kill the insects we slowly kill
ourselves in small cumulative ways.
N.B. On the label, under First Aid, it may say, If poisoning occurs etc. etc.
Political nomenclature.
In political nomenclature the second largest group of members after the governing
group is termed The opposition. This designation is fundamentally inappropriate
because it fosters, in selfish individuals and groups, unnecessary and/or irresponsible
opposition to the Government. Perhaps the term The Alternative would be more
appropriate and more conducive to high moral standards.
Boasting.
Boasting is an indication of a lack of self-esteem.
Feel good.
Many people dress up to feel good yet, if their spiritual state is elevated, they will feel
good no matter what they wear . . . . . and think of the savings!
Scientific speculation.
Scientific speculation (theory) far too frequently becomes fact although a discerning
listener to comments made on, say, a documentary by a scientist will be aware of this
fact. A case in point is anthropological discourse.
A politicians declaration.
What does a politician declare loudly but silently about himself or herself when they
put their political life ahead of the loss to others of life itself - perhaps very painfully?
New inventions.
How many new inventions are of genuine benefit, directly or indirectly, and how
many are merely gimmicks and gadgets which people take to in droves?
Global unemployment.
The current global population is estimated at just over 7,000,000,000 and the unem-
ployment rate, according to the current methodology, is just about 7%. This equates
to some 490,000,000 who want work but are unemployed.
By 2020, as more countries become developed and more people become
developed, can the worlds current system provide employment for at least an-
other 140,000,000 - based on a projected global population of 9000,000,000 people -
wanting work?
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Superior attitude.
The imperialism and colonialism of the last few centuries is characterised by the ar-
rogance of superiority of Europeans in assuming the superiority of their short civiliz-
ations over those of the conquered which preceded theirs by centuries and even mil-
lennia. This arrogance still exists, even if only subliminally, in people, and therefore
governments, of the First World.
Cash lotteries.
Huge lottery prizes are unproductive and the prizes would do far more good if they
are broken down into many smaller ones. Unfortunately, however, this is not likely to
happen because common desire blocks common sense.
A matter of priorities.
Pensioner defers non-essential dental work for two or three years to enable his peri-
odic contribution of $2,000 towards the education abroad of a poor young man from
the East. He told his dentist, His need is greater than mine.
Fourfold success.
To attempt something positive is success.
To persist in that attempt is success.
To complete it unsuccessfully is success.
To complete it successfully is success.
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Walled in rivers.
When we wall in rivers and streams, or any body of water, we set back, if not kill, all
life that would normally live in and around the banks.
Gladiatorial mentality.
In the spectators in sports stadiums across the world we are re-experiencing the gla-
diatorial mentality of the spectators in the Roman arenas of some two thousand years
ago.
War.
War is the instrument of the weak.
Moral decay.
Are so many countries becoming virtually dysfunctional due to a preponderance of
crime and/or other moral decay that the world, as a whole, is on the path to becoming
dysfunctional?
Chuck it!
Considering the rapidity with which technology now develops we could be producing
for the throw away mentality and the scrap heap thus stimulating, or pandering to, a
fast, costly and wasteful buy, lose interest and chuck it civilization.
Exploitation of farmers.
The unconscionable exploitation of farmers by large companies, many having
the power of large market share, is putting the worlds food producers out of
business. Whilst this is going on the profits of these companies benefit their
shareholders, who should, themselves, be more responsible. In the long term
their attitude endangers the food supply of all human beings.
Mass delusion.
All the fun and good life we are fed constantly in all media is simply a recycling
of mass delusion which the great majority of us cling to - at least subconsciously.
Addicted governments.
Governments too get addicted to addictive products but in their case the addiction is
to the revenue from the excise they apply to the product.
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Spiritual values.
Religious values, except where they correspond with spiritual values, in Scandinavian
and some northern European countries seem to have no great affect on the people but
spiritual values certainly have.
Sportsmanship in tennis.
In great contrast to some of his predecessors and contemporaries Andre Agassi was a
true gentleman on the professional tennis circuit and his gestures of thanks to the
spectators at matches have been adopted as their own by so many current players of
both sexes. This fact is both significant and pleasing.
Pink or magenta?
Red + white = pink [or used to be].
Red + white + blue = magenta [or used to be].
Yet many now call magenta pink!
Earth security.
To prevent the invasion of our planet by aliens all we have to do is broadcast into
space the daily news of our world. This would deter the most determined aliens! On
second thoughts, however, this may not work: it may result in the destruction of Earth
by aliens to eliminate possible moral and environmental pollution of the universe as
we attempt to further expand our interference in space.
Entertainment.
All indications are that we need a large amount of entertainment and it is probable
that this is subconscious escapism; perhaps escape from the need to change our spir-
itual direction.
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World order.
Our world systems are unsustainable because they have grown from our unsustain-
able ideals and aspirations. If the systems are to change, as they must and will, our
ideals and aspirations have to change. This being unlikely, there has to be a complete
collapse of the existing order and a completely new order established: one with more
elevated ideals and aspirations.
Evolution.
As science and technology influences all life on Earth Darwins theory of evolution
will become inapplicable - if it ever did apply.
Death by guns.
The U.S.A. declares itself to be staunchly Christian so it should be aware of the
Christian principle, If you live by the sword you die by the sword.
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Religious groups.
Religious groups around the world are creating violence but if they were following
the teachings of their religion this behaviour would no occur. Too often they are
misled by clergy, or pseudo clergy, who are ignorant or have a selfish agenda.
Emotion in sport.
There is something wrong when the emotional reaction of players on the field, in re-
action to a success, reaches the levels it now does. These levels often border on the
limits of self control.
Rare commodities.
Customer service and courtesy are rare commodities these days so it was very pleas-
ing to get a call at 8 a.m., from a company whose technician had an appointment with
me between 7.30 and 8.30 a.m., to advise me that the technician was delayed on his
last job and would be about ten minutes late.
Good deeds.
Most good deeds remain unsung and that is how most of the doers of the deeds would
have it.
Graphene.
So, here comes another magic discovery from which thousands of fantastic things can
be made. This discovery, it is said, opens up huge potential but I simply see yet an-
other pointless exercise. All such actions are driven by our inherent discontent with
the status quo - all the way back to the beginning!
Ancient wisdom.
Ancient uncivilised peoples learned from their mistakes and changed their ways. We
persist with our waywardness whilst, if we think that far, leaving it to science and
technology to solve the problems we create - a vain hope.
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Food waste.
The waste of fresh food resulting from unnecessary selectivity of produce by super-
markets around the world is astonishing yet governments of the world do nothing.
Sporting behaviour.
Earlier in my post titled Sportsmanship in tennis I touched on negative sporting be-
haviour but recently, while watching the Australian Open tennis matches, I was re-
minded of the high standard of sporting behaviour on display in recent years. In the
last decade or so to date there have been, and are, many exemplary players.
Bottled health.
According to the advertisements good health is all there, in bottles and packs, on the
shelves.
Walks in nature.
During morning walks one can hear the tumbling of the creek over the rocks, the
songs of the birds, the flutter of their wings and all the little sounds of nature yet
some people walk with an earplug stuck in one ear, or both, listening to the sounds of
man.
Buying power.
Let buying power serve to prevent exploitation of the buyer and not serve to exploit
the seller.
Religions.
We have the religion, whose god is money, which is more radical than the most radic-
al of the extremely conservative factions of the other religions.
Economics or people?
All the talk is about economics and not about people and there is no sense in
blinkered commentators and pundits stating that the progress of a countrys economy
benefits all its people because this is patently incorrect: the rich benefit at the expense
of the poor who are reluctantly dragged along far behind.
It seems to be the term marriage which is the problem in this contentious debate.
But why the fuss? Surely it is still possible to coin a new, suitable word such as
uniteage for instance? This word contains unity, unite, a bit of the word marriage,
uni for one sex etc. What more is necessary in a mere word? Surely it is the act that is
important and not the word.
It is time to let go!
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N.B. Where laws now exist where the word, perhaps with some qualification, is in-
scribed in the law it can easily be changed and exist in its own right.
Mass immorality.
The positive side to the widespread immorality in the world today is the opportunity
it presents to the billions to change their ways.
Disrespect of sovereignty.
Some powerful countries and their satellites countries have, for entirely selfish reas-
ons, assumed the right to invade the sovereign space of other countries with scant re-
gard for accepted diplomacy. A current example of this is the use of drones for
surveillance and attack.
This happens with impunity because those who could censure this are them-
selves desirous of this freedom.
Employment.
If all those unemployed in the EU, Africa, Asia, the Americas etc. find employment
w.hat will they be doing and who is to utilise the result of their work? Is this sustain-
able or is the system stuck with the present state of affairs?
Mass lunacy.
Since early in the last century human beings have progressively increased their desire
to protect themselves, and particularly their children, from all conceivable illness
and damage resulting in a corresponding erosion of the immune system. This fear has
reached the state of mass lunacy.
Original Milk.
Amazing as it may seem, in recent times, something called Original Milk has ap-
peared on grocery shelves. That says it all!
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Creatures of habit.
Humans are creatures of habit and, therefore, conservative. The consequence is that
the vast majority go along in life blithely ignorant of, and/or disinterested in, what is
happening in the world that adversely affects them.
Language.
The proper management of the evolution of language is necessary as the consequence
of not doing so is a breakdown in communication which will cause major problems -
even disastrous ones.
Truth control.
It is not possible to control what people think or believe by proscribing information
but it is possible to control what they know by proscribing the truth.
Just desserts.
Because we now choose out politicians from a shallow basis of TV image and staged
performances whilst disregarding true performance over a past period when possible,
we deserve what we get.
Education.
We have got to the stage where we do not know where our food comes i.e. from
cows, farms, soil, trees etc. and this is quite a remarkable achievement: partly due to
an education system which decades ago decided to focus on mathematics and engin-
eering at the expense of the humanities and what were considered non essential dis-
ciplines. The ideology of the time forsook a rounded education - the myopic view of
a culture which was focussed on science and technology as the panacea for all ills.
Consumerism.
Everything we need is available in nature. The problem is that there are too many of
us using too much and wasting too much of that whilst relying on science and techno-
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logy to solve the problems we create - a lazy irresponsible mentality. Well, it should
be apparent to us that this reliance is misplaced because science and technology cre-
ate more problems than they solve. It is we who have to take responsibility.
And here, also from the book, an enigmatic explanation of the whole in a nutshell:
Thought creates
Creation manifests
Thought manifests.1
1 These three lines encapsulate the cause and effect of everything relating to life.
1 These three lines encapsulate the cause and effect of everything relating to life.
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Courtesy.
It appears to be that the courtesy Thank you. has passed out of the vocabulary and
minds of people particularly where small courtesies are concerned. By this I do not
mean that one should thank all those who send unsolicited jokes, news items etc. by
the dozen or everyone who likes a post but the hitherto common courtesy of thanking
someone for being helpful to or mindful of one.
Farmers.
We are putting our farmers out of business by not paying them enough for their pro-
duce and this is happening when huge food shortages are predicted for the not too
distant future. It is essential that we act to stop this plunder.
Secular laws.
In the case of secular laws we have, over centuries, made significant progress to-
wards being a civilized society. However, in many countries these are flouted behind
the scenes: behind the facade of justice presented to the world and often boasted
about.
Media behaviour.
The reason the media so often behave in a despicable manner is that there is a large
number of people who thrive on reading the results - what people crave the media
will supply.
Will power.
Will power is one thing; wishing to use it another.
Scientific study.
The scientific study of things in isolation when nothing exists in isolation is a funda-
mental flaw.
Lifestyle.
Some people live life on a high of alcohol and/or drugs and/or their business activit-
ies and thus make life decisions from a mind state remote from their actual lives - de-
cisions that are prone to failure.
The believer.
A friend of mine believes that Moses actually smote the Red Sea to make it part and
allow him to take the Israelites through. He does not believe the thousand or so of
scientists, including some from the highly regarded Australian CSIRO, who state that
humans are responsible for the unnatural climate change which is occurring but,
when he talks about how terribly unsafe microwave ovens are, he quotes the CSIRO
scientists.
Standards.
Generally speaking, necessity and mentality have lowered standards
and are lowering then further.
Full circle.
We have just about come full circle this time around and, on completion, we will re-
turn to the spiritual restarting point for our next cycle. The character of the end of the
cycle is determined by what we created.
With each cycle we achieve some spiritual progress individually and collectively as a
result of our experiences. Hence, each cycle is an opportunity.
Material graveyards.
Aircraft graveyards are just small examples, in kind, of what is to come.
As the speed of invention, technological advances and innovation increases monu-
ments to our ingenuity, and waste, will blot the Earth at massive expense. This will
not be paralleled by corresponding spiritual progress, however.
Rooftop safety.
In the arab world old style buildings do not have railings surrounding the flat roofs
yet few, if any, people seem to fall over the edges despite the roofs being used fre-
quently. Compare that to the fuss made in the developed world over protecting
people. In the former people learn whilst in the latter they have to be protected.
Big is better.
In business at one time big was best then, some decades ago, it was not best and
many very big companies, like Bell Telephone, were split into many parts. Then,
more recently, and since, big again became better. However, big is not better - trying
to get bigger and bigger sends many enterprises to the wall. Also, big creates an ad-
vantage and advantage of this sort is unfair, although the big companies will not
agree with this, and this is the strategy adopted to maximise profits at the expense of
smaller businesses. This is called the free market which should be renamed the pred-
ators market!
A new Pope.
A new Pope? Will anything change or will he live in splendour whilst millions of his
flock languish in poverty?
Advice.
When advice sought, given and taken brings negative results the only one responsible
for the results is the one who took the advice.
Science.
Is it correct that an experiment in which one factor is not measurable is not scientific?
This is not a rhetorical question - I am looking for an answer.
I ask this because, a couple of nights ago, I had a neoption that this was so. I
suspect, no more, because I cannot remember, that although the experiment may not
be scientific it may be true - that science is not the final arbiter.
Now, having written the paragraph immediately above, I am more convinced
that although the experiment may not be scientific it may be true.
Existing in isolation.
Nothing material exists in isolation so whatever we chuck into the water in one place
affects water everywhere. So it is with all pollutants but not enough of us care enough
for us to stop this in time. Hence, as we sow so we reap - karma, the immutable law
of cause and effect.
Book publishing.
If major publishers were truly interested in literature for reasons other than profit,
they would publish books of valuable content, but without best seller potential, and
medium demand.
Super bugs.
Apparently, medically dangerous super bugs are on the increase. This is happening at
the same time that we are ruining our immune systems in a number of ways including
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vaccination/inoculation, excessive use of pharmaceuticals and protection against nu-
merous things previously tackled by the immune system.
Buy national.
People of many countries are often exhorted to buy things made in their country but
where this exhortation occurs in a developed country it is one of limited, moral, vis-
ion because there are other countries struggling to develop and feed their people, let
alone give them one tenth of what the developed countries provide for their people.
Belief.
No one has to believe anything because, in the end, everyone will know everything.
Timelessness.
Today is my dogs birthday but it makes no difference to him because, like all anim-
als except Homo sapiens, he lives in the reality of timelessness.
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What fools we are.
What fools we are for the rubbish we buy because of the claims made on the labels
etc. by the manufacturers.
It seems so easy.
These days it seems so easy for someone to stab another - with anything to hand.
Quo vadis?
Civilization Z.
This civilization could very easily be Civilization Z.
Afghanistan.
In Afghanistan the West has presumed, from an assumed position of superiority, to
artificially move into another time an ancient culture, but things are not that simple
because, like water finding its own level the subdued culture will do the same when
freed, whatever its actual or perceived shortcomings, and grow from there in its own
way.
Everything happens in its own time.
Principles of marketing.
The principles of marketing dictate that goods are priced according to the ability to
pay. Therefore, in a high income country the profit is greater than in a country where
the incomes are lower. However, does it follow that some of these profits are devoted
to selling at below cost in a country where the population is largely destitute?
Marketing/business ethics.
Worldwide, businesses, with few exceptions, are rapacious, exploitative and unscru-
pulous where their customers are concerned but are completely blaze about it - and
the shopper pays for it!
Sadly, all this is considered good business.
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Mind disorders of returning service personnel.
The very high occurrence of these disorders is, in all probability, due to a spiritual, or
superconscious, antipathy to war and killing - something well beyond the comprehen-
sion of those treating them or sending them to war in the first place.
A sad commentary.
It is a sad commentary that the much vaunted system directing the state of things in
the world grows from a worsening cesspool of human morality.
Technological innovation.
Technological innovation is now occurring for its own sake followed by buying and
updating for their own sake.
Mobile phones.
The mobile phone, if its use is not wisely controlled by the user, is an infringer of
liberty.
Cruelty to animals.
For a long time I have suspected that some dairy farmers in Australia have been
shortening (docking) the tails of dairy cows but yesterday, having seen that, in a
1500 strong herd of Holsteins in China all the tails were docked, my suspicions are
confirmed not only where Australia is concerned but worldwide.
Depriving the animals of a, to them, vital tool - that of fly swatter, is cruel be-
cause without a tail they are like humans would be if they, humans, were unable to
wave their hand in front of their face to drive off flies. The result is, of course, stress!
Media culpability.
The media is culpable, it has a great deal to answer for in respect of the negative way
in which the world and its people have developed and are developing. The reason for
this is that its focus has not been on promoting positive thinking and actions: it has
had, and continues to have, no moral imperatives or impetus and is driven, by the
proclivities of the owner/s or, like most everything else, by profit.
Packaging of products.
Within the last two decades there was sufficient concern in the world about excessive
packaging and its effects and consequential costs that at least one country, Germany,
started making the manufacturers responsible for post-purchase disposal of parts and
packaging. This, in Australia at least, is not the case and, frequently, in a single item
there is more packaging than product and more packaging cost than product cost with
the former cost being an imposition on the purchaser by the manufacturer. We have,
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therefore, unnecessary cost with negative consequences to the community as well as
the environment.
Karma.
Karma is the greatest and most perfect teacher.
Company behaviour.
No matter what the bean counters say, no customers = no company; so, people have
the power to change things - if only they would get up and do what is needed: Which
is to work together en masse to act until your demands are met; and that will certainly
not take long!
These days there is the convenience and power of the Internet.
Belief.
Belief without intelligent analysis is foolish. Belief of hearsay, spoken or written, is
also foolish but if belief makes one a better person it is a step in the correct direction
irrespective of the source.
Such is life.
You cannot polish a silver vessel without abrasion.
[Comment: This morning I was talking to an obviously advanced spiritual seeker whose moul is
burdened with what she calls the mental suffering she has been through and, listening to her, I
neopted the above. When I repeated it to her she smiled knowingly and appreciatively.]
Spiritual encrustation.
Homo sapiens is an animal and encrusted on the human spirit is aeons of animal
wants, instincts and habits which will take aeons to rub off - but rub it off we will!
Fighting wars.
One hidden reason for fighting wars is to give employment to the nations people.
Conservative governments.
When conservative governments do things which disadvantage many people, particu-
larly amongst the middle and lower classes, it is no use telling members of that gov-
ernment the ethical error of their ways because they either know no better or because
it is in their doctrine.
Advertising.
The current pervasiveness and cost of advertising, to the community, is indicative of
an excess of product.
In God we trust.
The declaration In God we trust. has to be considered in the light of what God has
apparently stated viz. As you sow, so shall you reap.
So be it - Amen.
Peace.
There is no peace in revenge.
There is no solution in murder.
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A fools paradise.
Spiritually, we live in a fools paradise and our ignorance is our bondage.
15.04.13: Having the previous day found that I had made a $900 mistake in a funds
transfer I spoke to my bank where some excellent, courteous, understanding and
helpful advice resulted in my finding the company to which I had sent the $900. To
this company, Xtreme Herbs{http://www.xtremeherbs.com.au/}, I sent this email on
16.04.13.
On 12.03.13 The XXX Bank paid you $900.00 due to an error on my part and this is
to request you to return that money to me urgently. It is part of my savings for an im-
portant dental procedure. I am a pensioner and such savings are difficult to make.
Please let me know how you propose to return this money to me.
Thanking you,
Best regards,
16.04.13: I replied giving the require details and received notice that the funds had
been transferred and to allow two days for the transfer to appear in my account.
16.04.13: $900 was credited to my account.
Convenient forgetfulness.
Human behaviour is responsible for the extinction of numerous animal species but is
such that it forgets that Homo sapiens is a species of animal.
Natural beauty.
How beautiful the natural beauty of the unspoiled landscapes of the world.
Servility reversed.
In the westernized world the practice of richer people employing poorer people
ceased some decades ago, except where the very rich were concerned, but has now
reappeared in the form of contractors providing these services, thus reducing the
scope for exploitation and increasing gainful self-employment.
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Armed forces.
Over the last few decades the progressive increase in the number of security person-
nel and the exponential increase in the armaments of both security and military per-
sonnel has become necessary due to us, as a whole, having a less civilized mentality.
Fashion.
Fashion emerged amongst the aristocracy of old as a counter to boredom and still is
an indulgence by the rich, or fashion victims, at the expense of the poor.
Progress.
Since the advent of progress we have regressed physically and spiritually.
Global mobility.
Increased global mobility has facilitated the mass movement of people which, in turn,
has facilitated the melding of races and cultures for the spiritual purpose of giving us
the opportunity to manifest, in the fullness of time, the inherent positive traits we
possess irrespective of the traits we might demonstrate given this challenge.
Martyrdom.
What motivates one to help others is spiritually very important. Often, people help
others in order to help themselves satisfy a psychological need and when this helping
is constant, and occurs despite personal hardship, it is martyrdom, not helpfulness.
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The age of knowledge.
The age of old knowledge of the Reality is thousands of years whilst the age of the
new knowledge of the Reality, to the extent that it exists, is a few hundred years and
still emerging; yet only a wise few refer to the first.
Gun lobbies.
Those behind the gun lobby in the U.S.A., and any other such body in the world,
simply do not know any better - and that says a multitude of things.
Childbirth.
A great deal of the problems modern westernized women have with childbirth,
if they are not given a cesarean by the obstetrician that is, is due to children
not being allowed to experience this natural phenomenon throughout their
early years as is normal in "lesscivilized", but infinitely wiser, communities.
Harmony.
We appreciate harmony in sound but are unable to live in harmony with too many.
Television.
It is either a fact or it is assumed by the television industry that, to hold the interest of
viewers, numerous artifices are required. If we do have a short attention span is this
because we are frivolous or actually disinterested?
God is Good.
The news was of three girls being imprisoned in a house, by three men, for years and
in that time raped and ill treated before being discovered and rescued. Soon after, in
the attendant crowds, was a large banner stating in large letters, God is good. Was
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God good for rescuing the girls or for putting them in that situation in the first place
or was God good for both acts?
Had the authors of that banner been better taught they would have known that
God was responsible for neither.
The precipice.
It is interesting, to say the least, that people driving headlong towards a precipice at-
tempt to overcome the obstacle instead of stopping the vehicle.
Farming aspirations.
Because I watch a weekly program about Australian farming and farmers I see the
monstrous machines used on enormous farms and my thoughts go to the farmers in
other parts of the world with a single animal on a small patch - and I think of the dif-
ference in the aspirations of the two groups; the difference between huge assets and
variable but huge profits on the one hand and the difference between subsistence and
starvation on the other. . . . . . and I wonder about the much touted success of our sys-
tem.
Consciousness.
Human consciousness is restricted to what is immediate and expresses itself emotion-
ally whilst spiritual consciousness is all-encompassing and if expressed emotionally
will result in nervous breakdown because of the sheer volume in existence.
Luxury.
Five star hotels and similar houses - oh, the THINGS we crave!
Craving.
When we crave and get what we crave for, we crave more. When we crave and do not
get what we crave for we get dissatisfaction.
Harmony.
We relate to harmony deeply because harmony, a state of balance, is our essential
spiritual state, our essential state of being, and we relate thus because we recognise
the relationship.
*This is the Sanskrit spelling. The later Pali spelling is Siddhattha Gotama.
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N.B. Buddha and Christ are titles denoting enlightenment. There have been, are,
and will be, many of these.
A culture of prevention.
A culture of prevention now pervades this civilization which, in its attempt to prevent
illness, death, accident, injury and a plethora of other such possible calamities, is
bankrupting its governments. Of course, the root cause of all this is fear - the most
physiologically damaging of emotions.
Modest living.
Was there ever a time when someone had a beneficial product which was priced at
cost plus a margin that would provide them with a modest living?
Environmental damage.
In the distant past when we polluted our environment it was localized; now it is not
only globalized but spread outside the globe with massive and long lasting adverse
effects. Furthermore, the per capita pollution has increased.
Nourishment elitism.
Unlike half a century ago when we ate offal because, firstly, it was both palatable and
nourishing and, secondly because it was wasteful to throw away something benefi-
cial, today we, in the western world, are too proud or foolishly fussy to eat it; many
even spurn it.
News presentation.
Too often news presentation is irresponsible whilst, at times, it borders on incitement.
Ill-gotten gains.
Those giving away ill-gotten gains are not philanthropists and most gains are ill-got-
ten.
Hatred is a cancer.
Hatred is a cancer of the mind that cannot be cured by medical science but can be
cured by understanding its primary cause.
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Ignorant preaching.
If preachings from a standpoint of ignorance make one a better person the preachings
have been worthwhile as a means to an end.
Hoarding.
In their curious efforts to call everything that is not normal an illness psychiatrists
have now classified hoarding as an illness; an act that is liable to cause more mental
illness.
Business culture.
Sadly, the business culture we have developed over the years derives from the base
instincts of man including those of territoriality, survival, greed, pride etc.
Living in a cocoon.
Some people live in a cocoon of overt religious platitudes and saintly appearance
without the awareness to live accordingly or to monitor their performance against
them.
Knowledge.
Knowledge alone is not enough: intelligence is needed for it to be digested and/or
understood and then applied.
Psychiatric illness.
Since psychiatrists have now seen fit to classify a tendency to hoard as an illness
would they also similarly classify the obsession they and medical scientists have to
find and label human illnesses as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
Normalcy.
What one person considers to be normal does not necessarily correspond with what
another considers to be normal.
Garbage tips.
Those in the garbage tips of the well off, struggling to keep themselves and their
children from starvation, are symbols of the abject failure, morally and materially, of
our civilization.
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Speculation - future.
Any speculation about the future is a waste of time and effort.
Future food.
If the diet of humans is not to be compromised in the future the variety of foods, par-
ticularly of staples, available in the various parts of the globe has to be maintained at
least and protected against the depredations of those hell bent on profits at any cost.
Inflation.
The cause of inflation is the demands we make on life by our lifestyle , our wants
rather than our needs. These demands are the result of dissatisfaction with the pre-ex-
isting state of contentment with life and the potential for inflation was laid when the
first barter arrangement was made.
History.
The general view of history does not include the awareness that it is being created
every millisecond and part thereof.
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War.
War: what a farce - the expression of the basest human instincts.
Humour.
The perceived need to humour television viewers almost continuously is perplexing.
It is as if we all need a huge, and very regular, dose of this medicine lest we fall in a
heap of mental trauma. Is there really such a need or is it something drummed up by
psychologists in the marketing field? If there really is a need our civilization has de-
livered us another malady.
Sports - behaviour.
A game is defined as a form of competitive activity or sport played according to rules and
a sport as one played to rules for entertainment. Now, in many sports rules are flouted
openly, the disgraceful spectacle of on-field fights is frequent and the entertainment is that
of a blood sport - banned where non-human animals are concerned.
Self interest.
Self interest being such a powerful human trait, instinct even, if humans were to be
aware of the why and how of the law of karma many would, out of self-interest,
change the way they act but not the way they think - their mentality. However, all
selfishness creates negative karma.
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Seeking closure.
Seeking closure is the modern term for a requirement for peace of mind. The equiva-
lent requirement in spiritual terms has been spoken of for at least two and a half thou-
sand years and that requirement is non-attachment, the attainment of which is part of
the process of enlightenment.
Ignorance.
The prime cause of ignorance in people in general is lack of observing and analytical
thinking.
Innovation.
Where our innovations are concerned our ultimate test is whether we are able and
willing to discard those that turn out to have negative effects on anything worthwhile.
Company power.
Many companies are so big, and there are many of these, that governments are unable
to control their anti-social behaviour: it would cost a huge amount and taxpayers
would not pay for it even though they would be the beneficiaries.
The unscrupulous.
If there is the slightest chance the unscrupulous will use unscrupulous means to put
anything to unscrupulous ends.
Political charades.
One ponders the motivation of political heads of state to make fools of themselves by
participating in the charades of them acting in a friendly manner with another of their
ilk for the cameras.
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The benefit of anti-social behaviour?
Perhaps the culture of business justifies anti-social behaviour by the guilty claiming
that they are benefitting shareholders.
Compulsory immunization.
The notion that compulsory immunization is a benefit to society is ignorant because,
in the short term, and for as long as it exists, it is an infringement of the right of
choice and, in the long term, all it does is reduce the efficiency of the natural func-
tioning of the immune system. No doubt, if this blinkered mindset continues, there
will be compulsory examinations and tests for all conceivable illnesses because of
fear and to reduce the burgeoning cost of health.
Developing countries.
Sadly, these countries are developing into mirror images of the increasingly shameful
developed countries where the selfishness of the haves rules.
Exemplary spectators.
In the rugby test match between the Australian Wallabies and the British Isles and Ire-
land Lions played in Brisbane, Australia, last Saturday 22nd June there was, apart
from the high quality of the game, a high quality of behaviour displayed by the
50,000 spectators: there was no noticeable noise created to distract the player pre-
paring for a conversion of a try or during his lead-up to the kick - a disgraceful prac-
tice prevailing world wide in similar situations in similar sports.
Vacuity.
When it is not intellect, intelligence or outstanding positive behaviour that creates a
celebrity what does?
Simply exposure!
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Nelson Mandela.
Even the biggest trees must fall; unless he wishes otherwise let him die peacefully
without the pointless indignities of modern medical practice.
Guantanamo prison.
Keep it open. It is needed - the U.S.A. will see to it.
Misrepresented rubbish.
If the primary focus had been on retaining the original quality of food of all sorts we
would not, today, be consuming so much misrepresented rubbish.
Crass stupidity.
If someone suggested that Obama gain a photo op with Nelson Mandela in the lat-
ters dying days it is an indication of how low one can stoop. If Obama refused this
crass tastelessness he acted with dignity and respect and if he banished the ignoramus
from his sight forever he may have done that person a favour.
Peoples tsunamis.
The vibration of molecules is the force behind a tsunami. Hence, people can create a
tsunami against anything they wish to change - it is called people power.
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Killer balloons.
Despite the awareness that exists of the carnage to wildlife in and above the oceans
caused by ordinary rubber balloons and their attachments we continue to entertain
ourselves, or celebrate, by releasing these singly and in their thousands, often with
lethal strings or ribbons attached. The media, of course, give this no publicity because
such publicity is not revenue generating.
Mind readers.
After some incident or series of incidents it is surprising how many people, including
experts, seem to know exactly what went on in the minds of those involved in the
incident or series of incidents.
Online shopping.
Five of the benefits of online shopping are:
1. Less buildings because less expensive space and equipment are required for dis-
play.
2. Considering that most purchases are from sites away from the home, with one per-
son travelling to and from for even one item at times, online purchase deliveries
from the final centre to the purchaser is done by one vehicle making multiple de-
liveries in the same distance or less.
3. Less time consuming.
4. No travel costs.
5. Less stress.
Blind faith.
Blind faith is a seed, faith is a bonsai, knowing is the tallest tree, and enlightenment is
that tree dead and reverted to its origins in the earth.
Caring. (1)
Today at the supermarket checkout I was joking to the checkout lady about having to
pull my trolley up the steep hill to my house when an acquaintance standing close by,
having overheard what I said, volunteered to take me in his car.
I am always deeply moved by such actions.
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Power and corruption.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. is an old adage but this is
true only when corruption is inherent in an individuals psyche and when that indi-
vidual lacks the strength of conscience to resist its manifestation.
See: http://themilkiswhitepart2.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/civilization-2/
Carnage in Syria.
The carnage and suffering in Syria is not only an indication of the abject spiritual
failure of all those immediately responsible but also an indication of he abject failure
of humanity as a whole and as represented by The United Nations. However, a few
will learn from this and that is a measure of success no matter how small: drops of
water make up the oceans!
Caring. (2)
I had been looking for Glucosamine tablets or capsules in the shops and had been
discussing this with a friend I meet on my morning walks. He said that he would
bring a container this morning to illustrate what he was using rather than try to de-
scribe the container.
This morning he greeted me from a fair distance away by waving something in
the air which I took to be the container. Well, it was, but it was also a large one of 200
tablets - AND it was a gift for me!
I made the point that it is the thought that counts.
Futurists.
Unfortunately, futurists seem to confine themselves to science and technology whilst
ignoring, or being unaware of, the spiritual aspect.
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Our taste in food.
In the developed world how fickle and demanding is our taste in food: gone is sim-
plicity, economy, local and seasonal.
Animal protectionists.
I wonder how many ardent animal protectionists eat animal flesh.
Being civilized.
The meanings of the word civilized are all positive as well as its concept so how can
we, who consider ourselves to be civilized, be civilized whilst doing the things we are
doing and behaving as we do?
Civilizations.
Learning about the Australian aborigine some 20,000 years ago I am struck by their
profound awareness and culture and the fact that, by comparison, the awareness and
culture of modern mankind in the first world is puny and shallow. The perceived
achievements of the latter pale into insignificance in a comparison.
The spiritual test of modern mankind was probably to continue to live with this
awareness and culture, at no cost to the Earth, with a massively increased population.
Technology.
Technology generates human wants which generate new technology making technol-
ogy self-perpetuating e.g. the car and computers.
Spiritual attitudes.
Numerous spiritual attitudes are, in modern culture, considered negative.
Excessive profit.
The drivers of the excessive profits so manifest today are the shareholders and the
stock markets.
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Motivation.
Two motivators of mental or physical action are fear and a sense of essential morality.
The first is of no spiritual benefit and the second is.
Note: The situation of flight or fight is irrelevant here because it is to do with living
and dying which are of no spiritual importance in themselves.
One-eyed.
We applaud and look up to a nations material accomplishments but ignore or cannot
see its moral turpitude.
Gourmet food.
Gourmet food can be considered an entitlement but from a bountifully finite Earth
and as long as there is no one starving.
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The grand red carpet.
The grand red carpet, now, often, a hundred times bigger than it used to be, is an indi-
cation of inflated egos and money being wasted.
Communication.
People are not thinking about what they are saying and neither are television script
writers. This is evidenced by rampant repetition of meaning.
In many other respects too the speaker/writer is not reviewing the communica-
tion for clarity and definition.
Is the brain changing?
Cities.
Cities are the creators of much intellectual ignorance about nature and how it ac-
commodates and entertains us.
Illness paranoia.
We are actively cultivating illness paranoia whereas, if we were spiritually aware, we
would be acting with the wisdom of awareness.
Speculation.
Speculation about aspects of
life is a waste of time unless a result is known or is a high probability, in which event
one can apply the moul to plan or implement. However, if the moul continues to
speculate without conclusion confusion and stress will result and both confusion and
stress are non-productive as well as being negative in every respect.
Statesmen.
It is significant that in a world of some seven billion people there is no one who even
remotely approaches the stature of Nelson Mandela. This is a sad indictment of the
majority of those occupying this Earth during the last century; a period during which
morality has plummeted, across the planet, where our civilization has touched the
people.
Crying - tears.
What silly taboo makes people ashamed of crying?
Lifestyle aspiration.
Unfortunately, in the developed and developing worlds, the standard used for what
people need is the aspirational, increasingly costly, seen as de rigueur lifestyle so ar-
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dently pursued by so many - those many searching for the literal and metaphorical
pot of gold at the bottom of the elusive rainbow.
No need to conform.
Where there is someone we know well and, therefore, whose condition we know
quite well, we do not, for the sake of keeping up appearances, need to enquire of
others as to the state of that persons health, particularly where the person in question
keeps us informed of their state of health when they feel it necessary.
Human health.
The human race, or at least the developed part of it, is not actually getting healthier.
The illusion is created by the use of vast quantities of mainly inorganic pharmaceuti-
cals.
Pointing a gun.
In the middle of the twentieth century, and before, one never pointed a gun at anyone.
This was drilled into gun users for the obvious reason that there was always the pos-
sibility that it was loaded and that it could fire. These days I do not know what the
practice actually is but on television promotions and advertisements and the like star-
ing down the barrel of a gun is commonplace for the viewer - something likely to
give the wrong impression to the young in particular.
Clear communication.
Often, to someone with a low level of literacy the wish for clarity of communication
by another is pedantic.
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Thank goodness.
Inventions.
Anyone can invent something but everyone decides what to do with it. For example
take the wheel and explosives.
Time.
Attachment to things past is pointless because each time has its purpose although
time itself is a mirage.
What to eat.
Unlike humans other animals usually know what to eat for their own good.
Human mentality.
Human mentality is at an all time low unless it is proportionately as it always has
been. If it is the former we are on a slippery-slide to nowhere and if the latter we have
not advanced spiritually in millennia.
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Shooting wildlife.
Shooting wildlife is egocentricity.
Money.
The necessity to pay for things creates and fosters an elite which is self perpetuating.
Traffic congestion.
What is the extreme traffic congestion on the roads in developed and developing
countries a sign of - what does this indicate - a juggernaut?
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Technological trap.
We are in a technological trap: there is so much dangerous, or potentially dangerous,
to life and health that is constantly being developed and allowed to be used that we
are incapable of monitoring it to make wise choices. In this environment some of us
carry on uncaringly, others in blissful ignorance, yet others with aggravation and oth-
ers still just do their best.
Award winners.
It is remarkable how many award winners there are - a veritable plethora of them -
and it seems that anyone quoted, described or otherwise referred to in the media has
to be an award winner to be worth anything.
Stones in rice.
Anyone who has had the misfortune to bite a stone whilst eating rice in some form
will know the feeling: the crack that sounds as if teeth have broken and reverberates
inside the skull, the shock, the feeling of wanting to immediately get rid of the pieces
- to spit them out.
This is the feeling, though not literally, I get when I come across unwarranted
foul language in someones writing.
Cost.
People in general plus governments, businesses etc. prioritise pecuniary cost although
the most important cost is that to Earth without which any costs are irrelevant.
The economy.
If one thinks that the economy is more important than people because it provides for
people one has to just look at the state of the under privileged in countries with
strong, or relatively strong, economies.
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Spiritual awareness.
Some Earthlings, despite an advanced level of awareness of the Reality, live mundane
lives with little or no apparent interest or awareness of spiritual matters. This is often
because they have a temporary higher priority of eliminating, through worldly expe-
riences, attachments which are holding back overall spiritual growth.
Aging.
The aging of the body is a part of the spiritual experience and, therefore, spiritual
growth so accept and accommodate it.
Robotic intelligence.
This simply means the transference of information possessed by humans to a com-
puter in, or controlling, a robot. However, human intelligence includes levels - sub
conscious and superconscious - out of reach of the mind. Hence, the information
transferred to the robot will remain incomplete because it is subject to the limitations
of the mind.
Multicultural or multiracial?
Neither of these now much used words correctly describes a society formed of a vari-
ety of races and ethnic groups so perhaps we should use the adjective human or
global to describe such a society, ethic, aspiration, attitude etc.
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Ians writings on the Internet.
To Earthling eyes the appearance of Ians writings on the Internet all started c.2000
when I said to Ian, Buy a computer. and Ian said to himself, Why do I need a com-
puter? but soon after that realised that he had learned to heed these prompts and that
he should buy a computer - which he did although he could barely afford even a used
one. Then, he mented, What am I to do with it? and later decided to attempt to put
The Milk Is White on computer while waiting to see what happened next. His trouble
was that no sooner had he started to do this than a veritable flood of quotes, as in The
Quo Vadis? File I & II, started coming to him and he was saying things like, Good
heavens, how can I handle all this? Eventually, he did manage and not only fully
transcribed the book but also set up, with no previous computer knowledge, its pages
in the format required for printing and binding. Additionally, he started The Quo
Vadis? File III.
Thereafter, until c.2007, he was generously given the use of equipment in a
printing/binding shop to print, collate and bind the pages of the book, for the cost of
materials only, until c.2007 when his daughter and a friend of hers decided to pay for
an Internet subscription for him and it was from this point that he started to put his
writings into numerous websites, one at a time.
In doing this he was reminded of a thought he had when completing the book,
or on its completion, that he had in his hands (metaphorically speaking) a beautiful,
white, fantail dove which he launched into the air from his cupped hands to settle
where it would.
Language.
Today I heard a TV presenter ask someone, What is your decision making for doing
that? instead of the simple and explicit, Why do you do that? - five words instead
of one!
This sort of speech is now commonplace and seems to demonstrate faulty
thought processes because any thinking person would be aware, at the time or in ret-
rospect, of what is coming out of their mouth and would endeavour to keep it clear
and simple. Is this progress or is the human brain being adversely affected in some
way?
Little boxes.
When people think of themselves as a good Christian or Buddhist or Muslim or
Hindu or whatever they are simply compartmentalising themselves; putting them-
selves into a little box with a label when all they need to do is be a good person.
Environment protection.
There are big demonstrations against Russia searching/drilling for oil in the arctic
ocean but how many of those protesting have minimised their use of petroleum and
plastics?
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Experts.
As an example: The Pope makes a pronouncement or states something important and
so-called experts state, I think he means . . . or He means . . . without having ac-
cess to him or his mind. The opinion of the experts often lodges, even subliminally, in
the mind of many as fact and is, therefore, attributed to the Pope.
Skyscrapers.
The higher they go the less we have our feet on the ground.
Winning.
Where self-worth is dependant on winning there is weakness of character.
Service or greed?
In charging for a product or service these days it far too often seems that the criterion
is, How much can I make? instead of, How much is fair?
Communication breakdown.
The challenge of clear communication. Since it seems that the old standard of the
written word, and, therefore, the spoken word, the text of books now having been
widely superseded by that of texting we have a challenge to re-establish and maintain
clear communication before those in the English speaking areas suffer communica-
tion breakdown - something, it seems, the majority of those who matter are not aware
of. Such a breakdown could be catastrophic though not as catastrophic as climate
change or simply irrelevant in that very probable event.
2. I got to know a Kahuna Master as he was called and he, one day, attended a spiri-
tual group meeting I held in my home and was seated on a settee next to me. At one
point during the morning, when I was bending forward slightly, he put his clenched
fist in the middle of my back, it it with his other fist and said to me, Now it will be
alright! without interrupting proceedings.
What no one there knew, and what was of no particular concern to me, was that
I had some relatively minor chest problem - nuisance value - which did get better.
Whether he cured it or I did I cannot say but it is undeniable that he was aware of it
without being told!
3. A couple of months after my total shoulder replacement I was at the veterinary sur-
geons surgery and was introduced to a lady who had qualified as a veterinary sur-
geon but had found an affinity for reiki (I think it was) and decided to practice as a
reiki veterinarian. She put an arm round my shoulders when talking to me and then
said, Resistance! and smiled. Later I realised that she was instinctively aware that I
did not really like the metal in my body - a foreign body in my shoulder although I
accepted, superficially anyway, the necessity for it and the circumstances in which it
all came about - essentially out of my control!
Sainthood.
No religious leader or personality who really knows or understands the spiritual reali-
ty would allow themselves to be declared a saint.