musing the buddha...

[uki]

enlighten yourself and enjoy the peaceful music... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntWOFW9eVM0

kinda makes you wonder about some things - why the red chinese aggression into tibet... what are they looking for?? is there a hidden valley that the lama's guard? do lama's really levitate?? why would someone make up a story of levitating lama's?? why the crackdown on falun gong - what is so threatening about it's practice?? DNA, genetic engineering, enlightenment, taoist alchemical transmutation concepts... seems everything in life begins to wind it's way back to the manifesting understanding that we are not alone. once this reality is embraced, it begins to become easier to understand exactly how and why higher intelligence and wisdom was passed along from the "heavens" and why there are so many wars designed to keep the truth from us - there is great change coming my friends.

[David Jamieson]

chaotic ramblings of a man half awake?

[uki]

Originally Posted by David Jamieson

chaotic ramblings of a man half awake?

i can't imagine someone such as yourself not having a grasp of the information plainly and clearly present in view for the whole world to see... if the truth got any closer to your face it would stick you in the eye.

[David Jamieson]

we all get to die eventually.

enjoy your ability to suck in the air and feel the sun on your face.

what's more important?

[uki]

Originally Posted by David Jamieson

we all get to die eventually.

better to die with a freed mind rather than an imprisoned soul.

enjoy your ability to suck in the air and feel the sun on your face.

this is why it's time to free the prisoners and those who are oppressed thru out the world... the truth will set you free - information is light, light is truth. how many people do not have the ability to take for granted their liberty and freedom?? how many live in fear and ignorance? as long as people live in fear, they will remain slaves of the planets current masters.

what's more important?

to ride the wave of change when it comes...

[Dragonzbane76]

glad you have such belief.

good to have something.

of course this isn't my belief. I associate all religions into one big ball of "why the world is FU<Ked up" If we didn't have religions then this would be a much nicer place. But you always have some idiot out there pushing his religion on people and then the people don't want it and then before you know it someone is dead and then the cycle is started.

I'll state the same thing I tell the mormon kids that come around. "keep your voodoo to yourselves, I want no part of it."

[MasterKiller]

[SPJ]

Originally Posted by uki

enlighten yourself and enjoy the peaceful music... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntWOFW9eVM0

kinda makes you wonder about some things - why the red chinese aggression into tibet... what are they looking for?? why the crackdown on falun gong - what is so threatening about it's practice??

1. Tibet had some religion freedom initially, till cultural revolution. mind you, it was a slavery system.--- if president lincoln was to free the slaves, why tibet should not be freed of a multi-century old slavery system dating back to thousand of years ago.

2. fa lun practice as an individual persuit. no body cares what you do at home. but when they started to gather huge mass of crowd and showed up in tian an men square-- president jiang zhe ming saw that was a threat to CPC just as he saw student uprising in 89 as a threat to the party--

3. tang dynasty, buddhism flourished b/c it was a prosperous, techonology advanced, literature abounding--- society, b/c people were well fed and rich, they had time to persue religion luxuries, architech fancies etc etc

even Japan sent 3000 students to learn from tang including buddhism

shaolin temple flourished, too (sponsored by the government of tang with imperial decree)

and so are kung fu--

shaolin warrior monks or fighting monks-- (paid and salaried by the governemnt of tang)

tried to keep the thread on topic with kung fu--

---

[SPJ]

Originally Posted by SPJ

1. Tibet had some religion freedom initially, till cultural revolution. mind you, it was a slavery system.--- if president lincoln was to free the slaves, why tibet should not be freed of a multi-century old slavery system dating back to thousand of years ago.

2. fa lun practice as an individual persuit. no body cares what you do at home. but when they started to gather huge mass of crowd and showed up in tian an men square-- president jiang zhe ming saw that was a threat to CPC just as he saw student uprising in 89 as a threat to the party--

3. tang dynasty, buddhism flourished b/c it was a prosperous, techonology advanced, literature abounding--- society, b/c people were well fed and rich, they had time to persue religion luxuries, architech fancies etc etc

even Japan sent 3000 students to learn from tang including buddhism

shaolin temple flourished, too (sponsored by the government of tang with imperial decree)

and so are kung fu--

shaolin warrior monks or fighting monks-- (paid and salaried by the governemnt of tang)

tried to keep the thread on topic with kung fu--

---

my point and question is that

why a government favoring and supporting shaolin buddhism in tang dynasty?

and why a government banning the fa lun buddhist group?

why China left tibet alone with a religious and slavery system for so long?

and why the slavery system was abolished by CPC in the 1950s?

--

hint: all religious status or official/lama were all approved and appointed by the government and had the financial support of a government.

the state and the church were always close thru out human history---

[Scott R. Brown]

Originally Posted by Dragonzbane76

glad you have such belief.

good to have something.

of course this isn't my belief. I associate all religions into one big ball of "why the world is FU<Ked up" If we didn't have religions then this would be a much nicer place. But you always have some idiot out there pushing his religion on people and then the people don't want it and then before you know it someone is dead and then the cycle is started.

I'll state the same thing I tell the mormon kids that come around. "keep your voodoo to yourselves, I want no part of it."

The blame does not belong on religion. It is humans that take things and screw them up. If religion wasn't used to manipulate humans they would be manipulated by something else like the H1N1 virus, or global warming, or those dirty Huns at the border just waiting to invade .........

There is nothing wrong with religion in and of itself, it is when people decide to force, coerce or harass others into their beliefs that problems arise and this applies to things other than religions too, such as global warming, over-population, Universal healthcare, etc.

[David Jamieson]

Self absorption, avarice, greed, lack of compassion, apathy, fear, ignorance, superstition, indifference.

These are some of what makes society at times intolerable.

We offset what is wrong, by bringing what is right. Not by waiting for something to happen so we can join in.

You gotta play the song for the people, not for yourself.

You gotta give for the sake of giving, not with the expectation of return.

Religion is not a problem. Who has actually tried to force religion on you?
And when? As a child? Well we all know what happens when we let children run their own lives lol (lord of the flies).

I always chuckle when people say religion is the problem. NO it's not. People are the problem. Negative minded, bitter, greedy, atavistic people are the problem.

Not religion. It's because people aren't in touch with the higher power that there is a problem.

If everyone just did their own thing, the world would be a great big somalia.

screw that.

[SPJ]

religious persuit is really a luxury

dictating time and devotion--

for most people

a waltz or a song or a poem or a drink that is already enough

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zp18...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lScICyLP8rg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17xITfor4nc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTBPg...eature=related

--

a break away of the hustle and bustle, ups and downs of

our mundane life.

1000 working common folks supporting only one monk.

how many tibetan farmers have to work and bring food to support one tibetan monk clerk?

or if everybody is a monk and who is going to work on the farm?

?????

[uki]

this is where the study of mycology and symbiotic relationships between living organisms comes into play - it's true that many folks attempt to form a parasitic relationship with others... a quick glance around modernized society and it's no secret that most everyone is vying in getting more for less.

in a symbiotic relationship there is a mutally beneficial exchange of energy - those organisms involved become inter-dependent on one another... this concept applied to the economy results in a barter system.

[taai gihk yahn]

I like to first boil the Buddha to get him soft, and then using one of those meat tenderizer hammers and a large ceramic bowl, I...

oh; musing; not mushing...

never mind...

[Hardwork108]

Originally Posted by David Jamieson

we all get to die eventually.

enjoy your ability to suck in the air and feel the sun on your face.

what's more important?

Spiritual evolution, perhaps?