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Mindfulness Bell

If you've wandered here wanting to know what Zen is, then more than likely you will come away disappointed. This is a question that is easily asked but not easily answered. A Hindu story tells of a fish who asked of another fish: "I have always heard about the sea, but what is it? Where is it?"

Zen@MetaLab

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Alan Watts - Wikiquote

The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing. I am amazed that Congressmen can pass a bill imposing severe penalties on anyone who burns the American flag, whereas they are responsible for burning that for which the flag stands. You take your classified telephone directory, and open up "Churches", and have a ruler in your hand. And you will find that the longest space is occupied by authoritarian, Bible-banging churches.

Personality Types » The Human Mind

While listing personality disorders is a fairly simple and straight-forward matter, listing personality types is infinitely more complex. When talking of personality types we enter the field of theories... and there are several good ones! One of the most interesting theories is Keirsey's Temperament Sorter, inspired by Hippocrates' and Plato 's ancient studies of temperament. The 16 types which result from the 4 temperaments correlate with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)*, which is based on the typological theories by Carl Gustav Jung .

http://www.deepspirits.com/mind/personality/types.php

The Udumbara flower was found in the home of a Chinese nun in Lushan Mountain, Jiangxi province, China. The rare Youtan Poluo or Udumbara flower, which, according to Buddhist legend, only blooms every 3,000 years, measures just 1mm in diametre. Miao Wei, 50, was cleaning when she discovered the cluster of white flowers under the washing machine. At first she thought the barely-there stems were worm eggs, however, the next day she discovered that the stems had grown 18 white tiny flowers on top and smelled "fragrant". Local temples believe the mini blooms are specimens of the miraculous Youtan Poluo flower - called "Udumbara" or "Udambara" in Sanskrit, meaning "an auspicious flower from heaven."

http://current.com/green/92251410_buddhist-flower-that-blooms-once-every-3000-years-discovered-under-nuns-washing-machine.htm

Buddhist flower that blooms once every 3000 years discovered under nun's washing machine // Current

http://www.tribalmessenger.org/headlines/maslow-self-actualized-traits.htm

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This is the need we may call self-actualization ... referring to a person's desire for fulfillment, namely to the tendency to become actually what we are potentially ..." Realistically oriented, a Self-Actualizing (SA) person has a more efficient perception of reality, and has comfortable relations with it. This is extended to all areas of life.

Maslow, The qualities of the superior true human being

Rooting For Swarm Intelligence In Plants - Science News

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Space Zen: Will Humans' Brains Change During Travel in Outer Space? -A Galaxy Insight

In February, 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell experienced the little understood phenomenon sometimes called the “Overview Effect”. He describes being completely engulfed by a profound sense of universal connectedness. Without warning, he says, a feeing of bliss, timelessness, and connectedness began to overwhelm him. He describes becoming instantly and profoundly aware that each of his constituent atoms were connected to the fragile planet he saw in the window and to every other atom in the Universe. He described experiencing an intense awareness that Earth, with its humans, other animal species, and systems were all one synergistic whole. He says the feeling that rushed over him was a sense of interconnected euphoria.

Kalama Sutta

Kalama Sutta The people of Kalama asked the Buddha who to believe out of all the ascetics, sages, venerables, and holy ones who, like himself, passed through their town. They complained that they were confused by the many contradictions they discovered in what they heard. The Kalama Sutta is the Buddha's reply. Do not believe in what you have fancied, thinking that, because it is extraordinary, it must have been inspired by a god or other wonderful being. But, whatever, after thorough investigation and reflection, you find to agree with reason and experience, as conducive to the good and benefit of one and all and of the world at large, accept only that as true, and shape your life in accordance with it.

David Lynch: Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain

Theories about how we handle discomfort

Brain innately separates living and non-living objects for processing (8/17/2009)

http://www.brainmysteries.com/research/Brain_innately_separates_living_and_non-living_objects_for_processing.asp

For unknown reasons, the human brain distinctly separates the handling of images of living things from images of non-living things, processing each image type in a different area of the brain. For years, many scientists have assumed the brain segregated visual information in this manner to optimize processing the images themselves, but new research shows that even in people who have been blind since birth the brain still separates the concepts of living and non-living objects. The research, published in today's issue of Neuron , implies that the brain categorizes objects based on the different types of subsequent consideration they demand-such as whether an object is edible, or is a landmark on the way home, or is a predator to run from. They are not categorized entirely by their appearance.

In addition to the the titles listed below, Thanissaro Bhikkhu has also translated into English many books by masters of the Thai forest traditions, including Upasika Kee Nanayon and Ajaans Lee , Fuang , and Maha Boowa . An anthology of his sutta translations is available in a four-volume series of books entitled Handful of Leaves, distributed by the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies . He has also prepared a number of Study Guides on various topics of interest to Buddhist practitioners. Books which are available free of charge in printed form are marked thus:

Thanissaro Bhikkhu: (Geoffrey DeGraff)

A Basic Buddhism Guide: Rebirth

There are three possible answers to this question. Those who believe in a god or gods usually claim that before an individual is created, he does not exist, then he comes into being through the will of a god. He lives his life and then, according to what he believes or does during his life, he either goes to eternal heaven or eternal hell. There are others, humanists and scientists, who claim that the individual comes into being at conception due to natural causes, lives and then at death, ceases to exist. Buddhism does not accept either of these explanations. The first gives rise to many ethical problems.

A Warm Embrace - The Great Bell Chant (The End of Suffering) on Vimeo

There's a reason why most people don't consider parapsychology a real science: the methods are usually suspect and the results are usually crazy. But a leading social journal is publishing a paper proving that people can predict the future , and this time, the research is solid. Precognition is the ability to accurately predict future events without having any information about those events, and it's impossible. If it weren't impossible, it would mean that there was some kind of totally bizarre violation of the rules of time and space going on.

Scientist proves that humans are psychic | DVICE

Jhana2DoLists

I am the owner of my karma; I am born of my karma; I live supported by my karma; I will inherit my karma; whatever I do, whether good or evil, that I will inherit. 6. Realizing that it takes a boundless consciousness to be aware of a boundless space, switch your attention to to your consciousness of the boundless space. 7.