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DOKKODO (THE PATH OF ALONENESS)

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The “Dokkōdō” (Japanese: 独行道?) (“The Path of Aloneness”,  “The Way of Walking Alone“), is a short work written by Miyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵) a week before he died in 1645.

Precepts:

  1. Accept everything just the way it is.
  2. Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.
  3. Do not give preference to anything among all things.
  4. Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.
  5. Be detached from desire your whole life.
  6. Do not regret what you have done.
  7. Never be jealous.
  8. Never let yourself be saddened by a separation.
  9. Resentment and complaint are appropriate neither for oneself nor others.
  10. Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love.
  11. Do not seek elegance and beauty in all things.
  12. Be indifferent to where you live.
  13. Do not pursue the taste of good food.
  14. Do not hold on to possessions you no longer need.
  15. Do not act following customary beliefs.
  16. Do not collect weapons or practice with weapons beyond what is useful.
  17. Do not fear death.
  18. Do not seek to possess either goods or fiefs for your old age.
  19. Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help.
  20. You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honor.
  21. Never stray from the Way.
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CELEBRATE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE DAY

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Follow the cities and states who have stopped celebrating Columbus Day and celebrate, instead, “Indigenous People’s Day.”

Are you afraid that an “Alien Invasion” might wipe out the human race?  Are you concerned about Armageddon?  Are you afraid that looming signs of the “End of Days” are all around you?  Do you think the NWO may be planning your extermination to reduce population?  Well, meet some people whose ancestors already experienced it.  There are a few of them still living among us.

 Learn more about the culture and history of the original citizens of the American Continents, before they were hunted almost into extinction by the Caucasian European Invasion.  Before Columbus, The Spanish Conquistadors, The Pilgrims and the hordes of ignorant, filthy, greedy Caucasian European Invaders migrated in their blood-thirsty millions to the Americas there were estimated to be 100 Million people already living here.  Caucasian Europeans systematically set about slaughtering every man, woman, child on the entire continent with guns, fire and blankets infested with small pox.

Visit the wonderful website below to experience some of the majesty, dignity, beauty and pain of those indigenous people.

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Pictures/American-Indians-00.html

Follow the cities and states who have stopped celebrating Columbus Day and celebrate, instead, “Indigenous People’s Day.”

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FACTS vs POSSIBILITIES

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e-squared-smaller“I have a friend who shall not be named that regularly accuses me of being a pie-in-the-sky Pollyanna. She thinks talking only about the good and the beautiful is denying facts. But here’s my position. “Facts” are not that interesting. I much prefer discussing possibilities. Sure those studies, those government reports, those doctors’ prognoses declare what she might call irrefutable “facts.” But to me, they’re nothing but a catapult for something better. I believe the most important faculty we possess is our imagination, and that by aligning it with the field of infinite potentiality, we can create something so much better than “current facts.”

Harping on about “current facts” just calls in more of the same. To waste our time on “appearances” is denying the power we have to change things for the better. I would much rather deny “facts” than deny my own ability to imagine something better. My words are the seeds that plant the possibilities. We can continue to focus on “what is” or “what appears to be,” or we can focus on what we can better imagine. “What is” is simply what we’ve been focusing on. “What could be” is much more interesting. At least to me.” — Pam Grout, Author of  E-Squared: 9 Do-it-Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality.

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REALITY IN FLATLAND

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Here is some interesting food for thought from Thomas Campbell’s My Big TOE (Theory of Everything):

“If you have read Flatland, it will be clear that the ordinary residents of a given reality can only observe and understand interactions within their own reality and the interactions of residents of realities that are more highly constrained than their own.  Residents of a more constrained reality cannot comprehend a less constrained reality because it lies beyond the limits of their normal perception.  

Each dimension of reality has its own rules that define its objective science.  Additionally, each dimension of reality experiences the next higher (less limited) dimension as subjective and mystical.  Consequently, your mysticism may be another’s science: It depends on how big a picture you live and work in, and the degree to which restraints limit your perception.  The perspective from the next higher dimension provides a bigger picture with a more complete understanding.  This more comprehensive, complete, and less restrictive knowledge is only accessible to lower dimensional beings (those with a more constrained awareness) through the experience of their individual locally-subjective mind. 

Consequently, a mystic could be a scientist from a higher dimension, or a delusional fool hopelessly caught in a distorted web of belief.  How do you know which is which?  A good question! ”

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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. Writing pseudonymously as “a Square”,Abbott used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to offer pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. However, the novella’s more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.