If You Don't Like Learning...

Confucius said:


If you like humaneness but don't like learning, it degenerates into folly.
If you like knowledge but don't like learning, it degenerates into looseness.
If you like trust but don't like learning, it degenerates into depredation.
If you like honesty but don't like learning, it degenerates into stricture.
If you like bravery but don't like learning, it degenerates into disorder.
If you like strength but don't like learning, it degenerates into wildness.

Nine Thoughts

Confucius said:


Cultivated People Have Nine Thoughts.

When they look, they think of how to see clearly.
When they listen, they think of how to hear keenly.
In regard to their appearance, they think of how to be warm.
In their demeanor, they think of how to be respectful.
In their speech, they think of how to be truthful.
In their work, they think of how to be serious.
When in doubt, they think of how to pose questions.
When angry, they think of trouble.
When they see gain to be had, they think of justice.

What surprised the Dalai Lama most about humanity?

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Self-Destruction

The true meaning of a culture based on guns (and weapons)...Self-destruction!

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Only After the Last...Only After We Have Lost...We Will Learn!

Only after the last tree has been cut down
Only after the last river has been poisoned
Only after the last fish has been caught
Only then you will find out that money cannot be eaten.
(Cree Indian Prophecy)


(Picture: a majestic looking tree in the Walyunga National Park, a significant aboriginal campsite, WA, Australia - Nat)

The World is All Gates...

"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)





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Fly or Crawl?

We can all fly...but we choose or are forced to crawl!






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Gate of Hope for All (Rumi)

"Come, Come again !
Whatever you are...
Whether you are infidel,
idolater or fireworshipper.
Whether you have broken your vows
of repentance a hundred times
This is not the gate of despair,
This is the gate of hope.
Come, come again..."

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The Tao of Lao Tzu

"The Tao is like a well:
used but never used up.
It is like the eternal void:
filled with infinite possibilities.

It is hidden but always present.
I don’t know who gave birth to it.
It is older than God."

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Dreaming and Being Awake!

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The Moving Finger Writes On...

"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."

-Omar Khayyam

7 Random Lessons

Learning From Silence

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Awaken Your "The Mother Mind"

Zulu Sangoma (healer) Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa calls on all human beings to awaken the mother mind, that part of human consciousness that feels what is happening in the world. (By Global Oneness Project)

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How Not To Govern/Dictator's Survival Guide

Dictator's Survival Guide (or How Not To Govern)

> Crush all protests as soon as possible
> Consolidate all security forces, especially the military, under one command
> Apply divide and rule techniques among dissidents and the public

> Show no sympathy toward any dissent
> Never negotiate with opponents
> Pay no attention to pressure or suggestions from the international community

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See:

http://irrawaddy.org/opinion_story.php?art_id=20787

Being Oneself Within a Community

Taking the Path With a Heart

Remembering Dhanushkodi

See: Remembering Dhanushkodi