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November 2, 2007

“the management measures for the reincarnation of living Buddhas in Tibetan Buddhism.”

China’s State Administration of Religious Affairs announced Order No. 5, a law covering “the management measures for the reincarnation of living Buddhas in Tibetan Buddhism.” This “important move to institutionalize management on reincarnation” basically prohibits Buddhist monks from returning from the dead without government permission: no one outside China can influence the reincarnation process; only monasteries in China can apply for permission.

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November 10, 2007

In or out?

I have experienced a place in which I think that I have moved outside the box, only to find myself in a different box. In a way, this validates my theory that the box exists nowhere but within our minds and is designed to keep us from becoming who we really are.

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November 14, 2007

an interesting perspective - I think

Translated by me, written by a german journalist

Two thousand years after the birth of Christ, 1400 years after Mohammed, new religion pervades hearts and minds of the western world. This religion is climaticism. It was created using wikipedia, without any involvement of Moses or Saint Peter, cause here everyone is an expert on sacred scripts and everyone is enlightened.

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To say some more about this:

"Let's quote Carl Popper, who himself quotes Aristotle and David Human: "All theories are hypothesis, all can be overthrown. The science game from definition is endless. One who decided to stop doubting the scientific mechanism is out." To Popper's words it can be added that anyone who believes blindly in his own conviction starts an outdated game which, since renaissance and the age of enlightenment, is played only in the house of God, where believe and certainty are one."

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November 16, 2007

Face to face with different reality

I had a breakfast today with a man who served in US army special forces. His job was to train foreign governments on how to take down rebels and underground fighters, or to train rebels and underground fighters on how to take down government. Did you know that a small country can be overtaken within 48 hours by 25 well trained man? Well, he would be one of those men that could do the overtaking.

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November 18, 2007

How may I Help You?

Having prevailed after navigating energetic doldrums three times in four months, a few things have come to light. They now seem incredibly obvious, but evidently they were not so earlier, else I would not have been in the doldrums in the first place. And though they seem obvious and even simple, that does not mean that they are necessarily easy to achieve.

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November 20, 2007

but why is the rum gone?!

Have you ever noticed that you don't seem to be growing "evenly", that, while having a great spiritual practice, your every day life sort of doesn't work? There is never enough money, you never quite get a chance to do what you would like to do (if you even know what that is), and I will not even get started on relationships!

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November 27, 2007

Be careful what you ask for!

I asked for questions and I sure got them :)

To see them (questions) please take a look at the comments section of "Why is the rum gone" post. It ends with: "I lived about a half of this short life and I still have no idea who am I, what am I, what is the reason I live here and why is this all happening, and I still haven't found one valuable thing in this world, so how can I decide or choose anything knowingly."

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