tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60851652155752697192024-03-14T05:33:29.442+00:00THIS WEEK'S PROJECTPROJECTS ARE TOOLS TO BE USED TO BRING THE FUTURE INTO THE PRESENT AND MAKE IT BETTER.Universal Octopushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14414202273180842342noreply@blogger.comBlogger134125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-77401326931520428932019-06-15T17:27:00.000+01:002019-07-20T11:18:55.907+01:00NOAH (KNOWING)<h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #002451; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Time drifts away,</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><span style="border: 0px; color: #002451; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">as mist fades on the mountain.</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><span style="border: 0px; color: #002451; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The world itself is hardly more substantial.</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><span style="border: 0px; color: #002451; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The living water springing</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><span style="border: 0px; color: #002451; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">from life’s fountain runs dry,</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><span style="border: 0px; color: #002451; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">leaving discarded bones</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><span style="border: 0px; color: #002451; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">bleaching in the sun.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #002451; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Molecules of arms and legs and brain</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><span style="border: 0px; color: #002451; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">are rebels all and would be free again</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><span style="border: 0px; color: #002451; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and the whole pageant of our days and hours</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><span style="border: 0px; color: #002451; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">runs only till we lose our feeble powers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #002451; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We are children playing out our days</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><span style="border: 0px; color: #002451; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">with sandcastles and fantasies</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><span style="border: 0px; color: #002451; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">until the turning of the tide slides in to erase</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><span style="border: 0px; color: #002451; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">what we have worked so hard to raise,</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><span style="border: 0px; color: #002451; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">struggled to protect and called our own –</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><span style="border: 0px; color: #002451; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">fragments of things, at very best on loan.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #002451; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Upward our thoughts might usefully aspire;</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><span style="border: 0px; color: #002451; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">nothing down here needs building any higher.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #002451; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Deal justly with your neighbour</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><span style="border: 0px; color: #002451; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and make of him your friend</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><span style="border: 0px; color: #002451; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and, in your inner garden, labour</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><span style="border: 0px; color: #002451; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">until you reach your end.</span></span></div>
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Universal Octopushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14414202273180842342noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-20777503683724061032018-05-08T08:21:00.000+01:002018-07-21T08:15:37.146+01:00NEW PROJECT "WHAT TRAIN ARE YOU ON?"<br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“PROJECT”</b> Etymology: “throwing something in front”. Like
throwing a marker in the sand. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
idea is setting a goal and working towards it. Animals don’t normally do this
consciously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Humans do.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> To do it, you need to</span> <u><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">have</span></u><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> a
goal. And you need to know what it is.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> You also need to follow steps which lead</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <u>to</u></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> that goal and not away from
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if you don’t (or maybe can’t)</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><u><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">choose</span></u><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> destinations, you may be drawn
along by the whims of ever-changing desires. Or blown along by the winds of
karma or the will of others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
“train journey” is a metaphor. The destination is the goal. The stations you
pass through are the necessary route to your goal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Winning the Lottery is a good
example of trains and stations. “<i>If you’re not in, you can’t win</i>”, is the
slogan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">That is, you have to buy a
ticket to get on the train. But you have to buy the winning ticket to get on
the right train and win.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">You
can have many, many on-going goals, short term and long term. Tea at three. A
week-end in Paris. Getting a degree. Getting married. Having a family. Retiring
to Chiengmai. Becoming a millionaire. Winning Wimbledon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But
you won’t win Wimbledon by watching tennis from an armchair. It’s the wrong
ticket. Think of all those hours of practise, the winners put in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But
for humans, all our many goals are temporary. They are not destinations in
their own right. Achieve them or not, they, too, are stations we pass through. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">These
“destinations” all turn out to be stations on the <u>real</u> train journey for
all of us. Our journey through Life. So <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“What train are you on?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This
journey does have its destination, irrespective of the intermediary stations.
If you get on the train at Birth, all stations lead to Death. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">If
you can read this, you did get on that train. This time round.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Actually,
it <u>is</u> possible to choose not to get on at Birth. But, having got on, it
is <u>not</u> possible to choose <u>not</u> to end up at Death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This
time round.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This
is where our Projects came in. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This Week’s
Project</i> began for us, it seems, on the 12<sup>th</sup> of February 1986. It
was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Communication.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
intention was to encourage a happy, harmless and profitable Life, which would
unravel real Truth and not end up just in Death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There
have been quite a few sharers in our Projects over the years and some seem have
fallen by the wayside. They chug along, in various degrees of dissatisfaction,
to the unavoidable loss of all those things that they have accumulated by
intention or default. Death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But
there <u>is</u> an alternative and there has always been. The Pursuit of Truth,
honestly practiced, reveals the existence of a train running parallel to the
train of Life and Death. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
Train to the Deathless.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There
are stations too on the track from Life to Death, which interconnect with the
track to the Deathless. If one is aware of these, one can cross the platform
and change trains at those stations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
most important one is <u>Seeing</u> the whole and real Truth and the unsatisfactoriness
of the conventional train one has been travelling on for so very long. If Seeing
is 100%, one can spontaneously change trains forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Such
a sudden realisation and total change of direction is very rare. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Subsidiary
stations offer, as it were, short-term tickets to ride on Deathlessness and
experience a more gradual acclimatisation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
key one is Ethics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since
Ethics is in tune with the Centre out of which all beings came, it means that
thoughts, words and actions based on Ethics are not hostile towards any of
those beings. And they are in harmony with Nature, in which all beings have
their existence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One
can also obtain a temporary ticket on the basis of keeping Precepts or
Commandments. But these depend on learning and knowledge and determination.
They are therefore second-hand. They may be erroneous. Whereas Seeing is
immediate, first-hand and effortless.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>What
<u>is</u> on your plate?</i> <i>Even language itself is unnecessary. Just look!</i></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>What
train <u>are</u> you on? Intentionally or otherwise. Just look.</i></span></h4>
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<br />Universal Octopushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14414202273180842342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-50280057420148954152017-12-05T12:23:00.000+00:002017-12-05T12:28:27.375+00:00A FORK IN THE ROAD...<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">FOUR STAGES of Man - FINAL COMMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ethics is the final <u>preliminary</u> to the human destiny stage.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Of itself, it can take a human all the way to freedom from suffering. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One step further is Awakening. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Centre itself. The function of the tentacle is, therefore, just to see
accurately, so that the Centre sees accurately. It is then the Centre, with all
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can do! <i>or even</i> Nothing can be done!), accurate <u>seeing</u> is all
that is required. The resources of the Centre <u>respond</u>. The burden of
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Universal Octopushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14414202273180842342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-16492861759746291862017-08-15T10:00:00.000+01:002018-11-05T12:46:39.908+00:00STAGE ONE: EGG (NOT BIOLOGICAL)<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Made to his
mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Full of
strange oaths and bearded like the pard,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jealous in
honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Seeking the
bubble reputation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Even in the
cannon's mouth. And then the justice,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">In fair round
belly with good capon lined,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">With eyes
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Full of wise
saws and modern instances;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">And so he
plays his part. The sixth age shifts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Into the lean
and slippered pantaloon,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">With
spectacles on nose and pouch on side;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">His youthful
hose, well saved, a world too wide<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">For his shrunk
shank, and his big manly voice,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Turning again
toward childish treble, pipes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">And whistles
in his sound. Last scene of all,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">That ends this
strange eventful history,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Is second
childishness and mere oblivion,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sans teeth,
sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. <br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Monologue from William Shakespeare's <i>As You Like It</i>, spoken by the melancholy
Jaques in Act II Scene VII.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">He died aged
52 following a drinking binge, but he got no further than his destination, a
tombstone in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-on-Avon, which sums up the
short-sightedness of his life’s achievements. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Good friend, for Jesus' sake forebeare<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">To digg the dust enclosed heare;<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Bleste be the man that spares thes stones,</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">And curst be he that moves my bones.<br /> </span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I am the master of my fate,</span><span class="m_-3902484906247237418Apple-converted-space" style="color: #404040; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As with so many things, it is the ego that gets in the way of exemplary behaviour. Non-exemplary behaviour involves putting oneself first without having a good reason to do so. This can be wilful - people stealing or deliberately choosing the biggest portion. Or it can be unconscious or unintentional - people being loud without consideration for others on the train.<br /><br />It is the tentacle not realising it is part of the Centre. If one is aware of the connection, then exemplary behaviour is automatic - it doesn’t require deliberation, just as the different parts of the body automatically work together for the common good.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <strong>KARMA </strong>PROJECT showed it <u>can</u> be done. Take over the causes and the effects take care of themselves (Diet and lose weight?)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The current PROJECT, <strong>EXEMPLARY BEHAVIOUR</strong>,<strong> </strong>shows what <u>should</u> be done in order to be happy and help others be happy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next project indicates the route to humanity's destiny. <b><i>-Gnome</i></b></span></blockquote>
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PRELUDE TO NEXT PROJECT: <a href="http://universaloctopus.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SEVEN-AGES-OF-MAN.pdf">SEVEN AGES OF MAN</a> </i></h2>
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</span>Universal Octopushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14414202273180842342noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-49916023952852715562017-06-03T08:51:00.001+01:002017-08-12T18:08:26.704+01:00KARMA<div>
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<span style="background-color: #fffeef; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><i><span style="color: #444444;">If you have been clearing your In-tray, you are ready to take advantage of the New Project. If you haven’t been clearing your In-tray, the New Project is waiting to take advantage of you!</span></i></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you have made good use of this project, you are in a position to take advantage of the follow-up project.<br />You can take advantage of the Causal aspect of Karma instead of being eternally (yes eternally) shunted along by the Effect aspect.<br /><br />If you haven’t, if another project has just slid across the face of your computer, then you have slipped further back down the Snakes and Ladders board which is Life, through the intestines of another short snake.<br />The lower rows of the Snakes and Ladders board (from which you have emerged) are not places to linger in. They are generally engulfed in Thīna-Middha, Sloth and Torpor, and are very difficult to get out of.<br /><br />If you make it a genuine new start, you get the best of the past as a bonus. A win/win opportunity.</span></h3>
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Universal Octopushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14414202273180842342noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-21874503517679612262017-03-20T08:53:00.000+00:002018-11-06T12:22:55.305+00:00WHAT IS CONSCIENCE? CONSCIENCE IS UNFINISHED BUSINESS<h3>
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<b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">CONSCIENCE = UNFINISHED BUSINESS</span></span></b></h3>
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<b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>PROJECT COMMENT</i></span></span></b></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">CONSCIENCE:
Con = together, in common. SCIENCE = knowing, knowledge. Therefore,
Knowledge in Common, COMMON KNOWLEDGE. From deep down <u>inside</u>. Not
superficial individual or group knowledge. Compare <i>Common-sense</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Most
knowledge is concerned with My/Our best interests. <u>I</u> /<u>WE WANT IT.</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Real
COMMON KNOWLEDGE is concerned with RIGHT and WRONG. <u>IT’S NOT
YOURS.<o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So
where does the UNFINISHED BUSINESS come in?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">KNOW
is a SENSE. Just as SEE is a sense. Senses are activated when there is a
relevant OBJECT.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
do you see? I see a tree. If there were no tree, you wouldn’t see it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
do you know? What are you conscious of? Unfinished business. If there were no
unfinished business, you wouldn't know/be conscious of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Unfinished
business? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
you have started and not finished. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Uncompleted
cycles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
others have started, which it is your responsibility to finish. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Things
you have done, which you shouldn’t have done (started), and not put right (finished).
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Things
you have <u>not</u> done, which you should have done and not put right (by
doing them).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If
you see a tree and close your eyes, you will say you don’t see it. But don’t
say it isn’t there. With your eyes closed, you are likely to walk into it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If
there is unfinished business (an acorn that you planted?) and you close your
inner seeing eye, you can say you don’t see it. But don’t say it isn’t
there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The branch you
bang</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-US">your head on</span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-US">is an acorn</span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>that you
missed. </i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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off too long or the tree might become old enough and big enough to fall on top
of you!)</span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Unfinished business from the Past </span><u style="background-color: white;">creates</u><span style="background-color: white;"> the Future and leaves no </span><u style="background-color: white;">room</u><span style="background-color: white;"> for the Present. H</span><span style="color: #0c0c0c;"><span style="background-color: white;">ören Sie<span class="m_-949700238082929429Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">gut</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424;"> </span></span><span style="color: #242424;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">zu</span><span style="background-color: #fffeef;">, Mr. Eckhart?</span></span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: #fffeef; color: #242424; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">NEW PROJECT: <strong>UPDATE!</strong></span></h3>
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Universal Octopushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14414202273180842342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-66298757097733785742017-03-19T15:50:00.000+00:002017-03-20T08:50:30.616+00:00POSTSCRIPT TO THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">EGO’s been on his perch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">in the old Knowledge Tree<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">for more than a million years<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">and, through the power of its corrupted fruit, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">has eased his way into millions of human minds,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">filling them and their bodies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">and everything else<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">with millions and millions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">of tears. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">After this long and fruitless search<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">for something that doesn’t exist<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">push him off his perch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> Deprived of the drunken separatism,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> that keeps him in his place,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> he simply evaporates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> Is it good to discover and feel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> old Ego has <u>never</u> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> been for real?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> (and yours)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> (and
always has been)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to get rid of you and me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to get rid of us and them<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to get rid of was and will be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to get rid of should and should not<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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always has been)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to wake up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Here<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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where we are always seen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Now</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> where
we have always been. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i>NEW PROJECT:</i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><b style="font-size: 14pt;">WHAT IS CONSCIENCE? CONSCIENCE IS UNFINISHED BUSINESS</b></span></h3>
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Universal Octopushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14414202273180842342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-6863987139357260332017-03-11T18:36:00.000+00:002019-10-02T22:05:12.260+01:00THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Using the diagrams of the Universal Octopus in
the first chapters of<a href="https://issuu.com/universaloctopus/docs/preview_centre_the_truth_about_everything"> CENTRE</a><a href="https://issuu.com/universaloctopus/docs/preview_centre_the_truth_about_everything"><i> </i></a>we can see where the Project leads.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">When the
first nodules appear on the circumference of the One and develop an eye to see
the apparent outside of itself, the possibility of duality and separatism is
there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Not inevitable. You could develop an eye on your
fingers in order to inspect your back without them feeling separate from each
other and the rest of your body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">But that is what happened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Identification with apparently separate forms.
Perception of space which places oneself here and others in a place called “there”.
The slipping in of an illusory ego (“ego” literally means “one”) which extends
an identification with body to include identification with mind….. And humans
are on the way to cultivate the Tree of Knowledge (and get drunk on its fruit)
for most of the span of human consciousness. Possibly until their extinction.
If we can’t find a solution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">But you
can’t cure drunkenness with more alcohol. And this is exactly what we are still
trying to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Wise men have offered a solution. But there is
no money in it. No enhancement of Ego. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Unless, of course, what the wise men say can be
modified to allow for churches (and church leaders posing as powerful nobles)
and educational establishments (and teachers posing as sources of what you must
pay to learn).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">In these establishments, the fruits of the known
and all our “yesterdays” can be garnered and used to indoctrinate those who
haven’t been on the planet long enough to know them (i.e. the children). The
children have mostly come already possessing (in common with the rest of
creation) the fruit of the Tree of Life. Livingness. And in the Present. This
is why it is such a joy to watch most very young humans (and not only young <i>humans</i>) playing freely and happily
together before they are rounded up for the mental treadmill.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">One of the wise men actually indicated this as a
way out for humanity after so many million years of going astray.</span></div>
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<h4 style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<span style="background: rgb(253, 254, 255); font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #351c75;">“Except ye become as little children, <br />ye shall not enter
into the kingdom of heaven”</span></span></h4>
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<span style="background: rgb(253, 254, 255); font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But this did not find favour with those in power (of Ego).
They confiscated the fruits of the Tree of Life (Innocence) and killed the man.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">All contemporary attempts to solve the problems
of humans and the wreckage they have worked on our planet are flawed. Because
they are based on knowledge = separatism. You do not <u>try</u> to solve a
problem with the problem itself. Unless, that is, there is money to be made in
just trying. Irrespective of success. Which there is, in this case, <u>especially</u>
if there is no success.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">On the other hand, we cannot set all the
innocents free and trust Providence to provide for them. Because it won’t. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">But there is a Solution. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div>
<h3 style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Dislodge the Ego from its grasp on the Tree of
Knowledge</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> <br />and leave the tree to fulfil its
allotted span. Without the foothold of false identification, Ego will evaporate
away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">A human who is not in the control of the
illusory Ego is innocent. Innocent means harmless. An innocent does not
intentionally harm any other living being. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">This has nothing to do with laws, commandments,
resolutions. Moses scratched THOU SHALT NOT KILL on a stone. He and Joshua went
off and destroyed sixty cities in Canaan, massacring the inhabitants as they
went. Canaan was the name of a large and
prosperous country, which corresponds roughly to present-day Lebanon, Syria,
Jordan and Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Replace the Ego’s proprietorship of the Tree
itself with that of Awakened Innocence. This is the natural, unlearned state of
human consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Gradually, all the evils resulting from
knowledge will be filtered out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">What are these evils? Man’s inhumanity to man
and all other living beings; the way big business and big money have gobbled up
the natural resources of Nature, especially in the poor Third World; the
persistent ill treatment of all other living beings; endless wars…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Replace all ethical systems which take the form
of resolutions, or laws, or commandments or precepts which require knowledge or
educational systems (and money) to administer (enforce) them. Replace them with
a simple ethic which corresponds exactly to the natural and original state of
innocence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div>
<h4 style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #351c75;">"I do not do to other living beings what I do not
want done to me."</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></h4>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">At a stroke, this places the Tree of Knowledge
within the jurisdiction of non-dualistic universal friendliness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The One and the Many rediscover their eternal
Oneness. Unless Ego creeps back in, that’s the end of the problem. You <u>can</u>
have a version of separatism without senseless self-destruction. Your fingers <u>can</u>
use their eyes to explore your back without fighting each other for possession
and causing damage to your (and their) skin!<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Love thy neighbour
as thyself. <br />But don’t restrict love to <i>human</i> neighbours. <br />(Think of the Sun. It shines on everyone.)</span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">There
are two kinds of knowledge:</span></div>
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<ul>
<li><i><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: -18pt;">I see and then
know my feet. I don’t see/know them as separate and try and leave them outside
with my shoes.</span></i></li>
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<li><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: -18pt;">I know and then
see <u>another</u>. I see him from a separatist point of view. I know him as separate; enemy, friend, competitor, rival, food, opportunity. I fit him into </span><u style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">my</u><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> world.</span></i></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">In the present, you see what is here now. If you
bring in knowledge <u>before</u> you see, it comes from the past. You
superimpose it upon your present. You are lost. And you will try and
superimpose it upon everyone else’s present. Just as someone may have imposed
it on you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Universal Octopushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14414202273180842342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-65610598999341232472017-01-22T13:48:00.002+00:002019-10-02T21:59:12.811+01:00KNOWLEDGE<h4 style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
</h4>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /> ANCIENT UNSOLVED PROBLEM</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> MANFRED: <br /> But grief should be the instructor of the wise;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> Must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <wbr></wbr> <i> </i>Byron</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 18pt;">Science is much too
important</span><br />
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to be left to Mathematicians.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 18.0pt;">
E = MC</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt; vertical-align: super;">2</span></div>
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Einstein the Pacifist. Explosion. Hiroshima.</div>
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M = <span style="text-decoration: underline;">E</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"> C</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></div>
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God the Creator. Implosion. The Universe.</div>
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<span style="font-style: italic;"> -Gnome</span></div>
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Universal Octopushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14414202273180842342noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-74856194638826888272016-12-26T11:53:00.000+00:002017-01-17T09:54:19.284+00:00ROLES & REALITIES<div style="background-color: white;">
<h4>
<b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Comment</b><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">:</span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Sailor, Rich man, Poor man, Beggar man, Thief.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A role is anything you <u>identify</u> with, which has a beginning and an end. It becomes the past and moves into the future. It squeezes out the present in between. It is anything that can be put after “I am....” or “I was...” or I will be...” It is the dwelling place of the Ego.</span><br />
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Reality lasts forever as a variable continuum and is always there <u>underneath</u> the roles (you can have cancer while acting Hamlet or stockbroker) or <u>between</u> roles (you can have a real broken nose if, between sitting waiting for a bus and jumping on the bus, you trip and fall on your face).<br />
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Universal Octopushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14414202273180842342noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-49146970486296467292016-11-08T16:07:00.000+00:002016-12-31T15:34:55.224+00:00THE TENDENCY OF THE MIND TO DRIFT<div style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">If you keep drifting
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />Forks in the road are presenting themselves all the time, big and small, and each one has its consequences for ourselves and others. Driving on motorways and byways (and no-go-ways) gives a clear visual image of the mechanics of this. Our movement through Life (Life is always moving) </span><u style="background-color: white;">demands</u><span style="background-color: white;"> a response, even if it is only a frustrated attempt to stop moving.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">There are three levels of <u>location</u> on which these forks in the road appear:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">The <b>mental</b>, where our mind is: thoughts, mental images, points of view, a job, beliefs, memories, plans, emotions, relationships...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">Our ethics (or non-ethics) is a (semi) invisible component in almost every single choice of direction we make. And its consequences. If it is non-ethics, i.e. incorrect ethics, our choices will be contaminated from the start and will always lead us astray, and, ultimately to disaster.</span></span><br />
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Universal Octopushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14414202273180842342noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-64975064432986578772016-09-23T18:28:00.001+01:002016-10-13T17:33:53.877+01:00EGO, EGO, GOD OF THE JUNGLE<h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Playing tennis AGAINST someone is not playing for enjoyment and recreation. It is not “playing tennis” at all. It is competing to WIN. Purely for EGO. Once the stakes get higher (i.e. for money), it is fighting to win. The language used to report it reveals this: “Murray fought back from two sets down” and the behaviour and language of the players on court emphasises it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Instead of enjoyment, you get Egoic victory and excitement if you win and Egoic defeat and despair if you lose. You don’t know <u>which</u> it will be until it finishes and you can’t “stop just as soon as you’ve had enough in the Present”. You have to wait until it’s over. The “game” might last hours and all the time victory or defeat lie in the Future, i.e. thoughts in the mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>My task<br /> (and yours)<br /> is<br /> (and always has been)<br /> to get rid of you and me<br /> to get rid of us and them<br /> to get rid of was and will be<br /> to get rid of should and should not<br /> to get rid of might and mightn’t<br /> is<br /> (and always has been)<br /> to wake up<br /> from the dreams of our identities<br /> and find ourselves<br /> Here<br /> where we have always been<br /> Now<br /> where we have always been.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Leonardo accurately predicted the present day destruction of the environment and the abuse of all living creatures - In a section of his Notebooks, entitled Prophesies, he states:</span></i></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Of the cruelty of men---Creatures shall be seen on earth who will always be fighting one with another, with the greatest losses and frequent deaths on either side. There will be no bounds to their malice; by their strong limbs a great portion of the trees in the vast forests of the world shall be laid low, and when they are filled with food the gratification of their desire shall be to deal out death, affliction, labour, terror and banishment to every living thing; and from their boundless pride they will desire to rise towards heaven, but their excessive weight of their limbs shall hold them down, Nothing shall remain on the earth or under the earth or in the waters that shall not be pursued, disturbed, or spoiled, and that which is in one country removed into another. And their bodies shall be made a tomb and the means of transit of all the living bodies which they have slain. </span></i><i style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">O earth. Why dost thou not open up and hurl them into the deep fissures of thy vast abysses and caverns, and no longer display in the sight of heaven so cruel and vile a monster?” </i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></h3>
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Universal Octopushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14414202273180842342noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-1305044006534761152016-08-27T16:32:00.000+01:002016-09-19T18:34:46.158+01:00WHEN YOU COME TO A PLACE, WHAT PLACE DO YOU COME TO?<div style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;">
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Universal Octopushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14414202273180842342noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-37646144225622643642016-06-04T22:18:00.000+01:002016-07-30T17:46:50.319+01:00FOR HUMANITY, MEMORY HAS COME TO REPLACE UNDERSTANDING<h4 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Memory cannot, of itself, lead to Understanding. It can only shape Points of View which are endlessly subject to change.<br /><br />Understanding based on Memory, it follows, is also endlessly subject to change. It will also have to compete with other competing "understandings".</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Real Understanding only comes into existence with Direct Seeing in the present moment. As soon as it enters Memory, it also is already subject to revision because it has become detached from Seeing...</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"What is on your plate?"</span></span></b><br />
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</span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #444444;">What you remember is filtered by your window frame. The man at the upstairs window will see something different. The man at the back bedroom window will doubt your sanity.</span></b></span><br />
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represent any and all conflicting opposites. The list is endless.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>AB passes
through the centre of the circle at R. It indicates the maximum polarity
possible for AB within the circle. This provides the maximum distance between the
contestants A and B. The arrows on AB
and AC indicate the direction of flow. The arrows on CR, one below C pointing
towards R and one above R pointing towards C also indicate the direction of
flow.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>On AR, to the
right of A, there are two arrow points facing each other thus: > <. On RB, to the right of R, there are similar
arrows. These arrows represent the confrontation points which are continuously
appearing anywhere and everywhere throughout the plane of conflict which is the
line AB. These confrontations are interminable.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>If A were ever
to succeed in defeating and occupying B, B would immediately reappear in
another guise at A and the confrontation would resume. History illustrates this
very clearly. <br /><br /><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>C represents
the <u>upstream</u> point at which <u>humans are reconciled by abandoning A and
B.</u> It is both an exit and an entry point.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>The dotted
line through C and parallel to AB represents the plane of reality occupied by
Humans who are, just that, <u>Humans</u>. They have abandoned the
identifications which create the AB conflicts or have never descended into that
lower world in the first place. <br /><br /><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>R represents
the <u>linear</u> point, within the horizontal field of conflict, where, <u>by
abandoning A and B</u>, reconciliation is also achievable. This is unlikely,
however, because of the momentum accumulated by the Pendulum of Conflict in its
ongoing advances and retreats. This
momentum <u>reinforces</u> the differentiations of A and B.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><br /><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><u>C = R.</u><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>The diagram is
static. In reality everything is dynamic; every atom, every cell, every solar
system.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>For the sake
of simplicity, the diagram is two dimensional and shows one AB line. Actually,
there are an unlimited number of AB lines spreading out in all directions from
R to the circumference, just as there are an unlimited number of issues on
which humans are divided and are in unrelenting conflict with each other.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Each and every
one of these issues on which humans are in conflict with each other has the
same Reconciliation Point; <u>the complete surrender of identification with the
points A and B</u>. This is replaced by
direct seeing the way things actually are in the present moment.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Reconciliation
is rediscovery in the <u>living present</u> of sameness – our real and eternal
Identity. This replaces identification with “differentness” which occurs when
understanding is based on <u>memory of the past</u> and the points of view it
conditions. These points of view include corresponding projections into an
imagined future.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Furthermore,
the two dimensional diagram represents a three dimensional sphere, the sphere
of human existence, within which an infinite number of AB lines radiate
outwards from a single immaterial point. On the material plane, this includes the
planet on which our dramas are played out.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Because of the
enormous powers of destruction which human beings have obtained, our continuing
failure to solve our ongoing and worsening AB conflicts now endangers the Earth
itself. <br /><br /><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>The apparent
vacuum within the circle itself is actually full of events, incidents,
hostilities, revenge, justifications, memories, points of view, understandings
and misunderstandings. All are movements of the conditioned mind.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Full and
expanding. <br /><br /><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>It is a rich
compost in which A and B continually seek and find the food to support and
nourish their differences rather than resolve their conflicts. It is like a
thistle growing next to a lettuce. Each takes from the same soil what its roots
need to keep thistles quite different from lettuces.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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Universal Octopushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14414202273180842342noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-29082214307023083552015-10-27T19:48:00.000+00:002015-12-28T11:18:00.920+00:00SUFFERING<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 9pt;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/right-view/">RIGHT VIEW</a><br /></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">In the Jungle of the World</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">and the Tangle of the Senses</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">we build us huts of mud and heartache</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">and make (and mend) our fragile fences.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">‘This is <i>me</i>! That is <i>mine</i>!’</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">is the burden of our song.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">We cannot see, still less define</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">that pain and sorrow prove us wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">This is <i>not</i> mine, this is <i>not</i> me,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">is the beginning of our sanity.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Letting go of what does not concern us</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">leaves that alone which, meddled with, will burn us.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">The Law is mirror-like in its precision</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 9pt;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">and its simplicity needs no revision;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">that Good breeds Good</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 9pt;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">and Evil has its price;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">that Virtue is its own reward.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 9pt;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">And so is Vice.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">That all things pass away,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">from butterflies to stars,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">and though the World’s a prison<br /><span style="text-indent: 9pt;"> it’s the Mind that makes the bars.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><span style="text-indent: 9pt;"><br /></span></span></div>
Universal Octopushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14414202273180842342noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-57051473432140534572015-10-20T22:09:00.000+01:002015-10-27T19:53:03.024+00:00AS YOU SOW, SO ARE YOU REAPED<h1 class="title" style="background-color: white; float: left; line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/do-as-you-would-be-done/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">DO AS YOU WOULD BE DONE</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h1>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><b><br /><br /><br /><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ethics is the highest science, </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large; line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> concerning itself with survival, </span></span><br />
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<div style="font-stretch: normal !important; line-height: 22px !important; margin-bottom: 0.75em;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> not merely knowall.<br /><br /> A man without Ethics,<br /> ever thinking<br /> never seeing,<br /> is already drowning;<br /> ever sinking<br /> ever lower<br /> in his diminishing<br /> sea of being.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-large;"> New Project:</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-large;"> <b>SUFFERING</b></span></i>Universal Octopushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14414202273180842342noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-37719847088894223292015-08-17T19:36:00.001+01:002015-10-21T20:09:14.626+01:00THE LESS I NAME THE MORE I SEE<div style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Waves crash into each other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Sharing their salinity, oxygenation, clouded sand</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and silver flashing fish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">How can we demarcate them?</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/usain-bolt-3/">USAIN BOLT</a></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b span=""></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Usain Bolt ran exactly 100 metres.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> To be there before the others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Josef Klein ran exactly 100 metres.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> To catch the bus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Usain Bolt won</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> and is engulfed by cameramen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> in Beijing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Josef Klein missed the bus</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> and is slumped on a bench by a bus stop</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> in Clapham.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Usain is recognised by everyone world-wide</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> and lives in luxury everywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Josef is unrecognised by neighbours</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> in a block of Council Flats in Clapham.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Usain Bolt is an entertainer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Josef Klein is a retired refuse collector.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Exactly 100 metres is exactly 100 metres.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style';">Papa Francis says</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: large;"> He</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: large;"> and</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: large;"> his cohorts of priests</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: large;"> can forgive abortion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: large;"> Abortion is a <u>label</u> for killing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: large;"> Papa is wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: large;"> The only killer Papa can forgive</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: large;"> is the man who assassinates</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: large;"> Papa himself.</span></div>
<div class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: large;"> This is true</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: large;"> for all his cohorts of priests.</span></div>
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<div class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: large;"> Only God can forgive all killing.</span></div>
<div class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: large;"> If He chooses to.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: large;"> Es audiendo, Papa?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: large;"> -GNOME<em> </em></span></div>
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">NEW PROJECT: </span><i><span style="color: #666666; font-size: x-large;"><b>AS WE SOW, SO ARE WE REAPED </b></span></i></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
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Universal Octopushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14414202273180842342noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-60492754475829650542013-06-24T11:08:00.001+01:002013-06-24T11:23:24.892+01:00NO UNWANTED WHEELBARROWS<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="line-height: 16.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We humans are collectors ever.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Grasping after <u>outward
things</u> to give us more power or sense of Self in a world of Others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We collect our
“things” in albums, bookcases, wallets, houses, bank vaults, jewellery
boxes, gardens, kennels, stables, wardrobes, Sainsbury shopping trolleys.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They give us our
sense of being “someone”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We use them to
convince others that we are “someone”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They also give us our fear of “not being enough”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Grasping after <u>inward
things</u> to give us a sense of identity, individuality, personality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We collect our inward things in our minds. We collect thoughts,
memories opinions, emotions, regrets, grievances, plans, hopes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Asked for a couple of carrots from the garden, we bring our wheelbarrow,
full of our garden produce (in which there may even be a carrot or two). Asked
for the time of day, we will bring a minute by minute account of our
yesterdays and tomorrows.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The wheelbarrow is our egoic self. The overflowing contents are the
contents of our mind, to which we cling with all the pride and fear of a child
in the middle of the elaborate sandcastle, which it has spent all day creating
and defending against the other children. As the shadows lengthen, it casts
increasingly apprehensive glances at the incoming tide (as well as the other
children).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">FORGIVE a pronoun’s entry</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">along a spine,</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">a suddenly separate spider sentry</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">wanting to define</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">his continent of cells,</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">wanting another</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">a more than mother brother.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Like whispering shells</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">sharing a spark</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the sun let
fall into their dark.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;"> NEW PROJECT</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">:</span> <br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Examination of the phenomenon called ‘Ceiling Out’.</span></span></span></h4>
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Universal Octopushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14414202273180842342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-61104791988677606042013-04-18T14:13:00.000+01:002013-04-21T11:41:04.890+01:00UPSTREAMING<h4>
<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-size: large;">ELUCIDATION
OF THE PROJECT – UPSTREAMING</span></span></h4>
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The diagram of the triangle is a
conceptual image. It is a tool for understanding UPSTREAMING and how it works
and also how to put it into practice. In everyday life. Here and now.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Apex is the point from which an
impulse of energy flows out from its source. In flowing out, as at a fork in
the road, it creates a duality, a pair of opposites. These manifest at each end
of the base line of the triangle. They represent conflicting points of view and
experience. Jews and Arabs, You and Me, Past and Future, Good and Evil, My
Religion and Your Religion, Happiness and Unhappiness, Pleasure and Pain,
Desire and Aversion, Birth and Death, and so on.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The space between them (the base line)
represents the area in which the conflict is played out.<br />
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There are innumerable possible triangles
but they all have the same Apex <span style="font-family: 'Maiandra GD', sans-serif;">– </span>the point upstream of
their diverging dualities. From this departure point, they flow out
(centrifugally) in pairs, along with the diverging mirror images of their
opposites. To it they return (centripetally) in search of the end of conflict, for
reconciliation and peace. This happens when
all efforts to solve the problem on the base line, on its own dualistic terms,
have failed.</div>
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If you could lay all possible
triangles next to each other with their sides touching, they would form a
circle like a wheel. All the sides flow out from the same Apex, the Centre. The
sides of the triangle appear like the spokes of a wheel. The base lines join together
to make the circumference of the circle, the rim of the wheel. <o:p></o:p><br />
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This circumference is made up of an
infinite number of individual dots. Each dot represents the point where the
outward flowing impulse from the Centre materialises as <i>form</i> in opposition to its opposing <i>form</i>. These forms can be <i>physical</i>
(bodies) <span style="font-family: 'Maiandra GD', sans-serif;">– </span>cats
and dogs, hunters and hunted, me and you, or <i>mental</i> (ideas, thoughts) <span style="font-family: 'Maiandra GD', sans-serif;">–</span><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style, serif;"> </span>rich and poor, deists and atheists, masters and servants, mine and
yours.</div>
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These forms <i>react</i>
to their opposites and exist in conflict with them until reconciliation is
found. This puts an end to their imagined separateness by locating the apex or
its counterpart at the median point of the baseline. For example:<o:p></o:p></div>
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religious or political activists
abandon the beliefs which separate them in favour of an awareness of their <u>shared</u>
humanity which re-connects them in unity; <o:p></o:p></div>
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the rich
abandon 'too much' and relieve the poor of 'not enough' on the basis their <u>shared</u>
status as fellow living beings of the One Family.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The outward impulse is outward
looking and leads to identification with thoughts, feelings and sense objects.
This results in the illusion of a separation into ‘self’ and ‘other(s)’. This flowing
out is centrifugal. It creates the base line of dualistic activity in the world. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Looking inwards and withdrawing
upwards from the base line activity (experienced as suffering) to the Apex, the
Centre (experienced as consciousness) is centripetal. The centre of a wheel is
still. Likewise the Apex, the Centre, is still. It is empty like space. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The diagram is static. But it can
be conceived as a moving wheel. The wheel of life. This is used in Eastern cosmologies
to represent the Sangsara, the wandering on through the world of form, the
world of birth and death. What keeps it in motion is Desire <span style="font-family: 'Maiandra GD', sans-serif;">– </span>the motivating force
behind the outward impulse away from the Centre.<br />
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When one has had enough of ‘activity’,
enough of ‘suffering’ on the wheel of life, there is an impulse to return, to
seek peace, to upstream to the original state of Undifferentiated Oneness <span style="font-family: 'Maiandra GD', sans-serif;">–</span> consciousness without attachment to form and identification with form.</div>
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All problems are resolved when
they disappear in the Centre. Here is the end of all wanting.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When this cycle is perceived, when
the perception sinks into the mind and uncovers what lies <i>beyond</i> the mind, it becomes understanding <span style="font-family: 'Maiandra GD', sans-serif;">–</span> a shift in consciousness.<br />
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Seeing from the point of view of
where each spoke is riveted to the rim of the wheel, a view of an infinite number
of dots (separate forms), attracted and repelled by each other, competing and
conflicting, comes to an end. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Consciousness
shifts. Seeing is now from the point of view of the Centre, from which every
thing is seen to be part of the Whole.<o:p></o:p><br />
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* UPSTREAMING DIAGRAM with Elucidation <a href="http://universaloctopus.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Upstreaming-Diagram-with-Elucidation-.pdf" style="text-align: start;">Print version here</a></div>
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<b>NEW PROJECT: <i>NO UNWANTED WHEELBARROWS</i></b><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22px; text-align: start;">
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You ask the gardener for carrots.</div>
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He comes back from the garden with a full wheelbarrow. In it are a variety of vegetables, some soil, small stones, a few snails etc. Possibly carrots too. All mixed together.</div>
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Alternative Scenario 1:</div>
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You ask the gardener for carrots.</div>
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He comes back with a few carrots and puts them in your hand.</div>
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Alternative Scenario 2:</div>
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You ask the gardener for carrots.</div>
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He comes back and says, “There aren’t any carrots.”</div>
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<em>Is there a name stamped on the wheelbarrow?</em></div>
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Universal Octopushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14414202273180842342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-4746242679604885152013-01-03T17:06:00.001+00:002013-01-08T19:13:39.998+00:00EMPTY-HANDED I GO AND LO! THE SPADE IS IN MY HANDS <br />
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<strong>COMMENT</strong></div>
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“Riding backwards on an Ox, one enters the Buddha Hall”. The Ox is the Mind. The Buddha Hall is the Centre.</div>
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“All roads lead to Rome” (unless you are going in the opposite direction...)</div>
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<strong>NEW PROJECT: <em>UPSTREAMING</em></strong></div>
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If you can’t solve a problem on its own level,</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;">How do you spell “negativity”? Look in a dictionary.</li>
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try Upstreaming it!</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px;">How do I put an end to my negativity? Upstream it to the fork in the road where you (repeatedly) <u>choose</u> to be negative. Then choose the other route.</li>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Read Chapter 22<span style="color: blue;"> <u><a href="http://universaloctopus.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Upstreaming.pdf">UPSTREAMING</a></u></span> from CENTRE by Brian Taylor. </span></span><br />
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<br /></div>Universal Octopushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14414202273180842342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085165215575269719.post-53210292225043622862012-12-24T19:12:00.000+00:002013-01-03T17:07:13.630+00:00NEW PROJECT<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><i>October 28 </i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b> NEW PROJECT: "YOU CAN'T MAKE TOO MUCH MERIT."</b></span><br />
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<i>December 10 </i></div>
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<b>NEW PROJECT: "EMPTY-HANDED I GO AND LO! THE SPADE IS IN MY HANDS”?</b><br />
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