Actions that Ensure Success

Definition of the highest blessingsSo I have heard: One time the Buddha dwelt near Savatthi, in the monastery Anathapindika Jeta Forest. On a beautiful night, came the gods with a brilliant light that illuminated the entire Jeta Forest.He went to the Buddha, giving respect, and stood on one side and said to the Buddha in the following verse:1. Many gods and men, for want of prosperity, have reflected on what the act of promising success. Explain whether the act was the highest that guarantee success? 1 (258)
The Buddha:2. Not associating with people who are dumb, but, along with the wise, and saluting those who deserve dihormat. That's the ultimate act that guarantees success. (259)3. Living in an appropriate environment, have done many meritorious actions in the past, and lead yourself in the right direction: it is the highest act that guarantees success. (260)4. Having a good education, skilled all-round, have an appreciation of art, has a well-trained discipline and pleasant speech he said: it is the highest act that guarantees success. (261)5. Endorsing the father and mother, keeping a good son and wife, and have jobs that are peaceful, free of contradiction: it is the highest act that guarantees success. (262)

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Be Wise: Bhikkhu Indaguno

Be Wise


Namo Tassa Bhagavato Arahato SammāsambuddhassaHi Udakaṁ nayanti nettikā, usukārā namayanti tejanaṁDāruṁ namayanti tacchakā, hontu Damayanti PanditaWater channels drain water maker, handyman arrow straightening arrows, carpenters bend wood; the wise control themselves.

(Dhammapada, VI: 5)In the present life, it is very difficult to find a wise person and the person who can become role models for mankind, because now people tend to seek material wealth rather than spiritual wealth.
According KBBI, wise to have meaning: 1) always using her mind, wise, sharp mind, 2) clever and careful when facing difficulties.While in grammar Pali, a wise man called Pandita. The wise man should at least be able to solve his problems, whether about work, family, and others. As Buddhists, we should condition the policy appears in us.

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The Frog's Pray

by Anthony de Mello SJ
BEWARE
The priest announced that Jesus Christ himself would come inChurch next Sunday. Race came in drovesto see him. Everyone hopes he willpreach, but he just smiled, when introducedand said: "Congratulations." Every person willing to accept him forovernight, especially the priest, but he refused politely. Hesaid, he wanted to stay overnight at the church. It is reasonable,they all thought.
He disappeared the next day, before the church door opened.And, it's horror, the priest and people find churchruins. Written everywhere on the walls of one wordALERT. No part churches missed, doors andwindows, pillars and pulpit, altar. Even in Scripture inabove standard: ALERT. Strikeout-painted with large letters andsmall, with pencils and pens and paint in various colors.Everywhere the eye could see, people can read. "Caution,"alert. Beware, caution, alert, alert.
Annoying. Make angry. Screwed. Tickle.Scary. They are presumed to be aware of what? That's notsay. Just to say, caution. The first impulse people wantremove each of these ex-fouling, it penghojatan. Theyrestrained to do so, simply because the idea that Jesusalone does deed.
Now the mysterious word began to seep in thinking ALERTpeople, every time they enter the church. They began to alertfor the Scripture, until they can take advantagefrom the book, without so fanatical. They're so vigilant againstsacrament, so they sanctified without falling infutility. The priest began to be aware of the power overpeople, then he can help without a master. And everypeople become aware of the religion, which makes people withoutbecome conscious hypocrite. They are so wary of LawChurch, then became obedient to the law, but compassionateagainst the weak. They began to be aware of the prayer, untilthey stopped relying on ourselves. They evenalert to their understanding of God, thenthey recognize him also beyond the limits of narrownessChurch itself.
Now they even write the word haram is at the doorentered the church and if you pass in the night. Yousee it glittering in the church in light of fluorescent lampscolorful.
DISCRETION RAMA
In a village in India, there lived a very weaverpious. Throughout the day he uttered the name of God, andpeople secretly believe him. Each time the resultsweaving had enough, he went to the market for

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Sariputta Practice the exercise a monk

Sariputta Majesty said: 1. I've never seen, yet all people ever heard of a teacher with such a sweet speech came down from heaven Tusita to the middle of many people. (955) 2. Humans who have a vision, then emerge - as he really is - for human nature and the gods. And after uncover all the darkness, he reaches happiness. (956) 3. Here in the crowd, I come begging, to ask the Buddha who have no attachment, a teacher without a gimmick that has come into the world. (957) 4-5. Monks who are not interested in the world will find a quiet place to live under, trees, in caves in the mountains; danger does exist for him who rejoice in a variety of places to stay like this?Bhikkhu it will not flinch in a quiet place of residence. (938-9) 6. How much danger in this world that must be addressed by the monks who lived alone, who stepped into nature without death?(960) 7. Do the words, whether the objects in this world, whether the virtue and practice of a monk who passionately? (961) 8. With concentrated, thoughtful and vigilance, training whether he should live so that he can eliminate ketidakmurniannya itself like a silversmith eliminating useless substances from silver? (962)
The Buddha said: 9. O, Sariputta, unto the sick of the world, who delight in solitude, and want the perfect enlightenment in accordance with Truth, I'll tell you what has been kuwujudkan. (963) 10. Bhikkhu a wise, attentive and roam within the limitations, one not afraid of the five danger, [which] flies bully and all the other flies, snakes, humans who have evil intentions or animals. (964) 11. He does not fear the heretics, even when he had seen the danger. In addition, he is looking good, will conquer other dangers as well. (965) 12. He could withstand the cold and excessive heat, even if he has to bear the pain and hunger. Because often exposed to such things, and for not-married, then try as hard as possible! (966) 

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Corn, Soybeans May Rise as Adverse Weather Threatens World Crop

Corn and soybeans may rise this week as adverse weather in the U.S., China, Europe and Canada threatens world production amid increasing demand for food, livestock feed and fuel made from the crops.

Twenty-three of 33 traders and analysts surveyed from Tokyo to Chicago on April 29 said corn will rise, and 20 of 34 respondents forecast a gain for soybeans. Last week on the Chicago Board of Trade, corn futures for July delivery rose 1.6 percent to $7.565 a bushel, and soybean futures for July delivery advanced 0.3 percent to $13.94 a bushel.

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Live fast, die young

In the studio of art collector Benno Calev can be found a selection of splendid drawings and works on plywood by Mirit Cohen from the 1970s. Viewing them is an exciting experience. I promised not to reveal the precise number of works, but there were enough to serve as a reflection of the life of an artist who is gone and nearly forgotten.

The plywood panels look all battered and nicked, as if Cohen slashed them up in a burst of violence. In a 1990 poem, Yaakov Besser described how he and Mirit celebrated her 24th birthday at a cafe in Tel Aviv. Afterward they went to her studio apartment, which was her all-purpose space: studio, bedroom, dining room. Besser watched as she placed a rectangular piece of plywood on the table and began stroking it. First with one hand and then with both before she squeezed it with an iron hand: "She unsheathed her fingernails and chiseled away with them until drops of blood dripped into the scratched-out cracks, and the pale, pale plywood, interwoven with white strands, turned redder and redder. And the cracks deepened in her face, too, which was frightened. When she raised her wet hands, she pressed them to her chest as if clutching in them the fist-like muscle of her fervent heart ... "

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Rejected candidate supporters challenge Agum Gumelar ruling

Supporters of the rejected Indonesian Soccer Association (PSSI) chairman candidates George Toisutta, an army general and businessman Arifin Panigoro, vow they will likely ignore the PSSI Normalization Committee Chief Agum Gumelar’s statement that the rejected candidates could not file an appeal.

PSSI voters group spokesman Wisnu Wardhana separately said that the rejection was baseless and legally flawed as the Normalization Committee itself had violated the world soccer governing body (FIFA) Statute by taking the function as an election committee as well.

Wisnu added that the letter suggesting the rejection was also problematic as the committee suggesting the idea was led by Tjipta Lesmana, who had been dismissed by FIFA itself over a credibility issue.

"In short, there is no clear ground for the rejections," Wisnu said as quoted by tribunnew.com on Sunday.

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Google Calls Location Data 'Valuable'

By AMIR EFRATI

Google Inc.'s collection of location information from millions of mobile devices and personal computers is "extremely valuable" to the company's future business, according to an email written by a Google product manager last year.

That email and others, which are part of a public filing in a lawsuit against Google last year, shed new light on the company's thinking about the need to gather location-related data. Such information is essential for a growing number of mobile applications and websites to function properly, the emails indicate. It is also useful for companies such as Google— whose Android software powers millions of phones—that want to offer consumers advertisements that are tailored to their locations, a new frontier for online ads.

The disclosure of the internal emails follows a series of other revelations about location data gathered by Google and Apple Inc. The revelations prompted the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to schedule a hearing on May 10 to discuss the companies' practices.

Google, with users' permission, collects information about wireless networks surrounding mobile devices powered by Google's Android operating system. It also gets information about the location of wireless networks near personal computers if the PCs' owners are using Google's Chrome Web browser or versions of some other browsers.

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Sony to restore PSN services, compensate customers

Two weeks since after Sony's PlayStation Network was hacked Kazuo Hirai, chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment, addressed the issue in a press conference in Tokyo tonight.

Though they still don't know who orchestrated the intrusion on the PSN servers in San Diego, Calif., they were "very sophisticated," Hirai said. It's still not entirely clear what kind of data the hackers got their hands on, but he reiterated that they don't believe credit card data to have been taken and added that the company has received no complaints of identity theft or credit card fraud yet.

Most services will be restored "within the week," Hirai said. The first PSN services to come back online will be online game play for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable, the ability to play downloaded movies from PSN, and unexpired movie rentals through PSN and Qriocity and chat functionalities.

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Report: California cities have worst air pollution in U.S.

About 154 million Americans — or more than half the U.S. population — live in areas where the air is so polluted that it is often dangerous to breathe, a new report says.

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  By Kirby Lee-US PRESSWIRE
  Los Angeles was included in the list of cities with the worst air.

Residents of Honolulu and Santa Fe-Espanola, N.M., on the other hand, are in luck: Those two cities had air that is among the country's cleanest — and they were the only two in the nation that had no days in which smog and soot levels reached unhealthy ranges.

In contrast, residents of California, which is famed for its healthful lifestyle, are breathing some of the worst air.

California cities topped the list of U.S. cities with the worst air pollution, according to "State of the Air 2011," the American Lung Association's annual report on air quality, which was released April 27.

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FDA: Infants Often Get Herbal Teas, Supplements

As many as 9% of infants may be getting dietary botanical supplements and herbal teas during their first year of life, an FDA study suggests. And many are given the substances during their first month of life, according to Yuanting Zhang, PhD, of the FDA in College Park, Md., and colleagues. A clinical implication is that physicians should look out for possible interactions with medications and for potential adverse effects from such supplements, Zhang and colleagues reported online in Pediatrics. The finding comes from analysis of data collected in the Infant Feeding Practices Study II, a longitudinal survey of women from late pregnancy through their infant's first year of life, conducted by the FDA and the CDC between 2005 and 2007, the researchers reported. It is the first study to examine the prevalence of supplement and tea use among infants, the researchers reported. They cautioned that the survey was nationally distributed but not representative, so that it is not possible to say that results apply to the whole population. Among other things, they noted, the sample of 2,653 mothers with healthy singleton infants over-represented

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Obama announces Osama bin Laden killed by U.S.

By Michael A. Memoli and Michael Muskal

May 1, 2011, 8:35 p.m.

Reporting from Washington and Los Angeles— 

Osama bin Laden, the world's most wanted terrorist, was killed in Pakistan as the result of a U.S. military operation, President Obama announced to the nation Sunday night.

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Osama Bin Laden: Dead!

Osama bin Laden is dead. This is not a hoax. The world's most notorious terrorist has been killed by U.S. military forces, according to breaking news reports.
The mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks and the leader of Al Qaeda was reportedly shot in the head in Afghanistan and his body is in U.S. hands.
Bin Laden is believed to have been taken down by U.S. assets in a mansion outside Islamabad, Pakistan, along with other members of his family, officials say.

Osama bin Laden (1957-2011).

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