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Years ago some American Buddhist teachers began to share a new mindfulness tool that offers in-the-trenches support for working with intense and difficult emotions.
Called RAIN (an acronym for the four steps of the process), it can be accessed in almost any place or situation. It directs our attention in a clear, systematic way that cuts through confusion and stress.
The steps give us somewhere to turn in a painful moment. And as we call on them more regularly, they strengthen our capacity to come home to our deepest truth. Like the clear sky and clean air after a cooling rain, this mindfulness practice brings a new openness and calm to our daily lives.
I have now taught RAIN to thousands of students, clients, and mental health professionals, adapting and expanding it into [True Refuge]. I’ve also made it a core practice in my own life. Here are the four steps of RAIN presented in the way I’ve found most helpful:
RRecognize what is happening
AAllow life to be just as it is
IInvestigate inner experience with kindness
NNon-Identification.
RAIN directly de-conditions the habitual ways in which we resist moment-to-moment experience. It doesn’t matter whether we resist “what is” by lashing out in anger, by having a cigarette, [by sex, drugs, rock 'n roll or rap], or by getting immersed in obsessive thinking.
Our attempt to control the life within and around us actually cuts us off from our own heart and from this living world. RAIN begins to undo these unconscious patterns as soon as we take the first step.
Recognize what is, accept that it is, investigate what's going on inside, and realize that there's no reason to identify with situations. More
During the 2012 election season, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan are on a national speaking tour to mark the 16th anniversary of the daily, independent, global TV/Radio news hour and to launch their new book, The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope.
Tickets are available through KPFK during its Fall Fund Drive with a limited number of tickets available at the door. Reception (tickets required) begins at 6:30 pm. Event Page
In Los Angeles Democracy Now! is broadcast onKPFK 90.7 FMat 6:00 am and 9:00 am M-F and KCLS-TV at 12:00 am M, T, Th, Fri on Channel 58, and at 11:00 am and 11:00 pm on Channel 58.4 M-F.
Wisdom Quarterly (ANALYSIS); biblical research by HilaryBilaryBop
M'Romney (Moroni) goes Open Cond*m Style
Ever wonder what they were doing in the wicked Dead Sea twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah before the space ships attacked?
These biblical sites -- where we get the English words sodomy and gonorrhea -- were not so much "Anything Goes" gay towns like our Hollywood and New York.
We explore the idea that one of the worst crimes in these depraved metropolises was the widespread abuse of "aliens." But they were up to other things, too: using pharmaceuticals (poisons), a practice misleadingly translated as "sorcery" by Bible scholars and more.
To hear the God(s) of the Christian Bible tell it -- rather than the conservatives and Republicans -- the real problem was the mistreatment of aliens.
Did either the Middle Eastern bodhisattva (Jesus/Issa), his God father, or the Bible favor poverty? Of course not. The Vatican and panhandling Protestant ministers may want Christians to think so. But the example the West's most famous prophet gave was to eat and live like birds (Matt 13:1-23), who live abundantly and do not worry (Matt 6:24-34; Luke 12:24-27), instead taking necessities and life as they come.
Ancient aliens?
What are they up do down there?
The Book of Deuteronomy lists categories of people who are needy in Christian/Jewish terms: aliens, orphans, and widows. Ancient law in Israel (not the make believe place claimed by violent invaders who use ancient texts to rationalize their misappropriation in the name of their tribal God) dictates that Israelites assist women whose husbands had died since such loss generally resulted in impoverishment.
But what about the reference to “aliens” (NRSV translation)? The original Hebrew refers to foreigners or “strangers” (KJV). An ancient alien Israel was a non-Israelite living (“sojourning”) in Israel -- or anyone living in among another tribe). Such foreigners would have been dependent on land owning natives for wages/sustenance. Only Israelites could inherit land, which could not be bought or sold.
"He's not a Muslim; he's a Globalist." - Alex Jones (InfoWars.com)
Is there nothing I won't do or say to win?
What would racist Sheriff Arpaio or Gov. Romney do about immigrants in Arizona? If Romney says Pres. Obama is a Muslim, is he suggesting he himself is a true "Israelite" (according to biblical definition, not modern residency)? What does the Bible demand be done for the sake of foreign “aliens”? Just as it was illegal to oppress orphans and widows, it was illegal to mistreat foreigners (Exodus 22:21-22). There should be no distinction between the alien and the native (Numbers 15:14-16). Aliens get God’s blessings like native Israelites (Ezekiel 47:21-23). They share in the covenant with the tribal Jewish God as well (Deuteronomy 29:10-12).
Racist Arpaio has proof birth cert is fake
The most compelling thing about the world's aliens, all of whom are illegal, is that European immigrants didn't bother to ask or check with North America’s native population. Like modern Zionists, they just invaded, occupied, committed genocide, then settled the territory anew. So we might exhibit more compassion (or consider reparations). The Bible agrees with an empathic approach:
“You shall not wrong or oppress a resident alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt” (Exodus 22:21). “You shall not oppress a resident alien; you know the heart of an alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt” (Exodus 23:9). “You shall also love the alien for you were aliens in the land of Egypt” (Deuteronomy 10:19).
Space gods (like YHWH) claim the land, and who are humans to argue with superior firepower as taught to them by their gods and idols and governments? We are at best tenants, at worst interlopers:
“The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine [God]; with me [God] you are but aliens and tenants” (Leviticus 25:23). “For we are aliens and transients before you [God], as were all our ancestors [from space]; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope” (1 Chronicles 29:15). “Hear my prayer, O Lords [plural], and give ear to my cry; do not hold your peace at my tears. For I am your passing guest, an alien, alike all my forebears” (Psalm 39:12).
God's own army, an arm of the MIC
This is how one culture dealt with the serious issue of aliens in our midst, ancient immigration. At the root of the immigration issue in modern America is poverty. So long as the CIA and more clandestine agencies continue to destabilize sovereign countries, it will continue to be an issue. As the world financial situation worsens (by design), we can only expect it to worsen until we are all at each other's necks.
People who oppose gay marriage and homosexuality “on religious grounds” often appeal to the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah in support of their beliefs. The truth is the space Gods of the Bible destroyed these towns because they practiced “sorcery” (dispensing pharmaceuticals), bad karma (actions), and sexual acts the space geneticists found “abominable.”
The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was because they did not show hospitality to space aliens -- the "angels" (messengers) of God sent to determine whether or not there were 10 righteous individuals in the city on whose behalf God could spare the cities in accordance with an agreement the gods made with Abraham. Angels who appeared as strange humans were met with hospitality by only one man. God's lesson was not anti-gay; it was anti-inhospitality to aliens.
Prior to the destruction, Abraham bargains with God(s) not to destroy the cities, even though neither he nor his people live in them (except a nephew) . Abraham stands up for their cause with very little self-interest because of the possibility that there are good, decent people living there.
If the money devoted to building security walls ("fences") -- manning check points, bulldozing homes, misappropriating ancient lands and homesteads, stealing water, patrolling, imprisoning, torturing, disappearing, starving, writing anti-immigrant laws, and violating the civil rights of Palestinians and aliens in America, many of who in both cases are indigenous peoples, were instead spent on helping aliens, not only would everyone's lives be improved, our charity would have the added benefit of fixing the immigration problem.
Cancer risk? Two genetically engineered Monsanto corncobs, right, and two normal ones from Germany, left. Biotech companies have "proved" the safety of GM crops by conducting only 90-day trials on rats.
Russia has suspended the import and use of American GM corn following a study suggesting a link to breast cancer and organ damage.
Separately, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has ordered its own review into the research, which was conducted at a French university.
The decision by Russia could be followed by other nations that would deliver a severe blow to the take-up of the controversial genetic technology.
Experts at the University of Caen conducted an experiment running for the full lives of rats -- two years.
The findings, which were peer reviewed by independent experts before being published in a respected scientific journal, found raised levels of breast cancer, liver, and kidney damage. More
UPSHOT
Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY)
Avoid US corn and corn products (corn syrup, maltodextrin, chips, corn-fed beef, grain fed chicken, pig, and the countless other products that conceal cheap corn ingredients). Otherwise expect organ damage, cancers, obesity, persistent hunger, depression, mood fluctuations, migraines, fibromyalgia, and/or diabetes as the likely result of consumption. Even the best, most natural organic corn was considered a starvation crop, a starchy grass. It has been made into a dangerous frankenfood and gasoline substitute that, because it is so extremely cheap, is used in nearly all prepared/packaged foods.
"Last Call at the Oasis" (official trailer) - the water documentary movie (2012)
Funny man Jack Black investigates. Firmly establishing the urgency of the global water crisis as the central issue facing our world this century, a fascinating documentary illuminates the vital role water plays in our lives. It also exposes the defects in the current system and shows communities already struggling with its ill-effects. Featuring activist Erin Brockovich, respected water experts including Peter Gleick, Jay Famiglietti, and Robert Glennon, as well as social entrepreneurs championing revolutionary solutions, the film posits that we can manage this problem if we are willing to act NOW.
