MEME: Sexual harassment

MEME: cant believe Epstein killed himself

Wisdom - What is a Bodhisattva

What is a Bodhisattva?

"A Bodhisattva is an ordinary person who takes up a course in his or her life that moves in the direction of Buddha. You and I, actually, anyone who directs their attention, their life, to practicing the way of life of a Buddha is a Bodhisattva....

The life that flows through each of us and through everything around us is actually all connected. To say that, of course, means that who I really am cannot be separated from all the things that surround me. Or, to put it another way, all sentient beings have their existence and live within my life. So needless to say, that includes even the fate of all mankind—that, too, lies within me. Therefore, just how mankind might truly live out its life becomes what I aim at as my direction. This aiming or living while moving in a certain direction is what is meant by vow.

In other words, it is the motivation for living that is different for a Bodhisattva. Ordinary people live thinking only about their own personal, narrow circumstances connected with their desires. In contrast to that, a Bodhisattva, though undeniably still an ordinary human being like everyone else, lives by vow. Because of that, the significance of his or her life is not the same. For us as Bodhisattvas, all aspects of life, including the fate of humanity itself, live within us. It is with this in mind that we work to discover and manifest the most vital and alive posture that we can take in living out our life."

~Kosho Uchiyama

(from the article What is a Bodhisattvas)

"What the world needs more than anything is Bodhisattvas, active servants of peace, “clothed,” as Longchenpa said, “in the armor of perseverance,” dedicated to their Bodhisattva vision and to the spreading of wisdom into all reaches of our experience. We need Bodhisattva lawyers, Bodhisattva artists and politicians, Bodhisattva doctors and economists, Bodhisattva teachers and scientists, Bodhisattva technicians and engineers, Bodhisattvas everywhere, working consciously as channels of compassion and wisdom at every level and in every situation of society; working to transform their minds and actions and those of others, working tirelessly in the certain knowledge of the support of the Buddhas and enlightened beings for the preservation of our world and for a more merciful future."

Wisdom- leo buscaglia/osho

“Every single time you help somebody stand up 

you are helping humanity rise.”

~Steve Maraboli

(Life, the Truth, and Being Free)

~*~

“I will be generous with my love today. 

I will sprinkle compliments and uplifting words 

everywhere I go. 

I will do this knowing 

that my words are like seeds 

and when they fall on fertile soil, 

a reflection of those seeds 

will grow into something greater.”

~Steve Maraboli

(Life, the Truth, and Being Free)

~*~

“We all are so deeply interconnected; 

we have no option but to love all. 

Be kind and do good for any one 

and that will be reflected. 

The ripples of the kind heart 

are the highest blessings of the Universe.”

~Amit Ray

(Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style)

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. ... No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive...”

~Martha Graham

“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”

~Osho

“Don't spend your precious time asking 

"Why isn't the world a better place?" 

It will only be time wasted. 

The question to ask is 

"How can I make it better?" 

To that there is an answer.”

~Leo Buscaglia

~*~

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, 

it only saps today of its joy.”

~Leo Buscaglia

~*~

“The easiest thing to be in the world is you. 

The most difficult thing to be 

is what other people want you to be. 

Don't let them put you in that position.”

~Leo Buscaglia

~*~

“Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. 

They steal your energy and keep you from love.”

~Leo Buscaglia

~*~

"I am often accused of being childish.I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things.  I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish.  I still listen to instinctual urges.  I play with leaves.  I skip down the street and run against the wind.  I never water my garden without soaking myself.  It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work."

~Leo Buscaglia

(Bus 9 to Paradise)

“There is no exercise better for the heart 

than reaching down and lifting people up.”

~John Holmes

~*~

“Even the smallest act of caring for another person 

is like a drop of water -

it will make ripples throughout the entire pond.”

~Jessy and Bryan Matteo

~*~

“Never underestimate 

the difference you can make in the lives of others. 

Step forward, reach out and help. 

This week reach to someone that might need a lift.”

~Pablo

~*~

“I believe that love expands. 

As you give love out, 

it’s received and reciprocated and it grows. 

That’s the beauty of it.”

~Hill Harper

MEME: The cure for treason

The human hand and angles

QUOTE: The object of life

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. 

- Marcus Aurelius

QUOTE: Don't worry if you're making waves

Don't worry if you're making waves simply by being yourself. The Moon does it all the time. --Scott Stabile

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QUOTE: CEOs of the world's largest corporations

"CEOs of most of the world's largest corporations daily make decisions that destroy the lives of many other human beings. Only about 1 to 3 percent of us are sociopaths - people who don't have normal human feelings and can easily go to sleep at night after having done horrific things. And of that 1 percent of sociopaths, there's probably only a fraction of a percent with a college education. And of that tiny fraction, there's an even tinier fraction that understands how business works, particularly within any specific industry. Thus there is such a shortage of people who can run modern monopolistic, destructive corporations that stockholders have to pay millions to get them to work. And being sociopaths, they gladly take the money without any thought to its social consequences." -- 

Thom Hartman

Brexit Quotes from the General public - to add to

LastOfTheDruids
If MPs do not honour the referendum result on 29th March and get Britain out of the EU they will no longer have any mandate. Tens of millions millions of people will no recognise the House of Commons as a sovereign body. They will have brought democracy in the UK to an abrupt end because of their own selfishness and inability to get one simple thing done.

HardBr3xit
The EU leaders have been irresponsible by allowing their selfish greed to mean a perfectly good and productive trading club became something far bigger and more shadowy- an empire building power hungry group of self serving bureaucrats in Brussels, who's aim is to demise the nation states. Fact.

Dave
Let the rest of the 27 countries of Europe have a referendum especially France and Germany, let¿s see the devide across Europe it will be bigger than the UK

Asgoodasitgets
Yes we are smart enough and if it is NO Deal then we will be resilient enough too, we will keep calm and carry on.

Sarah Gruntbuggle
What is really funny is that if the dutch, the french and the germans who are so fond of having their little digs at us on these forums for daring to leave their beloved socialist superstate were not so thick, they would realise that they are perfect examples of why we voted to leave!

Coherence
Brexit is not a vote for nationalism, it's a vote for getting back democracy to enable citizens to control the laws that govern them. The EU is fundamentally democratically flawed and the main people running it like Junker, Tusk and Martin Selmayr were not voted for by any European citizen so European citizens can't get rid of them. The only way currently to get back democracy from EU is to leave because they're not going to give up their unelected power voluntarily.

MollyDog46
Labour and conservatives agreed to adhere to the referendum outcome which is written in law that without a deal the default position is no deal. Neither party have come up with an acceptable deal and a short extension would achieve nothing as politicians can¿t agree to disagree. How therefore can any politician vote to take no deal off the table when this is the legal default position.

My Godfathers
So Corbyn doesn't support the democratic process. He's got much more in common with Kim Jong un 
than I thought

KLondon
our Parliament is filled by small men and women, most of whom have never had a proper job, taken real decisions or had any responsibility. Most of them cannot earn a living other than as MPs and they hold the electorate in contempt. When MPs started seeing politics as a career and not Public service, we were on the slippery slope and that has needed with this. If we do not leave on 29 March at 11:00pm, Britain will have been betrayed by the very people who should be leading by example. People we will never again respect. They need to do their duty

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