Prisoner Sues Oregon County Over Forced Religion
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Last sentence deals with AA
Monday, May 25, 2009
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Twitter / Home: "Resentment is not getting my way in the past;
anger is not getting my way in the present;
& fear is not getting my way in the future
anger is not getting my way in the present;
& fear is not getting my way in the future
Thursday, April 09, 2009
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Knees, Chest, and Chin Yoga Pose- Ashtanga Namaskara Yoga Pose
Also known as: Salute with Eight Limbs
Type of pose: Backbend
Benefits: Increases the flexibility of the spine.
Knees, Chest and Chin is usually done as part of the Sun Salutation vinyasa sequence. It is can be done as an alternative to Chaturanga Dandasana in the sequence for beginners.
Instructions:
1. From Plank position, drop the knees to the floor.
2. Bring the chest and chin forward and down to the floor, placing the chest right between the hands.
3. Keep the elbows hugging into your sides.
4. The hips should stay high.
Beginners: This pose is like a half push-up, and will help you build the arm strength necessary to move onto Chaturanga Dandasana
Advanced: You may want to include Knees, Chest, and Chin in your first few Sun Salutations as you warm up before going on to Chaturanga.
Also known as: Salute with Eight Limbs
Type of pose: Backbend
Benefits: Increases the flexibility of the spine.
Knees, Chest and Chin is usually done as part of the Sun Salutation vinyasa sequence. It is can be done as an alternative to Chaturanga Dandasana in the sequence for beginners.
Instructions:
1. From Plank position, drop the knees to the floor.
2. Bring the chest and chin forward and down to the floor, placing the chest right between the hands.
3. Keep the elbows hugging into your sides.
4. The hips should stay high.
Beginners: This pose is like a half push-up, and will help you build the arm strength necessary to move onto Chaturanga Dandasana
Advanced: You may want to include Knees, Chest, and Chin in your first few Sun Salutations as you warm up before going on to Chaturanga.
Dharma Tweets: Recovered DharmaTweets
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BuddhaHumor: If yoga twists you into a pretzel does buying a pretzel twist you into a yoga position?Today's Koan: Can one become too attached to getting rid of one's attachments?Month ago, by accident, for a few minutes, I understood the universe & was @ peace. As great as it was, I cannot be attached to a return.Today's Koan. Inspired by singer/songwriter Jimmy Webb's "All I Know." When the singer's gone does the song go on?My dogs Tot & Thunder lie in the morning sun at peace, untroubled about the past, unconcerned about the future. They are canine bodisattvas.Today's Koan: If Shakespeare wrote in Tweets rather than Sonnets, would a rose still smell as sweet?I met a scientist who studies lightning & shoots high speed video of strikes. His video shows moments within moments of strkes. That's Zen.Heard 89 year old WWII fighter pilot talk about dog fights & close calls. Said after all the's been thru, nothing bothers him. That's Zen.Like most prisoners I meet, my new client was desperate, desperate for hope. But desperation is suffering's cousin and we are all related.An I-90 Zen Tail. A redtail hawk perches on road sign and silently surveys his sun-filled short grass prairie domain. Just being, perfectly.If you can't find your way to loving kindness to someone yet, start with liking kindness. If not, then simple civility. Start where you can.It is easy to get caught up in the anger of others. Remember, anger is just a manifestation of suffering. Try to see the suffering.Our future shines before us brightly like a star. Try believing that and see what happens.It sounds counter-intuitive. But try to strive less and live more and let what may come. You might be surprised at your results.I think the anticipate of the snow storm is worse than the actual snow storm. But then again, you don't have to shovel anticipation but you do have to shovel hardened precipitation.Sure, it's a funny line from Buckaroo Bonzai: "Where ever you go, there you are." But it's true. You are always there in that exact moment.Plans, memories, and judgments are the clouds that pass across the clear blue sky of our mindfulness.Your suffering, my suffering, everyone's suffering are all tears in the same rain. Buddhism can be your umbrella from that suffering.Nothing is ever done outside of the present moment. We can recall the past and we can plan the future but life only happens right now.While on a walk, I saw a man with a power washer. Meditation is like a power washer that removes the everyday grime from our minds.Spring uncovers what we have forgotten or have seen but not seen. Think spring as a time to start your dharma practice.Gil Fronsdal says it's enough to just be alive. So be alive. And alive in each moment is possibility and wonder.Just finished walking meditation with the dogs. There was lots of barking.Then my dogs started making noise. By the end, we were all calmer!The Eagles say we live our lives in chains but we have the key. Think of Buddhism as your kindly neighborhood locksmith to help you unlock.You know the way you are? Don't be that way said Lou Grant to Ted Baxter. Or be that way if that is your Buddha nature. Be true to yourself.Our minds are often in a fog. But just beyond the fog is a bright sun & blue sky.Buddhism helps us blow away the fog to find that clarity.My pets live in mindfulness. Eat, play, sleep. Repeat as needed. And that is without years of practice.Most of us strive to become. But what we really need for true happiness is to just be.Memories are our reservoir of past events, lived in that moment, recalled in this moment.Do not ignore your shenpa--anxiety, unease, tightness, stickiness. The first step to overcoming it is to recognize it and embrace it.Nothing is ever done outside of the present moment. We can recall the past and we can plan the future but life only happens right now.Gil Fronsdal asks what are you will to give up so to be just a bit freer? Maybe a bad economy is a blessing if it helps rid us attachments.The search for enlightenment is not an outer search but an inner search. It's there.You just have to find it, like a lost key you misplaced.We all suffer. But our suffering is not our own or someone else's. It is all our suffering. It is all the same suffering.That Twitter would eat the DharmaTweets feed is a painful yet funny reminder of the impermanence of everything--especially Buddhist Tweets.Important safety tip: do not become attached to free services, expecting them to save your stuff. Twitter ate my DharmaTweets feed.
BuddhaHumor: If yoga twists you into a pretzel does buying a pretzel twist you into a yoga position?Today's Koan: Can one become too attached to getting rid of one's attachments?Month ago, by accident, for a few minutes, I understood the universe & was @ peace. As great as it was, I cannot be attached to a return.Today's Koan. Inspired by singer/songwriter Jimmy Webb's "All I Know." When the singer's gone does the song go on?My dogs Tot & Thunder lie in the morning sun at peace, untroubled about the past, unconcerned about the future. They are canine bodisattvas.Today's Koan: If Shakespeare wrote in Tweets rather than Sonnets, would a rose still smell as sweet?I met a scientist who studies lightning & shoots high speed video of strikes. His video shows moments within moments of strkes. That's Zen.Heard 89 year old WWII fighter pilot talk about dog fights & close calls. Said after all the's been thru, nothing bothers him. That's Zen.Like most prisoners I meet, my new client was desperate, desperate for hope. But desperation is suffering's cousin and we are all related.An I-90 Zen Tail. A redtail hawk perches on road sign and silently surveys his sun-filled short grass prairie domain. Just being, perfectly.If you can't find your way to loving kindness to someone yet, start with liking kindness. If not, then simple civility. Start where you can.It is easy to get caught up in the anger of others. Remember, anger is just a manifestation of suffering. Try to see the suffering.Our future shines before us brightly like a star. Try believing that and see what happens.It sounds counter-intuitive. But try to strive less and live more and let what may come. You might be surprised at your results.I think the anticipate of the snow storm is worse than the actual snow storm. But then again, you don't have to shovel anticipation but you do have to shovel hardened precipitation.Sure, it's a funny line from Buckaroo Bonzai: "Where ever you go, there you are." But it's true. You are always there in that exact moment.Plans, memories, and judgments are the clouds that pass across the clear blue sky of our mindfulness.Your suffering, my suffering, everyone's suffering are all tears in the same rain. Buddhism can be your umbrella from that suffering.Nothing is ever done outside of the present moment. We can recall the past and we can plan the future but life only happens right now.While on a walk, I saw a man with a power washer. Meditation is like a power washer that removes the everyday grime from our minds.Spring uncovers what we have forgotten or have seen but not seen. Think spring as a time to start your dharma practice.Gil Fronsdal says it's enough to just be alive. So be alive. And alive in each moment is possibility and wonder.Just finished walking meditation with the dogs. There was lots of barking.Then my dogs started making noise. By the end, we were all calmer!The Eagles say we live our lives in chains but we have the key. Think of Buddhism as your kindly neighborhood locksmith to help you unlock.You know the way you are? Don't be that way said Lou Grant to Ted Baxter. Or be that way if that is your Buddha nature. Be true to yourself.Our minds are often in a fog. But just beyond the fog is a bright sun & blue sky.Buddhism helps us blow away the fog to find that clarity.My pets live in mindfulness. Eat, play, sleep. Repeat as needed. And that is without years of practice.Most of us strive to become. But what we really need for true happiness is to just be.Memories are our reservoir of past events, lived in that moment, recalled in this moment.Do not ignore your shenpa--anxiety, unease, tightness, stickiness. The first step to overcoming it is to recognize it and embrace it.Nothing is ever done outside of the present moment. We can recall the past and we can plan the future but life only happens right now.Gil Fronsdal asks what are you will to give up so to be just a bit freer? Maybe a bad economy is a blessing if it helps rid us attachments.The search for enlightenment is not an outer search but an inner search. It's there.You just have to find it, like a lost key you misplaced.We all suffer. But our suffering is not our own or someone else's. It is all our suffering. It is all the same suffering.That Twitter would eat the DharmaTweets feed is a painful yet funny reminder of the impermanence of everything--especially Buddhist Tweets.Important safety tip: do not become attached to free services, expecting them to save your stuff. Twitter ate my DharmaTweets feed.
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
"Tough Guise" by Jackson Katz
Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity:
While the social construction of femininity has been widely examined, the dominant role of masculinity has until recently remained largely invisible. Tough Guise is the first educational video geared toward college and high school students to systematically examine the relationship between pop-cultural imagery and the social construction of masculine identities in the U.S. at the dawn of the 21st century. In this innovative and wide-ranging analysis, Jackson Katz argues that widespread violence in American society, including the tragic school shootings in Littleton, Colorado, Jonesboro, Arkansas, and elsewhere, needs to be understood as part of an ongoing crisis in masculinity. This exciting new media literacy tool-- utilizing racially diverse subject matter and examples-- will enlighten and provoke students (both males and females) to evaluate their own participation in the culture of contemporary masculinity.
Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity:
While the social construction of femininity has been widely examined, the dominant role of masculinity has until recently remained largely invisible. Tough Guise is the first educational video geared toward college and high school students to systematically examine the relationship between pop-cultural imagery and the social construction of masculine identities in the U.S. at the dawn of the 21st century. In this innovative and wide-ranging analysis, Jackson Katz argues that widespread violence in American society, including the tragic school shootings in Littleton, Colorado, Jonesboro, Arkansas, and elsewhere, needs to be understood as part of an ongoing crisis in masculinity. This exciting new media literacy tool-- utilizing racially diverse subject matter and examples-- will enlighten and provoke students (both males and females) to evaluate their own participation in the culture of contemporary masculinity.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
A short 3 months ago...
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gr8fuldaniel says;
Lindsay Lohan was arrested again this morning... I hope she can finally admit she has a problem.
Will it take many years, like it took for me, of destructive drug and alcohol abuse?
The first step in recovery is admission.
"We admitted...", but before we can admit there is a process of acceptance.
Acceptance requires a paradigm shift in the psyche, whereby we can not grow until we accept where we are.
If Lindsay thinks rehab is weird... wait until she gets a taste of prison or starts losing certain priveledges and rights.
I will pray for her.
Yes, recovery seems weird especially when you are there for the wrong reason.
The "wrong reason" is being there to please somebody elses requirement. (Like the law or a boss, or even a spouse)
We can awake to the idea, that this (AA) is the most viable solution for people like us. The moment of clarity can come at any time. Perhaps she will be sitting in a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous and she will hear somebody tell her story. She will be able to relate on a personal level and finally say, "Yes, I too have this problem, what can I do to fix it". Addiction is a fatal disease... but you can get off the descending elevator on any level.
WE CARE! (Is that really so weird?)
Last editted Aug. 7, 2007
ETonline.com: Lindsay Lohan Calls Rehab 'Weird'
April 18, 2007
"It's so weird that I went to rehab," Lindsay says.
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The 20-year-old actress says she has no plans to give up the nightlife.
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LINDSAY LOHAN speaks out on rehab in a revealing interview in the new Allure magazine, on stands next Tuesday.
The 20-year-old talks about her recent trip to rehab, saying, "It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said I would die before I went to rehab."
Even though she's under the legal drinking age, Lindsay says she has no intention of giving up her late-night club hopping.
"That's my life!" she says.
In fact, she tells the magazine -- after a year of attending AA meetings -- "I don't know that I'm necessarily an addict."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
gr8fuldaniel says;
Lindsay Lohan was arrested again this morning... I hope she can finally admit she has a problem.
Will it take many years, like it took for me, of destructive drug and alcohol abuse?
The first step in recovery is admission.
"We admitted...", but before we can admit there is a process of acceptance.
Acceptance requires a paradigm shift in the psyche, whereby we can not grow until we accept where we are.
If Lindsay thinks rehab is weird... wait until she gets a taste of prison or starts losing certain priveledges and rights.
I will pray for her.
Yes, recovery seems weird especially when you are there for the wrong reason.
The "wrong reason" is being there to please somebody elses requirement. (Like the law or a boss, or even a spouse)
We can awake to the idea, that this (AA) is the most viable solution for people like us. The moment of clarity can come at any time. Perhaps she will be sitting in a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous and she will hear somebody tell her story. She will be able to relate on a personal level and finally say, "Yes, I too have this problem, what can I do to fix it". Addiction is a fatal disease... but you can get off the descending elevator on any level.
WE CARE! (Is that really so weird?)
Last editted Aug. 7, 2007
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Study Finds 5 Types Of Alcoholics, Research Also Shows More Than Half Of U.S. Alcoholics Are Young Adults - CBS News
Study Finds 5 Types Of Alcoholics, Research Also Shows More Than Half Of U.S. Alcoholics Are Young Adults - CBS News
The study describes five subtypes of alcoholics.
The young adult subtype accounts for about 32 percent of U.S. alcoholics. They're young adults who rarely seek help for alcohol dependence. About 24 years old, they became alcoholics by age 20, on average. They drink less frequently than other alcoholics, but they tend to binge drink when they drink. This is the largest subtype.
The young antisocial subtype comprises 21 percent of U.S. alcoholics. They are 26 years old, on average. More than half have antisocial personality disorder. They tended to start drinking at 15 and became alcoholics by 18 — earlier than other subtypes. They are
more likely to smoke tobacco and pot. The young antisocial subtype and the young adult subtype don't overlap, Moss tells WebMD.
The functional subtype accounts for about 19 percent of U.S. alcoholics. They're generally middle-aged, working adults who tend to have stable relationships, more education, and higher incomes than other alcoholics. They tend to drink every other day, often consuming five or more drinks on drinking days.
The intermediate familial subtype makes up nearly 19 percent of U.S. alcoholics. Nearly half have close relatives who are alcoholics. Alcoholics in this subtype typically began drinking by 17 and became alcoholics in their early 30s.
The chronic severe subtype is the rarest subtype, accounting for about 9 percent of U.S. alcoholics. This subtype mainly includes men, has the highest divorce rate, and frequently includes users of illicit drugs.
The study describes five subtypes of alcoholics.
The young adult subtype accounts for about 32 percent of U.S. alcoholics. They're young adults who rarely seek help for alcohol dependence. About 24 years old, they became alcoholics by age 20, on average. They drink less frequently than other alcoholics, but they tend to binge drink when they drink. This is the largest subtype.
The young antisocial subtype comprises 21 percent of U.S. alcoholics. They are 26 years old, on average. More than half have antisocial personality disorder. They tended to start drinking at 15 and became alcoholics by 18 — earlier than other subtypes. They are
more likely to smoke tobacco and pot. The young antisocial subtype and the young adult subtype don't overlap, Moss tells WebMD.
The functional subtype accounts for about 19 percent of U.S. alcoholics. They're generally middle-aged, working adults who tend to have stable relationships, more education, and higher incomes than other alcoholics. They tend to drink every other day, often consuming five or more drinks on drinking days.
The intermediate familial subtype makes up nearly 19 percent of U.S. alcoholics. Nearly half have close relatives who are alcoholics. Alcoholics in this subtype typically began drinking by 17 and became alcoholics in their early 30s.
The chronic severe subtype is the rarest subtype, accounting for about 9 percent of U.S. alcoholics. This subtype mainly includes men, has the highest divorce rate, and frequently includes users of illicit drugs.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Democracy Forums Topic: Michael Bloomberg 2008
The topic turns to his restaurant smoking ban.
See my post #61 at the top of page. (I post as "DANG" there)
A cautionary tale.
WARNING gross pics of throat cancer, a pregnant woman smoking and the paint huffer guy!!
The topic turns to his restaurant smoking ban.
See my post #61 at the top of page. (I post as "DANG" there)
A cautionary tale.
WARNING gross pics of throat cancer, a pregnant woman smoking and the paint huffer guy!!
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