An Anthem for the Young: Power to the People v2

Yoriyos on YouTube, Hurricane John

Yoriyos on YouTube

Check out Yoriyos on Youtube, the song is Hurricane John from his first and only album Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee:
Hurricane John by Yoriyos.

From Age of Reason--Paine

As it is necessary to affix right ideas to words, I will, before I proceed further into the subject, offer some other observations on the word revelation. Revelation, when applied to religion, means something communicated immediately from God to man.

No one will deny or dispute the power of the Almighty to make such a communication, if he pleases. But admitting, for the sake of a case, that something has been revealed to a certain person, and not revealed to any other person, it is revelation to that person only. When he tells it to a second person, a second to a third, a third to a fourth, and so on, it ceases to be a revelation to all those persons. It is revelation to the first person only, and hearsay to every other, and consequently they are not obliged to believe it.

It is a contradiction in terms and ideas, to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second-hand, either verbally or in writing. Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication — after this, it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation made to him; and though he may find himself obliged to believe it, it cannot be incumbent on me to believe it in the same manner; for it was not a revelation made to me, and I have only his word for it that it was made to him.

When Moses told the children of Israel that he received the two tables of the commandments from the hands of God, they were not obliged to believe him, because they had no other authority for it than his telling them so; and I have no other authority for it than some historian telling me so. The commandments carry no internal evidence of divinity with them; they contain some good moral precepts, such as any man qualified to be a lawgiver, or a legislator, could produce himself, without having recourse to supernatural intervention.

What could qualify as "internal evidence of divinity?"

Kant (using others), sanguine, Dalai Lama, scrumping

"Kant famously articulated the principle that a rational being should never be used as merely an unconsenting means to an end, even the end of benefiting others."

sanguine Meaning "cheerful, hopeful, confident" first attested 1509, since these qualities were thought in medieval physiology to spring from an excess of blood as one of the four humors.

"If it was possible to become free of negative emotions by a riskless
implementation of an electrode - without impairing intelligence and
the critical mind - I would be the first patient."
Dalai Lama (Society for Neuroscience Congress, Nov. 2005)

scrumping The act of stealing apples from a cider orchard.
Kind of silly when you think that our alleged original sin was merely an act of scrumping.

Ulysses and Faith

You should approach Joyce's "Ulysses" as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
-- William Faulkner

Koan of Spiritual Life, Jamais Vu

"How to become just what we are? That is the conundrum, the koan of spiritual life."

"déjà vu or its opposite, jamais vu - the feeling, during a familiar routine, that we're doing it for the first time"

Motivation

“Really what we mean … when we say that someone is ‘naturally gifted’ is that they practice a lot, that they want to practice a lot, that they like to practice a lot.”--Gladwell
Is motivation the greatest talent?

interconnected intersubjective mind field matrix

"Its an interconnected intersubjective mind field matrix we live in"
"our brain is a match for the multiverse"
buddha saw through himself and realized that he was a "relational nexus, a presence within a world of interrelationships."
--Robert Thurman

A Different Perspective

A different perspective: "The basic purpose of education, for instance, is to gain happiness and avoid misery".
Dalai Lama, Stages of Meditation pg 37

Sing Along

Sing Along

Deep inside the forest
Is a door into another land
Here is our life and home
We are staying, here forever
In the beauty of this place all alone
We keep on hopin'

Maybe
There's a world where we don't have to run
And maybe
There's a time we'll call our own
Livin' free in harmony and majesty
Take me home
Take me home

Walkin' through the land
Where every living thing is beautiful
Why does it have to end
We are calling, oh so sadly
On the whispers of the wind
As we send, a dying message

Maybe
There's a world where we don't have to run
Maybe
There's a time we'll call our own
Livin' free in harmony and majesty
Take me home
Take me home

(Maybe)
There's a world where we don't have to run
Maybe
There's a time we'll call our own
Livin' free in harmony and majesty
Take me ho.

Post-Secret Society

PostSecret Blog .
Maybe we live in a post-secret society?
What are we hiding from?

Peace, pass it on.

Peace, pass it on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXeLIrdBhlo

One Day at a Time - Yusuf Islam

one day at at time
we can learn to leave the past behind
one day at at time
we can look the future in the eye
one day at at time
we can learn to live
ouhou...
the gates of the garden are open
ouhou...
wide and entrusting (?-3:47)
ouhou...
seventy thousand will enter
ouhou...
of them without reckoning
one day at a time
we can learn to leave our fears behind
one day at a time
we can stare our hopes in the eye
one day at a time
we can learn to live
ouhou...
and if you meet the evening
don't wait for the sun to rise
one day at a time
we can leave all treasures behind
one day at a time
we can watch the clocks unwind
one day at a time
a child is born into this world
eyes bind
one day he will find
his sight
and glimpse another kind of light
to live by
one day
one day at a time
we can put machines behind
one day at a time
we can learn how birds survive
one day at a time
we can learn to fly

the day after disaster

good things happen
(whether we see it or not):
half the perfect world was formed September 12
benjamin was born september 12
the day after disaster, september 11
911
912
911
In Ramadan, the ninth month, the Qur'an was given.

From Madeleine (Peyroux)

on that fundamental ground
where love's
unwilled
unleashed
unbound
and half the perfect world
is found

Phrases

Bismillah, (“Bis-mi-la”) means “In the name of God”.
Expression used to acknowledge God.

Alhamdulillah, Alhamdullah, ("Al-ham-do-la") means, “Thank God”
Expression used to praise God for everything that happens.

Allahu Akbar, ("Al-a-hoo-Akbar") means, “God is the greatest”
Expression used to say that God is the greatest thing there is.

Masha'Allah, ("Ma-sha-Ala") means, “God has willed it”.
Expression used to glorify God for anything with which one is pleased.

Insha'Allah, ("In-sha-Ala") means, “God willing”.
Expression used when you expect or promise to do something or hope something will happen.

From Mountain of Light

My Peace Book:

The Prophet, peace be upon him, said, "You will not enter heaven until you believe; and you will not believe until you love one another. Should I not guide you to a thing that if you do it will increase love amongst you? Spread "As salam' (peace be with you)."
...
There is a prayer that the Prophet, peace be upon him, taught, "Oh Allah! Your are Peace, from You comes Peace, So help us to live in Peace, Oh owner of Majesty and Honour'.