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NAMASTE
I honor the place in you
in which the entire universe dwells.
I honor the place in you
which is of love, of truth,
of light, and of peace.
When you are in
that place in you,
and I am in
that place in me,
We are One.

Namaste

"FOR ALL OF LIFE EXISTS AS A TOOL

OF YOUR OWN CREATION AND

ALL OF ITS EVENTS MERELY PRESENT

THEMSELVES AS

OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOU TO DECIDE,

AND BE,

WHO YOU ARE."

	"Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize its oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism."
	Mohandas K. Gandhi

	If we are willing to stand fully in our own shoes and never give up on ourselves. Then we will be able to put ourselves in the shoes of others and never give up on them. True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than but from ourselves realizing our kinship with all beings.
	Prema Chodron Start Where You Are

The Two Commandments for the Molecular Age

Thou shalt not alter the consciousness of thy fellow men.

Thou shalt not prevent thy fellow man from altering his or her own consciousness.

Articulated by Dr. Timothy Leary, Ph.D. Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension

The Rest is Commentary ...

The Talmud tells a story of Rabbi Hillel, who lived around the time of Christ.
A pagan came to him saying that he would convert to
Judaism if Hillel could teach him the whole of the Torah
in the time he could stand on one foot.

Hillel replied, "What is hateful to yourself, do not do to your fellow man.
That is the whole Torah; the rest is just commentary. Go and study it."

FIRST TRUTH
THE NOBLE TRUTH OF SUFFERING

Birth is suffering; Decay is suffering; Death is suffering; Sorrow, Lamentation, Pain, Grief, and Despair, are suffering; not to get what one desires, is suffering; in short: the Five Groups of Existence are suffering.

SECOND TRUTH
THE NOBLE TRUTH OF THE ORIGIN OF SUFFERING

It is that craving which gives rise to fresh rebirth, and, bound up with pleasure and lust, now here, now there, finds ever fresh delight.

THIRD TRUTH
THE NOBLE TRUTH OF THE EXTINCTION OF SUFFERING
It is the complete fading away and extinction of this craving, its forsaking and giving up, the liberation and detachment from it.

FOURTH TRUTH
THE NOBLE TRUTH OF THE PATH
THAT LEADS TO THE EXTINCTION OF SUFFERING

THE TWO EXTREMES AND THE MIDDLE PATH

TO GIVE oneself up to indulgence in sensual pleasure, the base, common, vulgar, unholy, unprofitable; and also to give oneself up to self-mortification, the painful, unholy, unprofitable: both these two extremes the Perfect One has avoided, and found out the Middle Path, which makes one both to see and to know, which leads to peace, to discernment, to enlightenment, to Nirvana.

THE EIGHTFOLD PATH

Right Understanding,
Right Mindedness,

which together are Wisdom.
Right Speech,
Right Action,
Right Living,

which together are Morality.
Right Effort,
Right Attentiveness,
Right Concentration,

which together are Concentration.

This is the Middle Path which the Perfect One has found out, which makes one both to see and to know, which leads to peace, to discernment, to enlightenment, to Nirvana.

Free from pain and torture is this path, free from groaning and suffering; it is the perfect path.

Truly, like this path there is no other path to the purity of insight. If you follow this path, you will put an end to suffering.

But each one has to struggle for himself,
the Perfect Ones have only pointed out the way.

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