The Key to Happiness

The key to happiness ties right into all the other questions such as is there a god? where did we come from? is there reincarnation?  So number one the key to happiness is to know the truth regarding all of those questions.  If we are to be truly happy, to buble over with joy every day from sun up to sun down with the constant amazement at the miraculaous everlasting beauty of our unresstrained and eternal voyage through the casms of space and time creating and experiencing and striving on and on, we have to know that we can.  We can not be happy if we believe there is no point to being alive.  We can not be happy if we belief we will live once and then dissapear into the nothingness forever.  Some people comfort themselves by beleiving they dissolve into the universe. But I don't think people will truly experience the joy of creating untill they start creating is a truly independant way, and the only way to think conpletely independantly is by beleivein that this life is not the only chance. we have to feel confortable doing one thing here and knowing that we will one day get a change to experience another existence in another life in the future.  or be able to justify a reason for not wanting a certain life now because we already lived it in the future.  When we think with so many open possibilities we are no longer stressed trying to achieve something in this life before a certain date or else we have lost our chance forever. 

 The real issue here is how do we know when to relax and not work because we don't have to worry about completing anything now but stay motivated to work to keep evolving?  the answer is the drive is a god given urge that can not be taken away from you and so you have to just do what you want to.  The problem now is that all of the rules of life are changing 180 degrees so we are stuck in a kind of limbo where we need to realize that we need to conciously make the effort to change the rules and continue on a more independant course. 

Ignore the Devil

To teach God, teach only God, to bring God into presence, bring God only into presence, for God doesn't need the Devil, the environments in Peril? Be an environmentalist. The races are in peril? Preach to the racists. This world isn't in tethers its coming to together, a beautiful sight, races together without a fight people learning English and everything else from their dishes. About the common goal, Serbs can't kill without everyone to know, and UN keeping tyrants in control. and ideas spreading through movies and music, now America but soon the Soviets will spread Gods culture for everyone to see. The worlds culture steadily refined into equality use this to teach God, Christ's vision of success and love conquers all, teach the bible only positively and you won't fall God doesn't know hell so why should you dwell in something Godless, I see for in your eyes, unless you forget the Devil and show that Gods love is willing and able to clear this world of Greed and trouble. The prodigal son teach's you should teach people with problems, focus on them, those people with problems, focus on them, those of us who are happy, believe in The evil tenants- The 15th century Catholic church was the evil tenants fundamentalists who are condemning all others to Hell are the evil tenants, using the name of Christianity to spread fear and driving Gods children away from the house of love

Why it's better to believe

It is better to believe because it keeps doors open. When you disbelieve you close doors possibilities. Disbelief without reasons or alternatives is fear. In order to disbelieve, you must understand and to understand you must listen. People say 'I don't believe what I don't see', but they believe in the solar system and diseases, they give these issues so little thought it makes me wonder why they blindly chose to just disbelieve. It shuts conversations off before they can ripen, and accuses people who do belief of being naive or skating in circles, but that is just judgment, thinking your smarter because you don't believe. That goes along the same lines as a culture that has so many social taboos and forms of etiquette people must follow, that their creativity becomes stifled

Change the Paradigm!

We need to save the forests! Untouched forests, thousands of years in the making, are the only thing in the world that can support the beautiful biodiversity that we still have. We only have five percent of them left in America, yet the logging is increasing. It is expected to increase 16 percent next year in Colorado alone because of the 'Rescissions Bill'. There have been more extinction's in the last few generations than ever before, including the great dinosaur extinction's. Biologists say if we keep up the logging at this rate, in 10-15 years the forests of Colorado will PERMENANTLY lose their ability to support the life presently living here. Why are only a vast minority of people fighting against this destruction? Maybe it has something to do with the old paradigm of looking at the world: Since we first came here, we have killed millions upon millions of indigenous-thinking people. On top of that, we recruited the rich African tradition to slave for us for a couple hundred years. When slavery was finally abolished, people felt so strongly against it that an additional 600,000 people had to die. Change can happen. Think about how slavery is viewed now.

If you think about it, it is clear we are products of this old paradigm of looking at the world in an explorative way. If the whole world lived as Americans do, it would take about 30 Earths to sustain us. Is that morally just? In a poll taken, 79% of us agreed 'that the long term health of public forests should not be compromised by the short-term need for natural resources'. Why do we keep subsidizing the timber industry's one billion dollar a year budget?! We should put that money to all the alternatives out there. Things need to change, and we aren't helpless, a majority instead of a minority of us need to spend our spare time being active, there is only one way to bring about this needed change, it is for more of us to join the cause. Register with the Green party and be ultimately active. Do your part to change the paradigm!

It's all in the mind

The secret to success is all in the mind. The difference between doing it tough and not doing it at all is a mere line to cross, the flip of a coin, the decision whether to do it or not. Except not necessarily always. This morning I went to the gym by myself because Mike wussed out. I didn't feel totally motivated, so when I went into the gym, I only lifted a couple of things and then didn't even swim because I couldn't bust the groove and there was nothing I could do about it. I don't feel bad because I know I busted the cap good to go there in the first place, and it is my situation that made me wuss out, knowing how exceptionally sensitive to situations I am. That means I pay attention to the situation I am in, and most importantly I care. When I am jacked I am super strong. If I can stay jacked I can be the strongest person in the world. I feel like my life is starting. I know my life is starting. So, the moral of the story is that the key to being rocked is to put yourself in a rocking situation in the first place, then rock it out from there. And most importantly, don't get down on yourself if you aren't rocking when your situation isn't, because the stress isn't worth it. When you rock you rock, and when you don't you don't.

Dualism

How to define the difference between the non dualistic mind and the discerning mind? Keep emotion out of it. don't let it through you. and what is the difference between the empty mind the seeking mind? Just when which one is appropriate. They feed off of each other. It is better to have a balance between the two than struggle with a constantly fidgeting mind that thinks up useless schemes and worries and wears itself out at
the same time. Addressing how certain lessons are appropriate for some and not others. Of course this is true because lessons come in stages because of peoples inherent skepticism and fear of things, they wouldn't know where advanced information would connect, and how it is different from something that is truly cooky. Basic laws must first be in place for all. The most important being 1) Freedom of speech, the first amendment. If this was cherished the way it should, then people would be much more used to brushing nutty theory aside and accepting the plethora of what they want, and be more educated, because new information wouldn't seem so avant guard. New styles wouldn't belong to the brave, but the truly inventive.