“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”

― Albert Einstein

Buddhism as a "Science of the Mind"

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

Scientists Proclaim Animal and Human Consciousness the Same

Very, very cool- but how could consciousness really differ?

Meditation tone

The rhythm slowly gets slower.
try to match your breath to a two cycle in, two cycle out kind of pace.
It gets reeeaaal slow, very relaxing.

Mark Twain Quote

Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is. I dunno. If the Eiffel tower were now representing the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle-knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; & anybody would perceive that that skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would. I dunno.
- "Was the World Made for Man?"

Mark Twain

The Nature of Existence - Original Trailer

Fantastic movie, its on Netflix.

Cosmic Connections

Allot of good stuff here, take it slow.

Michio Kaku: The Universe in a Nutshell

That is not dead which can eternal lie, yet with stranger aeons, even Death may die.

H.P. Lovecraft

In the belief of reincarnation, the "soul" is constantly passing into new bodies and the space in between births is thought to be seemingly short to the living and very long to the deceased (It is believed that the longer you stay in a meditative state of peace while living the space between death and life shortens,) this is why you cannot remember pasty lives, they feel VERY distant.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci

Space Tree

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein

An Introduction to the Transcendental Meditation Program

Working A 9-5 Job is Not For Everyone—Doing What Works For You!

An Answer to Existential Questions

A change in the weather 
is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
Marcel Proust

Anger is weakness, not strength.

EB

MICROCOSMOS FULL we are gods to these creatures

We are gods to the tiny creatures all around and even on and in us- we are impossibly large and seemingly undying. We could crush or cultivate any number of them. Be a merciful god, tend to nature.

EB

Tao Te Ching                72
 
When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster.

Do not intrude in their homes.
Do not harrass them at work.
If you do not interfere, they will not weary of you.

Therefore the sage knows himself but makes no show,
Has self-respect but is not arrogant.
He lets go of that and chooses this.

“The world is like a ride in an amusement park. 

And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. 

And the ride goes up and down and round and round. 

It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. 

Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" 

And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." 

And we kill those people.”

 Bill Hicks

Geometrically Coded Magnets Behave Differently - Click HD Option and SEE...

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”
― Herman Melville

What is fire?

Connected | Trailer 2012

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: 

the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

Christopher Lasch

Andrew Cohen: The Epidemic of Narcissism

What we are

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Marilynne Robinson: The Threat of Neotribalism

The Arrow of Time feat. Sean Carroll

Part of the universe being born of a black hole

Entropy is lesser in the beginning of the universe because it came from a black hole. The black hole ripped matter down to it simplest elements and spit them into this new realm to cool, congeal and become more complex.

All war is deception.
Sun Tzu

The creation of a black hole is the creation of a new universe.

This is something that I have believed in for quite some time, it just makes sense when you look at it from a physics stand point.

A black hole by definition resides within a singularity, a thing which is cut off from EVERYTHING else, that little bit breaks off from our reality and starts a new one.

The new reality grows from matter being sucked into the singularity, the connection eventually fades as black hole don't last forever.

Michio Kaku Explains String Theory

Lakota

Lakota spirituality is based on the circle. The Lakota saw the journey of life and death as a circular process. They also interacted with one another in a circular fashion, rather than in a struggle for domination.

The Lakota even used the circle’s symbolism in their architecture. Their houses (which are known as tipis) had circular foundations.

"Everything the Power does, it does in a circle." Lakota Proverb

"Creation is continuous." Lakota Proverb

"I am standing at the Earth’s center." Lakota Proverb

"A man’s life is a circle from childhood to childhood, and thus it is in everything where the power moves." Black Elk

"The power of the world always works in circles." Black Elk

"The center of the universe is everywhere." Black Elk

The Lakota Indians


This is very similar to the teachings in the Tao

No Fear in the Now

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
Buddha

There's Nothing Wrong With You - The Empowered Human: 360 Senses!

War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.


Ignorance is strength.





George Orwell 1984

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/georgeorwe141783.html#UXzIi3xYCJz0PJHI.99

Genius

Indian Spiritual Guru @ TED India 2009 - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

From the Tao Te Ching

18

When the great Tao is forgotten,
Kindness and morality arise.
When wisdom and intelligence are born,
The great pretence begins.

When there is no peace within the family,
Filial piety and devotion arise.
When the country is confused and in chaos,
Loyal ministers appear.

Alan Watts: YHWH - "I AM THAT I AM"

Family

Don't Struggle To Make it - The Empowered Human: 360 Senses!

Possible proof of future affecting present
 Spooky quantum entanglement just got spookier.

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

- Dune

Polarity

If I were to have both a good attitude at times

and also a bad one at other times

am I not still ME at ALL times?

Or am I one person,

another person,

or just ONE complex being?

This is just like the cat in the box (in physics) being both alive and dead until observed. Positive and negative are perspective, so reality is more complex and subtle than just black and white.

Schrödinger's cat

-EB

Events

“…Sayings have a source,

events have a leader...”

From the Tao Te Ching

Hunab Ku

The Mayan glyph representing where in the sky the exact center of the galaxy was located named Hunab Ku was known to the Mayans as The Galactic Butterfly. Their entire cosmology and extremely accurate calendars were based on the existence and location of the center of the galaxy.

Seeking peace is most important when society embraces conflict.
-EB

FLOW

From the Tao Te Ching

Return is the movement of the way;

yielding is the function of the Way.

All things in the world are born of being;

being is born of non-being

“The day when we shall know exactly what “electricity” is, will chronicle an event probably greater, more important than any other recorded in the history of the human race. The time will come when the comfort, the very existence, perhaps, of man will depend upon that wonderful agent.”

Nikola Tesla

The Global Awakening - Returning to Mother Nature: There is No Where Els...

True democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the centre. It has to be worked from below by the people of every village.
 Mahatma Gandhi

Henry Rollins' Letter to a Young American (Part 2)

meditation

“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.”

 Swami Sivananda quotes

How to meditate

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein

The hope of a secure and liveable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

be happy

Underestimating

From the Tao Te Ching

“...No calamity is greater than underestimating opponents. If you underestimate opponents, you're close to losing your treasure...”

People's starvation

From the Tao Te Ching

When people are starving, it is because their governments take too much,
causing them to starve.
When people are hard to control,
It is because of the contrivances of their governments,
which make them hard to control.
When people slight death,
it is because of the earnestness with which they seek life;
that makes them slight death.
Only those who do not contrive to live are wise in valuing life.

There is no "Fourth" dimension

a little reminder

Why Nobody Can Trust The Mainstream Media - know where your info comes from

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Bruce Lee

Check out the link, I was trying to pick out one or two Bruce Lee quotes, but so many were so good, check them out.

the failings of capitalism

Good Warriors (Tao Te Ching)

Good warriors do not arm,
good fighters don't get mad,
good winners don't contend,
good employers serve their workers.
This is called the virtue
of non-contention:
this is called mating with
the supremely natural and pristine.

understanding different dimensions

How To Imagine The Tenth Dimension

as above, so below

Surprisingly easy to understand.

as above so below

Via: OnlineSchools.org

Watch the bouncing droplet

Watch the droplet reduce by half, then half, the half- the Fibonacci sequence spiralling down until it is one-one with it's fellow water molecules---beautiful.

Henry Rollins' Letter to a Young American

Unity & Freedom

anger

“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”
- Buddha

the cycle

From the Tao Te Ching

Return is the movement of the way;

yielding is the function of the Way.

All things in the world are born of being;

being is born of non-being

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
― John Lennon

equality

People = People

Why Male & Female fight - Battle of the Sexes in the Animal World - BBC

When the world has the Way.

From the Tao Te Ching

When the world has the Way,

running horses are retired to till the fields.

When the world lacks the Way,

war-horses are bred in the countryside.

No crime is greater than approving of greed;

no calamity is greater than discontent,

no fault is greater than possessiveness.

So the satisfaction of contentment is always enough.

It's Just A Ride - The Greatest Show on Earth!

DO NOT PANIC ! from the Mayans themselves.

Success

From the Tao Te Ching

All beings work, without exception:
if they live without possessiveness,
act without presumption,
and do not dwell on success,
then by this very non-dwelling
success will not leave.

Beginnings

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”

---T.S. Eliot---

One-Minute Physics: Why past and future are the same

Posessed

Possessions own you.

 

The Greatest Speech Ever Made

Nothing is black and white,
Everything is gray.

Polarity of mind is a very dangerous thing, as all things in life are in a spectrum- very few things exist in the extreme ends. 

Living life with a polar mind is like walking around with blinders on, you will not be able to see what is just outside of your very small window.

"you can't place blame, because blame is far too messy."
                                            -Ani DiFranco

Mckenna - How to Think and Understand Effectively

The Feelies

Aldous Huxley wrote about the feelies in his book, a brave new world. They were akin to our movies today but the watcher would be plugged into something that would allow them to feel the sensations of the characters on screen. Now we have movies and shows that are latent with psychological cues for our bodies to produce certain emotional responses which bring about real chemical changes in our bodies; as our organs and glands produce excretions when stimulated.

You should be mindful of how you feel when watching TV or movies and how you feel after they are over.

Feelies

How To Meditate I - What is Meditation

Where Science and Buddhism Meet PART 1

Which is superior, 
The grass or the mower?
-EB

Is the natural beauty of the grass with its graceful biology superior, or is the machinery of the mower better because it can chop the grass down?

Alan Watts - Life is a Hoax

Lieh Tzu pt7

Teachings of the TAO


From Lieh Tzu pt7


Some people think they can find satisfaction in good food, fine clothes, lively music, and sexual pleasure. however, when they have all these things, they are not satisfied. they realize that happiness is not simply having their material needs met. Thus, society has set up a system of rewards that go beyond material goods. these include titles, social recognition, status, and political power all wrapped up in a package called self fulfillment. Attracted by these prizes and goaded on by social pressure, people spend their short lives tiring body and mind to chase after these goals.


Perhaps this gives them the feeling that they have accomplished something in their lives, but in reality they have sacrificed a lot in life.


They can no longer see, hear, act, feel or think from their hearts.


Everything they do is dictated by whether it can get them social gains.


In the end they have spent their lives following other people's demands and never lived a life of their own.


How different is this from the life of a SLAVE or a PRISONER?

Jesus & Buddha are the same

Be like a flowing river

I am a flowing river, never dry and never bursting, but always full.
-EB

This is how we should think of ourselves, constantly flowing with energy.

We, as well as everything else are in a state of constant transition and it is beautiful.