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Buddhism
Buddhism is based on the teachings of Siddhartha Buddha. The general creed of Buddhism is based on the “four noble truths” and the “eightfold path.”
The truths are:
- Life’s a bitch.
- The reason life’s a bitch is that people are attached to material things.
- Life doesn’t always have to be a bitch. You can achieve nirvana.
- The way to achieve nirvana is by following the eightfold path.
Naturally, when you hear about these truths, you’re going to be curious about the eightfold path, which consists of:
- Right views, i.e., smarten up.
- Right intentions. Once you’re smart, try to do the right thing.
- Right speech. Say the right thing.
- Right action. Knowing and saying the right thing isn’t good enough, you have to actually do the right thing.
- Right livelihood. Make your living in an honorable way, i.e., don’t work for Halliburton.
- Right effort. All of the above doesn’t just happen on its own. You have to work at it.
- Right mindfulness. Once you’ve beaten your physical self into
submission, you have to start working on your mental state, seeking the
ability to think clearly and see things as they really are. - Right concentration. Focus, focus, focus! The path is only
complete when you have refined your mind into a state of total focus on
reality, which is generally thought to be accomplished by the process of
meditation.
Following the eightfold path is key to Buddhism’s system of spiritual
advancement, in which doing the right thing (as outlined above) earns
you karma, metaphysical bonus points which can be exchanged for only one
fabulous prize, Nirvana. In order to make the trade, however, you have
to accumulate an unspecified number of karma points, a process which
usually takes several lifetimes. (Your karma points roll over when
you’re reincarnated.) Alternatively, you can lose karma points by
engaging in wrong views, wrong intentions, wrong speech, wrong actions,
and so on.
The Buddhist concept of karma comes from Hinduism, and some Buddhists
revere Hindu deities. Buddhists also believe in yin and yang, which is
drawn from Taoism.
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“Women persecute themselves with a desire to retain adolescent figures. ‘Nearly everyone I know’, says Saville, ‘is obsessed with dieting-from
anorectics who end up in hospital to friends who take hundreds of
laxatives a day. It’s like an epidemic. Some companies write the
provision of body management into employee’s contracts; you can have
liposuction so as to conform to company image. Plastic surgeons use
computers to create the perfect face, but it will achieve such
blandness. What would beauty be, if everyone were the same?”
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The Rules for being Human
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s the only thing you are sure to keep for the rest of this life.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called “Life On Planet Earth”. Every person or incident is the Universal Teacher.
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of experimentation. “Failures” are as much a part of the process as “successes”.
4. A lesson is repeated until learned. It is presented to you in various forms until you learn then you can go on to the next lesson.
5. If you don’t learn easy lessons, they get harder. External problems are a precise reflection of your internal state. When you learn inner obstructions, your outside world changes. Pain is how the universe gets your attention.
6. You will know you’ve learned a lesson when your actions change. Wisdom is practice. A little of something is better than a lot of nothing.
7. “There” is no better than “here.” When your “there” becomes a “here” you will simply obtain another “there” that again looks better than “here.”
8. Others are only a mirror of you. You cannot love or hate something about another unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.
9. Your life is up to you. Life provides the canvas; you do the painting. Take charge of your life-or someone else will.
10. You always get what you want. Your subconscious rightfully determines what energies, experiences and people you attract therefore, the only foolproof way to know what you want, is to see what you have. There are no victims, only students.
11. There is no right or wrong, but there are consequences. Moralizing doesn’t help. Judgments only hold the patterns in place. Just do your best.
12. Your answers lie inside you. Children need guidance from others; as we mature; we trust our hearts, where the Laws of Spirit are written. You know more than you have heard read or been told. All you need to do is to look, listen and trust.
13. You will forget all this.
14. You can remember any time you wish.
From the Los Angeles Resources Newspaper, March 1994
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