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The disabled people of the UK are now more exploited than at any other time in the history of this group since the Hitlerite extermination policy of WWII. In fact it has been suggested that since 2010, the Liberal Democrats and Tory administrations have actually deliberately targeted and killed more disabled people through their policies, than those killed by the Nazi German regime during the same time-scale. In the meantime, people with disabilities are forced to ‘buy’ equipment from those who do not care about their existence or well-being.
The post-9/11 US Government response was to state that the US (and other Western countries) must aggressively attack the Middle East as a matter of ‘self-defence’. This is exactly the same rhetorical position adopted by the Modern State of Israel.
Disabled people in China are inspired by Bruce Lee!
Shen is the realisation and permanent identification of consciousness with universal ’empty space’ to such a degree that when the physical brain ceases to function, the ‘practitioner’ becomes the state of ’empty space’ – which is the universe that includes all things. This is why advanced Daoist practitioners are able to enter this state whilst still in their bodies, so that the actual ‘act’ of dying becomes a formality whereby ‘breathing’ ceases altogether and qi energy permanently integrates with ‘jing’ and ‘shen’ – leaving the physical body behind forever.
That is pain, which seems to be a very important issue for human beings. As for myself, I am certainly not immune to pain, but am not interested in it. Yes pain happens from time to time, but as it is passing, I am aware that it is not permanent. In this respect I am lucky because many people suffer all the time and never have a break from the experience. I would say that life is mostly a neutral experience with outbreaks of pleasure and pain from time to time.