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“Life is a going forth; death is a returning home. Of ten, three are seeking life, three are seeking death, and three are dying.What is the reason? Because they live in life’s experience. (Only one is immortal.)I hear it said that the sage when he travels is never attacked by rhinoceros or tiger, and when coming among … Continue reading
The Staggering Human Cost: While the media ignores it, Pete cites hacked databases showing that roughly 1.25 million Ukrainian soldiers have been killed. He notes that Ukraine has been losing approximately 1,000 men a day throughout 2025 in what has become a brutal war of attraction.
8 Years of Slaughter: Between 2014 and 2021, over 14,000 ethnic Russian civilians were killed by their own government’s artillery and drones. Pete argues that the Ukrainian regime forfeited its rights to those regions by outlawing the Russian language and the Orthodox Church, effectively conducting an ethnic cleansing campaign that forced Russia to intervene to “save a friend being mugged”.
375. Control of the senses, contentment, restraint according to the code of monastic discipline — these form the basis of holy life here for the wise monk.
376. Let him associate with friends who are noble, energetic, and pure in life, let him be cordial and refined in conduct. Thus, full of joy, he will make an end of suffering.
377. Just as the jasmine creeper sheds its withered flowers, even so, O monks, should you totally shed lust and hatred!
378. The monk who is calm in body, calm in speech, calm in thought, well-composed and who has spewn out worldliness — he, truly, is called serene.
379. By oneself one must censure oneself and scrutinize oneself . The self-guarded and mindful monk will always live in happiness.
380. One is one’s own protector, one is one’s own refuge. Therefore, one should control oneself, even as a trader controls a noble steed.
381. Full of joy, full of faith in the Teaching of the Buddha, the monk attains the Peaceful State, the bliss of cessation of conditioned things.
382. That monk who while young devotes himself to the Teaching of the Buddha illumines this world like the moon freed from clouds.
My birthday is just two-days after that of my late father. The allegation in the above text could well be true. Fight everything, question everything, and accept nothing. It is a good start. I remember as a kid working it out for myself that the supposedly left-wing comic – Alexi Sayle – was in fact a traitor to the cause when he decided to endorse capitalist advertisement! Later, I further realised that if you do not conform somewhere, then the system you oppose will permanently exclude you. The net permitted a certain re-balancing – but just look at how the capitalists have colonised it and turned everything into mindless adverts and paywalls. Keep you powder dry and tinder in good order. It is all about timing – and getting away with it. This is a small envelop of opportunity – so use it well. Meanwhile, my deceased father is lying in state – and what an awful state of Care Home, NHS, and Social Services neglect it is. Untreated ailments, sores, injuries – and so on.
Sometimes, however, these mobile structures are retained as they are considered reasonably humble and simple. As the font is very heavy – usually made of solid stone – it resides outside the Church structure. The font may well be too-heavy for the interior wooden structure. Churches, of course, do not have to conform to the (European) Medieval design – as can be seen in Ethiopia, Turkey, and elsewhere. Many early Churches were simple gathering points for isolated monastics to come together (out of their solitary meditation cells – quite often in the desert)) and communally worship. In-short, a Church is a focal-point whereby those in the material realm can commune with the unseen spiritual realm. Early Christianity was very similar to Buddhism – but its theology changed when a certain faction gained Roman State support (termed the “Catholics” or “Universalists”) which then set about destroying its own past – and any Christian sect which advocated worldly transcendence – or disagreed with the /church attaining worldly power and wealth.
Abel does not boast of feats or look for headlines, he walks through the corridors of the hospital with the same simplicity with which he grew up in Santa Clara.
His colleagues recognize him as a teacher and silent leader; The parents remember him as the man who gave them their breath back.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 