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Tag: mind
UK: My Father Radiating Peace & Love at the Point of Departure! (31.5.2026)
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.
UK: My Latest “Taiji” Translations – Free to Access! (19.5.2-26)
I will add to this content as time goes by. Indeed, I am working on this section of the Ch’an Dao website and look forward to tackling some of these obscure texts. Many of the commercially available translations are far too generic and watered-down by indifferent publishers who are trying to seek the greatest number of sales from each investment. Such tomes are misleading the average Western-reader and I intend to remedy this situation. My translations are straightforward, literal, and convey the original meaning. I could not care less about “sales” or making translations easy to access due to the reader being lazy. No. If I can do all the work translating – then the price I charge the reader is that they make an intellectual effort to meet me half-way. In this way we all learn. Publishers are capitalist scum – so there you have it. The words belong to the masses – so use them!
UK: My Grandfather’s WWII PTSD – the Cost of Our Freedom! (9.5.2026)
He trained alongside the Glider-Landed Troops – trained to sit 30 to a wooden glider (a platoon) and crash-land on a military target before deploying (if surviving). Alfred either landed on Sword Beach in the first landing-boats and fought his way (ten-miles) in-land to relieve the British Glider Troops landed in Caen – or he landed in Caen with the Glider Troops and tried to hold the area until relieved by the British Army. Either way (we are not exactly sure – but must assume the former) the German resistance was so intense the first-wave Units were decimated and many of the early objectives were not achieved. My grandfather, when talking about his experiences many years later, described how he had to kill many people as he moved through the French and German countryside. He would fight his way to Hamburg before he was granted rest and leave. It was this killing that negatively affected him psychologically. Indeed, there hundreds of thousands of men in the UK who had to re-integrate into British society and pretend nothing had happened.
China: Cosmoonaut Research & Training Centre Seeks Bedridden Volunteers for Up to 70,000 Yuan – No Mobile ‘Phones – Exclusions Apply! (8.5.2026)
Volunteers will be randomly assigned to either a control or exercise group and will remain in bed for about 15 to 30 days, with the total period not exceeding 60 days.
Participants must stay in either a six-degree head-down or head-up bed position while eating, sleeping and undergoing medical tests. Those in the exercise group will also complete scheduled daily workouts.
Researchers use the head-down position to mimic the redistribution of body fluids and reduced muscle activity experienced by cosmonauts in space.
The study aims to examine effects on cardiovascular function, bone density and muscle loss, and to test countermeasures for long-term missions.
UK: We Are Stuck in the Capitalist Mind-Set! (5.4.2026)
It is clear who is in control. Entertainments that dulls the awareness and fake news presented as fact. The US uses a most prolific form of social engineering to control the English-speaking people of the world. Democracy is a sham – an excess code used to gain entry to your most inner opinions and behaviour patterns. You will obey – or be considered an Enemy of the State. There is nothing sacred and all is up for grabs. Right is left, left is right, up is down, down is up, the fringes become the centre – as nothing is sacred in the this deception designed to maintain the political, judicial, and cultural control of this asymmetric distribution of profi. The police and military are very much part of this – as working-class people who join these anti-worker establishments are rewarded with certain benefits and immunities that others (their victims) do not receive. They arrest and kill us for breaking a system of law inflicted upon us by a hostile class power. The bourgeoises (and its institutions) act as if it is the theistic god the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christisnity, and Islam) purport to follow.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 