I want to become human just like William and the tai chi master, I know it's possible. We just need to cultivate our virtues and get rid of our vices. live like Jesus. this way we can save our world and deserve our lives.

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It is time that people wake up to the reality.
There is a difference between philosophy of the soul and how countries are run. They need to be teated seperately. The government has a duty to its people.
It would be an idea to create a website www.thestateoftheworld.com and advertise the figures for everyone to se. To show up governments for the just how bad they are doing their job. With this medium of internet it must be possible to crack down on injustice esecially when it comes down to how many guns were bought today vs how many people died of hunger today.

Big car companies and banks are being bailed out by governments. You can be sure their top management employees received their massive bonuses for the great work they to in cutting more jobs. A large car firm in Tokyo recorded record profits in 2007 and in 2008 the are collapsing....where did all the profits go?

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Yes of course we all have to do our part. We can only change our world when we change ourselves and be responcible for our own actions..that applies to world leaders too. If billions of dollars are being spent on war while the numbers of people who die of hunger every day is increasing....then there is more urgent need for change there and my recycling of my garbage will not make any immediate effect to eleviate hunger.
We need to strike a sensible balance.

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Good thought Patricia.
I stopped relying on Governance for my security long ago.
When I finally realized that anyone I give power to for my security takes away more and more of my autonomy and puts me in a helpless and victim-like state and gives me cause to blame another for misfortunes that I am fully in control of. If I depended on Monsanto to take my health into account I would be in big trouble yet that is exactly what we have done.
We have depended on the UN or this World Government to protect us and they are doing the exct opposite.
We are not goingto change how others choose to make decisions and use the power that WE GAVE THEM.
We can simply take it back and tap into the vast amounts of knowledge that are available from the greatest and freest minds of our time and put it into action.
No government on this planet truly wants the evolution of human consciousness to take place if that happened it would take the power out of the few and put it back into the hands of the many.
So to depend on any political leader to make those decisions for you would be contravention to any teaching of any of the masters who have walked before us.
They said in every spiritual text that this path was a narrow road and few would walk it. So if that is the case then I know I am on the right track because everyone seems to have sworn their allegiance to other humans giving them divine rights over us and they have caused much human suffering in the midst of that.
Blessings to all

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Mary Walsh I don't fully agree with you. It is not in the hands of the world political leaders. Just look at history. We are all in this together and we all need to be aware as each of us possibly can to take of ourselves, one another and this earth. The human experience is ever expansive and always changing. I ask you not to hand over your power. I ask you to gently embrace it and encourage others to do the same. We need to hold our leaders accountable as we hold ourselves and others.

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Sarah Cowgill really needs to read some of the Dahali Lama's writings. Even he does not "hate". He states that without the wrongs we have no balance for the rights. He does not " hate" the Chinese even though they are responsible for many deaths and incredible wrongs. He says that if these injustices did not happen then how would we appreciate justice. Without forgiveness there is NO peace. Chill our cowgill learn to love instead.

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Thanks for the comment Melissa.
It is a balance of both mind over matter and to not take into account that there is a specific reason that certain additives have been put into our food supply and water supply would be unrealistic. I am a Spiritualist and practiced much my entire life. I also was a major Cocaine and Meth amphetamine user 8 years ago and once I put that drug inmy body it definitely had an effect.
So no it is not totally mind over matter if a substance can control yourmind to the point of you not being aware of it.
That would ne like saying just keep yourself awake while being given anesthetic I do not know many who could forcibly do such a thing.
I hope you here my reasoning and hence see why I think that Deepak's Philosophies are great and I have worked with many using such philosophies and overcome addiction to all substances but in order to do such an act I had to be aware that they were even a problem.

And on the comment about not getting angry. That one always makes me chuckle because I had to get really angry before I could affect any changes but maybe that was just me, but I can speak from very direct ex[ereince not philosophies that I have overcome many obstacles and first I had to recognize they were there and be willing enough to effect their change and replace them with new ways of being and that took patience time and exertion of my will and life force. I can only speak for myself when I say after I quit chemicals (all chemcials) my lfe chang

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Derrick Jensen wonders why we not angry-- I am angry. I am nutso-furious; that's why I read this blog. I am trying to tame the monster of hatred that grows in me at the site of what people are doing to my mountains!
When I see Christmas lights, I go biszuerk-- HOW can you burn these lights praising the divine and destroying the creation to run the lights--
Maybe people don't know; My own mother didn't know about Mountain top removal and she has been living in Appalachia forever- but she goes to work, comes home, watches two hours of tv. bed. work, shops on the weekends- HOW can people live like this? they don't watch the weather, the sky, the moon, the river, the birds... listen to the animals, the trees. I am outside.

some people don't know they are channelizing Africa, draining India, giving nursing mothers just enough formula to stop production of breast milk in places without good sources of water-- you know what? I HATE these stupid companies. what good does it do to hate them? what good does it do for me to boycott them? say I hate COKE, I hate Nestle, I HAte Koolaid, hate hate hate, walking around with these stupid recycled bags, couple are canvas, people give me a hard time for being there, in the way, taking more time to bag my stuff. I HATE it. I tell them, hey, each person in this country using 150,000 bags? I dont want to be like that> They laugh and say, oh, I probably already used that many.
What is wrong with you? I don't want to fight. surro

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T'ai Chi Master Cheng Man Ching said his goal was to "become a human being." It is mine as well.

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THE ROMANTIC PERIOD OF POETRY IS AN ANSWER...

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