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Criticism

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."

Elbert Hubbard

“The Tragedy of the Commons.”

Thirty years ago, an ecologist and professor named Garrett Hardin wrote a classic article in the journal Science titled “The Tragedy of the Commons.” His thesis was that individuals, acting in their rational self-interest, may ultimately destroy a limited resource over the long term.

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To illustrate, Hardin used the metaphor of an open pasture – “the commons” – to which herdsmen bring their cattle to feed. The herdsmen understandably want to feed as many of their cattle as possible – or as Hardin put it “As a rational being, each herdsman seeks to maximize his gain.” It all works fine so long as there’s enough grass to feed all the cattle. As demand rises, however, the effects of overgrazing take a progressive toll on the commons, until ultimately they’re destroyed for everyone.

“Therein is the tragedy,” Hardin writes. “Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit – in a world that is limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.”

Hardin’s focus was on the ultimate costs prompted by the individual freedom to have children without limitation – namely overpopulation and insufficient resources for the many.

Same thing happens in a world of limited resources.

In the financial sector, who's goal is profit. To generate ever more profit, institutions, hedge fund managers, brokers, investment advisers and mutual fund managers are competing and many times doing whatever necessary.

IF..... (Poem by Rudyard Kipling)

IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son

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Living well

Make sure that, since you inevitably affect others, strive to affect them positively.

An Ecology of Emotions for a Clear Emotional Environment

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Live Your Dream

People who say it can't be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

Trinity

Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva
Creating, Preserving, Destroying

Osho

"I don't have a philosophy of my own. my whole function is deprogramming, so whatever you say, I will destroy it. And I never say anything, so I never give any chance to anybody to destroy it. My purpose is to deprogram you, to clean you, to uncondition you and leave you fresh, young, innocent. And from there you can grow into a real, authentic individual—otherwise you are just a personality, not an individuality. A personality is borrowed, it is a mask. And my whole effort is how to help a person to be authentic, to be himself, naked."


Osho

Emptiness: The Seventy Stanzas (Nagarjuna)

XIV. Neither the happiness and suffering which depend upon an
object in a dream, nor that object are existent. Similarly, neither
that which originates dependently, nor that upon which it depends
are existent.

Emptiness: The Seventy Stanzas (Nagarjuna)

XVI. If intrinsic being were established, a dependent entity would
not occur. But without dependence, how does (an entity) exist?
Without intrinsic being (an entity) does not occur and with intrinsic
being (an entity) cannot be destroyed.

Gurdjieff about religions

"Imagine that we are sitting here talking of religions and that the maid Masha hears our conversation. She, of course, understands it in her own way and she repeats what she has understood to the porter Ivan. The porter Ivan again understands it in his own way and he repeats what he has understood to the coachman Peter next door. The coachman Peter goes to the country and recounts in the village what the gentry talk about in town. Do you think that what he recounts will at all resemble what we said? This is precisely the relation between existing religions and that which was their basis. You get teachings, traditions, prayers, rites, not at fifth but at twenty-fifth hand, and, of course, almost everything has been distorted beyond recognition and everything essential forgotten long ago."


Eexcerpt from the book In search of the miraculous by P.D. Ouspensky

Sat - Chit - Ananda

Saccidānanda or Sat-cit-ānanda (Sanskrit: सच्चिदानंद) is a compound of three Sanskrit words, Sat (सत्), Cit (चित्), and Ānanda (आनंद) (the ā is of longer vocal length), meaning being, consciousness, and bliss respectively.

The expression is used in yoga and other schools of Indian philosophy to describe the nature of Brahman as experienced by a fully liberated yogi. Orthography may differ depending on whether the word is treated in its compound form and therefore subject to sandhi: saccidānanda, or split into its elements: sat-cit-ananda, sac chid ananda, etc. The compound always sounds like: Sach-chid-ānanda, regardless of spelling.

Saccidānanda may be understood as the energetic state of non-duality, a manifestation of our spiritually natural, primordial and authentic state (compare nirmanakaya) which is comparable in quality to that of deity.

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Wu-Wei

Wu wei (traditional Chinese: 無爲; simplified Chinese: 无为; pinyin: wúwéi) is an important tenet of Taoism that involves knowing when to act and when not to act. Another perspective to this is that "Wu Wei" means natural action - as planets revolve around the sun, they "do" this revolving, but without "doing" it; Or as trees grow, they "do", but without "doing". Thus knowing when (and how) to act is not knowledge in the sense that one would think "now" is the right time to do "this", but rather just doing it, doing the natural thing.

Wu may be translated as not have or without; Wei may be translated as do, act, serve as, govern or effort. The literal meaning of Wu Wei is "without action" and is often included in the paradox wei wu wei : "action without action" or "effortless doing". The practice of wu wei and the efficacy of wei wu wei are fundamental tenets in Chinese thought and have been mostly emphasized by the Taoist school. The aim of wu wei is to achieve a state of perfect equilibrium, or alignment with the Tao, and, as a result, obtain an irresistible form of "soft and invisible" power. There is also another uncommon interpretation of wu wei (" action that does not involve struggle or excessive effort"). In this instance, Wu means " without" and Wei means "Effort" , so it follows Wu wei is not ("non-action"). It can be argued that this error propagated widely in English publications as a result of translations made by academics who are non practising Taoists. The concept that wu wei means "effortless action" is clearly exemplified in the Taoist Internal martial arts such as Tai chi, Baguazhang and Xing Yi . In Zen Calligraphy, Wu Wei has been represented as a circle.

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Zen

Someone asked master Bokuju, "We have to dress and eat every day - how do we get out of all that?"
Bokuju answered, "We dress, we eat."
The questioner said, "I don't understand."
Bokuju replied, "If you don't understand, put on your clothes and eat your food."

Love

Is it possible for the rose to say, "I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad"? Or is it possible for the lamp to say, "I will give my light to the good people in this room, but I will withhold it from the evil people"? Or can a tree say, "I’ll give my shade to the good people who rest under me, but I will withhold it from the bad"?

These are images of what love is about.

- in "Awareness", by Anthony de Mello

Tao

The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao

Katha Upanishad

May we light the fire of Nachiketa
That burns out the ego and enables us
To pass from fearful fragmentation
To fearless fullness in the changeless whole.

3. Know the Self as lord of the chariot,
The body as the chariot itself,
The discriminating intellect as charioteer,
And the mind as reins.

4. The senses, say the wise, are the horses;
Selfish desires are the roads they travel.
When the Self is confused with the body,
Mind, and senses, they point out, he seems
To enjoy pleasure and suffer sorrow.

5. When one lacks discrimination
And his mind is undisciplined, the senses
Run hither and thither like wild horses.

6. But they obey the rein like trained horses
When one has discrimination and has made
The mind one-pointed. Those who lack
Discrimination, with little control
Over their thoughts and far from pure,
Reach not the pure state of immortality

8. But wander from death to death; but those
Who have discrimination, with a still mind
And a pure heart, reach journey's end,
Never again to fall into the jaws of death.

9. With a discriminating intellect
As charioteer and a trained mind as reins,
They attain the supreme goal of life
To be united with the Lord of Love.


Katha Upanishad

Carl Jung Quote

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

Carl Jung

Feldenkrais on Movement

‘‘Movement is life; life without movement is unthinkable.’’

Moshe Feldenkrais

Chinese Saying

"The wise become Confucian in good times, Buddhist in bad times and Taoist in old age."

Aikido

"My students think I don't lose my center. That is not so; I simply recognize it sooner, and get back faster."

Morihei Ueshiba, O'Sensei, Founder of Aikido

Tao - True Power

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"Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.

If you realize that you have enough,
you are truly rich.
If you stay in the center
and embrace death with your whole heart,
you will endure forever"

Tao Te Ching

Use it

A woman once asked Thomas Edison:
"Mr. Edison, what is electricity?"

He replied, " Madam, electricity is. Use it."