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Whereas Western society views death as the final taboo, the Tibetan tradition incorporates meditation on death into everyday life.
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Publisher's Weekly Review
In his sterling foreword to this collection, comparative religion professor Huston Smith remarks that death is to contemporary American culture what sex was to Victorian British culture, a subject to be whispered about behind closed doors. Westerners fear death and have created new technologies to deny death for as long as possible, primarily because they view life and death as two distinct stages. Tibetan Buddhists do not distinguish between life and death in such a rigid way, as Mullin demonstrates in this collection of Tibetan Buddhist texts about death. Mullin, who conducts workshops and lectures on Tibetan Buddhism, gathers nine important Tibetan Buddhist texts from the 15th century to the 20th century. The topics covered range from a hagiographic account of the death of a bodhisattva and "self-liberation by knowing the signs of death" to "Tibetan traditions of death meditation" and rituals for caring for the dead. Each selection emphasizes the Tibetan Buddhist belief that awareness of our transitory state can contribute to our happiness and well-being. Mullin's introduction provides a detailed examination of Tibetan Buddhist history and doctrine, and the translations of the nine texts sparkle with such clarity that the multi-faceted gems of Tibetan Buddhist belief shine boldly. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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Mullin has given us clear translations of nine fairly short texts from the Tibetan Death-Awareness tradition. The texts come from varied genres (sermons, poetry, biography) and time periods, each exemplifying some aspect of Tibetan thinking about death: how to live with death in prospect, how to help a dying person, what to expect in the bardo (the state between death and rebirth), and how to have an auspicious rebirth. An enlightening introduction covers general Buddhist beliefs, a brief history of Tibet, and Tibetan literaturevirtually unknown in the West. Mullin, a scholar of Tibetan language and culture, works in Dharamsala, India (the seat of the Dalai Lama's exiled government), at the Library of Tibetan Archives Research and Translation Bureau. A small criticism: Mullin tends to consider Tibetan thinking and behavior better than Western rather than just different. The reader may make the opposite judgment. Recommended for academic and public libraries with strong collections in religion and philosophy.James F. DeRoche, Alexandria, VA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
ExcerptsChapter One Death and the Bodhisattva Trainings Then it is a fact, O Simmias, that true philosophers make death and dying their profession.... --Socrates in Plato's Phaedo TRANSLATOR'S PREAMBLE The material in this first chapter is taken from the volume of sermons given by the Thirteenth Dalai Lama, Gyalwa Tubten Gyatso, on the occasion of the first full moon of each Tibetan New Year. This annual discourse represents the climax of the Great Prayer Festival of Lhasa, a religious fête that begins on the day before the new moon of February and lasts for fifteen days, culminating in the sermon of the full moon. The tradition of the Great Prayer Festival was initiated by Lama Tsongkhapa, guru of the First Dalai Lama, early in the fifteenth century, and has continued to the present day. The present Dalai Lama maintains the tradition in Dharamsala, India. Throughout the centuries the full moon sermon of the festival has been delivered by the Dalai Lama incarnation or, in his absence or minority, an appointed high lama. The sermon that I have selected for this chapter was delivered in the spring of 1921, when the Thirteenth Dalai Lama was in the last year of his three-year retreat. In this discourse he chose as his theme the Kadam lineage of meditation upon death, probably due to the trans-sectarian nature of this transmission. This tradition had been brought to Tibet in A.D. 1042 by Jowo Atisha, who was invited to the Land of Snows by the king of Western Tibet and remained there until his death some thirteen years later To show the lineage and subject of the sermon to follow, the Thirteenth opens with a verse from Atisha's writings that refers to death and impermanence. The Atisha lineages did not remain confined to any one order of Tibetan Buddhism. Within a century of his demise they had spread to all regions of the Land of Snows and had influenced all Tibetan sects. They became the basis for the Kargyu order as outlined in Gampopa's The Jewel Ornament of Liberation , the Sakya as embodied in Separation from the Four Attachments , the Nyingma as reflected in Instructions on the Great Fulfillment , and the Geluk as presented in The Great Exposition of the Stages in the Path to Enlightenment by Lama Tsongkhapa. The Thirteenth Dalai Lama's discourse thus serves as an excellent opening chapter, providing us with an inside view of a tradition of death meditation that is fundamental to all schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Thus we get to see it not as an isolated spiritual exercise but in context to the path as an organic entity. The Thirteenth was the first of the Dalai Lamas to be known intimately by Western people. His era was not an easy one. Wedged by British India on the south, expanding Tsarist Russia on the north and the unstable Manchu Dynasty on the east, Tibet was a continual target for the intrigues of these three superpowers. At the turn of the century it seemed as though Lhasa might go pro-Russian, so the British, always jealous of Russian designs in Central Asia, launched an invasion into Tibet in 1904 from India. This event, known to history as the Younghusband Expedition, resulted in the victory of British power in Central Asia, and the following summer a treaty was drawn up in which Tibet was forced to leave its foreign policy under the suzerainty of British-influenced China, a move the British felt would remove Tibet sufficiently from Russian influence while not angering Russia to the point of confrontation (as placing Tibet directly under the British umbrella would have). Strangely enough, Lt. Col. Young-husband, leader of the British forces, fell into a mystical trance when in Tibet, an experience that was to transform his life, and soon thereafter he returned to England, retired from the military and dedicated the remainder of his life to writing on spiritual affairs! But Tibet was not content with the proximity to China that she had been forced into, and attempted to assert her independence to the world. China, on the other hand, was encouraged by the British policy and felt that the time had come for her to show a strong hand with the Tibetans. She launched an invasion in 1909, but fate would prove her move to be ill-timed, and a year later civil war erupted in China proper. The Chinese forces in Tibet, cut off from supplies and reinforcements, surrendered to the Tibetans in 1912. To add insult to injury, the Thirteenth had them march to Calcutta and return to China by ship, rather than directly via the overland route. No Chinese were allowed in Tibet from this time until after the Thirteenth's death in 1933. Matters of state thus set in order, the Thirteenth returned to a quiet spiritual life after the China affair had been settled, in 1918 he entered the traditional three-year retreat, which he completed in 1921, the year in which this discourse was given. Several British officials were in Lhasa from the time of the expulsion of the Chinese. Among them, Sir Charles Bell, who had been Britain's liaison with the Dalai Lama from 1910-1912, visited in 1921, and became a close confidant of the Tibetan leader. Sir Charles' excellent biography of the Thirteenth, Portrait of a Dalai Lama , gives us a wonderfully clear picture of life in Tibet during these crucial years. It is a tribute to the Thirteenth that he was able to guide his people through these troubled times without a major mishap. Unfortunately after his death in 1933 Tibet suffered from internal turmoil, but then, this seems to have been a worldwide disease during the 1930s and 1940s. The Thirteenth Dalai Lama had been born in 1876 of peasant stock. Perhaps due to his humble background he always remained a `people's Dalai Lama.' Many of his sermons were given openly, and his students came from all walks of life. The discourse that forms the basis for this chapter was just such a sermon, having been delivered to a mixed audience of more than 20,000 of his disciples. Because it was directed at both learned scholar/yogis and the most simple of listeners, it combines profundity and simplicity with a lucid charm that characterizes many of the Thirteenth's works. It provides the reader with an easy access to a view of the Tibetan tradition of death meditation and a perspective on how this tradition relates to the general system of Buddhist training. DEATH AND THE BODHISATIVA TRAININGS by Gyalwa Tubten Gyatso, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama As was stated by Jowo Atisha, crown ornament of all the Buddhist sages of India and source of all the Kadampa oral transmissions: This life is short And the objects of knowledge many. Moreover, when we shall die Is something unknown to us. Be therefore like the swan, Which can separate milk from water. We living beings are in a difficult situation. Helplessly overpowered by the three psychic poisons of attachment, aversion and misknowledge, we are propelled and guided largely by negative karma and afflicted emotions. In our constant craving for samsaric indulgence in the repeated cycle of birth and death since beginninglessness, we have again and again drawn ourselves into situations of frustration, suffering and pain. Again and again we have died and taken rebirth on the basis of ignorance and the twelve links of causation. However, amidst the suffering and confusion that predominates in the lower forms of life, we humans have managed, as a product of previous positive karmic instincts, to find an auspicious life form capable of spiritual endeavor. In short, the ripening effect of our positive karmic seeds has provided us with a very special and precious life form: that of a human being blessed by the eight freedoms and ten endowments. Not only have we been reborn as humans, we have also met with spiritual teachings and thus have the opportunity to accomplish the paths to higher being, enlightenment and eternal happiness. Yet this auspicious human form that we have found will not last for long. Even the Buddhas themselves were unable to prophesy the length of life of each individual human being. Although we bring forth scriptural quotations from the sutras and tantras taught by Buddha, or set out a great display of reasoning, or rely upon other conventional means of persuasion, nonetheless our lives will not last forever. Before long our existence as part of humanity shall cease. As our lives will be short, we should be like the swan, which if given milk mixed with water can, due to a special faculty of its beak, separate the two and drink only the milk, spitting out the water. When we know how to practice the spiritual path, each day provides us with the ability to extract the milk of goodness and joy and to spit out the ways of negative being that lead to frustration and misery. At present we have the inner and outer conditions by which the path to enlightenment and everlasting happiness may be accomplished. We should not let the opportunity slip by, thinking, `I will practice tomorrow or the next day.' Do not be deceived even for a moment by the laziness of self-indulgence, which becomes entranced by the alluring images of the eight worldly concerns and loses sight of the spiritual path in its attachment to the ephemeral, transient pursuits which benefit this life alone. One should strive with utter concentration to take the essence of this precious human incarnation by accomplishing the path to enlightenment and higher being. Then when the time comes for us to die we will be able to do so with confidence and serenity instead of regret and confusion, and thus will be able to find our way to a conducive rebirth. We should make our prime concern the accomplishment of the spiritual path and, to this end, should endeavor to practice the Dharma as intensely and purely as possible. The practices to be accomplished are collectively known as the Dharma. It is said that the Buddha, seeing that the living beings were afflicted by 84,000 delusions and emotional disturbances, expounded the 84,000 aspects of Dharma as a remedy to these. In terms of the written word these 84,000 teachings are subsumed under the three categories of scripture: the Vinayapitaka, Sutrapitaka and Abhidharmapitaka , or, respectively, the `Collection on Discipline,' `Collection of Discourses' and `Collection on Metaphysics.' In terms of actual content they are subsumed under the three higher trainings of discipline, meditation and wisdom. Another way to divide the Doctrines of Buddha is into the twofold category of Hinayana and Mahayana vehicles. In this context the Mahayana Vehicle includes the teachings of both the exoteric Perfection Vehicle, or Paramitayana , and the esoteric Vajrayana , the tantric path. Both of these Mahayana vehicles take as their main gateway the altruistic bodhimind, the aspiration to gain enlightenment as the best means of benefitting the world. For all Mahayanists, the bodhimind is the key point in practice. When Jowo Atisha was asked about his teacher Serlingpa [the Indonesian master Dharmakirti], he touched his hands together in a gesture of reverence, tears came to his eyes and he replied, `Whatever Mahayana spirit I have attained is due only to the kindness of that great guru. Even when I would see him ten times in a day he would each time ask me, "Is the spirit of enlightenment, the bodhimind, blended in with your thoughts? His emphasis upon the cultivation of the bodhimind was always first and foremost.' Thus although the Buddha taught 84,000 practices, we as Mahayanists should always make our foremost concern the cultivation of the bodhimind, the bodhisattva spirit of enlightenment, the mind of equanimity, love, compassion and empathy, which seeks full omniscience for the benefit of all living beings. Progress in all other Mahayana practices depends upon progress in the cultivation of the bodhimind. Concerning the nature of the bodhimind, the text Seven Points for Training the Mind , which embodies the oral tradition given by the Indonesian master Serlingpa to Atisha, states: The bodhimind is like a diamond scepter, The sun and a medicinal tree. In spiritual training, the bodhimind is like a diamond. Just as a diamond can eradicate poverty and fulfill all needs, the bodhimind eradicates spiritual poverty and fulfills all spiritual needs. Just as a fragment of a diamond outshines all other ornaments, even a partial development of the bodhimind surpasses more complete achievements in lesser practices. A tiny piece of diamond is far more precious than a large piece of a lesser gem. The bodhimind is like the sun in dispersing darkness. When the sun rises, how can darkness remain? A sun rising over an entire continent illuminates the entire land. In the same way, the generation of the bodhisattva spirit within ourselves is like the rising of the sun of the mind. The bodhimind is also likened to a medicinal tree. The tree as a whole is an effective antidote to all 404 types of diseases, and also its individual components such as leaves and berries have their own individual healing abilities, their unique powers to cure specific diseases. Similarly, if we develop the bodhimind within ourselves we become cured of every spiritual affliction, thus attaining full enlightenment. Even if we only develop a few small branches of the bodhi-sattva spirit, these will have their own spiritually reviving effects. To have generated merely the foundations of the altruistic bodhimind is to gain the title of `bodhisattva,' the Awakening Warrior. One may extensively cultivate other spiritual qualities, such as concentrations and formless absorptions resulting from the training in higher wisdom, and through these practices may even gain the exalted states of a shravaka arhat or pratyekabuddha , yet anyone who has trained in the bodhisattva spirit will always surpass these lesser adepts purely by means of the essential nature of his/her path. The bodhimind has the inherent ability to remedy the inner darkness of emotional afflictions and delusions, such as falsely grasping at the nature of the self and phenomena. As it has the power to cure the mind of the roots of cyclic suffering--the product of delusion and compulsive karmic patterns--it is indeed a supreme medicine, having both conventional means for curing conventional afflictions and ultimate means for dealing with deeper spiritual problems. This is what is meant by the expression `method and wisdom combined.' There is the training in the conventional bodhimind practices of patience, love, compassion and so forth; and also the training in the ultimate bodhimind, which is the wisdom of emptiness that realizes the most profound and essential nature of the mind, body and world around us. When we accomplish the ultimate bodhimind, we attain everlasting emancipation from the imperfect world of suffering and confusion. We then become an Arya, a High One, a transcended being who is free from samsaric claws. When this is achieved on the basis of a training in the conventional bodhimind, we go on to actualize fully omniscient knowledge and the complete powers of a Buddha's body, speech and mind. This provides us with the ability to fulfill the bodhisattva spirit by manifesting in the world as is most effective in the uplifting of sentient life, while ourselves retaining complete abilities to maintain absorption in the vision of highest truth. Thus the bodhimind is a most precious method, and one should make every effort to accomplish it in its two aspects of conventional and ultimate. How does one approach the trainings in the two levels of bodhimind? This is stated as follows in the text Seven Points for Training the Mind: First train in the preliminaries. In the beginning one must seek a qualified teacher possessing a valid lineage, and from him/her must receive the transmission teachings. Here it is said that one should carefully select one's teacher, and that after entering training should try to cultivate the attitude that regards the guru as an embodiment of all the Buddhas. He/she is to be seen as all enlightened beings, who manifest as ordinary people in order to train persons such as oneself. Practicing constant mindfulness of how the guru shows the kindness of unveiling the path to us, try to please him/her in the three ways: by making the threefold offering of respect, attention and sincere practice of the teachings. The cultivation of an effective working relationship with a spiritual master is the foundation of all other trainings. It is the very life of the path to enlightenment. If we wish to become great bodhisattvas, we must first learn the methods of achieving the bodhisattva stages. Then we must accomplish the practices under competent guidance. If our own attitudes are not conducive to training, progress will be difficult. Consequently trainees are advised to regard the teacher as an embodiment of all the Buddhas. This is in fact the function the guru performs in our life. The next important preliminary is meditation upon the precious nature of human life. We must learn to appreciate the special qualities of human existence and the spiritual opportunities with which it provides us. The scripture A Collection of Everything Valuable states: By means of spiritual training One leaves behind the eight bondages Which share the nature of animal existence, And by training one always gains The eight freedoms and ten endowments. The eight freedoms enjoyed by humans are set in contrast to eight states of bondage. Four of these are likened to four nonhuman states: the continual pains of the hells, the constant craving of the ghosts, the vicious stupidity and shortsightedness of the animal world and the sensual indulgence and spiritual apathy of the samsaric divinities who have gained all worldly perfections. The remaining four are undesirable human states: being born as a barbarian in a land where spiritual knowledge is nonexistent; having imperfect sensory powers, such as being retarded or demented; being born at a time when spiritual teachings are unavailable; and living under the influence of extremely negative views contrary to the nature of the spiritual path. These are the eight states of bondage. If we have freedom from them, we may count ourselves as fortunate indeed. The ten endowments are in two sets, personal and environmental. The former of these are given as follows in a verse by Nagarjuna: Being born as a human being In a spiritually civilized land, Having full sensory capacities, Not having committed severely negative karmas, And having interest in spiritual practice-- These are the five personal endowments. These five personal factors provide one with an effective inner basis on which to strive for enlightenment. Nagarjuna then states the five environmental endowments as follows: Being born in an era when a Buddha has manifested, When the holy Dharma has been taught, When the Doctrine is still in existence, When there are practitioners of the Doctrine, And being shown supportive kindness by others-- These are the five environmental endowments. These five factors provide us with the external prerequisites of practice. They are called environmental endowments as they are qualities of the world in which we find ourselves rather than personal qualities directly connected with our own body or mind. Any man or woman who possesses these eight freedoms and ten endowments is in a position to attain full and perfect enlightenment in one short lifetime. This is not an opportunity known to lesser forms of life. If we direct our lives to intense training, we can attain utter spiritual perfection, not to mention being able to fulfill every conventional aim. Human life is most precious, and we who have gained it should make every effort to take its essence. We should again and again meditate upon the eight freedoms and ten endowments, until intense appreciation of the human potential is constantly blended into our stream of being. Consider also how rare is the human life form in comparison to the immeasurably large number of animals, insects and so forth. At the moment we have all the opportunities of human existence at our disposal, but if we ignore them for transient, worldly pursuits, there is not much hope that after our death we will regain an auspicious rebirth. Those who die bereft of spiritual training have little hope of happiness in the hereafter. Once one has developed a solid appreciation of the human potential, it is important to take up meditation upon impermanence and death. In the Atisha tradition coining from Guru Serlingpa of Indonesia, this means practicing meditation upon three subjects: the definite nature of death, the uncertainty of the time of death, and the fact that at the time of death nothing except spiritual training is of any real value. These are known as `the three roots.' Each of these three root subjects in turn has three lines of reasoning to support it, and finally there are three convictions to be generated. Therefore the meditation is known as `three roots, nine reasonings and three convictions.' This is the principal method of meditating upon death as handed down from the great Kadampa masters of old. The first subject is the definite nature of death. Three lines of reasoning are to be contemplated. (1) The Lord of Death comes to us all sooner or later, and at that time nothing can be done to turn him away. (2) There is no way to extend our life span indefinitely, and our time is continually running out on us in an unbroken stream. (3) Thirdly, even while we are alive we find very little time to dedicate to spiritual practice. To speak of these three points in more detail: (1) The Lord of Death shall definitely come one day to destroy us. No matter how wonderful a body we may have, it does not pass beyond the reaches of death. `The Chapter on Impermanence' in The Tibetan Dhammapada states: The Buddha himself, as well as his disciples The mighty shravaka arhats and pratyekabuddhas, Have all left behind their bodies. What need be said of ordinary mortals? Just before passing away Buddha told his monks, `O spiritual aspirants, take heed. It is rare to meet with an enlightened being. All phenomena are impermanent. This is the final teaching of the Tathagata.' Having spoken these words the Master passed into the sphere of parinirvana . Similarly in India and Tibet many masters, yogis, great religious kings, scholarly saints and so forth have appeared in history, but without exception all have passed away. We can read the details in their biographies. All the kind teachers of ancient times demonstrated the drama of passing into parinirvana in order to impress the reality of impermanence upon the minds of those to be trained. How, then, can we mere mortals who are so attached to our contaminated samsaric aggregates hope to be beyond the laws of impermanence and death? There is not a single sentient being who has lived since the beginning of the world without passing through the cycle of repeated birth, death and rebirth. It is said in The Sutra of Advice to a King: The four great sufferings of birth, sickness, age and death destroy all achievements, just as four mountains crumbling into one another destroy all foliage in the way. It is not easy to escape by running, exerting physical force, bribery, magic, spiritual practice or medicine. When the time of death arrives one may take the most expensive medicines, or may make elaborate ritual offerings to the most powerful guardian angel, yet death will not be turned away for long. (2) There is no way to extend our life span indefinitely, and our time is constantly passing. The time that has already passed since our birth has mostly been dedicated to meaningless activity. Of what remains, this is steadily being eaten up year by year, the years by months, the months by days and the days by moments. Before we are ready for it, death will be upon us. The Seventh Dalai Lama, Gyalwa Kalzang Gyatso, sums up our situation as follows: From our very birth, life pauses not for a moment But races onward toward the great Lord of Death, Life is a walk down a wide road leading to death, A melancholy scene, a criminal being led to his execution. Like water dripping steadily from a container, and like a ball of wool constantly being unraveled, our life continually approaches its end, which moment by moment comes ever more near. (3) Moreover, even while alive we dedicate very little of our time to spiritual endeavor. The Sutra on Entering into the Womb states: Ten years are given to childhood, and during our final twenty years the body and mind are not strong enough to embark upon the spiritual path with any great degree of success. During the first twenty years of one's life, thoughts of the spiritual path are rare, and during the last twenty years one's powers of memory and penetration are too weak to accomplish much. Moreover, it is difficult to have confidence in the belief that one will live to see old age. Many people do not. Of what remains of our life, half goes to sleeping, eating, collecting the requisites of life, and so forth. As the illustrious Kadampa master Geshe Chekhawa once said: A person who lives until the age of sixty will, after subtracting the time taken by sleeping, eating, gathering requisites and other such distracting activity, have only five years or so left for the practice of the spiritual path. And much of this will be lost to impure practice. This is the nature of our situation. Therefore we should decide to practice the spiritual path now, without procrastination. As is stated in A Letter to King Kanika: The merciless Lord of Death Kills all beings without discrimination. Hence for so long as he has not come, The wise live in mindfulness of him. When we plan to travel to a foreign country, we first gather the necessities of the journey. As it is definite that we must travel to the land of death, we should prepare ourselves through study, contemplation and meditation upon the path. We should generate a firm conviction to engage single-pointedly in spiritual endeavor, and to gain the inner qualities that give birth to the power to die with confidence. These are the three lines of reasoning contemplated in conjunction with the first topic, the definite nature of death. The second topic, the indefinite nature of the time of death, also is supported by three lines of reasoning. (1) The life span of those living on this planet is not fixed. Legend relates that the life span of the humans on the mythological planet Draminyen is 1,000 years in length, but we on Earth have no set life span. Vasubandhu's An Encyclopedia of Buddhist Metaphysics states: Human life has no fixed span. At the end of an aeon the average life span is only ten years in length, and at the beginning it is thousands. It does not matter whether one is young, old or middle-aged. Death can come to us at any time. As is said in The Tibetan Dhammapada: Of the people seen in the morning, Many are not seen [alive] at night. And many people alive at night Are no longer alive the next morning. Boys and girls meet with death, And adolescents meet with death. What youth can say that Death will not come to him soon? Some die in the womb, Some die just after birth, Some die as infants And some in their later childhood. Some die in old age, some in youth And some in the prime of life. Death comes to all Whenever the appropriate conditions ripen. Just as death can come to others at any time, we can be sure that we ourselves live under the constant threat of sudden death. (2) The causes of death are many and the forces supporting life few. The Precious Garland states: The conditions bringing death are many, The forces sustaining life are slender And even these can cause death. Therefore constantly practice Dharma. (Continues...) Copyright © 1998 Glenn H. Mullin. All rights reserved.
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|Chapter 1 Death and the Bodhisattva Trainings
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|Translator's Preamble
|p. 45
|Death and the Bodhisattva Trainings
|p. 48
|Chapter 2 Tibetan Traditions of Death Meditation
|p. 69
|Translator's Preamble
|p. 69
|Tibetan Traditions of Death Meditation
|p. 71
|Chapter 3 A Conversation with an Old Man
|p. 89
|Translator's Preamble
|p. 89
|A Conversation with an Old Man
|p. 91
|Chapter 4 The Death of Gye-Re Lama
|p. 101
|Translator's Preamble
|p. 101
|The Death of Gye-Re Lama
|p. 111
|Chapter 5 Self-Liberation by Knowing the Signs of Death
|p. 129
|Translator's Preamble
|p. 129
|Self-Liberation by Knowing the Signs of Death
|p. 133
|Chapter 6 The Longevity Yogas of the Bodhisattva of Life
|p. 149
|Translator's Preamble
|p. 149
|The Longevity Yogas of the Bodhisattva of Life
|p. 155
|Chapter 7 The Yoga of Consciousness Transference
|p. 171
|Translator's Preamble
|p. 171
|The Yoga of Consciousness Transference
|p. 175
|Chapter 8 A Ritual for Caring for the Dead
|p. 189
|Translator's Preamble
|p. 189
|A Ritual for Caring for the Dead
|p. 192
|Translator's Preamble
|p. 209
|Chapter 9 Meditations on the Ways of Impermanence
|p. 209
|Meditations on the Ways of Impermanence
|p. 211
|p. 215
|p. 221
|Bibliography of Texts Translated
|p. 237
|p. 7
|p. 9
|p. 11
|On Pilgrimage
|p. 13
|Take the Next Train to Tibet
|p. 15
|Counterclockwise Around the Jokhang
|p. 25
|On Pilgrimage
|p. 43
|Chomolungma, Goddess Mother of the World
|p. 59
|Sky Burial
|p. 77
|The Forbidden City
|p. 79
|p. 91
|Chinese National Day
|p. 101
|Lhasa by Night
|p. 111
|Sky Burial
|p. 123
|What Do We Tell the Children?
|p. 137
|Dharma and the Red Men
|p. 155
|Return to Tibet
|p. 161
|Why Are They Laughing?
|p. 163
|Return to Tibet
|p. 185
|p. 211


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Have you ever been walking in the woods and seen a large spiderweb? I love finding them, especially early in the morning with dew glistening on them. They're so delicate and intricate. They fascinate me.
This block is made of wedge pieces that, honestly, remind me of candy corn, especially if you use an orange and a light color. Which I did.
Sew together one #54 and one #87 to form a candy corn shape.
Next, sew a #88 to the top edge of a #86, then sew a #7 triangle to the top of the #88. Press well. I put my shapes into two piles
Using pins to match up the seams, lay the pieces right sides together and sew together in pairs.
Next, sew the pairs together in pairs, making two halves of the block.
Lastly, sew the two halves together to make the full block. You need to be really careful to match up the seams to make sure your center points meet neatly. Mine don't, but I decided they were close enough to suit me. Looking at the picture, though, I'm not so sure.
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FELA!by Mercedes Jones
The colorful and exuberant musical FELA! made its way to Philadelphia last night, premiering to a packed Academy of Music. Arguably one of the most anticipated plays of the Kimmel Center's Broadway season, FELA! showed and proved, with a hand clapping, soul stirring musical tale of--African singer--Fela Kuti's life.
Born in Nigeria, Fela Kuti created a type of music called Afrobeat--a blend of jazz, funk and African rhythm and harmonies. The famous singer was known for his political subject matter, radical delivery, and his love of pot and women. Born to accomplished parents and with accomplished siblings, a young Fela decided that music was what he wanted to do and, that's exactly what he did, thus changing the course of Nigerian history.
Directed by Bill T Jones, the Tony Award winning play features Sahr Ngauhjah as Fela; Melanie Marshall as Fela's mother Funmilayo; and Paulette Ivory as Sandra--one of Fela's many lovers. Neatly framed, and set in Fela's Shrine, the play takes place shortly after the death of Fela's elderly mother; a brutal death instigated by the hands of Nigerian soldiers.
A time when Fela was boiling over with hatred towards the Nigerian government, the play is filled with angst and bravado, as Ngauhjah gingerly tells the story of Fela's life.
Parallel to the play's heaviness, FELA! is peppered with hits like "Upside Down" and "Zombie", and charged by the hypnotizing movements of the play's cast of dancers. In accordance with the pulsating rhythms of Afrobeat music, the award winning choreography has moves that would make Bobby Brown blush. Sitting still during the band's--rump shaking--sets is virtually impossible.
Insightful, colorful and commanding are words that describe the energy of the play, but they still don't seem to have enough sentiment, to describe the play's bombastic nature. Ngauhjah and the--vastly talented--ensemble caters to a hungry audience, with dancing and clapping served with every note.
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The site turns out to be an elaborate ad for the Bitcoin faucet "coinbox.me" which your "instant bitcoins" are paid into. Apparently the faucet pays out when you get to 5500 satoshi but it appear that you only get 60 satoshi a day. Not worth your time.
There are different ways how you can earn from the cryptocurrency. One of the most effective means is to buy low and sell the bitcoins at a high. But of course, this might take some experience. Though the graph is bullish, you never know when it has reached its peak. In history, Bitcoin has reached the $3,000 mark. Will it be able to get to that value again?
The game pays out once per week. It's important to note that like most free games, the Blockchain Game has a lot of advertisements. This is how they are able to afford to pay others. In one sense, Bitcoin faucets and free Bitcoin games could be seen as a method of advertising profit sharing.
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Perhaps prematurely, Tom Lee (founder of global investing advisory firm, Fundstrat) made his prediction back in October 2017, when the Bitcoin price was ~$6,000. Since then it's virtually tripled and Lee's October prediction looks awkwardly poised to be obliterated long before his five-year timeline expires. Nonetheless, he said, "I think this next generation of young people view bitcoin as their store of value. And if it captures 5% of the gold market, it's worth at least $25,000 per unit."
The company behind Bitcoin Popper seems to only be getting started with the game, and so it appears that when they have more players (more revenue), they will be able to offer bigger and faster prizes. In any case, at present it stands as one of the more fun games of chance to win free bitcoins.
These are not my words; the administration accepts you're financing fear based oppressors with that cash – don't hesitate to bring this issue with them. In any case, this is known as the twofold spending issue and it confounded PC researchers for quite a while until the point when Bitcoinget offered an answer in 2009.
99.9% of the Bitcoin holders are simple people looking to invest to make a profit, they are not professional traders, they don't take into consideration this type of data. So they panic and start selling their Bitcoins, thus lowering the price of BTC even more.
Anindita, I'm testing both of those faucets now. I'm skeptical because they both pay very well compared to other faucets. Increasingly, if a faucet is too good to be true, it's dead or a scam. Hopefully these two will be the exception!
Complete scam. Will not pay out you guys. Its been 3 months since I installed it and they haven't paid out a cent. Shame on Google for allowing scammers to operate on their storefront. Notice how every single 5 star review says they havent tried to receive a payment yet. They "pay" you satoshi for a 5 star review that they never honor. Stay away
Also, a pro tip: if your phone gives you trouble exiting, as the author's did, simply hold your power button down for a few seconds and the usual menu will appear at the bottom of the screen allowing you to get to your home screen.
On 1st of January: Checkmate! All the major banks announced that bitcoin purchases with credit cards are banned. This caused Bitcoin's price to go from $10000 to $6000. If banks were so scared of crypto, why did they start allowing credit card crypto purchases in the first place? Why not block the debit cards also?
Lend directly to someone you know. This allows you to assess personally, whether you regard the borrower as trustworthy. Then the two of you only need to agree on the terms like duration and interest rate and off you go. The drawback is, however, that you probably will not have too many acquaintances who match your amount, duration and interest rate requirements. But it's a nice way to earn Bitcoins.
Bitcoinker rewards its loyal users by giving them bonuses on their payouts. The longer you are an active user of Bitcoinker, the higher bonuses you'll get. An active user is considered a user that claimed Bitcoin directly (not by a referral) at least once in a 30 day period. If a user doesn't claim directly at least once in a 30 day period, then the seniority status is reset. You can check your seniority statistics through the check address link.
Another survey has revealed that the business world is eager to start using bitcoin to save on transactions costs and reduce dependence on entrenched systems. However, many companies are still concerned that holding bitcoin will make them a target for hackers. Also Read: Silicon Valley VCs Help Crypto Hedge Fund Reach Quarter Billion Target Survey Says Yes to Bitcoin The Neustar International Security Council, a global forum of cyber security experts launched by Neustar, Inc. [ 373 more words ]
In my first month of doing day trading I managed to pull over 500% ROI. It was not beginner's luck, I've read all the bitcoin forums for 3 months prior to that, 8 hours a day. 3 years from now all the useless alt coins will vanish and the coin prices will be stable. So we still have around 3 years to kill it. It's not too late to invest, do it or you will regret it later.
As you sign up for their services, it is also vital that you look into their security features. Aside from the bank, are they making use of Bitcoin vaults? After all, you want your assets to remain as well protected as possible. It is vital that you look at all the ways your Bitcoins are being handled.
However, there won't be a guarantee that bitcoins will continue to abruptly increase. As bitcoins are fluctuating down and up, there won't be a guarantee that it will stay up than going down these following years. That means it would still be a gamble to invest in bitcoins. Since bitcoin is fluctuating unpredictably, there will be a hard time controlling bitcoins. Bitcoins do not also have a valuation guarantee. If there is a sudden dumping of the major bitcoin holders, there will also be a sudden drop in the value of bitcoins. It goes true to the positive side as well. We won't know when bitcoin will reach its climax due to its unpredictability. There is a need to quickly adjust on these occasions.
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Though the statistics have shown that over the last year, BTC's value skyrocketed to break the thousand dollar mark, it is still imperative that you diversify your portfolio. In fact, though BTC peaked at $3,000, you also have to consider the potential of other altcoins. And one of the best options that you can go for is Ethereum.
As already said, most faucet websites or faucet apps are offering bitcoins in form of Satoshi. One Satoshi is nothing different than a hundredth of a millionth bitcoin (BTC). So, here is the equation, just to imagine how much this is: 1 Satoshi = 0.00000001 ฿ The name Satoshi comes from the inventor (or inventors, as it's unknown, if it is a he, she or they) – Satoshi Nakamoto. The bitcoin-community pays homage to Satoshi Nakamoto by giving the coin this name. The name starts to spread over the internet in the beginning of 2011.
Once the pending balance in your account reaches 1000 bits, their website says that you can expect to see a payment in your account within 24 hours. Both the credit for completing your task and the payments to your account should take place automatically, without any additional action from you.
However, there are still a lot of unknowns in the picture. For instance, will Bitcoin still be a good option after the 21th million Bitcoin has been mined? Given its limited number, it is a good idea that you also invest on other cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum and even Litecoin.
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Here is YouTube video of Katee and Joshua's Mia Michaels' routine from So You Think You Can Dance, Top 14. Mia Michaels' routines usually make me cry. This one was no different. As Joshua said, "It's so much more than dance with Mia."
I didn't write on last week's eliminations, and by now you know that Kourtni went home and so did her partner Matt. I think they didn't have enough personality to win, but they're both exceptional dancers.
Short Courtney G. did a fantastic solo. If I could move like that I'd be Diva of the World. I also thought Gev's solo was hot.
I like Comfort, but her solo was more of the same. If she's going to keep ending up in the bottom three, then she'd better step up and seriously start dancing for her life. Cute and country only gets you so far, but I agree with SYTYCD judges that Comfort's really growing on the show.
Okay, I'm ready for tomorrow night's show now.
Tags: [So You Think You Can Dance], [television]
So, one day you look down. Your feet are in shoes you don't recognize. Maybe you like them, maybe you don't. You can always change shoes. . . . Reinvention! . . . Your life begins here.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Mia Michaels, Katee & Joshua, "It's so much more than dance."
2 comments:
- ByJane said...
Oh gosh, I watched the whole thing through again. I love Mia Michaels; she has raised dance to entirely new levels.
- July 9, 2008 at 2:44 PM
- Vérité Parlant said...
Definitely agreeing there, ByJane.
- July 9, 2008 at 9:04 PM
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Thousand Palms, CA – September 5, 2015: On Tuesday, September 9, Animal Samaritans will host a Grand Opening ceremony for their new Veterinary Clinic in Indio. The event takes place at 9:00am outside and inside their new veterinary clinic at 42150 Suite B, Jackson Street, just north of the 10 freeway near The Home Depot in the North Indio Town Center Shopping Plaza. Indio Chamber of Commerce will participate and civic leaders from Indio, Coachella, and surrounding communities will be in attendance.
Animal Samaritans will welcome guests with an open house tour of the clinic, pastries and canoles from nearby Charlie Marrone's Bar & Grill, coffee donated from nearby Starbucks, and gift bags filled with pet treats and pet toys donated from the nearby Petco; each business is located in the same Indio Towne Center Shopping Plaza.
Prior to the Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony, refreshments and giveaways, Animal Samaritans CEO Fred Saunders, Clinic Director Marie Brunner, and Founding Board Member Barbara Flanagan with recognize dignitaries and civil leaders in attendance.
Please join us as we celebrate the opening of our new low-cost veterinary clinic in Indio, tomorrow, 9am, at 42150 Suite B, North Indio, and meet Dr. Albert and Dr. Bousquet from the new Indio Clinic.
Animal Samaritans SPCA, a 501 (c) non-profit organization founded in 1978, is committed to improving the lives of animals and people. As the Coachella Valley's most comprehensive animal welfare organization, they strive to one day eliminate the needless suffering and abuse of homeless and unwanted animals. Programs and services in place to save the lives of healthy and treatable animals include prevention through humane education, affordable spay and neuter, vaccinations, and other veterinary care, animal sheltering, animal rescue, pet fostering and pet adoptions. In addition, more than one hundred volunteers from their Pet Therapy programs visit special needs classrooms, nursing homes, local hospitals, and residents at Juvenile Hall. More information is available by calling 760.601.3756 and by visiting www.animalsamaritans.org


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A google search of my current home life looks like this:
You wouldn't think that the screaming, crying animal baby who has invaded our house is literally the same person as this guy:
But somehow, it really is the same, the one and only, the Hankinator. Our house is in complete chaos! I wonder what our neighbor think of the 12am - 330am scream fests over the last few nights.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Hen-sanity 2011
3 comments:
- Leigh said...
Look on the bright side, years from now it will be a memory. Adorable pic btw!
- February 11, 2011 at 1:08 AM
- LB @ BulletsandBiscuits said...
That boy is too adorable for me to believe all that screaming is coming from him ;)
- February 13, 2011 at 6:37 PM
- Swamp Thing said...
He is a junior ladykiller, for sure. He has a whole routine he runs through, from tilting his head and smiling, to laughing and waving, "HEY!"......every time he sees a woman in public.
We're still not sure what the meltdowns are about. His last molar is coming in, which is giving him a hard time, so that's part of it.
But I think a lot of it is him testing what he can control and not control, and trying to figure out which of those two lists the Mrs. and I are on.
- February 14, 2011 at 12:34 PM
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St John's has an amazing range of people in its congregation from all walks of life, including a number of scientists. As we look at the issue of the compatibility of science and faith, some of those scientists reflect on whether their is a conflict between their work and their faith in God.
Ed Walker
I'm retired now of course, but I worked for 30 years in drug discovery at Alderley Park. My particular field was the autoimmune disease rheumatoid arthritis, and I was lucky enough to have a fantastically interesting job trying to find new, more effective treatments. The drugs at that time were quite poor and there was certainly no cure! Our immune system plays an absolutely pivotal role in keeping us alive by eliminating invading organisms that would otherwise kill us, while leaving our bodies to flourish and grow. Rheumatoid arthritis occurs when, in error, the immune system begins to attack our joints and my work involved finding new drugs to stop this happening.
I've never felt that there is a conflict between science and belief in God. On the contrary, I find the elegance and exquisite selectivity of immune-biology to be truly awe-inspiring and this in fact strengthens my belief in a loving, creator God. I see beauty in the biological systems that He has created just as we all see beauty and wonder in many other areas of the natural world.
Luckily my daughter Lucy, who is an academic immunologist, keeps me in touch with the latest wonders of science in the area.
Althea Wilkinson
I did natural sciences (physics) at Cambridge, then did my PhD in Radio Astronomy at Jodrell Bank. My husband's work then took us to California, where I started working on galaxies using an optical telescope. After a few years we returned to Manchester, and I began working on computer simulations, tracking the dynamics of galaxies, and how individual stars moving within them create the shapes we see. After a career break and two children, I returned to join the cosmic microwave background (CMB) research at Jodrell, and became Project Manager of the group constructing the cryogenic low noise amplifiers and front end modules for the Low Frequency Instrument of the Planck Satellite, a European Space Agency cosmology mission to survey the CMB. After that I moved to become project manager of the group working on the design of the timing and frequency distribution and fibre networks for the Square Kilometre Array.
Especially during the cosmology work, I felt very conscious of the fact that these missions are just discovering the wonderful way in which God has in fact created the universe, and how he is leading us to understand his works through our scientific endeavours. There can be no conflict between God's word and his works, since they are both aspects of his self revelation, and that helps me when deciding how to interpret the Bible.
Abbie Goddard
I studied biology at St Andrews University, graduating in May 2016. My main area of study was evolutionary biology and my dissertation looked into ways that new species may evolve. I investigated two strains of fruit flies taken from opposite sides of the world. The males of one strain were reluctant to court females of the other which could ultimately lead to total separation between the two strains.
God is responsible for both creation and His word in scripture so we can be confident that no scientific discovery should cause us to question the truth of His word. For me scientific investigation is an attempt to better understand the intricacies of God's creation and the pattern of complex mechanisms at work in creation strengthen my faith in a Creator God.
Martin Haywood
At AstraZeneca I had the responsibility with a senior clinician to provide a comprehensive literature review of the olaparib drug mechanism for US regulatory authorities enabling progression from Phase 1 to Phase 3 clinical trials for ovarian cancer. This successful drug is now also in trials for pancreatic, prostate and gastric cancers.
I see enormous benefits for human health as a consequence of our intended diligent, orderly, honest exploration of our world using the capabilities God has enabled mankind to develop. Christian belief in human dignity and value is a great motivator, as is love for God, our Creator and Redeemer of all who trust in him.
Julian Matthews
I am a senior lecturer in imaging science at the University of Manchester where I work on developing medical imaging methods and with others their application to medical research and clinical practice. As a Christian the work can be very challenging, for instance working in areas such as cancer and dementia where the suffering of patients and their relatives is all too apparent, and progress is often frustratingly slow. Nevertheless, as a scientist, the wonder of creation from the physics of instrumentation to the complexity of biological pathways is very apparent and humbling as our understanding is often limited.
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I clearly remember an experiment I did at St Andrews university in my final year project where I said "Wow!", out loud, to the amusement of my supervisor, and from then on I was hooked and realised that I wanted to go on discovering more about molecular mechanisms in cells. Nearly 30 year later, having worked primarily in the pharmaceutical sector, I have had a career that was never boring, often frustrating when our ideas proved to be wrong, but privileged to work with others to help discover potential new cancer treatments. Although scientific research has taken us a long way, there is so much we still don't understand; the complexity of even simple cells is breath-taking, which speaks to me of a creator God who brought this into being rather than random events or chance. As scientists we can begin to understand how the world works (or doesn't in some situations!) but only God's word tells me the reason and purpose behind it.
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I'm a medical doctor and specifically a cardiologist because of divine guidance which I had sought. This came through a variety of sources including advice from others and after praying. Several important career decisions came after having dreams. At other times, I felt prevented from applying for some jobs and pushed by God to go for others. The one thing I know is that I feel like a round peg in a perfectly fitting round hole and enjoy what I do enormously, knowing it is what God directed me to do, even giving directions such as where specifically to live and when to move.
I love the ability to use the wonderful world of scientific knowledge with passion in combination with huge compassion for people to be whole. I enjoy a God-given persistence to keep going and to provide excellence in care even if at the cost of taking much longer than is convenient to me to get to the root of a matter and to then explain what is going on.
I enjoy using intuitions and insights I feel God has given me to pursue certain areas of research or to develop models of investigation or treatment and to use these opportunities to help patients as well as other doctors or researchers in their careers. I love teaching and sharing with others what I have learned because I am so grateful for what I have been taught and to show something of God's love, care, greatness and the beauty of design in human beings. Thank you God!
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The Buckets raises an issue I've pondered for years, which perhaps is why I've thought it through even more than she has.
Yes, the Invisible Man would be blind.
But, worse, he wouldn't be invisible, either, unless he went on a substantial fast and then had some extremely effective, pre-colonscopy-level clean-outs.
Worst superpower ever.
I know, I know: I'm overthinking it. It's a fantasy; it's not supposed to be scientifically consistent.
I'm being like those kids who used to write in to Superman comics asking how he cut his hair and trimmed his nails, and, instead of suggesting that maybe they'd outgrown the comic, DC would come up with some ridiculous explanation.
So please don't offer a ridiculous explanation. The Invisible Man would be blind, but not invisible and I've probably outgrown him.
However, that puts me in the Cialis generation and that's even worse: Their latest commercials brag of a pill you can take that works over time so that, when the moment is right, you won't need to find a bathroom.
To which my response is not "Thank god you won't have to pause 10 seconds to swallow a pill," or even "Where were you gonna go get it on that doesn't have running water?" but, rather, "Geez, ya pig, don't you at least wash your hands?"
Not to mention that it seems to conflict with their logo.
But, yeah, as Sundance said, "You just keep thinkin', Butch. That's what you're good at."
But while I'm overthinking things ...
Grand Avenue touches on an odd point of over-thinking that has gained some footing in sports circles, which is the use of "our" by civilians. That really is over-thinking, since people, at least in the team's hometown, should think of it as "their team" and thus "our" and "we" and "us."
If nothing else, you do want us to pay for "our" stadiums, right?
But NFL Shop, continuing its policy of tone-deaf commercials has picked up on this.
For those who don't watch football: NFL Shops gets a lot of air time during games to promote jersey sales, and NFL jerseys cost $100 a pop, which is a pretty loud pop if you ask me.
A few years ago, they started selling jerseys tailored for women, which is okay except that, instead of "Oh, good! Now I have one for me!" they used Lesley Gore's "You Don't Own Me" and showed women angrily throwing their boyfriends' jerseys back in their faces.
Apparently, nobody in the NFL marketing division ever had breakfast with a girl using a football jersey as a nightgown. There are several master's theses lurking in why that's sexy.
Their next marketing venture was a series of commercials in which doting grandparents spend $69 on a jersey for a kid, or the full $95 for a daughter-in-law who has just moved to a new town. In either commercial, the recipient opens the box, sees the "wrong team" jersey and shoves it back in.
Message: "Here's a way to spend a whole lot of money on something they won't want."
This year's commercials feature all-star players explaining all that they went through and achieved to earn their jerseys, then show a fan simply spending the money and getting the jersey without having broken a sweat.
Well, they probably know their audience. But it seems strange to emphasize the difference between the "we" in the stands and the "we" in the trenches.
Juxtaposition of an Over-Thinking Day
I'm still trying to avoid political stuff, not so much because I'm depressed and don't want to think about it, but because so much of it is half-baked, divisive and, at this stage, premature.
But it's possible that Hilary Price and Mark Anderson are sending subtle political messages today and, if so, the connection was made.
And, if not, well, the connection was still made because I can overthink anything.
And, while I'm on the subject, you may now refer to President Obama as a "lame duck," and the legislature as a "lame duck congress." This is the period the expression refers to, though it was a lot longer before 1933 when the 20th Amendment shifted Inauguration Day from March to January.
We'll pretend nobody has foolishly been using it for someone simply not up for re-election.
That's a case of "underthinking."
Basic civics, folks. We learned it in the eighth grade.
On a serious note
Today's Doc and Raider offers a more thoughtful than usual cartoon, not that the strip isn't generally pretty intelligent to begin with.
I hadn't thought of this and I don't know if it's something that gay parents of little kids have to think about, but it's a challenging concept because I'm not sure I see a way around it, honesty being a hallmark of good parenting.
I also don't know if the cartoon is a one-off or the beginning of an arc, but since I follow the strip anyway, I'll guess I'll find out.
Meanwhile, they should be happy to be in Canada. A friend here in the States has a daughter who was, for about six or seven years, her son, and who has been much more pleasant to be around since she recognized her identity -- one night, in the bathtub, she said, "Mom, I think I was born wrong." And Mom listened.
The shift from a somewhat bratty little boy to a pleasant, bright little girl was dramatic and very welcome, I'm sure to her as well as to everyone around her.
And then, just as the world appeared to be heading in directions that would keep her safe and happy ... well, we'll see.
It would take a fresh Supreme Court decision to overturn same-sex marriage, but you can ruin little kids' lives with a complaisant Congress and the stroke of a pen.
Meanwhile, keep your kids honest and happy, even if the combination is a little hard to manage.
Now here's your moment of zen:
If you're going to overthink it, you might as well just punch it and go.


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I had every intention to find her a home.
And I did.
I'm thrilled. My dogs – not so much.
A few months ago my Mother heard a plaintive cry from behind her woodpile that continued on throughout the day. As it got colder she went on the hunt and came across a little kitten in the leaves. Due to my magical ability to nurse the weak and tired into the huge and ornery, I offered to take care of the kitten.
When Mom brought her over Katy was the size of a hamster. I could only pet her with one finger she was so tiny. But she ate like a champ. Now she is hale and hearty. She is a domestic acrobat and fearless adventurer. She is a mixed up colorful mess of a kitty and I think she is the most adorable kitten in the world.
I intended to find her a home once she got big enough. But she is my cat. I think she is great. I never expected to be a cat person but she has warmed my heart with her antics and cuddles.
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This simple soup recipe is one that you'll make on weeknights when you come home and realize that although you are starving and craving something healthy, you have totally forgotten to plan for dinner. Which is to say that it is incredibly versatile and there are endless variations. (The biggest trick here is to have the miso in your fridge waiting for such an occasion.) I've written my favorite everyday variation here, which includes baby bok choy, scallions, and tofu, but you can experiment and use whatever greens you have on hand. And if you're feeling like eating A LOT of veggies in your miso like I do sometimes, you can get crazy with Loaded Miso Soup. Serve with rice on the side or stir rice noodles right into the soup.
Dashi is the traditional stock used in miso soup; it is prepared using tuna flakes, kombu, and water, and you can find it in liquid and dried forms at Asian markets. For vegetarian and vegan variations, simply use a vegetable stock, and if you're not vegetarian and do not have an Asian market nearby, feel free to substitute a chicken stock for the dashi.
Note: This recipe as written is suitable for dairy-free, gluten-free, and wheat-free diets, but as for any recipe that's intended for allergies, be sure to read labels to make sure no dairy-derived ingredients or other ingredients that are not in line with your diet are present.
Where can I find miso? Good question! It's actually widely accessible these days, at major grocery chains, Asian markets, and specialty and health stores alike. In major groceries and health food markets, it is usually found in the refrigerated section near the other tofu products.
Steps to Make It
In a large saucepan or stock pot, bring the dashi or stock to a simmer over medium-high heat but do not boil. Combine the white and red miso in a small dish, then add 1 1/2 cups of the hot dashi and whisk to combine. Set aside.
Simmer the dashi for 5 minutes more. Gently stir in the tofu and simmer for another 5 minutes. (Again: do not boil!) Add the baby bok choy, scallions, and miso mixture, and cook for another 5 minutes, or until the bok choy is slightly wilted but still bright green.
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Heart and sole
By Dawn Fuller
Photos by Marc Laurent
An upscale and compassionate designer sneaker company – conceived by two University of Cincinnati alums when they were students – is impressing shoe shoppers worldwide as well as top fashion publications.
Named Piola Shoes, their company is dedicated to being fair to workers and environmentally sustainable while churning out shoes made of leather or canvas from organic cotton and fair trade rubber – the wild rubber coming from the Amazon rainforest.
The idea for the venture was hatched by Antoine Burnier-Dechon, a study abroad student from the Audencia Nantes School of Management, a Carl H. Lindner College of Business International Programs partner. He completed his master's degree at UC and launched a business partnership with Josh Rudd, a Princeton High School graduate who earned his BBA from the college in 2012.
One of the most compelling aspects of their business is that it supports the Peruvian farmers who provide the materials for the shoes, as well as the factory workers who produce the shoes in Portugal. Piola's commitment to environmental sustainability also fits in with fashion industry trends toward more eco-friendly and fair-trade products.
The word, piola, is Peruvian Spanish for "elegant" or "cool" (or, as Men's Journal states, "kick-ass"), and the product has been featured in such high-profile publications as Gentlemen's Quarterly (France), Harper's Bazaar, Men's Journal and Sneaker Freaker Magazine.
While they were still college students at UC, Burnier-Dechon and Rudd started the Piola partnership through the UC Center for Entrepreneurship Education and Research. Rudd received the center's 2012 award for Outstanding Undergraduate Student in Entrepreneurship.
The company's two other business partners are Augustin Gautier, a graduate of ESCP Europe, an executive business school in Paris, and Quentin Richard, a graduate of University of Wollongong, Sydney, Australia.
Launched in 2011, Piola Shoes started out selling in boutiques in France. Rudd says Piola now has 105 points of sale across Europe, Asia, Australia and North America but is sold only through an online clothing and lifestyle store in the U.S., the Virginia-based needsupply.com. However, Rudd says the shoe line is coming to Nordstrom, an upscale fashion retailer, in early 2015.
The company is filling a new niche for casual designer footwear that's growing in popularity. "It's not the '50s anymore, and when we started out, we knew that men didn't have to wear only loafers to work anymore," Rudd says. "The work place is more casual, and we wanted shoes to go with the office and with jeans – you can wear them dressing up or going more causal, day or night. I've heard it called the hybrid sneaker.
"We also wanted designs that represented our philosophy, so the shoes come in lots of colors and patterns," Rudd says.
Shoe prices range between $150-425. Although the company's first demographic target primarily focused on younger, professional men, Rudd says the company has just introduced a women's line of shoes.
Not quite an overnight success
With every success story comes its obstacles, and Rudd says Piola Shoes started out with its share, among them navigating the language and cultural barriers in working with other countries to manufacture the product. Their suppliers communicated in Spanish. Burnier-Dechon's native language is French and Rudd's is English. Furthermore, the remote areas of Peru where the company operated were not wired.
"One of the first lessons we learned is that we needed to sell before we produced," adds Rudd. "We started out by producing about 4,500 shoes, because the manufacturer required us to do that. But because we had sold zero shoes before we produced, we almost went bankrupt."
Burnier-Dechon moved to Paris to supervise sales in Europe, and after his UC graduation, Rudd initially moved to New York to work on getting Piola Shoes into the U.S. market. But moving and shaking in those big cities wasn't half as glamorous as what might be imagined.
For that matter, real-life as a budding entrepreneur in the Big Apple was hardly the lifestyle portrayed on TV.
Rudd moved to New York with two UC interns from the Lindner College of Business: Kyle Neyer and Alex Schneider, along with another Lindner College of Business graduate, Robel Kidane, who got a job at Jeffries, a global investment banking firm.
"We were living in a one-bedroom apartment, so all four of us were sleeping in the living room on blow-up mattresses," says Rudd. "Antoine's first apartment in Paris was an efficiency. He didn't have a stove, and the shower was about a foot away from his bed.
"A lot of us were also working second jobs in addition to Piola Shoes, and we had no vacations," says Rudd. "There really wasn't much time for ourselves." Rudd has now moved back to Cincinnati to work on U.S. business operations while Burnier-Dechon remains in Paris.
Piola launched a successful Kickstarter campaign in March 2013 to raise $85,000 to create the company's first workshop for their rubber producers. Project Piola, as it was called, resulted in the company's first development project to create an "elegant, sustainable product in 33 days for 33 rubber producers." The project was a partnership between Piola and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), a United Nations Organization, and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
"Sales from Piola Shoes still support the farmers. We built three workshops just this past year for the farmers in Peru," says Rudd.
Where it all began
Rudd says the challenges and the excitement around Piola Shoes never would have existed without the Lindner College of Business' partnership with the Audencia Nantes School of Management, which resulted in the partnership between Rudd and Burnier-Dechon. That partnership was also guided through the college's Center for Entrepreneurship. Established in 1997, the center is dedicated to entrepreneurship education, research and service.
"Our main mission is to remove barriers and create gateways for entrepreneurs like Josh and Antoine," says center founder Charles Matthews, a distinguished teaching professor of entrepreneurship and strategy. "They've been focused on creating a business model that adds value to the customer and the planet. From the beginning, they have been sensitive to labor and environmental issues associated with manufacturing and production. By adhering to environmentally-friendly plant practices and by making sure that the rubber they're sourcing is not being depleted, the eco-friendliness of the product goes hand-in-hand with its design and functionality.
"I view this shoe company as a highly scalable potential venture," Matthews says."They seek to redefine markets and have optimal growth – similar to companies such as Nike and Apple that started as small businesses and grew into responsible global companies."
Rudd adds that as for his experience at UC, Matthews was "the best professor I never had. I worked with him as an advisor, but never had him for a class."
Look for future developments on Piola Shoes as the product enters Nordstrom stores in the U.S. in February. You can get updates through Facebook and Twitter.


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Kickbox the Sand!
I just wrapped a whirlwind wedding weekend across two ends of the state. I was helping a friend with a wedding in Carlsbad Thurs-Sat. Then we went to Sacramento for another dear friends wedding on Sunday. The only semi-workout I even attempted to get was dancing on the dance floors and going up and down stairs carrying some boxes. That's it! So I woke up today feeling "blah" but I knew a little sweat would help turn my frown around. IT WORKED!
I took my workout to the beach. I can't jump around or run yet (I gotta wait for physical therapist to clear me after the broken fibula incident of January 2015) but I figured out a way to sweat. KICKBOXING IN THE SAND!
Here's what I did:
squat low, punch, punch – 50 times
side kick (right side) while punching right arm towards foot (focus on tightening tricep) – 50 times
side kick (left side) while punching left arm towards left foot (tighten tricep) – 50 times
back kick (squeeze hammies), punch towards sky (tighten bicep) – 50 times
front kick, punch in front of you – 50 times
REPEAT 2-3 times… CAUTION: It adds up!
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How to Engage the Greek Community in Bystander Intervention
Bystander Intervention and the Campus Community
Bystander intervention is one of the top ways to prevent sexual assault on campus. Studies show that communities and campuses with more active bystanders have lower incidences of abuse, violence and assault.
When the entire campus serves as active bystanders, the campus culture can shift because the community becomes an ally. One intervention at a time, community members become part of the solution to prevent sexual assault on campus.
And there are many different ways bystanders can help—in particular, those students in fraternaties and sororities..
The Greek Community's Role in Bystander Intervention
One group on campus that can really make a difference in supporting bystander intervention and stopping sexual violence is students who participate in their campus's Greek communities.
At its core, the mission of fraternities and sororities is to develop brotherhood and sisterhoods among their members to build character, develop leaders, serve their communities and achieve academic and professional success.
However, recent media attention around campus sexual assault has painted a much different picture. From rush parties and pledge hazing to socials and formals, there are many Greek life events that have gained a reputation for excessive drinking, vulgarity and drug use, all of which have contributed to instances of sexual assault.
Whether a victim or bystander, it's important to recognize the dangers and warning signs of sexual assault and abuse. Maybe your friend has had too much to drink and is walking away with a stranger, or someone is making inappropriate or forceful advances toward you. As a proactive bystander, it's not only important to stop the present act, but to inform someone of the intervention.
To stop the cycle of campus sexual assault, the members of Greek life play an important role. Through awareness of campus sexual assault instances or attempts, the Greek community—male and female—can work toward educating its members on the importance of bystander intervention, as well as alcohol safety to prevent victims from exposure to assault or danger.
How to Be a Better Bystander
Whether a member of the Greek or campus community, sexual assault can take place anywhere on and off campus, and the entire community needs to be educated on how to react proactively.
To be a proactive bystander, you should:
- Understand how important your role is in preventing campus sexual assault
- Keep an eye out for your friends at parties, especially if they've had too much to drink
- Help friends find safety if they are in a dangerous situation
- Contact security or the police if someone is in danger
- Change the subject to stay away from sexist or suggestive conversations
- Encourage friends and colleagues to be active bystanders
- Offering emotional support to a victim
- Physically intervene if someone is being taken advantage of
- Report instances of physical, as well as verbal or emotional, assault
For campus and Greek life students interested in learning more about campus sexual assault prevention and bystander intervention, check out some of Campus Answers' recent blogs and training courses:
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