Satanic

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Not to be outdone by Robertson, Mohler claimed that Buddhism, Hinduism, and Marxism are 'demonstration[s] of satanic power.
(Via Dharma Vision)

R. Albert Mohler Jr. is president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and host of the daily Christian radio show The Albert Mohler Program.

Everything is relative. Bill O'Reilly appears intelligent in this conversation.

Choices...

Choices... Globe and Mail
The traditional idea that we are the passive carriers of our genes is being challenged by the notion that we are their custodians. Our lifestyles — what we eat, how much we exercise, whether we smoke — may play a role in a chemical switching system that activates or deactivates our genes.
(Via vedana.net)

Not one, not two

Destruction has an end, which is the beginning of creation. Creation has an end which is the beginning of destruction. Better to say that neither has an end. The two go hand in hand. Some trees only release their seeds when it gets very hot... during a fire.

It is the dynamic between destruction and creation, or love and hate, the energy that crackles between these polar energies that literally fuels the universe. It keeps everything moving and evolving. It powers evolution on every level imaginable - from bacteria to awareness. That energy derives from duality. That dynamic is the very essence of our life, the energy that derives from creation/destruction, love/hate, stillness/movement...

Our mind. It is in constant flux. It is liquid. I suggest that not only does mind not want to rest in unity, but that it cannot! In other words, the start of this universe was the end of another universe. And the end of this universe will be the start of another universe. Or, to say it in another way: Big Mind will not rest in unity. It is quite impossible. And everyone looking to rest in a heaven, and all those hoping to attain nirvana are looking the wrong way. There is no rest. There is only rest in movement. Like there is a rest between moving your left foot and your right foot in walking, or the moment between exhalation and inhalation. Those moments are the windows between Unity and Duality.

Big Mind cannot rest in unity alone. And yet it is also true that Big Mind is resting in unity at all times... 

All of this is both perfect Unity and perfect Duality... without end

CHIYONO: Mugai Nyodai

CHIYONO: Mugai Nyodai
This way and that way
I tried to keep the pail of water together,
hoping the weak bamboos
would never break
But suddenly the bottom fell out:
no more water
no more moon in the water
and emptiness in my hand!

Mugai Nyodai - Japan's first female Zen Master (1223-1298)

Photo: INSTITUTE FOR MEDIEVAL JAPANESE STUDIES
In the thirteenth century an extraordinarily realistic portrait statue (chinso chokoku) was carved depicting Abbess Mugai Nyodai in her seventies. Chinso statues are a category of remarkably realistic life-sized statues of the seated figures of historical Zen masters made as substitutes for the living person to convey the essence of the Zen master to his disciples after his death. This statue, the only thirteenth-century portrait statue of a female Zen master extant.