Buddha In The Earth Garden

The light we choose to make real. That is a fascinating thing. As every living being is a representative of the original light of consciousness, of love of awareness . . .then the light we choose to make real is an act of creative becoming. It is what we declare ourselves to be. The basic coded imprint of who we are being could vary greatly. According to our choices the light that is reflected from any given event can vary greatly. What then do we choose to make real? The light we see is our creation.

The Light We See and how we Choose to see it - is a Creative Act

Grameen Bank clients - 97% are female

The financial system of the world is being transformed and changed for the greater good by a kind, intelligent, wise man – and a Muslim into the bargain. Here’s a few short short quotes from his address. The full address can be heard and viewed in the embedded video below. Thanks to my friend Mary in Sydney for sending me a link to one of the best things I have ever seen. True. An address to the London School of Economics by Professor Muhammad Yunus talking about how he set up the Grameen (Village) Bank. The Grameen or Village Bank  is Transforming The World – Really!

The way I did it . . .I can only describe it this way: Whenever I needed a procedure of banking – of what I have to do now . . .I just looked at the conventional banks – they are everywhere so it’s easy to find out – (and I would ask) what would they do in that case? Once I learned what they do . . .I would just do the opposite. And it worked. It never failed me. Everything you hear about the Grameen Bank is nothing but doing the opposite. They go to the rich . . I went to the poor. They work in the city centre . . .I decided to go to the village – the remote village. They go to men . . .I went to women. They want collateral . . .I said no collateral – forget it! They want big lawyers to tie you up, so that you cannot run away from them . . .we said no lawyers! Grameen Bank is probably the only bank in the world which doesn’t have any lawyers. It makes life so much easier. Because the only thing you have is trust, and amazingly trust works! – Muhammad Yunus

I had no banking background, I didn’t know anything about banking. But I bumped into it and I did something which later on they say . . .it is banking! I had no idea that that’s what I was doing. But in hindsight I think the best thing I had was that I didn’t know about banking. That was the best thing! Because if knew about banking, if I learned about banking . . .I’d go back to their logic. I would follow the same thing they have told to me. (but) Since I was not told, since I didn’t know anything . . .I was a free person. – Muhammad Yunus

I always did very little things. Giving loans to forty two people. That was my start.  . . .and $27 – that was my start! Giving Loans to forty two people. Imagine how small each loan was. We call the whole thing we created micro-credit. Tiny credit . . .and it became big – Global. – Muhammad Younus

But how did I do it without knowing anything? I made it very simple . .I don’t want to go in a very complicated way – I call it worms eye view. Just come as close as possible to the problem. You see things at a very close range . . .see it very clearly. Then you avoid the chance of making mistakes. Sometimes we pride ourselves on having a a bird’s eye view – you see everything, but you see blurred things, hazy things . . .you don’t know what you are seeing, you make up stories, that really didn’t exist. – Muhummad Yunus

Buddha Views The Christmas Gift of a Quantum Hologram

image courtesy http://www.imagecreation.in

Freedom and Entanglement

Quantum theory says we are bound up in the world through a Quantum Hologram which is filtered into our consciousness by the medium of our brains. It’s a game of freedom and entanglement. Eastern mysticism, specifically Vedic (or Indian) culture talks of deep entanglement with the world as Samsara. Samsara means being bound into the lowest cycles of vibratory existence – what we refer to as our universe – and the associated problem of having to be born again and again . . .and having to die . . .again and again. It’s a bum rap with absolutely no prospect of escape save through the Cosmic Board of Parole. You can’t bust out of the Cosmic slam in some sort of Hollywood style bid for freedom. You have to get Moksha – liberation. No wonder the Birdman of Alcatraz and other prisoner movies have such deep appeal for the human psyche. The prisoner is us. Plenty of time to play the game of freedom and entanglement

You could say we have been thrown into a cosmic dungeon. And here we are. One is reminded of Brian in that hilarious scene from the Life Of Brian movie being thrown into a Dungeon and spat on by a Roman soldier. And in that prison, shackled to the dank wall is an incredibly bedraggled, bearded old man. Brian complains - that Roman soldier spat on me! The old man replies, speaking of course from his own experience: What I wouldn’t give to be spat on! Einsteinian Relativity at it’s comedic best. It’s a game of freedom and entanglement. This is the point where theory intersects with the human phenomena of consciousness. Laugh if you want to. and hey .. .you might as well. It’s free and produces happy endorphins apparently.

One way of looking at our prison, our dungeon our Samsara of being born and having to die again and again is to simply reframe the whole prison thing and call it a game, an adventure a learning experience. It’s a game of freedom and entanglement.  From a Quantum perspective this sounds pretty good because in Quantum Philosophy as in New Age philosophy . . .you create your own reality. The Pundits of Quantum theory will of course quibble over the New Age-ness of this proposition – you must understand, no sober pontificating scientist wants to be upstaged by some lunatic crystal waving New Agers. Even if they happen to be correct. But then they will all say the same thing in their scientific language. You collapse the wave and produce . . .the specific experience of the particle and a whole universe. You create your own reality! Go on  . . . you know you want to.

But here’s the thing: what all the interesting commentators in the Quantum Philosophy field are now talking about, and talking about . . .and talking about, is the very fact of consciousness as being the real thing at the root of matter . . .and not the other way around. As you are entangled in the Quantum Hologram if you really want to play the cosmic game and get free of the Samsara of birth and death (you will warm to this proposition whenever you find it’s time to die) it can be done efficiently and effectively at the level of consciousness. So what’s this got to do with L-O-V-E  . . . LOVE! Everything of course. It’s what all the Gurus are talking about these days. Well . . it is Christmas after all. Celebrate the Groove-meister. Love is the answer and it will get you free of the prison. Play that funky music!. It’s a game of freedom and entanglement . . . the adventure of busting loose.

Who Are You Really?

Gandhi, The Buddha, Marx and Jesus

Gandhi, The Buddha, Marx and Jesus – the revolutionary Gang of Four. What they wrote, collectively speaking could be called the book of Genius and Spiritual Mastery for Dummies. Ideas are interesting things. A truly awesome and profound idea can change the world. It’s also interesting to consider that once a great idea changes the world, the world then changes the great idea as it plays in the world. But the great idea stands . . .like a rock or a statue.  Take the main ideas of Gandhi, The Buddha, Marx and Jesus.  This is some revolutionary Gang of Four. If great ideas were pop songs these four would be bigger than the Beatles.

And doesn’t it seem so dreadfully simple when you reduce their message to its essence? Love one another. Do to others as you would have them do to yourself. Throw off the yoke of the oppressor and yet do it non-violently. Don’t get attached to the things of this world. They are after all temporary and such attachment will cause you suffering. Instead practice the right path and have compassion. And Marx . . .capitalism is a flawed system and will lead inevitably to violent revolution due to the inherently unbalanced nature of the attachment to power of the powerful. Everybody gets to be miserable in capitalism. Which is ironic since it is all about the unfettered pursuit of happiness. Or something.

Once you get down and dirty with the truth it certainly gets complex. Once the classic and immutable truth gets down into the painful cracks and crevices of our broken or coherent and multi-faceted lives . . .ah! What Comedy! What shadow play! What drama! What miracles!  Those patterns and love lights play and dance on the walls and in the catacombs of our convoluted illusion which we call our . . . reality. It is a terrible, marvelous and an often  awkward joke. And it is this perpetual paradox of daily life which the heroic unsung heroes of our lives make a meal of daily.

Gandhi, The Buddha, Marx and Jesus - the revolutionary Gang of Four. They wrote the book of Genius and Spiritual Mastery for Dummies. One can only have admiration for those amazing souls who continually demonstrate, whether quietly or not so quietly, the grounding of those great ideas in the noisy strife of day to day Terra firma; in the marketplace of our daily lives. They are the people who will nod in your direction, take the time to say G’day. Get on with what needs to be done and then somehow within themselves strive to do the right thing, the honourable thing, without ripping themselves or anyone else off. Emotionally spiritually  physically or mentally.   So here’s to them and here’s to Gandhi, The Buddha, Marx and Jesus - the revolutionary Gang of Four. What they wrote, collectively speaking could be called the book of Genius and Spiritual Mastery for Dummies. Thanks for dropping by the store.

Alan Jones Agrees with The Greens on Fracking

Thanks Alan Jones You Have Sided with The Greens

Thanks Alan Jones – you turned out to be not so bad after all for you have sided with the Greens. We really, really love you. You are OK Alan. Thanks for taking a principled stand against the ghastly practice of fracking. Good to see Tony Abbot getting on side and doing the right thing too. FRACKING? YUK!   Most people think it is despicable, lamentable and just plain wrong. Yeah . . .Thanks Alan Jones You Have Sided with The Greens

Carbon is the Celebrity Atom

Carbon is the celebrity atom and molecule of the 21st Century. Everybody seems to be talking carbon at the moment. We are going 2C the carbon molecule C60 in different outfits strolling down the molecular red carpet. Murdoch’s lackey’s and hangers on of the press will be there lapping up every saucy detail of carbon’s latest trysts. Carbon was seen arm in arm with Patsy Polymer at a night club in Rome. Carbon rumoured to be having an affair with a heavy metal group. Woo woo kinky carbon!.

Carbon may be clogging up the atmosphere right now but overexposure doesn’t seem to have tarnished Carbon’s super star celebrity status. She is a wild whirlwind of plastic power and her story’s just begun. To understand the importance of this concept you would be well advised to acquire a copy of Hugh Aldersley-Williams’ great book: The Most Beautiful Molecule - copies avail on Amazon used from 16c – yes it’s like getting it free, but you still gotta pay for postage.

Here’s the thing . . .the carbon C60 molecule was discovered in the 1980′s and named after Buckminster Fuller – the guy who reprised the geodesic dome etc. Major counter culture icon – fondly AKA Bucky.And because the C60 is basically the shape of a geodesic which is kinda like a soccer ball . . .well they named these things after Bucky. Bucky Balls and variations – Fullerenes.

Carbon nanoballs resemble soccerballs

Soccerball image courtesy Visual Paradox

In the 1990′s according to Aldersley-Williams ninety percent of all chemical papers written were about Carbon C60. It was one of THE big scientific breakthroughs of the late 20th century. Rudolf Steiner from earlier in the 20th Century, tells us that Carbon is the great plastic synthesiser which is why its used by nature as a basic building block for all organic life. Now in the relatively newly discovered form of carbon C60 – we can synthesise super strength materials that have the hardness of diamond and the lightness of plastic. The combinations are also endless so enterprising types have no need to get bored playing with carbon. Party!!! Turns out Carbon is the power social networker of the periodic table. Once again it’s not so much what you know as who you know, and carbon knows everyone – or is a very serious social climber. Perhaps both.

But if carbon is the celebrity atom apparently she is going to shock the world by hanging around a lot more with trashy types found in garbage dumps. Once this crowd of flotsam and jetsam have been to rehab carbon’s manager is going to get her together with them and form a new super group. It seems most of our construction and material supplies will inevitably come from synthesized combinations of carbon. Raw materials supplied via the molecules buried in garbage dumps and elsewhere. But where is all the carbon going to come from?

When more entrepreneurs wake up to Carbon’s celebrity atom status her carousing days may be short-lived. Instead of running wild with Oxygen and Nitrogen she will be told she has to grow up. Money making industrialists and entrepreneurs will capture her at point of coal burning from power stations. . .in fact they may choose to bypass this stage altogether when they realize that burning coal is an exercise in stupidity and  . . .here’s the kicker coal is more valuable as a building product raw material par excellence. Ditto for oil. Come on Carbon you superstar! Time to wake up and smell the coffee!  Forget about these grungy coal power gigs. There are bigger plans for you. Just don’t tell anyone. It’s a marvelous night for a Moondance.

Crafty Carbon Nanotube

The Future is Tiny and It’s HUGE!

The day after news declaring that an agreement has been reached at the climate talks at Durban, a forwarded link to the video embedded below titled: The Future of Nano-Electric Power Generation arrived in Dr Quantum’s in-box . The Future is Tiny and It’s HUGE!

Overall this is encouraging from a number of points of view. Firstly it’s encouraging that we are reaching some kind of global agreement on carbon emissions, despite it not being perfect; despite the rantings of the lost loonie tribes (one-world government conspiracy theorists) and in spite of the fact that burning fossil fuels is now more or less a Victorian era hallucination. The very least you can say is that the road to clean energy is certainly not a boring one! Hoo boy.

If you watch the really excellent vid you will see that The Future is Tiny and It’s HUGE! - one of the innovative technologies that is apparently going to be part of the new transformative global dynamic is carbon-nanotubes. As the man says they are like tubes of rolled chicken wire only each one is 10,000th the width of a human hair. Now get this . . .you can create a transparent film out of this stuff that can be part of a solution set of technology where whole building surfaces become solar panel power generators. It’s clean green, futuristic, high tech wizardry and it’s here NOW. This guy – Justin Hall-Tipping – has a company set up Nanoholdings to take these classes of products to market.

Now just imagine . . .there are thousands, nay tens of thousands of innovative and clever peeps much like Justin Hall-Tipping and Co who are right now . . .busy creating the future. Let’s cheer them on. Boo to pollution and boo to more carbon emissions. YES to capturing carbon and YES to clean green smart technology. YES to business people like Justin Hall-Tipping who care about people and the future of the planet. The Future is Tiny and It’s HUGE!

Are You Ready Boots? Start Walkin

The Truth vs Corporate Fascism

My Darling Fascism . . .I don’t know how to say this . . . but I’m leaving you  Sob! It’s a case of the truth vs corporate fascism. We find ourselves living in interesting times.  Corporate Fascism is the new form of political governance in the world. You may believe that the elected representatives (or if you live in China your political masters) are running the show. Not true. The real power running the show is the mysterious Ahhhh Choooo!!! Tissue? It’s the truth vs corporate fascism.

For protection of the righteous
And destruction of the wicked, 
For establishing of dharma,
I manifest from age to age. Bhagavad Gita Ch4 V8

It seems we are waking up to the truth and to corporate fascism. There is an avalanche of information pointing the finger at who the dark and shadowy powers are that pull the strings that control the public officials . . . who appear on the evening news who pretend they are in control. Meanwhile corporate fascism . . .the criminals who actually rule the world have poisoned your health system, your agricultural system, poisoned your food supply, limited your energy to being dependent on fossil fuels, and in the finance sector taken billions, no TRILLIONS of dollars from tax payers thus forcing them into continued slavery.

. . . these ruined souls
Small-minded and of cruel deeds 
Arise as the enemies of
The world, bent on its destruction. 

Filled with insatiable desires,
Full of hypocrisy, pride, and 
Arrogance, holding evil thoughts
Through delusion, they foully work. Bhagavad Gita Ch 16 V9-10

The truth is finally coming out. There is nothing new in this but there is nothing like the smell of napalm in the morning to clear the head. Time to wake up. It’s the truth vs corporate fascism.

So here’s what’s really interesting. As hard as it may be to confront the truth . . . there is the question of karma here. Yours. According to the Bhagavad Gita AKA The Song of God, not a blade of grass moves without the will of the supreme. And just quietly  . . .you may consider this accurate. But who is this GOD? This mysterious Ahhh Chooo!!!?Very mysterious indeed.

Firstly,  the hideous corruption you see in the world. Ugly as it is . . .that’s your karma. Time to do the dishes and take out the garbage. Next time there’s a march for freedom and against some aspect of the negativity of the system . . .and you don’t go . . . just remember this. Complacency is consent. Time to wake up. As the Woody Allen God has said: 80% of success is showing up. Show up. Protest or think of yourself protesting. Think of yourself as protesting . . .This is actually very powerful. Just don’t sit around in your underwear eating ice cream. Time to wake up.

Secondly. All the control mechanisms are held in place by laws. Those nasty police people laying into protesters with clubs etc . . . they are the wrong end of the sequence to focus on. Pawns in the game. Why do you think the powerful hang out with politicians and bribe/coerce them so heavily? Because he who makes the rules controls the game. And the unholy basterds have been controlling the game by controlling the politicians. Not every single one but just enough to get the leverage they need. These bitches and basterds can’t really control the system, or YOU . . .unless YOU let them. Stop letting them. Time to wake up. Join the GREENS (or whomsoever you believe in your wisdom will deliver us from evil). . .Protest . . .Vote!

Thirdly the true power is indeed God or whatever you choose to call her. See that right there? Radical idea. What if God was a woman? And you don’t have to believe in God as such but here’s the thing. No spiritual discipline equals putrid ego. And right now, that putrid ego appears to be running the world. Yes that me be your karma BUT . . .it’s also your karma to wake up!  Time to wake up. Meditate. Become a Buddhist. Do Yoga. Learn Tai Chi. Oh . . .here’s a radical one – become a Christian and LOVE your fellow man. Uhhh . . . actually maybe you better forget that last one. It’s too radical. Do something. Don’t just keep thinking you have all the answers. You don’t.

Without yoga, O Mighty-Armed,
Renunciation’s hard to gain. 
The sage disciplined in yoga
Quickly attains unto Brahman. Bhagavad Gita Ch5, V6

Allow the miracles to flow through you. Focus on the positive. That’s what’s going to change the world.  The MOST POWERFUL THING YOU CAN DO IS TO HAVE A POSITIVE VISION OF WHAT THE WORLD CAN LOOK  LIKE. Yes Dr Quantum is shouting.

A paradox?

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress - Niels Bohr, Quantum Physics Pioneer

Infinite Quantum Dancers

Quantum Dancing is The Answer

Dear wise and thinking friend, as we observe the obstinate denial of wisdom and lack of a moral stance and clear thinking at the so-called climate talks at Durban it is time to remind ourselves  . . .not to be deterred by the immoral, the unwise and the unthinking – quantum dancing is the answer.  One gets the feeling that the great washing machine of infinity is about to give some of our brothers and sisters a complimentary cycle of the old convenience. Keep your powder dry and your dirty laundry handy, you may be able to score a deluxe bag wash supreme at the laundromat of life yourself and do some quantum dancing while you wait for your clothes. And keep a book handy in case of long delays. The Sustainability Network has reported the situation succinctly ‘We’ve been doing the same kind of approach for 20 years now, and it’s going nowhere’, explains Professor Scott Barrett, from the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

Let us quickly summarise the problem. Firstly there is a lack of moral and political will exhibited by the big three polluters, China, USA and Russia.  Their collective lack of will to take the necessary action to reduce carbon emissions makes it diabolically difficult for any of the other countries to manoeuvre. Australia – the country of Dr Quantum’s residence – has only managed to pass a carbon tax by the slimmest of margins and to our possible economic detriment. A detriment that Dr Quantum for one is more than happy to bear for the sake of future generations. Many people do not yet understand, Quantum Dancing is the answer.

Secondly there is the mad chattering of the loonies and nutters emanating from the lower rungs. Like so many agitated monkeys, these are the paranoid, the fearful, the denialists.  God bless ‘em. Then there are the outright frauds. Certain large business interests who are happy to pay the spin doctors of the bottom-dwelling PR tribes to tell lies on their behalf. They are happy to deceive, cheat and connive for pieces of silver. And God bless them too. They know not what they they do, nor do they know that they sow the seeds of their own demise. The hour of opportunity for CHANGE is only hastened, and inevitably so by their fear, greed, lack of foresight and moral courage. And that’s the news.

Quantum Dancing But there’s more. In the quantum realm of infinite systems and infinite games you can create your own reality. Quantum Dancing is the answer. But how do you do that? Well . . .here’s the trick you see. First of all it is not necessary to dwell on the dark and depressing stuff for longer than it takes to see what’s going on. See it there. Take META-physical responsibility for your own fractal of the darkness and then move quickly into the light. As quickly as a Latin Dancer moves on the sparkling night floor with Rumba, Salsa and Meringue. Move to the rhythm and Dance! Dance with your own vision of what is true for you. Dance with the answers of your own sacred heart of passionate romance. Flow with the night moves of lovers on the dance floor and discover what really moves you. Dance to the beat of your own drum . . .and BANG! it loud. Stay in the flow and remember . . . don’t stop till you get enough. Tiger . . .Rrrrrr. Quantum Dancing is the Answer.