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Golden Ropes of Hope

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:04:44 GMT

Golden Ropes of Hope

Life permeates throughout the universe.

We have a world, here and there, which supports and sustains it.

This one, our Earth, with our resolve, will house many who treasure life.

From my own innate will to survive I know the will of the universal life force.

My happiness, the joy of birth here, the oneness of life and environment,

All depend on the wisdom of appreciation. The protective forces are waiting to return. With sincere appreciation we activate them.

We are meant to be happy here. Hope is in these golden ropes of the Buddha’s teaching. For if the peoples will is to resign, then the protective forces will lead me, away from such blind destruction where I will find the other treasures in the universe, those that sustain life and that is where I will fight again for the will to survive.

Can I wake you from a bad dream of false prophecy? I will try and we together can recognize the true treasure of this life and many more to come into a distant future.

Marcie M. Musser

07-09-07

www.sgi-usa.org

A great nation of great ideals

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:56:01 GMT

Great ideals built a once great nation that has gone astray. Equality, freedom and justice. All may seem to be corrupted by a fundamental darkness within. I know that there is too a purity within, it is reflected in our wisdom and compassion. I struggle to maintain hope that we, the people, will win back the ideals this great nation was built on.

The long dark night of pointing to evil outside ourselves must end if we are to see the dawn of wisdom and compassion emerge with hope for the people.

I. We have massive expenditures for military weapons which can easily lead us into a path of death and destruction. At the same time we have little resources expended for life saving and enhancing expenditures. The mass of our funding has to be restructured toward a quality of life for the people.

A. We have to establish affordable health care.
B. Public health includes the environment and science that is for supporting the quality of life.

II. We have a system that curries favor to industries weather or not they are good for the people. A government for the people must uphold that quality of life and be able to regulate industries that compromise it. Money can not lead our government. What is good for the people is not determined by those industries that have been allowed to profit at the expense of life and it’s quality.

A. Farm subsidies should be based on the basic needs of food that the people need. We don’t need to take food from mouths to be put in fuel.
B. The people need clean air, water and soil, this can not be compromised for industries profit line.
C. It is not governments job to protect industries profits, government must uphold the health, welfare, rights and freedoms of it’s citizens first and foremost.

III. The strict separation of church and state has been so blurred that it has actually created problems and greatly defiled the ideals that made this nation great. All government institutions have to respect a strict separation of church and state. Everything from military, to marriage, including science and education has been corrupted because of fundamentalist extremist religious injection.

A. The military has to stop using religion.

B. Faith based initiatives are a clear departure from the strict separation of church and state and should not be allowed to continue to corrupt this fundamental ideal for a great nation. Within this funding, religion is supported by government, allowed to discriminate, judge and dominate over basic freedoms.

1. Public education can not be fixed by voucher programs that allow more blurring of the line of a strict separation of church and state.

C. It is in no way the governments job to determine who can or can not marry. If our tax system is tied to marriage, it has to accept all equally or none at all.
D. Throughout history religion has rejected scientific discovery which does not support it’s theocracy. We have a common bond as humans and this is the only concern our government has to support. Wisdom is found within science and humanity can be a moral compass for that science without religious theory suppressing certain aspects. Science, used wisely can save lives.

1. Stem cell research harms no one and can advance the quality of life.
2. Cloning needs common sense analysis and strict guidelines based on the input from all of it’s resultant implications.
3. The missions for space exploration have to have clear benefit for the people. When we abandon the sick and mentally challenged and support massive funds for a space station, how do the people benefit?Those massive funds combined with the militaries initiatives have lead us to be the only nation that refused to collaborate with other nations for space to not be used for weapons. The one avenue that should be funded for the people, a mission for reducing the risk of comet collisions, was abandoned.
4. At the same time, the monitoring of environmental occurrences was distorted by the same administrative influence that shut the door to renewable energy in it’s energy policy and had the audacity to tell the people that conservation was not a viable alternative.

Great ideals are worth restoring.

Talking about U.N. official: 'Madness' to attack Iran - Focus on Iran - MSNBC.com

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 06:52:14 GMT

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U.N. official: 'Madness' to attack Iran - Focus on Iran - MSNBC.com

Madness is the suffering which will be seen if arrogant national leaders do not stop this march to nuclear confrontation. The US can point to the Iran, Korea, or who ever is next but until it looks at it’s own march to Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD’s) it will not secure anything but more suffering for all mankind.
Responsibility In An Era Of Consequences
by David Krieger, May 17, 2007
…We must also withdraw our support from any programs that seek to maintain nuclear arsenals into the future. A prime example is the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) program now being developed at the US nuclear weapons laboratories. This is but one example of a dangerous weapons program unworthy of our humanity. Rather than continuing the nuclear arms race, largely with itself, while ignoring its obligations under international law for nuclear disarmament, the United States must take a leadership role in ending the nuclear weapons threat to humanity. This is only likely to happen if US citizens demand such action from their government. http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2007/05/17_krieger_Responsibility_In_An_Era.htm

I remember a great nation

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:27:01 GMT

We must bring back the land I was so proud to be born a citizen of. Before we were coerced in fear from our freedoms, civil rights, human rights, equality, justice for all and defender of humanity for the world.
Remember the great truth of “There is nothing to fear but fear itself”
Before the Patriot Act, authorizing warrentless surveillance. Before we bypassed the United Nations and took justice into our own hands only to find our high handed self-righteousness was based on faulty intelligence. Before we were told that evil was “over there”. Yet to apologize and withdraw from the shock and awe.
Remember we were warned “Beware the military complex.”, way before the Military Commissions Act.
Before we withdrew from the Kyoto Treaty because it did not serve the economy. Before we abandoned the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty designed to build true inroads for peace throughout the world.
Remember that “An injustice to one is an injustice to all”. http://thenewshole.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/07/03/256978.aspx
The last bastion of my being an American most recently striped away from me by the highest court in the land failing to uphold the strict separation of church and state.

(take action at this link: http://www.au.org/site/PageServer?pagename=august_faith_based_initiative scrool to bottom of the page for an email action link)

Less noticeable was their ruling of injustice about the medicinal value of a plant, a ruling which spits in the face of truth.
Now I know the deepest meaning of “Give me liberty or give me death”. You can not harness free will and you can not achieve justice without truth.
This July 4^th I will celebrate my sanity and treasure my humanity
as I greave for a great nation I once knew of before.
I pray for her recovery and return.
http://www.firstfreedomfirst.org/

Little Wonder

Sat, 26 May 2007 13:21:58 GMT

Little Wonder

Bye bye firefly, I will miss the magic you make in the night sky

They say you are leaving, a path of extinction where no one noticed or cared

I will miss the childhood wonder you brought and hold your sparkle

In my tears for those who do not care

They say death comes in threes and you weren’t the first

We were warned of the frogs, butterflies and bees

Such sacrificial things are these

When man kills man and abandons the Earth as the essential plan

I held you in my hand as I know that is the proper plan

To cherish the smallest wonder as the greatest thing ever

And so you will remain in my mind

With my prayer for all living beings, you, little wonder, will be there

With your leaving comes a grave devastation of nature

Where our desire has too little concern for her

There are many signs and too few answers

For the ones who know what to treasure

My Mother's Day wish

Sun, 13 May 2007 16:43:09 GMT

TO REMOVE SUFFERING

Buddhism teaches to not seek the highest truth outside yourself and that we all equally have the potential for it within.

A handful of radical and fundamental Jihad’s, sent ‘Passion of the Christ’ to be promoted at the Air Force academy after a president declared that evil was over there. http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062907J.shtml#

I don’t dispute the faults found in the Quran, I can’t get some Christians to see those in the Bible. To cause so much suffering to all the people, these are the paths of blind belief.

May 19, 2008

The news I found last night revealed that radical fundamentalist Christian extremists are pushing for and are winning dominance in the military. (1) The ideals of our country that we know to be great are crushed by this domineering force. It is one thing when a right wing religion preaches that Islam must be wiped out by Christians (2), it is another thing when this is happening within our military. You are free to believe as you wish, that is America. Are you free to take up arms in the military with beliefs that another religion must be killed? That is not America. It is happening now and I am sick, physically ill, that it is happening in America‘s armed forces.

This makes us no better than Jihad’s extremists. Any religion that allows for killing in the name of God or a religion is a problem. Houston, we have a problem. The separation of church and state has not been upheld from the top down and this is the crux to why there is a problem and how to fix it. If we don’t fix it, America is not true to it’s greatness and can no longer be a world leader.

Word to the wise, if your religion doesn’t uphold world peace for believers and non believers alike, as a supreme mission, it is a false teaching and is not a true religion.

(1) http://therealnews.com/idirect.php?i=1517

(2) Watch the video: http://bravenewfilms.org/watch/22083448/38133?utm_source=rgemail

Within, the highest truth is found and recognized in our fellow common man’s wisdom, compassion, purity and true self, within all, some more in touch, some less, it is here that we kill the will to kill. http://action.wccci.org/

What is radical? That which allows for violence or persecution. There are radicals within both of the major religions in our world today.

What will lead to tolerance and diversity for Peace in the world is Buddhism’s objective. www.sgi-usa.org

I. Non-violence is essential. Pacifism in Buddhism isn’t about resignation, it is about endurance, perseverance and sincere prayer for other’s happiness and for peace in the world. It is accepting responsibility for your actions, knowing yourself, and having compassion for others. It is NOT taking an eye for an eye. It is taking what is dished out and turning it into something better with compassion for the wrong doer. Based on the strict law of cause and effect, two wrongs never make a right.

II. Equality. The true Buddha’s intent was to make all people equal to his own enlightenment. First you must value your own life as a treasure, then you can recognize the same within others.

III. Wisdom.

Here in America, the fundamentalist superiority complex is mixing with government and becoming more powerful in it’s self-righteousness which leads to persecution.

I was never taught to be so proud of my country as I was taught within Buddhism. My country, America, was great because of it’s religious tolerance, human rights for equality, and fair system of justice. I belong to that country and she is barely breathing. That great nation is worthy of the great teaching I have found in True Buddhism.

The nay sayers are quoting founding fathers who had not an inkling that such a great teaching as Buddhism even existed but, none the less, they had the foresight for a rule of government that allowed for individuals not to be dominated by any one endorsed religion. From the outset this will of their vision has been tested and too often it has been bent and broken.

I can not help but believe that if we could somehow uphold that great vision we would end the hypocrisy today and be the truest example of what a government should be.

It comes down to each person refusing to judge another on the basis of religious belief. Each person must reaffirm that each human being in existence is deserving of life. You can not point to evil outside yourself. You can control your mind to not persecute. Non violent bridges of trust in the humanity of each must be built through dialog. http://sgi-usa.org/thesgiusa/community/dss/

If we fail to do this, if Christians and Muslims (or any other group I may not be aware of) continue the blame game in the name of a supreme being, rapture or any higher power, or prophet, all people will suffer. No one wins if everyone loses.

Your Magic Wand

Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:14:21 GMT

Your Magic Wand

Ask any Mother's child,

Purity reigns the heart

That seeks friends and joy.

How that purity leaves,

We have only ourselves to blame

If power and money are supreme.

Fear, greed and anger are your enemies

Kill the will to kill within

Want for others as you want for yourself.

Simple yet profound

Sat, 02 Sep 2006 12:45:58 GMT

How profound, “There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds“. This same Gosho states that we must not seek purity outside our own selves. The teaching explains what that purity is within, that which everyone has equally within, the aspects of enlightenment; mercy, compassion, wisdom, true self and freedom. True Buddhism also elucidates what the darkness within us is; greed, anger and ignorance. By reflecting upon your own mind you can elevate from the darkness into the light. This is the practice of True Buddhism, this is how chanting 'Nam myoho renge kyo' works to benefit the individual. Because it is based on the universal principle of cause and effect, belief is not required or commanded. This law operates throughout the macro and micro of all existence without any belief.

My first book of poetry

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:33:25 GMT

I've been writing poetry for a good 30 years and just published my first book (see custom lists). Hopefully, someday soon, I can compile some of the other good ones into another book. This one is mostly about the life philosophy of True Buddhism. I've done a lot of creative writing and had so much that I actually lost some of my works during one of my moves.