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Pure minds for a pure landAugust 08 Golden Ropes of HopeGolden 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 A great nation of great idealsGreat 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.
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.
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.
Great ideals are worth restoring. June 16 Talking about U.N. official: 'Madness' to attack Iran - Focus on Iran - MSNBC.com
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June 03 I remember a great nation
May 26 Little WonderLittle 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 May 13 My Mother's Day wishTO 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) (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.
September 21 Your Magic WandYour 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.
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