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...Enchanting, powerful, horrific, beautiful, wise, deadly, compassionate, seductive. Women in Buddhist story and image are all these things and more. She takes the signs of the ancient goddess – the lotus, the sacred grove, the serpent, the sacrifice – and uses them in astonishing new ways. Her story is one of suff...

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...jato through SantipadaSects & SectarianismHow tranquillity worsted insight in the Pali canonBeginningsThere comes a time when the world ends…Bhikkhuni... ...tic discipline for Buddhist nunsA Swift Pair of MessengersCalm and insight in the Buddha’s wordsDreams of BhaddāSex. Murder. Betrayal. Enlightenment. ... ... http://santipada.orgWhite Bones Red RotBlack SnakesA Buddhist mythology of the feminine Bhikkhu Sujato S A N T I P ... ... Chapter 3 THE DEATH OF THE GODDESS Why is the mythology so problematic for the bh kkhun si i ? And wh... ...ttles; others as Hecate, others aga n as Rhamnub ai i ; but both races of Eth op ansi i , whose lands the morn ng suni first sh... ...at the end of the period of studentship. Here’s a typical example from a Hindu Dharmaśāstra.8 Now when re ut rn ngi (home from h si teach... ...h s m ndl i i through loving-k ndness mai y be assailed by non-human be ngsi , just as a village with few men and many women ... ...he Child. Routledge, 1999.Pintchman, Tracy. The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition. suny Press, 1994.Piven, Jerry S. ‘Buddh smi , Dea ht , an...

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...or transform into a 'beauteous butterfly'-this path-breaking book of a rare genre suggests-is the seminal choice before mankind, and every one of us. In this setting, the book raises some fundamental questions: What is man's rightful place in the cosmos and his manifest destiny on earth? Why are we so self-righteously self-destructive? Are we a doomed species? Or 'divine' ...

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...Chapter 1 Man in Context God gotten weary of Man! The turn of any millennium is always a time for thoughtfulness, a rugged moment for intrepid introspection, a hinge of history for an honest audit of human conduct, for a moral inventory...

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...Contents Preface Chapter 1. Man in Context God gotten weary of Man! To let fall a tear for humanity Brooding on the brink Risks, change and transformation The three ‘I’s of the human condition Chigyogoisui — unity of knowledge and action Malaise of m...

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... stemming from human behavior, which isin 1983 and from the United Nations in 1996. now both brazen and bizarre, narcissistic and nihilistic.Over ... ...a Challa ask fundamental questions: What is man’s rightfulhas served in multiple capacities, from the place in the cosmos? Are we a doomed s... ...’s work on earth: to sustain, synergize, and harmonize all life, human and non-human alike. That should be the ultimate aim of human transformation. ... ...of theworld’ scriptural scenarios and the ‘gloom and doom’ prophecies, the Hindu idea of avatars,direct divine incarnations, the last of which is due ... ...h history, cutting across all cultures and civilizations, myth, magic, and mythology. Still, too many of us live in a fractured state of doubt, dis... ... truly any ‘times’ save the present ‘time’. In the Katha Upanishad, the Hindu God of Death Yama asks Nachiketa, theembodiment of the eternal seeker... ... 76comprising nonhuman forms of life, other species, other races, religions, nations, classes, andcommunities of all kinds. And unless... ...way’ everything can be extinguished;anything ‘human’ supersedes everything non-human. Psychologists and scientists have longstruggled to explain human... ...ological evolution stopped between 50,000 and 100,000years ago, before the races diverged, which would ensure that racial and ethnic groups arebiologi...

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...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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... ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values ... ...t Human Values 0―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values ... ...ew Testament. If it is aMuslim society we believe in the Qur‘an. If it is a Hindu society we believe in the Upanishadsand the Gita. If it is a truly d... ... face their beliefs by thinkingdeeply about them. ―Few Jews, Christians, Hindus or Muslims change their religions. Few democrats want atotalitarian... ...e of the Taliban,male supremacy reduced women and non-believers to a nearly non-human status. Under theTaliban‘s mistaken ideas of traditional Moslem ... ...aditional Moslem values, women, non-Muslims, and any enemieswere treated as non-humans, subject to torture and death. The proud academic traditions of... ...ers and theologians prove their positions to us—without the hocus pocus and mythologythat any educated mind would certainly reject. Our problem is tha... ...ertain religion or race, or they may not want people of certainreligions or races. That is their right. Holland is now talking about having immigrants... ..., except for European whites and freed slaves, it was prettytough for other races to enter the United States. The simplest road to citizenship was pro...

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...want to’. This is at the heart of what scriptures and sages have long alluded to as the eternal internal struggle-between good and evil - that wages in the human consciousness. The book posits that much of our confusion and angst stems from our inability to recognize the ramifications of this ‘war’ between two sides of our own ‘self’. It is because we are ignoring this...

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...ch, it is often said, is the last word on the nuances of ethical dilemmas that harass human life.3 And the Pandava prince Arjuna, a central character in the same epic, asked Lord Krishna, “Why is a person impelled to commit sinful acts, even unwillingly, as if by force?” What is strange is that Arjuna’s arch enemy and villain, Duryodhana, also strikes a similar refrain and...

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...lities • The Lure of the Forbidden and the Streak of Cruelty • Struggle for Supremacy Over Consciousness—the War Within • Homo sapiens to Homo Deus • In the Melting Pot of Life and Death • Coming Soon—‘Machines-Better-Than-Me’ • The Way Forward is the Way Inward. Chapter 1: Musings on Mankind 101 The Human Animal • Empathy—Not a Human Monopoly • The Mood of the Moment • ...

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...tality Bhimeswara Challa Dedication to a Daughter In fond remembrance of my daughter Padma Priya Challa, who died, solitary t... ...eights, but a slew of fateful setbacks, professional and personal, set in, and a life of uncommon promise went woefully wrong. She was carefree a... ...itting one of the panchamaha-patakams (most heinous sins) characterized in Hinduism—ingratitude—if I donot place on record my profound gratitude to th... ...ociate with sadistic violence, cruelty, and viciousness.Sometimes, like in Hinduism, good and evil are equated with order and chaos,and the struggle b... ...ut true, some wronged mothersare coming close to resembling Medea of Greek mythology—the woman whokills her own children, the ‘offspring of her own wo... ...inance on earthweakens or ends, would the world be more moral and safer if non-humans orpart-humans are in control? Would nature, so mercilessly maule... ...’t feel right’46—about the way man makeschoices that affect fellow-humans, non-humans and nature. That ‘unease’ hasnow grown into what is being descri... ...rol:of individuals over other individuals; of groups over other groups; of races overother races; of nations over other nations. And technology is pro... ...king as thegreatest goods”.64 And the ‘self-righteousness’ of individuals, races, religions,and nations is a primary source of a lot of evil. Our ‘rig...

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... 32. Use First Principle I. Pick a Topic I am interested in/Struggling with II. Identify and define the current assumptions III.... ... II. Read or listen books, articles or topic because you are interesting in a topic III. Read or listen book or topic above yourself which are cha... ...r text. Sutras are a genre of ancient and medieval Indian texts found in Hinduism, Buddhism and JainismV. Theology-is the systematic study of the na... ...rstood to be the act of lending a human quality, emotion or ambition to a non-human object or being. This act of lending a human element to a non-hu... ...le for guidance. Example:The Vedas serve as a tool for bibliomancy to the Hindus while Muslims rely on the Koran.19. Bildungsroman-This is a very po... ...out as Nemesis was the patron goddess of vengeance according to classical mythology. Example: In the popular book series Harry Potter, the protagoni... ...cepts and ideas in their stories Symbols typically derive from objects or non-human — for instance, a dove might represent peace, or raven might rep... ..., character, sex, gender) and treats it as essential, as if different races were different species. Or Take something essential and treat it... ...fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the revealing of secretsP. Mythology – legend or traditional narrative, often based in part on histori...

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...y starts with a commentary on his first text, the Protrepticus. We shall see two distinct forms of time emerge: one initiatory, circular and Platonic in inspiration, the other its diametrical opposite, advanced by Aristotle. We shall explore this dichotomy through a return to poetic conceptions. The Tragedians will give us an initial outline of the notion of time in the Gr...

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................................................................ 15I TIME IN ARISTOTLE’S PROTREPTICUS. INTRODUCTIONAND QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION......... ............................................................... 41II. TIME IN GREEK TRAGIC POETRY AND IN HOMER’SEPIC POETRY. UNFINDABLE CIRCULAR TIME ... ...wledge preceding the emergence of philosophical thinking is then classedas mythology, with the pejorative sense that this term acquires for Plato. Dis... ...he rest, in other words the ancienttradition, relegated to the category of mythology. On this tricky subject ourargument draws on the thesis advanced ... ... and, moregenerally in Aristotle’s work, for biological life including all non-human species(animals and plants). Life precedes all thought, which is ... ... 81AN INTRODUCTION TO ARISTOTLE’S METAPHYSICS OF TIMEThe myth of races adopted in Works and Days confirms the shift froma fateful, divine ju... ...stice (dikè), as we shall seek to show bydiscussing the well-known myth of races.185 In Hesiod time is linkedto the notion of justice solely through t... ...The first to bementioned is the Persian culture, followed by the Chaldean, Hindu andlastly the Celtic. The history of philosophy as related by Diogene... ...telian corpus, in the treatise entitled Meteorology, but itdeals only with non-human living beings. In the following passageAristotle considers the di...

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...opher and member of the association Kairos Kai logos (Centre for the study of ancient philosophy). This book is the first part of his doctoral thesis in philosophy, undertaken under the aegis of three French universities (Grenoble, Clermont-Ferrand and Rennes). In addition to his philosophical training, the author is also qualified to Masters level in linguistics and in ge...

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................................................................ 15I TIME IN ARISTOTLE’S PROTREPTICUS. INTRODUCTIONAND QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION......... ............................................................... 41II. TIME IN GREEK TRAGIC POETRY AND IN HOMER’SEPIC POETRY. UNFINDABLE CIRCULAR TIME ... ...wledge preceding the emergence of philosophical thinking is then classedas mythology, with the pejorative sense that this term acquires for Plato. Dis... ...he rest, in other words the ancienttradition, relegated to the category of mythology. On this tricky subject ourargument draws on the thesis advanced ... ... and, moregenerally in Aristotle’s work, for biological life including all non-human species(animals and plants). Life precedes all thought, which is ... ... 81AN INTRODUCTION TO ARISTOTLE’S METAPHYSICS OF TIMEThe myth of races adopted in Works and Days confirms the shift froma fateful, divine ju... ...stice (dikè), as we shall seek to show bydiscussing the well-known myth of races.185 In Hesiod time is linkedto the notion of justice solely through t... ...The first to bementioned is the Persian culture, followed by the Chaldean, Hindu andlastly the Celtic. The history of philosophy as related by Diogene... ...telian corpus, in the treatise entitled Meteorology, but itdeals only with non-human living beings. In the following passageAristotle considers the di...

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...d throughout: * Which nations have the best living standards? What are they doing right? * Why do rich countries still have so many poor people in them? * What caused the decline of the middle class in some nations like the US and UK, but not in others like Switzerland and the Nordic countries? * Has capitalism failed? Or have we become more socialist? Are thos...

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...lity ................................................. 97Chapter 8: Liberalization in Modern Countries..................................... 104 Russi... .............................................. 243 Taxes, GDP Growth, and Inequality in the US ................................. 255Chapter 25: Welfare.... ...-man sacrifice (a common religion at one time), or the Greek and Romangods, or the Hindu gods, or the Viking gods, or the Christian God in thesame way... ...other rituals on aregular basis. By contrast, literal belief in and/or worship of Hindu gods, Greek gods,Viking gods, Egyptian gods, gods of human sa... ...ence. There were local floods,which happen all the time, but they don’t legitimize mythology and super-stition. The passages below are more examples ... ...d the world that society is unhappy with plutonomy—judging by how tight electoral races are. But as yet, there seems little political fight being bo... ...h formulas andrules, the dice are also used to make “decisions” for events and for non-human characters. If Dungeons & Dragons weren't a program, it ...

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...skills of your mind; continually asking questions, continually figuring things out, continually wondering about things, continually looking at things in new ways, continually experiencing new things, continually comparing things to each other, continually gaining a better perspective on the larger context, continually understanding things better. It is a state of mind that...

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...who tries to sell this book for a profit will be sued.Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms andwords that are not f... ...ll of these elements together creates a larger context of awarenesswhich results in a better understanding.For instance: what can you understand about... ............................................................................ 968The Mythology of Consumer Choice ........................................... ...n-combative cultures who did not even want an enemy… andrefused to look at other races, tribes etc. As enemies: they were all killed, butchered, murde... ...mal form. This was the transition from Nature Worship: to Pyramidal Worship. The Hindutradition resulted in a collage of ancient animal Gods that had ... ...igh art, that it will surpass ballet in its pure poetic beauty. Youwill see foot races, tumbles… all without any injuries. They will throw away those ... ...dysfunctionally bad parent? Or else: you have to believe in the idea of God as a non-human, abstract,unknowable, absolute: that is absolutely meaningl... ...se it is old? Because it has stayedunchanged? How many books even older than the Hindu Upanishads, or the Jewish-Christian-Mohammedan Bible have been ... ...that it becomes normal to regard all the thousands of humans you see everyday as non-human humans… as impersonally functioning machines. And that is a...

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...it is just a convergence of my understanding and questioningand as such can seen repetitive. In these statements I have half answered the title questi... ...thusiasm, historical impulse and political purpose. Orwell identifiesthe first three motives in himself, even though he was cast as a political pamphl... ...ny case, the argument uses some sound bases, such as placing Buddhism into itshistorical and Hindu context, rather than considering it as a revelation... ...d prefer to see them as the same as each other in insight and intent.Noting the advance from Hinduism that effectively defines Buddhism as being the d... ...nd. But in another way, Christianity is acircumcised Judaism combined with a truncated Greek mythology that was used as a toolof power by institutions... ...attern by somecurious fictional and metaphorical presentations of natural occurrences from a non-human viewpoint. Perhaps this is illustrated by such ... ...so saw the logical conclusion of all the Nazi’s efforts tocategorize and segregate different races. Thus tens of millions we expelled from theircountr... ...rope has been built.Europe showed how humans behave. We may claim that Europeans are warlike races andthat this is how they became great, and if that’... ...esterton his religion is a visionary revelation of reality as distinct from the day-dream of mythology. Having said that he can observe that a day-dre...

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