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a l e x i s j o r d an ~ age 14

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Everyone’s tired of broken relationships and adultery.
The connection between King Leonidas and Queen Gorgo is very strong, and the two have an unbreakable relationship, even when her husband is off to fight oceans of Persians, severely out numbered.

A true Queen, she will do anything to take her Stand for her Man.

I have been burned. I am still standing.
The Relationship I had did not “break” me, as I find hope and strength in the relationship and Bond that Leonidas and Gorgo have together.

e v a n e s e n c e

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passionate live performance:

m s . a l i c i a k e y s

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be·nev·o·lence / (bə-něv’ə-ləns) Pronunciation Key
n.
An inclination to perform kind, charitable acts.
Desire to do good to others; goodwill; charitableness:
to be filled with benevolence toward one’s fellow creatures. noun
1. disposition to do good
2. an inclination to do kind or charitable acts
3. an act intending or showing kindness and good will

A kindly act.
A gift given out of generosity.

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I’ve heard it said that a man would climb a mountain…
just to be with the one he loves~
ah, but how many times has he broken that promise?
For it has never been done.

Just to be with you?
I’d do anything…
~there’s no price I would not pay.

Just to be with you?
I’d give everything.
I’d give my life away~

And I’ve heard it said that a man would swim the entire ocean
just to be with the one he loves~

All of those dream are but empty motion
It has never been done.

Just to be with you? I’d do anything.
There’s no price I would not pay.

Just to be with you? I would give everything.
I would give my life away.

And I know that you don’t understand
the fullness of my love…

And I know that you don’t realize~
how much that I give you…
And I promise I would do it all again.

Just to be with you I’ve done everything..
there’s no price I did not pay.

Just to be with you I gave everything~
Yes I gave my life away.

I gave my life away just to be with you…

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An intresting distinction to a recent Post:
her name is: “d e s i r e”

Follow along:

[If your intention is life situation orientated,
that I believe,
can be more specific~ otherwise:]

Have your intention be about:
the “ k i n d ” of person your heart would desire~
but without a [specific/my] face attached.

Choose to have your intention be:

…About the kind of movie you would like to watch with a loved one…
without a specific Actor or Actress that would need to be in the starring role.

…About the kind of home you would wish to live in…
without a specific house in mind,
or a specific address,
or even specific location/country attatched.

…About the kind of car you would like to ride in with your best friend…
without a specific “hood-badge” or “brand” or “model” attached.

….About the type of Character and Value that develops,
and that your future children would have…
without being bound or irrevokably attatched to the desire of these future children being borne specificlly:
“blonde haired” and “bleu~eyed“”
or even as a “boy” v. a baby “girl“….

Be Blessed!~

“Be blessed by who you are,
and who you and your significant other become with the birth of your new~borne.”

“Desires” are NOT designed to be “wisps of smoke“~
frustrating because they are unattainable and far away.

Desires themselves do not promote a feeling of “lack” “absence” or “loss” when not fully realized or absolutely present~
desire only promotes this type of suffering when we are inappropriotely ATTATCHED.

Instead,
honourable desire gives to us the heart-felt sensation of promise…
and hope when present on the appreciative journey of fullfillment towards that desire.

Nicely said. ~There is a feeling of empowerment in the above view point.

Discover that distinction as i did, as it unfolds itself to you…
as she reveals more and more of her mystery to you~

Cease to Struggle.

Release the suffering.

Live with Intention.

~The above was inspired [co/written] by: d a r c y w.

original posting 2/4/08@11:27

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M a g e n t a O r c h i d s
Floating in a Stone Bowl

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Darfur emergency situation -

Personal Account by an American Eye~Witness:

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One of my favourite scenes of all time:

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An Israeli soldier asks about the use of force
during a question and answer session with: Thich Nhat Hanh
[November 29th, 2001]

Question: I want to ask about force. I was, and still am, in the Israeli army. At times we need to use force to prevent an act that will cause suffering, and that force causes suffering to another person. My question is, can force be used?
Thây: If you have understanding and compassion in yourself, then, what we call military force, may help to prevent something, to achieve something. But that shouldn’t prevent us from seeing that there are other kinds of force that may be even more powerful.The spiritual force is also very powerful.
The spiritual, the social, the educational - they are all forces, and much safer to use. Because we have not been trained to use these forces, we only think of using military force.

Suppose there are two people, both of them full of anger, misunderstanding, and hatred…
How can these two people talk to each other, even if they are negotiating for peace? That is the main problem: you cannot bring people together to sit around a table and discuss peace if there is no peace inside of them.
You have to first help them to calm down and begin to see clearly that we,
as well as the other people, suffer.

We should have compassion for ourselves as well as for them and their children. This is possible.
As human beings we have suffered. And we have the capacity to understand the suffering of other people.

The spiritual and educational dimensions can be very powerful,
and we should use them as instruments,
as tools for peace.

Suppose you live in a quarter where dozens of Palestinians live peacefully with Israelis. You don’t have any problems. You share the same environment, you can go shopping in the same place, you can ride on the same bus - you enjoy. You don’t see your differences as obstacles, but as enriching. You are an Israeli and she is a Palestinian and you meet each other in the marketplace and you smile to each other. How beautiful, how wonderful. You help her and she helps you. That image should be seen by other Palestinians and Israelis. If you are a writer you can bring that image to many people outside of your group. If you are a filmmaker, why don’t you offer the image of peaceful coexistence to the world? That is very powerful -
~ more powerful than a bomb, a rocket, or a gun, and that makes people believe that peace is possible.

If you have enough energy of understanding and peace inside of you, then this kind of educational work can be very powerful…
and you won’t have to think of the army and of guns anymore.

If the army knows how to: p r a c t i c e,
it will know how to act in such a way as to not cause harm…
The army can rescue people; the army can guarantee peace and order. It is like a knife. You can use a knife to kill or you can use a knife to chop vegetables. It is possible for soldiers to practice nonviolence and understanding. We don’t exclude them from our practice, from our Sangha. We don’t say, “You are a soldier, you cannot come into our meditation hall.” In fact, you need to come into the meditation hall in order to know how to better use the army. So, please don’t limit your question to such a limited area.
Make your question broad - embrace the whole situation, because everything is linked to everything else.

There are many things we can do today to extend our understanding, compassion, and peace, because every bit of it is useful, is gold.

When you take a step, if you can enjoy that step, if your step can bring you more stability and freedom, then you are serving the world. It is with that kind of peace and stability that you can serve.

If you don’t have the qualities of stability, peace, and freedom inside of you, then no matter what you do, you cannot help the world.

[something],
it’s about BEING.
“Being” peace, “being” hope, “being” solid.
Every action will come out of that, because peace, stability, and freedom always seek a way to express themselves in action.

That is the spiritual dimension of our reality.

We need that spiritual dimension to rescue us so that we don’t think only in terms of military force as a means to solve the problem and uproot terrorism. How can you uproot terrorism with military force? The military doesn’t know where terrorism is. They cannot locate terrorism - terrorism is in the heart.
The more military force you use; then the more terrorists you create…
in your own country and in other countries as well.

The basic issue is our practice of peace, our practice of looking deeply.
First of all, we need to allow ourselves to calm down.
Without tranquility and serenity, our emotions, our anger, and our despair will not go away. And we will not be able to look and see the nature of reality.

Calming down, becoming serene is the first step of meditation.

The second step is to look deeply, to understand.
Out of understanding comes compassion.
And from this foundation of understanding and compassion you will be able to see what you can do and what you should refrain from doing. That is spoken in terms of meditation. In that respect, everyone has to practice meditation - the politicians, the military, the businessman.

All of us have to practice calming down and looking deeply.

Follow-up Question: If a terrorist walks into a restaurant with a bomb on him and I can stop him, the military can stop him, but only by killing him; I don’t have time to have compassion. It could be an act of hate and anger to shoot him, but it will stop him from blowing up that restaurant with women and children and people who are my people.

Thây: Of course it is very difficult to not get angry when they are killing your wife, your husband, or your children. It is very difficult to not get angry. That person is acting out of anger, and we are retaliating also out of anger. So there is not much difference between the two of us. That is the first element.

The second element is: why do we have to wait until the situation presents itself to us as an emergency before we act, dealing only with the immediate circumstance?
Of course you have to act rapidly in such an emergency situation. But what if we are not in an emergency situation? We can wait for an emergency situation to arise or we can do something in order to prevent such a thing from happening. Our tendency is to not do anything until the worst happens. While we have the time, we do not know how to use that time to practice peace and prevent war. We just allow ourselves to be indulged in forgetfulness and sense pleasures. We do not do the things that have the power to prevent such emergency situations from happening.

The third element is that when things like this happen, it is because there is a deep-seated cause, not only in the present moment but also in the past. This is, because that is. Nothing happens like that without a cause. You kill me, I kill you. But the fact that you are killing me and I am killing you back has its roots in the past and will have an effect on the future. Our children will say, “You killed my grandfather, now I have to kill you.” That can go on for a long time.

In the past our fathers and our grandfathers may not have been very mindful and may have said things, may have done things that have sown seeds of war. And their grandfathers also said things and did things, planting seeds of war. And now our generation has a choice. Do we want to do better than our grandfathers or do we want to repeat exactly what they did?
That is the legacy we will leave for our children and grandchildren.

Of course in a situation of great emergency you have to do everything you can to prevent killing. And yet, there are ways to do it that will cause less harm. If you have some compassion and understanding, the way you do it can be very different. Bring the dimension of the human heart into it; help the military strategists to have a human heart. It’s the least we can do. Do we teach the military to conduct a military operation with a human heart? Is that a reality in the army, in military schools? They teach us how to kill as many people as possible and as quickly as possible, but they do not teach us how to kill someone with compassion.

In one of his past lives, it seems that the Buddha was a passenger on a boat that was overtaken by pirates, and he killed one of them while trying to protect the people on the boat. But that was in an earlier life of the Buddha, before he was an awakened being. If the true Buddha were there he may have had other means; he may have had enough wisdom to find a better way so that the life of the pirate could have been spared. Because life after life, the Buddha made progress. You are the afterlife of your grandfatherv [grandmother]; you must have learned something over the past three generations. If you don’t have more compassion and understanding than he did, then you have not properly continued on after your grandfather. Because with compassion and understanding we can do better, we can cause less harm and create more peace.

We cannot expect to achieve 100 percent peace right away - our degree of understanding and love is not yet deep enough. But in every situation, urgent or not, the elements of understanding and compassion can play a role. When a gangster is trying to beat and kill, of course you have to lock him up so he will not cause more harm. But you can lock him up angrily, with a lot of hate, or you can lock him up with compassion and with the idea that we should do something to help him. You have to teach the prison guards how to look at the prisoners with compassionate eyes. Teach them how to treat the prisoners with tenderness so they will suffer less in prison, so we can better help them. Do we train them to look at prisoners with eyes of compassion? A prisoner has killed; a prisoner has destroyed. Maybe he was raised in such a way that killing and destruction were natural for him, and so he is a victim of society, of his education. If as a prison guard, you look and see in that way, then you will have compassion, understanding, and you will treat your prisoner with more gentleness. That helps him and that helps you. Help him to become a better person, and help yourself to be happy by helping people in difficulty. That is the principle.

We should not focus only on short-term action. Again, we have to look with the eyes of the Buddha. We must train ourselves to look at things with a broad perspective and not just concentrate on the immediacy of the problem. Our lives are for that, and the lives of our children will be for that, because we are a continuation of each other. We build synagogues and mosques in order to have a place to sit down and do that - to look deeply, so that our actions will not only be motivated by desire, greed, or anger. We have a chance to sit in the mosque or synagogue for a long time, and in that time our compassion and understanding should grow. And then out there we will know how to act in a better way, for the cause of peace.

As a soldier you can be compassionate. You can be loving and your gun can be helpful. At times you may not have to use your gun. It is like a knife that is used to cut vegetables. You can be a Bodhisattva as a soldier or as a commander-in-chief of the army.

The question is whether you have understanding and compassion in your heart.

That is the question.

Excerpt reprinted with permission from:
“ I Have Arrived, I Am Home ” by Thich Nhat Hanh [Parallax Press]

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performed by: eliott yamin

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“To live is to suffer,
to survive is to find meaning in the suffering”.

R o b e r t a F l a c k

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what gives life meaning to you?
what gives your life substance and richness and texture to you and why.

why is that important?

Is it that your life like a fragrant orange or flower or blossom… where you say:

? And you keep moving on~

Does our time here have a reason; a purpose~ do you have a sense of that~ and if so, where does that come from?
How does that represent / reveal itself to you?

Or is it that life is void and meaningless other than the meaning we give it~ and you just experience it as it comes.

Your voice matters to me.
Please share.

J A E S EN

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A voodoo doll must find the courage
to save his friends from being pinned to death.

Created at the UCLA Animation Workshop, with music by Nick Fevola.
Release date: June 7th 2008
Format: HD 1920×1080 px, 16:9
Running time: 4:07s

HIGHdef Download of:

sebastian’s VooDoo < < < HERE

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