The Nothing

The Buddhist Monk next to them giggled. "Why worship anything at all? Nothing exists."

The Rabbi and the Pagan-Priest looked at the Monk and laughed like only a pair of stoned hippies could. "You're right Monk! Nothing exists! I guess we should stay here and worship nothingness instead?"

The rabbi got-up, smiled and greeted the others farewell. He took one last puff on the hookah and passed it to the monk.
"Where are you going?" asked the Monk as the Rabbi went to the door.

"I'm going back to my land 'Canaan' and speak to my people there about 'softening their hearts' - and teach them about a message that preaches love and tolerance!" responded the Rabbi and added, "I just wish that they don't demand of me like walking on water, and turning water into wine."




"Thats not a very nice thing to do. Messing with people's minds and their traditions is risky business. They might kill you for it.",said the Monk.
The clay-lump which had been shaped into a bird-figure by the Jewish rabbi during their conversation all of a sudden came to life and flew out of the hut. 

~ “Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.”

(C.S. Lewis)

Who Says Words With My Mouth?

All day I think about it,
then at night I say it.

Where did I come from,
and what am I supposed to be doing?

I have no idea.

My soul is from elsewhere,
I'm sure of that,
and I intend to end up there.

This drunkenness
began in some other tavern.

When I get back around
to that place,
I'll be completely sober.

Meanwhile, I'm like a bird
from another continent,
sitting in this aviary.

The day is coming when I fly off,
but who is it now in my ear
who hears my voice?

Who says words with my mouth?

Who looks out with my eyes?

What is the soul?


I cannot stop asking.


If I could taste
one sip of an answer,
I could break out
of this prison for drunks.

I didn't come here of my own accord,
and I can't leave that way.

Whoever brought me here
will have to take me home.

This poetry,

I never know
what I'm going to say.

I don't plan it.

When I'm outside the saying of it,
I get very quiet
and rarely speak at all.

From The Essential Rumi, page 2. Translated by Coleman Barks.
© Copyright, 2004, HarperSanFrancisco. Permission pending; fair use intended.









“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust”

~ MEVLANA RUMI

The Circle of Life

I would thank " Disney's - The Lion King" for without it I would not have any idea to explain away the buffet that took place yesterday in front of my youngest niece.

While I was waiting, my little niece came out of her school, we noticed a few birds hovering about. We had great view while seated on parked bike and enjoyed this spectacular scene of nature for a few moments until I spotted exactly what these birds were up to . . . "road kill". A dead squirrel to be exact.
At a little distance but right in front of my bike.

My niece is fond of these squirrels, enjoyed watching them actively running and stealing nuts, she found them cute and at one time insisted to take one as pet back home, probably after watching "Chipmuks" on TV.


Spotting the dead squirrel, instantly I got up in a bit of shock, I relaxed as it wasn’t me that hit the poor deceased squirrel. It looked like it had been dead a while what with its poor limbs all stuck up and all, and the insides exposed.

I distracted the little niece, as started messing with my Sony Ericsson(K810i), but silently when out of the corner of my eye, to notice the feast begin. I immediately tried my to shelter my niece them from the violent incident taking place, but it was too late. She was already staring ... wide-eyed, mouths open ... unable to look away.
Innocence lost.!!

I sighed and asked her to look at me so I could see how traumatized she was.
“That’s kind of nasty to see isn’t it princess?” I said scrambling for something profound yet funny to change the somber mood. Suddenly the words of Elton John’s Circle of Life song flashed and I managed to say “It’s life though.”, and I sighed.

My lil'niece, a cartoon fanatic - must have heard the same thing as she piped up, “Yes, it’s the circle of life. That squirrel will feed the birds & then baby-birds in nest. It’s life.”

“Yes, You are so right.” I replied.

I looked closer and asked her if she was okay and she responded in a very wise tone, “I'm okay . . . those birds are just hungry.” came the reply with confidence.

My niece is very wise and brave indeed.




~ “One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.”

Music - The Audio Pornography

I am not persoanlly biased against any music culture or imagery, but I have this feeling deep-down, "Music today is one of the easiest way to lose your moral sense, the most affected are especially children"

Music is increasingly becoming the audio pornography, It is explicit, it is shameless, it is vulgar and it takes your sense of humanity away from you and makes you look at women as nothing more than sexual-objects, and in some lyrics worse than sexual-objects - these people are talking about women like they are talking about disposable items, with an horrible and horrific language, - and you might be surprised that the Pop-culture uses these words in their lyrics openly or sublimaly !

I would be happy to see children especially having a clean tongue, It is terrible to hear the 'F' word from an innocent loooking child, and the worse part that this word is given and market to child in form of hummable tune - thanks to M-TV & Channel-V.

Children are being misguided and hypnotised into this and are deviated from their pre-disposition of being a Child. Like the fable of Pied-piper who first drove the mice, and later hypnotised and took the children. Today's Music culture is hypnotising the young minds, and further damaging are the so called 'Reality Shows'.

The words used in the lyrics are similar to pouring gasoline on the sparks to ignite the young minds, no sooner the children are in school or college they are pushed by their sub-conscious desires to experiment, copy-cat and be the one like what they heard and saw on popular television. Their identity is crushed and the persona of a bitchy - sexy - groovy devil takes control of them. The consequences are very damaging, pre-marital pregnencies, abortions, sex-addiction, losing peace-of-mind, the everfailing desire of being someone else who they are not !

In the 1991 video "Dreamworlds" the pop-star described the image of women in music videos as male adolescent fantasies: young and pretty, willing and eager to please men, saying no when meaning yes, often reduced to outward appearances and body parts.
The interview host concluded that an unhealthy attitude towards sexual violence can be fostered by these videos, and calls for balancing them with other cultural representations of sexuality. He has been quoted as saying, “Advertising tells us that the way to happiness is through the consumption of objects. The immense accumulation of commodities has to be sold, and it is sold through the story of goods bringing happiness.” In his essay "Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse" and his video "Advertising and the End of the World" he argues that the major cultural force today, pervasive advertising, by constantly reinforcing a bogus association between consumerism and happiness and by focusing on individual immediate needs, stands in the way of a discussion of societal and long-term needs and leads to a squandering of resources. The video "Killing Us Softly III", created with Jean Kilbourne, is a critique of the image of women in advertising, and definitely an eye-opener.

Among other of his quotes which the students of his communication classes will hear from him, two of the most unforgettable are "knowing where something comes from, changes how you feel about it" and the phrase "the discourse through and about objects."

Humans (read 'men') are exponentially being changed from being moral-sentients into passive consuming-machines, the individual becomes a thing that does only one thing "consume" material things from diamonds, cars, music, wealth and women.

The ideal solution is probably, finding a better friend and the moral & ethical responsibility of parents to have connection with the child.




~ The world today is becoming the phenomenon, "Brain Dead"

I Think, I See

	"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." Socrates
	"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions. " Anonymous
	"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself." Chinese Proverb
	"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school" Albert Einstein
	"The best of all medicines is resting and fasting" Benjamin Franklin
	"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child." George Bernard Shaw
	"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't." Anatole France
	"Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it." Sir William Haley
	Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley
	Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company. Imam Ali
	Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Aesop quotes
	The Capacity to Forgive We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. Martin Luther King, jr
	The Journey “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” Ursula K. Le Guin
	Good Character "Cultivate good behaviour, then cultivate Knowledge." Umar ibn al-Khattab
	The Prisoner “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” Lewis B. Smedes
	Forgiveness & Love “To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.” Robert Muller
	Knowledge & Justice "Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom" Plato
	A Night of Peace "Each morning sees some task begun. Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
	Character Revealing Beware. Nothing is more revealing about a person's character than their pastimes and amusements. Unknown
	Teachers & Perfect Timing When the student is ready, the Master appears. Buddhist Proverb Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. Chinese Proverb
	Faith Faith in God is to choose truth where it may harm you over a lie where it may benefit you. Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib
	Character If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig. WoodrowWilson
	If... If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt. If there were no doubt their would be no inquiry; If no inquiry , no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius. Walter Savage Landor
	Within the Self If you're attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. Only the crystal-clear question yields a transparent answer. All of the significant battles are waged within the self. Zen Sayings
	Actions As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie
	The Human Mind Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Napoleon Hill
	Never Quit "Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do." Napoleon Hill
	Actions & Goals "A goal is a dream with a deadline." "Action is the real measure of intelligence." Napoleon Hill
	If you jump to conclusions, you are likely to hurt yourself in the fall.
	“Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.” Elizabeth Harrison
	The Glow "Every one who delights in some act of devotion can't bear to miss it even for a short while. That disappointment and grief are worth a hundred prayers. What is a formal prayer compared to the glow of humble longing?" Rumi
	"The eye of the spirit that focuses on the transient falls on its face wherever it goes Someone who focuses on the distances, without knowledge may see far but just as we do in a dream..." Rumi
	"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." Mohandas K. Gandhi
	"We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little: More than machinery we need humanity; More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost." Charles Chaplin
	Discouraged "Student says: I am very discouraged, what should I do? Master says: encourage others." Zen proverb
	Happiness "Thankfulness leads to contentment, and contentment is another word for happiness." Yusuf
	Minds "Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open." Sir James Dewar, Scientist (1877-1925)
	Two Wings "Observe the qualities of expansion and contraction in the fingers of your hand: surely after the closing of the fist comes the opening. If the fingers were always closed or always opened, the owner would be crippled. Your movement is governed by these two qualities: They are as necessary to you as two wings are to a bird" Rumi
	"The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self. " Albert Einstein
	"There's too much judgement of others and not enough judgement of ourselves, `too much self righteousness and not enough self knowledge" Abdul Hakim Winter
	And if a storm should come, and if you face a wave That may be the chance for you to be saved And if you make it through the trouble and the pain That may be the time for you to know His name Yusuf
	"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work" Thomas Alva Edison
	"There is a God You can know Him if you try You can approach Him if you try... " Yusuf
	"Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you" Ali Ibn Abu Talib (600? - 661)
	"All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop" Kabir (1450 - 1518)
	"In history, search for answers about the Unseen, has always been a major force in motivating mankind towards the acquisition of knowledge: first, the teachings were from God, while the first teachers were the prophets of God. Therefore, the best educators ever to appear on the pages of time were all the teachers of God's Words and inspiration: The Prophets (upon whom be peace)." Yusuf Islam
	"It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work." Yusuf Islam
	"I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism." Yusuf Islam
	"I don't think that God sent us prophets and books to fight about these books and these prophets. But they were telling us, actually, how to live together. If we ignore those teachings...whichever faith you belong, you profess, then I think we'll be finding ourselves in an even deeper mess" Yusuf Islam
	"I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them." Yusuf Islam
	"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after" Yusuf Islam
	"There are three types of people: Those building Bridges; those bent on destroying them; and those waiting to cross" Yusuf Islam

Thanks to 'Cat Stevens'