Mahayana Wish

Just read this article (I am not promoting it as I found it on Yahoo!)... about people's major regrets when they die...

One of the points was they wish they had let themselves be happier.

What do you think?

http://www.inspirationandchai.com/Regrets-of-the-D...

Didn't they each teach, in their own ways, that we (all living things) are connected?

Increasingly, researchers are doing the numbers, and saying, yes, if present trends continue, a mass extinction is very likely underway. The evidence is pieced together from details drawn from all over the world, but it adds up to a disturbing picture. This time, unlike the past, it's not a chance asteroid collision, nor a chain of climatic circumstances alone that's at fault. Instead, it is chiefly the activities of an ever-growing human population, in concert with long-term environmental change.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/03/2/l_0...

Extinction Rates:

1. Edward Wilson estimates 27,000 species are currently lost per year. By 2022, 22% of all species will be extinct if no action is taken.

2. Niles Eldridge estimates 30,000 per year currently.

3. Georgina M. Mace using a different methodology based on extrapolations from the current lists of endangered species arrives at a figure of 14-22% loss of species and subspecies over the next 100 years.

4. Paul Ehrlich, using another approach based on total energy use estimates extinction rates at 7,000 to 13,000 times the background rate, (70,000 to 130,000 species per year) which he says is higher than figures based on data for higher orders of animal indicates, but we have little data on insects and micro flora and fauna.

http://www.whole-systems.org/extinctions.html

...many species are endangered, meaning they are dying off so quickly they are soon in danger of becoming extinct. Once an animal becomes extinct, it will never be on the earth again. Many species are becoming extinct at an alarming rate; approximately 27,000 species become extinct each year, which means about three http://www.surfnetkids.com/articles/about_protecti...

If thoughts can do this to our water... imagine what it can do to us? Please view and respond in context to your own ideas or attitudes in relation to spiritual and religious concerns, ideas and ideals. Thank you all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAvzsjcBtx8

Please consider the following ...

"Science has unfortunately bound up the minds of its own even most original thinkers, for they dare not stray from certain scientific principles. All energy contains consciousness. That one sentence is basically scientific heresy, and in many circles it is religious heresy as well. A recognition of that simple statement would indeed ...change your world."

What are your thoughts on the above. Do you agree or disagree? Is this a valid statement?

Don’t ponder others. - Atisha (from Atisha's 59 Lojong slogans)

"Strangely, when you are not afraid to uncover your own flaws, and you are not constantly comparing yourself to others, it is a great relief. When you look at yourself, you no longer have to convince yourself of anything and you have nothing to hide. And when you look at other people, you are not doing so with the ulterior motive of using what you see to prop up your own feeling of superiority and virtue."

for further reference...

http://www.tricycle.com/complete-lojong-slogans

I find that many people say "believer" and "non-believer" also . . . And I think that Buddhists can also be called "believers" as they do have beliefs.

What do you think?

Reading questions and answers in R&S there doesn't seem to be much emphasis on happiness or much happiness expressed . . . so, I thought I would ask.

If so, was it a positive experience? Did you get to talk with them?

If not, would you like to? What would you talk about?

As a way of actively wishing a way for things to be better....

Is being a religious person in the world the same as living in Disney Land when it comes to digital cameras on telephones and digital cameras being so common?

Should their personal privacy be respected, even when they are in public?

Should people who are priests, monks, nuns... from any tradition, Catholic, Buddhist, Hindu, whatever, be able to maintain their personal privacy when in public?

Or maybe it doesn't matter to you? Can you have basic care or concern for another without definitions or conditions?

Can you imagine who you would have been and what your life would have been like?

If we cannot do something positive to help others... what are we doing... Religiously and/or Spiritually?

... can we make a difference?

...and they could see you were crying and you were turned away because they said they were closed for business?

...to use them? ...or distribute them?

I can be argued that condoms don't prevent ALL... but it can be argued that condoms prevent some unwanted pregnancies and life-threatening diseases. Isn't it worth just ONE life to use condoms. Especially since I'm not aware that condoms are responsible for actually causing any deaths.