Rudra for His Children...

Thank you for "changing your mind..."; my point, a wee bit misunderstood, I plead most petulantly, is indeed that *res gestae*, (literally "things done") are much more indicative of what to expect out of one...Rhetorical devices, and ultimately "words," just make the attempt at signifying...All too often just "sound and fury" not gleaning that flash of lightening...

Good luck with your writing career and Thank You Mrs. Scott for posting, too... My son now ten whom I've been denied seeing for seven years used to "fly as a Garuda" psychically to me; "Eh...Ma...Ho..." forming the sacred circle of "psychic protection" when one is in trouble...Poor guy got himself into quite a bit of trouble and seemed a bit disappointed that all I would do was sit around and cry about how truly terrible the world and its mean-non-spirited denizens had become...I, too, "changed my mind" and re-newed my effort...much to a bit younger than Peter, dearly beloved daughter of mine "Sara the Chief's" delight as well...

Keep encouraging your children to seek visions; much wiser than us as "adults" perhaps they will manage to "save the world"..
rudra/tom

>From: Scott Robert Ladd <scottrobertladd@JUNO.COM>
>Subject: Re: Big Sister Is Watching You!
>Comments: To: CELTIC-L@Danann.hea.ie
>To: CELTIC-L@LISTSERV.HEA.IE

>I think of this debate like the argument about Noonan/Rudra/whoever: >Ignore ideas you don't like unless those ideas become threatening >actions.

> *-*-*-* > "It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we > are fighting, but for freedom--for that alone, which no honest > man gives up but with life itself." > - Declaration of Arbroath, Scotland, 6 April 1320 > > ScottRobertLadd@juno.com > 957 Empire Street, Silverton, CO 81433-0617 USA > voice: +1 970 387 0271 fax: +1 970 387 0277

laboremus,
Rudra Mac Chumaill, Namgyal Monastery Dharamsala, India

--When Mara the Malign, the false idol of craving and desire for death, tempts Buddha in the "visit to Brahma" parable, Buddha hears out the argument, buzzing like a fly in his ear, that he is not "personally" of God and "will certainly not discover another higher liberation, try as you will."

To the Malign One the Buddha speaks thus: Abandon your Hope...

Brahma rescues the sutra with which Mara had weaved diabolical intrigue, and repeats: "I, O Worthy One,[Buddha, indeed] hold as eternal that which is truly eternal, as persistent, as perennial, as indissoluble, as immutable that which is truly so..."

Buddha, through "grace," is thus granted by heaven that extraordinary strength beyond knowledge, concept or words, *viraya*, a "superior and powerful energy," with regards to ordinary mortal abilities, a supreme quality working the miracle of "liberation of the will by means of the will."
*Samyutta-nikaya*, (an ancient Pali:Vedic text), vol's 1.4,5

"If there is a lonesome tall pine tree standing, the forest has not ended..."
Olde Tibetan Saying

--"General rule that speaker has right to tailor speech is not restricted to press, but rather, is enjoyed by business corporations generally and by ordinary people engaged in unsophisticated expression as well as by professional publishers...[Dissent] boils down to the choice of a speaker not to propound a particular point of view..."
*Hurley v, Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston*
(1995) 115 S. Ct. 2338

--"Friend, don't be angry at the Teacher's discipline,
nor lose your taste for His rebukes..."
*Proverbs*, 3:11-20

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