RELIGION or POLITICS - Can we talk? Why Buddhism...

Hi friends, you are all looking great today !!!!!

My last couple of blogs have been on why I turned to Nichiren Buddhism, as well as the basics of the religion. Now I am NOT trying to sell you on any of this, so if you are a Protestant, Catholic, Islam, whatever you chose, that is fine. The proof of your or any religion is, when it comes down to the, push and shove, of daily living does your faith you have developed prove strong enought to survive the strongest shoves. And people, life is going to shove you, make no mistake, it is part of life itself.

You are best judge of the level of your faith, and if you are happy, I'm happy. If you have troubles and doubts, you might find some wisdom in what I present here that will answer your problems. If the latter, then I know Nichiren Buddhism is for YOU.

Now, I am going to present what follows in a series of blogs, so please stay with me, and learn.

I want to impress on you that what I present here was written 15 YEARS ago in my first Buddhist book, "The Buddha in Daily Life", by Richard Causton, as an introduction to the Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin.

Despite all the advances made by science and technology during the past 100 years, we live in a world where human suffering has never been greater. It is estimated that, every day, some 40,000 children die of hunger or hunger-related diseases; that more than 750 million people in the world lack the nourishment to sustain a health life; that over 72 million people have been killed in armed conflicts this century, more than in all previous centuries put ogether; and that, since the end of the Second World War, there have been more than 200 armed conflicts, internal and international, many of which are still being fought.

Even in the wealthiest, most advanced countries, millions are unemployed, poverty and crime are increasing, and though more people are materially better off than ever before, the symptoms of inner suffering - divorce, drug and alcohol abuse, despression and suicide - are all escalating at an alarming rate.

Not only is there no clear solution in sight to this suffering but, in most areas, it seems destined to get worse. To take just one example, it has been calculated that, at the present rate of destruction, the world's tropical rain forests will have all but disappeared in, at most, 50 year's time, with all that that means for the delicate balance of the global climate and ecosystem.

One result of the increase in the scale of human suffering has been the increasing feeling of helplessness experienced by those who are at all concerned about the problems facing mankind. "It's terrible, but what can I do?" is the reaction of many as news of yet another disaster reaches them. And, in truth, other than giving money to a variety of causes and appeals there does not seem much that ordinary people can do in the face of such enormous and complex problems as world starvation, invironmental pollution or the threat of nuclear war.

As a consequence they pin their hopes on politicians or special-interests troups to work for a change in their behalf for, no matter how strongly people may feel about these issues, realistically only a very small minority can afford to devote themselves wholly to working for their solution. The vast majority have families to look after, jobs to do and bills to pay. Not only are these the immediate necessities, but they also take up most of the attention of most people, most of the time. The time, energy or money available for larger issues is, therefore, usually minimal. Add to this the fact that many of the world's problems seem to be somewhat remote,either in terms of distance or time, and no one has a recipe for for a down-ward spiral of decay. All in all, it is hard to disagree with Aurelio Peccei, late president of the Club of Rome, when he says:

In spite of being miserable and afraid because of the non-peace we experience within ourselves and in our connections with almost everything around us, we seem unable to cease acting in ways that constantly aggravate our situation. Indeed, at no time in history has our globe been so gravely riven with endemic warfare, military and civil violence, widespread torture and terrorism, overt or incipient destruction and scientific preparation for still further havoc.

Hey y'all, hope you are not tired of reading, but anyway, will stop for this time, and I think all or most of you would agree this could have been written in today's time. So for now, cheerio,  (next time we get into some possible solutions).      CJ

RELIGION or POLITICS - ..Down and Dirty

Yo guys and gals, another happy weekend,/ Make yours great......BE HAPPY! Good things are going to happen.

                                                  DOWN---Where America is headed.
                     
                                                  DIRTY....The Admin that is pushing us there.

                                 NOT RACIST, NOT VIOLENT, BUT NO LONGER SILENT
 
Okay, here is "the rest of the story":

--Stimulus and Bailouts. Where did all the money go? It went to Democratic contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions -- including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country. It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees can keep paying union dues. It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions). A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their unions dues). All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America. The country goes broke, future generations face a bleak future, but Obama, the Democrat party government, and the unions grow more powerful. The ends justify the means.                  --

Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job creators. Put the entire burden on the top 20% of taxpayers, redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those who did nothing to deserve it (except vote for Obama). Reagan wanted to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government. Obama wants to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political opposition.


With the acts outlined above, Obama and his regime have created a vast and rapidly expanding constituency of voters dependent on big government, a vast privileged class of public em-ployees who work for big government, and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing themselves as socialist rulers by overwhelming the system.


Add it up and you've got the perfect Marxist scheme -- all devised by my Columbia University college classmate Barack Obama using the Cloward and Piven Plan.
That should make your weekend, unless this is what you want as CHANGE. If you do then look out for what lies ahead. Not Violence, though this looks like a good possibility if all the other active RATS keep spreading Hate!  Plus you don't deserve to live in America is my opinion of you...RAT.

All of which is leading to what I will discuss in my next blog, like, what is and what is going to wake up the good and complacent part of America, who, up to now has stayed dormant. A sleeping Giant. 

Cheers.     CJ

RELIGION or POLITICS - ..Down and Dirty

Hey, Happy New Week, Make it a good one!!!!!!!!!

                                NOT RACIST, NOT VIOLENT, BUT NO LONGER SILENT

                                             DOWN---Where America is headed.

                                             DIRTY---This ADMIN is guiding the way.

MORE PROOF:

-- Cap and trade. Like health care legistion having nothing to do with health care, cap and trade has nothing to do with Global Warming. It has everything to do with redistribution of income, government control of the economy and a criminal payoff to Obama's biggest contributors. Those powerful and wealthy unions and contributors (like GE, which owns NBC, MSNBC, AND CNBC) can then be counted on to support everything Obama wants. They will kickback hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power. The bonus is that all the new taxes on Americans with bigger cars, bigger homes and businesses helps Obama "spread the wealth around".

Make Puerto Rico a state. Why? Who's asking for a 51st state? Who's asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression? Certainly not American taxpayers. But this has been Obama's plan all along. His goal is to add two new Democrat senators, five Democrat congressmen and a million Democratic voters who are dependent on big government.



Hey, readers, you think that is bad, well there is more.....next time.    Cheers.     CJ

 

RELIGION or POLITICS - .Down and Dirty

Hi folks, all recovered from your 4th????? OH Oh, somebody said "not yet".   Phew!!!!

                    NOT RACIST, NOT VIOLENT, BUT NO LONGER SILENT

                                          DOWN..... Where the USA is headed !!!!!!

                                          DIRTY.... Our present Admin is lead Guide. !!!!


Barack Obama is my college classmate (Columbia University, class of '83). As Glenn Beck correctly predicted form day one, Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two pro-fessors at Columbia University. They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system wih government spending and entitlement demands. Add up the clues below. Taken individually they're alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desparately needs government for survival ... and can be counted on to always vote for bigger government. Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it.

There is more to this story and I will feed it to you paragraph by paragraph for the next few days so keep in touch and come back and read the stuff of,  "Good Old CJ"    Cheers.