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In Mexico City, a Blossoming of All Things Japanese
On a summer afternoon in Mexico City's leafy Roma Norte neighborhood, a steady stream of customers filled the tiny coffee shop Raku, which means "joy" in Japanese. While they were drawn by the coffee, I was in the new spot to learn how the owner Mauricio Zubirats makes a cup of matcha tea. The fine…
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In a move that worries many public health experts, the federal government is quietly shutting down a surveillance program for dangerous animal viruses that someday may infect humans. The United Nations Environment Program estimates that a new animal disease that can also infect humans is discovered every four months. Ending the program, experts fear, will…
Jenny Slate Wrote a Book-Shaped Thing. What Is It?
SOUTH DARTMOUTH, Mass. — The only piece of fiction in Jenny Slate's new book, "Little Weirds," describes a love that grew old in an un-air-conditioned house by the Atlantic Ocean. "I was trying to say goodbye to my ex-husband, who is an important person in my life and a friend," the actress and comedian said…
Can a Restored Pompeii Be Saved From 'Clambering' Tourists?
It's easy to imagine lounging in the garden at the sprawling villa of Julia Felix, a savvy Roman business woman who lived in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in the first century A.D. There would have been wine to drink, and fresh figs, apricots and walnuts to savor. The warm sea breeze would have…
Houses Where Friends Used to Live
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On one recent intensive care unit shift, I admitted a man whose heart had stopped earlier that day. By the time I met him, it seemed clear that he wasn't going to live. So when he went into cardiac arrest for what I suspected would be the last time, I headed out of the unit…
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WEST HOLLYWOOD — The food at West Hollywood's first weed restaurant, Lowell Farms: A Cannabis Cafe, isn't actually infused with weed. But the cuisine could certainly be described as cannabis complementary. There are vegan nachos and upscale corn dogs; French fries and Angus burgers; and crispy brussels sprouts as well as baby kale and garden…
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Milling machine operator Janderson de Souza Mota emphasises the ease of handling offered by the WIDRIVE machine control system, which links the most important machine functions together: "While the engine, for instance, sets the operating speed automatically when the milling process is started, it automatically returns to its idling speed when milling is finished. This allows us to reduce not only fuel consumption but also noise emissions." What is more, the water required for cooling the cutting tools is regulated as a function of the engine load and milling speed. The load- dependent sprinkler unit allows a water saving of up to 20 %. "For us that means we need to fill up less water, but the service life of the cutting tools is still longer," says the site Manager Cleiton Farias de Jesus, delighted with the much lower downtimes.
With the milling work on the Anchieta motorway having been completed faster than anticipated that day, the W 200 even made up time before it was to begin its scheduled night-time job on the Imigrantes motorway. So, without hesitation, Cleiton Farias de Jesus and his team stopped at Cubatao, just a few kilometres away, in order to mill a strip a few hundred metres long over a working width of 2m, but this time to a depth of 28 cm. "The site is on the way, and the fact that we can load and unload the W 200 quickly and easily enabled us to fit this little job in today." The folding loading belt, for instance, shortens the transport length of the large milling machine, so that it can be transported even on light low-bed trucks with a low overall weight. The weather canopy can also be folded in hydraulically for onward transport.


Yahoo has the dubious honor of having been on the receiving end of the largest data breach in history. As a consequence, the company has recently agreed to pay $50 million in damages and provide free credit monitoring services to its impacted users.
The company actually suffered a pair of breaches in 2013 and in 2014, although this information was not disclosed by the company until 2016. All of the company's 3 billion users were impacted, and more than 200 million of them saw losses arising from that breach.
The compromised data included: usernames, email addresses, dates of birth, security questions (and their answers) backup email addresses, and phone numbers exposed.
Verizon, which acquired Yahoo in 2017, will pay for half of the settlement cost. Meanwhile, Altaba (the company that arose from the remainder of the original Yahoo business) will pay the $35 million fine imposed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission for the company's failure to disclose the breach to its investors.
It's a landmark case, and once the deal gets final approval, notices will be emailed to affected account holders and published in People and National Geographic magazines.


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Since the release of The Groove Project's new single "Pilot", the buzz for this project has taken off with thousands of plays on Spotify and on YouTube:
New singles from The Groove Project will be released monthly. Stay tuned for more news from this band very soon.
For more info about the band and this release, visit THE GROOVE PROJECT's official site:
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NARKED RECORDS is proud to announce the release of "PILOT", the first single by THE GROOVE PROJECT
The current lineup of the musical group, fronted by GRAMMY® Awardnominated Artist, Producer and Songwriter ARUN SHENOY and acclaimed producer MATTHEW SHELL, also features pianist LONNIE PARK, saxophonist MARCUS MITCHELL and 4 other instrumentalists.
Working on a concept album about man's fascination with flight, the inspiration for the debut single, "Pilot" comes from the popular quote by author and speaker Michael Althusser:
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the Pilot."
On this new record, produced by Matthew Shell & Arun Shenoy, the group has chosen to take a production direction leaning more towards the Smooth Jazz style, with each member of the group bringing a unique perspective to the music to craft a sound that is fresh and groovy, with a healthy dose of sunshine.
"We are very excited with the release of this single and plan to release a new single every month culminating in the release of a full length Smooth Jazz album in the summer of 2020" Shenoy notes, as he muses on the album theme and his dream to take up recreational flying as a hobby very soon.
The single has been released on 07/31 in digital format with the distribution handled by DashGo. Radio promotion is being handled by Neal Sapper at New World N Jazz Marketing and Publicity and Marketing by Beth Hilton at The B Company.
About Arun Shenoy
ARUN SHENOY burst onto the international stage out of relative obscurity with a GRAMMY® Award nomination at the 55th Annual GRAMMY® Awards for his debut Flamenco world fusion production titled RUMBADOODLE in 2012.
"BLISS", Shenoy's follow up single from his Indian World Fusion project was launched by the Recording Academy via a Worldwide Exclusive First Look at GRAMMY.com in 2013. His second full length record A STAGEY BANK AFFAIR (2016) was chosen as Album of the Year by Jazziz Magazine's Critics Pick and dubbed "an explosive, exotic, jazz-funk-rock-barn burner" by noted American journalist and reviewer, Jonathan Widran.
Shenoy released an EP in 2018 titled THE UNPLUGGED SONGWRITER SESSIONS in collaboration with THE MAVERICK EXPRESS, a rolling roster of musicians comprised largely of Shenoy's long term collaborators. On this album, for the first time, Shenoy introduces a more intimate singer-songwriter facet of his art, a dramatic shift from the large-scale contemporary jazz and world productions he is best known for internationally.
He shuffled the GROOVE PROJECT in early 2019 into the current 8 man musical group.
About Matthew Shell
MATTHEW SHELL is a versatile music producer, audio engineer, and multi-instrumentalist Shell based in Rockville, MD. He specializes in the genres of rock, R&B, pop, soul, and jazz.
Shell's work on the production for Marcus Johnson's album "Flo: Chill" reached #7 on Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz Chart in 2009. Later that year he worked as the engineer on O.A.R.'s album "Rain or Shine" that reached #5 on the Independent Albums Chart and also #7 on the US Alternative Albums Chart. In 2011, his work on Grammy Nominee Carolyn Malachi's "Beautiful Dreamer" was featured on FOX 5 DC Morning News.
In 2012, Shell's album "Freedom", his collaboration with Trey Eley was launched by the Recording Academy via a Worldwide Exclusive First Listen at GRAMMY.com in 2012.
In 2013, Shell collaborated with GRAMMY nominated Arun Shenoy on "Genesis", a jazz instrumental that became the lead single on the full length album, "Victorious". Shell engineered the song "It's A Jungle Out Here" for producer for Philip Lawrence, featured on the "Rio 2" film soundtrack in 2014.
Shell released his next album "Spiritual Relationship: The Deeper Meaning" in 2015 with the music on the album conceived by Shell over a period of 15 years. In 2017, Shell released an hour-long jazz opus titled "First Light." This complex arrangement features 17 key changes and 20 tempo changes. It was created by Shell in a single twelve hour session.
Shell has produced for several other artists including Kenny Wesley, Marcus Johnson, Greg Adams, 8 time GRAMMY nominee Gerald Albright, and GRAMMY winners – Paul Jackson Jr. and Wouter Kellerman, among others.
About Lonnie Park
LONNIE PARK is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Shenoy and Lonnie came together for the first time on Shenoy's Rumbadoodle (2012) and they have been great friends and collaborators ever since. Lonnie has a resume that includes a wide range of work from folk and children's, to gospel and progressive rock.
For his work, Park has received multiple awards including Global Peace Song Award, Global Music Award, SAMMY Award, and multiple nominations including songwriting and performance credits Shenoy's Rumbadoodle which received a GRAMMY® nomination in 2012, and a 2019 nomination by the United Nations, the SDG Action Award, for his work with GRAMMY® winner Ricky (which is included in the education system for tens of millions globally).
Park has many TV and movie score credits both in the US and internationally, and multiple Billboard charting appearances. He has toured, produced, and worked with legendary artists from country outlaw Merle Haggard to folk icon Peter Yarrow, and heavy metal greats Cozy Powell and Chris Caffery.
About Marcus Mitchell
MARCUS MITCHELL is an established jazz saxophone based out of Maryland with over 17 CD's and 1 DVD to his name.
While attending Raleigh North Carolina's Shaw University in the early 2000s, Mitchell operated 24th Music and also performed all around Raleigh with the N-Tune Band. His name quickly became well known making him one of the most viewed acts in the Triangle area.
Mitchell has worked with many artists such as Mike Phillips, Kim Waters, Marcus Johnson, and Destiny's Child just to name a few.
On September 5, 2005 Labor Day weekend, he performed at the 3rd Annual Jazz Festival at Cooper's Field in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, sharing the stage with the likes of Paul Taylor, Peter White and the Rippingtons (featuring Russ Freeman). He also headlined at the legendary Blues Alley Jazz Club in Washington, D.C.
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It is a great pleasure to be asked to speak to you today about the two main traditions of Buddhism: those of the so-called hinayana and mahayana : the lesser way and the greater way, the ways of Shravaka to become an Arhat and the way of the Bodhisattva to become a Buddha.
Oh dear! Lots of foreign words - shravaka, arhat, bodhisattva- 30 seconds into the talk and you might already feel like going home!
Well, let's try to explain these terms simply, before going into the details. Most religions are about the relationship between you, the individual, and God or, in the case of some religions, between you and a whole series of Gods. This God or these Gods are believed to be the governing power of the universe: creator of the universe. Buddhism is different. It has no belief at all in a creator God.
All of Buddhism is about working with the potential that exists in the human mind. Not about a relationship with another being, a Supreme Being, but about understanding and changing oneself. It is about awakening to the possibilities of life and in particular about using this extraordinary thing -which is our own mind- to the full: to become a wiser, kinder, more peaceful person. Buddhism believes that there is a timeless, perfect purity, a profound love for all beings, a perfect peace and amazing wisdom deep within each and every one of us. Life's task is to discover it.
The Buddha taught very extensively about the nature of life and our human potential. He taught to thousands of people over a 45 year period. He taught each person according to his or her needs and capacities. Over the two and a half thousand years since he taught, all of those teachings of the Buddha have given rise to two main ways of working with one's life, known as the Greater Way and the Lesser Way.
Those following the Lesser Way -Hinayana- want to find perfect inner peace and want to live in a kind, truthful and generous way in the world. They are sometimes called Shravakas: Shravakas means those who heed the teachings. They have a certain "been there, done that" feeling about most of the pleasures of this world and are no longer interested in them one bit. You know, the way you feel about whatever was the craze three years ago - it just doesn't grab you any more. These Shravakas see the world as obsessed with satisfying the senses to find happiness -seeing beautiful things, hearing nice sounds, smelling pleasant odours, tasting good food and seeking pleasant physical sensations. They consider such happiness too shallow, too fragile and find great inner strength instead in meditation. The end of their journey, their dream, their goal -the perfection of inner peace- is called the state of being an Arhat. Sometimes you can achieve that state in one lifetime of intense meditation, sometimes it takes many lifetimes.
Those following the Greater Way -Mahayana- are called Bodhisattvas: bodhi -sattva means with a mind to be Buddha. They are people who are also very aware of life's fragile happiness and the suffering that exists in most people. They are so moved by this suffering that they promise, from the depths of their hearts, to dedicate this life and all future lives to caring for other beings. They feel that the best way to care is to become just like the Buddha. Buddhahood is a state far beyond that of the Arhat. It takes hundreds of lifetimes -hundreds of reincarnations- to achieve. The bodhisattva way is based upon truthfulness, peace and non-violence but its main characteristic is not a withdrawal from the world into inner peace but an active engagement with the world, a development of incredibly deep loving kindness, compassion and care for others. In fact, from beginning to end, the Bodhisattva's way is the way of compassionate care.
So that you are clear about 'where I'm coming from', you should know I belong to the mahayana tradition and that I'll be teaching today's topic in the traditional way in which it is presented in the mahayana.
Please have a good look at these terms - they'll come up a few times in the talk. Please notice that shravakas and bodhisattvas are those following a spiritual path, and that the ends of those paths are the states of Arhat and Buddha. Having introduced these two main strands of Buddhism very briefly, I'd like to go into them more deeply by talking about a topic traditionally called the three types of valuable human being, taught widely in India in the 11th century. They are called 'valuable humans' because -from a Buddhist point of view, in terms of Buddhist value judgements -they are really doing something with their lives: making a marked and definitive change to themselves, and perhaps other people, for the better. If you like, they can be considered the three sorts of audience for Buddhism or the three psychological types that Buddhist teachings address. This topic will help us understand where Arhats and Bodhisattvas fit in -they are the second and third types of valuable human- and help us define these words hinayana and mahayana.
The first type of valuable human being: the person who lives wisely in the world.
The vast majority of dedicated Buddhists (as opposed to people just born into a Buddhist culture and not strongly practising it) belong to this first type of valuable human being. They are not yet following the way of either the Arhat or the Bodhisattva. It is too soon. They are like children learning to walk. Shravakas and Bodhisattvas are like adults drive cars or pilot a plane. Unlike the Shravaka and Bodhisattva, this first type of valuable human is not yet ready to let go of its attachment to worldly things, in order to seek spiritual peace. The Buddha's teachings can nevertheless still help them greatly. So really today's talk could have been about three ways and been called the ways of the worldly Buddhist, the Arhat and the Bodhisattva.
How does the Buddha help the first sort of valuable human, the worldly Buddhist? By helping them live their lives according to principles based on the laws of karma. Karma means action and the laws of karma explain why things happen and how our actions determine our destiny. Everyone wonders why things happen. You know, you must have asked yourselves why you are you, different from the person sitting next to you. Why is there life's exquisite beauty? Why are there life's atrocious horrors? Most religions describe these things in terms of God's purpose: divine forces are pulling the strings and pushing the buttons of life. Buddhism, by contrast, says that events are not God-created but the long-term consequences of our own action: actions as individuals and actions as groups. Buddhism says our actions make us what we are and make our world what it is.
be just one in a long chain of lives, as we reincarnate over and over again. What we do in this life generates all the details of our future lives: who we meet, the way the environment changes, our health, our suffering, our happiness. When we live in a harmonious, helpful and wise way with each other now, this generates happiness for later. When we live in conflict, self-centredly and unwisely now, it stores up suffering for later.
Thus, if we protect and save life -in this life- then we ourselves will be born with long life and good health next time round. If we are generous and caring now, we will feel satisfied with our lot in the future life and be cared for by others. If we lead what Buddhism defines as a respectful, responsible life in one's sexual relationships, we will find loving, caring and suitable partners in the next life and so on and so forth.
The Buddha gave many teachings about our actions - and in particular a very helpful list of the 10 main actions to avoid and the 10 to cultivate. These form the basis for Buddhist morality just as the 10 commandments do in the Judaeo-Christian traditions. I have listed these 10 in the printed version of this talk, which is also on the Web.
There is, of course, in the action of this first type of Buddhist, a fair degree of self-interest: a studied concern for one's own worldly future. These are not Buddhists who desperately want to leave all worldliness and find the lasting peace of nirvana. If we use Shakespeare's words, "To be or not to be..." then our first Buddhist customer is definitely not ready not to be. This person likes life, still wants to be someone, somewhere in the world but preferably would like to be a healthier, happier and more prosperous person in a better family and social environment than at present. Even if that does not look likely in this existence, they try to live according to the Buddha's teaching on karma so that they will have a better time in the next life.
In teaching the laws of karma - the cause and effects of our actions - the Buddha was not only trying to help people help themselves but also trying to make for a better society: one in which there is less violence, less dishonesty and greater respect for others.
Furthermore, our other two types of valuable human being -those following the ways of the Arhat and the Bodhisattva- emerge from this pool of good people. One day, one life, it is said, there will dawn in their minds a profound awareness of the extent of suffering that there is in the world and indeed in one's own mind; then they become candidates for the ways of the Shravaka and the Bodhisattva.
The second type of valuable human being: the Shravaka, who shuns worldliness to attain nirvana; the nirvana of the Arhat.
Now we come to the second type of Buddhist or second type of valuable human being. These are people who -if we return to Shakespeare's to be or not to be -no longer want 'to be' someone, somewhere. They have understood that there is a deep, spiritual state of equanimity and peace, far more satisfactory than anything this world can offer. You know, it's as though you've been in a smoky, noisy, crowded room all your life and suddenly you discover the vast, clean open spaces of nature. The crowded, smoky room is a busy, worldly mind. The purity and freshness is discovered in the inner space of meditation. It is a peaceful, infinite space which transcends personality and the cult of personality - you know what I mean by cult of personality, where ME, I is all important - a world in which you have to assert yourself, create territory, be beautiful, be intelligent, BE …someone.
and impermanence ( anicca) of such happiness and by the price-tag of suffering ( dukha) that goes along with it. They know that the Buddha and the Arhats of the past managed to stopped being reborn into lives of mixed happiness and suffering. How did they do it? By stopping doing the harmful actions - karma- that generate rebirth. How to stop these harmful actions? By getting rid of their cause: anger, jealousy, pride, ignorance and desire. How to get rid of all those? by destroying their cause: the illusion of self, of ME of I.
These saintly beings cleanse their mind of all these unhelpful emotions, feelings and illusions and instead cultivated very natural states of inner peace and harmony. The advantage of this inner happiness is that it does not depend on other people and external things. It is a state of constant well-being which does not depend upon the up-and-down world of personality and feelings. It is self-contained. It is free of suffering. When it is perfected, it will remain forever. It is called nirvana. This is what the Shravaka hopes to achieve.
At this point, I think it will be useful to clarify the meaning of this word nirvana. Nirvana is not something in particular: not something that is . Nirvana means "suffering transcended". In other words, it is defined by what it isn't: it isn't suffering. It means that you have got free from suffering forever. It is like saying, "got out of the fire". One is no longer being burnt by the sufferings of life. But this does not tell us where we actually are: in a swimming-pool, up a mountain, in a space-capsule. It only tells us that we are out of the fire. So this word nirvana can cover many possibilities. This will become important when we look at the way of the bodhisattva. We will find that the bodhisattva is trying to achieve a much higher nirvana than that of the Arhat. Both are nirvana inasmuch as both have gone beyond the suffering of the world because both have ceased creating the karma that causes suffering. But the bodhisattva aims to become a Buddha and a Buddha has far more qualities than an Arhat and has removed more blockages from the mind.
To give an analogy: if we think of worldliness as the planet Earth, the Arhat has gone beyond the Earth's gravitational field and is floating in the space of meditation. The Buddha has also gone beyond the Earth's gravity but has reached the heart of the Sun of Wisdom.
Now let us return to the way of the Arhat. It consists of the Triple Training: Conduct, Meditation and Wisdom. I think you may know these. The basis for the Arhat's path to the Arhat's nirvana is a very pure ethical and moral conduct in all one says, all one does physically and also in one's profession. In one respect, it is similar to the careful attention to karma of the first type of valuable human being. But the motivation is different. Here the pure conduct is aimed at switching off the video of life, not at making it into a better film! This different motivation channels things differently. It is like earning the same amount of money but investing it in another account. The Arhat's good karma is not paying the worldly mortgage - it is going in to the permanent retirement fund.
On this basis of pure conduct, nirvana is achieved through the skilful combination of two things: meditation and wisdom. Let us first examine meditation.
Concentration meditation is the way in which those becoming Arhats overcome their passions, angers and other agitations of the mind. Concentration meditation cultivates inner peace. As the peace develops, desires, aggravations, and all these other things naturally diminish. As the peace grows, worldiness diminishes. It is like water. Let's just think together for a minute. Has everyone seen a turbulent ocean? Try to imagine it: those vast, powerful, rolling grey-green waves Brrrr! You can't see into it, it is busy, dangerous and it reflects nothing clearly. That's the worldly mind: very agitated, very busy with itself, very short-sighted and very endless. Now let's think of clear water - a very calm loch. Got the image? As water becomes calm, the waves subside. When water is calm, you can see all the fish and plants in its depths and it reflects the sky by day and the stars at night. The meditation mind is very still, clear and beautiful, like a very calm ocean. It has far-seeing wisdom.
As anger, desires and so on diminish through meditation, the peace becomes more lasting and more stable. This reveals levels of thought and subconscious activity of which one was not previously aware. Again and again, one refines the process of inner peace, until the mind is exceedingly clean and pure, knowing nothing but happiness and equanimity. A great, calm ocean of peace. Meditation requires careful training in mindfulness, concentration and channeling one's effort.
Now let us consider wisdom. As meditation improves, the quietness and clarity of mind enables great precision in the mind's self-knowledge. Just as our modern science pierces the secrets of the material universe through very fine investigation into the atom and into the human genome, the science of concentration meditation investigates the complex workings of the human mind and this knowledge is very helpful in transforming the mind and bringing it to stability and wisdom.This wisdom ends up being real insight into the Four Noble Truths, which lie at the very heart of the Buddha's teaching. When I say 'real insight' I mean that the Four Truths are no longer ideas but things vividly, directly experienced as true, direct insight into life itself, without the need of thoughts. This gives you the "right view" of things -the right perspective- and provides the right intention for instructing other people.
I don't want to get too technical in this talk. The Buddha's own teachings -called sutra- on this topic of the way of the Arhat fill dozens of books. We could -for example- examine extensively the real meaning of the Eightfold Path that I have just described.
We could also explore (if we had time) how meditation actually changes the mind, bringing freedom and peace as well as the emergence of saintly qualities, which are quite extraordinary; miraculous.
of mind and matter and understands in detail how they come together and trigger each other into making the events we perceive as life, with all of its suffering; dukkha.
The Hinayana mental journey of purification is a voyage deep into the inner peace of one's mind. There are four main stages on the journey, with Arhat being the final stage.
1. Stream-entrant when one has profound faith in what one is doing because the results are emerging and the process is very obvious. If we compared the path of meditation to unblocking a drain, it is at this stage that -after poking for ages with the rods- the blockage clears and the water starts to flow swiftly.
there will be only one more rebirth in the world.
4. Arhat the final achievement when every trace, gross or subtle, of ego-delusion and its subsequent desires, anger, jealousy, pride and confusion are all irreversibly eliminated from the mind and the mind will rest continuously in deep, far-reaching meditation.
ourselves and that self-transformation is our prime duty as human beings. So much of the world's problems come through people trying to change each other but being unwilling or unable to change themselves.
Hina means smaller or lesser and Yana means the power to carry. Because these first two types of valuable human being can, at best, only take one person to liberation -that person being oneself- then their way is called the lesser way. It's like a car with only one seat. We will see that the greater way aims to carry many people to liberation. It's like a jumbo jet.
recesses, the bodhisattva wants to become a Buddha, so as to be able to help thousands of other people free themselves from suffering. A Buddha is not only a great guide and friend for living beings: a Buddha's attainment - the Buddha's Nirvana- is far purer than that of the Arhat. It is in understanding the difference between their two "nirvanas" that one can clearly understand the different paths of the bodhisattva and the Shravaka.
2. or in the profound inner peace of the Arhat's nirvana.
The Buddha's Nirvana -with a captial N- is therefore said to be neither samsara nor nirvana (with a small n). Here I'd like to remind you of the all-important point made earlier: nirvana simply and only means that all suffering has ended but not all nirvanas are the same.
Like all nirvanas, the Nirvana of the Buddha has transcended worldly suffering and the necessity of rebirth as someone, somewhere. But it is much, much more than the profound peace of the Arhat's nirvana. The Buddha's Nirvana is the total discovery of the timeless, perfect, heart-essence of the universe. It is everywhere and in everything and everyone. It is a natural, brilliant world of peace present everywhere (once you know how to recognise it), not the peace of withdrawal into an inner sanctum. It is something naturally sacred, ultimately pure and radiant with immeasurable qualities of universal love, universal compassion and an incomprehensible outreach, helping beings to the farthest ends of the universe. Because it is so sublime, so far-reaching and so much beyond the imagination, we call it the undefinable or unlocated or non-situated Nirvana which we can locate neither in the things of this world nor in the peaceful meditation of the Arhat's nirvana. The Arhat's nirvana we can, by contrast, define very clearly, in terms of concentration meditation.
I really hope that as you come to understand this point about the difference between the two nirvanas. If you do, it will clear up the confusion created in books about Buddhism, in which they say that the bodhisattva renounces nirvana in order to help other beings. It sounds almost like somebody giving up their holiday in order to stay at home to help the family. Or like someone in prison who could be released but somehow has to commit more crimes to stay inside and help the inmates. This really is a misunderstanding. It is true that the bodhisattva abandons one sort of nirvana (the one with a small 'n', that of the hinayana path - the inner peace) but this is because he or she is taking a quite different route towards a different Nirvana: that of the Buddha: the peace of the compassionate, totally-wise mind. Nirvana with a capital N.
The only way to reach this Nirvana of the Buddha -often called buddha nature-is through perfect compassion. Compassion involves being in living contact with the suffering of the world, facing it and doing all one can to eliminate it. Furthermore, here one is not shutting off the senses but liberating them. There is a very good expression in Christianity which explains exactly what the bodhisattva is doing: being in the world but not of the world. Take the work of primary school teachers, for example. They need to skilfully enter into the world of 5 and 6 year-olds. They give these tiny children the magnificent skills of literacy and numeracy. It doesn't mean that they have to become childish themselves and renounce their adulthood. They operate in the world of small children but are not themselves of that world.
Someone who dedicates this life and all future lives to attaining this universal essence which is Buddhahood and helping millions of beings alleviate their suffering is called a bodhisattva. Bodhi means Buddha and sattva means mind, in the sense of a determined and courageous mind. Thus a bodhisattva is someone with the courage and determination to become a Buddha. The word Arhat means the one who has conquered the enemy, the "enemy" being the delusion of personality and all the desires and adversities it produces.
is not so much a path of escape as one of transformation. Anger is transformed into love. Jealousy is transformed into a sincere joy, which rejoices in the achievement of others. Pride is transformed into an awareness of the sameness of us all, before what is eternal and so on and so forth.
This work -of transforming emotions- is made possible by meditation, as only meditation gives clear insight into how the mind works. You know, if you want to fix something you first need to know how it works. Meditation helps us discover how the human mind works. The bodhisattva's meditation practices are structured differently from those of the hinayana path. Also, there are many more of them. As mentioned before, the bodhisattva is avoiding the nirvana (with a small 'n') of the hinayana path and the bodhisattva is very careful not to be drawn into its beautiful inner peace of meditation's tranquillity. One of the main tools for doing this is right thought or prayer.
person helps millions simply by attaining a perfect mind. The Bodhisattva knows that the finest way to help others is to become totally pure, totally wise and totally skilful in guiding others on the path, just like the Buddha. Many times a day, the bodhisattva dedicates his life to this end, in prayer, and tries to do every daily task -even making a cup of tea- with a mind filled with compassionate love for all other beings and a deep longing to attain buddhahood.
3. Perfect forbearance (you could call this one patience or tolerance).
school examiners may want you to know words like anicca or dukkha but I cannot see the point too much. We have perfectly good words for these in English -impermanence and suffering- and why should you learn the Pali words, rather than the Sanskrit or the Japanese or the Tibetan? Anyway, paramita is a word without a direct equivalent in English and so it is useful to use the Sanskrit.
whose mind these six things are totally, immaculately perfect.
1. The first is called klesha in Sanskrit. This is often translated as mind poisons or cankers or defilements. I have mentioned it a couple of times already today: it consists of selfish desire, aggression, jealousy, pride and ignorance. All of these feelings arise through the negative delusions of personality -the harmful ways in which one defines oneself- I must have, I can't stand, I ought to have what he has, I'm better than she is etc. In the hinayana path one removes all such deluded ideas about self and this removes this first covering on the light of truth. By simply doing that, one no longer needs to act selfishly, therefore there is no bad karma and so one stops the cycle of rebirth after rebirth into worldly existence ( samsara) and eventually become an Arhat.
after second, a two-sided movie: me and you, self and other, ours and theirs, my body and the world in which it moves, my mind and my body etc. etc. It is through these conscious and subconscious processes that we define ourselves and our world: our parents, friends, enemies, every detail of life.
that a mirage is just an optical illusion and not real water on the road or like realising that someone you have been assuming was uninteresting is in fact pretty cool. Part of the discovery of voidness concerns the non-ego (anatta) discovered in the hinayana path. But it is only a part. By only uncovering anatta, one becomes an Arhat. By uncovering the whole truth about everything, sunyata, one becomes a Buddha.
everything. By destroying all illusions, the bodhisattva becomes a Buddha, knowing everything there is to be known. The Buddha is omniscient. The Arhat is extraordinarily wise but not ommniscient.
In the six paramita, the main work of discovering voidness is accomplished through a combination of the meditation paramita and the wisdom paramita. The second of these -wisdom paramita- is called prajnaparamita in Sanskrit. It is exceedingly important in mahayana Buddhism and there are many gigantic phiolosophical texts elaborating the meaning of voidness. Although there are so many texts, the truth of voidness can only be discovered directly, in meditation, as it transcends all thought and philosophy.
As the six paramita - generosity, right conduct, forbearance, diligence, meditation and wisdom - come to completion, the real meaning of the word Buddha becomes apparent.
At the start, Buddha simply meant someone: an historical figure who gave us the Buddhist teachings. But as time goes by, one realises that the historical Buddha Sakyamuni simply achieved something that everyone, one day, in one life or another, will achieve. What he discovered is inside each and every one of us. It is our true nature, our Buddha-nature. This does not mean that each of us is really, at heart, an Indian prince! It does mean that there is perfect love, perfect compassion, infinite wisdom and a great ability to help and guide others, locked up in each and every one of us. It is the inner light. We just need to find it and to remove all the layers of illusion covering it and blocking off its power.
This timeless light, universal peace or cosmic wisdom manifests in three ways, known as the three kaya.
the whole of their life. This aspect of Buddha-nature or Buddha mind is called nirmanakaya: the emanated body.
Today, I have spoken briefly -and very quickly- about the three types of valuable human being. Of course, this does not mean that other beings are worthless. It is just that these three types live lives which help themselves mature as human beings and they help the world. When the Buddha came to our planet, he came, like all great spiritual teachers, to help everyone, not just Buddhists. Understanding that we are each unique, he taught everyone he met according to their individual needs and, in general, he helped the three psychological types. I have spoken of today as the three sorts of valuable human being: the everyday Buddhist and those deeply committed to the paths of the Arhat and the Bodhisattva. It is not that one way is better than the other. They are just different way suited to different people.
Today I have not spoken about the "sociological" side of Buddhism: its different temples, different customs for marriages etc. These are simply the outer shell of a faith. They are the clothes it wears. The actual faith is a series of beliefs and attitudes towards life, towards oneself and other people. They form the real body of the religion. It is true that some Buddhist countries accentuate some of these ways, while others have dropped into the background or disappeared. I could have spent the whole lecture describing the geographical and historical develoment of Buddhism. Instead I have chosen to sketch the psychology of these main strands of Buddhism and tried to explain how the Buddha was trying to help everyone through these three approaches.
The Buddha often used the analogy of a doctor to describe himself. His teachings are like medicine, our mind's impurities and our karma are like the sickness. These three ways are suited to different types just like different medicines are suited to different diseases. Can we say a heart medicine is better than medicine for rheumatism? Of course not. Would ther be any point in giving the rheumatism medicine to the heart patient? Of course not. These three ways of living one's life and meditating suit different types of people. When someone comes to our monastery in Dumfriesshire for training, we use all three types according to the individual.


On Thursday, 07 February 2019, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) organized a workshop titled as "Drinking Water Pollution in the Gaza Strip." The workshop discussed the reality of drinking water in the Gaza Strip from a human rights perspective and repercussions of water pollution on the public health in the Gaza Strip. The workshop was attended by experts representing the Water Authority, Coastal Municipalities Water Utility (CMWU), Ministry of Health, academics, civil society organizations, and media.
Khalil Shahin, Head of the Social and Economic Rights Unit, opened the workshop and reviewed PCHR's role in following and shedding light on the social and economic situation and the various crises which the Gaza residents suffer from in light of the Israeli closure and internal political division. Shahin said that the drinking water pollution has catastrophic and serious reflections on civilians' health that shall be faced by the official and private organizations operating in the water sector through enhancing the monitoring mechanisms to guarantee civilians' access to safe and clean drinking water. He added that this to achieve the sixth goal of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals which ensures availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all and within the framework of enhancing and protecting civilians' right to water as a fundamental human right.
In his intervention, Engineer Monther Shublaq, CMWU Director General, displayed the reality of water in the Gaza Strip as he confirmed that around 97% of the Gaza Strip water is unsuitable for domestic use, requiring alternative solutions that would guarantee civilians' access to water suitable for human use, including tightening control over the sold drinking water. Shublaq pointed out that absence of political stability in the Gaza Strip negatively reflects on the water and sanitation conditions regarding funding and residential care. Shublaq added that the work is ongoing to overcome the current water crisis in the Gaza Strip through establishing 3 desalination plants that are expected to operate by the end of 201 and will yield 40,000 cubic meters water of high quality out of 165,000 cubic meters which the CMWU yields and supplies the Gaza Strip.
the Gaza Strip, mainly through the serious coordination between the water sectors in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, and strengthening the international support for establishing projects relevant to the water sector. He said that the solution to decrease the aggravating water crisis is establishing desalination plants along with water sewage treatment plants to guarantee the non-leakage of sewage water into the underground reservoir.
Engineer Khaled al-Tibi, Head of Water Control Department in the Ministry of Health, said that the deterioration of the water situation in the Gaza Strip in 2018 was the worst regarding the polluted drinking water, indicating that the Ministry of Health and via its specialized departments in the Gaza Strip formed technical committees to control and follow the water sources. Al-Tibi said that despite all efforts by the ministry to alleviate the water crisis, the challenges facing the Ministry are way beyond its capabilities, particularly after the biological contamination of the water reached 28% in the private desalination plants that would affect people's life, particularly children, and cause them many diseases.
Calling upon the international society to increase its support for the water and sewage sector in the Gaza Strip.


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Science Shows Dolphins Communicate Holographically
By Edwina Shaw on Wednesday December 21st, 2016
Can We Start Speaking To Dolphins?
Scientists are now able to begin deciphering how dolphins convey information to each other and to then use this information to start a conversation.
Recently scientists have made a significant breakthrough in inter-species communication. Researchers in the UK and USA have proved that the clicking sounds dolphins use for echolocation actually form reproducible holographic pictures that the researchers suggest may be the basis of dolphin language.
With the use of cutting edge technology such as the CymaScope and 3D print technology, the scientists at SpeakDolphin believe they have been able to see what dolphins see for the first time. This amazing discovery has exciting implications for the future, as the first step in being able to potentially communicate with dolphins in their own language.
Dolphins communicate holograms and now we can see them.
Dolphin Communication
Dolphins communicate in a wide variety of ways, just as we do. They use body language, using touch to communicate both affection and aggression. They have even been known to hold flippers, just as we hold hands. Dolphins don't have vocal cords, but instead have a complex system, including a balloon-like structure in their foreheads called a melon.
They have even been known to hold flippers, just as we hold hands.
They have two sets of lips near the blowhole that force air through, much as air is squeezed through the nozzle of a balloon, to create sounds. This air is recycled through the system so the dolphin can remain underwater for extended periods while echolocating or communicating. Through these lips, dolphins can both whistle and make clicking sounds or click bursts, sometimes at extremely high speed.
Dolphins hold hands to communicate affection just like humans do.
Deciphering The Dolphin Code
Early on in dolphin research, scientists discovered that each dolphin has an individual whistle that they use to identify themselves, and that other dolphins use to call them in return. When a dolphin is in trouble it sends out a series of these whistling sounds, as if calling for help from friends. The clicking sounds were discovered to be a form of echolocation, using sound to create mental images of the surroundings, which dolphins can use with extreme accuracy, focusing in on one fish in a swarming school, to track elusive prey.
Some scientists also believed that dolphins could use their clicks to transmit information to other dolphins in their vicinity. Click bursts, or high speed clusters of clicks, are thought to have additional meanings, beyond simply identifying objects. Dolphin researchers suggested that these click bursts are a form of communication that dolphins use when they're playing or to indicate aggression. Mother dolphins have been observed to focus an angry click burst at a misbehaving calf, for example.
Findings like these have spurred great interest in how dolphins communicate and raised questions about their cognitive abilities. At first, scientists and animal trainers were only interested in what they could teach dolphins. These days there is interest in what they can teach us. Especially since this latest breakthrough, which begins to prove that the suppositions of these early researchers may be correct.
Scientists have cracked the code to how dolphins see the world around them.
An Innate Intelligence
The pioneer of dolphin research, John Lilly, was a neurophysiologist at the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health. In the 1950s, he was the first to suggest that dolphins had a language of their own. His books, Man and Dolphin: Adventures on a New Scientific Frontier and The Mind of the Dolphin: A Nonhuman Intelligence, brought people to an awareness of the sophisticated intelligence that dolphins possess.
Lilly opened a dolphin research facility and attempted to teach a dolphin named Peter to speak English with some success. However, in the 60's Lilly's experiments grew more and more controversial—including injecting dolphins with LSD—so his funding dried up and the study of dolphin communication fell into disrepute.
Then in 1970, a University of Hawaii psychologist named Louis Herman reignited scientific interest and began experiments of his own, teaching dolphins language and raising them as children. Yet, despite almost half a century of study since these pioneering efforts, nobody has been able to prove definitively what the fundamental units of dolphin vocalization are, or how those units get assembled. This is what makes the recent findings about the holographic mental images created by echolocation such an exciting breakthrough.
Mother dolphins teach their calves through a range of communication methods.
Starting A Conversation
Until recently, there has been no evidence that a dolphin has been able to transmit anything like an image to other dolphins through echolocation. However, earlier this year, researchers in the USA and UK made this significant finding when they used a new piece of technology, a CymaScope, to translate a dolphin's clicking sounds into a holographic image of the submerged man she was echolocating. Team leader, Jack Kassewitz of SpeakDolphin.com, is delighted with the result.
This is the first time we have captured a what-the-dolphin-saw image of a man.
Previously they'd used other objects such as crosses and flower pots and were to some degree successful, but this image of a man has made it clear that a dolphin's clicks translate as a mental image that humans can now also decipher. This has tremendous implications for people to now begin learning how to communicate with dolphins.
Just as in the recent sci-fi movie Arrival, where a linguist struggled to decode the multidimensional images aliens were communicating, scientists are now able to begin deciphering how dolphins convey information to each other and to then use this information to start a conversation.
Holograms will enable humans to communicate with dolphins more effectively.
The Holographic Experiment
For the ground-breaking experiment, a man wearing a weight belt was submerged underwater and a trained dolphin then used a series of clicks to identify the man through echolocation. The dolphin's echo signal was recorded using high specification audio equipment and the recording was then sent to the CymaScope laboratory in the UK.
There, acoustic physics researcher John Stuart Reid, used the CymaScope to transcribe the sound sample by imprinting it onto a water membrane by using the quasiholographic properties of sound and its relationship with water. The holographic image that emerged was the mirror image of the submerged man complete with details such as the weight belt.
This demonstrated that the CymaScope can capture what-the-dolphin-saw images and suggested that dolphins can also see surface features, such as the weight belt. Kassewitz, Reid and their team are now speculating that dolphins may employ a "sono-pictorial" form of language, a language of pictures that they share with each other. As Kassewitz explains:
If that proves to be true an exciting future lies ahead for inter species communications.
The holographic experiment that shows what a dolphins sees.
How Dolphins Speak to Each Other
It can be speculated that dolphins use auditory information to perceive the world similarly to how humans use vision. Though perhaps they would have an even greater degree of perception as the auditory centres of their brains are highly developed, with auditory nerves containing as many fibres as human optic nerves.
What the scientists have found most exciting is the probability that these sound images are shared with other dolphins as part of their communication.
It's likely that dolphins integrate information from all their senses to create a complete and complex interpretation of their surroundings. What the scientists have found most exciting is the probability that these sound images are shared with other dolphins as part of their communication.
Research reveals how dolphins see with sound and communicate with one another.
Sending Visual Images
Some humans who are blind are also able to use echolocation to identify their surroundings. They make their way safely through an unfamiliar environment by using clicking sounds and listening for the reflected echoes from the objects they encounter. Studies conducted on these people show that their visual cortex is also activated as they echolocate through an environment, demonstrating that brain areas usually reserved for vision can be activated by other sensory modes.
Because of the similarity between human and dolphin brains, this suggests that dolphins may also be creating visual images through echolocation, which they then communicate to other dolphins.
The success of the experiment translating echolocation clicks into a holographic image of a man makes this speculation a reality. This is what has excited scientists and dolphin lovers alike, as humans take one step closer to being able to communicate with our playful friends in the sea.
Words By Edwina Shaw
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kamir bouchareb st says:
thanks for the last information
Karey Kumli says:
"Can we start speaking to dolphins?" might gently be replaced with "How do we learn to listen to dolphins?" Certainly there is much they have to offer to us. After opening to this, and listening with open hearts and minds, let's re-evaluate anything we might have considered speaking to them.
Bertin says:
I would like to send my most beautiful holographic message to all the scientists who care about this
I also had a wonderful experience with a dolphin in a dream. I knew I had to get up a rocky cliff for some important reason. I couldn't figure it out. And then a beautiful violet colored dolphin appeared. There was a mind connection, and I knew the solution was at hand. Suddenly I was transported to the top on a beam of energy, landing in an antique shop. There I met a beautiful child and realized it was me. She gave me a blue crocheted item (spiritual). We then got into an elevator together and departed. Some years later, in Mexico. I mentally called out to the dolphin, and about twelve immediately showed up and put on quite a show! Thank you!
Ewalina Dassau says:
"Mother dolphins have been observed to focus an angry click burst at a misbehaving calf"
this interpretation is but one of human state not of true aware. Dolphins do not use our emotions as you may assume. They are less emotional and more direct of action. If you child jumps into the road as a car speeding in her direction is what would you do in that action of preserving her ? See who interpretation may be used to gain little insight? A mother dolphin is not angry in clicking but is affording the child insight not an emotional attitude.
"These days there is interest in what they can teach us."
We will NEVER learn what they may teach us in science and the labs they are in but we will learn in the Spirit what they are to us in this life and living that we share in this Earth Mother Geia. In this I do not speak this to be of criticism but insight.
"This has tremendous implications for people to now begin learning how to communicate with dolphins.
We do not require this science or this kind of captivity and study to learn to communicate with dolphins. I have been communicating with them since i was first in the water with them. If you seek this kind of intellect then you do not advance but only look at what you can use to interpret not what is the communication that they offer. I speak the Truth. I AM.
"John Lilly" was NOT a great state of person as his only interest was to take from them what he could. He sought to use them in a facility to gain insight to himself not gain from them love or to them love. Many will not believe me but this is the Truth. He set out to move them to his will not to learn of their insight to humanity. He learned early on that they could telepathically use us and this was then the determination for him to learn and to gain from them not with them that gain. In the use of most malice drugs in their body they were moved to terrible instincts that were not their own. They are most beautiful beings and they have no necessity for drugs or any kind of immune enhancement but they are not to be gained in this time to us in captivity longer. They will choose to leave. In this they who have these in labs and study or in facilities to work with humans or to entertain will see that they will not remain in this kind of tank operation. They are aware in this now and they know that they may release this life and return to their own. In this the Lord is not willing to tell you more here that you do not do this people justice to encourage more study in captivity but I will. I say this to say that these you study talk to me. They do not seek to know this kind if facilitation and do not seek to be where they are not loved. You think that captivity is good but it is not. In those that swim in the wild this is good and encourage. Do not feel that I criticize you who wrote this begin that this is a good article but that this is the Truth that in this article is not gained as such. I know the dolphins and they are my family. I know the Whales and they are they who in the Wisdom keeping were my teachers and my provision of this time as they who are good to us even when we were not then and are not now a gain to them in that sonaring of oceans a gain of love and peace. I do know and I do state the Truth and the Truth is with me. I AM.
Paul C Pritchard says:
Deep. Full. Moving. Wise. We'll take a lot of these things on board. We are so grateful for your impassioned engagement. Thank you Team Uplift
Domenica.ventura says:
Ewalina, I always defer to cetaceans. If they wish to approach me,they do. They amazed me many times by showing up when I "called" them, in the wild, not in captivity. Total respect and highest karma to them, you, and all…
barbra badger says:
A dolphin dream also changed my life. I believe they can 'read' our thoughts–or at least some can. I had proof of sorts at one time. Many mystical experiences involving dolphins took place in my life in the span of a year. Have often wished to have another dolphin dream. That one was 40 years ago…nothing yet.
Karin Ecker says:
This is very exciting and bringing me back to the dolphin connection. Finally.
I had a dream in which i woke up from a dream, entering the water in order to see something unfamiliar. The only way to really see it was to 'look' closely through the dolphins 'eyes' which opened up to another dimension with more 'eyes' to look through until unlimited …
I woke up from this dream and know that this was not 'just a dream' but a moment in time to come in the future where one dolphin would change my life. I was told to believe the dream and so i did. Many years later the person who told me to believe in the dream and who i intuitively know to be the person, who would take me to the dolphin, created the connection and introduced me to a person, a filmmaker, who then wanted to make a film about me and a solitary dolphin in Belize. I was not prepared that this anticipated moment was going to be a public one for anyone to see, with a Hollywood actor called Kiefer Sutherland to narrate my story. As you can imagine I was now literally living my dream. Except that the dream did not turn out the way I thought it would. I did meet the solitary dolphin in the wild, I did create an amazing bond with the dolphin and until then I thought everything was amazing and unreal. And exactly, it was unreal. Because suddenly i woke up from my dream when the same dolphin turned and slapped her fluke into my stomach. And suddenly everything became real. A real that I had not known before but unsheltered from everything all of the sudden occurring at once. No belief could have been as strong as to create a firewall between me and the dolphin. I for the first time 'saw' her. No projections anymore. This was only the beginning of what was going to become the rest of my life.
The next day I took a leap of faith and entered the watery space once more only to be greeted by some more unusual 'unsafe' behavior from the dolphin. It was a choice to be made between going back into fear and the know or leap forward to the unknown. Which I did. Not that I had a choice really I think. Going mad was not the option for me.
In the following years, i traveled the globe meeting many people who study dolphins, including Lou Herman, who is mentioned in this article. A scientist who studies language with dolphins. I also on the same island visited the center, where they use dolphins as war weapons.
After 7 years I turned my attention to the whales and after that to water itself.
I wonder if i was sent the images from the dolphin into my dream. After all, i am the kind of person who when dancing the tango or salsa is closing her
eyes and doing the clicking sound. I do this way know when I am approaching the wall or other people. I also use this when I am in the ocean and when doing laps in the pool. Exciting time ahead. Thank you for sharing this. …. And of course, I knew all along that I am communicating with the dolphin, always have and always will be.


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I met the radiant Hannah at her romantic early century villa in New Plymouth where she and her husband are eagerly awaiting their first child. I really got the sense that creating a beautiful loving home for their daughter was first priority for Hannah. I am also renovating an old house in Whangarei, and I fell in love with their gorgeous home, with exposed walls revealing the old kauri boards and a feast of vintage wallpaper. Melisa was with me to do Hannah's hair and makeup, and we spent most of our time chasing cats and patting dogs. We listened to Hannah's life in foster care and how her decisions shaped her life, and how fate eventually brought her to where she is now.
Here is Hannah's story:
When I was three years old, my parents had gone to Thailand and they left me with some people from their church. Their 16 year old boy sexually abused me during this time. My parents got back and obviously no one said anything, but I started drawing pictures of monsters under my bed, so even at that young age, there was evidence of what happened to me.
The parents of the child actually came to my family and told mum and dad what their 16 year old son had done. He may have confessed, but I'm not sure. It's kind of a really grey area. My father was a police officer at the time. From what I can tell, he really spat the dummy, he was not happy. I'm not sure what exactly happened but there was a bit of a cover up about it. I was really taboo. I think my dad had actually threatened to kill this boy. I'm not sure of the finer details of what had happened, but it was really stressful and hard to cope with for the entire family. It was really messy and really awful. I don't think there was any accountability or anything from the boy.
We got counselling and stuff like that, as children. Later they did a review to see what was happening and they kind of informed me that maybe the rape wasn't such an issue for me anymore, it might have been the entire family environment. I thought the whole reason my family was falling apart was because of what happened to me.
I don't particularly remember all of that earlier stuff. But it was a bit of a catalyst for the changes in me through my life. At five years old my parents had split up, it was really hard on our entire family. It's a little hard to look back and see where things started going wrong, and when exactly it was that I started viewing myself as defective. I kind of felt I had broken my family up. Now that I'm older, I have worked through things and I know that I'm okay, it wasn't my fault. I'm more than just the things that have happened to me. It wasn't until probably about five years ago when I met my husband and I actually started to put some healing in place.
At eleven, I went into foster care, because things were really difficult at home. I never ended up staying at a placement for longer that 3 months, never at a school longer than two years. I didn't have healthy relationships. I was a very lost teenager really. I was looking for validation and love and acceptance from some inappropriate places.
I feel it's all connected. Like, I don't necessarily mean that early incident set me up for that life, but it was definitely a catalyst for the path we went down as a family. When I was in Foster care, there was a night where a friend who had passed away, she had hung herself. We were all drinking and upset. Another incident happened and I felt like I put myself in a situation where I was too vulnerable to that. The people I was hanging out with and the influences in my life weren't necessarily positive. That incident as a teenager really affected me quite substantially. I no longer trusted in other people, but I was still searching for acceptance and love and family and all those things, which I think is pretty normal for people that have been abused as a child.
After that, my new relationships were not overly positive. I was in an abusive relationship for a year, and then when I left him I fell in with another awful person. I moved my life to Australia. I sold everything. I had started again, I had been there for a month when I got mauled by a dog. I wasn't covered and I had to move back to New Zealand. Because it happened in Australia it wasn't covered here either. I went on the sickness benefit.
I started to develop really serious self esteem issues. I hadn't had any fruitful relationships in my entire life. And then I met my husband. He was just this calm, loving, kind, human. He was really respectful. He grew up with a really amazing family that had amazing values and it was everything I had been missing in my life. I was a real polar opposite to him. I was really inconsistent and out drinking and out doing all of these things, you know? To try and feel included and accepted and valued and worthy.
He swept me off my feet. Now we are married and having this first child, having an amazing life with just wonderful humans around us. It took a while to be in a place where I could be happy again. I reached out to a psychologist, to discuss the sexual abuse and how that had affected me and my relationships, and it was really good.
I actually started to manage some of those feelings. When I was a teenager, I was just trying to survive really. The psychologist ended up having a huge impact on me, and it was really valuable. I realise I can't blame my entire shitty childhood on that one incident at three years old, but I think it has contributed to how I formed attachments and trust with people, and how I viewed myself. The sexual abuse when I was a teenager, I felt really responsible for that, because I felt that I put myself in that situation. I was drunk and it was my fault. It actually took me a while to develop the attitude that just because you are there, it doesn't give people the right to do that to you, and you shouldn't have to feel embarrassed.
Im training to be a social worker now, and I'm working with youth. Also, as part of my role I get external supervision, so I meet with a social worker once a month, and she is just amazing. I talk to her about my challenges and she's always listening, its just amazing.
I'm expecting my first child, and at the first scan they said it was a boy. I was really relieved, because I just had in my head that he was going to be just like my husband, and really amazing and I was going to have this amazing relationship with this little boy. We found out later it was a girl and I was heartbroken. I didn't want her to be anything like me. I just initially thought there was no way I was going to cope.
I talked about it to my supervisor and she said, well that's really defective thinking, because you are actually amazing, there's no way you would let that happen to your little girl. You aren't the things that have happened to you, and if she does turn out like you, well she's going to be amazing too. In moments of panic I go back to that thinking, and it's really hard to shift.
It's really amazing that I now have the space from my old life that has allowed me to have that healing. And actually having a healthy relationship has given me a safe space to do that work for my own healing. I feel really blessed that we are able to role model that kind of relationship for our daughter. My husband understands that how he treats me and how he treats her is how she is going to grow up expecting men to treat her. We are determined to show her how loved she is, and show her that she can expect to be loved like that from the other people in her life.
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This dish is dedicated to my Dad. My uncle and Dad liked to drive out to a farm in southern Ontario and select their own lamb of which the farmer would catch and then slaughter. Sometimes the kids went on the trip too except my sister never went, she doesn't eat red meat and especially couldn't stand the thought of a little lamb being killed. At least us kids knew where are food came from. I personally prefer local lamb even though it's more expensive, if all you can find is New Zealand lamb then that would do just fine.
Get out a large roasting pan large enough to hold the lamb leg, pour in the two cups of wine if using, otherwise water. In a small bowl prepare the merinade; chop up and combine the rosemary with 1 tbsp salt, oregano, olive oil, garlic, and ground black pepper, mix and brush entire leg of lamb on all sides including the bone.
Place leg in roasting pan, cover and roast in preheated 450* oven for 30 minutes. Now prepare potatoes and carrots, after washing them, mix them together with a bit of olive oil and remaining salt and set aside. Wash the swish chard, trim thick stem and set aside also.
After 30 minutes of lamb cooking at 450, turn heat down to 350 and add potatoes and carrots surrounding lamb. Baste the lamb lemon juice and again in 30 minutes with juices from bottom of toasting pan and cover and continue to cook for another 45 minutes. When time is up, take the top off the roasting pan, turn on convection if it's an option and let roast another 10-15 minutes, after that add the Swiss chard, turn oven off, cover again and leave in oven another 15 minutes. I know that the lamb will be over cooked but we Greeks do not usually eat meat medium rare, and I promise it will melt in your mouth.
When all done, slice off meat, prepare serving plates with veggies on the side, serve with more lemon, oregano, pita bread and red wine for drinking.
Note: if feeding a large group, prepare more potatoes, carrots and Swiss card and also have Greek salad, Kalamata olives, roasted red peppers etc around the table.
Please enjoy, and comment below, letting me know the results or just any questions you may have.


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The Alfar, or Elves, are usually considered to be the height of humans or just above. The Light Elves are fair to look upon, and they live in Alfheim. They can be seen at night dancing over meadows. The circles they leave are called älvdanser (elf dances). The Elven folk are often pictured as living in forests and other natural places or underground or in wells and springs.
The home of the light-elves is Alfheim "elvenhome", which is ruled by the god Freyr. Freyr is a god who belongs to the Vanir tribe of deities. Freyr, also spelled Frey, also called Yngvi, in Norse mythology, is the ruler of peace and fertility, rain, and sunshine and the son of the sea god Njörd. Freyja and Freyr are twins, children of the sea god, Njord. His sister and female counterpart, Freyja, was goddess of love, fertility, battle, and death.
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We all have a strong need to know who we truly are; we each have a history – our life story of how we came to be where we are today. Our self identity is formed from our own unique experiences, how we have approached and overcome obstacles, how we perceive the world around us and those we share our lives with. We are constantly changing and evolving, taking onboard new information all the time. Part of this process is sifting through it all and keeping only which continues to serve us and can help us in our future. Often we become trapped in cycles formed in previous relationships; family ones as well as romantic ones. We pack and carry the hurt, the burden and the self sacrifices of the past in the same suitcase as the happy memories of love, laughter and good times spent together.
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This healing system has come through as a way to unite the Magick of Raven to its sister vibration, that of the Runes. For in this context the subtle energetic Raven is the battle warrior and chooser of the slain, The Valkyrie. Of course these titles are symbolic and it is in the Valkyrie/Raven Goddess nurturing through strength capacity which we work with and not the shadow side. The Raven brings the power and the Runes provide the energetic key to enable us to unlock and use them. This system is perfect for Healing, Protection, Energy Clearing and Negative Energy Removal. In the accompanying 34 page manual you will learn the following: The 4 symbols of Raven Runelore – These Bindrunes are the keys to unlock the energy. During your attunement you will receive the four symbols energetically via direct transmission.
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This energy system will connect you to the top five Shieldmaidens in Viking history. Freydís Eiríksdóttir, Brynhildr Buðladóttir, Lagertha, Hervor, and Veborg. Once you have been attuned to them they will be available for you to call on to help you in your daily life and for you to connect to during your meditation sessions. This empowerment acts as an introduction to these 5 brave warriors, after this it is up to you to develop your relationship with each one. Like with meeting any new group of people you may decide to work with them in their entirety or you may feel drawn to working with just one or two who particularly resonate with you.
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My sous chef and friend brought a tasty little 'affordable' wine over the other night. With these days of barely being able to live in this expensive city, sometimes you have to be conscious of where you spend your money.
2011 Alamos cabernet from Argentina was just rated 90 points by Wine Advocate.
Flavors of dark berries and spice and pairs well with steak, lamb or grilled vegetables.
Made some thin crust pizza for a good friend of ours birthday.
I get my pizza dough recipe from one of my favorite books: Donna Hays 'Seasons'. All the recipes are simple and fast.
During the evening we made 5 different pizzas but this was my fav!
sprinkle with parmesan cheese and in the oven it goes.
When done, sprinkle with fresh rosemary.
Here's a quick snap of some recent appetizers at a clients house.