The Sunshine of OUR Love

                                                            I must insist that Planetarianism Requires 'elements' that "Define Its Existence" and in the exact same way that our Personal Elements Defines Individual Existence .  Here the Inmost Beliefs, those Beliefs that reside in one's Core Being, are to brought to bear on those of a Planetarian .    You Qidz* know I am no fan of Democracy and those "Self-Evident Truths , Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" DID NOT HAVE THE STRENGTH of  Wear-with-all* necessary to Inspire Correct Conduct nor Behavior .   Those words "Did their job" for the Ancients but  now we need MODERN  "Truths" that may NOT be --->  "Self-Evident" .   

                                                                   Tare Forward and Keep the Faith 

Miss Appropriate

                                                            With regard to "Beliefs" and "Code of Conduct" [Codes of Conduct] my offerings will be Buddhism heavy for reasons easily at hand, {{{I'm a Zen Buddhist}}} .   Here's the thing, if you want to become a Philosopher, you gotta start somewhere, so most Students begin at the Beginning of Philosophy, the Greeks, although the Civilization of Sumer has its own Wisdoms, we are gonna leave the Sumerians to theirs, I mean,,,, for now .  In the same way that we need a "points of Origin" for Philosophical pursuits so we must have a point of Origin for Planeatarianism .   I have taken the "5 Precepts" ---  they are   "Don't kill, Don't Steal, Avoid Sexual Misconduct, Don't Lie and Don't get drunk" .    And then there are the "Paramitas"  the Virtues practiced by Bodhisattvas [ Buddhist `Saints` ]  and these are , "Generosity, Precepts, Forbearance, Samadhi, Practice, and Wisdom " .   Buddhists that want to become Bodhisattvas have "The Four Great Vows" ,

                     "However innumerable the sentient beings, I vow to save them all .

                       However inexhaustible the passions, I vow to extinguish them all .

                       However immeasurable the dharmas, I vow to master them all .

                       However incomparable the Buddha's Truth, I vow to attain it ."

                                 Grouch Marx once exasperated, "Why a four-year-old could see the problem --- go get a four-year-old because I can't make 'heads or tails' of it ."  I can say the same about my 'fix'  ---I can't make "heads or tails" of the Code or Codes required to 'Make' a Planeatarian, but still

                                                              WE GOTTA TRY !!!!!!!!

Miss Connected

                                                            Yesterday there were 3,921 readers of my words of Grief and Sorrow which manifested as Mourning .   My most HEARTFELT Gratitude to Each and Every One of You .

                            How is it that we can find Unity in Suffering but so little Else ?   

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                             The "Work" on Planetarianism is ongoing, but appears as "Fits and Starts" .   I have it in my Mind that the GOAL of Planetarianism is the Establishment and Maintenance of (you guessed it)  UTOPIA ~~~ the so-called "Heaven on Earth" .   I feel the Need for a "Manifesto", on the order of  "The Communist Manifesto" :   I also feel the Need for something on the order of the Judeo-Christian Ten Commandments and the "10 Rules of Islam" .   Buddhism, too, has its "Code of Conduct", the Precepts and the Vows, but they are numerous and, for me, unwieldy .   Also, I am suspicious of my own Bias, the Thinking that I can glean what we need from other "Orders" to make an "Amalgam" that suits both the Psychology and Physicality of Planeatarianism .    There are days in which I REVEL at the plethora of Mental Illnesses  that reside in my  Psyche,  and naturally there are days that I LOATHE and DESPISE them .  I have a perverted Tendency to complicate even the Most Trivial, and in so doing actually CREATE Obstructions, Pitfalls and TRAPS that prevent Clean and CLEAR Intellectual 'Enunciation', better viewed as Lucidity .   I heard this at an AA Meeting, "There's nothing worse than a confused Psychology Major ."    My 'condition' is something like THAT .  

Morning Mourning

                                                           I'm gonna spend the morning in Mourning .   Every year I try to avoid writing about 9-1-1 , the Horror almost unspeakable .   How is it the Man could inflict such untold Suffering on millions of Innocents ?   

                                   The First Belief of Planetarians is this :

                                                             ALL LIFE IS SACRED .

                                                            Tare Forward and Keep the Faith   {{{ if you can}}} 

"No Mind" is Know Mind

                                                            The definition of  "Emptiness" is NOT to be found in THE SHAMBHALA DICTIONARY OF BUDDHISM AND ZEN,   DON'T "have a meltdown" .   Know this, without  Emptiness  there IS no Creation.  Matter, in its physical sense, arrived INTO Emptiness, in the exact same way that when water is poured into a bowl, it is the EMPTINESS that "HOLDS" it .   A SOLID block cannot hold nor contain that same water .   It CAN be said that it is EMPTINESS that allows for the manifestation of "The 10,000 Things" .    We have heard, "That asshole is a BLOCKHEAD", meaning, nothing can "go in" and surely, nothing can "go out" .   

                                Years and years ago I had a dream in which a Koan [Japanese  Kong-an in Korean] was brought to my Conscious-ness ,,, it was this : "What's the most important 'thing' at an airport ?"   When I got passed "WTF" {after SEVERE  Bouts of aggravated Mediation} this arrived :  "Space"  is the most important feature of an Airport, but SPACE wasn't enough, and then Emptiness arrived, and I had the Answer to that Kong-an .   

                                We accuse Others of being "Empty Headed" and only a Buddhist or Zen Buddhist could appreciate the pun that results .   

                                I'm leaving this here for today .

                                                              Tare Forward and Keep the Faith 

"OPEN 24 HOURS"

                                                           I don't have the Mind to continue with the 'book report' of REGIME CHANGE .   I  awoke with the desire to write about  Planetarianism,  my  Contribution  to  Earth's Civilization .    I have yet even to begin the Finalization of "The Planetarian Manifesto", it does exist, but only in outline, that is, skeletal Form .   For instance,  there is the Necessity of each Planetarian, to include, as a part of one's 'Daily Regimen',  Meditation .   Formal [Seated] Meditation is uncomfortable for Beginners, not to mention the Difficulty of focusing one's Attention on achieving [Attaining] an "Empty Mind" , a Mind devoid of Thinking and Thinking's manifestation --->  Thoughts .   I Value Meditation because success "on the cushion" leads to Success in one's Daily Activities, meaning, because Meditation 'Clears' one's Mind, that Clear Mind can be utilized throughout the day under ALL Conditions and  ALL  Circumstances .

                                 What is the NATURE of this Clear Mind which results from Meditation ?   The BEST Description is found in the "Heart Sutra" .   When you engage your favorite 'search engine' you may find Edward Conze's translation, provided by "Dharma-Net International" .   I did NOT "grow up" with this Translation, but Edward Conze is perhaps the MOST BRILLIANT translator of Hindi .  He is FAMOUS and "World Renown" .   His translation is cumbersome to me, the Korean translation is succinct and far less gawdy .   The Korean translation [into English] is used by my Order, so---I mean---there's THAT .   

                                 The Reading of this may be your first introduction to "Form is Emptiness. Emptiness is Form" but do NOT let this Buddhist Dogma become an Obstacle to you .   When I was first made aware of "Form is Emptiness---Emptiness is Form" I was warned that completely Understanding THAT would take AT LEAST  >>>>>>>>>>> TWENTY YEARS .   I confess :   it took me AT LEAST  20 and did not happen until I had read THE TAO OF PHYSICS .   

                                 For now, simply read the Sutra with an OPEN Mind and of course an OPEN Heart .

Malignia*

                                                           Before I begin today's Consideration I want to spend a few moments on Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan's  REGIME CHANGE   Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump  which I finished reading a day ago .   I had expected it to contain Psychological Insights into trump and his 'Inner Circle', better regarded as his Cult .  I had hoped {and I HATE ---> HOPE} that they had consulted Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Anthropologists and Sociologists and provided their Clinical Assessments of trump :   his mental faculties, his derangements, his delusions, his "Malignant Narcissism" and  "IT" 's  Effects .   Nope, wasn't there .   Instead they used Description .   They describe the existing Conditions surrounding trump, which include his Cult "Figures" .   These "Figures", {and I use Figures instead of Characters because characters has a 'shade' of romance to it}  have their own 'agenda' that they sought and presently seek to advance through trump's 'Reign of Terror' .   It is safe to say that these figures are but facets of trump Malignia* { Malignant Narcissistic Tendencies}, in other words, THEY have "the same Mind" as trump .   Not only do they shield him from Reality ( the TRUTH of Reality) but they reinforce The  Utmost WORST of Human Depravity .   All lack even an iota of  Moral and Ethical Decency,  In this, they are INHUMAN .