Marcel Legros - Play the Game of Life

Like love, an idea is useless unless you freely give it to others. Like truth, ideas and information will always find a way come out into the open.
Current copyright, trademark, and patent law simply do not work in the new digital age. Digital rights management and copy protection laws are completely ineffective vestiges of an […]

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There is no such thing as pure silence, not in the world we know. Pure silence is an ideal, an infinite quality like emptiness or perfection. We can think about it. We can approach it more and more closely and feel its pull. But as an experiential reality it is impossible - impossible because we are alive. Our body of blood and breath is a raucous machine. Our very ears produce sound, or the clear sensation of it. Existence itself is full of noisy energy, not empty anywhere. A recent issue of Science News refers to a vacuum as a seething sea of electromagnetic fields… a giant reservoir into which excited atoms can deposit photons.
And yet we do not experience what can be called relative quiet, the impression of silence, and this can be vivid and compelling. We are drawn toward it. We are hungry for it and it nourishes us. In a brief moment of quiet sitting we can realize how tranquility is the precondition for listening. Our sense of silence is the other side of our sense of sound, and gives definition and wholeness to it. It is a touchstone, the gut check which triggers creativity.

Source: The Listening Book - W.A. Mathieu - Page 69

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The third factor of enlightenment is investigation of the dharma, investigation of nature. At times we may have a tendency to be complacent in practice, contenting ourselves with believing the words of a teacher or something we read in a book. Investigation of the dharma means not settling for secondhand knowledge or adopting someone else’s opinion. It says, I must see for myself what is true.

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All my adult life I’ve swung between extremely unhealthy patterns and habits and healthy ones. Unfortunately, the unhealthy lifestyle choices I’ve made have far outweighed the healthy ones. After many years of alcoholic drinking, smoking, and careless spending, my world began to cave in on itself. I found myself in a life crisis […]

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