TODAY's LINK

via link from bookmarks revisited and exploring the links that i never get a chance to explore or really newly discovered ones

http://www.howstuffworks.com/x-ray.htm

http://chandra.harvard.edu/field_guide.html

http://chandra.harvard.edu/chronicle/0403/dark/index.html

BOOKMARKS REVISITED

Excerpts from

http://www.thebigview.com/buddhism/eightfoldpath.html

The Noble Eightfold Path describes the way to the end of suffering, as it was laid out by Siddhartha Gautama. It is a practical guideline to ethical and mental development with the goal of freeing the individual from attachments and delusions; and it finally leads to understanding the truth about all things. Together with the Four Noble Truthsit constitutes the gist of Buddhism. Great emphasis is put on the practical aspect, because it is only through practice that one can attain a higher level of existence and finally reach Nirvana. The eight aspects of the path are not to be understood as a sequence of single steps, instead they are highly interdependent principles that have to be seen in relationship with each other.

from [http://www.thebigview.com/buddhism/index.html]

About Buddhism

The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

Atisha (11th century Tibetan Buddhist master)

excerpts from [http://theomegapoint.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/the-alpha-the-omega-the-beginning-the-end/]

‘No where to run to; no where to hide. The end is comin’ and i honestly dont know why. Nothing to become and nothing that we can do. End is coming and and it wants me and it wants you….”

excerpts from http://spacecollective.org/Venessa/7283/Reflection-The-Concept-of-Enlightenment

But, this new scientific way of looking at things changed the way we THINK... or perhaps limited our ability to think at all. Instead of looking for greater 'Truth' or deeper meaning in things, identifying the essence of a thing, giving it 'value', it becomes a mere definition. The framework of thoughts are based in a soul-deadening logic and mechanicality. Everything that can be named and described and explained away can be somehow controlled, and there's a power in that, but at the same time, something sacred is lost.