When body part - read outer military power - becomes too strong to be tamed by anybody outside, something from within the very body comes forth to bring it down.

Wise words, Harb. We do not fret ;)

Dear DK,

I have read this ATCA piece and the other ones too. Hereunder my way of seeing things, only spoken of my experiences in life:

One always talks about things from one’s own experiences and when fear is involved the saying goes: “One suffers the most from the suffering one fears”.

The rational left brain tells you to fear and think twice about something that did not even happen yet.
The more sensitive right part of the brain tells you to let it be.

The art of doing nothing is to give the brain a chance of integrating the paradox.

With fear one cannot think straight and one cannot build upon one’s own inner strength.

One’s own inner strength comes from that little voice inside that tells you: “let it be”.

And when one is able to do that, the heart (the third factor in the middle) “(G)nows” how to act. And one cannot go wrong cause in the heart the duality does not exist.

This is the same as Harb says hereabove and he can do it in one sentence :)

The left brain part has dominated now long enough, some say it is time for the right brain, but chance may be that then the right brain is going to dominate. It is the art science of integrating both into the wholly whole middle.

Then the butterfly can fly. It is our next evolutional stage and it is In the scheme of things, as Harb says.

One’s own wings or labyrinth (brain) have to be in balance before one can act in balance.

This is the old Chinese truth of the art of sharing. If One can share the paradox within itself with itself, it can share it with others too.

Mieke

I actually read that article and it had a lot of good points in it.

of course, Dr Pant is more concerned with Sino-Indian relations, but I wonder if there is an equally lucid analysis of current US-Sino relations. Any one have link to suggest?

He writes:

"China is now concentrating on the accretion of military might so as to secure and enhance its own strategic interests. That's how great powers have behaved throughout history. "

And he notes that the US has been "distracted" and not properly keeping up with developments in China.

Yes, the US has lost its way. Our leaders have become more concerned with deceiving our citizens and transferring America's wealth into the the pockets of a small group private individuals than in dealing with international realities.

The US will find itself in a severely less advantageous position that it was even 20 years ago with China. Our ace in the hole - unquestionable military supremacy - has been increasingly coming under question lately, and in fact, waging all-out war against China may not be workable for the US.

A long term cold-war startegy with China similar to the one we waged with the USSR may not work for us either. We assisted in bringing down the Soviet economy by forcing them to over-militarize. They were also run by a corrupt Party that was more interested in supressing its own people than in meeting international demands.

So, if China and the US engaged in a similar cold war, the US would find itself in a position similar to the USSR before its collapse: over militarized and with a destabilized economy.

As far as hegemons go, the US was a less overtly brutal hegemon than China would be, for sure. We perfected the art of overthrowing governments from behind the scenes, of using drug wars for our own off-the books financing of whatever guerilla factions woulkd ally with the US to overthrow whatever government we desired (sometimes our allies would later become our victims, a la Saddam). We also perfected the "economic hit man" technique where we brought economies of small countries to their knees without firing a single shot.

Thus, for fifty years we did all this and were still able to maintain our "cover story" of being champions of democracy.

Not so the Chinese. Smaller neighboring nations need only to look at Tibet to see how China accomplishes the same goals, and it is not by trying to keep the appearance of playing nice like the US did.

Unfortunately, by allowing the Chinese to take over a large part of the American manufacturing base (thus giving them a competitive advantage in trade) and allowing the Chinese to service large parts of our national debt (thus giving them to power to severely weaken the dollar should they choose to), we have put ourselves in a dependence situation with China that seriously undermines the strong foundation we once had for dealing with other superpowers.

It remains to be seen whether the US will correct these errors in policy soon enough to keep us from becoming the no 2 superpower behind China.

Amen Harb.

And thank you Mieke for breaking it down.

This torch thing is just another expression of the desire for change. The inevitable.

I can see early humans relying more on their right brain and modern humans on their left. An integration of the two...........?
gives me chills.

Let the games begin in Beijing. I bet the athlete's just want to do they're thing.

derek

The Olympics represent the very best. These are people who have trained their minds to support their bodies and trained their bodies to support their minds.

Then they achieve. The supporting cast are just that, supporting. Such people need better supporting cast than most and get it.

It is the most astounding story of creation to watch from this kind of viewpoint. Each athlete is a story of creation. The whole is a story of creation.

I think when the weak peripheral people start trying to exercise their need to be heard and use the Olympics as their vehicle it is in error.

It is wrong thinking.

The Olympics are an opportunity to build bridges.

If I work out and learn to fight because I have heard someone intends to kill me, it does not mean I want a fight. It means I recognize that aggression-filled people are a powerful threat.

"The Opium War was the first in a long series of national defeats that lasted from 1840 to 1945, the Century of Humiliation. During this hundred years the power of the celestial throne was destroyed and China found itself increasingly the victim of external enemies, Europe and Japan and internal dissolution, the warlords." The Logic of International Relations, Walter S. Jones.

Allowing people their dignity can alleviate an emotional fight where people risk lose-lose situations. Once dignified, unified decision-making tends to flow.

It is bad to use the Olympics to punish.

When you have that many powerful minds coming together to impact in a positive way even beyond the scope of their sport, the lesser accomplished should get out of their way.

Considering China's long-running recored of human rights violations, torture of Falun Gong practitioners and others opposed to China's Communist Party Rule... they should not have been granted the licence to Host the Olympics in the first place! They had a lot of time, since their being allotted the prize of Hosting... to clean up their records of violations, and human torture and organ harvesting of Falun Gond practioners...which they failed to do.

Using Tibet as the reason to cause violence, and disrupt the games... in my view; set the Chinese up to look incompetent, and like fools. China will not take this lightly, as their leader is an egoic-leader.. whom bases his "reaoning" on military force, to rule his nation!

It has long been predicted, that the third world war would begin in the east. Considering China's reluctance to be a more humane country towards the human being... it is easy to forsee gloom and doom; but, this is not my fear per se; only presuming, considering world/human records on war.. it seems an inevitability?

Let's also take a look at the many food/toy/products coming from China.. laced with dangerous ingredients?

Has the war begun, on food/product tampering, and bacterial/viral invasions?

Love,
North

Let us also remember, the USA is indebted to China for billions of dollars, to invade Iraq; and support that unjustified, illegal, and immoral war of the American Government.

So.. is China and the USA strange bedfellows? Consider the other communist country's the USA OWES billions of dollars to... I think it will take far more, than right-brained thinking from billions of people in unison.. to break free of the bondage of the ego of men, power, greed and corruption.

We must question WHY China was given the RIGHT to HOST the Olympics, WHILE in severe human rights violations, which have critically increased the past year alone.... will the Olympics be used, to start world war three?

How can we, know whom are enemies are, when our enemies are our own leaders?

Love,
North

I am in front a post
It's the only one thing here
At this special desert place
A long empty road

But something is happening
I just cannot move anymore
In any directions

I still don't get it
My vision always come back at the sign post
"Dangerous. Enter at your own risk!"

On the next tic-tac click
I was in trance-meditation
Right on the side of the road

She appeared dressed in black chaotic-form
How attractive she was
I was sharp-fixed like a snake looking for a prey

Powerful I would say
But different than me
As her energy starts to fill all my cells

I got scared
Came back inside my eyes
Filled with her energy and unknown dangerous letters

Something from myself to learn here...

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/471938946

click on the above link to petition

The people of China have not been excluded from the Global (R)evolution.

Their leadership will either evolve or be replaced. Just like the rest of the world.

Perhaps they have not read Shambhala - The Army of One

Check out wisdom.gaia.com/blog or click my name scroll down

"The Kalachakra prophesizes that when the world declines into war and greed, and all is lost, the twenty-fifth Kalika king will emerge from Shambhala with a huge army to vanquish the corrupt and usher in a worldwide Golden Age."

Shambhala (Tib. bde 'byung) is a Sanskrit term meaning "place of peace/tranquility/happiness". Shakyamuni Buddha is said to have taught the Kalachakra tantra on request of King Suchandra of Shambala; the teachings are also said to be preserved there. Shambhala is believed to be a society where all the inhabitants are enlightened, centered on a capital city called Kalapa. An alternative view associates Shambhala with the real empire of Sriwijaya where Atisha studied under Dharmakirti from whom he received the Kalachakra intiation.

For example there is General Armin van Buuren who has quite a following. He likes to play with light as you can see.

Two new shows have come to mind Divinity
and (R)evolution.

The planets youth rebuke the current system of things and will usher in the new kingdom.

At least that is how it happens in the movie.

Infinite Play

Click my name and watch.

I gues that wasn't an accident. Here is the link. General Armin van Buuren

The New Consciousness, that which clings to the fictions will expire with them.

Thanks for the link Richard
The future has much to Rave about.

derek

Your welcome Derek, yes it does, I love the unsuppressed new consciousness feminine energy that abounds at such affairs. It also seems the feminine has taken charge in the new consciousness generation.

I anticipate that it will spread.

Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's also translate to Render unto athletics and games that which is athletics and games and unto politics that which is politics. In other words, the two do not and should not mix.

The Olympic Games are older than the constitution of the United States so it would be advisable for each of the candidates to play politics with political heads, and to leave the athletic games alone.

The religious purpose of the Dalai Lama has no place in politics either.

The Buddhists are a spiritual group who should use spiritual means to solve and resolve their own problems.

These antics of rabblerousers does only one thing: make noise and lots of it and problems for people who have to deal with mass control.

I have to credit the mayor of SF for outwitting and outlasting the mobs who tried to interrupt the passing of the torch, an old and traditional custom that should not breakdown to the pettiness of politics.

If the problem in Tibet and China is to be solved, it should not be because of the Olympic games. People who go to China to see the games can simply not purchase Chinese goods while there: a real joke since most Chinese goods are being sold in most major department stores in America.

I believe that both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are wrong to suggest that Americans should boycott the games in anyway. Very poor sportsmanship!

The games are ancient! Let them go unmolested by ignorant protestors! as well as stupid and irresponsible poltical leaders.

I am protesting the protests and the actions of political wannabe leaders, Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and Merkle and Sarkozy.

Just as Jesus advised his followers to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and to render unto God that which is God's, I believe that the Olympic games should be played with the purpose for which they were intended, sportsmanship.

If the problems of China and Tibet are to be resolved, they must be resolved rationally and sanely with negotiations between the parties involved, and no amount of protesting from outsiders is going to do anything but rub people wrong.

The Chinese are a very peculiar people. It was unwise of them to invade Tibet, but nobody in the world reacted timely to help the Dalai Lama then, and only his so called Napoleon like exile has brought attention to his situation.

The article which is prominently mentioned in this partiuclar article is interesting in its commentary about the military spending and development in China, but America is obviously more afraid of nuclear sites in Iran than in military development in China.

There is certainly more noise about Iran than about China.

For those people who want to boycott the Chinese during the Olympic games, I suggest they begin then with all the products made in China, especially computers and computer products.

In America, check the label. Where is it made? In China, of course.

So why all the noise about an ancient custom of passing the torch? Publicity! And that is a stupid waste of time and a shame! Can't young Americans think any longer? Is education a total waste on the youth of America?

#16-Richard.. I saw a documentary, rather part of it last night..flipping channels, couldn't sleep, mind moving relentlessly(and much to my chagrin); so this docum. comes on; about the rape of women and young girls in the Congo.

An elder is quoted in the film as saying:

"Man needs the women. The women, keep our species alive, the women can cook, the women can do everything. The woman, takes care of the man. But, man does not take care of the women and children. If we lose all the women and children, we will be no more."

I was about 10 minutes into the documentary, when that quote(as close as I can remember) was said by the elder.

I thought.. how profound! Women are enslaved by men. Always have been. In so many ways. But, men are brainwashed too.. into believing that dominating a woman; is their right.

But, women are showing men; that slavery of any form; is inhumane. A peaceful human society cannot begin to succeed--when one gender believes itself to have the right, to dominate the only other gender. The gender that bears the life-source!

I thought again.. when I read your comment on the feminine rising--Richard, that perhaps the dawn of our human awakening.. is upon us?

I light a candle, to the day of our liberation!

Love,
North

Why China is the REAL master of the universe

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=559133&in_page_id=1811

Western domination is over baby, countries like China and India are going to take over not just economically but culturally as well...

Just read it!

Here's another interesting article on whether or not to boycott. According to this piece, even the Dali Lama says we shouldn't.

http://travel.msn.com/Guides/article.aspx?cp-documentid=473062>1=41000

Dear Mieke,

I just read your comment (Posting #3). I really liked the way you explained the wisdom of the Right Brain "Let it Be". Also, the third factor in the Middle "(G) Knows" how to act as the guidance of the Heart which is the real intelligence.

"Betsy" S.

Dear Betsy,

I would like to thank you for your above comment #22.

Just being back from a walking holiday, I have been much inspired by the labyrinth and I used it as a Brain Trainer.

I wrote an essay about the many possibilities of the labyrinth, which, one can truly say, is a universal symbol, that certainly has been known in the old Vedic Tradition.

Would like to invite you, DK and everyone who is interested to have a look at this essay at this web address:

http://mieke-heartphone.blogspot.com

Love and Light, from the heartphone

Mieke

By the way, I am still posting as a "comma" here on IB because this comma has been my inspiration in the past, here at this same IB, to design my own Logo, a mirrored comma that has become a Heart :)