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Last login: 3 hours agoBudoshu: Budoshu is a 51 year old single guy from Kyoto, Japan.; Likes 1,072 pages, 138 videos, 70 photos • 106 fans • Received 36 reviews; Member since Dec 06, 2007

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Mercurial Photo Gallery - Quotes/By MercurialMe: 4:01am 3 reviews buddhism
http://www.mercurialme.com/displayimage.php?pos=-107; Chiba Japan. great image...

Влад Гансовский (93 фото - 8.00Mb) & 2photo.ru - Лучшие фото и рисунки мира: Jul 17, 6:05pm 1 review photography
http://2photo.ru/2007/08/21/vlad_gansovskijj.html; Oh Beloved,
take me.
Liberate my soul.
Fill me with your love and
release me from the two worlds.
If I set my heart on anything but you
let fire burn me from inside.

Oh Beloved,
take away what I want.
Take away what I do.
Take away what I need.
Take away everything
that takes me from you.

- Rumi -

Художник Fred Harper (51 фото - 4.05Mb) & 2photo.ru - Фотоблоги интересных людей: Jul 17, 5:42pm 2 reviews arts
http://2photo.ru/2008/05/21/khudozhnik_fred_harper.html; WHISPERS OF LOVE

Lover whispers to my ear,
"Better to be a prey than a hunter.
Make yourself My fool.
Stop trying to be the sun and become a speck!
Dwell at My door and be homeless.
Don't pretend to be a candle, be a moth,
so you may taste the savor of Life
and know the power hidden in serving."

Mathnawi V. 411-414 (translated by Kabir Helminski)
The Rumi Collection, Edited by Kabir Helminski

Grapefruit Moon Gallery: Bathing Beauty in Sun Hat: Jul 17, 5:13pm 1 review arts
http://grapefruitmoongallery.com/sold-items/537.shtml; Wish you all a Happy and Peaceful Summer.

"A flirty, scandalous and new to the market cover illustration by Enoch Bolles, which appeared first as a cover for a 1930's Young's Magazine, and again made an appearance on a 1938 cover of Breezy Stories. Enoch Bolles excelled in these curiously proportioned Spicy Pulp, envelope pushing, angular modernist heartbreakers. "

Grapefruit Moon Gallery: A Nude Forest Nymph Visited By Satyrs: Jul 17, 4:55pm 1 review arts
http://grapefruitmoongallery.com/finearts/469.shtml; "A Nude Forest Nymph Visited By Satyrs"
Artist: C. Bosseron Chambers
1915-1925

by Charles Bosseron Chambers. This is a dark take on the nude forest nymph theme which captivated the likes of Arthur Spear, Maxfield Parrish and Robert Atkinson Fox. In this work the nude nymph is visted by elfin eared musical satyrs which represent, to the deeply religious Chambers, the underworld of sensuality. This allegorical work is haunting and evocotive, the nude is rendered with great care and a mastery of the female form which is second to none.

GUBA - Magical Egypt - 04 - The Temple in Man.avi: Jul 17, 5:22am 4 reviews ancient-history, video
http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=1tdzmjofnj; FABULOUS ...

YouTube - Arundhati Roy on the Palestinian / Israeli Conflict: Jul 17, 5:19am 1 review middle-east, video
http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=lppbkmi3oe; Brilliant !

Introduction: Jul 16, 6:49am 3 reviews india, capitalism
http://www.savinglivesindia.org/; "Sowing Hope"
By Joseph Curiale

On March 2nd of this year, I saw something very disturbing on CNN... I learned that thousands of farmers in South India have committed suicide because of 7 years of drought, and because of the mounting debt incurred when trying to keep their families alive in such a desperate situation. Their being forced to switch to genetically modified seeds and expensive pesticides made things much worse. Actually, more than 150,000 farmers have died countrywide as a result, and the number is increasing daily. As saddened as I was by it though, it would have ended there for me if it weren't for one brave and remarkable woman who was interviewed by CNN International correspondent, Satinder Bindra. Her name is Anjamma, and her husband committed suicide, leaving her and her son alone, very vulnerable, and with a mountain of debt and no way to repay it. Anjamma, like almost all of the widows, was being harassed by the moneylenders, some of whom charge up to 450% interest (annually) and often demand partial repayment by raping the widows... An Indian film director had told me of one village where the moneylender would rape the women right in front of their husbands, further pushing them to suicide...

The CNN report said that Anjamma owed a debt of more than $1,000... She asked, "How can I repay the debt when I don't even have enough money to buy rice to feed my son?" She only earns 50 cents a day rolling tobacco from morning till night, 7 days a week...Though she was filled with grief and despair, what struck me most was her dignity in such a hopeless situation... I remembered the tears in her eyes... At that moment, a voice, which seemed to come from the back of my head, said with crystal clarity, "Pay her debt." Though I was literally alone, I said, "Huh???" The voice once again said, "Pay her debt" and I said, "OK" though I didn't have the money... At that moment I thought of the scriptural admonition to help widows and orphans, so, despite my own struggles, I made the commitment to pay Anjamma's debt. ..."

Naomi Klein: Jul 15, 5:01pm 18 reviews capitalism, video
http://www.naomiklein.org/main; "Klein may well have revealed the master narrative of our time."
-San Francisco Chronicle
Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image. They are the shock doctors. Thrilling and revelatory, The Shock Doctrine cracks open the secret history of our era. Exposing these global profiteers, Naomi Klein discovered information and connections that shocked even her about how comprehensively the shock doctors' beliefs now dominate our world - and how this domination has been achieved. Raking in billions out of the tsunami, plundering Russia, exploiting Iraq - this is the chilling tale of how a few are making a killing while more are getting killed..."

Amazon.co.uk: Pleasantries of the Incredible Mullah Nasrudin: Idries Shah: Books: Jul 15, 7:26am 1 review sufism
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/014019357X/ref=dp_image_0/202-34211...; Nobody really knows who NASRUDIN was, where he lived, or when. This is truly in character, for the whole intention is to provide a figure who cannot really be characterized, and who is timeless. It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis. This has not prevented people from providing him with a spurious history, and even a tomb. Scholars, against whose pedantry in his stories Nasrudin frequently emerges triumphant, have even tried to take his Subtleties to pieces in the hope of finding appropriate biographical material.

One of the 'discoveries' would have warmed the heart of Nasrudin himself. Nasrudin said that he considered himself upside down in this world, argues one scholar; and from this he infers that the supposed date of Nasrudin's death, on his 'tombstone,' should be read not as 386, but 683.

Another professor feels that the Arabic numerals used would, if truly reversed, look more like the figures 274. He gravely records that a dervish to whom he appealed for aid in this "...merely said, 'Why not drop a spider in some ink and see what marks he makes in crawling out of it. This should give the correct date or show something.'"

This emphasis upon Sufism as a practical activity, denying that the formal intellect can arrive at truth, and that pattern-thinking derived from the familiar world can be applied to true reality, which moves in another dimension.

This is brought out even more forcefully in wry tale set in a teahouse; a Sufi term for a meeting place of dervishes. A monk enters and states:

"My master taught me to spread the word that mankind will never be fulfilled until the man who has not been wronged is as indignant about a wrong as the man who actually has been wronged."

The assembly is momentarily impressed. Then Nasruddin speaks: "My master taught me that nobody at all should become indignant about anything until he is sure that what he think is a wrong is in fact a wrong-and not a blessing in disguise!"

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