what are the Buddhist metaphysics

The story of Buddhism might be said to have begun with a loss of innocence. Siddhartha Gautama, a young prince of the Shakhya clan in India, had been raised in a life of royal ease, shielded from the misery and cruelties of the world outside the palace gates, distracted by sensual pleasures and luxurious living. But one day the fateful encounter with the real world occurred, and Siddhartha was shaken to the core. There in his own kingdom, not far from his gardens and delights, he encountered people suffering from sickness, old age and death; he brooded over these things, deeply disturbed that such was the fate of all beings. Then he encountered an ascetic holy man, a renunciate dedicated to liberation. The prince then undertook the great renunciation, forsaking his family, fortune and kingdom in pursuit of the path of liberation. The central, profound question that burned in Gautama was this: "How may suffering be ended?" 

People who say, people do not know.

what are the objective victory put people fighting against the people? if people have a winning day struggling with a different species than the people it is a human achievement. but the desire for self destruction a dreadful spectacle of the end is completed.

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What went wrong in SAITM?

 We, as trade unions of academic staff of State Medical faculties have been closely observing the developments regarding the SAITM issue since its inception up to its current crisis. As responsible trade unions and one of the stakeholder parties concerned about the standards of medical education, safety of the patients and the wellbeing of the undergraduates of the state medical faculties studying under us, we have discussed the SAITM issue in depth and have reached the following resolutions.

White smoke signaled gas attack on, Khan Sheikhun in Syria

A civil defense member breathes through an oxygen mask, after what rescue workers described as a suspected gas attack in the town of Khan Shaykhun in rebel-held Idlib in Syria

    The Syrian army jet that hit the town of Khan Sheikhoun at dawn dropped three conventional bombs and a fourth one that made little sound at impact but produced a cloud of white smoke, according to an activist observing from a nearby hilltop.

Hussam Salloum, a volunteer with an air raid warning service in rebel-held areas, said the Sukhoi-22 that attacked on Tuesday approached at low altitude, leaving behind three columns of dark smoke and the white cloud nearer to ground level.

The Real Reasons Behind China's Big Investments In Sri Lanka

          What’s China doing in Sri Lanka? Officially, it’s building the country’s infrastructure. Like the ports of Colombo and Hambantota, which have left the country heavily indebted.

Unofficially, China is setting up outposts in the Indian Ocean as part of Beijing’s broader strategy to secure the passage of Middle East oil through the Strait of Malacca and counter American naval hegemony in the region.

China has increasingly come to rely on the Middle East for its oil needs, which must be shipped through the Strait of Malacca to reach its shores. This means that Beijing runs the risk of being cut off from Middle East oil supplies should America blockade the Strait -- in the event of a further escalation of South China Sea disputes or an outright war between America and China.

Tamil Nadu farmers reel from drought

 Clad only in a green loin cloth, Mr Damodaran, a 47-year-old farmer, has been sitting at Jantar Mantar, the popular protest site, in Delhi for the past two weeks with a number of human skulls by his side. They are ostensibly of fellow farmers who committed suicide. Mr Damodaran, along with 83 other farmers from Tamil Nadu, is taking part in a protest, demanding that the Narendra Modi government step up aid to farmers in the southern Indian state which is in the grip of its worst drought in decades. They want relief from the government, including loan write-offs. Mr Damodaran's rice field now lies barren and he is struggling to service a loan of 1.3 million rupees (S$28,000), including for a tractor he bought two years ago

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Are we about to lose south korea?

With all the tumult in Europe and the Middle East and here at home, where will the next earth-shaking surprise erupt? How about Korea?

I don’t mean an outright attack by Communist North Korea, even if its dictator, Kim Jong Un, has been perfecting his A-bomb. What worries me is the whiff of revolution in South Korea.

Everyone has been worrying about the ability of a nuclear-armed Iran to cow its neighbors in the Middle East. What about the effect of a nuclear North Korea on the south?

The Supreme Meditation

“Aging, illness, and death are treasures for those who understand them. They’re Noble Truths, Noble Treasures. If they were people, I’d bow down to their feet every day.”   
—Ajaan Lee

In my early thirties, I met a teacher who was to have a profound influence on my study of aging and death awareness, primarily because of one central experience. I have never identified this teacher, referring to him in talks as Badarayana, because he specifically requested that I not reveal his identity. He had no wish to be known or to teach a great many people. He had just four students when I knew him, but he felt that they were all potential teachers and that he would reach a larger audience through them.

It take over your computer commaned future human mind

                                 When the man was playing the other animals have evolved different, since then, although we believe that good people imagination if he thought that the advancement of physical world began to think the thoughts caused the bad little more than a year since the 5000 incident. Even so, there has been a rapid increase in its progress, or in recent years brought 200 comes slow period of growth. But it was one of a million of the total population Depend all others. On the overall development of the world has contributed a brief physical that is to say population few. I believe that, as a developing immigration flourish.

.Truth's Alien Life, Senior Scientist Boyd Bushman

Bushman passed away on August 7, 2014. Prior to his death, he worked as a Senior Scientist for Lockheed Martin. Spanning a forty-year career, Bushman was employed by Hughes Aircraft, General Dynamics, Texas Instruments, and Lockheed Martin during which time he was awarded twenty six patents (some are still classified) for his work on the Stinger (formerly Redeye) missile system, laser-guided smart bombs, imaging systems, and magnetic -related technologies. His credentials are impeccable which lends credence to his claims – that he has spoken to alien visitors and worked firsthand with their technologie during his tenure at Area 51.

Shortly before his death, Bushman revealed a plethora of interesting details about the alien visitors who he claims continue to visit our planet today. For instance, Bushman alleges that a crashed UFO is in possession of the United States government and that the extraterrestrial space vehicle was studied and tested at the top-secret Area 51 facility in Nevada (Bushman added that testing of the alien spacecraft was moved to a facility in Utah after Area 51 became so well known). All this would be hard to believe except – he backed it up with a convincing set of photos.

නොබෙල් සම්මානලාභී Gabriel García Márquez සාහිත්‍ය දිවියෙන් සමුගනී.

                                              The literary giant, considered to be one of the greatest Spanish-language authors of all time, had spent nine days in hospital with a lung and urinary tract infection this month.

A source close to his family confirmed his death. He had been recovering from pneumonia in his Mexico City home since 8 April and was reported to have been in a fragile condition.

The Colombian author of One Hundred Years of Solitude was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer about 12 years ago and battled it successfully before being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2006.

He was admitted into hospital for an infection, dehydration and pneumonia. His death was confirmed by two people close to the family who spoke on condition of anonymity out of respect for the privacy of his wife, Mercedes and two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.

Reports in a Mexican newspaper this month that the cancer had returned and spread to his lungs, lymph nodes and liver were publicly denied by Colombian President Juan Manual Santos. “What they told me is that he had pneumonia, he has got over that, he remains in delicate health which is a reality of his age,” Santos told reporters after speaking to a member of Garcia Marquez's family.“It is not true what was published in the Mexican newspaper that he is riddled with cancer, that's not true.”

The 1967 novel One Hundred Years Of Solitude remains his best known work, selling 30 million copies in more than 25 languages. In a career spanning more than 60 years his books - among themChronicle of a Death Foretold, Love in the Time of Cholera and Autumn of the Patriarch - outsold everything published in Spanish except the Bible.

The author, whose career spanned journalism and fantastical novels said to have defined and popularised the genre of magic realism, has made few public appearances in recent years.

He was feted before the press on his birthday last month by friends and well-wishers who brought him cake and flowers outside his home in an exclusive neighbourhood in the south of Mexico City. He did not speak at the event.

Gerald Martin, Garcia Marquez's semi-official biographer, told The Associated Press that One Hundred Years of Solitude was “the first novel in which Latin Americans recognised themselves, that defined them, celebrated their passion, their intensity, their spirituality and superstition, their grand propensity for failure.”

Known to his friends as Gabo, he was highly political and campaigned for Latin American unity and an end to American meddling in the region. He had a personal friendship with former Cuban leader Fidel Castro. 

Born in the small Colombian town of Aracataca, he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982 “for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts,” according to the Nobel Prize website

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