the great DR. STEPHEN HAWKING was asked “how are we humans going to survive the next 100 years?”
i think you owe it to yourself to go LISTEN to what he answered!
Archive for April, 2007
hey all!
here is a great site you should know about… CARBON FUND. offset your footprint and reduce global warming.
from their ‘about us’:
Carbonfund.org is a nonprofit organization that educates the public about the dangers of climate change and makes it easy and affordable for individuals, businesses and organizations to reduce their climate impact. We are reducing the threat of climate change by promoting low-cost carbon reductions and supporting renewable energy, energy efficiency and reforestation projects that reduce and offset carbon dioxide emissions.
Our Goals:
- a cleaner, safer and more prosperous world for our generation and future generations
- to promote easy, cost effective solutions to climate change, encouraging people to “reduce what you can, offset what you can not”
- to help make carbon offsets, green power and Zero Carbon a normal way of life for every individual and business
so april 22ond is upon us. why is this important?
it’s important because it is EARTHDAY. it’s important because each and everyone of us needs to get educated and get involved.
what are YOU doing on earthday? what are YOU doing about it in your daily life… because there is SO much you can do.
Because 99.9% of everything you think,
And everything you do,
Is for your self,
And there isn’t one.
Many people make the mistake of thinking that since ego is the root of suffering, the goal of spirituality must be to conquer and destroy ego. They struggle to eliminate ego’s heavy hand but, as we discovered earlier, that struggle is merely another expression of ego. We go around and around, trying to improve ourselves through struggle, until we realize that the ambition to improve ourselves is itself the problem. Insights come only when there are gaps in our struggle, only when we stop trying to rid ourselves of thought, when we cease siding with pious, good thoughts against bad, impure thoughts, only when we allow ourselves simply to see the nature of thought.
We begin to realize that there is a sane, awake quality within us. In fact this quality manifests itself only in the absence of struggle. So we discover the Third Noble Truth, the truth of the goal: that is, non-striving. We need only drop the effort to secure and solidify ourselves and the awakened state is present. But we soon realize that just “letting go ” is only possible for short periods. We need some discipline to bring us to “letting be”. We must walk a spiritual path. Ego must wear itself out like an old shoe, journeying from suffering to liberation.
– Chogyam Trungpa - Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
