Tuesday, August 25, 2020

A Letter from Buddha to his Disciple

You have approached of me for help in how to mend your dad of his ailment. I welcome that your dad is a decent and upright man and you are honored to have had a decent man for a dad. Be that as it may, I can't remove his agony. That is something that nobody can truly accomplish for if there is whatever is steady in each individual's life, it is languishing. Life is languishing. That is one of the honorable certainties. Get familiar with this and it can simply be the very thing that would present to you, your family, and even your dad enlightenment.Also recollect that magic and marvels guaranteed by performers will do you no decent for it is against the Laws of Karma and can just bring hurt. I have seen the torment and offensiveness brought about by sickness and the pity brought about by man's mortality. (Moore-Brooder, 2005, p. 499) Truly in the event that one would contrast the existence I drove and my family one would state I am genuinely preferred by the divine beings. At the poin t when I was youthful I carried on with a real existence loaded with joys and common indecencies. In any case, it very well may be a Catch 22 on how one's favors are characterized by torment and suffering.It was simply in the wake of giving testimony regarding the numerous occurrences and types of torment, that I looked for satisfaction of my reality and at last, edification. Man's life is inadequate without torment. Indeed, even from the hour of birth both mother and kid experience torment. In any case, when one has risen above agony, he turns into a renewed person and in this manner, reawakened. I give you my account of the mother Gotami-tissa whose child capitulated to illness. (Morgan, 1956, p. 23) She went from entryway to entryway looking for a marvel that would bring back her child's life persistently being informed that something like this was impossible.She came to me for help, wringing her hands and prostrating herself so I may breath life into her child back. I approached her for mustard seeds. Any standard mustard seed, yet she should gather seeds that originated from homes that stayed immaculate by pain and passing. Later on she returned to me and admitted that she couldn't get any seed for all the homes she visited have encountered demise. Demise isn't a condition extraordinary to only one individual. It is unavoidable and consistent. By getting this, she was relieved of her pain and has had the option to keep living as another woman.In my lessons I have constantly referenced man's mortality, his temporariness. Not one thing in existence is perpetual other than death. Its secrecy is amazing and one never truly knows when it will come. I ask you my child, to rehearse dharma all together that your life might be satisfied and shielded from terrible karma. For on the off chance that you do no off-base, for what reason ought to there be outcomes? Today we see numerous individuals doing all that they can to achieve their desire. Some may maybe reason o ut â€Å"it isn't so wrong† however, in the event that one might want to live in favor of right, one needs to pick certainly between right or wrong without compromise.Live in opportunity and self-dominance to completely appreciate the blessing such is reality. Awful things are steady. Enduring is consistent. The main thing you can truly control and increase dominance of is yourself. Figure out how to take the center way in life for it is the best approach to satisfaction. Realize that an existence of boundaries is awful and will eventually bring all the more misery. I urge you to figure out how to search inside yourself and build up a comprehension and acknowledgment of what goes on around you. Intending to transform others can in some cases be a purposeless practice.I myself can train what I have realized and woken up to acknowledge, yet evident illumination can just originate from inside an individual himself. Some may maybe say, I will look for illumination later or I have attempted to comprehend life previously yet fizzled. In any case, past disappointment is past and what's to come is unsure from numerous points of view. For sure, it can happen that tomorrow or later in the day might be all of what survives from what's to come. Look for illumination now, and love the occasion. So when passing comes, you don't lament nor do you have dread of the following life for you bite the dust with information on having lived a decent life, yet an upright one.†Buddha References Morgan, K. W. (Ed. ). (1956). The Path of the Buddha Buddhism Interpreted by Buddhists. New York: Ronald Press. Recovered September 23, 2007, from Questia database: http://www. questia. com/PM. qst? a=o&d=5883323 Moore-Bruder. (2005). Theory: The Power of Ideas, Sixth Edition Ohio: McGraw-Hill Carrithers, M. (2001). The Buddha: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. Recovered September 23, 2007, from Questia database: http://www. questia. com/PM. qs t? a=o&d=101647070

Saturday, August 22, 2020

2018 Hurricane Names

2018 Hurricane Names 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 Underneath you will discover the posting of storm names for the Atlantic Ocean for the year 2018. For consistently, there is a pre-endorsed rundown of typhoon and tropical storm names. These rundowns have been created by the National Hurricane Center since 1953. From the start, the rundowns comprised of just female names; be that as it may, since 1979, the rundowns shift back and forth among male and female. Typhoons are named sequentially from the rundown in sequential request. In this way the principal typhoon or tropical storm of the year has a name that starts with An and the second is given the name that starts with B. The rundowns contain storm names that start from A to W, however bar names that start with a Q or U. There are six records that keep on turning. The rundowns possibly change when there is a typhoon that is so destroying, the name is resigned and another storm name replaces it. The 2018 typhoon name list is nearly equivalent to the 2012 tropical storm name list. Hurricane Sandy was a huge and dangerous tempest in 2012 so the name was resigned from the rundown and Sara had its spot. 2018 Hurricane Names AlbertoBerylChrisDebbyErnestoFlorenceGordonHeleneIsaacJoyceKirkLeslieMichaelNadineOscarPattyRafaelSaraTonyValerieWilliam

Friday, August 7, 2020

Listen to MIT Is with Cynthia F. 18

Listen to “MIT Is…” with Cynthia F. ‘18 A few weeks ago, I posted our inaugural audio thing where I talked with Holly, who works on our communications team, about applicatons, art, and action team. As I said then, we had been (and still are) kicking around the idea of an audio thing for awhile, and decided to give it a shot. One of the people wed been kicking it around with is Kellen Manning, the communications coordinator for MIT Student Life and erstwhile guestblogger. Kellen works with MIT students to run the @MITStudents accounts on Twitter, Instagram, and  tumblr, among others. You can think (as I do) of @MITstudents as being complementary to the blogs: whereas we hire a few students, typically as a freshman, and follow them through all four years as they develop at MIT, Kellen recruits students to take over these accounts for a week at a time, to give followers many different viewpoints into life at MIT. And, around the same time we started thinking seriously about trying an audio thing, so did Kellen. Earlier today Kellen and his team posted their inaugural audio thing. So, during this episode youll meet and get to know our future host, Cynthia F. 18, as well as learn a little bit about why we decided to start this project. Along the way, youll learn a little about the MIT Trashion Show, escaping the MIT bubble, the Media Lab, and a lot more. Give it a listen! I know Kellen and the rest of their team are looking for feedback (as are we). And, if youre around, check out the Trashion Show tonight. I helped judge last year (pictures and blog) and will again tonight. Oh, and we do plan to do more admissions audioonce were done reading these applications!