Amidashuda.org

Here's the site for the previous post: Amidashuda.org and it was sponsored by beliefnet.

HOW TO BECOME BUDDHA

Here's a little summary taken from one of the new Google Gadgets I just 'bombed' my Google home page with. A lot of neat stuff to check out and weed through. Anyway, I forgot to get the site name so will post it later but it is a sect of Buddhism that utilizes mantra/prayer to enlightenment, if I understand correctly. Here it is summarizing the common elements for all sects:

How to reach Enlightenment in this lifetime

Many sects and traditions will have different practices to complement the Eightfold Noble Path laid out by Shakyamuni Buddha, but all have these as their basis:

The Eightfold Noble Path.

Right Views - the four noble truths,
Right Thoughts,
Right Speech,
Right Conduct,
Right Livelihood,
Right Effort,
Right Mindfulness,
Right Concentration.



The Eightfold Noble Path - details:

Right Views: i.e., Knowledge of the Four Noble Truths:
The world is full of suffering and stress.
The cause of this suffering and stress is desires of physical instincts.
If desire can be removed, and suffering and stress will be ended.
Desire can be removed by following the Eightfold Noble Path:

Right Thoughts: Aspire to attain realization of Nirvana, i.e., perfect wisdom, the ultimate true permanent reality.

Right Speech: Abstain from all lying, falsehoods, evil, abusive and frivolous speech.

Right Conduct: Keep the Five Precepts:
abstain from taking life,
abstain from taking that which is not given,
abstain from misconduct done in lust,
abstain from lying,
abstain from all forms of intoxication.

Right Livelihood: Abstain from all evil living and all manner of ill-gotten gain or means of livelihood.

Right Effort:
abstain from all evil states of mind;
foster and maintain virtuous states of mind;
compassion,
pity,
sympathy,
calmness and
tranquility

Right Mindfulness: Regard everything as being impermanent, ill and corrupt: ie. all:
feelings,
perceptions,
inclinations,
consciousness,
thoughts,
mental states,
mental images and
mental activities.

Right Concentration:
Foster dispassion, detachment, and revulsion for the things of the world as being
decaying and impermanent.
Practice aloofness from evil states of mind, from the senses and all sensations.
Practice dwelling in solitude and seclusion, meditating and reflecting with
singleness of mind.

The Four Noble Truths:

The world is full of suffering and stress.
The cause of this suffering and stress is desires of physical instincts.
If desire can be removed, suffering and stress will be ended.
Desire can be removed by following the Eightfold Noble Path.

ANNUAL TUNE-UP: MY DEFINITION OF "RANGE"

Let's start with the dictionaries like I've always learned to do -- saves argument later . . .
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12 entries found for range.

range ( P ) Pronunciation Key (rnj)n.

1. Extent of perception, knowledge, experience, or ability.
2. The area or sphere in which an activity takes place.
3. The full extent covered: within the range of possibilities.
4. An amount or extent of variation: a wide price range.
5. Music. The gamut of tones that a voice or instrument is capable of producing.

Also called compass.

6. The maximum extent or distance limiting operation, action, or effectiveness, as of a projectile, aircraft, radio signal, or sound.
7. The maximum distance that can be covered by a vehicle with a specified payload before its fuel supply is exhausted.
8. The distance between a projectile weapon and its target. . . .
9. An extensive area of open land on which livestock wander and graze.
10. The geographic region in which a plant or animal normally lives or grows.
11. The act of wandering or roaming over a large area.
12. Mathematics. The set of all values a given function may take on.
13. Statistics. The difference or interval between the smallest and largest values in a frequency distribution.


v. intr.
1. To pass over or through an area or region in or as if in exploration.
2. To wander freely; roam.
3. To live or grow within a particular region.

Origins:
[Middle English, row, rank, from Old French, from rangier, to put in a row, from rang, reng, line, of Germanic origin. See sker-2 in Indo-European Roots.]
Synonyms: range, ambit, compass, orbit, purview, reach, scope, sweep
These nouns denote an area within which something acts, operates, or has power or control: the range of a nuclear missile; the ambit of municipal legislation; information within the compass of the article; countries within the political orbit of a world power; regulations under the government's purview; outside the reach of the law; issues within the scope of an investigation; outside the sweep of federal authority. See also synonyms at wander

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.


range -- see at close range.

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.


range (rnj) n.

In statistics, the difference or interval between the smallest and largest values in a frequency distribution.


Source: The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Range

A stock's low price and high price for a particular trading period, such as the close of a day's trading, the opening of a day's trading, a day, a month, or a year.

Investopedia Commentary

A stock that trades in a range for an extended period of time is sometimes said to be in a channel.

Related Links

Trading Trend Or Range?
Discovering Keltner Channels and the Chaikin Oscillator
Channeling: Charting A Path To Success


See also: 52 Week High/Low, Channel, Trading Range


Source: Investopedia.com. Copyright © 1999-2005 - All rights reserved. Owned and Operated by Investopedia Inc.
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range


The high and low prices reached by a security within a given period. A large range in relation to a security price tends to indicate greater price volatility, making the security a better candidate for trading purposes but not necessarily for investment purposes. Also called price range.




Source: Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms for Today's Investor by David L. Scott.
Copyright © 2003 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.


Main Entry: range; Pronunciation: 'rAnj; Function: noun, often attributive

1 : the region throughout which a kind of organism or ecological community naturally lives or occurs
2 : the difference between the least and greatest values of an attribute or of the variable of a frequency distribution


Source: Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.


Main Entry: range; Function: intransitive verb; Inflected Forms: ranged; rang·ing
1 : to change or differ within limits
2 : of an organism : to live or occur in or be native to a region


Source: Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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range, n

1: an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; "within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world power" [syn: scope, reach, orbit, compass, ambit]

2: the limits within which something can be effective; "range of motion"; "he was beyond the reach of their fire" [syn: reach]

3: a large tract of grassy open land on which livestock can graze; "they used to drive the cattle across the open range every spring"; "he dreamed of a home on the range"

4: a series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range" [syn: mountain range, range of mountains, chain, mountain chain, chain of mountains]

5: a place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds; "the army maintains a missile range in the desert"; "any good golf club will have a range where you can practice"

6: the limits of the values a function can take; "the range of this function is the interval from 0 to 1"

7: a variety of different things or activities; "he answered a range of questions"; "he was impressed by the range and diversity of the collection"

8: the limit of capability; "within the compass of education" [syn: compass, reach, grasp]

9: a kitchen appliance used for cooking food; "dinner was already on the stove" [syn: stove, kitchen stove, kitchen range, cooking stove]

verb

1: change or be different within limits; "Estimates for the losses in the earthquake range as high as $2 billion"; "Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent"; "The instruments ranged from tuba to cymbals"; "My students range from very bright to dull" [syn: run]

2: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, drift, vagabond]

3: have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun; "This gun ranges over two miles"

4: range or extend over; occupy a certain area; "The plants straddle the entire state" [syn: straddle]

5: lay out in a line [syn: array, lay out, set out]

6: feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing" [syn: crop, browse, graze, pasture]

7: let eat; "range the animals in the prairie"

8: assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide" [syn: rate, rank, order, grade, place]

Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University
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range

image

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2005 Denis Howe

Source: U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau

range

range in InvestorWords

Source: InvestorWords, © 2000 InvestorGuide.com, Inc.

range

range: in CancerWEB's On-line Medical Dictionary

Source: On-line Medical Dictionary, © 1997-98 Academic Medical Publishing & CancerWEB
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Taking Stock -- Midway through the New-Trawl Zone

So, four years post receiving my mysterious "calling" to a spiritual journey (about the fourth one that I can remember so far) and three years post my world turning upside down in the second personally disastrous business failure within the same decade (1992-1998 and 1998-2003, respectively, may they R.I.P.), there is some light beginning to peak through the new, unrecognizable landscape in which I've landed myself. For the first time in years, it's beginning to excite and arouse my interested curiousity.

The stars are telling me to take stock and, thanks to Mr. William Bridges' work on transistions, I may have hit the midway point in the transition/regeneration process I commenced in 2003 - - once I began to know what I hadn't known before and my loved ones were out of danger of physical level heirarchical needs.

Sounds cliche and maybe trite, but that's why they are cliches?!


1. When life gives you lemons, . . .

2. It appears that, although the patient in fact died, the Operation was a success, dear Doctor.

3. Thank you Mr. Johnny Hitler (not his real last name and no relation to Adolph, that I know of, without dna testing which ... Good Luck getting THAT from him),.. Thank you for the opportunity to learn all of these unwanted lessons and disillusioning ideas (I'd always assumed that disillusionment was a BAD thing).

It was early morning yesterday,
and I awoke before the dawn.
I really have enjoyed my stay,
but I must be moving on.
-- Supertramp, Goodbye Stranger.

It occurs to me that with this tiny bit of light beginning its "shining through," it may be the harbinger of a quickening toward the next phase of the journey started in May 2002 BBB (Before Brother Bailed).

Whatever that next phase may be. . .

. . . the clarification of which shall be revealed before this Transition to Regeneration shall be declared complete.

Odd yet amazing things seem to be afoot just beyond eyesight, out there in the floating debris -- the flotsam and jetsom of prior uninformed choices. Thank god for my life-jacket. . .

Pay heed and look alive, my dear Watson!

Next time --
Another Brother's Return to F.o.O. Work! Mr. Milman, what is it you say about spiritual journeys?

True Freedom and Peace -- jaz

A Tortured Saint (and an addict ass-hole).

As the regeneration process trudges away, it occurs to me that I'm an asshole sometimes and my consciousness is primarily engaged in achieving some sort of true sanity (read "nirvana?"). My next album will be entitled "An asshole Addict ... and a Tortured Saint." Or vice-versa, depending upon which is the pre-dominant side showing at the time ... lately, the Addict/asshole has been prevailing. . . Grrrr! jaz

Happy Father's Day

Just surfing around -- today is Spiritual Renewal Day (thanks to Flylady) and Father's Day (thanks to my Father). More later -- much news but none of an employment kind -- yet (getting closer, though, I feel.) Peace, Tony