Beginner's Mind

Buddha Gift

Context

Efficiency

Futile Gesturing

(The) Great-God-Money

Here and Now

I Am

Inflation

Money

Parallax

Projection

Spirituality

Symptom

Scapegoat

Win-Win

The Beginners mind describes a way of perceiving a thing or an event purely as it is, without pre-judgments, expectations, or emotional attachments.   The beginner's mind is open to all possibilities.   It's a way of thinking outside the box.   It's a way of viewing something as if seeing it for the very first time.   He who is in the beginner's mind, as much as possible, steps outside of his/her conditioning.   

This is the way Einstein and other scientists have been able to imagine things, concepts, and ideas that the rest of the world had never seen before.   When a theory proved false, they simply set it aside and move on.   A classic story of a beginners mind was demonstrated many years ago by the scientists in the research laboratories of General Electric.

Whenever a new researcher would join the GE staff, his first assignment would be to figure out how to frost a light bulb on the inside.   As you Probably know, the original  light bulbs were simply clear glass globes with no light-diffusing coating on them.   In those says, everyone knew it was impossible to frost a light bulb on the inside.   

Each new researcher would work for a couple of months on this impossible task, and then, one day, the other researchers would gather together around him and tell the new guy he'd been the sucker for a long-standing joke.   This went on for several years until one new researcher successfully frosted a light bulb on the inside.   Why did he succeed where other's failed?   Primarily because he viewed the challenge from the beginner's mind.    He didn't "already know" that it was impossible.

A Buddha Gift is a gift in disguise.   We simply do not have enough information to know the long-term outcome of our experiences.   If you look at everything that feels uncomfortable and ask, "Where is the blessing in this?" you’ll be amazed at what the result will be.   Most people are too busy crying and complaining to see the gifts in their painful experiences, and so, they often miss them.

When something occurs in your life that you'd prefer not to experience, look for a gift within that incident; look for a blessing in disguise.   That blessing is called a Buddha gift.

See the section titled:   What is a Context?

Producing the highest quality goods (or services) at the lowest possible cost, while using the least amount of labor, energy and natural resources in their creation, maintenance, and eventual disposition as trash.   (Or their conversion into raw materials for future products) 

Taking an action that,  if you are honest with yourself,  you know will not get you the result you want, but taking that action anyway.   It's often an excuse for failure or a way to avoid admitting failure.   It's another way of saying, "I'll try."  

That powerful, mysterious, magical, non-physical aspect of money which (along with its presence or absence) dominates and dictates the behavior of most human beings. 

Being here and now is being totally focused on what one is experiencing in the present moment.  Being here and now is living in "no time."  Being here and now contains both the past, the present, and the future.   

For example:  An artist drawing a picture who is completely here and now in his/her creation process while using skills and techniques learned in the past in order to create a work of art that will only be completed some time in the future.   The skills learned, the memories of the past and the vision of the future are focused on being in this moment right here right now.   

No matter where you go, you are always here, and no matter what the clock says, the time is always now.   If your consciousness is anywhere else, you miss experiencing life as it is unfolding.   

Here and now is you point of power.   It is where and when you re-create your life.   You are doing that in every waking moment anyway, so why not create your future by intention rather than by default.

The sacred essence of self;   the "God" within;   the unspeakable  name of "God".

Inflation is the loss in value of Fiat Money.   It has two and only two causes:
     1) Deficit government spending 
     2) The interest charged of the "borrowed money."

Commonly, people say the price of such and such a product has risen.   This is not true!   What actually happened is the value of the money has gone down.   But don't expect those in charge of the education or the monetary systems to tell you the truth.   This is just one very minor, very simple example of control by deception and miseducation.    

In the 1950's President Eisenhower made a bid public hoopla  about trying to find the cause of inflation.   He said he had hired the best economic experts he could find and none of them could figure out what caused inflation.   The public bought the scam without so much as a whimper.   Today, they are still peddling the same scam, only now they are not so blatant about it.

Real Money:   Real money is a commodity that has an intrinsic value.  Real money is a convenient form within which to hold and exchange goods and services.  

Real money has three major functions.   It is an accepted medium of exchange, a stable storage of wealth and a consistent measure of value.  Gold and silver are the most common examples of real money.   On olden days, cattle, sheep, and the like were used as money, but they were very poor at all three of the above attributes, so they were replaced by gold and silver.

Fiat Money:   Fiat money is piece of paper that has value only because someone else will accept it in exchange for goods and/or services.   In and of itself, it has no value.   Essentially, it is a promise to pay and its value is only as good as the promise behind it.   Today, it's often not even a piece of paper, rather its a bookkeeper's entry in a computer-generated ledger that exist only in that make believe land called cyberspace.   At the risk of repeating myself: Its value is only as good as the promise behind it. 

Fiat money is a major tool of the moneyed elite in their control and dominance.  It's the dominator-manipulators' way of creating slaves -- economic slaves -- economic slaves who think they are free.   Remember the golden rule -- "He who controls the gold rules."

The United States Constitution Defines  money as gold and silver.  With real money, one must first have money in order to loan it.   This is not required when loaning fiat money.   Banks loan non-existing money by simply making an entry in their records.  They then charge the borrowers interest for its use.

Imagine, for a moment, a restaurant doing business this way.   You enter the restaurant, sit down, look at the menu and order dinner.   The waiter brings you a second copy of the menu and a bill for the price of a real meal.   Do you pay the bill and leave, of do you ask, "Where's dinner?"

Fiat money is a great tool because "they" can arbitrarily print as much as they want;  they can manipulate its value;   spend it without first earning it,  steal the value out of it,  secretly raise taxes with it, and manipulate the public with it.  

Federal Reserve:   I realize that most people will consider me to be another wacko lunatic for saying what I'm about to say, but  here it is anyway.  The Federal Reserve is the greatest, most-lucrative, longest-lasting financial swindle the world has ever seen.**   And fiat money is at the core if this swindle!   Since its inception on December 22, 1913, literally trillions (that's thousand of billions)  of dollars have been transferred from the public treasury to private banking interests. (The law requires that the interest had to be pain in gold)  The swindle is still going on right now, today even though the facts about this scam are easily accessible, public knowledge.

This scam could never be pulled off in a monetary system based on real money.   It's also the major reason for the demise of the gold standard as a basis for monetary value.   And rumor has it that President John Kennedy was murdered because he was about to put an end to this "fleecing of the lambs."

For another example of financial manipulation, see the above definition, Inflation.

The apparent change in something due to viewing it from a slightly different position or perspective. 

Transferring undesirable aspects of self onto someone or something else.   Seeing attributes in someone else that you can't or won't see in yourself.

See:  Religion / Spirituality

A symptom is a circumstance, event or condition that accompanies something else and indicates its existence or occurrence.  It's a sign; it's an indication, it's the indicator of something in addition to and other than itself.

For Example, what appears to be a problem in our lives is often not really the problem, but rather it's a symptom of something that lies hidden somewhere else.   The following old anecdote illustrates this:   

On a dark night, a drunk was found by a friendly neighbor wandering around looking at the ground under a street light.   When asked what he was doing, the drunk replied, "I dropped my  house keys and I'm looking for them."

The neighbor joined the hunt, but  after an intensive search the keys remained lost.    The helper stopped looking, turned to the drunk and said,  "Your keys ought to be easy to find, right here under the street light, but they're not here.   Can you remember more precisely where you were standing when you dropped them?"

"Yup."  said the drunk  as he pointed to a dark area in front of a nearby house, "I sure can.   I was over there in my front yard."

The neighbor was taken aback.  He looked intensely at the drunk and asked, "If you dropped your keys over there, why are you looking here?"

The drunk looked back at his neighbor and replied, " I'm looking here because the light's much brighter here."

One of the symptoms related our drunken friend's problem of lost keys was that he couldn't see the ground under his feet, so he fixed that symptoms by looking where it was light.   In searching under the street light, what do you suppose his chances were of finding the lost keys.

We can take this concept into our own lives and ask,  "Are we looking in the right places to find our answers, to find solutions to our problems,  to find the path to our goals?"   

Someone or something used as a projection target for the unwanted  situation, condition, or aspects of one's self.   Someone on whom to place the blame.

To function in a manner that creates only winners or neutral, unaffected third parties while also being positive or neutral to our environment and to the future of humanity.