Gentle readers:
1. Canadian government opposition members Justin Trudeau and Thomas Mulcair would be wise to consider talking about economic diversification away from an Oil based polluting industrial economy. The worst thing we Canadians can do is re-elect a company controlled Conservative government that absolutely refuses to create necessary changes! Our world Oil supplies have peaked and shrinking fast! To avoid a serious economic disaster we need to quickly switch to Hybrid Electric / Hydrogen powered cars. The Chinese government is already making the switch. They are purchasing only Electric vehicles from Japan and Chinese scientists within American universities have created a cheap way to produce Hydrogen.
2. Hydrogen, which until recently was expensive to produce, can now be easily created utilizing cheap water splitting technology based on Nickel / Iron oxide.The Hydrogen created is part of the power system on board an Electric Battery powered vehicle and is utilized by a fuel cell which feeds Electricity to the Batteries. With the help of Hydrogen and Solar Panels, Electric battery powered vehicles will significantly extend their driving range and will be faster and cleaner than Gas based vehicles.. There does not need to be an economic disaster simply because we are running out of polluting Oil! The technology is here and now and Electric/Hydrogen Hybrids can be on the market within a year. Do not believe anybody who declares we have to wait Ten, Twenty or Thirty years for clean non polluting vehicles. If you need proof for the power of Hydrogen, simply look up at the Sun.
3. Dr. David Suzuki, our Canadian genetic scientist, adamantly believes and I agree that protection for our natural environment must be included within Canada's Constitution.
4. With healthy and protected lakes and streams and forests we will once again have clean air and water and sooner than most people believe! Nature has a way of quickly replenishing itself.
5. It has lately been discovered that removing dangerous chemicals from inside our own bodies can take as little as Two weeks. The secret is to eat only pesticide and hormone free foods. I suggest placing a light mosquito netting over your own small personal back-yard or roof top vegetable garden. It will help to keep bugs out!
6. Of course creating an economy based on protecting the environment is difficult but certainly not impossible! The incredible Mr. Elon Musk and his fantastic Electric car is proof of that statement. Cars that do not burn gas and do not pollute the atmosphere are presently on the market.
7. Plastics made from Oil will continue plaguing our lives but recycling plastics and metal and adamantly asking for better quality products is now part of our lexicon. Soon Co2 and Carbon Monoxide emissions will be a thing of the past and hopefully that will happen before global warming makes us extinct!
8. Our new Canadian government can pay people to plant trees, protect forests and grow gardens everywhere including on re-enforced roof-tops of industrial buildings. Years ago, school children were set free during the summer months in order to help their parents plant and harvest food crops. Today, giant planting and harvesting machines in conjunction with Monsanto motivated mono-crops and cheap immigrant labour has created a system where many of our school children have nothing to do during the summer months but watch television and play computer games on mini pocket computers. Also, Millions of North American children have become over-weight and unhealthy on White bread and hormone fed Beef.
9. Millions of Canadian citizens today are trapped either living or working in Cities created with: Asphalt, Cement, Glass and Steel and so called Condominium buildings are helping to crowd the elderly into smaller and smaller spaces. An industrial system originally created to save human labour has become a pollution threat to our Planet! With extreme unregulated population growth our human Oil based industrial system has created global warming and today we are feeling the effects. We have to limit our population growth utilizing better education and we have to change our economic system. If you want to give future children a chance to survive on this planet we must create changes today! There are zero alternatives!
Signed: Joseph Raglione.
Exe/ Dir: The World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement.
human4us2@blogspot.ca
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Ask U.S. president Barack Obama your question.
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Dangerous fires in Western Canada!
Hello gentle people: Remember global warming? It is still with us and getting worse and until we remove the industrial domination from within our governments and place nature above corporate greed, our children and grand children will face more than a few unnatural life devastating scenarios!
Remember that song: 'Don't let the smoke get in your eyes?' Out West in Canada, today, July 2, 2015, forest fires are out of control and more than a few clustered near the Athabasca Oil sands. Gee! I wonder why? Could it possibly be that the Tar Sand investors want to clear the forest in order to find Bitumen oil closer to the surface. No! They wouldn't do that in a country that values its environment...or would they?
"Oil sand mining has a large impact on the environment. Forests must be cleared for both open-pit and in situ mining. Pit mines can grow to more than 80 meters depth, as massive trucks remove up to 720,000 tons of sand every day. As of September 2011, roughly 663 square kilometers (256 square miles) of land had been disturbed for oil sand mining."
I can only imagine what would happen if the Tar sands caught fire!
"Oil sand mining has a large impact on the environment. Forests must be cleared for both open-pit and in situ mining. Pit mines can grow to more than 80 meters depth, as massive trucks remove up to 720,000 tons of sand every day. As of September 2011, roughly 663 square kilometers (256 square miles) of land had been disturbed for oil sand mining."
I can only imagine what would happen if the Tar sands caught fire!
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Here is a report from NASA. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/
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The 2015 fire season got off to an unusually early start in Canada when blazes broke out in the Northwest Territories, British Columbia, and Alberta in late May. As the season has progressed, the air in western Canada—as well as large swaths of the United States—grew gray and hazy with smoke.
Beginning on June 28, a sharp trough in the jet stream sent a river of smoke streaming south into the United States. By June 29, smoke darkened the skies over much of Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa.
On June 29, 2015, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of smoke from hundreds of wildfires in western Canada. Actively burning areas, detected by the thermal bands on MODIS, are outlined in red, while forests appear dark green. The image below shows shows a closer view of smoke and fires burning in northern Alberta near the Athabasca oil sands. While hundreds of fires are burning throughout Canada, some of the fires producing the most smoke are clustered in this area.
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
"Monsanto, one of the world's most evil corporations!"
Dear Joseph,
Monsanto, one of the world’s most evil corporations, just keeps getting worse. Monsanto's latest victims? Poverty-stricken Indian farmers.
Back in 2012, 13,754 farmers in India committed suicide. That’s one suicide every 38 minutes.
Why? Massive, crippling debts, made worse by exorbitant annual fees charged by Monsanto for seeds.
There’s no way poor Indian farmers can stand up to Monsanto alone. So we’re launching a campaign to demand that Monsanto stop charging the crippling annual royalties causing so much suffering.
Monsanto's GMO crops were introduced in India in 2002, and since then there’s been a sharp rise in the suicide rate among Indian farmers -- and it’s not hard to see why.
For centuries, farmers made a living by saving seeds from one year’s crop to the next.
But today, Monsanto is claiming patent rights over seeds -- the fundamental source of all plant life -- and forcing farmers to pay for new seeds every single year.
The result is a crippling cycle of poverty, from which farmers see no way out.
Mega-corporations like Monsanto act like they can destroy people’s lives as long as they’re improving shareholder returns. But time and again we’re showing these corporations that we will shine a light on the practices they want to hide in the shadows.
Like when Newmont mining company sent a private security firm to intimidate Máxima Acuña Chaupe, thousands of us chipped in to bring her allies to Newmont’s shareholder meeting where the CEO pledged to stop development of the mine.
As Vandana Shiva has said, when corporations control seeds, they control life. Monsanto is taking a renewable common resource and turning it into a non renewable, patented commodity.
We know that Indian farmers can’t fight Monsanto alone. That’s why SumOfUs was created -- to leverage the global power of consumers from around the world to fight multinational corporations together.
Thanks for all you do,
Kaytee, Jon and the team at SumOfUs
P.S. Over 100,000 of us have signed to keep Monsanto's lobbyists at arms distance in the U.S. Presidential race -- but Monsanto's reach is truly global. Will you make a donation today to help farmers in India too?
Will you chip in CA$1 to help get this campaign off the ground?
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For more information:
For more information:
Monsanto and the Seeds of Suicide, Common Dreams, March 27, 2013
Monsanto’s Shares Surge as its Drive to Force GM Crops into India Gathers Pace, RINF, February 4, 2015
Monsanto’s Shares Surge as its Drive to Force GM Crops into India Gathers Pace, RINF, February 4, 2015
SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy.
This email was sent to human4us@bell.net.
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Sunday, June 28, 2015
Hello Elon Musk:
The one problem left with your wonderful Tesla all electric cars is the problem of distance. Some people claim your cars do not go far enough on a single charge. They do acknowledge, begrudgingly, that Tesla's insane speed of 3.1 seconds from a dead stop to Sixty miles an hour can and does leave most internal combustion engines far...far...far behind, however, they continue to rant that Tesla vehicles do not have the ability to travel long distances.
They of course say this in order to continue selling their internal combustion gas burning polluters. The oil and gas and internal combustion engine companies continue to economically dominate the world markets and they have done and continue to do everything possible to stop competitors from winning a share in that market. It all began with John D. Rockefeller but that is another story.
Using the distance card is the only game they have left. They claim a Tesla does not travel far enough on a single charge and that it takes a Tesla car a few hours longer to travel across the country. So what if Tesla vehicles do not burn gas or make pollution while travelling thousands of Kilo-meters at insane speeds! For them Tesla's do not have enough power to travel long distances.......until now!
Yes, you read the words correctly! Until now! For extra distance all a Tesla will need (or any Electric car for that matter) in conjunction with national and international super-charging stations, is an electricity producing generator to help charge the batteries as the car travels a longer distance. A new and inexpensive non polluting water splitter will create Hydrogen on board the vehicle to help charge electric car batteries. A Stanford University scientist has developed a water splitter that runs on an ordinary AAA battery. It is cheap to make and it can split water into Hydrogen and Oxygen for a full 24 hours a day Seven days a week. The potential for this new device is extraordinary! Combining a well made Hydrogen water splitter and sending the Hydrogen it creates to a Fuel Cell can produce electricity. How much electricity is another question but I am willing to wager it will be enough to provide an extra charge for long range batteries without too many problems. Why am I willing to bet? Because Hydrogen is already in use as an alternative fuel.
Tesla and all the other Electric cars will be leaving internal combustion cars very...very...very far behind.
Have a great future!
The one problem left with your wonderful Tesla all electric cars is the problem of distance. Some people claim your cars do not go far enough on a single charge. They do acknowledge, begrudgingly, that Tesla's insane speed of 3.1 seconds from a dead stop to Sixty miles an hour can and does leave most internal combustion engines far...far...far behind, however, they continue to rant that Tesla vehicles do not have the ability to travel long distances.
They of course say this in order to continue selling their internal combustion gas burning polluters. The oil and gas and internal combustion engine companies continue to economically dominate the world markets and they have done and continue to do everything possible to stop competitors from winning a share in that market. It all began with John D. Rockefeller but that is another story.
Using the distance card is the only game they have left. They claim a Tesla does not travel far enough on a single charge and that it takes a Tesla car a few hours longer to travel across the country. So what if Tesla vehicles do not burn gas or make pollution while travelling thousands of Kilo-meters at insane speeds! For them Tesla's do not have enough power to travel long distances.......until now!
Yes, you read the words correctly! Until now! For extra distance all a Tesla will need (or any Electric car for that matter) in conjunction with national and international super-charging stations, is an electricity producing generator to help charge the batteries as the car travels a longer distance. A new and inexpensive non polluting water splitter will create Hydrogen on board the vehicle to help charge electric car batteries. A Stanford University scientist has developed a water splitter that runs on an ordinary AAA battery. It is cheap to make and it can split water into Hydrogen and Oxygen for a full 24 hours a day Seven days a week. The potential for this new device is extraordinary! Combining a well made Hydrogen water splitter and sending the Hydrogen it creates to a Fuel Cell can produce electricity. How much electricity is another question but I am willing to wager it will be enough to provide an extra charge for long range batteries without too many problems. Why am I willing to bet? Because Hydrogen is already in use as an alternative fuel.
Tesla and all the other Electric cars will be leaving internal combustion cars very...very...very far behind.
Have a great future!
Our International Index of the best web sites.
HELLO GENTLE PEOPLE!
Here is my international Index of great web sites. If some links don't work, try copying and pasting directly into Google. This week I recommend you visit number 53. https://plus.google.com/u/0/explore/sciencenews
10.= http://www.Ted.com
12. = http://www.Reuters.com
17. = http://www.wwfindia.org/
18. = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhLa6O1OP0Y
21. = http://storyofstuff.org/
30.= http://www.iTooch.com How to greatly improve our school systems.
49. http://eol.org/50. http://www.seedsavers.org/onlinestore/
51. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiwI5k-gFwc
52. http://www.emsl.pnnl.gov/emslweb/news/new-hypothesis-environmental-restoration.
53. https://plus.google.com/u/0/explore/sciencenews
54. www.drbookspan.com/
55. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_light
56.http://www.nova.org.au/space-time/dark-stuff-our-universe
Sunday, June 7, 2015
Attention gentle Google people! This site is not owned by me, Joseph Raglione or the world humanitarian peace and ecology movement. Google provided this site for my use and I placed over a hundred articles and a super Index upon this site.
I once wrote for the American Chronicles and that group attracted over 17 million readers. You will discover that as I continue to attract readers Google will benefit.
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I once wrote for the American Chronicles and that group attracted over 17 million readers. You will discover that as I continue to attract readers Google will benefit.
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Corporate death factory
Corporate death factory
This is a live video of baby Eagles in the nest. Go visit!
Hi gang!
Here is a wonderful live video of baby Eagles in the nest!
http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles?utm_source=crowd-live-backend&utm_medium=visit-channel&utm_campaign=notifications
Here is a wonderful live video of baby Eagles in the nest!
http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles?utm_source=crowd-live-backend&utm_medium=visit-channel&utm_campaign=notifications
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Forest fires are burning early in Canada!
On May 30, 2015, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this image of smoke from wildfires in northern Canada. Red outlines indicate areas where MODIS detected unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fire.
MODIS detected fires in this area on May 28, 2015; by the time the natural-color image above was acquired, those had significantly intensified. Heavy smoke from the growing blazes merged with lingering smoke from previous days, making air quality a major concern. The large plume of smoke in the lower right came from a fire in Wood Buffalo National Park.
“Fires this early are very unusual,” said Mike Flannigan of the University of Alberta. He noted that the Northwest Territories and northern Alberta usually see the most active part of the fire season in July, and British Columbia’s fire season typically runs from the end of July through August. According to the National Wildland Fire Situation Report issued on May 27 by Natural Resources Canada, the seasonal fire occurrence and the area burned across Canada so far are both above the ten-year average.
Scientists think the high intensity of fires on May 30 led to as many as five pyrocumulonimbus events—thunderstorms generated by the heat from fire rather than by the sun-warmed ground.
Farther south in Alberta (not pictured), fires displaced thousands of residents and led some energy companies to suspend oil operations. According to CBC News, fires and maintenance operations dropped Canada’s crude oil production in May to its lowest level in two years.
References
- CBC News (2015, June 1) Canada’s crude oil production del in May to lowest level in almost 2 years, Barclays says.Accessed June 2, 2015
- CBC News (2015, May 1) N.W.T. fire season forecast to start early, burn hot in May and June. Accessed May 29, 2015
- Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (2015, May 30) Multiple pyroCb events in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Accessed June 2, 2015
- The Guardian (via Reuters) (2015, May 26) Alberta wildfires prompt oil firms to suspend production and evacuate staff. Accessed May 29, 2015
- NASA Earth Observatory (2015, May 28) Fires in Northern Canada.
- Natural Resources Canada (2015, May 27) National Wildland Fire Situation Report. Accessed June 2, 2015
NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.
- Instrument(s):
- Aqua - MODIS
Sometimes I forget to be humble but this man never does!
Training the Mind: Verse 8
In the final verse, we read:
May all this remain undefiled
By the stains of the eight mundane concerns;
And may I, recognizing all things as illusion,
Devoid of clinging, be released from bondage.
By the stains of the eight mundane concerns;
And may I, recognizing all things as illusion,
Devoid of clinging, be released from bondage.
The first two lines of this verse are very critical for a genuine practitioner. The eight mundane concerns are attitudes that tend to dominate our lives generally. They are: becoming elated when someone praises you, becoming depressed when someone insults or belittles you, feeling happy when you experience success, being depressed when you experience failure, being joyful when you acquire wealth, feeling dispirited when you become poor, being pleased when you have fame, and feeling depressed when you lack recognition.
A true practitioner should ensure that his or her cultivation of altruism is not defiled by these thoughts. For example, if, as I am giving this talk, I have even the slightest thought in the back of my mind that I hope people admire me, then that indicates that my motivation is defiled by mundane considerations, or what the Tibetans call the “eight mundane concerns.” It is very important to check oneself and ensure that is not the case. Similarly, a practitioner may apply altruistic ideals in his daily life, but if all of a sudden he feels proud about it and thinks, “Ah, I am a great practitioner,” immediately the eight mundane concerns defile his practice. The same applies if a practitioner thinks, “I hope people admire what I am doing,” expecting to receive praise for the great effort he or she is making. All these are mundane concerns that spoil one’s peace of mind and it is important to ensure that this does not happen in order to keep our practice pure.
As you can see, the instructions that you can find in the lo-jong teachings on transforming the mind are very powerful. They really make you think. For example there is a passage which says:
May I be gladdened when someone belittles me, and may I not take pleasure when someone praises me. If I do take pleasure in praise then it immediately increases my arrogance, pride, and conceit; whereas if I take pleasure in criticism, then at least it will open my eyes to my own shortcomings.
This is indeed a powerful sentiment.
Up to this point we have discussed all the practices that are related to the cultivation of what is known as “conventional bodhichitta,” the altruistic intention to become fully enlightened for the benefit of all sentient beings. Now, the last two lines of the Eight Verses relate to the practice of cultivating what is known as “ultimate bodhichitta,” which refers to the development of insight into the ultimate nature of reality.
Although the generation of wisdom is part of the bodhisattva ideal, as embodied in the six perfections, generally speaking, as we saw earlier, there are two main aspects to the Buddhist path-method and wisdom. Both are included in the definition of enlightenment, which is the non-duality of perfected form and perfected wisdom. The practice of wisdom or insight correlates with the perfection of wisdom, while the practice of skillful means or methods correlates with the perfection of form.
The Buddhist path is presented within a general framework of what are called Ground, Path, and Fruition. First, we develop an understanding of the basic nature of reality in terms of two levels of reality, the conventional truth and the ultimate truth; this is the ground. Then, on the actual path, we gradually embody meditation and spiritual practice as a whole in terms of method and wisdom. The final fruition of one’s spiritual path takes place in terms of the non-duality of perfected form and perfected wisdom.
The last two lines read:
These lines actually point to the practice of cultivating insight into the nature of reality, but on the surface they seem to denote a way of relating to the world during the stages of post-meditation. In the Buddhist teachings on the ultimate nature of reality, two significant time periods are distinguished; one is the actual meditation on emptiness, and the other is the period subsequent to the meditative session when you engage actively with the real world, as it were. So, here, these two lines directly concern the way of relating to the world in the aftermath of one’s meditation on emptiness. This is why the text speaks of appreciating the illusion-like nature of reality, because this is the way one perceives things when one arises from single-pointed meditation on emptiness.
In my view, these lines make a very important point because sometimes people have the idea that what really matters is single-pointed meditation on emptiness within the meditative session. They pay much less attention to how this experience should be applied in post-meditation periods. However, I think the post-meditation period is very important. The whole point of meditating on the ultimate nature of reality is to ensure that you are not fooled by appearances can often be deluding. With a deeper understanding of reality, you can go beyond appearances and relate to the world in a much more appropriate, effective, and realistic manner
I often give the example of how we should relate to our neighbors. Imagine that you are living in a particular part of town where interaction with your neighbors is almost impossible, and yet it is actually better if you do interact with them rather than ignore them. To do so in the wisest way depends on how well you understand your neighbors’ personality. If, for example, the man living next door is very resourceful, then being friendly and communicating with him will be to your benefit. At the same time, if you know that deep down he can also be quite tricky, that knowledge is invaluable if you are to maintain a cordial relationship and be vigilant so that he does not take advantage of you. Likewise, once you have a deeper understanding of the nature of reality, then in post-meditation, when you actually engage with the world, you will relate to people and things in a much more appropriate and realistic manner.
When the text refers to viewing all phenomena as illusions, it is suggesting that the illusion-like nature of things can only be perceived if you have freed yourself from attachment to phenomena as independent discrete entities. Once you have succeeded in freeing yourself from such attachment, the perception of the illusion-like nature of reality will automatically arise. Whenever things appear to you, although they appear to have an independent or objective existence, you will know as a result of your meditation that this is not really the case. You will be aware that things are not as substantial and solid as they seem. The term “illusion” therefore points to the disparity between how you perceive things and how they really are.
A true practitioner should ensure that his or her cultivation of altruism is not defiled by these thoughts. For example, if, as I am giving this talk, I have even the slightest thought in the back of my mind that I hope people admire me, then that indicates that my motivation is defiled by mundane considerations, or what the Tibetans call the “eight mundane concerns.” It is very important to check oneself and ensure that is not the case. Similarly, a practitioner may apply altruistic ideals in his daily life, but if all of a sudden he feels proud about it and thinks, “Ah, I am a great practitioner,” immediately the eight mundane concerns defile his practice. The same applies if a practitioner thinks, “I hope people admire what I am doing,” expecting to receive praise for the great effort he or she is making. All these are mundane concerns that spoil one’s peace of mind and it is important to ensure that this does not happen in order to keep our practice pure.
As you can see, the instructions that you can find in the lo-jong teachings on transforming the mind are very powerful. They really make you think. For example there is a passage which says:
May I be gladdened when someone belittles me, and may I not take pleasure when someone praises me. If I do take pleasure in praise then it immediately increases my arrogance, pride, and conceit; whereas if I take pleasure in criticism, then at least it will open my eyes to my own shortcomings.
This is indeed a powerful sentiment.
Up to this point we have discussed all the practices that are related to the cultivation of what is known as “conventional bodhichitta,” the altruistic intention to become fully enlightened for the benefit of all sentient beings. Now, the last two lines of the Eight Verses relate to the practice of cultivating what is known as “ultimate bodhichitta,” which refers to the development of insight into the ultimate nature of reality.
Although the generation of wisdom is part of the bodhisattva ideal, as embodied in the six perfections, generally speaking, as we saw earlier, there are two main aspects to the Buddhist path-method and wisdom. Both are included in the definition of enlightenment, which is the non-duality of perfected form and perfected wisdom. The practice of wisdom or insight correlates with the perfection of wisdom, while the practice of skillful means or methods correlates with the perfection of form.
The Buddhist path is presented within a general framework of what are called Ground, Path, and Fruition. First, we develop an understanding of the basic nature of reality in terms of two levels of reality, the conventional truth and the ultimate truth; this is the ground. Then, on the actual path, we gradually embody meditation and spiritual practice as a whole in terms of method and wisdom. The final fruition of one’s spiritual path takes place in terms of the non-duality of perfected form and perfected wisdom.
The last two lines read:
And may I, recognizing all things as illusion,
Devoid of clinging, be released from bondage.
Devoid of clinging, be released from bondage.
These lines actually point to the practice of cultivating insight into the nature of reality, but on the surface they seem to denote a way of relating to the world during the stages of post-meditation. In the Buddhist teachings on the ultimate nature of reality, two significant time periods are distinguished; one is the actual meditation on emptiness, and the other is the period subsequent to the meditative session when you engage actively with the real world, as it were. So, here, these two lines directly concern the way of relating to the world in the aftermath of one’s meditation on emptiness. This is why the text speaks of appreciating the illusion-like nature of reality, because this is the way one perceives things when one arises from single-pointed meditation on emptiness.
In my view, these lines make a very important point because sometimes people have the idea that what really matters is single-pointed meditation on emptiness within the meditative session. They pay much less attention to how this experience should be applied in post-meditation periods. However, I think the post-meditation period is very important. The whole point of meditating on the ultimate nature of reality is to ensure that you are not fooled by appearances can often be deluding. With a deeper understanding of reality, you can go beyond appearances and relate to the world in a much more appropriate, effective, and realistic manner
I often give the example of how we should relate to our neighbors. Imagine that you are living in a particular part of town where interaction with your neighbors is almost impossible, and yet it is actually better if you do interact with them rather than ignore them. To do so in the wisest way depends on how well you understand your neighbors’ personality. If, for example, the man living next door is very resourceful, then being friendly and communicating with him will be to your benefit. At the same time, if you know that deep down he can also be quite tricky, that knowledge is invaluable if you are to maintain a cordial relationship and be vigilant so that he does not take advantage of you. Likewise, once you have a deeper understanding of the nature of reality, then in post-meditation, when you actually engage with the world, you will relate to people and things in a much more appropriate and realistic manner.
When the text refers to viewing all phenomena as illusions, it is suggesting that the illusion-like nature of things can only be perceived if you have freed yourself from attachment to phenomena as independent discrete entities. Once you have succeeded in freeing yourself from such attachment, the perception of the illusion-like nature of reality will automatically arise. Whenever things appear to you, although they appear to have an independent or objective existence, you will know as a result of your meditation that this is not really the case. You will be aware that things are not as substantial and solid as they seem. The term “illusion” therefore points to the disparity between how you perceive things and how they really are.
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