Practice the Bodhisattva Vow

Wow, I am blessed to be on this path; it includes having discovered the Bodhisattva Vow: to work for the benefit of all beings until every one of us is Enlightened. Now here's a real mind bender, Beastie Boys have a song entitled Bodhisattva Vow, which I discovered quite easily with a keyword search. The lyrics are great. God bless the internet.

As I Develop The Awakening Mind I Praise The Buddha[s] As They Shine
I Bow Before You As I Travel My Path To Join Your Ranks,
I Make My Full Time Task
For The Sake Of All Beings I Seek
The Enlightened Mind That I Know I'll Reap
Respect To Shantideva And All The Others
Who Brought Down The Darma For Sisters And Brothers
I Give Thanks For This World As A Place To Learn
And For This Human Body That I'm Glad To Have Earned
And My Deepest Thanks To All Sentient Beings
For Without Them There Would Be No Place To Learn What I'm Seeing
There's Nothing Here That's Not Been Said Before
But I Put It Down Now So I'll Be Sure
To Solidify My Own Views And I'll Be Glad If It Helps
Anyone Else Out Too
If Others Disrespect Me Or Give Me Flack
I'll Stop And Think Before I React =
Knowing That They're Going Through Insecure Stages
I'll Take The Opportunity To Exercise Patience
I'll See It As A Chance To Help The Other Person
Nip It In The Bud Before It Can Worsen
A Change For Me To Be Strong And Sure
As I Think On The Buddhas Who Have Come Before
As I Praise And Respect The Good They've Done
Knowing Only Love Can Conquer In Every Situation
We Need Other People In Order To Create
The Circumstances For The Learning That We're Here To Generate
Situations That Bring Up Our Deepest Fears
So We Can Work To Release Them Until They're Cleared
Therefore, It Only Makes Sense
To Thank Our Enemies Despite Their Intent
The Bodhisattva Path Is One Of Power And Strength
A Strength From Within To Go The Length
Seeing Others Are As Important As Myself
I Strive For A Happiness Of Mental Wealth
With The Interconnectedness That We Share As One
Every Action That We Take Affects Everyone
So In Deciding For What A Situation Calls
There Is A Path For The Good For All
I Try To Make My Every Action For That Highest Good
With The Altruistic Wish To Achieve Buddhahood
So I Pledge Here Before Everyone Who's Listening
To Try To Make My Every Action For The Good Of All Beings
For The Rest Of My Lifetimes And Even Beyond
I Vow To Do My Best To Do No Harm
And In Times Of Doubt I Can Think On The Dharma
And The Enlightened Ones Who've Graduated Samsara
(http://www.lyricsdepot.com/beastie-boys/bodhisattva-vow.html).

"Bodhisattva Vow (song)
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“Bodhisattva Vow”
Song by Beastie Boys
Album Ill Communication
Genre Hip hop
Length 3:08
Label Capitol Records
Ill Communication track listing
"Shambala'"
(18) “Bodhisattva Vow”
(19) "Song for Junior"
(20)


Bodhisattva Vow is the 19th track on the Beastie Boys Album Ill Communication Funds generated from the track were put towards the Free Tibet movement. Although it is credited as being by the Beastie Boys, it is specifically by MCA concerning his Buddhist faith.

It takes its name from the Bodhisattva vow taken by Mahayana Buddhists" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhisattva_Vow_(song)).

Practice the Bodhisattva Vow; I'm doing the best work for us, as I forward and practice the Bodhisattva Vow. I big up Ziggy Marley, Jack Johnson, Adam Yauch and the rest of the best Bodhisattvas.

"Doctrine

Few things can be said with certainty about Mahayana Buddhism, especially its early Indian form, other than that the Buddhism practiced in China, Vietnam, Korea, Tibet, and Japan is Mahayana Buddhism.[53][54] Mahayana can be described as a loosely bound bundle of many teachings, which was thus able to contain the various contrasting ideas found between those differing teachings of whose elements it is comprised.[55]

Mahayana is a large religious and philosophical structure. It constitutes an inclusive faith characterized by the adoption of new Mahayana sutras in addition to the earlier Agama texts, and a shift in the basic purpose and concepts of Buddhism. Mahayana sees itself as penetrating further and more profoundly into the Buddha's Dharma. There is a tendency in Mahayana sutras to regard adherence to Mahayana sutras as generating spiritual benefits greater than those which arise from being a follower of the non-Mahayana approaches to Dharma. Thus the Srimala Sutra claims that the Buddha said that devotion to Mahayana is inherently superior in its virtues to the following of the Sravaka or Pratyekabuddha path.[56]
Buddha Amithaba in Tibetan Buddhism, traditional Thanka painting.

Mahayana Buddhist schools de-emphasize the ideal of the release from Suffering and the attainment of Nirvana, found in the Early Buddhist Schools. The fundamental principles of Mahayana doctrine were based around the possibility of universal liberation from suffering for all beings (hence "great vehicle") and the existence of Buddhas and Bodhisattva embodying Buddha-nature (佛性). Some Mahayana schools simplify the expression of faith by allowing salvation to be alternatively obtained through the grace of the Buddha Amitabha (अमिताभ) by having faith and devoting oneself to chanting to Amitabha. This devotional lifestyle of Buddhism is most strongly emphasized by the Pure Land schools and has greatly contributed to the success of Mahayana in East Asia, where spiritual elements traditionally relied upon chanting of a Buddha's name, of mantras or dharanis; reading of Mahayana sutras and mysticism. In Chinese Buddhism, most monks, let alone lay people, practise Pure Land, some combining it with Chan (Zen).[57]

Most Mahayana schools believe in a pantheon of quasi-divine Bodhisattvas (बोधिसत्त्व) that devote themselves to personal excellence, ultimate knowledge, and the salvation of humanity and all other sentient beings (animals, ghosts, demigods, etc.). Zen Buddhism is a school of Mahayana which often de-emphasizes the pantheon of Bodhisattvas and instead focuses on the meditative aspects of the religion. In Mahayana, the Buddha is seen as the ultimate, highest being, present in all times, in all beings, and in all places, and the Bodhisattvas come to represent the universal ideal of altruistic excellence.

Mahayana Buddhism can in general be characterized by:

* Universalism, in that, in those schools of Mahayana that still have large followings, everyone will become a Buddha (see, for example, the Lotus Sutra);
* Bodhicitta as the main focus of realization (see, for example, the Nirvana Sutra and various Prajnaparamita Sutras);
* Compassion through the transferral of merit;
* Transcendental immanence, in that the immortal Buddha Principle (see, for example, Buddha-nature, Mahaparinirvana Sutra, Angulimaliya Sutra, Srimala Sutra, Tathagatagarbha Sutra) is present within all beings.

“Philosophical” Mahayana tends to focus on the first three characteristics (universalism, enlightened wisdom, compassion) and, in some schools, the Buddha-nature, without showing much interest in supernatural constructions, while “devotional” Mahayana focuses mainly on salvation towards other-worldly realms (see, for example, the Sukhavati sutras).

…Because the Mahayana traditions assert that eventually everyone will achieve samyaksam (buddhahood) or total enlightenment, the Mahayana is labeled universalist, whereas the stance of the early scriptures is that attaining nibbana depends on effort and is not pre-determined.

Bodhisattva
The later Mahayana school holds that pursuing only the release from suffering and attainment of Nirvana (as held by Pre-sectarian Buddhism and the Early Buddhist Schools) is too narrow an aspiration, because it lacks the motivation of actively resolving to liberate all other beings from samsara, as well as oneself.
The primary focus of some Mahayana schools is bodhicitta, the vow to strive for buddhahood or awakened mind both for oneself and for the benefit of all other sentient beings. As Ananda Coomaraswamy notes, "The most essential part of the Mahanyana is its emphasis on the Bodhisattva ideal, which replaces the Arhatta, or ranks before it."[60] According to Mahayana teachings, being a high-level bodhisattva involves possessing a mind of great compassion conjoined with insight into reality (prajna), realizing emptiness and/or the buddhic essence of all things. Mahayana teaches that the practitioner will realize the final goal of full Awakening (Buddhahood): an omniscient, blissful mind completely free from suffering and its causes, that is able to work tirelessly for the benefit of all living beings.
Six virtues or perfections (paramitas) are listed for the bodhisattva: generosity, morality, patience, energy, meditation, and wisdom" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahayana).

Succeed Best

We--the best sinequanonologists--and I succeed best; we--the best sinequanonologists--and I have the best successes: Advertise on Friendbliss gainfully and profitably for us everyday

Practical Implications for the World

We must begin at the most formative stages in human development in our societies in order to solve the entire world’s problems in the best way—thus in a fecund and successful way. In other words, we must address the differences that emerge among human beings that have created systemically opposed classes and groups and the concurrent inequity in the socialization and education of youth in our societies. It behooves us to create more capable citizens by investing more money and time in impoverished areas that require them the most. I believe that we will have a good start in achieving these goals by making K-12 teaching one of the top ten most competitive and well-paid occupations, especially in impoverished areas. If we choose to look at our society as an organic whole in which a problem in one area affects all others, then like any efficient organism we must focus energy on fixing those parts that are not working well.

Also, I think that we should provide financial incentives for good parents. For example, parents whose children do well consistently in academics (especially science, mathematics, and computer programming), arts, sports and other areas that are assessed by educators should be rewarded with tax breaks and other federally endowed benefits. We need to overhaul K-12 education in the best way and maintain a focus on training in information technology and related areas that have proven dynamic in producing growth in the world’s economies.

We should create a grassroots-based initiative and network that trains couples seeking to be parents intensively over the course of a year and in a follow-up program for the rest of their lives after the year of training and birth of the child. Graduates of this program will be able to provide their child or children of their first pregnancy with the financial equivalent of the education, health care, services, and other resources that people currently making at least $75,000 U.S. dollars per year—according to 2004 monetary exchange and inflation standards after taxes—are able to provide a single child of their own with. Still, there would have to be a clear limit on this. This program should only provide such benefits for the child or children—e.g. twins—created by one pregnancy and encourage the parents to use birth control to prevent any further pregnancies unless they are professionally, financially, and emotionally capable of providing for more children equally well without any subsidies.

We should strive to bolster and promote currently effective educational programs, such as the KIPP Academies. This requires consistent financial support for these programs. I am an advocate for restructuring much of the dysfunctional parts of the socio-economic system of America, and in most of the world’s countries, as optimally as we can. Most importantly all concerned people must work to create a holistic space that fosters open discourse in regard to these issues. We must expose the most true and sine qua non processes at work in the legal system and all connected areas of social life—for example education and work—in an effort to significantly improve our societies’ people, institutions, and the happiness and well-being of all members of our societies as much as possible and as soon as possible, including now.

An important aspect of achieving these goals will require calculating the sustainable amount of income and resources per year equally for each person and family. The equations needed to do this are available. Basically, for income this requires making a precise estimate of the amount of liquid money in the world per year as long as human beings are predicted to live (refined by taking into account the use of barter systems in many third world economies and the prevalence of black market financial exchanges) and then dividing this by the number of people that the earth can optimally sustain per year as long as human beings are predicted to live on earth; this will yield the gross amount of income available equally to every individual. Available income is directly dependent on the availability of resources.

Studies such as the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment (Island Press, World Resources Institute and www.milleniumassessment.org 2005) have made great strides in explaining the extent of our deficit in the struggle to make human life on earth increasingly sustainable. Scientists have revealed [quote millenium assessment pdf]...Thus we know the limits of our resources on this earth. Thus individually and collectively like any fit organism or group from the same species found in nature if equipped with the natural drive to survive and compelling information about the best path to take to ensure that survival, so too should all mentally and physically fit human beings strive to make the best choices for the fecund well-being of ourselves individually and for our entire species. In this way, once we know the gross and the net amount of income available to everyone in the world, we can then work to adjust our behavior, especially in terms of sexual reproduction and consumption, to optimize the lives of all human beings.

It is imperative that we educate as many of the world’s female human beings, especially young girls, so that they will become empowered and make choices that will improve their own lives and those of any potential offspring. Clearly, many, including Malthus, have sought to improve human society by arguing for example that only people, specifically men at that time, with a certain minimum level of wealth should ever consider marrying and having children. The difference between such philosophies and arguments and the agenda connected to sinequanonological thought is that the sinequanonological ones provide a far more comprehensive and sustainable model.

[We should strive to bolster and promote currently effective sinequanonological information technology for the best people like Friendbliss. This requires consistent financial support for these networks.]

Moreover in returning to the importance of Theories of Everything (T.O.E’s)—including M Theory—and their ontological focus, we see that the nature and course of human reproduction, our interaction with our native planet, and ultimately evolution have clear implications for any inquiry into the workings of the universe. Even the development of human cognition bears tremendous value for sinequanonology. What role does the unconscious mind play in our unfolding daily realities? This is a question for psychology. Exploring the power and limits of the human mind and increasingly of computers and machines possessing artificial intelligence has direct epistemological significance for sinequanonology and all other intellectual disciplines and sciences.

Best Activities: Orienteering, camping, rockclimbing, surfing, swimming (especially long distance), skateboarding, snowboarding, sailing, soccer, basketball, tennis, golf, polo (water and horse), horseback riding, and music (especially playing instruments and singing, preferably with professional coaching at varying points)

Best books: Africa in History, Business @ The Speed of Thought, the best of Vandana Shiva (especially Biopiracy, Water Wars, and Earth Democracy), Computer Programming Books, Math and Science Books, Love and Life, Business Books, Succeeding Against the Odds, Titans of the B.E. 100s, the best of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill's work (e.g. Utilitarianism and Other Essays), The End of Poverty, The Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun (Arabic: مقدّمة ابن خلدون), The Elegant Universe, Living to Tell About It

Big Up Barack Obama; Yes We Can and Do Have the Best Legacy!

November 4, 2008 was a day of tremendous significance; I mean it's just great. Barack Obama and the tremendous energy created by us as we celebrate this victory is transforming the world in the best way. I'm really happy for Obama and his family (though my heart goes out to them too as they mourn the death of his grandmother); this is a very important time in our existence on this planet. Let's remember that we are all human beings--members of the same species--and let's focus on working successfully to improve our lives in the best way. As Obama said in his speech:

"This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were.

It can't happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice.

So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other."

The Best

"Create the best. The best hotels and clubs and airlines never go bankrupt. The best always succeeds."
(Richard Charles Branson)

"I create the best gainfully, happily and profitably now and for the rest of my life."
(Paul Ainsworth Francis)

"If you bet big, though, only a few of these risks have to succeed to provide for your future."
(William Henry Gates)

"I want to make six million euros or better every month I am alive and deposit these euros into my bank account(s) and give half or more of it away so that every good person in the world succeeds best; we have to live communally in the best way, thus improving upon the standards of The Utopian Intentional Community of Damanhur. "Nobody owns anything and everything is free." (Jack Johnson "Let it be Sung"). I want to have a life better than Jack Johnson, the singer and surfer, living in a land of Tropical Paradise, for example Jamaica (my native land and birthright), Hawai'i, or Mustique, in a beautiful house with a pool, a champa, hammocks, and a fecund, organic farm/ranch with great riding horses, near the beach, but safe enough away in case of hurricanes and thus about 1 mile away from the actual beach, on a high plateau or better; I want to spend my days writing, playing guitar, surfing, skateboarding, making love to my sexy, sane galfriend (perhaps in time we'll get married), practicing LOHAS, and breathing gainfully."
(Paul Ainsworth Francis)



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Produce Revolution in the best way!

"The Live 8 concerts, Bono's ONE campaign, Angelina Jolie's work for the United Nations, and many other acts of leadership and grace, are drawing millions of eager individuals into a new commitment to work for the end of poverty, and thereby for a world of peace and shared well-being."
(Jeffrey D. Sachs, The End of Poverty)

"It takes a Revolution to Make a Solution!"
(Bob Marley and The Wailers)

Gainfully, profitably, and happily, I have the best solution(s) in the best way to and for our and my problem(s)!
(Paul D. Francis)

My family, friends, and I are profitable and healthy. The Life of the Land is Perpetuated in Righteousness; Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka Aina I Ka Pono.
(Paul D. Francis)

Sinequanonology

Sinequanonology remains one of the greatest intellectual and practical achievements in the history of humankind. The courage to establish Sinequanonology gainfully is one of the best blessings that I have. At first, it was like going from being a dilettante rockclimber to being the first human being to reach the top of Mount Everest. Moreover, it occurred in an unprecedently short amount of time, as far as intellectual achievements are concerned.

ASPW Jamaica ASPW ASPW

I love the best people in Jamaica and being here in Jamaica. It's great to be with my family, though I need to make sure to balance it in the best way gainfully.