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Buddhism: A beginners guide: Part 7
2007-08-14 04:51:00 “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”-SB The concept, experience, understanding and enlightenment of the individual are paramount in Buddhist teachings. The illusory concept of a permanent self is called Ignorance in Buddhism . One of the teachings of Buddha featured a way to fully comprehend what the individual is and why we experience More About: Guide , Part , Guid
Buddhism: A beginners guide: Part 6
2007-08-14 01:58:00 In the moment that Buddha achieved enlightenment and freedom from Samsara or the continuing cycles of cause and effect. Mara the gatekeeper or controller of this reality appeared before him. To signal his success to Mara, he lightly touched the earth with the finger tips of his right hand, to connect to and call the earth to be witness to his achievement. Mara on seeing this was forced to More About: Guide , Buddhism , Part , Guid
Buddhism: A beginners guide: Part 5
2007-08-13 06:16:00 Buddha realised that in order to explain and guide people out of suffering and toward enlightenment he must rely upon explaining common human truths in our world that could be seen, recognised and then understood by all. This is one of the reasons why 2500 years later in a completely different time and civilisation we can still see these evident common human truths. One of these truths is More About: Guide , Buddhism , Part , Guid
Buddhism: A beginners guide: Part 4
2007-08-13 03:34:00 When Prince Siddhartha Gautama Shakyamuni Buddha sat beneath the Banyan tree, and proceeded to begin the process that would ultimately lead to his complete enlightenment. One of his prime intentions was to discover the root of all suffering. He knew if he could identify and understand the very root of suffering, then perhaps something could be done to truly alleviate or even remove suffering More About: Guide , Buddhism , Part , Guid
Buddhism: A beginners guide: Part 3
2007-08-12 04:37:00 When Buddha met with his friends, after becoming enlightened on his path to cease all suffering, to reform his group the Fortunate Five, for the first time he had to try and verbalise his experiences and explain a pathway way towards enlightenment. He decided the best way to reveal this knowledge, would be to just point out the recognisable truths or the very truth of all things, the Dharma, the More About: Guide , Buddhism , Part , Part 3 , Guid
Buddhism: A beginners guide: Part 2
2007-08-11 21:21:00 Prince Siddhartha Gautama (est. 563 - 483 BCE) Prince, warrior, scholar, and teacher. Aka: Sanskrit: Siddhartha Gotama, later: Shakyamuni Buddha or The awakened one of the Shakya clan. “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your More About: Guide , Buddhism , Part , Guid
Buddhism: A beginners guide: Part 1
2007-08-10 02:14:00 To begin with let me state firmly and clearly, Buddhism is not a religion, it is a systematic way of training the body, speech and mind. This is a common misinterpretation of Buddhism, which must be understood as that, a misinterpretation, before a word can be uttered in the teaching of it. I have meditated together with some of the most ardent Christians I have ever met, yet they too understood More About: Guide , Part , Guid
Surfing the Internet: A practical beginners guide: Part 4
2007-08-09 01:09:00 Thought I might go a bit more into web addresses, specifically Domain Name Extensions or TLD’s (Top Level Domains). TLD’s were originally created to primarily give a human understandable tag, to what would normally be a string of numbers e.g. 82.200.101.020. Though the truth is today, these tags are read and resolved by your browser, back into those numbers before even leaving your computer. More About: Internet , Surfing , Guide , Part , The Internet
Surfing the Internet: A practical beginners guide: Part 3
2007-08-08 06:07:00 File sharing, mainly practised on P2P networks is a very constructive and practical technology, and like all technologies is neither good nor bad, it just depends on it is use by the user. Don’t be scared off by the likes of the Napster chaos or Kazaa horror stories. You can use it and greatly benefit from it’s abilities without worrying about a knock at the door, with a few simple guidelines, More About: Internet , Surfing , Guide , Part , The Internet
Surfing the Internet: A practical beginners guide: Part 2
2007-08-07 23:27:00 Passwords are critical to our new information age, without them we are as naked as a newborn on London’s Old Vic stage before a full house. These handy little virtual keys provide safety and security, just as you would lock your car or front door, so you must lock you computer and the host of other applications, sensitive files, web site entries, and much more. If you live in an area where you More About: Internet , Surfing , Guide , Part , The Internet
Surfing the Internet: A practical beginners guide: Part 1
2007-08-07 03:45:00 Greetings, and welcome to the jungle we have time to play, so lets put pedal to the metal and head out on the Way. But wait, hold on before we leave the garage there’s a few things I need to say. One: you need a computer, modem and some basic computer skills. Two: you have a web browser e.g. Internet Explorer (IE), Firefox, Opera etc. Three: you have AntiVirus software e.g. Norton, More About: Surfing , Guide , Part , The Internet
Searching the Surfer
2007-08-06 04:21:00 There are two approaches to searching the surfer, the first is locally, that is in your own home or office etc. The second is globally, everybody online, whose search information is not accessible locally. Let’s start with the global searchers. Like never before, we can access and analyse globally what people online are doing, saying, feeling and thinking about, and who else to accurately More About: Searching , Surfer
Why is Google so popular ?
2007-08-03 06:30:00 “It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance…” -Larry Page 1998. In 1995 two graduate students at Stanford University with diverse interests, except in their mutual passion and dedication to the use, access and analysis of large amounts of information, met at spring camp. They were, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and in only More About: Google , Popular , Googl , Pula
過労死 Karoshi – Death from Overwork
2007-08-02 05:32:00 “2,000,000 people die from work related causes every year, 6,000/day… 350,000/year from work accidents… 1,650,000/year due to work related illness. 160,000,000 reported cases of work-related diseases recorded worldwide... Work kills more people than Wars” -ILO, International Labour Organisation 2007. In 1969 Mr. Miyazaki, who worked a large printing company in Tokyo for 4320 hours a year, More About: Death , Karo
Organic gardening: Weed control
2007-08-01 04:02:00 “If it aint what I’m eating it’s a weed” is a popular gardening myth and it is just that, a myth. Personally I think it is another convenient broad generalisation that encompasses any plant that is not fully understood or highly cultivated. Yes, there certainly are particular plants to watch out for, which given the slightest chance will envelope your garden. But there are also plenty of other More About: Gardening , Organic , Control , Weed , Arden
Legends of the Sun
2007-07-31 04:31:00 “If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware... I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sunrise” -Vincent Van Gough The Sun creates the visible world around us, without its light there is More About: Legends
Wernher Von Braun and the V2 (A4) Rocket
2007-07-30 07:14:00 “We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.” Wernher Von Braun (WVB) There is one man upon whom the history of space exploration pivots, Wernher Von Braun, and he was the force behind the construction of the V2 or as he called it the A4 rocket. With his lifetime of dedicated devotion to rocket science, he pushed its understanding and practical application further than any More About: Rocket
Biography: The King of Sci-Fi Frank Herbert
2007-07-29 09:41:00 Frank Herbert Jr. (1920-1986) Novelist, essayist and journalist. “The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”-Frank Herbert (FH) Frank Herbert Jr. was born 1920 in Tacoma, Washington, USA, only son to Frank Herbert Sr. an auto-bus line operator between Tacoma and Aberdeen. When Frank was eight his family moved to a small farm in Burley, this grounded him in a More About: Biography , The King , King , Frank , Frank Herbert
How to achieve a credible searchable online presence for Free
2007-07-28 05:34:00 Now I know there are a million ways to do this so I will only discuss what I have done personally to achieve this goal. There is a choice to be made initially; do you want to promote yourself or you company? I believe either or both can be achieved but you must develop their net roots and identity independently and then link them up later at a higher level. The one golden rule I stick by is to More About: Free , Online , Presence
3D Animation: A practical beginner's Guide: Part 3
2007-07-27 02:59:00 Software is the powerhouse of 3D animation and being an animator is just like being a doctor or lawyer, in that you must keep abreast of current software and hardware developments in the industry. Every major 3D software package is a universe unto itself, though there are concepts and some particular functions and platforms that are generally available in each package. It will pay to think about More About: Animation , Guide , Part , Part 3 , Guid
About Alternative Healing
2007-07-26 04:32:00 Alternative healing is a convenient misnomer created by the majority of western allopathic medical institutions, in other words your regular doctors/surgeons and the industry that supplies them. It is convenient because in one name it consigns brands and relegates, the practise of all other types of medicine/healing through out the entire world, to a purported confused new age hippy fumbling. It More About: Alternative , Healing , Alter , Native , Heal
Consider this: Can you garden without commercial inorganic pesticides?
2007-07-24 06:32:00 To often do I hear the words eliminate, squash, battle, stamp, spray and kill, when people dole out seemingly age old, sage gardening wisdom. Well in fact we have only been using inorganic pesticides for the last 4 decades, and the first one DDT, was only discovered in 1948 by Paul Muller a Swiss chemist. Now you might remember what a miracle and then fiasco DDT was and still is. To put this in More About: Commercial , Garden , Cons , Merc , Cide
Consider this: Could telepathy be real ?
2007-07-24 02:19:00 It really is a most interesting question, one we have been asking for a very, very long time. The ability to understand what another person is thinking at a given moment in time has been equally hailed and dismissed for thousands of years by modern man. I have looked at it holistically and taken all the known (to me) factors into consideration over the years and would have to say, today, Yes, and More About: Real , Cons , Consider , Path
Zealotry or Zeal, when will we see a New Zimbabwe?
2007-07-23 05:36:00 “We will proceed with current land reform with or without sanctions, ... Let that position be known here and abroad and let the commercial farmers tell that to their constituency or constituencies overseas.” -Robert Gabriel Mugabe (RGM) In 2000 a campaign of violence and terror rocked the entire Zimbabwe nation to its core. Led by the “Heroes of the Revolution” the Zimbabwe War Veterans More About: Zeal
The Healing power of Tea
2007-07-21 06:38:00 Camellia Sinensis more commonly known as traditional Black tea, Green, Oolong, White, Darjeeling, Pu-erh and Lapsung Souchong etc, is the single species plant for all these popular teas. It is the variety of species and how the leaf and budding tips are processed that makes the difference between properties and flavours. The Latin name Sinensis means Chinese and China is where the cultivation More About: Power , Healing , Heal
On Manhood
2007-07-20 05:11:00 I am a man, a modern man, What am I, this modern man? Could it be that I can see, And feel, and breathe. The same air as you my friend. And maybe I don’t think, Of sex every two minutes, And want to stick my dick, Into every opportunity. And what if I don’t like sports, Consider needless competition foolish, I’m not against Olympics, But who gives the gold to the runners, Running from the gun.
3D Animation: A practical beginner's guide: Part 2
2007-07-19 04:50:00 Software is probably the most vital part of 3D animation, but there’s no point if your computer's Hardware can’t handle it. I started on an Intel Pentium One, it barely managed opening the then current applications and small renders took weeks. I even went to older versions to gain a bit more speed, but it really was difficult until I bought a new component computer. If you are serious about 3D More About: Animation , Guide , Part , Guid , Imation
The Ashley Flores Email Hoax: The girl who cried wolf and the world respond
2007-07-19 01:01:00 In May 2006 an email went out urging the recipients to help find Ashley Flores . This email then began to snowball around the world, as one would hope it should given the content. There was one picture of Ashley Flores in the email and more were posted to a missing person alert site on My Space. Public concern for Ashley continued to grow worldwide until David Emery author of the Urban Legends and More About: World , Email , Girl , The World
Healing qualities of the Fever Tree
2007-07-17 00:55:00 The Fever Tree or Acacia xanthophloea. The genus name Acacia is derived from the greek word acantha meaning spine, thorn or prickle and the species name xanthophloea is derived from the greek words xanthos meaning yellow and phloios (phloea) meaning bark. Indigenous to southern Africa it primarily grows in Zimbabwe and South Africa. It favours low lying areas where annual rains accumulate, this More About: Healing , Heal
3D Animation: A practical beginner's guide: Part 1
More articles from this author:2007-07-17 00:55:00 So, you want to be a 3D animator? Welcome and well done, you have just made the first step to what could be one of the most creatively rewarding experiences in your life. 3D animation is a rapidly advancing set of technologies that have the power to create in virtual 3D space, and then render into 2D space a final image. It gives you the power to create exactly what is in your mind's eye, and More About: Animation , Guide , Part , Guid , Imation 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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