Sharing Poem (might be second type I post this, i dont think id did the first time I posted it)

Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams

For when dreams go

Life is a barren field

Frozen with snow.

This poem is one of my favorite poems I planned on reciting it but then changed my mind. Then when Nataly shared this poem in class it made me very happy. To me this poem is very personal and special. I know the lines and recite it to myself whenever I need to keep going. I think the main theme of the poem is to be able to dream. Dreams may not always occur or may be impossible but hanging on to them will bring light to your life. One always needs something to look forward to, something to think about and to hope for. We should hold fast to our dreams and try to make them come true. Even if we cannot fully reach our dreams we might discover others along the way. Dream can change or grow but their existence allows us to have some type of happiness and faith in life. 

Comparison of Meditations.

Visiting the Buddhist temple was a wonderful and unique experience. I originally imagined the Buddhist priest to be similar to the Iman I had met at an Islamic temple. However our speaker’s personality was very different.  Both were nice but he seemed a lot more connected to youth and people. He understood the concepts he was teaching and was able to apply it to our own everyday lives. It was interesting seeing how Buddhism can be applied in everyday life. In class we have studied the teachings and the philosophy behind them, but being able to see the teaching applied to something like changing a diaper was very interesting. The meditation was very nice and relaxing. It took me 1about 8 or 9 minutes to get into the meditation state and I was able to maintain it for  1 or 2 minutes or at least it felt like that long. It was a good idea to tell us to try to listen to the silence. I found it easier than to stop thinking. I was able to state I rarely reach. When our philosophy class attempted to meditate to a tape, with an English translator the directions were not as simple. The exercise tested my ability to focus and to maintain the positions instructed. After the first five minutes I started to lose focus. I became frustrated and stopped paying attention I then re-focused and got into the correct posture. Though, I was physically following the instructions, but my mind was wondering from the exercise.  I was thinking about the math test I had the next period then Solibo Magnificent quiz I had later that day. It was difficult to escape reality and future thoughts and concentrate on the present task. Overall the Buddhist meditation seemed simpler and the atmosphere seemed perfect for it. 

I Ching Ko / Revolution (Molting)

 “The Chinese character for this hexagram means in its original sense an animal's pelt, which is changed in the course of the year by molting. From this word is carried over to apply to the "moltings" in political life, the great revolutions connected with changes of governments. The two trigrams making up the hexagram are the same two that appear in K'uei, OPPOSITION”

THE IMAGE

Fire below and the lake above combat and destroy each other. So too in the course of the year a combat takes place between the forces of light and the forces of darkness, eventuating in the revolution of the seasons, and man is able to adjust himself in advance to the demands of the different times.

Overall I think my number represents my current situation as well as my future. The way I interpret it is that I will go through three major changes that will gradually occur through life. To have “Supreme” success,
  I must show perseverance.
 An eventually any remorse that I have over past choices will disappear. I think That my fortune is advising me to prepare myself and hold my ground until the time is right for change. I think change refers to my character. As a teenager I am at a point in life where my personality has been formed and will not undergo any change. However, with experience and age I think I will continue to mature and many of my ideologies will either grow stronger and more firm or will transform to others. Lastly I will reach a point in life where both my ideas and personality come together and persist despite environment. At that point I can truly help others and loose regret of any mistakes I have and will make along the way. To remain perseverant throughout the process will brings me good fortune.

Joseph Campbell and to the power of myth and more Class Notes

1.Mystery- the dimension beyond all forms?

2.Comological-Divinity

3.Sociological

            -Mainstream society

            -laws, values.

-Indra: from the Upanishads

-Vitra: Monster-drought

Waters flowed:World restore.

            “What a great biy am I”

How to live human life.

-What to ware?

-How to behave?

Sleeping god who dreams the universe.

Closes his eyes-Opens his eyes.

            -Onother lotus.

            Galaxy’s- numerous lotuses

            -no one dares count how many

-Army of aunts

            -don’t ask unless you are willing to….

            -from the lowest of levels it rises.

-Hindrani- Goes to wise men.

            -manifestation

            -in life you can represent the everlasting.  

-Can go to the woods and throw it all away

-Or you can remain and can manifest what you want to be.

Intro to Hinduism: Code of Conduct

3 Paths to God

            1.Derotee (Devotion)-Ritual

2.Ascetic-Renounces the world to achieve one with the divine.

            3.Mystical-Annilates the self.

7 Shrakas

            -7 parts on the body. 

Seminar Questions for Wall-E

1.     I do agree in that the movie was able to draw various parallels to what our society is becoming like. “Wall-E” is a love story, as simple that takes place in an abandoned Earth, where besides the robots only signs of only a cockroach and a single green plant are seen.  Humanity is not dead in “Wall-E,” but much like today it has become to accustom to the routine and decaying conditions of life that few seem to notice the sad state in which they are. The world’s population is in a luxury spaceship that has kept generations of people on unhealthy diets and completely dependent on technology.  The people are too bloated to walk they float around on motorized but are happy shoppers.  Wall-E, Eve and the Pilot are able to fulfill their mission and break the people and machines our of their every day life and make them see the ability to rebuild ones’ own world.

2.     

      -Wall-E  is and allegorical romance because it s employ a love story between to objects (robots) that represents a bigger love, love of humans but even bigger love of humanity. Wall-E ‘s devotion to Eve and Eve’s devotion to serve humans show the need that individuals have to connect with others. The people in the luxury spaceship may have access to every technological, material and human need by the touch of a button but have lost the ability to acknowledge each other. Ironically the humans have become robots and the only two who are able to connect with others are the literal robots. Human communication is lost, there are no emotions interactions yet like the unexpected couple of Wall-E and Eve love eventually is able to reconnect the people.

3.     

      -That there will come a time where the environment will not be able to keep up with human’s destruction. However the world will be able to replenish its’ self but humans must re-create what they destroyed.

4.     -It questions human’s ability to make his or her own choices and decisions when conditioned to certain environment. The pilot realizes that the auto-pilot has been the true pilot and he himself has been the puppet.

5.     -It’s a commentary on people’s current tendency to focus on material goods and ignore their situation. The consumers are haunted by something they might have lost but are able to accommodate by engaging in simulations.

6.     -The light bulb. The idea of something so delicate surviving the destruction is poetic. 

7.     

----     -The Axiom is a paradise but it is a synthetic paradise. It’s perfect in that it contains every possible want of a human. However there is no room for flwas for human error. Perfection may be achieved but the natural beauty that exists in mistakes in human conduct and interaction is lost.

8.     It causes the audience to have to connect to the raw emotions of each cartoon. You feel Wall-E ‘s emotions you feel Eve’s annoyance the pilots feeling of incompetence. It allows the audience to connect in ways that dialog could not achieve.  

9.     

T   -The human condition of every member on that ship is planed, executed and determined by their environment. The spaceship has conditioned them to live in that way. However the nurture they have received is not enough to stop human nature when the time to act comes. They know they have to reclaim what matters. The human condition tends to place and keep individuals in their assigned roles but each has the ability to break free.

10  -The movie is like a reality in which the people seem to only remember the past on like dreams. There was a time in which people could step out and speak with one another, enjoy music, dance and see photosynthesis as an every day thing. This is what the Captain wants. He want to choose his life he doesn’t want to be treated like a toddler being fed, carried and nurtured for the rest of his life. He wants his life to have meaning. Survival offers him a long existence of pointlessness, living allows him to experience hardships and sadness but also offers him joy, music and emotions.