What is truth? (C) phi. truth

 

    On the previous article on "What is truth A and B" I talked about the different way we establish truth as our general foundation and how as we grow we change and form our ideas of what is truth to us. On this article I will talk about a different form of truth in which I call "philosophy truth or philosophical truth" (phi. truth). This is something that I will begin to use in other different articles that I will white to show people a Pacific kind of truth.

   I found myself in many occasion when I AM speaking to somebody regarding to an idea or belief that I have in which I consider to be the truth, that people world immediately respond by saying "well that is your belief". And for me sometime it is more than just a believe it is what I consider to be a general truth or my truth. You must remember that sometime my truth does not necessarily have to be your truth and the same with others. When people tell you "that is your belief" that is another way of saying that your believe only have credit for you. The only way that can be true is that your statement is the only one that has ever been said and has never been told as a general information. But when you are speaking about an idea or belief that is general recognize, then you cannot consider that to be only your belief. But when you hear people say "that is your belief" for me that will be consider as an insult and trying to discredit what I'm trying to say. And they are trying to emphasize or discredit your idea or belief as limited only to you.

    So let me begin by defining the meaning philosophy truth. There are truth out there that is based on fact and evidence, but then there are truth out there that are based on philosophy. The philosophy truth is basically made up of common sense, personal intuition, philosophical view and general majority believe.You know that your heart is beating because you are alive but yet you cannot feel your heart moving. If you press one of your nervous you can feel the pulse but still you cannot feel your heart moving. But the truth is your heart is beating right now. So I will consider this a philosophical truth because I know it is true but I cannot prove it, unless I have some medical equipment.
    Like for example religion is in general a philosophy. Although some archaeologists have been able to prove some of biblical statement, there are other that can still be consider as stories. Like in the Torah when Moses spoke to G-d, a lot of people believed to be that to be true despise that there is no evidence to be proven because at that time there was no witness or recording device. But it does not mean that is not true or as I would say philosophical truth. And like in the Bible where they has been claimed that Jesus is the son of G-d and yet there is no evidence to indicate or proof. But it does not mean that it cannot be true or philosophical truth.
    All of this people can say that it is absolutely true that all the statement in the Bible or in the Torah are true. I'm not going to get into a debate right now for it would take too long to define. But just because one does not have the evidence or the proof it does not mean one can hold it to be true. But I personally in order not to impose my belief on to other even though I do not have any evidence or proof I would claim it to be my philosophy truth. In another word I see it as my truth but you may see it as a philosophy.
    Here is other example when I say that the creator is within me other will dismiss that for they believed that the creator is somewhat above. So my statement will be consider as a philosophy truth. I believe with all my heart and mind and soul that the creator is within me. Despise all my limitation and in profession I still believe the creator is within me. But I am not alone in this idea, many of my Jewish friend and many other religion and philosophical Institute believe in the same thing. So it will be a improper statement to say "that is your belief". Although I understand that when people say this is they are trying to say that it is not their point of view. So then people should be saying to others "that is one way of view it". But people do not like to say it in that way because that will be given credit toward the point of view.

 

    We all work hard to seek for the truth in order to grow a greater understanding of life or of science. And when we believe we have found the truth or philosophical truth it will become part of who we are. But the trick is learning to respect one another of what we consider to be truth for you would never know the maybe you could be wrong and the other may be right.

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What is new age? (A)

 

   As I know so far when the first mention of "New Age" came out about 1924 in a book in title "life and teaching of the master of the far east" by Baird T. Spalding. It is so far the oldest as I have been able to trace this phrase that came out in any publication. If anyone else can tell me of a much older publication in which they mention this phrase, please do let me know in what book and if is possible and in which page. I do not consider myself an expert on the phrase or the concept of "New Age". The reason for that it is open for many interpretation and expression of the meaning of this phrase.
   People have asked me many time what is New Age. A good friend of mine sent me this one page giving some idea of what is New Age. On the bottom it show the author to be Jack Clarke published in 1988. But when I tried to make a research on the author it keep coming out as a racecar driver. If anyone can find out who he is please do let me know.

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   In title "What is New Age, anyway?"

It is people taking conscious responsibility for the own lives, not blaming others for their problems.
It is people who deliberately decide to learn and grow.
It is people that do not have to be right, except for themselves.
It is people seeing problem as lessons, perhaps in a long series of lives lessons.
It is people who believe we are what we think we are, and can change I was so by changing our thinking.
It is people that feel they can change the world by changing themselves, not by trying to change others.
It is people who search for strength from the universe by going inside themselves.
It is people that recognize love doesn't have to have conditions attached.
It is people loving in knowing themselves in order to better know and love others.
It is people who see others as a not better than nor less than, but rather different than themselves, yet part of the same whole.
It is people that can change the own path rather than follow dogma.
It is people honoring your right to your own path, not theirs.
It is people who realize that now is all we have, since yesterday is just a thought and so is tomorrow.
It is people interested in owning themselves rather than things.
It is people who see joy in life rather than pain, having experienced enough pain already.
It is people in all walks of life, from business person to flower essence healers,psychologists to unknown mystery investigators.
New Age is not a new religion with a hierarchy of priests and rituals, seeking converts,though some new agers choose some ritual.
New Age is not often gloom an doomers,though many are concerned about ecology, the economy and other forces that affect our world.
New Age is not a movement based on guilt, anger, fear or hurt; it is a journey toward the love that is G-d.
New Age is not allegiance to one master; it is learning from many masters in the quest for the oneness of G-d.
New Age could not become a cult because of what is said above.
New Age is not just humans doing, it is humans being.

by: Jack Clarke 1988

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   Like I said before I am not an expert in New Age philosophy, but this statement made by Jack Clarke putting much sum it up. Although there are lot of misconception of what is New Age, I decided to make this article in order to lay out some of it miss understanding views. They are other organization and Institute that has interpret New Age of some sort of evil or negative cult. But of course they are people out there who have always taken some of the New Age philosophy believe and turn it into a cult. But also it has happen in every religion or philosophy based. This always been a human condition to get something good and turn it into something evil. And also like every good invention someone would take it and turn it into something negative. I know a lot of you can associate to what I'm trying to say.

   But before you jump to any conclusion about any issue you should always make some sort of research before making any judgment. Of course I made just a small superficial analysis of what is New Age. But in reality New Age is really not that complicated, because like it said on the letter above that New Age is not a religion of any form, shape or size. It is just a philosophical view as how you should see life no matter what religion you belong to.

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Making a happy home (B)

 

   In continuing from Making a happy home (A) I would like to add more detail on this topic. As I mentioned before they are very us different kind of home environment, but I have chosen to talk about on this issue as a family unity. As I mentioned on the previous article on how to deal with the morning before everyone leaves and in the evening when everyone has arrived, and also during the time when you sit down together for dinner. And I will believe that is pretty much the very basic.
   Now as all of you are very aware of that sometime it is unavoidable from having an argument from time to time. This will probably be different from family to family depending upon many different issues. But one thing is very basic that you must try to avoid arguing in front of children, the reason for that is they are probably too young to understand or realize the issue that adult may have. Children are always unaware that their parents are always talking to secure an insured thst their children well-being for now and for the future. Sometime these argument may be issues like financial or social issues.
   On the financial aspect they were probably be struggling to a sure that they shouldn't have what they need to have a healthy environment, and also trying to secure for the future education. On the social issue they were probably be struggling on how to create a good ethical and moral foundation for the children. They are probably many other issue that the will be arguing about, but so far all of the research that are done on family problem always end up with these two major factors.
   Even though we may be great planners in creating the perfect plan we should know that we live in a society that may change and not be fully compatible with our plans. Do not let these certain changes affect you happy home. Although we always like to think positive but when making a plan you should always have plan A and plan B. When you make plans that are flexible and are able to change without notice you are more likely to deal with the problem then if you would have one version of a plan.

 

   Problem will always arrived but we must learn to discuss and deal with the issues no matter how much we wish not to do so. Turning away or arguing on tough problems were not make them go away. If there's an issue that are too difficult or both party on able to resolve, then I which is just that you look for second opinions. Sometimes they are things that other we see that you will probably not notice. If there's something that you do not wish to talk about with other family members, then there is lots of books and information out there that you can begin to research.
   One thing I can tell you is that there is no such thing as a small problem. If a solution does not arrive and take care of those small problems eventually they will become a big problem. A lot of us see in movies and television how people just scream and yell and do stupid things to resolve the problems. You must will member that in the movie the have to dramatize and exaggerate the issue in order for it to become entertainment. But in the will world people actually sit down and try to discuss the issue that may arrive. Believe it or not sometime it even helps a great deal to actually write these down in make some sort of diagram finding different solution to resolve one problem. I know that you do not see this in the movie so you figure it must be a silly thing to do, but I have used this technique many time and has always resolve my problem within hours.

   I hope I was helpful in giving you some few tips an idea in making a happy home.

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How to live forever (B)

 

   In continuing from; how to live forever (A), I would like to elaborate a little bit more. There is nothing wrong with the mental, emotion and physical aspect of our self, but it only becomes a problem when we become to intensively involved. When we are unable to control ourselves on these aspect.

   In order for you to have some idea I would give you an example. You got out of high school and you decided to enroll yourself in a college or university, and now you set yourself a goal of what you want to become an begin to take courses regarding to those goals. When you have completed all of the courses and you graduated, you set yourself out in the world and begin to accomplish what you wanted to become. But then sometime along the way you begin to look back and regret your decision on the goals you set on. You begin to say "if I would have taken a different path I could of been......". I will bet some of you must have done this once or more in your life. And now that you're looking back you begin to dwell on your decisions and coming up with different scenario of what if you would have done something different.
   We have to realize that whatever has been done it is done. I'm not asking people to forget because that is virtually impossible, but instead confront what you have done in make the best that you can do at this moment. Even though you decision was done while you were young and still did not have sufficient amount of experience to determine what would be the best outcome for your future.You should always realize that what ever action that you take will not be always a right or wrong or a good or bad or even whether it would of been your destiny. Because nothing that you do in this physical world is your destiny to begin with. Your true destiny is finding your true nature again. The only thing that your action will do is whether to delayed or progress your destiny of finding your true nature.

   Everything that you do in this physical world will only be for you to make a decision and take action. Virtually everything that you do now matter, what ever the issue they may be there will always be a decision and a action. They are many books of different philosophy on how to learn to make decision, but after finishing reading all those books the decision still fall upon you, and with no one else to blame. And at the end of the circle of life draws near and you have looked within your life and all of your decisions and action,and in a very rare occasion some of you would then begin to realize that all you have to do is simply relax and literary lend yourself in to the creator within yourself (The I AM).

   Again you probably asking yourself what does this have to do with living forever. When you finally make a connection with your true self you will begin to realize all that you are capable to do. You will finally realize that you have no limitation of any kind, nor of mental and emotional and physical aspect. That the will of the creator would guide you on your decision and will set the goals that requires of you. And then you would truly understand the meaning when they say "that your will be mine" or "that your will be done". And then you will begin to see and understand all that the universe have to hold.

   In order to begin this process you must take one step at a time, one decision at a time, and one action at a time. And how long do you have for you to accomplish this, you have the rest of your life to do so. And at the end of the circle of life you have not accomplished this task, then maybe there is such a thing as a reincarnation concept. But let us focus on the moment, and no matter what you have done in the past despise on the measurement that you may put upon it, it is exactly where it belongs, in the past. Now you have the present and that is all you must focus on. The past has taken you to where you are today,and what you do today will determine where it will take you tomorrow.

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How to live forever (A)

 

   The topic for this article is how to live forever. I thought I will be able to do it in one article but it seems to be just a little bit more complicated. And usually I'm the kind of person who like to simplify things. You're probably thinking that I would talk about a good nutritional diet and a unique set of exercise program. But that will only help to reduce the a lot of unnecessary suffering for the physical body. I personally believe that being vegetarian will play an important role in your physical well-being. Although we human a very capable of eating just about anything that walk, creep, crawl, fly or swimming it does not mean that our physiology is designed to do so. But I'm not going to get into the vegetarian subject.
   So now you're probably thinking maybe to associate myself to some sort of religious group of philosophic Institute. Maybe participate in some kind of special meditation or contemplation, or probably invoke some special mantra to bring about illumination. But I believe that will only help the psychological aspect of your mind and you believe. I personally believe that this will set a tone for the beginning of understanding what is to live forever.

   So how do you live forever. According to philosophy theory that we have reincarnated many times in many lives. Before I continue a quick note that Shakespeare once said "life is a stage, we played many roles in many lives", whether he was trying to say something more profound that is up to you. But in continuing, if this is true that we have reincarnated many time why is it that a great majority of the people do not remember the last reincarnation? Could it be so we do not dwell on what we have done in the past? Could it be so we do not continue to punish ourselves or mistake we have done in the past? Could it be so we do not remember the material things that we left behind? I can go on saying "could it be" on many other issue. That is something that you have to decide yourself, but I do not want to get into a long debate regarding on reincarnation.
   But upon contemplating on the possibility of reincarnation, I began to look on this one life that I have right now. And that is the same possibility that we do in this life that sound like reincarnation. And that is how we look and dwell on the past instead of looking on the present and prepare ourselves for the future. People seem to suffer and torment themselves on mistake that they have done on the past. I do see and understand the general idea of why people suffer from the mistake, but to continue to dwell on the past does not help you to continue to move forward. If you pick any subject like personal, business, religious or political you will always find people mentioning of the mistake the have done in the past.

   So what does this have to do with living forever. Well it is very simple, the great majority of humanity have intentness in living one moment of their lives and trapping themselves in their spiritual, mental, emotional and physical body. This is something that would keep the divine soul from becoming the I AM. Maybe that statement was a little bit too universal to understand. Let me take a couple a step back and explain. We originally are not this mentally or emotionally or this physical body. We once had the ability to live continuously without deterioration. But then we began to focus as if we were an individual instead of being as a whole. We began to create our own illusions and then our own desire and eventually we were manifested in this physical world.
   In order for us to detach ourselves from the mentally and emotionally and in the physically, we must first realize that we are not any of those three things. It is easy said than done. We are to detach and to involve to easily began to let go. But in reality these are the things that are keeping us from going back to our true nature.

   I will stop for now but I will touch the subject again in the near future.

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Appreciating for what you have. (A)

 
   This is a very big topic that I will be getting into and I know this will be many parts involved. I am writing this article on a day that we call the 9/11 memorial but I also consider this day a day of appreciating what you have. Though I have always have been taught by my parents to always appreciate what you have no matter what the issue may be.
   On this topic I will begin to talk about how to appreciate food and money. I love going to all kinds of different buffet. I like the variety and the ability that you can choose whatever you want in the amount you want.I have been to all kinds buffet from Italian, Chinese, French and in different places like in  restaurant, hotels, casinos and in convention center. But one thing I've noticed in all these buffet, that the majority of the people always put on the plate more than what they can eat. I understand that the amount of variety that they have in these buffet and how it is very tempting, and for some people money is not an issue. And also people would like to save the time of going back and forth. But what people do not realize that it is not that you throwing money away but something far more worse. And that is the action and attitude of throwing away food when there are so much people in the world that a hand full of food is all they can get in one day.
   I know when we go to these buffet we just want to sit down and enjoyed a good meal, which is my same attitude. But we should take the time and effort to create a good habit and appreciate what we have.
   I for one have been lucky to have money coming in my way very easily. But like I always say "use but do not abuse". Some of us would like to show off the luxury of getting the food as much as your heart desire and not worry about anything. But in reality this is a destructive attitude toward the respect that you should have toward food. It is not so much as an ethical reason but as in respecting what you have. In some culture it is a sign of disrespect to leave food on your plate, maybe we should start using that same ethical concept in this country.

   Just like in the same issue regarding toward food you should have the same attitude tour money.

Whoever you may be and whatever level of income you have you should have the same respect about money as you will respect anything else. Just because you have the luxury to take $100 bill and lighted up so you can smoke your expensive tobacco does not mean that it is an attitude of disrespect for money. And do not think that I'm talking about wealthy people when in fact I'm talking about the middle class and low income people. They are the one that it's mostly trying to show off that they had the luxury to throw away money.

   I have seen people they live on low income and receive and yet somehow they have they gold necklace and big cold ring and gold tooth. So before you start heading and stop associating people who throw away money has to be ration people,and that is far from the truth. That majority of people who are more likely to throw away money will be the middle class.But I do not want to get into a debate as to who is the one that are more likely to throw away money.
   My issue regarding tour money is to show an attitude of respect and appreciating of the money you have, although you have the freedom to do whatever you wish with your money.But like I said before "use but do not abuse" it is an attitude that I use in every issue of my life. Also remember life has a funny way of showing us lesson that we need to learn, and you do not want to find yourself in a situation that you will be working very hard to get food or money. Just because some things in life come easy your way it does not mean you should use the situation whether to wasted or thrown away.

   Although the subject in this article may seem simple but you will be surprised how hard it is for other people to discipline themselves. Luckily for me I have always respected the value of a dollar bill and have always use it wisely. And in regarding to food I have also learned to show appreciation and making sure that when of finish her meal there will be nothing left on the plate to throw away.

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Raising a happy child. (A)

   On this issue I will talk only the very basic and not get into too much detail. The reason for is that each family circle is based on different situation and condition. Although a lot of people would like to compare the animal kingdom with humanity and that would be the first mistake.The reason for because the reason for because in the animal kingdom it is based fully on instance, while humanity is based on comprehension. While in no doubt we are a little bit more complex in our development, but of course we are not too complex that we are unable to deal with.

   First thing I would like to make clear that I am not an expert or a psychiatrist. But I will be referring based on experience, observation and other child studies. One thing is for sure that before anyone contemplate in beginning a family they must have the very basic reason for doing so. The two things you must ask yourself if you're thinking to start a family is, do you have the will and the patient to take upon the task. I did not mention if you have the desire, because everybody have the desire to have a child but unfortunately they do not have the will or the patient to do deal with a child.

   You can make a list of what you think could be the top 10 or the top 100 thing that you need to know in order to raise a happy child. But what I have seen and what the expert has study and all agreed with, is that on the very top list in beginning of a healthy and happy child it that you should give them as much attention as possible. Other people may disagree and put on the very top on the list that it be love.
    But you will be surprised how there are a lot of parents out there that would love this child so much, but would not take the time to give attention as to what a child is feeling. In the my blog article "making a happy home" I have mention a little bit on how to give attention to a child. I know a lot of you worked very hard and when you come home all you want to do is eat a good meal and sit back on the recliner and relax. But I can tell you one thing you would not be able to complete relax when you neglect to give your child some attention. They will begin to have that habit that eventually make you environment at home unable to truly relax. They will begin to have destructive habits and reckless behavior in which you have to do deal with sooner or later.
   Everybody assumed that giving your child some attention will require a great deal of your time, and that is far from the truth. Just a few moments of your time when they come from school and talk to them as to how was the day was.You will be able to deal with a lot of issues before they become a big problem. If you do not give those few moments of attention the child they will look for another source as to how to deal with his or her problem. There will probably look upon their friends to resolve the problem when they themselves do not know the different from the right and wrong, or they would look upon someone else that will probably give them the wrong advice.

   You will be surprised how 25 or 30 minute of your attention can make a big different in the child development. But like I said in the beginning if you simply do not have the will or the patient my advice would be to dismiss the idea of creating a family no matter how much desired you have. You must remember  that you are not only going to be a parent but you also going to be a teacher a guiding counselor and a friend. They are many more details on how to raise a happy child, but that is something that you should do a little bit more research or get some advice on other parents that already have a child. Everybody believes that all you have to do just just feed your child and give him some love and a roof on top of the their head and that is all they need. That will probably be something that you would do to an animal but a human is a little bit more complex than that.

   I hope this was helpful for you and giving you some guideness.

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Learn American Sign Language (ASL) lesson 2

  
    If you like part one then you going to like this part two. It's really not that hard if you practice a little bit every day you will eventually get the hang of it. Watch this video police 2 to 3 days every week. Not only that this is an educational skill to have but you can also have lots of fun with your friends in communication. Do not worry if you do not remember every time the important thing that your subconscious is learning. I hope you enjoyed the second part.

Learn American Sign Language (ASL) Lesson 1

  
    I found this on YouTube and I think it's a pretty good video. It shows some simple sign language that you can learn.It is always good to learn something new and this is something that one day a may be useful when you meet somebody that is deaf. It usually very hard for them to communicate with other people when they do not know sign language. Check it out and you might like it.