The Disclosure Project

The greatest achievement is selflessness.

The greatest worth is self-mastery.

The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.

The greatest precept is continual awareness.

The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.

The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.

The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.

The greatest generosity is non-attachment.

The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.

The greatest patience is humility.

The greatest effort is not concerned with results.

The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

~ Atisa Dipankara Shrijnana (Buddhist Monk)

Let Us Never Forget

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The United States backed South Vietnamese regime against the religion of Buddhism required the sacrifice of one Buddhist Monk to raise awareness. Let us never forget his death, and let it never be in vain.
Following several weeks of concentrated meditation, on June 11th 1963, Thích Quảng Đức sat in the lotus position and committed self-immolation.


"Before closing my eyes and moving towards the vision of the Buddha, I respectfully plead to President Ngo Dinh Diem to take a mind of compassion towards the people of the nation and implement religious equality to maintain the strength of the homeland eternally. I call the venerables, reverends, members of the sangha and the lay Buddhists to organise in solidarity to make sacrifices to protect Buddhism. ” ~ Final Words of Buddhist Monk Thích Quảng Đức before setting himself on fire in the name of Buddha (self-immolation) 1963~

Thich Nhat Hanh goes on to explaing why Thich Quang Duc’s self-immolation was NOT a suicide, which is contrary to Buddhist teachings:

"Suicide is an act of self-destruction, having as causes the following: (1) lack of courage to live and to cope with difficulties; (2) defeat by life and loss of all hope; (3) desire for nonexistence….. The monk who burns himself has lost neither courage nor hope; nor does he desire nonexistence. On the contrary, he is very courageous and hopeful and aspires for something good in the future. He does not think that he is destroying himself; he believes in the good fruition of his act of self-sacrifice for the sake of others…. I believe with all my heart that the monks who burned themselves did not aim at the death of their oppressors but only at a change in their policy. Their enemies are not man. They are intolerance, fanaticism, dictatorship, cupidity, hatred, and discrimination which lie within the heart of man."

Recognition

Every night I go to sleep
I pray that I will get some relief,
I wish as I look and smell your hair,
Tomorrow I will wake with out a care

Every morning when I finally wake,
I open one eye to assess my fate,
I take a deep breath and finally rise,
Open the curtains to reveal rainy skies

Every day I hope that my life will improve,
I have this overwhelming feeling I’ve got nothing to lose,
But I love the ones who love me the most,
But they are in love with a living ghost

For I have died and only shell remains,
I cannot even grieve for all my pain,
For truth is somewhere and will never be found,
As I lay six feet underground

They smile at me and believe, ‘its ok’
But they will never understand my way,
And I will never understand just why,
Why fate can never ever let it lie

I must be punished for others sins,
The others who always get away with things,
The deservers of punishment will never see,
That their burdens are carried only by me

Justice is a word that is morally great,
But true justice is just a matter of fate,
Those who do wrong and those who are bad,
Get left alone, as the good go mad.

So starved of smiles and filled with rage,
I find it hard to turn the next page,
So rampant is the will of men
So take deep breaths and count to ten

I try so hard to find a spiritual guide,
When I think I have found it, they begin to hide,
For pain is my future and so it will be,
For those who love me, will eventually see.

EyeCeyE 2007

Today

How pointless is this life of ours,
I can’t even be bothered having a shower,
Can’t find the strength to brush my teeth,
They probe me with questions
To find what’s underneath.

How futile is this life of mine,
I spend more time drinking wine,
I inhale some weed to give me relief,
But I always feel so full of grief.

How empty is this life we hold,
So many questions left untold,
So many lives so full of woe,
I watch a murder of many crows

How sad this life of which we live,
So much of ourselves we eventually give,
But what in return, that is not ours to say,
I wish this day would just go away,

How truly lost today I feel,
I cant find the will to get down and kneel,
To a god that ‘hope’ hopes may exist
To god I look up and raise my fist

How could you god allow so much pain,
The path to peace should drive me insane,
To make us cry and beg and bleed,
To allow us the chance for us to breed

How could we spawn this life again,
A life which is guaranteed to feel pain,
A small little baby cries all night,
It has no idea how much it has to fight

How can we make each day any better,
I don’t know but that’s why I write you a letter
I haven’t the answers but I only know this:
Its happiness that I truly miss.


EyeCeyE 2007

North Korea still a 'terrorist' target of the U.S

North Korea remains on a list of states that sponsor terrorism, a senior U.S. diplomat said Tuesday, dismissing North Korean claims that Washington decided to remove the designation.

"No, they haven't been taken off the terrorism list," Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill told Japanese reporters as he arrived in Australia's business capital for a meeting of Pacific Rim nations. A State Department press officer separately confirmed the remarks.

Hill's comments were the first U.S. denial since North Korea's Foreign Ministry, in a statement carried Monday by the country's official news agency, said that Washington decided to scotch the terror designation and with it related economic sanctions. The North Korean statement said the change came in a weekend meeting between Hill and his counterpart in Geneva.

Under a deal reached in February after years of tortuous negotiations, North Korea agreed to relinquish its nuclear programs, including one that has produced bomb material. In return,...


...Washington agreed to open talks on normalizing relations with the North, enemies since the Korean War, and explore removing the terrorism designation.

Hill suggested that North Korea first needs to go further in dismantling its nuclear programs before the U.S. will take it off the terrorism list.

"Getting off the list will depend on further denuclearization," Hill told reporters later Tuesday after a meeting with Japan's nuclear envoy, also in Sydney for a meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.

Hill declined to specify what North Korea must do but said those things have been discussed with North Korean officials. "They know what these steps are," Hill said.

After a slow start, the parties to the February agreement _ which include China, Japan, Russia and South Korea as well as the U.S. and North Korea _ have picked up speed in implementing its terms. North Korea shut down its main nuclear reactor in July.

After their weekend meeting, Hill told reporters that North Korea's envoy, Kim Kye Gwan, agreed to disclose its nuclear programs and disable them by the endof this year. Kim separately suggested that North Korea was willing to declare and dismantle the facilities but did not mention the year end date.

North Korea has faced various economic sanctions since the 1950-53 Korean War. Washington put it on the terrorism list for its alleged involvement in the 1987 bombing of a South Korean airliner that killed 115 people. The designation effectively blocks North Korea from receiving low-interest loans from the World Bank and other international lending agencies.

The administration of President Bush believes that North Korea cheated on an earlier nuclear deal, supposedly starting up a separate program to enrich uranium while freezing a plutonium-based program. It has tried to front-load the current deal to get North Korea to make more concessions earlier.

MI5 confused by Orwell's politics

Orwell did not agree fully with the Communist Party, MI5 said
MI5 monitored socialist writer George Orwell for more than two decades, but did not believe he was a mainstream communist, records have revealed.
A Scotland Yard Special Branch report in January 1942 said the author of 1984 had "advanced communist views".

However, an MI5 officer responded that Orwell "does not hold with the Communist Party nor they with him".

A file from the National Archives also shows MI5 did not object to him having a wartime job at a military base.

Orwell was vetted for the post as a correspondent for the Sunday Observer at Allied Forces Headquarters in North Africa.

'Bohemian dress'

The Special Branch report said: "This man has advanced communist views and several of his Indian friends say that they have often seen him at communist meetings.

"He dresses in a bohemian fashion both at his office and in his leisure hours."

The MI5 officer rang the inspector in charge of the sergeant who wrote the report, to question what it meant.

From the call it emerged that Orwell - referred to in the documents by his real name Eric Blair - was thought to be an "unorthodox communist" who did not agree fully with Communist Party views.

The officer from the security service wrote: "I gathered that the good sergeant was rather at a loss as to how he could describe this rather individual line hence the expression 'advanced communist views'.

"It is evident from his recent writings - The Lion and the Unicorn - and his contribution to Gollancz's symposium The Betrayal Of The Left that he does not hold with the Communist Party nor they with him."

'Bit of an anarchist'

Orwell is best known for books including 1984 and Animal Farm, which criticise totalitarianism, and other works attacking inequality, including Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier.

The records show Orwell first came to the attention of intelligence service MI6 in 1929 when he was in France and offered to become Paris correspondent for the Workers Life.

In 1942, a record described him as "a bit of an anarchist in his day and in touch with extremist elements".

He had "undoubtedly strong left-wing views, but he is a long way from orthodox communism", it added.

Toilet spy

Other MI5 records released by the National Archives reveal a rather basic approach to intelligence gathering.

Kent policeman Pc Ivan Smith resorted to hiding in a toilet to listen in on apprentices from the Royal Navy dockyards at Chatham discussing strike action in December 1941.

American musician Alan Lomax was put under surveillance by MI5 as a potential communist, and his BBC TV shows in the early 1950s were monitored by Special Branch.

The BBC was informed that Lomax was in contact with the Hungarian press attache in London, although that could have been linked to his interest in folk dancing.

Naked women

The records reveal that a German spy - Argentine Ernesto Hoppe - was involved in plans to transport Nazi valuables to South America.

However, he was arrested in Gibraltar in October 1943 after a tip-off and interrogated at Latchmere House, south London.

After going on the run from a military hospital and trying to contact the Argentine ambassador, he was recaptured and admitted his role in the plot.

In other records, it is revealed that a 1945 edition of The Naturist magazine was examined by MI5 for "hidden writing", which would have been shown up by a solution of soda and water.

Norwegian spy Hans Larsen was interrogated by the British, also at Latchmere House, in May 1945.

A copy of the magazine he had in his possession was tested for the writing among the pages of naked women and articles titled Naturism in the United States and All the Year Round Natural Fitness.