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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Cure Cancer with Sodium Bicarbonate

Cancer can be cured in weeks. What are the causes? They remain unknown. Whether treated with sanctioned or alternative methods, an aura of mystery remains. Overcoming the impasse must therefore go through two separate phases -- a critical one that exposes the present limitations of oncology, and a constructive one capable of curing the disease (an infection) within weeks.

Dr. Simoncini, Cancer, l'hypothèse fongique
New Year's letter The Therapy Donation
Theory: Baking soda works because it is anti-fungal.

"If we closely observe the proposed therapeutic approach it is possible to see that, independently of its real effectiveness, it has value as an innovative theory." - Dr. Simoncini

DR. SIMONCINI

Dr. Simoncini is a roman doctor specializing in oncology, diabetology, and metabolic disorders.

CANCERFUNGUS NEWS

The Slovenian Website of Dr. Simoncini is online. Thank you Mitja Fajdiga for translations and efforts! The French version of the book Cancer is a fungus is released. English, Italian, and Dutch versions may be purchased through the related Internet sites.

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Stay "Mindful" with Mindful.org

It was a very exciting time around the Shambhala Sun offices last year. They were preparing a special print publication called Mindful with the tag-line “Living with Awareness and Compassion.”

Mindful was a 40-page mini-magazine inserted into the December-January 2010 issue of the Shambhala Sun and also distributed across North America FREE in health food stores, bookstores, health clinics, and wherever those who seek mindfulness might congregate.

Mindful, which Barry Boyce was in charge of, had short articles about mindfulness meditation and other forms of awareness, body, and compassion practices, all written from an entirely secular viewpoint.

Mindful.org

When the mini-mag was starting to reach people, a website was launched. It carries the latest information on bringing mindfulness, awareness, and compassion into our lives. It is updated every day with fresh stories and news.

Mindful.org offers mindfulness-based approaches to all the important issues of life today, from health, happiness, emotional well-being, psychology, relationships, and family life, to work, creativity, activism, and the science that is proving its benefits. Source

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Chanting "Nam Myoho Renge Kyo" didn't save Amy

Amy Winehouse dies in spite of Soka Gakai chanting

Even though she chanted daimoku, she remained addicted, suicidal, and on a self-destructive path. Does that mean daimoku doesn't "work?" That depends what one means by "work." If we think namu-myoho-renge-kyo is a magic phrase that makes us happy and is a get-out-of-death-and-suffering-free card, no, it doesn't "work." Nichiren Buddhism is a life-long practice -- even if our life turns out to be heartbreakingly short. It's not a quick fix or magic cure. More

Just Chant This and That's It?

Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY)

Is it possible that Brahminical-style chants that mimic Sanskrit hymns (gathas) do not have magical power?

The Vedas gave the ancient Indus Valley Civilizations, which Adi Shankara's Hinduism claims as its inheritance, mantras for everything.

These enchantments first focused the minds of seers (rishis) and were then used by brahmins to enhance their temple-bound priesthood that the Buddha (and other spiritual wanderers or shramans) rejected.

But the technique is sound -- repetition that cuts off normal consciousness and gives way to an elevated state. Simply chanting never works anymore than saying "Abracadabra" or "Open Sesame."

But sincere, persistent, and devoted utterance of special sounds is widely accepted as being effective IF it is consistent and in integrity with one's life. Living one way and chanting another is working at odds with one's professed intention. For example, trying to quit drugs while chanting Nichiren Buddhism's hallmark hymn might really help.

But getting high to enhance the elevation brought on by dedicated chanting is only mocking the process. Or, worse, using the chant as a quick shortcut to material riches -- why, IF that worked, who wouldn't do it? Nichiren goes much deeper than a pretty mantra and a cultish appearance.

Maybe it worked: Did Amy Winehouse die of alcohol withdrawal?
What is Nichiren and "Value Creation"? (sgi-usa.org)

Tina Turner chants on CNN's Larry King

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

The Beautiful Vegan

Wisdom Quarterly (SPOTLIGHT)

(Sklarm) How to make vegan pizza (including crust) video tutorial

Spotlight: In our irregular series on Wisdom Quarterly readers, we focus on one of our remarkable followers.

THE VEGAN (Lyn Rose)

Beautiful vegans are nade not born. It's never too early to become compassionate and steward for the environment. The Judeo-Christian Bible never really gave us "dominion" over animals and nature, so much as entrusted us with stewardship over them, which means that humans in line with their divine potential are caretakers of this planet. The Buddhist attitude towards nature is even clearer: We are not simply a part of nature, and we are never apart from it, but at every moment we are interdependent with everything around us. The sooner we recognize it, the closer we approach the mystical state of non-duality, perceiving only the interconnectedness of all life, animate and inanimate. "When I change, the world changes." Buddhist need not join the World Vegan Society or grow vegan kids, because caring enough to at least go vegetarian on lunar observance days (quarter, new, and full moon days) is a great thing. Observing "Meatless Mondays" is enough. Going halfitarian, simply eating twice as much healthy animal-free foods than we do now, is enough.

Why Vegan?

One answer comes from famous JuBu (Jewish-Buddhist) and all around scientist Albert Einstein:

"A human being is a part of the whole called the 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of... consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in all its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself part of the liberation and foundation for inner security."