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Meditating on Money
"DICE.COM MAKES YOUR IT NIRVANA come true because we focus exclusively on quality high tech jobs with only the best companies... We make it easy to find the perfect IT job, the biggest paycheck and, if you're lucky, spiritual enlightenment."
---From an ad in the Dec/Jan 2000-2001
issue of Publish magazine for a website
offering Information Technology job postings
'Please Create a Paradise...'
DEAR UN, POLICE & MEDIA, this text is no Spam, it suits human rights issues that are threatened and endangered more and more every day. ... Multi-dimensions are explained in one of the books beneath. To make it short God had a brother, Lucifer, L wanted to rule the universe, made a conspiracy fell from heaven and God created the heavens (7) Earth and the hells (6). Earth is a connection point where both have influence. Buddhist monks or Hindu Yogis will be able to explain a lot otherwise (http://www.govinda.ch Armin Risi). As Buddhists and Hindu know and some Vegans experienced, meat reduces life span (around 30 percent as western scientists prove, health, beautiness, smell, and destroy the environment It also forces the human eating it to re- incarnate thus the demons have longer periods of influence...) Much, much more is found in the books and links beneath. Please create a paradise on this planet and no hell wake up before it is too late. Freedom & Justice for Love and Life Part of the truth and your power to rule your self. Is in these books. All sources are from medicine, politics etc. and official, or come from brave officials risking their lives.
---Excerpt from a long e-mail rant
received at Charleston Gazette Jan. 13, 2001,
from "F.J."with subject line "human rights,"
followed by long list of links and books
Karma that really grows on you
KAREN SHELTON IS TESTING the coiffure limits with HairBoutique.com, where hair aficionados can peruse 1,000 virtual pages of hair information or e-shop for 400 staff-tested products that range from wave tamers to dreadlock wax to hair jewelry. "My karma was to become the cross between Ann Landers and Ralph Nader of Internet hair-care information,'' she says... The 49-year-old Shelton, who describes herself as "hair-brained and tech-minded,'' wears two hats as CEO of both HairBoutique.com and T&S Software, a Richardson, Texas-based telecommunications software company.
---From a January 2001 profile
by Cheryl Hall in the Dallas Morning News
Eating Your Way to Wisdom
"ZEN PALATE: An eating tour of Japan's timeless Kyoto, where the spirit of Zen Buddhism permeates everything from the architecture to the food."
---feature story in January 2001
Food and Wine magazine
(submitted by Judy Grigoraci)
Pop Star Samadhi
AS ALWAYS, LANG'S LYRICS get to the heart of the matter emotionally and spiritually but leave the door wide open where gender is concerned. She says she deliberately tries to write about love from a more general point of view, one that's not necessarily autobiographical or terribly personal. "I have my own set of beliefs, morals,'' she says, "and I try to take a Buddhist approach'' where those who would criticize are concerned. "Oh, it's out there,'' she says about criticism and disrespect of her lifestyle choices, "But when you acknowledge them, they exist.'' She chooses to withhold that validation.
---from a December 2000 feature story
on singer k.d. lang by Jean Prescott,
Knight Ridder Newspapers
Ozone Enlightenment
DEAR DOCTOR SCIENCE: Sometimes I hear that ozone is good, and sometimes I hear that it's a problem. Which is it?-- Uma Smith from Burlington, VT
DOCTOR SCIENCE: It's both! Ozone is basically hypertriplicated oxygen, with a little carbon monoxide thrown in for good measure. It's created whenever the fourth dimension rips. While that rip heals, ozone escapes -- much in the same way the aromatic smell of rich coffee wafts from a bag of whole coffee beans when you stomp on it. After a thunderstorm, the clean, fresh scent we smell is ozone. When we visit Los Angeles, the sharp, burning smell that greets us as we step off the plane is also...ozone! So ozone is the ultimate Buddhist substance. It's everything and nothing, and both at the same time.
---from the Dec. 20 e-mail
newsletter of the popular
U.S. radio program "Dr. Science"
(submitted by J. Michael Mollohan)
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