Shaolin Literature

[GeneChing]

on these boards..you're kidding right

I'm never more serious then when I'm discussing the bringing of laughter.

There was this often cited experiment where they rigged a monkey with a button that stimulated it's pleasure center, then gave the monkey the button. So what did it do? What would you do? It pressed the button. It kept pressing the button until it died. Did it die happy?

This raises an interesting question about happiness. Anyone who has pursued happiness as a spiritual quest naturally beleives that it spiritual - at some higher level - something you must have faith in because you can't measure spirit scientifically. But what if it's not? What if happiness is completely chemical? What if the spiritual is the delusion? That's a real tough one to grapple with and I beleive it's why Zennist say the goal is not enlightenment - why in Zen, there is no 'goal'. Perhaps you have to let go of the whole notion of the spiritual being somehow higher than the mundane. No distinction. Naturally we want to think our method, our quest, is somehow the higher ground. Ego, the every persistant enemy, creeps in again. It's so easy to be egotistic about one practice being good, or even better. Therein lies a huge psychic trap, one that many adepts never escape. You can't be attached to your method, be it Shaolin or Sedona. That's like being so attached to the mule that you ride into the Grand Canyon that you fail to see the panorama because your too busy admiring your ass.

Honestly, if it is just about chemicals, and it may well be, ****, get me one of those monkey buttons installed!

[bungle]

Gene
The principle method in sedona is doing something called Aversions and Attachements

Lester Levensons biography book is called "No Aversions, no attachments"

You get my drift?

Now can i let go of wanting to be right? Will i let go of wanting to be right? And When?

Ok, i'll quit while i'm best!!!

[GeneChing]

Now can i let go of wanting to be right? Will i let go of wanting to be right? And When?

You will let go of wanting to be right when you let go of wanting. Don't be attached to non-attachment. Don't be adversed to inaversion.

[GeneChing]

I had no idea where to post this. Here will do.

China Focus: Space technologies to protect Shaolin heritage
Source: Xinhua| 2018-05-15 16:51:35|Editor: ZX

BEIJING, May 15 (Xinhua) -- It was a strange sight: a group of monks from the Shaolin Temple, the cradle of Chinese kung fu, walking through the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (ALVT), producer of China's Long March carrier rockets.

Shaolin abbot Shi Yongxin, in a brown robe, led the delegation to explore the use of rocket technologies to protect the ancient books in the temple, which has a history of about 1,500 years and is listed as a world cultural heritage site.

The ALVT has developed an advanced book protection system based on aerospace technologies.

This drew the interest of the Shaolin monks who reportedly have many paper books damaged by pests and mildew. Located in the mountains of central China's Henan Province, the environment is humid in summer and cold and dry in winter, and has a huge number of visitors every year. These conditions are unfavorable for the protection of ancient books.

The main part of the ALVT protection system a sealed, waterproof, fireproof and insect-proof box.

Fan Xinzhong, director of the structure office of ALVT's department of tactical weapons, who is responsible for the design, said the box combined advanced aerospace technologies, such as rocket heat insulation, the honeycomb sandwich structure of the rocket fairing and the composite material used in the spacecraft capsule.

Fellow researcher Shan Yijiao said the heat insulation material can keep the temperature inside the box below 60 degrees centigrade for an hour in a fire. And the honeycomb sandwich structure enables the box to resist impacts and compression, and to float in water.

Lei Bao, designer of the box door lock, said they also borrowed spacecraft sealing technology to make the box 100-percent waterproof and dustproof.

Worms and insects cannot live inside the box with little oxygen. And the humidity can be controlled through a monitoring system to prevent bacteria and mildew.

ALVT is planning systems for more libraries, museums, archives and temples to help protect cultural relics on Earth by using technologies gained from reaching for the stars.