The Intellect paves the way

by Intellect, not the pure rational, that can lead one astray

Rational logic, without True premises, false are conclusions, this one of sane mind should Know

Chose Truth, Sanctify one's rational thoughts, Conclusions, their Sacred Perfume, only of Heaven one would Know

Our philosophy

Our philosophy is simple, our philosophy essential

to find one's Peace, Felicity & Purpose in the Nature of Things

To grasp the Object independent of the temporal subject, The Object is the Subject, The Subject/Object defines the temporal subject; a path based on the essential

The Supreme Object, the End & the Beginning are but the same, The Subject and the Object are but the same, such is the
Nature of Things

The temporal subject finds its joy & felicity in the Uncreated Subject/Object, the Beginning & End, the Essential Uncreated Light

through effacement of the subject, through Grace, to Heaven is the temporal subject's flight!

then there is purpose, whatever one's temporal object, Nobility of Soul, ensures the temporal object, is illumined by the Object/Subject, the Nature of Things

Our Path is essential, finding one's Peace, Felicity & Purpose in the Nature of Things

What the modern world suffers from is excesses

Either we find individuals plagued with a lack of imagination, or a narrow mindedness.

Or an imagination that has no sense of proportion, no grounding of what reality is, an opening to all sorts of fantasy.

For example, if you take the individual plagued by "scientism" he's narrow minded to the extent he fails to see possibility going past empiri
cism, but yet has the imagination, that lacks any sense of proportion, that allows him to dream of the most fantastic delusions (a.k.a much of science fiction).

Blind men can dream, but being Man, we aren't blind, all we have to do is open our eyes (figuratively speaking), what we see, we may not like, if we don't like it, let us change it for the better, for Nobility's sake, for Truth's sake, for there is nothing else worthy of doing.

This change may involve changing ourselves!!!!!!!

A sign, nothing more nothing less,

a sign, nothing more nothing less,
Truth, nothing can suppress
Heaven conquers all, this Truth we profess

knowing Truth, there is no second guess
Trust in the Immutable, is success
To fulfill is easier said than done, this we confess

yet, we strive for the Divine, in earnestness
for the greatest we seek, in Heaven's Loveliness

Success is in one's sereneness

move with fearlessness
consumed by the Eternal One, Everything communicates His Oneness
what luminous profoundness!

Love is not blind

Love is not blind
Love is not deaf
Love is not without scent
Love is not without taste
Love is not without feeling
Love is not without Thought

Love is not without Will
Love is not without Memory
Love is not without Imagination

Love consumes the whole of one's Being, only those in Love Know.

Discipline & self control

what is it that dictates our soul

there is cause then effect
through the intellect we see all impulse, we resist, but what is perfect?

perfection is in the intention
what does one want fulfilled? satiation?

then intend on the Nature of Things, such will do you well
do not intend petty things, for the world, your soul, to Hell, do not sell

Warrior Monks

Oh Warriors, Oh Monks, Oh you who combine the two
Active and contemplative towards all that is True
Fortress to Truth & its Way
Heaven give you strength, May we join you as Witnesses of Heaven, with Truth may We perpetually stay

Those who wish to use their own power let them know

Those who wish to use their own power let them know

they have no power of their own, they are dependent on everyone & everything, delusional is self power, if one claims, if one claims to know

those who use trickery, to Hell to them in this world & the Hereafter, that Truth, falsehood is suffering may all who use trickery Know

Heaven has power, if one denies it or not, there is the Nature of Things

Submit to Heaven, Heaven Sings, Heaven always wins, fly to Heaven, Humility, it will give you Celestial Wings

time is short

time is short, Heaven Lasts forever
attach to the sacred, all else sever
no one will save you from this Hell
Only Heaven, Eternally Holds out its Hand, hold on, be silent, and listen, be guided by its call, the beautiful sonorous Bell

What do we mean by GOD

What do we mean by GOD, may we define
when we speak of GOD we speak of that which is Uncreated, that which words can not define
let us know we are within space & time
not be moved, by form & rhyme

Let it be substance, essence, Truth that moves us
or else, to be honest, that which does not have Truth, is evil, is useless

How many thoughts fill our mind

How many thoughts fill our mind
voices we hear, so many one will find
however, one conquers & dominates them all
It is The Supreme Principle, it shows us what man was before the fall

the Path, Truth & Way, is to Know of Heaven, to Sing Beauty so to say
Let us participate & communicate Truth, may that be are only Way, with Heaven may we stay

Kuan Yin Liezi

"Kuan Yin spoke to the Master Liezi, saying: 'If speech is sweet, the echo will be sweet; if speech is harsh, the echo will be harsh. If the body is long, the shadow will be long; if the body is short, the shadow will be short. Reputation is like an echo, personal experiences like a shadow. Hence the saying: "Heed your words, and they will meet with harmonious response; heed your actions, and they will find agreeable accord." Therefore, the Sage observes the origin in order to know the issue, scrutinizes the past in order to know the future. Such is the principle whereby he attains foreknowledge."

~

Liezi

In every moment

In every moment, in every event of your life, the Beloved is whispering to you exactly what you need to hear and know. Who can ever explain this miracle? It simply is. Listen and you will discover it every passing moment. Listen, and your whole life will become a conversation in thought and act between you and Him, directly, wordlessly, now and always.

~ Rumi

The inherent good of people - General Psychology

In this thesis we explain how the notation ‘everyone’s born good, world alters him evil’ is true. There is always something within us that’s dealing with right and wrong. No one really wants to do things that are termed as ‘unethical.’ But the question that arises is that how come the people turn ‘unethical’, while even living amongst all the morally strong people of the world that inherent goodness?

One theory we often hear is that people get subjective to bad in the world. They are born well, but when people around them carry out disrespected things to them, they render them evil as a reflexive action. We all need to be raised in a good quality atmosphere that is without the influence of dishonest social order. Labeling an infant as inherently evil is not anything more than a ridiculous stupidity. One has to say that they are good, that they are guiltless and creditable of love, care and justify nurture in the most constructive environment that could be possible.

Let us now talk about that then why there is evil in the world even if the fact is that we are born well. All the terrible behavioral acts that a person takes answer a necessity. Gangsters, drug carriers, burglars are all the outcomes of the society we live in. So it’s about the society and not the child that the innocent born kid becomes deadly and disrespectful. “Toxic kids”, a term often coined by psychiatrists is the consequence of their ill understanding of the world. A child is born innocent in this world, so all he has is what he has gained from this world, either evil or good.

On the contrary a clean environment nourishes the ability of good that a child was born with. The inherent benevolence of a child gets shaped into relationships. Virtue is found in the constructive relationships among young people. Values, ethics and morals live within social interactions. The inherent integrity of a kid is raised in virtuous relations. The absence of social norms causes the kid to loose his inherent goodness.

In a study conducted by Villareal, Trandis, Bontempo, and Lucca in the year 1988 proves that human behavior focuses on exterior and environmental forces to come into the eventual definition of ‘who you are’. The results obtained by this study proves that social norms and cultural values have immense affect on every born individual and set out to show that character comes any from any distinctive or collectivist cultures.

Every society holds some rules and regulations that the citizens need to abide. Usually the rules in western society stand on the ideology of doing right and abstaining from doing things the wrong way. For instance, we are not permitted to steal other people's belongings or kill other people. I would like to consider that most people would abstain from burglary or killing even if it was not in opposition to the law. On the contrary, the majority people do not do awful acts like rape, persecute or murder people, since it is against the rule and they are scared of getting trapped, is very sad.

The African cities have no establishment of civil society other than the inherent goodness in individuals. Feeble and distant government, burglary, corruption from law enforcing agents, besieged hospitals, no scientific society, no liberal media and journalism and no ordered social or political goings-on. Everyone feels the pain of insecurity. But the time any of the area is hit by a natural disaster, everyone gets united to help the needy. Like the time when Haiti was hit by an earthquake in 2010. Just because of their inner consciousness.

A behavior theory on human nature by Markx says that animals create only according to the principles and needs of the class to which they belong, while men is competent of fabricating according to the standards of all specie and of applying to each entity, its inherent standard. Men can produce according to its external stimuli.

Nitai Harbeli says:

"Distance yourself from a bad neighbor and do not join with an evil person."

The primary assumption in this statement, made by Nitai is that human temperament, obtained from nature, is strongly ‘good’. That’s the reason why the inner consciousness for ethical, moral and spiritual self-improvement is pulling out us from negative influences. Avoiding the immorality, including the inclination towards evil, within ourselves, clears the pathway for our inherent righteousness. According to the gossip, who can be the “bad neighbor” as described by Nitai? Even though there are a variety of explanations, we can perhaps differentiate the core of the difference by investigating how we are concerned to inter relate both. For instance, is somebody we need to reserve ourselves from? That would mean that the threat inherent in this being is our difficulty to him, keeping him reserved. Each individual influences his closeness as a lot as anything else. The bad influence anyone put forth is not certainly obvious. Though, therein lays the risk that the influence is subtle. Similar to undertow at a seaside, you find physically being drawn out to spaces you don't want to be exclusive of becoming conscious of it. So don't let yourself mislead or drawn in by delicate influences that encircle us all over or you will end up losing what you inherent by nature.

According to the book on the topic of ‘leadership’ by Peter Koestenbaum, leadership is referred as an inherent good. The ruling class carries their qualities from genes and they need not to really work hard to achieve greatness. Comparatively to a person who first aims to be a responsible human then sets his goals to become a leader. The generation bought up by professors, intellects, scientists and other supreme persons are trained to lead even before they are born.

According to Popkin, in his book ‘philosophy made simple’, discusses some of the day to day lessons of psychology. Some biological facts enlightens us that the nature of a child begins as develop in the mother’s womb and also on the mindset of the couple while they are mating. Therefore the people, who are said to be good natured, usually give birth and bring up children, who inherit the goodwill philosophy from their parents. Every human lives his early childhood with his guardians, who gave birth to him. The cultural, ethical and moral values are transferred from parents to their offspring. This is a procedure followed by nature.

According to an English writer, Jean Maalouf in his book “the healing power of kindness’ declared love and kindness as one of the most powerful weapon nature possess. As a child grows among his parents, whose centre for love and care are their offspring, they absorb the element of love from them. They feel the importance of being kind, and signify it as a weapon against all immorality of the world. The children continue to follow the character of his parents as they become ideal personalities for him. Therefore the children belonging to the families where ethical, moral and religious values are given importance are usually honorable citizens of any society.

Psychology Case Study - Dustin Staples

The case of Barbie is pressing and must be dealt with swiftly and with no pause for error or lack of judgement. It brings up many different issues that have been brought to the hospital with many different ethical stances on how to proceed. As deliberators we must take into account all sides of this situation to most effectively treat Barbie in a way that is morally permissible; it must also be able to stand as a valid constitute for future protocol. There are three options for treatment, all having different magnitudes of residual affects which the hospital will have to stand by in similar cases.

Barbie is in need of a new liver to alleviate her from the impending affects of liver failure. The first option for liver transplant is unorthodox which was further brought to light in a letter from the executive director of an animal cruelty organization; his concern being the life of the healthy pig and its sacrifice for temporary ailment relief. The hospital needs to inform this director of the huge difference in inherent value of the two lives at stake. The death of the pig should not go un-heeded because all life should be valued thus deserving some respect; but, as with all animals, we have dominion over them so time after time there will be sufficient reasons to warrant the sacrifice for the greater good of society. This director is short sighted, if killing a healthy pig for bacon is permissible it is surely alright killing one to save a human life, all be it, only a short solution to the problem. The potential to save a human life out weighs the life of this pig, one should respond to this vexing letter with that message and our assurance of the capability to determine whether or not it is the right option. The option of a pig to infant liver transplant brings up more ethical issues outside those addressed and these must be considered before this becomes a viable treatment.

There is much speculation around the matter of taking organs from animals due to the sheer difference in genetic structure of the species. This field of practice goes under constant fire for the lack of research and evidence that is needed to support it, especially in a life or death situation. The “Fowler case” sets an example for what ethical qualms to consider; since there was no evidence to show the likely hood of success, going through with the surgery acts the same as not treating the patient at all, or even worse, hurting the family with unrealistic hope and grief. The transplant worked, until hours before the human liver was ready, ending with a devastated family and general public; however we must take into account that it did, almost, work. A lot of knowledge can be gained from experimental procedures, but at what cost?

Learning from the past is critical in medical practice alike all other fields but in medicine the risks can amount to life or death and there is no room to make those mistakes. Experimental procedures must take place if man is to progress but it must be done so ethically with all parties considered; in deadly circumstances there must be measurable probability of success and no other realistic options. Gaining Knowledge from experimental procedures will never justify the means in any case; no matter how promising or trivial it is their must always be a patient with their best interests in mind. Second to the patients health all else can be considered, one of which being, for the sake of science. If the patient dies as a result of an experiment the death is not justified it’s just some value being taken, regardless of what did justify it or if it was justified at all. To justify an experimental practice much more must be considered besides the benefit for others it may bring later, like tampering with the sanctity of human life.

The hospital must respond to a letter from the Executive Director of the Society for the Prevention of Human Cloning regarding outrage on our considering embryonic stem cells to create an alternative liver. This stance stems from the idea that embryos deserve the same inherent rights that sentient humans have and then should not be harvested or created to do so. In our case the embryo is readily available, leaving aside the harm of cloning or educing an embryo just for the sake of harvesting. There is a large distinction between creating an embryo for its stem cells and having a viable one at hand and that should be made clear. There is also the idea, of a slippery slope, that is the underlying concern; if we start to use embryos in experimental research it opens a door that leads to more research and eventually creating embryos to supply it, if not just an addition to the average amount collected for fertility treatment. This is a big issue but if the hospital were to continue, lines could be drawn and regulated alike everything else. If progress was always stifled by fear or abuse the world would be with out prescription drugs and the same could be said in a future cured by stem cells. The hospital must insure this director that stem cells remain a viable option and it would only be pursued with avid care. At the heart of this topic is the sanctity of human life and ethics surrounding how that life is birthed.

If the Barbie’s parents had decided to buy a human egg after preimplantation genetic diagnostics occurred we could center down on the issue of manipulating embryos for the sake of patients. Some question that it undermines the natural order of life, or gods divine hand, but more critically a system that generates eggs for stem cells on demand. If the hospital where to use a purchased egg it would then stand to act as a guideline for the next procedure that was similar, to be treated the same way. The PGD process would also be necessary to assure no further harm would come to the patient at hand. All parties must be thought about if this system is to run, all parties must benefit including the egg donor and security that the physicians wont be negatively impacted. There is a slope with embryo screening, it opens the door for to genetic engineering; if man can dispose of embryos with genetic diseases then why not just take away the disease alone. Once that starts why not modify for other things, so on, so forth; but a line can be drawn, there can be limits set to the depth at which things man can manipulate. There is always the issue of limits being broken, if the standard limits are extended, those who break the limits will be doing something all to terrible, in the case of genetic engineering especially. If the hospital used this option it would still need to face the more critical issue of the embryos actually being sacrificed to use its stem cells, which ties with the act of abortion for many different reasons.

The ethical issues surrounding abortion are whether or not embryonic life, while it has no conscious, sentient, capabilities has the inherent right not to be extorted for any purpose. An embryo is human but then when does a human have worth, an argument is conception; conception is a nice solid line to set, it is right when the individual genetically coded entity is first collected. If this ethical stance is correct it undermines the entirety of some infertility treatments and In Vitro Fertilization all together because the surplus of embryos created by them. A surplus of embryos is an issue here because it acts the same as a large foster home being created and endorsed which is held as a growing negative attribute actively against moral. On the other side of this stance is the idea that conscious sentient life has more worth then never conscious non-sentient, the same that humans have more worth then other species, because the embryo is not truly living if it can not think or feel; it lives in the way a cell does but it also carries the potential for life, but sperm has the same attributes and it would be ludicrous to hold it at worth. It should not be regarded as human until it has the conscious feature that allows any recognition at all, an embryo also cant feel any pain making it a humane death all the same. The line of worth has simply been shifted toward the fetus stage because previous and because the many implications the first ethical stance brings. If embryos had the same worth as humans not only IVF and infertility treatment would be inhumane; women suffering from infertility who try to have a child naturally, knowing a high rate of fertilized eggs aren't making it to the uterus, would also have to come under moral fire. In the anti abortion theory natural birth in fact does more harm to embryos in these cases causing it to fall in on itself; leaving the embryo to fall short of high stature, even by natures protocol. If embryos are worth less then humans it then holds that they can be sacrificed for the life of a human but this doesn’t fully answer the question of whether or not such an experimental procedure is appropriate for the case at hand.

If Barbie doesn’t receive treatment she will die, medical principles back the doctors in doing the procedure that they believe will work best for the health and dignity of the patient. It is principally paramount to care for the patient even if the only option is experimental because these physicians are professionals and are sworn to helping patients. This decision would act as an improvement for the community and a betterment of health by opening a door for many more patients to benefit from stem cells. There is also the family to keep in mind who will stop at nothing to have a kid and having to deal with the trauma of repeated death. It would be a travesty to not attempt something from their perspective and their opinions are important. The doctors are obligated to attempt something for the sake of Barbie because it is in her best interest, however the decision does not remain in their hands; Barbies parents must be the final deciders, the options must be stated clearly to them, as well as the risks that come with it.

Risks are detrimental in this deliberation process and the risks the final decision poses for the entire community are vast. The first option has blatant risk for the baby because the pig liver cells will be so different and it is unlikely that it will be sustainable for any lengthy measure of time. The baby would need a new transplant liver immediately or risk death, also a significant risk then there for the parents. The risk to society is a growing research in temporary organ replacements from animals that could become problematic. The second experimental procedure shows a lot more promise of working for the parents and baby but there is still risk associated with the doctor. In both cases the physicians must take into account the risk criticism and the dignity of the hospital as a whole, legally they should be alright. The risk to society in the second is far more significant in then the first, opening a path to more stem cell research that remains extremely controversial into todays public. The most rational fears come from the risk of what stem cell research will lead to, biogenetic engineering, and a world susceptible to engineered super viruses. This risks can be avoided by setting rules and punishments as society does for anything; rules, regulation, and innovation are the keys to a smooth running community but the people behind these keys will always go under extreme examination.

To lead innovation by successfully undergoing such an experimental procedure will bring the eye of the public on all parties. The hospital and physician’s self-interest in the matter should be to promote the significance of Barbie and her family’s self-interest and how much the success means to them. This will be judged for, means’ and ends’, and it should be emphasized how monumental the ends are before all else. The ends’ for the patient are the center stone of what stem cell research can bring to people in need all over the world and weighing that above all is critical. The self-interest of the physicians is the betterment of the community and they will be judged for the means’ that brought this betterment to be. To succeed would promote stem cell research all together and this should go subtly noticed by all, what the hospital doesn’t want is activist up in arms about them overly glorifying the use of embryonic cells. The hospital should speak to the public gingerly and take pause to mention the severe restraints on time and options on the case. Due to this time restraint a decision must be determined and followed swiftly, since there is no assured successful option the physicians should suggest the treatment that is most likely to work.

The hospital should permit the cloning and transplant of a human organ because the other options are not suitable for bringing the best results. They should not permit the xenotransplant because the likelihood that it will fail before a viable option is ready; the patient is an infant apart of a vulnerable population and the high chance of failure xeno brings is far too much to risk. As seen in the “Fowler case” extreme fire on the hospital would surely follow regarding the unethical methods of using such a unorthodox procedure. The hospital should not wait for a suitable organ to become available because the time restraint regarding Barbies deteriorating condition and necessity of an organ within the year; since the odds are so slim for an organ to become available the physicians are obligated to use another option. The hospital should permit the use of embryonic stem cells for the promising results that could follow, giving Barbie a healthy life and the parents interests fulfilled. Furthermore the hospital should permit the transplant to support the benefits of stem cell research and bring them to light in the eye of the public. The hospital is tasked with making the decision to progress in medical practice and push the boundaries of new medical procedure, to bring a better -- healthier -- society.