http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24468573/from/ET/

By clicking onto the E-address you will read a rather weird Article on Chi and Portland , Orygun. It seems that Acupuncture is not just for people anymore; it's also for Cities...

Especially if the City happens to be Portland, Oregon (Orygun). What is it you say ?

Well, it seems that a Cosmic Acupuncturist, Adam  Kuby has stuck a 23 foot needle into the ground down by the River we call the Willamette. (Wil Lam itt) as in Cousin ITT, the River the flows through the middle of "The Rose City".  (Pasadena is "The City of Roses)!

Unusual...perhaps not for Portland...the city that produced Mountain Livingston !

Hey, Portland truly has it's quirkier qualities; The 24 Hour Church of Elvis, The VOODOO Doughnut Shop, The NUDE Bike Festival(s), The 5KBare Buns Run in Forest Park, and of course, The Worlds Longest Drag-Queen Chorus Line...

But then dare we forget POWELLS, The City of Books (Billed as the nations Second-largest Bookstore; or as Sandy Shore would entreat, visit VELVETERIA, a museum of pure Black Velvet Paintings.

Portland has been called "The Peoples Republic of Portland, "BEERVANA", and the first President Bush called Portland, "Little Beirut" because of the Hostile receptions he could rely on, and his son hasn't fared any better...

But, what do you expect from a city that claims to have coined the name "SKID ROW' (skid road)...RAIN...There is always the "Portland Rain Festival" , (January 1^st until December 31^st)...well, in reality, the rain falls from October to may. Moblie, Alabama

 Gets three-times more rain, on average, than Portland does, but Portland has three-times as many rainy days !

Well getting back to the City Acupuncture Treatment, touted as an attempt to get people to see the City in a Holistic way! Kuby wishes us to see "The Rose City" as One Organism. One-body...akin to One World, One people, or as Lineage Master BK Frantzis has said over and over: " In the World there is but One Chi and One Breath"

Well, if you have a Portland Oregonian newspaper for Tuesday, May 6th, and you turn to the "HOW WE LIVE" section; (Section D) you will find, at the top of page D-2 ... 

                                              ATTACHMENTS

Asian believers, (Buddhists, Taoists etc) have a reputation for paring-down their lives. (I guess it goes ‘hand-n-glove' with meditation). They believe the human beings cling to people, objects, attitudes and behaviors, and that these attachments create suffering, they also believe it's possible to overcome attachments.

Here we shall share some stuff :

Four Thoughts: Ani Gilda Paldron Taylor, a Nun and Teacher in the Tibetan tradition says, Buddhism's most useful teaching is distilled in the "Four Thoughts That Turn the Mind" They are the Preciousness of human life, cause and effect, Impermanence, and suffering. The greatest teaching of the four is Impermanence, she says. What we like in life is Stability: We want to know what's going on. We count on our Paycheck. We want our families to be healthy.

Life isn't Stable: There are "Cycles of life" Taylor says. "Times when life is good/times when life is not-so-good. Not one day is like another day. Not one relationship is like another, no job is like another. Impermanence is the name of the game.

Attachment Hurts: Being attached  to anything-a Television show, a car, a ballgame-can isolate people and obscure what gives their lives meaning, says the rev. Jundo Gregory Gibbs, minister to the Oregon Buddhist Temple in Southeast Portland. "Attachments get us stuck, keep us from rolling with the punches".

Try This Instead: When you feel frustrated, angry, envious or crave something, think about what you're attached to. Ask yourself what's really important in your life, Gibbs says. If we think, we can stop projecting into the future, lamenting about the past or grasping after a time when things were better. The process of wisdom occurs spontaneously...

WOW...in a major daily Newspaper, and not buried either...in a town that gets Acupuncture...in hopes of staying Weird !

Then next to this we find Rules to live by in today's uncivil World :

1. Pay Attention 2. Acknowledge Others 3. Think Best 4. Listen 5. Be Inclusive 6. Speak Kindly 7. Don't speak ill 8. Accept and give praise 9. Respect even a subtle "no". 10. Respect others opinions 11. Mind your Body 12. Be Agreeable 13. Keep it Down (and rediscover silence) 14. Respect other peoples time 15. Respect other peoples' space 16. Apologize earnestly 17. Assert yourself 18. Avoid personal Questions 19. Care for your Guests 20. Be a good Guest 21. Think twice before asking for favors 22. Refrain from idle complaints 23. Accept and give constructive criticism 24. Respect the Environment and be gentle to all living things 25. Don't shift responsibility and blame.

Exhaustive...by no means. Interesting, indeed! Especially in a town newspaper in an area of the nation that is the most Unchurched...but that implies in no way that we are unspiritual...Just weird

Just Food for Thought...

  Fred