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Concentrate, Contemplate, Meditate…

Concentration of Mindfulness of Breathing (Ānāpānasati)

Mindfulness of breathing developed and repeatedly practiced, is of great fruit, of great benefit; mindfulness of breathing developed and repeatedly practiced, perfects the four foundations of mindfulness; the four foundations of mindfulness, developed and repeatedly practiced, perfect the seven enlightenment factors (mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration, and equanimity); the seven enlightenment factors, developed and repeatedly practiced, perfect clear vision and deliverance.

Concentrate, contemplate, meditate…

This is a certain body among bodies, namely, the breath.

  • Know, “I breathe in long”; or “I breathe out long.”;
  • Or “I breathe in short”; or “I breathe out short.”
  • Experience the whole body breathe in, thus breathe out
  • Calm the body formations breathe in, thus breathe out

Abide contemplating body in body, ardent, clearly comprehending, mindful, having put away covetousness and grief regarding the world.

This is a certain feeling among feelings, namely, the complete attention to in-breathing and out-breathing.

  • Experiencing rapture breathe in, thus breathe out
  • 
Experiencing bliss breathe in, thus breathe out
  • Experiencing the mental formations breathe in, thus breathe out
  • Calming the mental formations breathe in, thus breathe out

Abide contemplating feelings in feeling, ardent, clearly comprehending, mindful, having put away covetousness and grief regarding the world.

There is no development of mindfulness of breathing in one who is forgetful and does not clearly comprehend.

  • Experiencing the mind breathe in, thus breathe out
  • Gladdening the mind breathe in, thus breathe out
  • 
Concentrating the mind breathe in, thus breathe out
  • Liberating the mind breathe in, thus breathe out

Abide contemplating mind in mind, ardent, clearly comprehending, mindful, having put away covetousness and grief regarding the world.

Having seen with understanding what is the abandoning of covetousness and grief, become one who looks on with complete equanimity.

  • Contemplating impermanence breathe in, thus breathe out
  • Contemplating fading away breathe in, thus breathe out
  • 
Contemplating cessation breathe in, thus breathe out
  • Contemplating relinquishment breathe in, thus breathe out

Abide contemplating phenomena in phenomena, ardent, clearly comprehending, mindful, having put away covetousness and grief regarding worldly attachments.

Concentrate, contemplate, meditate, liberate .

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Composition on Dissolution of Illusion

Pale reflective of a brilliant jewel, the Satipatthana

The Four Arousings of Mindfulness,
the right path, for attainment…

Contemplating internally and externally
origination and dissolution,
ardent, clearly comprehending, mindful…

Without illusion for illusion conditioned composite, dispelled:

Abiding, contemplating…

1) Without covetousness and grief in body
for body conditioned composite…

Awareness of the body as transient, compound form.

2) Without covetousness and grief in feelings
for feelings conditioned composite…

Awareness of feelings as conditioned, reactive responses.

3) Without covetousness and grief in consciousness
for consciousness conditioned composite…

Awareness of mind as habituated, temporary moods.

4) Without covetousness and grief in phenomena
for phenomena conditioned composite…

Awareness of phenomena as constructed mental states. 

Contemplating internally and externally
origination and dissolution,
ardent, clearly comprehending, mindful.

This is the only way for the purification of beings,
for overcoming sorrow and lamentation,
for the destruction of suffering and grief.

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With Whole Heart Desire

Praise be to the ‘ī-her,
Inner ‘īghts heaven soar,
Lion of Judah roared,
“Praises to the most ‘īgh,
Ras tafarī!”

In Jah house for ī-ver more,
my refuge on path to lī-beration,
without hate, greed, nor ī-llusion.
Of any means to them end,
“Wherein all find refuge on path to lī-beration,
Absent hate, greed, and ī-llusion,
In Jah house for ī-ver more.”

Lion of Judah roared,
“Praise be to the most ‘īgh,
Ras tafarī!”

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For Light and Transient Causes…

From: Preliminaries of the Farsees: “Ced’a-meon League Recognition of Rights” of contextual relevance to “Declaration of War against the Ri’cilian Coalition”

I. Ced’a-meon League Recognition of Rights 

Establishing
No matter place or culture, human nature is remarkably similar.

Man, on the whole, is more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to abolish the forms to which they are accustomed.

Laws codify revelation of that self-evident, in harmony with natural order. Rules of Law that protect selfish or select interests sow disorder by infringing on natural rights and are means of oppression.

A government of the people is one beholden to its citizens, when citizens are beholden to the government it is an authoritative entity, dictating rights not protecting them. Any government that is not local, by definition, is an authoritative entity, dictating rights not protecting them.

Natural Order
These truths are self-evident, that all are created equal, endowed with rights to life, pursuit of freedom, and liberty.

1. There are no other laws other than natural law.
2. All have right to throw off and oppose any who would shackle and oppress.
3. Take not revolution in vain, make just your cause.
4. If you would govern, reflect on and abide in natural law as it relates to self and others.
5. If you would be governed, reflect on government, its price, versus freedoms given and those taken.
6. Do not kill.
7. Do not take nor covet what is not yours.
8. Recognize the rights of others as thus explained.
9. Protect those rights collectively conforming, to these principles.
10. Bear witness to truth.

Declaration
One needs no other cause to declaration of separation from that which opposes the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.

II. Ced’a-meon League’s Declaration of War against the Ri’cilian Coalition

Whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of the natural order as codified in the Declaration of Rights, it is the right of the threatened and oppressed to oppose said despotism. It is the right of those threatened and oppressed to lay a foundation on such principles and organize means in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety, freedom and liberty.

Wherein the Ri’cilian Coalition and the Ced’a-meon League having deposed the Zi’anian Empire, the League has taken the mantel of protectorate of its member states. The Coalition, under guise of democracy, has repeatedly demonstrated its intent to replace by force and coercion the Zi’anian Empire, as hegemonic despot of the Phateon System.

On numerous occasions the League has broached the “Charters of the Alliance” as retained in “The Dissolution Treaty” and further have shown disregard for the treaties stipulations on Planetary Law. See “Appendix 1: Grievances” to this declaration for a complete listing of explicit Treaty violations.

Most grievous, having directly involved itself in the War of Unification on Lis’inth on behalf of Peleios against League State Elean, the Coalition has demonstrated its greatest disregard for the “Charters of the Alliance” as retained in “The Dissolution Treaty” and threaten the existence of the League itself by having:

  1. Directly intervened in the Battle of Paleo Bay on behalf of Peleios against Elean, a League State.
  2. Encroached on Planetary Law with one of its Battle Fleets when intervening in the Battle of Paleo Bay.
  3. Directly threatened the way of life and existence of the League and her individual states by disregarding the expressed concerns of the League as outlined in the “Lis’inthian Accords”.

The Ced’a-meon League, consisting of Ced’a-meon Proper, States of Arcania, and Lis’inth Elania, hereby declare the dissolution of the “Lis’inthian Accords” and further absolve themselves from the “Charters of the Alliance” as retained in “The Dissolution Treaty.”

The Ced’a-meon League and individual charter states declare war on E’ricle and any state in alliance with E’ricle in this matter.

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Cornerstone

In the house of my father…
I find,
Blessings of my mother,
A memory from eve
of Christ’s Mass antecedent,
And comfort in namesake,
Child from Lebanon’s waters,
“Words are too poor and too
Scant to express the innermost
Feeling in the heart of man.”

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Base of a Mediation Practice

ti-sarana saranagamana saranagamana saranagamana
om vajrasattva hum
ohm ah hum 
with full heart
empty hands
thus motivated I and I meditate on emptiness
and liberation of
all sentient beings
may all find refuge on the path of liberation
may all be without hate, greed, illusion
may I be of any means to such end
for as long as space remains
for as long as beings endure
so too may I abide to dispel suffering in samsara
om ah hum vajra guru padma siddhi hung

soham p-hat

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Sovereignty

Long I sought 
Self I thought. 
But no self found, 
To no self bound.
In thought profound,
Realize,
Desire most innate,
Freedom’s 
Prosperity,
Pursuit self liberty.