GrandmasterP

Happy New Year chums.

All well here with MrsGMP and I.

Mega busy with new business but just popped in to say Hi.

Anyone who wants a guru will find one.

There's no shortage of jobbing gurus on the market each touting for customers.

Osho was no better nor worse than any of the others, he was maybe a little bit more 'up front' about what he was doing, and how; is all.

Every guru, ashram and utopian community has people who join up and then leave with tales of woe and or horror.

It happens almost every time everywhere.

Guru-ing is a business, these people get their living by it and there's a guru out there to suit everybody. Find out who is hot and who is not in the guru-ing industry by checking Sarlos Guru Ratings here..

http://www3.telus.net/public/sarlo/Ratings.htm

All I know about the Osho Rajneesh people for sure is that they fought for and won the right to freely publish Osho's works when the 'official' Osho outfit attempted to secure worldwide copyright.

Here's Osho's outstanding commentary on Chuang Tzu...

http://www.oshorajneesh.com/download/osho-books/Tao/When_the_Shoe_Fits.pdf

Enjoy.

BTW

Apologies for my absence from the forum. A new small-business venture is keeping me rather busy but I do pop in and read posts from time to time.

Best regards to all

Possibly told this NLP yarn on here before...

Some years ago the college faculty I worked in was flusher than usual with cash and decided to put us senior lecturers through an NLP 'Masters' programme. Our then Head of Faculty was a big NLP fan and the 'trainer' was a chum of hers. We were instructed to attend for one morning a week in term time during that academic year.

Naturally bolshie and suspicious of NLP I didn't want to go, made excuses and was then issued with a 'turn up OR ELSE' memo by the Head of Faculty. Hence I attended the first session not in the most positive frame of mind. Sat there with my arms folded, said very little save asking a couple of pointed questions about NLP's validity. We broke for coffee mid morning and the NLP trainer came and sat with me. He was just generally chatting, nothing about NLP as such, he asked me about what I taught shared a bit about his own teaching career and seemed just generally sociable.

I found myself thinking... " This guy is OK and I have been a bit of a dick." Then it dawned on me and I said..." You were NLP-ing me then weren't you?" The guy just smiled and said... " Yeah I was.. It really does work you know."

Can't say that I enjoyed all of that NLP course, the 'theory' sections left me cold as it seemed they were attempting to theorise 'after the fact' ( making up a theory to fit observed outcomes that would probably occur with or without any 'backing' theory) However I completed the course successfully did the practicum 'exams' and eventually got the certificate. What I do know for sure is that some ( not all) NLP techniques do work and that those techniques work on almost everyone. Why those effective NLP 'riffs' do work is open to a theorised debate that I had no time for when I did the course and have less time for now I'm retired.

Adyashanti gets a nice living from what he does and good luck to the lad.

Nobody is compelled to pay for his merchandise but plenty of people do so he must be suiting his customer base.

'Transmission's' a sticky concept.

My mate Tony Parsons another ( but less expensive) woo-merchant deliberately tells his audiences that he has absolutely nothing to give them.

Yet still some come away saying that it was a satsang and that they 'received' something by 'transmission' simply from sitting listening to Tony.

Anyone needing a guru will find the guru that suits them.

Duplicate

This is a split off of the Baltimore topic, and is not at all addressing it...this topic is only a meditation on how jobs come to be...

For one, there is the obvious way: some company exists which needs help and lets you know that they're hiring. Like the local grocery store needing stockers.

 

But lets say that you live in an area where basically every job is taken, where no companies want to establish themselves. There seem to be no jobs and lots of people are living in poverty.

 

What is the solution in that area? Is the government for instance actually able to swoop in and create jobs there? How would those jobs be created? How does one create a job that pays money, out of nothing? Is there actually a service being provided, that people will continue to pay for, or is it just a way to say that someone got hired somewhere?

I'm truly wondering how the government would be capable of just making jobs appear, unless they are government jobs that open up by expanding various departments.

 

...another option for where jobs come from: entrepreneurs. Individual citizens identify the needs of a part of society, and fulfill those needs. For instance, doctors exist because people get sick and want someone to solve that problem. There is a need. There is even a human need for entertainment, and it can become very lucrative (for instance, look at the money involved in the NFL).

A tricky aspect is...once you've found a really brilliant idea for a new business, how are you going to get customers if mostly everyone in your area is poor? The nice thing about our world right now is that we're globally connected, and lots of small businesses can sprout up online, rather than relying on locals. But not all small businesses are capable of that...for instance if you have a solution to a problem that only applies to your local community.

Anyway, it's like the saying, "money doesn't grow on trees". It comes from somewhere...lets think about where that is. It's easy to say that money comes from jobs that you work. But then where do jobs come from? Do they come from the government? If so, then the government can take them from your community as well, or simply not hand them out to your community...and you end up living your life on your knees. It's easy to say that, at the root, jobs come from identifying solutions to problems that exist and building businesses based off of that...but then where do customers with money come from? It's not easy to build something from the ground up.

Yet, others have done it.

There's always somebody who wants something doing. We moved to this small seaside hamlet last October when I retired. Come January I was bored off my bits doing nothing all day. So I started up a little window cleaning business and advertised it in the Parish Magazine that goes out free to most homes here. Now I'm busy via that advert plus customer recommendation. There's plenty of work out there if you go and look for it.

Anyone wanna help me?

 

Basically the idea is that lazyness doesnt exist only a lack of knowing oneself. Cause if people knew what they liked, then they wouldn't be lazy.

 

Gonna feature chapters like

 

The Art of War...against calories. Not making any unnecissary movements towards food.

Zen to Ten..pounds.

 

Lau Tzu says, get off your butt!

"Eat less.. Exercise more."

The End.

"There is no such thing as absolute truth.

And that's the absolute truth."

Is that really a helpful question? 

Screaming ' Why me?'... Takes away the pain.

German beer is pretty pure.

They have laws.

German beer labels always carry the inscription "Gebraut nach dem deutschen Reinheitsgebot" or "Gebraut nach dem Bayerischen Reinheitsgebot von 1516" (brewed according to the German Purity Law or the Bavarian Purity Law of 1516). This "beer purity" law is one of the most remarkable and perhaps most misunderstood pieces of legislation. The original law was a ducal decree issued on April 23, 1516, by the Bavarian co-rulers Duke Wilhelm IV and Duke Ludwig X (below). It was introduced at a meeting of an assembly of the Estates of Bavaria, at Ingolstadt, some 60 miles north of Munich. Initially only in feudal Bavaria, but later in all of Germany, the Reinheitsgebot gave government the tools to regulate the ingredients, processes and quality of beer sold to the public (and to levy taxes on beer!). The Reinheitsgebot is the oldest, still valid food safety law in the world.

Why me?

German beer is pretty pure.

They have laws.

" .... We know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know."

Punctuation can change that last line to......

Hope, that helps.

One hand washes the other.

I'd say that we can't change the absolute and the end game of it, (or beginning game of it) but we can change or have variable impact on everything else from a-z and our part and place in it, thus from ourselves and to whatever degree with all the forms of energy in the universe.

 

What are your further extrapolations along such lines?

Hope for the best.

Anticipate the worst.

Hope that helps.

Pragmatism

( cos shit happens).

I have learnt my lesson...

your honour.

Massive high tides here following those events.

Pretty scary.

All back to normal now thank goodness.

One thing for sure.

Anyone attempting to explain or critique QP and/or Superstring Theory - and who does not currently hold tenure in an accredited university or institute currently in receipt of research funding into their field - has not the first idea what they are talking about.

Self included.

I only know that superstring trumps QP because the physics boffins at my old uni who had drawn down funding for QP had to re- bid for superstring work because all the research funds for QP had dried up.

Anybody who gets banned from here has had to be an unutterable pillock.

It's not as if the mods don't warn people.

I've been warned often enough.

Mainly politely sometimes not.

Albeit that 'not' was back in the day of a psycho mod, no longer here; who was all over me like a bad rash.

Total bunny boiler she was and no mistake.

"For that he deserved to be pitted."

Yep, that and his awful acting.

I go on another forum that used to get a bit snippy sometimes and people were banned or suspended pretty frequently.

I was suspended four times over a couple of years, appealed two and had them lifted but served two suspensions of a week each.

Both times for 'spamming' by going off topic.

Massive forum so it was really no biggie in one way as far as numbers posting went.

Then the forum owner banned bans and , almost overnight; the forum became much more polite.

If a thread gets out of hand it gets "pitted" but that hardly ever happens.

QP is so 20th century.

Superstring theory is the only game in town nowadays.