SUICIDE & LOVE: OSHO 6

During a conversation with some ‘new’ friends the other night I made a comment that the root cause of suicide was the ‘ego’, something I had figured out myself in one of my depressive states, but which had also been influenced by Osho’s opinion of it. This is a ‘potted’ version of what he says:

People commit suicide not because they are really finished with life but because life is not fulfilling their demands. But no life ever fulfills anybody’s demands. You will always go on missing something or other.

In the East, people commit suicide because of hunger, starvation; you have to be compassionate towards them. The suicide rate is four times higher in the West, people commit suicide because they have everything, and they feel life is meaningless.

Wo/Man’s creativity is fulfilled only when paradise is created inside. One can paint beautiful pictures and yet may live in hell. Van Gogh painted beautiful pictures and committed suicide. Many poets, like Mayakovsky and others, have written beautiful poems but committed suicide. Great philosophers have gone mad, committed suicide, like Friedrich Nietzsche. Their philosophical understanding did not help.

Meaning is of the head, and if you go on searching through the head you will come to the same conclusions as Jean-Paul Sartre and other existentialist philosophers. They say: Life is meaningless. The only thing worth doing is committing suicide….

To feel that life is utterly meaningless is to be on a crossroads: either you choose suicide or you choose sannyas; either you choose madness or you choose meditation. Life is certainly meaningless, but tremendously joyful, hilarious… a dance, a song, a beauty. Only one thing is helpful: that I call love.

Love infinitely.

Now if only I could figure out what 'love' actually is.

http://www.oshoquotes.net/
image: http://heartshurtheartsheal.ning.com/

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FDH Lounge: Midseason motorsports update - NASCAR

The biggest story of the year in NASCAR concerns the man at the top of the season’s leaderboard – a Chase qualifier from 2006 to 2008 who tumbled to 19th last year.

Kevin Harvick has rebounded in stunning fashion and has rounded out his game to levels unforeseen by just about anyone. For example, he did not average a Top-20 finish on restrictor plate tracks in ’09, but won the Bud Shootout and also the July Daytona race this year. His name was not among those widely speculated as those having a decent chance to dethrone four-time defending champ Jimmie Johnson, but he has established himself on that short list with a fury as the top driver at present.

Elsewhere on the landscape …

^ Jeff Gordon (second at present), Jimmie Johnson (third), Denny Hamlin (fourth), Kurt Busch (fifth), Kyle Busch (sixth), Matt Kenseth (eighth), Tony Stewart (ninth), Carl Edwards (tenth), Greg Biffle (eleventh) and Clint Bowyer (twelfth) are all in position to qualify for the Chase as was expected by most observers. Kyle in particular is putting the fluky 13th-place finish of 2009 behind him strongly. Jeff Burton (seventh after a 17th place finish in ’09) and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. (13th after a 25th place finish in ’09) are also sitting in Chase contention at present with decent comeback campaigns. Lil’ E still has a current winless streak of more than two years; however, his recent Nationwide series win at Daytona is expected to deliver momentum to he and his team. We shall see.

^ Of the other drivers widely expected to be in contention for the Chase, Mark Martin is in 14th place and won’t need to run too much better than he has thus far to edge into the qualifying. Ryan Newman and Kasey Kahne are positioned not far behind him. Brian Vickers’ blood clots sadly cut short his campaign and took him out of contention altogether. Juan Pablo Montoya has been a huge disappointment, following his breakthrough finish of eighth in 2009 with a plunge back to 21st at present.

^ As expected, David Reutimann, phenom Joey Logano and Martin Truex, Jr. are on the absolute periphery of Chase contention at the moment. They are joined at that level by surprise Daytona 500 winner Jamie McMurray, who predictably was not able to sustain that early level of success.

^ AJ Allmendinger and Sam Hornish, Jr. continue their fitful transitions from open-wheel racing and each has to be eyeballing what would be significantly greener pastures back in IndyCar right about now.

NASCAR chairman Brian France has indicated that the series is considering tweaking the Chase rules for 2011 to try to ensure that more drivers are in strong contention leading up to the final races. This would of course dilute the effect of strong racing all throughout the Chase, which is the exact element that has allowed Johnson to more or less coast to the title at the very end frequently through the course of his four consecutive victories. Such a modification would be reminiscent of the creation of the Chase in the first place, when Matt Kenseth floated through the 2003 season with only one win but claimed the title anyway and led series officials to believe that a playoff format was necessary. Unsurprisingly, Johnson thinks little of the proposed changes, which would cause the championship to be decided over a smaller sample size over the last month or so. He likes the system just the way it is – and why wouldn’t he?

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FDH Lounge: Midseason Motorsports Update - IndyCar

The IndyCar series, in its second year of reunion under a common banner after almost a decade-and-a-half of ruinous internecine warfare, is regaining some of its momentum with a spirited points chase among many talented drivers. While the exodus to NASCAR has not been reversed to the necessary amount yet, the circuit is regaining its footing with an enthralling chase involving many top drivers.

^ Australian Will Power, whose previous best finishes had been sixth in 2006 and fourth in 2007 under the old Champ Car banner, has had his breakthrough year as a part of Team Penske and currently leads all drivers.

^ Dario Franchitti, who captured his second Indianapolis 500 crown this year, won his second consecutive IndyCar series title last year (with his disastrous and ill-advised ’08 stint in NASCAR in-between) and is hot on the heels of a third straight championship with his current second-place status.

^ Scott Dixon has finished the last four seasons in the top four in points – the last three first or second, highlighted by a 2008 championship – and is keeping his “dependable threat” streak alive into this year with a third-place standing at present.

^ In a comparable vein to Dixon, Ryan Briscoe finished fifth and third, respectively, in his past two seasons – the first two with Penske – and is in fourth at the moment.

^ One of the most accomplished, and quite possibly the most famous, driver on the circuit, Helio Castroneves, continues to run strong in pursuit of his elusive first series championship. Since 2002 with Penske, he has never placed lower than sixth (and has placed lower than fourth only twice), yet has not come any closer to the top than his 2002 and 2008 runner-up finishes. Presently, he is in sixth place. In some ways, with his three Indy 500 titles, his career has been the opposite of Mario Andretti, who managed a single Indy 500 win but was a four-time series champion.

^ Also conversely to Helio, Tony Kanaan is probably the best active racer never to win at Indy, but did capture the series title in 2004 and only spent a single season outside of the top four between 2003-2008 (and only a single season outside of the top three between 2004-2008). His sixth-place finish in 2009 and seventh-place standing at present raise questions about whether he can return to the top amidst the deeper field of today, though.

^ Dan Wheldon, who peaked (at least thus far) with a win at Indy and for the series title both in 2005, ended the run he began in 2004 with no series finishes outside the top four in 2008. Like Kanaan, he fell off in 2009, to tenth place and is in ninth at current.

^ The Marco Andretti treadmill continues on, with the streak he has been on since the start of his IndyCar career in 2006 of finishing between seventh and 11th currently intact with a tenth-place record.

^ Danica Patrick, splitting her time with the NASCAR Nationwide Series, hasn’t been a factor in eleventh place, but given that she’s only placed as high as fifth once (last year), the hype exceeding her production is nothing new.

The Penske and Ganassi teams continue to dominate, with occasional resistance from Andretti. The races have been exciting, but have suffered from the same “if a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, does it make a sound?” sensation suffered by the NHL – which also has most of its national broadcasts on the sparsely-carried Versus network.

The series has healed some remaining wounds from the sport’s longtime civil war as longtime IRL honcho Tony George – probably more responsible for the state of affairs than any other individual – resigned from the board of directors in January. And the legacies of both the road-dominated Champ Car and the oval-dominated IRL are both being celebrated as IndyCar is awarding a trophy named for AJ Foyt to the racer who tallies the most points on ovals this year and the award named for Mario Andretti will go to the equivalent road-track racer.

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Blaa blaa

Heyyy.
Pidin lupaukseni ja tulin postaamaan tämän viikon puolella. :D Multa on jääny kertomatta juttuja heinäkuun alkupuolelta asti, joten niistäkin asiaa tällä kertaa.
Käytiin 3.7 Savonlinnassa shopping tripillä serkkujen, kummitädin ja äitin kanssa, ja sekin tapahtui mahtavassa säässä, mikä onkin jatkunu suunnilleen koko heinäkuun. Olin surun murtama kun huomasin että kamerani oli unohtunu mökille, joten Savonlinnasta ei oo valitettavasti kuvia, mutta serkkutytöt otti asukuvat kun palattiin mökille. :)

♥ mekko, ballerinat & niittirannekkeet: H&M
♥ laukku: second hand
♥ panta: Seppälä
♥ arskat: Lindex
♥ korvikset: Fiorella
♥ kaulakoru: Tiimari
♥ rannekoru: ite tehty

(Btw tosta tuolin kaiteelta on hyvä hyppiä uimaan XD)

Ite tykkään helteestä, mutta koirat on sillon aika tuskissaan niin niittenkin on hyvä päästä välillä vilvottelemaan. Mömmö on myös maailman söpöin kun se hakee frisbeetä tai palloo uimalla. ♥

Savonlinnan ostokset jäi aika vähäisiks, mutta eipähän rahaa menny. :P Kaikki oli myös aleostoksia, jei, paitsi namilörtsyt.
Seppälästä tein suurimman osan löydöistä. Niihin kuulu jo nää aiemmin tsekkailemani limet ballerinat, jotka makso 7€. Omistan tosi vähän teräväkärkisiä kenkiä pitkien varpaitteni takia.

Mulla oli hirvee valinnanvaikeus alelaukkujen välillä, mutta päädyin kaikkein järkevimpään vaihtoehtoon, koska oon kaipaillu isoo pinkkiä laukkua jo pitkään ja nyt sellanen löyty kympillä.

Kympillä lähti mukaan myös musta korkeevyötäröinen hame jonka helmaa kohottaa tylli. Nyt ei vielä oo kunnollista kuvaa tarjolla, mutta näätte sellasen joskus asukuvan yhteydessä. :)

Olin iloissani kun Savonlinnaan oli vihdoin tullu H&M, mutta harmi että se oli aika pieni ja valikoima rajallinen. :( Löysin sentään nää ihanat pilkkulasit kolmella eurolla!

Ollaan käyty tuolla samaisella porukalla Savonlinnassa jo monena kesänä, ja ajateltiinkin että jos vaikka ens kesänä vuorossa ois vaihteeks Jyväskylä tai joku muu. :)

Päälle kaks viikkoo sitten käytiin Allun kanssa vaihtamassa kuulumisia Mäkin terassilla Sundae-jätskien yhteydessä, ja asuni näytti tältä. Vähänkö muuten näytän ruskettuneelta tuossa kuvassa. :D Kuvassa myös Savonlinnasta ostettu laukku.

♥ t-paita: GT
♥ shortsit, laukku & musta niittiranneke: Seppälä
♥ kengät, panta & valkonen niittiranneke: H&M
♥ arskat: Lindex

Haha oma vesipullo mukana. ♥

Kaks viikkoo sitten sunnuntaina oli serkkutytön rippijuhlat. Serkkua juhlistin tässä asussa.

Hah mikä koulukuva. XD

♥ mekko: Aleksi 13 (Sisters Point)
♥ kengät: kirppis
♥ laukku: second hand
♥ pinnit: Accessorize
♥ korvikset: Lindex
♥ kello: Leijona

Meiän Kari. ♥ En voi uskoo että omista rippijuhlista on jo 3 vuotta..

Oli ainakin paahtava päivä, hiki vaan valu pitkin selkää kun oli melkein 30 astetta varjossa. :D

Nyt oon käyny päälle pari viikkoo töissä, ja koska siellä on työasut niin mun työmatka-asut ei oo ollu mitään kovin jännää katottavaa. Vetäsen päälle aina vaan jotain sellasta missä on kohtuu hyvä mopoilla. Boring. Mm. näinkin jännää oon saanu joku päivä päälle..

♥ mekko: Seppälä
♥ leggarit (ekaa kertaa jalassa :)): GT
♥ laukku: Citymarket
♥ korvikset: H&M

Mulla oli tiistaina nimpparit, ja mun kummit ja äiti muista mua ihan lahjoilla. Kuvassa olevien juttujen lisäks sain mm. pari meikkisivellintä ja vaahtokarkkeja. Mun äiti ja kummi ovat ilmeisesti ihan onnessaan että voivat ostaa mulle taas karkkia..

Ostin muuten yllä olevat sandaalit Seppälän alesta, ja olin tosi ilonen kun kun olin katellu niitä jo pari kuukautta ja ne oli vihdoin alessa. Tarvitsinkin kipeesti sandaaleita, koska en omista yksiäkään sellasten läpsyjen lisäks (joita en käytä julkisilla paikoilla). Ilo kuitenkin loppu lyhyeen kun kerkesin kävellä niillä ehkä parikymmentä metriä ja huomasin että niihin oli tullu kamalat jälet/kulumat niiden kärkiin. :---( Kävin ne sitten ihan suruissani palauttamassa, ja tällä tarinalla haluunkin varottaa että ei kannata oikeesti ostaa tollasia koska ne ei tosiaankaan oo kestävät! Nyt oon sit taas ilman sandaaleita ja hikoilen bellerinoissa. :( Harmittaa kun ne oli niin kivan näkösetkin.

Loppuun random heinäsirkkakuva, en haluu lopettaa noin masis tunnelmiin! Kuvan otin kun käytiin keskiviikkona serkkujen kanssa uimassa yhellä kivalla rannalla. Uimareissu oli työn ja tuskan takana kun käytiin siellä pyörillä ja jouduin tarittamaan toista serkkuani 4 km mäkisiä teitä. :D Tulomatkaa en kyllä enää paljoo tarittanu haha.

Ai niin meinas jo unohtua, menin eilen Hanna-serkun luo viettämään tyttöjeniltaa Hannan ja muutaman sen kaverin kanssa. Tulipahan "taas vaihteeks" syötyä, kun tarjolla oli kaikkee mässyä. Filippinos keksit=♥. Rakkauteni niitä kohtaan ei oo näköjään neljän vuoden tauon jälkeen laantunu. Syömisen lisäks katottiin sentään Sinkkuelämää 1 leffa (jonka oon nähny varmaan kymmenesti..). Tänään sit käytiin ennen mun lähtöö Hannan kanssa uimassa. En oo ennen käyny rannalla jossa on hyppytorni, ja hypinkin sitten innoissani, kerran uskaltauduin neljään metriin ja tuntu kun mun käsi ois lähteny paikoiltaan. XD Mut aaa siellä ois voinu vaan lillua kun vesi oli niiin lämmintä. ♥ Pakko päästä sinne joskus uudestaan.

Mulla on muuten näillä näkymin tämmönen monen päivän vapaa, kun ois vasta ens ke töitä ellei tuu muutoksia. Oonkin jo nyt aika tylsistyny, oon vaan kattonu Sinkkuelämää. Veljellä on lainassa Serranojen eka tuotantokausi, pitäisköhän vihdoin tutustua siihenkin kun oon elämässäni kattonu kyseistä sarjaa vaan yhen jakson? :D Veljestä tulikin mieleen että sillä on huomenna 19v synttärit. Lahjaahan mulla ei sille oo, mutta voin perustella sen sillä että se vei mun H&M:n pilottilasit! Eikä sekään oo antanu mulle lahjaa kun kerran, hmph. H&M:stä puolestaan tuli mieleen että tilasin sieltä toissapäivänä. ♥

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EDINGER MEETS THE BHAGWAN: OSHO 5

Jungian psychologist Edward Edinger said: ‘It is evident to thoughtful people that Western society no longer has a viable functioning myth….. Meaning is lost. In its place, primitive and atavistic contents are reactivated. Differentiated values disappear and are replaced by the elemental motivations of power and pleasure, or else the individual is exposed to emptiness and despair. With the loss of awareness of transpersonal reality (God), the inner and outer anarchies of competing personal desires take over’. (Edinger, 9) (my italics)

Sound familiar?

‘The loss of central myth brings about a truly apocalyptic condition and this is the state of modern man’. (Edinger, 10)

But in 1979 before Edinger published this, this is what Rajneesh (Osho) thought: he saw his movement as the route to the preservation of the human race. He said: "If we cannot create the 'new man' in the coming 20 years, then humanity has no future. The holocaust of a global suicide can only be avoided if a new kind of man can be created." (Rajneesh)

Never mind what I say......

Image: Alex Grey

Edward Edinger, 1984, Creation of Consciousness: Jung's Myth for Modern Man (Studies in Jungian Psychology, 14.) Inner City Books.

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Send in the Links (7/23/2010)

-> It's Time to Play NBA Free Agency Price is Right! (That NBA Lottery Pick)
-> Les Miles States the Obvious (SportsbyBrooks)
-> Heisman Winner Mark Ingram, Another Heisman Revokee? (No Guts, No Glory)
-> Miles Austin and Kim Kardashian take in a Lady Gaga Concert (Black Sports Online)
-> YouTube and NBA Summer League Sensation Jeremy Lin Signs with the Golden State Warriors (The Harvard Crimson)

Today's Moment of Awesome: International Soccer Brawl With Reporters



(Courtesy of Sportress of Blogitude)

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The 10 Most Valuable Sports Franchises in the World

In retrospect, with the 2010 FIFA World Cup in the books, there is absolutely no questioning the influence and the power the sport of soccer has both nationally and, on a larger scale, internationally; a fact further evidenced when teams are ranked according to value across all sports.

On Wednesday, Forbes.com released its list of the world’s fifty most valuable sports franchises and the Manchester United Football Club of the English Premier League led the way with an estimated value of $1.83 billion; and with 139 million core fans and 333 million followers worldwide, it’s not hard to see why the Red Devils produce a revenue stream of approximately $459 million for the Glazer family.

Manchester United’s fellow international football club, Real Madrid ($1.32 billion), the most successful team in Spanish football and voted by FIFA as the most successful club in the 20th century, came in sixth on the list due largely in part to generating $225 million annually from broadcasting fees, the most in sports.

The Arsenal Football Club ($1.18 billion), the only team to have completed an English Premier League season unbeaten, was the third football club to rank in the top ten, finishing eighth on the list. The Gunners’ $102 million operating income was second to Manchester United among English Premier League teams in 2009.

Domestically speaking, American football rules the roost as National Football League teams accounted for 50% of the top ten and more than half of the top fifty with the Dallas Cowboys ($1.65 billion) leading the way, ranking second overall; no doubt due to the new Cowboys Stadium landing the 2010 NBA All-Star Game, Super Bowl XLV in 2011 and the 2014 NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four.

The only Major League Baseball team to make the list, not surprisingly, were the New York Yankees ($1.60 billion), who ranked third on the list and owe a huge debt of gratitude to their recently deceased front office patriarch, George Steinbrenner, for taking one of the most valuable brands in sports to the next level with an unparalled commitment to winning and the creation of the YES Network.

Although the Yankees were the only baseball club to crack the top ten, they weren’t the only the New York team to rank among the fifty most valuable franchises in sports.

The New York Giants ($1.18 billion), who are close to selling out season tickets for the new Giants Stadium, and the New York Jets ($1.17 billion) were the seventh and ninth most valuable teams in the world respectively. The New York Mets ($858 million) ranked #38 after inking a 20-year, $400 million stadium naming rights deal with Citigroup in 2006.

Conspicuous by their absences from the top forty were teams from the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League. In fact, the only NBA teams to appear in the top fifty were the Los Angeles Lakers ($607 million) and the New York Knicks ($586 million) at #49 and #50 respectively, while no NHL team appeared in the top fifty.

Including the teams in the top ten, 36 NFL teams made the top fifty. The next closest sport was international football/soccer with six teams. The national pastime featured four teams in the top fifty.

Here are the ten most valuable sports franchises in the world according to Forbes:

1. Manchester United Football Club, soccer ($1.83 billion)
2. Dallas Cowboys, football ($1.65 billion)
3. New York Yankees, baseball ($1.60 billion)
4. Washington Redskins, football ($1.55 billion)
5. New England Patriots, football ($1.36 billion)
6. Real Madrid Football Club, soccer ($1.32 billion)
7. New York Giants, football ($1.18 billion)
8. Arsenal Football Club, soccer ($1.18 billion)
9. New York Jets, football ($1.17 billion)
10. Houston Texans, football ($1.15 billion)

Click here to read the original article on Examiner.com, which includes relevant links and a special video presentation featuring the ten most valuable sports franchises in the world today.

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