Where is this truth?

If you don’t find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
Dogen
Chris Hedges: The Pathology of the Super Rich
The Cranberries-Linger. [Lyrics]
Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
Free from Ebola, survivors complain of new syndrome | Reuters
Ben Neumann, a virologist at Britain’s Reading University who studies Ebola and other viruses and their effects, notes that Lassa virus, which comes from West Africa and causes a similar disease to Ebola, has also been reported as having longer-term health effects.
“(Lassa) survivors often report signs of nerve damage such as loss of hearing,” he told Reuters, adding that it would be “surprising that something as damaging as Ebola did not have lasting effects.”
The current lack of knowledge about post-Ebola health effects is probably “due to Ebola being a rare virus that left few survivors before this outbreak,” he said.
via Free from Ebola, survivors complain of new syndrome | Reuters.
Believing that life is fair makes you a terrible person | Oliver Burkeman | Comment is free | The Guardian
“this is the key – not being able to deal with truth that crazy things can happen at random!” Yet, ironically, this desire to believe that things happen for a reason leads to the kinds of positions that help entrench injustice instead of reducing it.
The Day in a Quote
What have you gained from meditation?
Living Lightly
It’s amazing how much one can live without.
And how much criticism one gets for daring to leave the accepted standards for today’s society!
I made this poster less than 24 hours ago and posted it on Facebook and Twitter.
The reasons why people feel the need to denigrate such a poster are very interesting indeed.
There is an overwhelming need, in most people, to conform to what they imagine to be the accepted normal in society, be that politics, religion, diet, dress…etc.
Stepping outside of this normal can be an uncomfortable experience for most.
Making the decision to live outside of it, however, is the opposite!
It is truly liberating!
If we are to progress in living on this little planet, then stepping outside of the current mainstream and taking the time to look back in, can only be beneficial in planning a way forward.
A way that will…
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