VARIANTS & VACCINES

The Covid-19 vaccines have been effective against the Delta Variant of the coronavirus disease, however, there are many people who are still unvaccinated or refuse to vaccinate. 

The Delta variant is the dominant strain in the U.S. but it is not the only variant which is circulating in the population. The Lambda variant which was first identified in Peru is now also found in several states in the U.S. The Lambda variant is one of the earliest identified variants which has high transmissibility and resistance. The military personnel are receiving CVD vaccination & the government is also encouraging the troops to get vaccinated to the maximum degree. Some U.S. army bases may require Vaccination Proof.

                                                                             

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The Use of Force!

The media are discussing whether police should use or not use force when dealing with wrong doers. According to Wikipedia "the use of force doctrines can be employed by law enforcement officers and military personnel on guard duty and it can be defined as the amount of effort required by the police to compel compliance by an unwilling subject. However, a wrong doer is now dead as a result of use of force by police who put his knee across the neck of a hand cuffed wrong doer which led to his positional asphyxia and death.  

It's not easy to talk about these kind of issues which have social implications but the police should remember that they are in the position of power when dealing with wrong doers and they should avoid unnecessary force which may lead to the death of the wrong doer>.

                                                         

                                                        

After A Long Time...

I am in Baton Rouge right now visiting my son and his wife after a long time of being absent and living in Phoenix-AZ with my daughter. She was also here with us for three days but she had to go back home where she lives and works as well.

It's raining here today and it feels good to be at home, writing and watching the rain. I also feel grateful that I am healthy and I can still travel, meet life in different settings and enjoy visiting those I love. Everything here is green, fresh and full of life with calmness in the background contributing to my joy.

So much has happened in the political arena in the U.S. and we are now at "Trump era" who is the most incapable person on the job and people are asking how did we end up with Trump. He could be impeached for all his wrong doings and incompetence. It is even said that he created a mob to kill his vice president and therefore he is "The Inciter In Chief". In fact his appointee was arrested on Capitol riot charges. Right now 3/8/21 he is no more in charge and is just a private citizen. The president at this time is Joe Biden who seems to be popular and effective.

Some of the features of this era include wearing masks to protect ourselves from the Coronavirus Disease or Covid-19 which is a respiratory disease and can be transferred by air, touch, and God knows what else! The CDC is recommending vaccination and double masking with tighter fit for better protection. At this time the U.S. has recorded more than 470,000 deaths from the Coronavirus Disease and the global death counts are more than 2,371,878 as well.

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Words of Wisdom

1.   Your every thought, negative or positive, affect your energy vibration.

2.   You will see it when you believe it.

3.   It will happen just the way you see it.

4.  My dissatisfaction with where I am makes things worse.

5.  There is not a shortage of anything.

6.  When you are determined to feel joy, you will take "shortage" out 0f equation.

7.  Make the best of what you can do. 

R Reach for what is good and when you reach it talk about it to everyone.

9.  You are worthy of happiness. 

-- Be thankful for everything that you have in your life.  

   Abraham Hicks

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TRUE SELF vs FALSE SELF

 We all have a "True Self" which is authentic, original and vulnerable, however, we also have a "False/Fake Self" which is defensive, has no spontaneity, is empty and ego or narcissistic - based. It is only in despair that people choose to be another than who they really are because the true self is opposite despair. The intrinsic qualities of true self are:

- Spontaneity: to express ourselves.

- Reasoning: self knowledge, the way to liberation.

- Creativity: seeing something that doesn't exist already.

- Free Will: choice, freedom.

- Spirituality: our communication with the spirit.

- Discernment: the power to tell good from bad.

- Love: loving others and being loved puts true self  to its greater use.

Human beings uniquely possess all the above mentioned qualities which they must nurture and awaken in themselves. At the same time, they also need to abandon the false or pseudo-self which brings them despair and unhappiness.

Freedom

- I have seen the freest among you wear their freedom as a yoke and a handcuff.

- You can only be free when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal.

- You are free when you are without a want and a grief and you rise above them naked and 

  unbound.

- You have chains around you and one of those chains is what you call freedom.

- Your freedom is the discarding fragments of your own self.

- If there is a law you would abolish for freedom it is the law that was written with your own 

  hand upon your own forehead.

- You cannot erase it by burning your law book or washing your forehead.

- Destroy  the throne which was erected within you by you.

- If it is a fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of 

  others.

- All things move within you, the desired and the escaped from.

- Your freedom when it loses its fetters that confine, it becomes the fetter of a greater freedom.

   By Kahlil Jibran

(The book of Prophet).

FEAR

- Fear is not related to any concrete and true immediate danger.

- It comes in many forms.

- Is about something that might happen but not now.

- The mind is in the future and if you lose touch with now the anxiety will be your constant companion.

- The mind-made message is: Danger, I am under threat. The emotion generated is fear.

- Fear is ego's fear of death and affects every aspect of life.

- Once you have dis-identified from your mind fear goes away.

- True power is within and it is available to you now.

- Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

- The more you identify with your mind the more you suffer. 

- The more you honor the Now the more you are free of pain and suffering.

- Make the Now your primary focus of your life and pay brief visits to past and future.

- Always say yes to the present moment.

- Remove time from the mind and stop fear unless you choose to use it.

- Nothing will ever happen in the future. It will happen in the Now.

- Shift your consciousness from mind to Being and from time to the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle