第三届世界青年佛学研讨会纪录片（下）

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第三届世界青年佛学研讨会纪录片上 ( World Young Buddhist 3rd Conference Documentary )

宇宙中的上帝

宇宙中的上帝

Proof that Group Meditation can Change the World

Proof that Group Meditation can Change the World

Meditation has the potential to literally transform the world. In 1978, what is known as the “Maharishi Effect” took place when a group of 7000 individuals over the course of 3 weeks were meditating in hopes of positively effecting the surrounding city. They were able to literally transform the collective energy of the city which reduced global crime rates, violence, and casualties during the times of their meditation by an average of 16%. Suicide rates and automobile accidents also were reduced with all variables accounted for. In fact, there was a 72% reduction in terrorist activity during the times at which this group was meditation.

  

Almost 50 studies have been done further confirming the benefits of global meditation and it’s direct impact on everything in the world, even so far as to have the results published in the Journal of Crime and Justice in 1981. We know meditation has endless health and psychological benefits, but it is now being explored by politics and sociology because of its undeniable energetic impact.

For example, a day-by-day study of a two-month assembly in Israel during August and September of 1983 showed that, on days when the number of participants at a peace-creating assembly was high, the intensity of an ongoing war in neighboring Lebanon decreased sharply. When the number of participants was high, war deaths in Lebanon dropped by 76%.

When the study was repeated in Wales, they got amazing results. In 1987 Merseyside had the third highest crime rate of the eleven largest Metropolitan Areas in England and Wales; by 1992 it had the lowest crime rate. 40% below levels predicted by the previous behaviour of the series. There were 255,000 less crimes in Merseyside from 1988 to 1992 than would have been expected had Merseyside continued to follow the national crime trend.

The secret of the Global Maharishi Effect is the phenomenon known to Physics as the ‘Field Effect’, the effect of coherence and positivity produced from the field of infinite correlation—the self-referral field of least excitation of consciousness—the field of Transcendental Consciousness, which is basic to creation and permeates all life everywhere.  Meditation takes your consciousness to the implicate levels of existence where your intentions have consequential effects on the explicate level that we interact with before it even manifests.  Consciousness gives rise to the material.  The key idea is that all of existence emanates out of a field of universal consciousness, called the Unified Field or Super String Field.

“I think the claim can be plausibly made that the potential impact of this research exceeds that of any other ongoing social or psychological research program. It has survived a broader array of statistical tests than most research in the field of conflict resolution. This work and the theory that informs it deserve the most serious consideration by academics and policy makers alike.” 

— David Edwards Ph.D., Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin.

Scientists Finally Show How Your Thoughts Can Cause Specific Molecular Changes To Your Genes

With evidence growing that training the mind or inducing certain modes of consciousness can have positive health effects, researchers have sought to understand how these practices physically affect the body. A new study by researchers in Wisconsin, Spain, and France reports the first evidence of specific molecular changes in the body following a period of intensive mindfulness practice.

The study investigated the effects of a day of intensive mindfulness practice in a group of experienced meditators, compared to a group of untrained control subjects who engaged in quiet non-meditative activities. After eight hours of mindfulness practice, the meditators showed a range of genetic and molecular differences, including altered levels of gene-regulating machinery and reduced levels of pro-inflammatory genes, which in turn correlated with faster physical recovery from a stressful situation.

“To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper that shows rapid alterations in gene expression within subjects associated with mindfulness meditation practice,” says study author Richard J. Davidson, founder of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds and the William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

“Most interestingly, the changes were observed in genes that are the current targets of anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs,” says Perla Kaliman, first author of the article and a researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Research of Barcelona, Spain (IIBB-CSIC-IDIBAPS), where the molecular analyses were conducted.

The study was published in the Journal Psychoneuroendocrinology.

Mindfulness-based trainings have shown beneficial effects on inflammatory disorders in prior clinical studies and are endorsed by the American Heart Association as a preventative intervention. The new results provide a possible biological mechanism for therapeutic effects.

Gene Activity Can Change According To Perception

According to Dr. Bruce Lipton, gene activity can change on a daily basis. If the perception in your mind is reflected in the chemistry of your body, and if your nervous system reads and interprets the environment and then controls the blood’s chemistry, then you can literally change the fate of your cells by altering your thoughts.

In fact, Dr. Lipton’s research illustrates that by changing your perception, your mind can alter the activity of your genes and create over thirty thousand variations of products from each gene. He gives more detail by saying that the gene programs are contained within the nucleus of the cell, and you can rewrite those genetic programs through changing your blood chemistry.

In the simplest terms, this means that we need to change the way we think if we are to heal cancer. “The function of the mind is to create coherence between our beliefs and the reality we experience,” Dr. Lipton said. “What that means is that your mind will adjust the body’s biology and behavior to fit with your beliefs. If you’ve been told you’ll die in six months and your mind believes it, you most likely will die in six months. That’s called the nocebo effect, the result of a negative thought, which is the opposite of the placebo effect, where healing is mediated by a positive thought.”

That dynamic points to a three-party system: there’s the part of you that swears it doesn’t want to die (the conscious mind), trumped by the part that believes you will (the doctor’s prognosis mediated by the subconscious mind), which then throws into gear the chemical reaction (mediated by the brain’s chemistry) to make sure the body conforms to the dominant belief. (Neuroscience has recognized that the subconscious controls 95 percent of our lives.)

Now what about the part that doesn’t want to die–the conscious mind? Isn’t it impacting the body’s chemistry as well? Dr. Lipton said that it comes down to how the subconscious mind, which contains our deepest beliefs, has been programmed. It is these beliefs that ultimately cast the deciding vote.

“It’s a complex situation,” said Dr. Lipton. People have been programmed to believe that they’re victims and that they have no control. We’re programmed from the start with our mother and father’s beliefs. So, for instance, when we got sick, we were told by our parents that we had to go to the doctor because the doctor is the authority concerning our health. We all got the message throughout childhood that doctors were the authority on health and that we were victims of bodily forces beyond our ability to control. The joke, however, is that people often get better while on the way to the doctor. That’s when the innate ability for self-healing kicks in, another example of the placebo effect.

Mindfulness Practice Specifically Affects Regulatory Pathways

The results of Davidson’s study show a down-regulation of genes that have been implicated in inflammation. The affected genes include the pro-inflammatory genes RIPK2 and COX2 as well as several histone deacetylase (HDAC) genes, which regulate the activity of other genes epigenetically by removing a type of chemical tag. What’s more, the extent to which some of those genes were downregulated was associated with faster cortisol recovery to a social stress test involving an impromptu speech and tasks requiring mental calculations performed in front of an audience and video camera.

Biologists have suspected for years that some kind of epigenetic inheritance occurs at the cellular level. The different kinds of cells in our bodies provide an example. Skin cells and brain cells have different forms and functions, despite having exactly the same DNA. There must be mechanisms–other than DNA–that make sure skin cells stay skin cells when they divide.

Perhaps surprisingly, the researchers say, there was no difference in the tested genes between the two groups of people at the start of the study. The observed effects were seen only in the meditators following mindfulness practice. In addition, several other DNA-modifying genes showed no differences between groups, suggesting that the mindfulness practice specifically affected certain regulatory pathways.

The key result is that meditators experienced genetic changes following mindfulness practice that were not seen in the non-meditating group after other quiet activities — an outcome providing proof of principle that mindfulness practice can lead to epigenetic alterations of the genome.

Previous studies in rodents and in people have shown dynamic epigenetic responses to physical stimuli such as stress, diet, or exercise within just a few hours.

“Our genes are quite dynamic in their expression and these results suggest that the calmness of our mind can actually have a potential influence on their expression,” Davidson says.

“The regulation of HDACs and inflammatory pathways may represent some of the mechanisms underlying the therapeutic potential of mindfulness-based interventions,” Kaliman says. “Our findings set the foundation for future studies to further assess meditation strategies for the treatment of chronic inflammatory conditions.”

Subconscious Beliefs Are Key

Too many positive thinkers know that thinking good thoughts–and reciting affirmations for hours on end–doesn’t always bring about the results that feel-good books promise.

Dr. Lipton didn’t argue this point, because positive thoughts come from the conscious mind, while contradictory negative thoughts are usually programmed in the more powerful subconscious mind.

“The major problem is that people are aware of their conscious beliefs and behaviors, but not of subconscious beliefs and behaviors. Most people don’t even acknowledge that their subconscious mind is at play, when the fact is that the subconscious mind is a million times more powerful than the conscious mind and that we operate 95 to 99 percent of our lives from subconscious programs.

“Your subconscious beliefs are working either for you or against you, but the truth is that you are not controlling your life, because your subconscious mind supersedes all conscious control. So when you are trying to heal from a conscious level–citing affirmations and telling yourself you’re healthy–there may be an invisible subconscious program that’s sabotaging you.”

The power of the subconscious mind is elegantly revealed in people expressing multiple personalities. While occupying the mind-set of one personality, the individual may be severely allergic to strawberries. Then, in experiencing the mind-set of another personality, he or she eats them without consequence.

The new science of epigenetics promises that every person on the planet has the opportunity to become who they really are, complete with unimaginable power and the ability to operate from, and go for, the highest possibilities, including healing our bodies and our culture and living in peace.

Article sources:

wisc.edu

brucelipton.com

ts-si.org

Michael Forrester is a spiritual counselor and is a practicing motivational speaker for corporations in Japan, Canada and the United States.

Source: preventdisease.com 

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以洋为圣，何以振兴中华？

中国自摆脱半殖民地，半封建社会，获得解放以来，宣称要寻求民族独立，要完成中华民族的伟大复兴；但是，一甲子以来，中国对封建与殖民地文化，从没有真正地进行过反思。

从五四运动的反封建、反殖民开始，首先就把我们的老祖宗文化丢弃；到今天，中国所有媒体对殖民地宗主国强加给殖民地人民的一些殖民文化，依然毫无保留地还在使用，毫不动摇。

最为突出的就是“耶诞节”，那是庆祝西方耶稣基督教主的诞辰，在中华文明历史长流中，除了有儒家与道家，还包括吸收了印度文明的汉传佛家思想，不知道出现过多少的圣哲；最为著名的就有孔子与老子，在这些圣哲的诞辰时节里，我们都以孔诞、老子诞辰、佛诞称之，而不冠以“圣”字。

不仅如此，中国媒体甚至于把一切有关“耶诞节”的东西，如“耶诞老人”、“耶诞树”等都冠于“圣”字；把耶和华神称之为“上帝”、“天”或“天主”。那是殖民地时代的文化霸权使然，宗主国使用华夏人民的昊天上帝中的“上帝”及儒家的“天”，来模糊混淆信仰中华文化的老百姓，以方便他们传教，殖民地人民无法说“不”。

即便是长期在中国传教的意大利耶稣会传教士龙华民（Nicholas Longobardi，1559年－1654年）都认为不妥，曾把耶和华神音译为“徒斯”，主张废除使用“天”、“天主”、“上帝”等来称呼耶和华神，以此来纠正对耶和华神的不当称呼。中国媒体不知效仿龙华民，因循苟且地不加以改正，积非成是，以洋为圣，令人感到十二分的惊讶与忧心！

新加坡与香港过去都是英国殖民地，也是两个使用华文的国家与地区，当年宗主国为了要奴隶殖民地人民的思想，御用文人就把Christmas使用翻译为“圣诞节”，其目的无非是想在文化思想上来奴化殖民地人民，有利于宗主国的统治。就如日本殖民统治台湾时，使用神社来取代中国的祠堂与各路神明，让台湾人民背宗忘祖，殖民地人民即使想反对，也无力回天。

另一个忧心是把我们中华文明机械地唯物化，如近20年来，在报导中国各地发掘与发现我们老祖宗埋在地底下的神圣文物出土时，只强调其物质的历史价值，而对其精神的价值因有所忌讳而不去碰触它。其结果只能是让我们的子孙后代逐渐地失去对自己精神文明的深层次了解，成为无根的浮萍，这如何来传承我们优秀的中华文明，遑论要去发扬光大。

值此中华民族伟大复兴的重要时刻，中国媒体应该要对我们中华文化的软实力给予更大力地扶持，把这操之在己并已丧失多时的话语权给掌握回来。

美国不单在硬实力“重返”亚洲，更在软实力上早已入侵中国，并通过其代理人在中国各大城市与乡村建立起其基地。只要时机一成熟，通过其精神领袖登高一呼，“表示支持他们上街游行争取改变现状。”中国将如何应对？

中华文化主要构成部分的儒、释、道都是不信有造物主或救世主，只信自己及依靠自己努力的修养、修行与修炼，不向外祈求。如同《国际歌》里的歌词一样：“从来就没有什么救世主，也不靠神仙皇帝！要创造人类的幸福，全靠我们自己！”

可见中华传统文化与《国际歌》所唱的都一样不信有救世主，都要普度众生，为全人类创造幸福。中国人民经过一百多年来浴血奋战所争取来的成果，不能在敌人不费一兵一卒的情况下，就此轻易地自我弃守而被断送掉。

期望中国媒体能够做出更具民族独立性的报导，把话语权牢牢地掌握在中国人自己手中，才能发挥媒体传播正确思想的功能，名副其实地完成中华民族的伟大复兴，真正实现民族独立自主的梦想。则幸甚！