1 0 8

"Why 108?" my friend asked.

"108 is said to be an auspicious number in Hinduism and Buddhism," I replied.

We were in Tagaytay yesterday.  A friend who's been living in the US came home with her American husband so it was a good opportunity for us to reconnect and catch up.  I was wearing my Buddhist prayer beads and at some point, one of them asked how it is used.

"Just like how you use the rosary," I said.

It's suppose to help you remember how many times you've already chanted your mantra.

But why 108?  I googled for some answers and this site gave several reasons as to why there are 108 beads in the mala.

This is my favorite:

108
Some say that 1 stands for God or higher Truth, 0 stands for emptiness or completeness in spiritual practice, and 8 stands for infinity or eternity.

Have to go and grab something to eat.  It's almost eleven o'clock in the morning and all I've had is a cup of coffee.

Apologies

To my fellow Dabawenyos,

Apologies to those who have signed up for tonight's led class at Metrolifestyle Davao.

Flight from Hongkong was delayed.  We left HK at 3:30pm and we're now in Manila waiting for our flight to Davao.

We've rescheduled the class tomorrow at 1-3pm.  Hope to see you there.

Namaste.

Take me to the Philippines

No Climate Change (yet) in the Philippines

Reposted from http://www.co2science.org/articles/V12/N39/C2.php

What was learned
The two Asian researchers report that "the TLP has an apparent oscillation of about 32 years before 1939 and an oscillation of about 10-22 years after 1945," but that "no long-term trend is found." In addition, they determined that "natural variability related to ENSO [El Niño-Southern Oscillation] and PDO [Pacific Decadal Oscillation] phases appears to prevail in the interdecadal variability of TLP."

What it means
In response to what climate alarmists call the unprecedented global warming of the 20th century -- and about which they express the gravest concern -- the number of tropical cyclones annually making landfall in the Philippines did not experience any net change. All variability was merely oscillatory activity around a mean trend of zero slope.

Reference
Kubota, H. and Chan, J.C.L. 2009. Interdecadal variability of tropical cyclone landfall in the Philippines from 1902 to 2005. Geophysical Research Letters 36: 10.1029/2009GL038108.

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It helps to have scientists in the family. Thanks A. ;-)

Now, what caused the calamity? Maybe the flood was caused by all the garbage that we irresponsibly dumped in the river... or there was just too much water from the sky. I don't really know. Fact is, people are suffering and need help.



Om.

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