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30.06.2024 - Planet-Lungs and the Amazon Rainforest & Lessons & Indigenous Peoples etc. by dali48

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15.07.2012 - Planet-Lungs1 and the Amazon Rainforest etc. by dali48  
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22.11.2010 - Interpretation of dali48
Yes, John C. I agree that many things are adding up to a giant, dangerous headache for us. I also agree that the majority of people do not feel the need to change. Like lemings we will merrily run along following the pack until the sudden free-fall off the cliff ends our illusions...
But on a happier note, some people are taking this more seriously and are converting their homes and travel to methods more beneficial to reducing their dependence upon the petro-narcotic and other wasteful ways of generating electrical power...
Just recently a Texas oilman announced that he is helping get us off oil by building a wind-powered electrical generating plant that can power around 60,000 homes. Under the title of: Billionaire Oilman backs Wind Power, CNN reported the story at the following web site: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/19/pickens.qa/index.
NateRider says: We definitely need a cleaner source of energy - and to stop removing so many trees. While I realize we do need the wood - we don't need... (by Chef Jeff on HP)

Interpretation of dali48 
The Amazon Rainforest, also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. This basin encompasses seven million square kilometers... 
This region includes territory belonging to nine nations. The majority of the forest is contained within Brazil, with 60% of the rainforest, followed by Peru with 13%, Colombia with 10%, and with minor amounts in...
The Amazon represents over half of the planet's remaining rainforests, and it comprises the largest and most species-rich tract of tropical rainforest in the world...
Wet tropical forests are the most species-rich biome, and tropical forests in the Americas are consistently more species rich than the wet forests in Africa and Asia...
The biodiversity of plant species is the highest on Earth with some experts estimating that one square kilometer (247 acres) may contain more than a thousand types of trees and thousands of species of other higher plants...
The green leaf area of plants and trees in the rainforest varies by about 25% as a result of seasonal changes... These changes provide a balance of carbon between photosynthesis and respiration...
Between 1991 and 2000, the total area of forest lost in the Amazon rose from 415,000 to 587,000 square kilometers (160,000 to 227,000 square miles), with most of the lost forest becoming pasture for cattle...
Environmentalists are concerned about loss of biodiversity that will result from destruction of the forest, and also about the release of the carbon contained within the vegetation, which could accelerate global warming...
As indigenous territories continue to be destroyed by deforestation and ecocide, such as in the Peruvian Amazon indigenous peoples' rainforest communities continue to disappear, while others, like the Urarina continue to struggle to fight for their cultural survival and the fate of their forested territories...
A 2009 study found that a 4 °C rise in global temperatures by 2100 would kill 85% of the Amazon rainforest while a temperature rise of 3 °C would kill some 75% of the Amazon...
Using handheld GPS devices and programs like Google Earth, members of the Trio Tribe, who live in the rainforests of southern Suriname, map out their ancestral lands to help strengthen their territorial claims... 
It concludes that the forest is on the brink of being turned into savanna or desert, with catastrophic consequences for the world's climate...
According to the World Wide Fund for Nature, the combination of climate change and deforestation increases the drying effect of dead trees that fuels forest fires (see dali48 and Trees and "Flora and Fauna" since ca. 2000 etc. - “If the Trees disappeared off the face of the earth - mankind would only have little left to live healthy” etc. - d.48)... (Wikipedia)

Lessons from Indigenous leaders to protect the Amazon ...

The World Economic Forum
https://www.weforum.org › less...
Lessons from Indigenous leaders to protect the Amazon rainforest. Jan 30, 2024. Indigenous Peoples account for just 6% of the global population but are
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30.06.2024 - Laughing Buddha and Masters and Zen & nothing that we should hold on etc. by dali48

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15.01.2014 - Laughing Buddha1 and Buddhist masters etc. by dali48
  
01.10.2000 - Interpretation by dali48
His ability to cause and tolerate no surprises have meant that he was responsible for the timetable in a rather large Zen Center... 
And how are you? This I would even like to know...
"Stick to the doubt", said my wife. "I rather like a man like that"...
Who exercises true asceticism isn’t flying to Nirvana. The monk who breaks the commandments doesn’t slide in hell...
The verb "Buddhist" means "know"... The heavy exam to see 60 saints out of control, had broken his spirit. He had a nervous breakdown... (J.v.d. Wetering)

Madness helps us to find our true nature... (C. G. Jung)

Bobbie-san had this little breakdown in the hotel in Tokyo, this happens to the best saints. Listen to your superior. Stay true to tradition. Carry your Zen Bib and shave your skull. Sing the sutras... 
If an honest man teaches (see Einstein: "Everything is relative", etc. - d.48) a false doctrine, false doctrine is true - if a dishonest person submits a true doctrine, it is wrong... (Joshu = Chao-chou, 778 to 897)
Certainly we know now what's going on. How many times we have reincarnated us and haven’t still understood it? "Where is the mountain of enlightenment"? "Straight ahead, my dear." Let's stay in motion? Do we live our lives?
How can we hope to accept the meaninglessness of our empty egos? We go straight on without taking care of "Tea Ladies"...
Fear was foreign to Zen students. Not caring for career, future, possession, wife or sweetheart, young, old parents, spiritual status...
Zen followers related all their energy doing the right things under all circumstances, and not worrying about the result. Nothing was sacred...
If it's a "shit" for you, it's not important. This does not mean that you need not do it...
I have also given up most things. The most realistic people have done it. That there is nothing that we should hold on, either we know that at our age - or we try to be crazy... (J.v.d. Wetering)
 
Interpretation of dali48
Zhàozhōu Cōngshěn (Chinese: Chao-chou Ts'ung-shen; Japanese: Jōshū Jūshin) (778–897), was a Chán (Zen) Buddhist master especially known for his "paradoxical statements and strange deeds"...
Zhaozhou became ordained as a monk at an early age. At the age of 18, he met Nánquán Pǔyuàn (748–835; J: Nansen Fugan), a successor of Mǎzǔ Dàoyī (709–788; J. Baso Do-itsu), and eventually received the Dharma from him...
Subsequently, Zhaozhou began to travel throughout China, visiting the prominent Chan masters of the time before finally, at the age of eighty, settling in Guānyīnyuàn...
Zhaozhou is sometimes touted as the greatest Chan master of Tang dynasty China during a time when its hegemony was disintegrating...
Zhaozhou's lineage died out quickly due to the many wars and frequent purges of Buddhism in China at the time, and cannot be documented beyond the year 1000...
He is, however, probably best known for the first koan in The Gateless Gate - A monk asked Chao-chou, "Has the dog Buddha-nature or not?" Chao-chou said, "Wu"... (Wikipedia)
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30.06.2024 - Cancer and environmental pollutants & smoking and mRNA cancer vaccine etc. by dali48

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15.01.2014 - Cancer1 and environmental pollutants etc. by dali48

12.07.2012 - Interpretation of dali48
Heartburn is caused by: 
1st fat - 2nd chocolate, peppermint, garlic, raw onions, orange juice, chili sauce, tomatoes, coffee, alcohol - 3rd late dinner, followed by lying down (better go for a walk, etc. - d.48)... (J. Carper)

Sugar acts as a painkiller directly on the brain in babies (see adults, etc. - d.48). Cabbage juice and Musapep = dry powder of green cooking bananas helps with stomach ulcers. Just Caved-s, licorice, (see e.g. liquorice candies etc. - d.48)...
Liquid (hotter than 60° C) causes gastritis and damage to the stomach! It can even lead to esophageal cancer...
Kidney stone patients usually eat large amounts of protein (protein) and sodium (see salt, etc. - d.48)...
Also Cola (oxalate, phosphate) and citrus fruit juices (oxalate, sugar) are harmful. Fruit and vegetables are top fighter against cancer. Vitamin A (lung), vitamin C (stomach and intestine) in the blood to help against cancer...
What people eat who never fall ill with cancer:
1 Become a “half-vegetarian”…
2 No red meat, saturated animal fats…
3 Some dairy products (see milk, cheese, etc. - d.48), lots of fruits and vegetables, wheat bran, dried beans, green tea, low-fat milk, lots of yogurt (acidophilus), low alcohol, somewhat eel (vitamin D), mackerel (omega-3 oils), not salted, smoked or cured products, turkey meat (without skin), no bacon or salami, bread, olive oil, rapeseed oil, linseed oil, lots of lettuce, broccoli, carrots, tomatoes, oranges, onions, garlic, strawberries, raspberries, melons, nuts (see vitamin E, etc. - d.48), not overweight...
Fat-feeded animals often show cell damage in the pancreas: good is fruit, tomatoes, pulses, etc...
Stomach cancer: Salad (see herbs, etc. - d.48) is the solution...
Positive eating: cabbages (see cauliflower and broccoli, etc. – d.48), tea, garlic, onions, soybeans, vegetables, fruit, vitamin C...
Negative eating: salt, salted, smoked and marinated meats... (J. Carper)

Interpretation of dali48 
Cancer - known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a broad group of various diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the body through the lymphatic system or bloodstream. Not all tumors are cancerous. Benign tumors do not grow uncontrollably, do not invade neighboring tissues, and do not spread throughout the body. There are over 200 different known cancers that afflict humans...
Determining what causes cancer is complex. Many things are known to increase the risk of cancer, including tobacco use, certain infections, radiation, lack of physical activity, obesity, and environmental pollutants. These can directly damage genes or combine with existing genetic faults within cells to cause the disease. Approximately five to ten percent (and what about the 90%, etc.? - d.48) of cancers are entirely hereditary...
While cancer can affect people of all ages, and a few types of cancer are more common in children, the risk of developing cancer generally increases with age. In 2007, cancer caused about 13% of all human deaths worldwide (7.9 million)... 
Rates are rising as more people live to an old age - and as mass lifestyle changes occur in the developing world...
General symptoms occur due to distant effects of the cancer that are not related to direct or metastatic spread. These may include: unintentional weight loss, fever, being excessively tired, and changes to the skin...
Cancers are primarily an environmental disease - with 90-95% of cases attributed to environmental factors and 5-10% due to genetics. Environmental, as used by cancer researchers, means any cause that is not inherited genetically, not merely pollution. Common environmental factors that contribute to cancer death include tobacco (25-30%), diet and obesity (30-35%), infections (15-20%), radiation (both ionizing and non-ionizing, up to 10%), stress, lack of physical activity, and environmental pollutants...
Decades of research has demonstrated the link between tobacco use and cancer - in the lung, larynx, head, neck, stomach, bladder, kidney, esophagus and pancreas. Tobacco smoke contains over fifty known carcinogens, including nitrosamines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Tobacco is responsible for about one in three of all cancer deaths in the developed world, and about one in five worldwide...
Most cancer deaths caused by occupational risk factors occur in the developed world - It is estimated that approximately 20,000 cancer deaths and 40,000 new cases of cancer each year in the U.S. are attributable to occupation...
Diet, physical inactivity, and obesity - are related to approximately 30–35% of cancer deaths. In the United States excess body weight is associated with the development of many types of cancer and is a factor in 14–20% of all cancer deaths. Physical inactivity is believed to contribute to cancer risk not only through its effect on body weight but also through negative effects on immune system and endocrine system...
One report estimates that approximately 29,000 future cancers could be related to the approximately 70 million CT scans performed in the US in 2007...
Prolonged exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun can lead to melanoma and other skin malignancies. Clear evidence establishes ultraviolet radiation, especially the non-ionizing medium wave UVB, as the cause of most non-melanoma skin cancers, which are the most common forms of cancer in the world...
Some hormones play a role in the development of cancer by promoting cell proliferation. Hormones are important agents in sex-related cancers such as cancer of the breast, endometrium, prostate, ovary, and testis, and also of thyroid cancer and bone cancer...
Cancer prevention is defined as active measures to decrease the risk of cancer. The vast majority of cancer risk factors are due to environmental (including lifestyle) factors, and many of these factors are controllable. Thus, cancer is largely considered a preventable disease. Greater than 30% of cancer is considered preventable by avoiding risk factors including: tobacco, overweight or obesity, an insufficient diet, physical inactivity, alcohol, sexually transmitted infections, and air pollution. Not all environmental causes can be prevented completely such as naturally occurring background radiation...
Thus dietary recommendation for cancer prevention typically include: "mainly vegetables, fruit, whole grain and fish and a reduced intake of red meat, animal fat and refined sugar"...
"Complementary medicine" refers to methods and substances used along with conventional medicine, while "alternative medicine" refers to compounds used instead of conventional medicine. Most complementary and alternative medicines for cancer have not been rigorously studied or tested... 
The most significant risk factor for developing cancer is old age. Although it is possible for cancer to strike at any age, most people who are diagnosed with invasive cancer are over the age of 65. According to cancer researcher Robert A. Weinberg, "If we lived long enough, sooner or later - we all would get cancer"...
Autopsy studies in Europe and Asia have shown that up to 36% of people have undiagnosed and apparently harmless thyroid cancer at the time of their deaths, and that 80% of men develop prostate cancer by age 80. As these cancers did not cause the person's death, identifying them would have represented over-diagnosis, rather than useful medical care... (Wikipedia)

see dali48 and "I hope that Biontech (formerly in Mainz, now in London) & #mRNA #vaccines etc. - will develop a vaccination against cancer, see also #Xagainstcancer etc."

BioNTech to Present Clinical Data Updates for Personalized ...

BioNTech
https://investors.biontech.de › bio...
“Our investigational mRNA cancer vaccine approaches are an important pillar in our oncology ... oncology pipeline by the end of 2024. The full abstracts are ...
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