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Talking on phone over long distances is very expensive. But that doesn’t mean that we should avoid long distance conversations. You may have a friend or relative living abroad or a business, which makes it necessary for you to make long distance calls. Whatever the reason is, long distance calls are not an affordable option. Online chat and video chat are saviors in such a situation. With the help of online dating website and chatting services, you can do conversation for free or at a very low cost.

There are various advantages of online chat. Firstly, you can discuss matters more explicitly. You can write down whatever you are willing to express or explain more elaborately. You need not worry of the recurring expenditure and increasing pulse rates in online free chat.

You can write down your requirements, if it is a business conversation and the other party will understand it better without any hearing errors.

It cut down your phone bills considerably and saves you a lot of money. Free chat with the help of internet will keep you keep in touch with your loved ones, twenty four hours a day as you can keep yourself logged in without worrying about the expense. Nowadays, free chat’s importance has increased manifold due to dating over internet. With online chat you can spend lot of time with the person you are dating, without spending too much. The more you interact, the more you get to know each other. If the efforts fructify, then you may have the chances of a long term relationship.

The most beneficial aspect of online chat is that it is highly secure and safe.

No one can get to know your conversation unless you grant someone the permission to do that. We may not have the same privacy over the phone as there are always chances of other people overhearing your conversation. Your unique and confidential password makes it even more secure for you. You get the facility of sharing confidential files online without the fear of the files getting lost or leaked. Online chat is not just for official conversations, but also for socializing. You can chat with people of your own interest or with friends who are at a distance and whom you rarely meet.

For all the above reasons, online chat is preferred by people above any other means of communication. Free online chat being cost efficient and confidential, is a good choice for long distance and private conversation. About the Author: Thomas Korn is founder and owner of the Largest Free Indian Chatting and Dating Website namely, www.iii.in, established in 2008. His profession is mechanical engineer. But he loves the Internet and the opportunity to meet new people and friends all over the world. For any questions always feel free to contact him.

There is nothing so interesting as toppling icons and the windmill I want to tilt at today is Karma.

Karma is the “cosmic bitch slap” born of the belief that all of the universe is cause and effect.

Another factor that influences people to believe in Karma is they find it almost impossible to justify why bad things happen to good people and why bad people seem to be the ones who get rich, get laid and get even.

Add to the mix an upbringing of fear and guilt and just about anyone will find themselves longing for a universe in which karma is the rule like it were a life raft for our sanity.

The fact is that with all of that behind us Karma is the glue we use to not go crazy and admit what seems to obvious:

* Some people do get away with murder.

* Some children suffer for no reason.

* The guys who go after what they want, sometimes at the cost of others, often are the ones who get rich, get laid and get even.

As an exercise in mental flexibility (and some would say blasphemy) let’s examine the Karma Myth with a very critical eye.

If this makes you too uncomfortable you’re encouraged to stop reading ant try to forget anything that is written here.

Argument 1 – Time

Among the questions I want to pose are “Is ALL the universe limited to cause and effect?”

The answer on one level is yes. On another level the answer is not so clear. Why? Because cause and effect is a result of the awareness of time (i.e., cause is followed by effect) and none of that can make sense when time is removed from the equation.

A clearer picture of this argument emerges when we recognize that time itself is perceived only by the nervous system and the nervous system is a result of having a body. Absent of the body and nervous system there is no ability to perceive time. Without time there is no more cause and effect and

it is possible to experience everything as a single event.

On this “higher” perception absent the creation of time and therefore cause and effect and the concept of Karma is completely absent.

Argument 2 – Good and Evil

The belief in Good and Evil is a central support pillar for the Karma Myth. If someone does something that we judge as bad we want to know that we are compensated by them “having bad karma”. Of course this does not address the fact that they believe they are doing good and that they will be rewarded for their good acts with good Karma.

The absolute of Good and Evil we find is much more subjective than we want to believe.

Argument 3 – The Origin

Just because you read it in a book or heard it from your parents or religious leader does not make it true… unless of course you have been trained to never question authority.

Argument 4 – Benefits

As much as one MIGHT think that believing in Karma is good there are reasons that believing the opposite is just as good. Shocking thought, isn’t it, but who likes to be motivated by fear to do the “right” thing?

Argument 5 – The Intention

Why would someone create Karma? One reason is to control people to do the right thing out of fear. There are other reasons if you think about them.

Argument 6 – Counter Evidence

As much as you hear about the bad guys that get caught how many never get caught? Some? Many? Most?

On that note bad things happen to good people and bad people often prosper. We fall back on the invisible Karma as a way of hoping that things end up right.

So what does a person do without the “Karma crutch” to guide their actions?

The answers are many.

* One could as as if Karma were real to guide their actions.

* One could do whatever they damn well want to do.

* One could do whatever they damn well want but do it with the awareness that a portion of their life *is* living in the cause and effect world and if they do something illegal it is likely to have some consequences. This does not prove the existence of Karma just the need to do some good planning.

The absence of Karma could be liberating or a burden. It can liberate one to live free of guilt and fear but it can burden one with REAL responsibility; the responsibility to be 100% in control of their life.

JK Ellis

With the gazillion times that sms text messaging has been our life saver against scenarios we do not want to be placed in and against having people angry at us, it is not unexpected that a list of all the lines and excuses we use would sprout out somewhere.

How many times have we been in awkward silence and company and pretended to be texting so that we would not carry the burden of having to start a conversation? It is the out of classroom counterpart of pretending to take down notes in hopes of escaping the eye of the teacher that is egging you on to recite. No one can blame anyone for doing this. It is less uncomfortable to stare at your mobile phone and re-read texts saved in your phone rather than stare in silence at the people with you. To check if someone is doing this to you, keep an eye if he or she is interchanging texting and reading a text that arrived.

This is often signaled by the phone vibrating or glowing. If he or she is just texting nonstop, he or she is probably looking for someone to text with or not really texting.

How many times have we needed to tell someone something but can’t so we just text it to them? The thing is, sms text messaging makes lying easier because the recipient cannot hear the hesitation in the voice nor see the fear in the face and the screen is too small, you do not have to tell a full story. Obviously, when you are with people excitedly planning another get-together, you cannot kill the joy and announce you cannot make time so you pretend to go with it. When you are away from the crowd is the time you take your opportunity. All it takes would be a simple, “I am sorry, I cannot make it. I suddenly fell sick”.

How many times have we hidden behind the fact that sms messaging is not entirely reliable? Sometimes, it is in the event that you forgot to invite or inform someone. The normal excuse would be to say with a face filled with bewilderment and confident, “Really, but I texted you. I wonder why you did not receive it.” The excuse that puts a little responsibility to yourself is to say “I am sorry. I sent the message to everyone in my phone book group. You did not notice that you weren’t there yet.” Sometimes, it is in the event that you did not know what to and how to reply. The common lines delivered would be to either say “Sorry, I left my phone unattended. I did not see your text till late” or “I swear I did not get a text from you”.   

Truly, technology has once again corrupted our morals and given us a new way to be evil to people around us. Then again, one would doubt that there are still people who would fall for these techniques and strategies. But then, sometimes they just might be the truth.

You are probably thinking that experiencing karma is completely in the gross physical or mental levels of being, but that is not true. It is experienced in both the subtle level as well as arising into the denser manifestations of karma, which culminate in physical events, as well as becoming your environment. It is in the outer world, but you are experiencing it through the filter of your magic charm: the mass of your karma that is yet unfulfilled because suitable conditions have not arrived.

Student: I like the movement from subtle to manifest as you say, so the question for me that comes is, okay, if it comes from that subtle plane, it has to have a pathway into the gross plane. What is that pathway?

Rinpoche: That is you standing with the door open, saying, “Let the disaster begin.”

Student: Oh, in that case, are you going to teach us how to shut the door to bad karma coming from our subtle reality?

Rinpoche: Karma is actually a subject for very long periods of meditation.

I am describing the general elements of the meditation, but nothing changes unless you seriously meditate on them and gain realizations. It is not something easy to describe or even to understand intellectually. Karma is very, very subtle. We are the proprietors of our body and our own life and are responsible for our own actions, but we seem to be enmeshed in this unbreakable web of our own making. The dilemma is huge!

Student: You know, it could be a motivator of fear, but it also could be a motivator to get on the cushion.

Rinpoche: And to take responsibility. In one of the sutras, it states, “The karma of embodied beings does not vanish over hundreds of eons. If the prerequisites and the time are right, karma will ripen to results.” This is what Lord Buddha Shakyamuni said about karma. In addition, “It will not grow stale over time, it will not lessen over time, and it will not become nonexistent over time.” These are the ramifications of remaining in the unenlightened state.

Even at the end of this world when everything is destroyed, karma will not disappear simply because the human realm does not exist any more. Those who have not completed their karma or transformed to the awakened state will be scooped up in their actual inner being, the level of subtle mind that is the true transmigrator. Living beings will be held in a stasis like state, but they are still not free. They will be held until a suitable environment, such as the next world system, let us say another earth develops. Then the living beings will assume another body-like form and could complete their karma, or continue suffering. You might say, “Well, that does not sound very good!” And I agree!

Student: What would be the difference between creating a virtuous mind and karma versus, at a higher evolutionary state, being free of karma?

Rinpoche: Even in higher evolutionary states, living beings, such as bodhisattvas, voluntarily take on certain types of karma, out of compassion, in order to be able to be with others who are experiencing suffering. Thank goodness for their great compassion.

If you do not examine and take responsibility for your life, then the opportunity to change will pass you by, as though you are in some kind of a dream. When we look at events of our life and present situation, sometimes it is painful, and we want to push it away. Sometimes it is so joyful that we can hardly tolerate our good luck. Whether our experiences are virtuous or non-virtuous, both depend upon grasping, either way it is an unbreakable web of our own making. We are not causing karma. We are the makers of karma, and we are responsible to ourselves.

Student: Which is the more important statement, that we are the creators of karma or that we are responsible for our karma?

Rinpoche: We are responsible. We have an obligation to ourselves to behave in certain ways that creates our life and produces virtuous karma so virtuous activities become increased and negative activities, which tend to make us pretty cranky, are reduced. When our own negative actions are fewer, the possibility of experiencing negativity is also a great deal reduced. In addition, the more negativity we eliminate in our self, the less we are capable of harming others. Our own experiences of bad karma and negative karma do have a cascade effect on family and society in general, and in that way, we stop harming others. To out great luck for everyone, our life situation and evolutionary dynamics become more skillful.

Student: So, rather than responsibility, it is the response to karma.

Rinpoche: No, you have a responsibility to yourself. You have a responsibility to take care of yourself. Many feel that they have a duty to others, but they do not care about themselves. You have an obligation to create superior causes and conditions so that the results are the highest quality possible.

Some people, like our mothers, say “Oh, I care nothing for myself. I only want my children to be happy,” when in fact they do have a responsibility to themselves. They still have the same responsibilities to their children, but it was not supposed to be one thing or the other. They were also supposed to take care of themselves.

You know, our egos have their own way of interpreting events. We are already suffering because inappropriate ego prevents us from perceiving the way things exist in reality. In addition, perhaps we do not respect ourselves enough to challenge this ego-based method of dealing with external and internal phenomena. The powerful self-respect developed when we do authentic dharma practice gives us skills to deal with inappropriate ego in a way that will completely change how we perceive the world. We need to make effort to produce virtues that are going to allow us to experience happiness in the future. This is a different way of observing life, from this system.

After a great deal of personal effort and blessings from the Buddhas and bodhisattvas, and entering the enlightened state, karma completely disappears. However, in the meantime, by the teachings of the Buddhist dharma, we steadily push for positive changes in behavior and perceptions, through meditation efforts. By these transformations, we also enhance our ability to make changes in the subtler levels of our being. Both others and we ourselves will become happier. We hold the ideals of perfect Buddhahood by the awareness of the benefits of the goal, complete and total enlightenment, complete omniscience, and spontaneous compassion.

So, how shall we do it? Human beings have the capacity to change, isn’t that so? We will need to challenge the way we think by our human willpower that does not exist in other realms. The god realm seems like such a marvelous place. Gods can manifest things at will but they do not have the will to change. They do not have the willpower that we do in the human realm.

Yes, we need to change our karma, but how much strength do we need to reverse the harm that we have done just in this one lifetime? If we believe in reincarnation, we realize that we probably have unfulfilled karma from other lives as well. If you look at your own body and your own life’s situation, you might say, as the sages throughout history have said, “I am the result of my previous karma, and what I am doing now is the cause for my future.” That future result could ripen in the next five minutes, the next five years, or it could be in the next lifetime.

Are we willing to put some effort into changing the way we behave? In a way, yes, we are willing to put some effort into it, and in a way, we are not or incapable. Some situations and habits seem so difficult it is impossible to even imagine changes. This is when the systematic teachings of dharma makes the most sense, because there are some behaviors that can change right away. For instance, there are some things so stupid, so time wasting and silly, we just forgot to say stop! These are what we can easily change. Just decide, ‘I am not going to do it anymore!’ If somebody says, “But we always go to the bar on Thursday night,” you say, “You cannot make me! I do not want to. I am wasting my time. I do not like the smell. Let’s go for a jog instead.”

So, there are some trouble making behaviors that we can change instantly. Why don’t we just do it? I believe that some things just require our permission by stating formally to our self “I give myself permission to not do this anymore.” It is an interesting and empowering feeling to give yourself permission.

You can also start by increasing virtue in small ways to practice self-confidence. Even small good deeds will increase, and we should not overlook any opportunity to practice virtue. In the saying of the Buddha, “Do not think that a small virtue will not return in your future lives, just as falling drops of water will fill a large container.” Little virtues will steadfastly accumulate and will be a powerful source of energy. The amassing of small merits and small virtues will generate enough merit and strength to change even more. Not only does it deepen your good nature, and make you more sophisticated spiritually, it will culminate in complete freedom from karma.

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In today’s time, machines are dominating everyone’s life. We have machines to do all sort of work even the domestic work. With the upcoming of washing machines it became much simpler to get rid of those stains. However the machine alone cannot do the task successfully, for that we need an equally good detergent to gel with the technology of machines and avoid the formation of suds and result in proper cleaned clothes.

Today we have detergents available for all kind of fabric that can clean without leaving any harmful effects on your clothes. Wide range of liquid detergents is gaining popularity world-wide.  Brands like Gain, Tide, purex, etc. have range of different varieties of products available in different fragrances that are dye free and maintain the texture, color, quality of the fabric.

Sometimes detergents alone are not able to remove the stains and you are compelled to remove them by hand washing but now there are different liquids available in brands like tide, gain that are capable to remove all sort of stains such as oil, Greece, ketchups etc.

all you need to do is add little extra quantity of such detergent or liquid before the machines starts and then wait till you see clothes as new and clean as never before. These are easily available in stores.

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