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Succession Planning

  • Author Lani Langton
  • Published September 25, 2019
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Invest in succession planning for your Colorado business to add value and create a future for your employees and your benefactors. Just like you create a will for your personal assets, a succession plan creates a guide for what happens in the event you leave the company for any reason.

What is Succession Planning?

Succession planning identifies who will take over and the process to follow when the owner or leader no longer runs the business. The key part of succession planning is determining the specific individual or team to take over the business. However, that is not the only factor in a succession plan.

Business owners may decide to leave the business due to retirement, selling the business or to start a new venture. Also, illness, death or other life events may occur that limits a business owner’s ability to lead.

A succession plan provides a guide map for what happens when the owner leaves. When done well the succession plan is based on careful consideration and advanced planning.

Benefits of a Succession Plan

The primary benefit of developing a succession plan is to ensure the right people take over the business so that the business continues to run smoothly in the owner’s absence. A strong business must not hinge on one individual for success. The process to develop a succession plan provides insight into the current health of your business.

A succession plan also offers peace of mind that if something happens to you, as the owner, your business doesn’t automatically fail or lose its value. Create order and avoid delays in the event of your death or unexpected absence with a well thought out plan.

Another great benefit of a succession plan is the confidence your employees will feel knowing you trust them to continue in your absence. As your team feels empowered, you’ll have the freedom to work less and enjoy your life outside of your business for an improved quality of life.

How to Create a Succession Plan

Developing a succession plan takes time and careful consideration. Take this task seriously to ensure your business continues and thrives.

1 – Organize your business financials. Don’t leave a mess for your successor. Even if you have no current plans to leave your business, good financial planning will improve the daily running of your business.

2 – Invest in a business valuation. Your business’s value may be different than you think. In fact, if your business only runs with you present, then it’s worth may tank if you’re not around. A business valuation not only lets you know what your business is worth. It also helps you understand the necessary changes to increase the value.

3 – Determine the successor of the business. If you want your business to run well in your absence, you must groom your successor. In addition, if you have other individuals skilled at running the business, you’ll have more freedom and less pressure while you’re still in charge.

4 – Put your plan in writing. The best laid plans mean nothing if you don’t put them in a legally binding document. Work with a business planning professional, like Alliance Business Coaching, to take the correct steps to develop a solid succession plan.

Work with a Professional Business Coach

Succession planning ensures the continuation and health of your business. If you find it difficult to even consider what happens if you’re not able to run your business, then you need the guidance of a business coach.

At Alliance Business Coaching, we work with business owners and executives to empower you to realistically understand the current state and value of your business. We help you identify strategies to meet your goals, like developing a succession plan.

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Van der Hagen Safety Razor Review – Best Safety Razor For Beginners?

In this Van der Hagen safety razor review we’re going to delve into this modern razor brand with a traditional taste that we believe is perhaps the best safety razor for beginners.

Van der hagen safety razor

  • Good value
  • Good grip
  • Comes with 5 Van der Hagen blades
  • Not very aggressive
  • Limited lifetime warranty

  • Chinese white label
  • Not very aggressive
  • Short 3 inch handle
  • Blades aren’t great

A Quality Safety Razor Or Chinese Imitation?

Headquartered in Texas, Van Der Hagen company has some very popular razors, shaving soaps and brushes on the market and is well known for offering excellent products at low prices.

At Artisan Shaving we recently awarded their shaving soap our best budget pick as an excellent shave soap at a low price.

However, what should we make of a razor company like Van der Hagen unless we can vouch for their Van der Hagen razors? Indeed most top razor brands like Merkur and Seki are so focused on finely engineered steel that they don’t go beyond razors and blades.

We cannot help but distrust so-called “grooming brands” that are first and foremost about soaps and creams when they try to cross into hardware.

Normally these are items white-labelled from factories in China, using the brand’s label to mark up the price which is never going to sit well in a Van der Hagen razor review.

But this is of course biased and an excellent brand will commit the expertise and research necessary when selecting a factory so that these cheap challengers may indeed be comparable with German stalwarts like Merkur.

Van der Hagen Safety Razor Review

As for the Van der Hagen safety razor it’s definitely a good entry-level razor, which is exactly what it is supposed to be.

Anyone discovering a Van der Hagen safety razor is unlikely to be looking at a Merkur Futur (Review) or Feather AS-D2 if they’ve never used a safety razor before.

These are some of the best safety razors going with a price to match and no one should jump in at the deep end with any new activity – especially not shaving.

Instead the Van der Hagen safety razor is cheap and effective. The orange box is very appealing in a way that shows the old world dignity of the vintage safety razor with the kind of graphics that look good on Amazon or alongside sports-inspired men’s aftershaves.

The Van der Hagen razor has a good weight to it which helps in feeling the amount of pressure needed on each pass of the blade.

Van der Hagen Safety Razor Blades

The Van der Hagen safety razor also comes with five Van der Hagen razor blades included although these are obviously sub-par blades. However the fact the razor comes with Van der Hagen blades means beginners can jump right in to discovering shaving with a safety razor. It’s a perfect safety razor starter kit!

If you do like Van der Hagen razor blades you can buy safety razor blades bulk from them here.

Instead in this Van der Hagen razor review we would recommend reading our reviews of the best safety razor blades and perhaps order a sample pack of different brands of safety razor blade to really get to grips with safety razor shaving.

The Handle

The Van der Hagen razor handle is quite short which is merely a matter of preference but at only three inches long some people will struggle. That said it has a good grip with a textured handle so you’re less likely to drop it with wet and soapy hands – something we cannot say for the Merkur Futur despite its premium reputation!

The Shave

In terms of the shave the design is such that it is one of the best safety razors for beginners as it gives not too close a shave and so you’re unlikely to nick yourself too easily. If you do nick yourself then do be sure to check how to stop bleeding from shaving cuts.

The comfortable shave is a frustration for experienced shavers who like an aggressive shave from something like a Feather safety razor but again offers a comfortable introduction for any newcomers.

Van der Hagen Safety Razor Review

Quite possibly the best safety razor for beginners on the market. A great safety razor starter kit. However, consider it merely a stepping stone towards finding the best safety razor to accompany you for life.

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Turfcare magazine Pitchcare selected the GreenFields XtraGrass pitch at The Ricoh Arena for their feature last month. The hybrid turf has stood up to the challenge at a dual purpose venue and has received praise from the club for its performance and durability during their first season playing on the surface.

As an Official Supplier to both The Ricoh Arena and Wasps, GreenFields is proud to have our own Grounds Team working at the high profile venue as well as working on new projects with the club such as their temporary training facilities at Broadstreet Rugby Club.

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Semeli Mountain Sun Rose

Oenologist: Leonidas Nassiakos

Grape Variety
: 100% Agiorgitiko

: Nemea region at an altitude of 600m Soil: Sloping, clay.

Farming Practices: Sustainable

: 60 hl/ha

: Chilly winters and cool summer nights, provide a slow ripening of grapes. That results nervy character, freshness, good acidity and an aromatic complexity.

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: Grapes are handpicked and chilled at 7-8oC, vinified according to the classic rose wine vinification with a 24 hours cold maceration at low temperature and fermentation in stainless steel tanks at 15-16oC.

Average Production: 70.000 bottles

First produced
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Acidity: 6,1 g/l expressed as tartaric acid
pH: 3,25
Residual sugar: 2,9 g/l

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: Vivid and joyful rosy colour. Delicate and fruity on the nose with aromas reminiscent of ripe cherries, strawberries and a hint of milk chocolate. The refreshing acidity, the rich taste, the aromatic palate and the well balanced sweetness constitutes the wines character.

Serving suggestions
:Can be enjoyed with starters, pasta, grilled lamb chops and Greek vegetable dishes cooked with olive oil.

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American Photographic Artists (APA) stands in solidarity in the fight against racism and injustice.  We acknowledge that we can be doing more. We have taken the step of creating a National Diversity Committee. Our commitment to diversify our leadership at the local chapter level is ongoing- if you are interested in being a board member or have suggestions for how we can improve our commitment to diversity, we want to hear from you.

We know that there are inherent risks in photographing demonstrations. There has also been much discussion as to the appropriate actions when posting, sharing, or selling photo of these protests.  We are not dictating how you cover the events or what you do with the images. However, we would like you to consider the concerns around safety for you and for the other protestors.

We encourage you to follow these guidelines:

•    Do No Harm: Photographing Police Brutality and Protests
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•    ACLU: Know your Rights When Photographing a Protest
•    Wired: How to Safely Protest, What to Bring, What to Avoid, and What to do

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Block exploits and malware by blocking ad networks and ads

Exploits and malware – sometimes even highly advanced ones – are distributed via ad networks and hacked websites. And while you can’t control the latter even if you have a whitelist policy on your web proxy, you can control which ads are seen in your network.

The term means serving malware via ad networks. Recent news reports have proof of malware being served even on Youtube via AdSense (Google). If even Google can’t control what its ad network is showing to your employees, isn’t it time to do something about it yourself?

From my experience at least 30% of all malware incidents in a company are generated from malicious ads. If you can decrease the malicious incidents at your company by 30% just via blocking ad networks you should.

Not to mention an added benefit: better browsing experience, less tracking for your users, better privacy and last but not least – less bandwidth utilization, by as much as 5-10%!

Blocking ads via browser extensions

Browsers cannot block ads on their own as they can’t distinguish advertising from non-advertising elements and in order to block ads in your browser you will need an extension (which should also be easy to distribute in corporate environments, just follow your browsers manual).

Many are already using ad blocking extensions on personal devices – it is time to convince management and IT to start adopting it across the board. is readily available for most browsers out there. So far it has been the most widely adopted and the most effective measure against ads and malvertising. AdBlock, however, has a little ‘issue’ – some people say it has signed contracts with major advertising networks in order to ‘whitelist’ their ads for a certain payment… They don’t advertise this fact on their project’s website, but for me personally that means a red sign. Even though AdBlock is effective, I would use uBlock.

As an alternative (some say it is much better) – you could try out

uBlock for Firefox can be found here:

uBlock for Chrome can be found here:

An un-official port for the Safari browser can be found here:

Advertising networks are getting smarter, just as malware writers got smarter with time – and the blacklist approach really starts to lag behind, but we should continue doing our best. Even though AV detection rates are diminishing we must use antiviruses at work. The same applies to blocking ads – even though there might be new and unknown delivery hosts every day, we should and must use ad blocking techniques all the time to prevent at least the most widely used ad distribution networks and prevent malicious code distribution in this way.

Blocking ads via a HOSTS file

On Linux and Windows (as well as FeeBSD, Mac OS and other operating systems) you can block ads by redirecting ad network domains to localhost.

You can read more about this extremely effective technique at

Use a different browser?

Many of you have not heard of it, because it is produced by a Chinese company – the 360 Safe Browser. It has ad blocking built-in, besides having 3 browsing engines inside and full compatibility with Chrome extensions. One added benefit is the usage of their intelligence network and blocking known phishing / malicious websites. With 500+ million hosts as their client base the detection rate is not bad.

Block redirects

Often malicious scripts redirect the user from a legitimate website (hacked or not) to malicious websites using 302 redirects. This type of a redirect is crucial to the operation of the Web, but since it is not always critical to your users, I would say go ahead and disable them.

I have not yet found a way to block redirects in the Chrome browser, but on my Firefox browser I use the following extension:

It works well, I am happy with it and recommend it.

If you must deploy a solution for this across the enterprise, just block 302 redirects on your web proxy appliance, as that would take care of the problem company-wide.

Talk to your corporate proxy administrator

Your web proxy appliance (or your handy proxy admin) can should be able to block ad networks without you having to modify yours or every computer on the network. This has the added benefit of centralized management and easy troubleshooting, in case some domain needs to be unblocked.

Block ads at the gateway level

There is a really nice tutorial on on blocking ads using DNSMasq & Pixelserv. The setup takes less than 30 minutes and can be performed on any gateway provided they run an OS capable of running these packages. Pixelserv is used to serve 1×1 gif pixels to prevent 404 errors from the blocked ads and to enhance the user experience – otherwise you will see all kinds of nasty rendering bugs on your web pages. Note: this method does not block text ads and it is still recommended that you use some of the browser add-ons mentioned above.

Besides blocking malware there are other benefits to blocking ads – less traffic and faster, safer browsing experience. After all, why would you want to load a 10 second clip of someone selling you stuff you don’t want, thousands of times per day for every single employee of your company?


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EPA releases Final Clean Water Rule: Clarifies protections for streams, wetlands critical for water quality

earth-newToday the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) released its final Clean Water Rule, helping to provide long-needed clarity on protections for the drinking water sources for more than 117 million Americans.

“We applaud the Administration for standing up for the millions of Americans, more than one third of the population, whose drinking water quality has been at risk for pollution without this rule,” said Navis Bermudez, Deputy Legislative Director for SELC.  “Throughout a lengthy, transparent process, it is clear that the agencies have carefully considered the ample public input and scientific evidence that supports the need for a strong, final rule.”

The final rule clarifies important safeguards for smaller water sources, known as intermittent and ephemeral streams, and wetlands. While these smaller types of waters have generally received the same protections as other sources under the Clean Water Act, 60 percent of the nation’s stream miles and 20 million acres of wetlands have been left without guaranteed protection for years.

Evident from maps depicting SELC’s six state region, these smaller water bodies feed into and supply larger streams which are home to many drinking water intakes. EPA produced a scientific report earlier this year which confirms there is strong scientific evidence to support the fact that streams and many wetlands are connected to downstream waters in a significant way.

“Informed by clear science, the final rule includes critical protections for the streams and wetlands that purify our drinking water, buffer our communities from storms and floods, and filter out polluted runoff,” said Bill Sapp, Senior Attorney for SELC. “The rule recognizes that clean water is only guaranteed when critical wetland systems, such as Carolina bays, are protected based on the connections they share with streams and rivers.”

The final rule improves clarity about what waters are and are not included by defining tributaries more clearly, providing certainty in how far safeguards extend to nearby waters and will make implementation and enforcement of the law far more efficient. The rule also maintains existing exemptions, including those for agriculture and forestry.

More than 800,000 comments were submitted from small businesses, states, local elected officials, sportsmen groups, health organizations and conservation groups in support of the proposed rule in 2014.

SELC submitted comments on behalf of over 40 environmental and conservation groups making the case that depressional wetlands, such as crater-like Carolina bays found on the Southeastern coastal plain, should be covered under the final rule as a category of waters of the United States.

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Team of Destiny: Inside Virginia Basketball’s Run to the 2019 National Championship, by Jerry Ratcliffe and Chris Graham, is available for $25. The book, with additional reporting by Zach Pereles, Scott Ratcliffe, and Scott German, will take you from the aftermath of the stunning first-round loss to UMBC in 2018 through to the thrilling overtime win over Texas Tech to win the 2019 national title, the first in school history.

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Telstra Outage in Toongi, Dubbo Municipality, State of New South Wales

Telstra offers mobile and landline communications services to the public and businesses, including mobile phone, mobile internet, and broadband internet.

 Some problems detected at Telstra

Telstra problems in the last 24 hours in Toongi, State of New South Wales

Telstra Outage Chart in Toongi, Dubbo Municipality, State of New South Wales 08/07/2020 09:10

August 07: Problems at Telstra

Telstra is having issues since 05:20 PM AEST. Are you also affected? Leave a message in the comments section!

Most Reported Problems:

  • Internet 75.88% Internet
  • Wi-fi 7.83% Wi-fi
  • E-mail 6.50% E-mail
  • Phone 6.21% Phone
  • Total Blackout 3.09% Total Blackout
  • TV .49% TV

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Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
  • hecivan70 Ivan Hecimovic (@hecivan70) reported from Newcastle, State of New South Wales

    @Telstra Yes but I'm not getting anywhere. We have gone through numerous troubleshooting with no success. I have requested a Technician and was offered a few Timeslots, I chose one earlier today but it now looks as though it has not been reserved for me. I just want the issue fixed.

  • AMcFeeters Anastasia McFeeters (@AMcFeeters) reported

    @charliepick @Telstra Hey @Telstra remember when this happened to my Dad and he had a stroke and couldnt call the ambulance. Well I do, and I will never stop reminding you.

  • WaybackBot Wayback Bot (@WaybackBot) reported

    Telstra to close down premium paid service

  • Charmamba Will Muscat (@Charmamba) reported

    @BuzzRothfield Kayo is sweet for me on the Telstra box. Never had an issue, uses to lay up often on a Chrome cast tho.

  • zanerednwhite Zane (@zanerednwhite) reported

    @dexswans @Reggi05 I think Kayo is a 12 month offer. Fair enough considering not alot of sport still. Would be interested to see if afl breaks away from broadcaster partner with Telstra & starts its own streaming service. With higher level access to higher paying memberships.

  • MaVieFrancaise Judy MacMahon (@MaVieFrancaise) reported

    @Telstra Ryan solve was Telstra issue. Not happy.

  • TideOCE TideFN (@TideOCE) reported

    @MuzFN Tell me what you use from Telstra, my net is ****

  • DamoTheGeek Damien Wessling (@DamoTheGeek) reported

    @Telstra Internet is down across suburbs in WA, call support and no one is available to take calls. Chat bot is useless, no help whatsoever. Raise ticket, goes to to bot. Bot is no help at all. Please get someone to take phone calls from customers. This is unacceptable.

  • kalexbtw kalex (@kalexbtw) reported

    @Telstra explain why my internet has been the most inconsistent **** ever **** for the last few weeks. I'm about to use my neighbours internet, this is such a joke

  • AussieRIZZette Bronnie🐨🇦🇺😷 🌷🐝🌻♑ #DontBeATwatWearAMask (@AussieRIZZette) reported

    Thanks for not responding to my last tweet @Telstra Absolutely disgusted...I have important emails I need to send that relate to my son's ongoing therapy... you are makng me look bad to service providers.. so thanks for that...


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Hearing Loss

Do I need hearing aids?

2020-07-30 Hearing loss can be hard to detect because it often occurs gradually over time. The average Australian takes seven years to get their hearing tested.1 If you think your hearing or the hearing of a loved one might be diminishing, it is best to get it checked out. Here’s a list of simple questions you can ask yourself to see if you need to get it checked:

 *  Do I listen to the TV with the volume up high?
 *  Do my friends and family think I can’t hear well?
 *  Do I work around loud music or machinery?
 *  Do I ask people to repeat themselves?
 *  Do I struggle hear conversations in crowded places?
 *  Do I often miss phone calls or the door bell ringing?
 *  Do I often hear an annoying sound in my ears?

If you have answered yes to two or more of these questions, then it is time to get your hearing tested.

Don’t worry, you are not alone!

Research shows that 3.6 million Australians, or 14.5 per cent of the population, currently experiences hearing loss. This figure is expected to rise to 7.8 million by 2060.2

Over time, the sounds we hear may become distorted or muffled, and it may be difficult to understand other people when they talk. If you have noise injury you might not even be aware of it, but it can be detected with a hearing test.

Noise injury can also be caused by extremely loud bursts of sound, such as gunshots or explosions, which can rupture the eardrum or damage the bones in the middle ear. This kind of noise injury could result in immediate hearing loss that may be permanent.

If left untreated, hearing loss can leave people feeling disconnected from loved ones, reduce their ability to participate in social situations, or even affect their working life.

The online hearing assessment is a quick and easy 10-minute assessment that tests to see if your hearing is up to scratch.

Simply enter a few details about your hearing experiences and take the online audio test.

If you have any more questions about your hearing health or that of a loved one, you are always welcome at your local Hearing Australia centre, call us on 131 797 or contact us today.

Access Economics (2006), Listen Hear: The Economic Impact and Cost of Hearing Loss in Australia, Feb. p25.

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How to speak up to your boss

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It’s really difficult to work hard and feel appreciated in a job when you’re feeling under pressure. Maybe there are new people in your team, or your boss hasn’t listened to your ideas, whatever it is, you need to air your concerns. You should never do so in a public display of airing your dirty laundry, or you’ll give your boss and co-workers reason to avoid you.

No boss likes to hear a laundry list of what’s wrong with the job or the company. So, chances are, if you simply present your list of things you don’t like, your boss will view it as complaints or demands he or she can’t meet.

So, after jotting down your list, it’s a good idea to make a new one for your discussion with your boss. Review your grievances, see if there are any themes that pop out, and summarize them into agenda items. For example, if you’re always eating lunch at your desk or constantly cancelling plans with friends because you’re stuck working late, put “maintaining a healthy work-life balance” as one of the points you’d like to discuss. Whenever possible, try to frame your list in positive terms, and from a perspective of solutions rather than simply complaints (more on that in a bit).

Once you have your list tidied up, it’s time to call that meeting. Now, you might be tempted to rush over to your boss and tell him or her you want to “talk”. However, this term tends to invite crisis mode, so it’s not the best way to have a calm conversation. Bosses are hard-wired to think something’s terribly wrong whenever an employee approaches them and says, “there’s something I’d like to talk to you about”.

Instead, find a smooth segue by approaching your manager immediately after a team meeting, or after chatting over coffee in the break room. Say you have some ideas on “improving your turnaround time on a project,” or “boosting morale around here”, mention that you would like his or her input, and say you’d love to schedule a time to chat. Now, your boss is primed to not only hear your ideas, but to share his or her own as well.

When you sit down for the conversation, I recommend one of three approaches:

1. Suggest a Solution

How you tell your boss you’re feeling blasé about work is a delicate matter. You don’t want to come across as overly negative, but you also don’t want to sugarcoat your dissatisfaction, either.

So, a great way to approach the conversation is to pair your concerns with suggestions on how to solve them in a way that’s mutually beneficial. For example, if your lunch hour has been hijacked by a meeting with the team in London, mention to your boss that having the meeting an hour earlier might help keep the team focused, as everyone won’t be watching the clock as their stomachs growl, and the London team won’t have to stay so late.

Keep the focus on what you can do to improve the situation. Your boss will appreciate the thoughtfulness of your suggestions.

2. Solicit Advice

Not totally sure how to solve the problem? That’s OK—you can use the meeting as an opportunity to ask your boss for advice.

Let’s say, for example, you can’t stand working with Bob in accounting due to his terrible dental hygiene habits. Mention you’re having some challenges working with Bob, and ask for suggestions on how you can manage the relationship better. Fill your boss in on the tactics you’ve already tried that didn’t seem to work (like suggesting to Bob that email communication works better for you for record-keeping purposes), then ask to brainstorm a few more ideas. The idea is to make your boss aware of the situation so he or she can help you find a solution.

3. Ask for Help

This one might sound tough, but sometimes that’s exactly what you need—especially if you’re not exactly sure what is dissatisfying you. Let your manager know you’re not feeling as engaged as you have been previously, and you’d like his or her help getting your enthusiasm back, perhaps with more challenging work. Mention your list, and get the conversation going about what you’ve noticed around the office, and with your role.

Keep the discussion as positive as possible, making sure the focus is not on the fact that you’re unhappy, but that you’re trying to get back on top again. Your boss will appreciate the commitment, and after chatting with you for a while, he or she will have some insight on what motivates you—or doesn’t—and will be better equipped to help guide you back to a happy place.

Scarlett is a recent journalism graduate interested in writing, human resource management and workplace culture. When she isn't being a nerd, she enjoys singing, reading and seeing friends.


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Many companies rely on databases to store user credentials. Either because they use pre-built systems like ASP.NET Membership, or because they wanted to keep those users outside their main identity system (e.g. Active Directory) or just because of historical reasons ... (a.k.a. legacy)

In fact, one of the most requested features in ADFS was the ability to authenticate users outside AD. A very annoying limitation in the product, that still has not been addressed.

Because this is so common, we decided to support it out of the box in Auth0. The Auth0 Custom Connector is a component that you deploy to your infrastructure, that connects to any database (or anything really), and seamlessly integrates with Auth0.

Once setup is done (a very simple process in itself), you can continue to leverage those identities and connect them with any apps supported by Auth0: SharePoint, CRM, mobile, etc.

Here's the entire process in less than 3 minutes:

Notice that authentication with SQL (and MongoDb) is straight forward, but you can actually connect with whatever you want. This video shows an example that uses edge to call .NET code.

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The AWS re:Invent conference is back in Las Vegas this week and with it comes five days of awesome talks, deep-dives, and of course, huge announcements that promise to boost developer productivity, make DevOps simpler, and help companies grow and scale. This year the conference is spread across five hotels on the Las Vegas Strip and features over 1,500 different talks. I would love to be able to attend each one, but since I can't be in 100 places at once, I will share what I learned at the talks I could attend as well as the general announcements that Amazon will have when they host their keynotes on Wednesday and Thursday this week.

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At Auth0, we deeply care about security, compliance, and identity, and as luck would have it, re:Invent features 117 sessions on just that. The other topic that I focused on today was serverless computing and I learned a ton. Since there was no keynote today, below are things I learned at the breakout sessions.

Session: IAM for Enterprises: How Vanguard Strikes the Balance Between Agility, Governance, and Security

This session was hosted by AWS Security Consultant Reef Dsouza and Senior Security Architect for Vanguard, Rajeev Sharma. Reef set the stage by sharing some best practices when it comes to Identity and Access Management (IAM) and how AWS can help. Some general tips shared include:

  • Defense in Depth - multiple layers of security.
  • Separation of Duties - well-defined roles and permissions.
  • Principle of Least Privilege - users should only have access to what they absolutely need.

Rajeev went on to explain how Vanguard, one of the largest investment companies in the world, applied these guidelines when moving their architecture to the AWS cloud and the numerous benefits that it brought them.

Many of the best practices that Reef shared, we at Auth0 have been very vocal about as well. Read our five tips on how you can make your app more secure in less than 20 minutes.

Session: Serverless for Security Officers: Paradigm Walkthrough and Comprehensive Security Best Practices

This session, hosted by Jonathan Desrocher, Eugene Yu, and Henrik Johansson, focused on best security practices as they pertain to serverless applications. Serverless applications are gaining more and more momentum, and whether you go with AWS Lambda, Auth0 Webtask, or another serverless platform, you are sure to have questions on the various security considerations that arise when using these platforms.

Serverless Security Paradigm

The good news is that essentially all the best security practices that pertain to traditional applications also apply to serverless applications as well. The bad news is that each function is a potential attack vector, so they require a bit more effort and attention to properly secure. Additionally, with serverless, the platform provider takes on a much larger role when it comes to securing the application, but at the end of the day, security is everyone's responsibility.

Session: Credentials, Credentials, Credentials, Oh My!

Quint Van Deman of AWS hosted this chalk talk, which consisted of a 10-15 minute presentation on best practices when it comes to managing the various credentials in the AWS ecosystem, and then a 45 minute Q&A session where he asked the audience for use cases and worked out best practices for those use cases. We covered many complex use cases involving the various AWS credential services including Cognito, Secure Token Service (STS), and various forms of credential exchanges whether internal at AWS or exchanging credentials from a third party service like Auth0.

AWS Credentials

One of the key takeaways from this session was that having a centralized source of truth and federating that identity throughout your infrastructure was superior to having multiple identity stores for the different applications in your infrastructure. Learn more about Single Sign On and how you can call AWS APIs with Auth0 tokens.

Session: Evolution of Serverless Architectures Through the Lens of Community

Serverless is taking the development world by storm. This was a very enlightening talk by Peter Sbarski and Sam Kroonenburg of A Cloud Guru, one of the early adopters of serverless technology. Sam, the founder of A Cloud Guru, even showed that their production account had no active Amazon EC2 instances. This session focused on the growth of serverless architectures over the last three years and highlighted some of the providers as well as consumers of serverless technologies. Sam also covered the growing community around serverless which included quotes from many prominent members of the community, serverless meetups around the world, and even a conference!

Auth0 at AWS

Auth0's Webtask also got a shout-out, as did Auth0's identity solution. Sam closed out his talk by sharing some emerging patterns in the serverless community, especially application modernization and microservices, which you can learn much more about here.

Finally, Hernan Garcia of CityWallet gave a real-world example of how he and his team achieved success with a serverless architecture when their more traditional methods failed and put their startup at risk.

Session: Compliance and Top Security Threats in the Cloud—Are You Protected?

We closed out the day with a very informational session on top security threats that organizations face by Teri Radichel of WatchGuard Technologies and Boyan Dimitrov of Sixt. The top threats included were:

  • Unprotected keys and credentials.
  • Broad permissions for engineers.
  • Unpatched software.
  • Malicious software updates.
  • Open network ports.
  • Flat network design.
  • Broad permissions for applications.
  • Bad configuration management.
  • and Data Exfiltration.

Teri discussed how these threats led to large data breaches such as the Equifax Data Breach that leaked the Social Security Numbers of almost all Americans and the WannaCry Ransomware which locked out banks, airlines, and even hospitals.

Boyan discussed strategies on how to mitigate risk and the key takeaway was that compliance does not equal security. Many of the companies that experienced data breaches were compliant with many standards and organizations but were still breached. Security is something that must be constantly monitored to be effective.

Aside: Auth0 and AWS

If you are using AWS to manage your infrastructure, whether it be traditional, serverless, or a mix, and are looking to better manage identity in your applications, Auth0 can help you to:

  • Add authentication through traditional username/password databases.
  • Add support for linking different user accounts with the same user.
  • Support for generating signed JSON Web Tokens to call your APIs and flow the user identity securely.
  • Analytics of how, when, and where users are logging in.
  • Pull data from other sources and add it to the user profile, through JavaScript rules.
  • Achieve SSO (Single Sign-On) seamlessly.

Sign up for a free account today and enjoy fast, seamless, and hassle-free authentication in your apps.

Day 1 of the re:Invent was very eventful. I wish I could have attended more talks, but the talks I could make it to were very insightful and left me wanting more. Tune in the rest of the week as I cover more in-depth sessions as well as the keynotes. I hope you find this TL;DR useful.


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Tag: trust

Money and tech

From optimistically conceived origins and message statements about making the world a better place, too many websites and startups have become the leading edge of bias and trauma, especially for marginalized and at-risk groups.

How have so many of our digital services and social networks become a garbage fire of lies, distortions, hate speech, tribalism, snake oil, and privacy violations?


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The IMx concept is your autonomous Nissan of the future

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Japanese giant revealed the IMx at the with the company’s next-generation driverless system on board, and a zero-emissions range of 600km

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Nissan is pretty serious about electrification and driverless technologies and to demonstrate the direction the Japanese giant’s going in with its future products, at the Tokyo motor show Nissan unveiled a new fully-autonomous concept car.

The Nissan IMx (the brand likes to say ‘Intelligent Mobility’ a lot so that’s where the name comes from) was revealed in a crossover body style and can do a pretty impressive 600km on one full battery charge. For some reason Nissan wants us to believe the IMx offers “unprecedented enjoyment in motion” so they’re saying it’s more fun than a GT-R.

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The central nervous system of this car is something Nissan calls ProPilot (you can find it in the new Leaf) which is in its future next-generation form in the IMx — select ProPilot, and the car tucks the steering wheel away out of sight inside the dashboard and seamlessly reclines all the seats. Select manual mode again, and the steering wheel pops back out and the seats straighten up so you can take over control again.

Built on Nissan’s platform, the zero-emissions IMx features a flat floor which means the cabin’s huge, and it houses everything from the 320kW and 700Nm battery to the pair of electric motors front and rear giving it four wheel drive. With the heavy bits all located in the floor Nissan keeps the centre of gravity down low, claiming sharp handling and dynamics for this crossover.

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In the future Nissan says cars like the IMx will be able to drop owners to the airport, and then autonomously park up and plug themselves into the city grid and return electricity to the grid. When your return flight lands back at the airport your Nissan will get a notification and scoot silently in to pick you up at the terminal.

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"The key issue about authenticity is centered on the idea of whether authenticity is based on the 'words of Buddha' or the 'teaching of Buddha'. All the four tenet systems have claimed their authenticity and each generation based on their experience, studies and realizations attempt to integrate these four tenets. If (authenticity is) strictly based on the 'words of the Buddha' then Mahayana isn't by definition Buddhism, of course.

...Yes Nixon, Vajrayana has their culture incorporated into Buddhism. But when we talk about Mahayana teaching, I think the cultural aspect has to be put aside. Rather, we should look at Mahayana as a development based on the 'teaching'. It is a development over time about what exactly is the right understanding of the 'teaching'.

...Many are linked to political systems and which sect is in power and their 'closeness' to the ruler, so we also cannot assume popularity as authentic either.

...We have stripped out those magical elements and fantasies when talking about the teachings as well. Many are simply metaphorical. Great teachings often blend themselves into cultures and teachers often used their cultural background settings as a base to explain and make people understand the deeper 'meaning' of certain ideas. Now, we must also understand that 'logic' is not the only way of understanding. Some insights are triggered not with rational induction or deduction theory. So a development of a great teaching to allow someone to understand something deep requires us to have multifaceted discipline and instrument.

We are not just a rational being. We dream and fantasize.. to understand our nature, our suffering, our way of understanding, we got to know ourselves too. When attempting to know what Buddhism has developed into a particular trend, these are all needed. However for deciding whether what is authentic, these are not needed."

Thusness then discussed the Tathagatagarbha teachings:

"Tathagatagarbha is a potentiality, the idea that everyone has the capacity to actualize oneself to Buddhahood. Invented as part of a reaction towards the strong movement of Hindu culture. Hinduism is basically based on Brahman and Atman - the eternal Self, and Buddhism's anatta is a direct contradiction against that. It is for this reason that Mahayana developed. In all the four tenets, the middle way, the yogacara, the sutra school and Vaibhashika, all are based on the fundamental understand of the three universal characteristics.

That said, in every system, there is surely some of those hiccups that deviate from the definitive view. Even in Theravada, we see the Thai Forest traditions promoting Poo Roo - The One Who Knows, as ultimate. Many foreigners in the West that are less informed can mistaken that to represent the teaching of the Buddha too. There are those who go even further to say that Anatta implies 'not self' as the five aggregates are 'not self' and the essence of the teaching of anatta is to find the True Self, quoting instead the Kevatta Sutta on the luminous mind and consciousness without features.

Buddha Nature is thus not a problem peculiar to Mahayana, in all traditions we see this.

To me, I'm a non-sectarian, so I am quite free not having prejudice for/against Theravada, Mahayana or Vajrayana. We get our experience and teaching to release, as well as to relief ourselves from our suffering from a great teaching.

To come to our understanding of what is the fundamental cause of our suffering, and the core teaching of Selflessness is not that straight forward. We experiment and test our paradigm to see if it works. It is a life experience and journey.

In my experience and journey, there is essential two paths. First is taking and seeking comfort in the ultimate and carrying it throughout, and the other, is looking into the fundamental core of suffering and understanding its nature. So there are basically these two - one relies on the essentialist practice that they need to have an ultimate, and the other says no... there is no need to, you just have to understand the nature of suffering. Therefore when we clearly see this, we realize that Buddhism is based on the latter, and the whole development of Theravada and Mahayana is based on such a system. Otherwise there is no difference from other (religions). As such it depends on an individual path and which core system one believes in.

For me, the essence view has in a certain sense proven to not be the way and I greatly appreciate the Buddha's path. To state otherwise would mean that Buddhism is using the view of an essence to solve suffering, which isn't true for me."

"I just appreciate Buddhism as a beautiful teaching and Buddha as my teacher, as a student doing something for a teacher... nothing more than that. I seldom participate in discussion as I am not a scholar and cannot contribute much."

"It's not in my nature to seek Buddhism. I have a strong Taoist background and passion for Hinduism when I was young. So philosophically and culturally, essencelessness is not a view that suits me. But it takes painful experiences to come to a willingness to let go, to see the truth of impermanence and anatta. To challenge and come to an understanding that you don't actually have to do this and that.... (or have an) ultimate here and there to release. But rather to truly accept and look deeply into impermanence, then you will let go and we can come to a new understanding of the relationship of suffering and the truth of suffering having to do with a fundamental paradigm we hold so dearly.

..Your mindset and experience can change, so is your understanding, and you just begin a new path with new understanding. Impermanence from personal, micro and macro view. You see when you see impermanence and use it as a door in practice, your view changes also, from Vipassana observing the minutest sensations in our bodily sensations to appreciating a view in current quantum physics, macro view, to observe events. So our idea changes and we adopt such understanding in our life over time. Sometimes it really depends and it needs the right condition and situation to trigger it, just like the case of financial crisis."

[24/3/19, 11:17:05 PM] John Tan: From the perspective of clarity, it is true that Buddhism anatta and emptiness is more profound and deep… lol. But still good to caution about respecting all religions and practice. Why empty clarity is only pointed out in buddhism. So although it is true about all points to pure consciousness, it is realizing the emptiness that is the prajna eye to allow us to clearly see the empty nature of clarity. Otherwise we will most likely land in alaya or [be] required to still in deep stillness of samadhi.”
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"Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra is one of the most famous text of Mahāyāna Buddhism devoted to the positive affirmation of the eternal Self (or True Self) as opposed to impermanent nonself.

Buddha gives the following characteristics to the notion of Self:
“The Self (ātman) is reality (tattva),
the Self is permanent (nitya),

the Self is virtue (guna),
the Self is eternal (śāśvatā),
the Self is stable (dhruva),
the Self is peace (siva)”"

I replied:

Did the historical Buddha teach the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra? Certainly not. It developed several hundred years after the first suttas appeared. But Buddhism as a whole is clearly an evolutionary/evolving thing, in the same way as everything in the world - biology, religion, worldviews, politics, economy, art, culture, you name it, it has grown and evolved over time. Something that is alive and living is evolving and growing and progressing, otherwise it's dead. From the Pali suttas, to the Abdhidharma, to Mahayana - Tathagatagarbha, Prajnaparamita, Yogacara, Madhyamika, etc... from Theravada, to Mahayana, to Vajrayana, (and even within Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana, there were many evolutionary offshoots) etc.

Mahaparinirvana Sutra should be seen in that light. It arose as an evolutionary reaction to the environment, the times. In particular as a reaction to the growing influence of Hinduism. But something evolutionary would by definition include its preceding doctrines, but 'transcend' it by adding 'new features' or a 'new presentation' of it. However, it cannot be something that fundamentally contradicts the preceding teachings by completely replacing it with something else (then that would not be 'transcend and include'), such as replacing the non-substantialist Prajnaparamita tenets with a diametrically contradicting tenet such as a substantialist/essentialist or Vedantic vision of reality.

So we cannot understand Tathagatagarbha Sutra without first understanding the fundamental teachings of Prajnaparamita, Abhidharma, and Pali Suttas, since the evolutionary edge always includes but transcends its predecessors.

And we know this from the Mahayana sutras that dealt with the Tathagatagarbha doctrines. We know that Nirvana Sutra "transcends and includes" its preceding doctrines.

Nirvana Sutra: "If selflessness is demonstrated, the immature grasp to the explanation thinking there is no self. The intelligent on the other hand think "The [self] exists conventionally, there is no doubt."

-- The conventional nature of self is taught even in the Pali Suttas, such as Vajira Sutta.

Nirvana Sutra: "One must know that the teaching of the Buddha is "this is the middle way." The Bhagavān Buddha teaches the path as the middle way that is free from the extremes of permanence and annihilation. Some fools however, confused about the Buddha's teaching, like those with weak digestive heat who consume butter, quickly come to have views about the two extremes. Though existence is not established, also nonexistence is not established."

This passage merely indicates that sometimes Buddha taught there is no self, other times he taught there was a self, as an antidote to different extremes. It is not the case however that this passage is claiming there is an actual self that is real, permanent, and so on. The Nirvana sutra states, as mentioned before:

When it is explained that the tathāgatgarbha is empty, the immature cultivate an incorrect fear; the intelligent know permanence, stability and immutability to be illusory.

Also the idea that tathāgatagarbha is full-fledged buddhahood is contradicted by this passage:

The seed existing in oneself that turns into buddhahood is called "tathāgatgarbha," the buddhahood which one will obtain.

When the Tathāgata explains to the bhikṣus and bhikṣunis that his body is afflicted with a limitless great illness, at that time it should be understood that absence of self is being explained, and one should cultivate the meditation of selflessness. When the Tathāgata explains liberation is signless, empty and nothing at all, at that time one should understand the explanation that liberation is free from the 25 existences, and therefore it is called emptiness. Why?, since there is no suffering, there isn't any suffering at all, it is supreme bliss and signless. Why?, since that [suffering] is not permanent, not stable and not immutable, and because the nature of peace is not nonexistent, therefore, liberation is permanent, stable, immutable and peaceful, that is the Tathāgata. When the Tathāgata explains that the tathāgatagarbha exists sentient beings, at that time, one must correctly cultivate the meditation of permanence.

So really, it is not necessary reify liberation as a self, though some people may find it temporarily useful. But in the above statement there is no reason to reify an entity. Being free from the 25 or three realms does not mean that there is some entity outside of or apart from the three realms. A self either a) exists in the three realms, b) or it does not exist at all, or c) is just a philosophical abstraction used to describe the permanence of liberation when it is attained, and the permanent potential one has to be liberated.

Here, the Nirvana sutra clearly and precisely states that buddha-svabhaava, the "nature of a Buddha" refers not to an actual nature but a potential. Why, it continues:

"Child of the lineage, I have said that ‘curd exists in milk’, because curd is produced from milk, it is called ‘curd’.

Child of lineage, at the time of milk, there is no curd, also there is no butter, ghee or ma.n.da, because the curd arises from milk with the conditions of heat, impurities, etc., milk is said to have the ‘curd-nature’."

So one must be quite careful not to make an error. The Lanka states unequivocably that the tathagatagarbha doctrine is merely a device to lead those who grasp at a true self the inner meaning of the Dharma, non-arising, the two selflessnesses and so on, and explains the meaning of the literal examples some people constantly err about:

"Similarly, that tathaagatagarbha taught in the suutras spoken by the Bhagavan, since the completely pure luminous clear nature is completely pure from the beginning, possessing the thirty two marks, the Bhagavan said it exists inside of the bodies of sentient beings.

When the Bhagavan described that– like an extremely valuable jewel thoroughly wrapped in a soiled cloth, is thoroughly wrapped by cloth of the aggregates, aayatanas and elements, becoming impure by the conceptuality of the thorough conceptuality suppressed by the passion, anger and ignorance – as permanent, stable and eternal, how is the Bhagavan’s teaching this as the tathaagatagarbha is not similar with as the assertion of self of the non-Buddhists?

Bhagavan, the non-Buddhists make assertion a Self as “A permanent creator, without qualities, pervasive and imperishable”.

The Bhagavan replied:

“Mahaamati, my teaching of tathaagatagarbha is not equivalent with the assertion of the Self of the non-Buddhists.

Mahaamati, the Tathaagata, Arhat, Samyak Sambuddhas, having demonstrated the meaning of the words "emptiness, reality limit, nirvana, non-arisen, signless", etc. as tathaagatagarbha for the purpose of the immature complete forsaking the perishable abodes, demonstrate the expertiential range of the non-appearing abode of complete non-conceptuality by demonstrating the door of tathaagatagarbha.

Mahaamati, a self should not be perceived as real by Bodhisattva Mahaasattvas enlightened in the future or presently.

Mahaamati, for example, a potter, makes one mass of atoms of clay into various kinds containers from his hands, craft, a stick, thread and effort.

Mahaamati, similarly, although Tathaagatas avoid the nature of conceptual selflessness in dharmas, they also appropriately demonstrate tathaagatagarbha or demonstrate emptiness by various kinds [of demonstrations] possessing prajñaa and skillful means; like a potter, they demonstrate with various enumerations of words and letters. As such, because of that,

Mahaamati, the demonstration of Tathaagatagarbha is not similar with the Self demonstrated by the non-Buddhists.

Mahaamati, the Tathaagatas as such, in order to guide those grasping to assertions of the Self of the Non-Buddhists, will demonstrate tathaagatagarbha with the demonstration of tathaagatagarbha. How else will the sentient beings who have fallen into a conceptual view of a True Self, possess the thought to abide in the three liberations and quickly attain the complete manifestation of Buddha in unsurpassed perfect, complete enlightenment?"

Lankavatara Sutra then states:
"O Mahāmati, with a view to casting aside the heterodox theory, you must treat the tathāgatagarbha as not self (anātman).
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In INSIGHTS by James Corrigan1 Comment
I had an experience once in my mid-teens, sitting by a fire my friend and I had built in a weed-and-construction-debris-filled field that had been cleared as part of the construction of the World Trade Center in New York City. We were living in a small shack that we had made out of wooden pallets covered with nylon hosiery fabric found in a pile of garbage from a building that had been cleared out prior to its demolition. Another vagrant, like us, had seen our fire and come up to sit and warm up a little, because the spring evenings were still cold on those city streets, especially when the only meals you had were fetched out of dumpsters behind fast food restaurants—half-eaten food still in wrappers was much more palatable than loose waste from a restaurant. “Grease,” he announced at one point. “Grease is the source of life!” “Cool, man,” I replied. What else could one say? It was my first experience of attachment to an understanding that was less grand than the holder assumed.
Many people implicitly believe that coming to a complete understanding of reality involves a leap, whether it be an intuition or an insight, or some blissful experience in meditation, or a scientific or philosophical theory based upon the givens—those facts of experience that fill our days and our memories, and form the basis of our nervous tensions, phobias, and damaged feelings, as well as our moments of bliss and leaps of intuitive insight and conceptual theorizing. I noticed that the leaps never get one to the finish line. They may get us to a comfortable place, perhaps even a blissful one, but it’s not possible to understand reality this way.
Instead of figuring out how things are, we need to loosen the chains of both conceptual thought and the intelligible appearances that fill our experience, because even though we might be able to come to an understanding of our experiences, that understanding will always separate us from the truth because an understanding creates a something-that-is-understood, even if, through careful movements and keen insights, we never allow a someone-that-understands to arise. The understanding is itself the problem, and it is a huge problem because it is the primordial source of the illusion of separate existence.
The process of coming to an understanding isn’t like getting to the far side of a flat field of information that one leaps over suddenly, it’s a multi-layered lasagna of misunderstandings with the consistency of a bog, that traps us in our many and varied viewpoints, leaving a long, long trail of false halts on our way to our hoped-for complete transcendence. This process is founded on the belief that overcoming wrong beliefs by undoing our strong attachment to our conceptual knowledge and focusing instead on the givens, while being in the moment, will free us from misconceptions and misunderstandings and will allow us to transcend the factual appearances and get to the bottom of it all, in the fashion of a scientist approaching a problem, studying and reflecting. But you should note the way I worded that sentence, making it’s point in the repetition of reliance upon belief. Beliefs aren’t true or false, they are never true, nor false. Instead, they are always wrong to varying degrees, which is their fault, but also, to some degree true, which is their allure. And in many, many cases, the expression half truths really overestimates their value.
It occurred to me that holding to the possibility of complete transcendence, in the manner given above, is a fool’s errand based on a grave misunderstanding. That field of givens is there before us, and seemingly beckoning in a beguiling way, but only because of our need to understand, and it is this that will lead us to our doom. The truly important insight to be had there, derives from that field of givens’ presence, not from anything situated in that field. And it is the same with our conceptual thought—none of the contents of those thoughts will help us to transcend anything, even if they are the words of a respected teacher, or a world-renowned scientist. Even these words can’t. It is the presence of these thoughts, and words, and facts that is the important point. And by presence I mean presencing, or arising presentially. But don’t form an understanding of that word yet; it will just be a misunderstanding.
The desire to transcend reality is a really weird appetite to have, and yet many of us have it, in one way or another, because we either find our lives to be unsatisfactory or we find ourselves annoyed by the unsettling feeling that we don’t really understand what is going on. It’s unfortunate too that the majority of people blithely live out their lives, never having taken hold of their opportunity to realize something truly important through it. For those that want out, getting to the bottom of things is the only way they can see to get out. But there is no out, no exit, no escape—Reality is an inside without an outside, so you can’t escape. But what you can do is get free of all of your misunderstandings—not by creating new ones, but by loosening the chains of the conceptual as well as the intelligible. But it has to be both of those, or like that vagrant who thought grease was the source of life, you’ll just find yourself in another storyline.
Over the course of my life, I have found that every time I thought I had gotten somewhere by coming to some new understanding, or by changing something about the way I perceived my life, all I had done was change a storyline, exchanging it for a slightly modified one, a storyline more to my liking. I had never been able to change my being in a story. For many on this path, their answer is to be found in not thinking or conceptualizing about what is, just being, just being That. While there is nothing wrong with just being That, it is still a storyline. Why do I say that? Because we hold the implicit assumption that while our conceptual thoughts, ideas, and philosophies color our perceptions with our wants and desires, hopes and dreams, hurts and insults, and dichotomies, we believe that our perceptions are something different, if left alone, something more real than illusions of the mind. And who could fault us for that? After all, some of those perceptions can save our lives!
I’ve heard it said that when we see, we should just see—and not color what we see with hopes, dreams, aversions, fears, doubts or dichotomizations—and when we hear we should just hear. And by doing that, we free ourselves from our suffering because in those moments there is no self intervening in the process.
Even ignoring the fact that physical suffering from thirst, hunger, pain, age and disease is still suffering even when it is freed from all of our self-colorations, and what we perceive through our senses is always perspectival, so that while there may be no self involved in the perception, there is certainly a perspective limiting the visceral experience to a certain body. The truth is, everything arises empty of intrinsic self-reality, based upon conditions, uncreated and uncaused, as the spontaneous naturing that some call dharmata.
This idea that perception through any sense-door is somehow being in contact with something real, or at least pure as in pure experience, is an illusion. It is an illusion because there is no thing to be in contact with, there is no entity who can drop the illusion of self-colorations, there isn’t even an entity that natures that which appears, even the Buddhist dharmakaya is empty of an intrinsic self-nature. What we perceive arises in our mind, which is the name we give to that perspective we gloom onto because of our confusion and misunderstanding, not realizing what that perspective truly is. So in seeing, there is only the fabrication of form and light. In hearing, there is only the fabrication of sounds, etc. We are never not in intimate contact with what is arising because there is and can be no separation in reality, and what arises does so in the mind. So what’s going on?
Literally, what is going on is that we have come to understand that experiences are based upon perceptions that arise from conditions of some external kind in conjunction with a body with some specific senses. Many Buddhists include consciousness of thoughts as a sixth human sense, but a more insightful view is found in those teachings that point out that there is only one sense—that our dichotomization of experience involves a transfer of the source of perceptions from the dharmata, which is not a thing, it’s just the essential character of the activity I am referring to as naturing, to some physical equipment inherent in human and non-human lifeforms and their associated mental faculties that are distinguished based upon the kind of physical phenomena that is sensed.
If you are starting to feel that in naturing, just naturing than you are well on your way to complete freedom. Gaining freedom from conceptual thinking is the first step. I did it by noticing how thoughts arise—presentially—based upon conditions, but uncaused by any condition. Being empty of origin, empty of an intrinsic self-nature, how could their content or meaning be otherwise than empty? And yet, thoughts spontaneously appeared, and that was necessary to see. And see that I did, and you can, through the practice of meditation. But seeing that thoughts are empty of origin, means I am not creating them, and yet, if I focused upon them I found them arising in a coherent stream of thoughts strung together for as long as I attended to them. And if I looked away in another direction towards some other focus, that stream of thoughts changed! All of the words of this essay arose because of the direction of my attention and various manifesting conditions that include a desire to share something that I’ve found. Authorship is an exaggeration of an activity that is spontaneously natured, uncaused, by no entity at all. And if that doesn’t take your breath away… but you can’t stop here.
Once we see through conceptual thinking, our next step is not just to be in the moment averting our attention away from conceptual thought, it must be to see into this process of self-less naturing. And for that, I didn’t use thoughts, instead I turned my attention towards a phenomenon that had always been there for me to use—the self-arising sounds of dharmata, which are the resonances of that self-less activity of naturing. I listened to the sounds of thoughts arising, as well as my whole being arising, and it was there in those sounds that I came to realize that all of our perceptions arise in exactly the same way—not through some hybrid physical process and half-understood concepts—and that this meant that pure experiences were just as empty of intrinsic self-nature, and therefore truth, as any conceptual thoughts that might arise for me. Useful, yes. All of it—thoughts, experiences, understandings—were useful in a practical sense, but wrong in a real sense, thus always lying somewhere between truth and untruth. I had to see through all of it, and in doing so, in direct experience, not out there in some kind of illusory world, or even in here in a confused mental understanding based on beliefs, but just directly experienced through peeling off all those layers of concepts and understandings, perspectives, and causes, freeing myself from conceptual thought and intelligible appearances. And in the end, there was no myself to free. What needed to be done was to unbridle, unimpede, unobstruct, uninhibit, and stop interfering with, the natural and spontaneous inventiveness of this self-less naturing with my wandering attention and its searching for meaning in understandings and ideas, whether based upon experience or not.
It is through concepts that we learn of the problem. It is through conceptual thought that we learn of techniques to overcome the problem. It is by letting concepts go that we free our minds, opening it to other possibilities. It is through the intelligible appearances that we can truly see reality in action. But it is in giving up those intelligible appearances by training our minds to stop wandering aimlessly all over the flowerbed, that we allow the true self-less naturing to appear in all of its awesome beauty. And it is in that, that all the confused thinking and frightening appearances can be seen to be nothing other than what we casually call our mind, i.e. self-less naturing—the dharmata.
This is the strategy, half-measures are only tactics in a never-ending story. End the story.

About the Author

James Corrigan

James is a writer, philosopher, contemplative practitioner and theorist, living in the Dordogne region of France, where he runs a Bed & Breakfast. He loves to hike with friends, and ride his Vespa through the countryside, and play with his over-active joyous dog, when he is not writing. He loves to love. He was formerly a software engineer in New York, a university professor of philosophy, he taught Ethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Nature, as well as meditation. He was an elected official, an activist for animal rights and environmental justice, a soccer coach, a police commissioner, and a taxi driver. Once a father, now a grandfather, he was born too early for his age. Other LEVEKUNST articles by the same author.
Someone wrote:

Let's talk practice.
What can you DO to attain enlightenment?

I replied:

First off: for anything to work, there must be discipline and perseverance. Whether it is self-inquiry, meditation (vipashyana or shamatha), yoga, etc. Or even any mundane pursuits -- mastering your job skills, your fitness, etc. Effort, attention, consistency of practice are the foundational and crucial factors for success in any areas in life, including realizing our 'spiritual nature'. I personally do not like comments that suggest people "do nothing". While that sort of philosophy are thrown around in neo-advaita circle, in my eyes it is bullshit, misleading and leads nowhere, it doesn't lead to any kind of insight, realization, or mastery of anything*. You can waste your whole life 'doing nothing', then times up. I like Daniel M. Ingram's approach to things - pragmatic and methodical (although his practices and mine may differ).

The beginning of spiritual life is direct immediate realization of life/existence. It is to directly realize what the Heart of Existence -- what Reality/Life/Spirit is -- even in the absence of thoughts or perceptions. Just that pure sense of beingness or existence, that is most crucial. And anatta was realized through questioning the nature of Presence (investigating whether there was any 'Seer' or 'Seeing' or 'Presence' besides the vivid colours/display/manifestation, and likewise for hearing and sound, etc
, basically questioning the relationship of 'Presence' and 'Things' until that dichotomy was utterly seen through in an instant of realization), through contemplation on Bahiya Sutta the delusion of Presence or 'Seeing' as a background was penetrated and the 'manifold' of Presence is experienced fully. It is the extension of the realization of that very core essence of Being or Life, but now anatta allows you to touch the very 'Heart' or 'Life' of all things in complete intimacy, whereby the formless sense of Presence is only just one face of it. Then one brings this taste to all experiences, not only in the passive experience of 'lettings things happen' but in all activities where full engagement in that activity arising as universe -- maha. Every activity is experienced in complete 'oneness' and aliveness. All manifestations are equally so. And twofold emptiness allows us to penetrate the very delusion of that vivid manifest Presence as having any core, inherency, arising, abiding or dwelling, and directly taste Presence as illusory like empty mirages. But it requires a direct taste of Presence as the manifold, we question whether there is any essence or core to which the manifestation could arise/abide/cease and realize that it is empty and non-arising. The other aspect has to do with re-looking at the implications of constructs and the cessation of constructs through penetrating dependent designation.

The direct and unshakeable certainty of what that Presence or Existence is has been crucial for me, and practicing self-inquiry has been a very effective method to trigger that realization. But that initial realization must not be taken as an endpoint as delusions pertaining to duality and inherency remain until clear insight arises.

(*Also related, Thusness wrote before:

"Many wrongly conclude that because there is no-self, there is nothing to do and nothing to practice. This is precisely using "self view" to understand "anatta" despite having the insight.

It does not mean because there is no-self, there is nothing to practice; rather it is because there is no self, there is only ignorance and the chain of afflicted activities. Practice therefore is abt overcoming ignorance and these chain of afflictive activities. There is no agent but there is attention. Therefore practice is abt wisdom, vipassana, mindfulness and concentration. If there is no mastery over these practices, there is no liberation. So one should not bullshit and psycho ourselves into the wrong path of no-practice and waste the invaluable insight of anatta. That said, there is the passive mode of practice of choiceness awareness, but one should not misunderstand it as the "default way" and such practice can hardly b considered "mastery" of anything, much less liberation.")
Someone posted a picture:

Someone replied:

I can say for certain: Practice looks nothing like this photo you posted :)

I commented:

Practice does not look 'like' this photo. Practice is this photo as actualized... free from subject and object, desires, hopes and fears. Also the stain on the wall, too, and the smell when entering the toilet, the sensations of sitting on the toilet bowl, etc.


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