This morning when I received an email broadcast from Adversity University with yesterday’s post, Update: Request for Help An Experiment, (I subscribe to my own blog to see what others are seeing in their inboxes), I realized that the Paypal button was not working inside the email. (Photo credit: ktpupp)
This was strange because I became aware of this problem late yesterday afternoon and fixed it long before the emails went out to you and everybody else on the email subscriber list.
However, for some reason the correction didn’t take place probably because of a stupid option WordPress has with automatically saving my posts every five seconds, causing weird problems like this situation. Fortunately, I’ve since found a plug-in to disable the autosave feature.
Anyway, what I did was to test the Paypal button inside my email and because it didn’t work for me, I assume it didn’t work for you either – that is, if you attempted to click on it. Like what happened with me, you would have been taken to PayPal’s home page, not the “Help Stephen Go Back to School” donation page. ARRRRR.
The PayPal button has been double checked and corrected. You should now be able to click on the Paypal button inside your email (see below) and donate if you’re inspired to. Or you can simply go to the blog (click on the title of this article) and scroll down the page until you see the PayPal button. Okie dokie?
Whether you click on thje button in your email or on the blog page itself, you should a see a page that looks like this:
Once again, here’s the PayPal button:
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10:41 pm on March 7th, 2009 1
Stephen, even technical phenomena function on their own plane in particular energy vibrations. You figure out what you need and how to satisfy them. This is a trait of an energy being’s core consciousness.
7:51 am on March 8th, 2009 2
@ Liara Covert:
I thought about that yesterday and it made me wonder what was going on. Hmmmm……
12:32 pm on March 8th, 2009 3
Stephen, unsure if you are familiar with Zen koans. Your interest in exploring the concepts of awakening and consciousness suggest you would appreciate the following:
Consider how Ma Zu helped another of his famous pupils, Bai Zhang, to be awakened. When Bai Zhang consulted his master on his development, Ma Zu stared at a feather duster. Bai Zhang said, “If we want to use it, we have to take it from its place.” The master retorted, “If we take your skin from its place, what would become of you?”
Apparently ignoring the master’s retort, Bai Zhang held up the feather duster. Ma Zu said, repeating Bai Zhang’s words, “If we want to use it, we have to take it from its place.” Bai Zhang then returned the feather duster to its original place. At this instant, Ma Zu gave a shout so loud that Bai Zhang was deaf for three days. Later, when classmates asked him about his temporary deafness, he said, “What deafness? After awakening, I just took a rest.”
Koans are not plays on words, or tricks or riddles. They invite one to recognize and explore paradoxes in one’s own thinking. One’s understanding of a given koan is proportional to self-awareness. Zen masters use such techniques to teach pupils. A master is not focused on what the students answer, but how they answer. If you ponder the answer, cogitate or over-complicate, the answer remains beyond you. Some human beings sense Zen is beyond thought, beyond words, beyond explanation. Its one approach or path that gets you back to core self.
11:52 am on March 9th, 2009 4
@ Liara Covert:
Thanks for bring this to my attention – I’ll definitely look into it.
10:05 pm on April 7th, 2009 5
Stephen, coincidence does not exist. To read about paradox reminds the self how the mind plays tricks on you in order to awaken dormant abilities and awareness.
9:33 am on April 8th, 2009 6
@ Liara Covert:
You’re right – coincidence does not exist. That’s why I often say things like “so-called coincidence” when describing an event that took place where most people would have seen it as a mere coincidence; however, we know better.