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| Much art is in the public domain, like Diane de Potiers by François Clouet (1571). |
LIBERAL STANDARDS. On some pages there are details of nude paintings. The naked bodies are within the standards of our host, and our society too.
Children and adolescents are hardly ever harmed by "reasonable, decent nudity", as on the site and on church walls since the Renaissance. To the contrary. However, too tight upbringing may complicate things. One should seek to avoid that, adapting well to one's overriding circumstances.
Copyright Matters
AT TIMES we need reservations. On these pages you find some.
Illustrations Copyright
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Gandhi sketch - Some site illustrations are from the history of art, others are original art works © T. B. Kinnes. |
However, more often than not the digital reproductions, sections and details used on the site have been altered, that is modified, mirrored, and so on. Better be warned about that. Modifications typically consist of adjustment of colours, brightness,, sharpness, edges, etc. for the sake of getting to some visual statements that suit illustration purposes at hand. Such material, stemming from the public domain, is not in the public domain.
If you see errors or omissions (e.g., missing information about copyright to an image displayed here), you could contact us.
Texts Taken from the Public Domain
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| The Gold Scales pages, reworked texts, and some of its translations are © Tormod Byrn Kinnes. |
Those who want to ask for permission to use a story or two or three, follow the lead from 'Email' at the bottom of the page. We have said "yes" to many sorts of requests earlier, for example to fairy tales in Braille (for the blind), as a basis for a translation into Chinese, one into Braille, and also for enactments..
Gold Scales Produced Texts
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| You may quote this site according to Fair Use standards. There is much to learn about it. |
There are many texts on the site today that give points fit for progress and a constructive, all-round life-style. They are of our own making, and are, quite naturally, copyrighted. You are entitled to Fair Use of such material. Fair use is a copyright principle that allows you to freely use small portions of copyrighted materials for purposes of commentary and criticism - and in addition various organizations and scholars have established guidelines for educational uses, guidelines that are not part of the Copyright Act. However, the guidelines establish some of the standards for uses and copying in education.
Now, let me suggest it roughly for The Gold Scales: You may quote up to 5 percent of a page, and paraprase (render) some ten percent of it, give and take. These indications may give you an inkling; there is much to learn about Fair Use from Stanford University. Start here: [Link]
Our stand is that personal, relevant happiness and search for well-founded successes
should hardly be debarred, and that being allied with novelties can be great help.
As for artifacts, novelties and style features, maintain your heart and mind and
deeply agreeable balances intact - it should be best. And it may be better to be a
participant and foster deeds, rather than reflecting much like an onlooker. Good thoughts
and things should foster deep and relevant successes.
Our special texts (at times called tick tack toe (solvency-aiding) summaries) intend
to give clear-cut, quite artful "medium outlooks" that may show real world situations fairly
accurately. And it's never said you should plunge yourselves into these programs either.
You have to ascertain such as relevance; fitness; appropriateness and skills needed or drawn
on for the endeavours yourself. You may fall victim to wars, untidiness, plots and false
friends, for one thing.
General Disclaimer
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NECESSARY CAUTION: Any information given on this site is not intended to replace mature, solid medical advice and/or treatment. Those in need of medical attention should consult a well qualified practitioner or therapist. And one should seek professional medical advice even if minor symptoms persist, as they could be signs of more serious underlying conditions. To be on the safe side, let not old persons (over 65-70) practice our teachings without due medical supervision. |
Solvency-assisting and haiku-linked poetry can be much fun
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| There is a general RESERVATION SET here, aimed at making writing and understanding easy. |
Further, as you read, don't overlook the favourable implications.
One who worships gurus as supreme personalities of the
godhead, may win wealth he is not really worthy of. And later, what then?
Some things depend mostly on duly and skilful performance, others on the conditions. We'd better discern between the two
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| Regrettably, conditions are not good for everyone. |
TIED by conditions, associates and much else, it doesn't have to be remarkably easy to pave one's own way. And both deviant and individual effort may come to nothing in certain circles, regrettably. This means we may never guarantee anything at all from any one training program per se (in itself). Its mean (average) value in a context (setting) has to be realistically gauged in a first-class manner: duly and skilfully ascertained first, and there are possible elements that have to be presupposed - such as being fit, fitting in, and having inborn capacity for deep changes. And all these reservations have to be presupposed, just as they must be in any sort of good schooling.
And since the study deals with broad and rich theoretical perspectives through some broad, general sweeps and leaves out the cost of listening to it, we can't decide on penalties or negative sanctions for those who try to make it better on top of any statement herein. You should not forget that we often use metaphors - and metaphors can stand where you didn't see it, and can be interpreted differently by different people or by the same people at different times. And conditions may differ: We just have to accept there are different conditions and rules and penalties in a monastery garden than among wildlife. It has to be stated. Legal concerns have to be added right where you are - not here.
"Who is steady in failure is never entangled, although
performing actions," says Krishna. Tactless use of that counsel can work against the law.
[See Bhagavad-gita 4:22]
"Settings vary and we with them - it can be normal"
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| "We advocate rustic, all right living." |
SINCE settings vary and the understanding of any designed table essays may depend on settings, and since the essays are general but a man's over-riding conditions are specific, none of our table essays may not fit you. You have to feel into how each particular essay fits and how far, and also what barriers there may be to advancing towards better living through skills attuned to it. You could have to break bonds also. These things are hard to see through, and here you see, hopefully, that much depends on how healthy you are in heart, mind and body - apart from your conditions. Healthy strides should be the best, but there are no guarantees given.
In other words: Lots of factors have to get into the reckoning. So pick your choices of concern only after due considerations, and learn to balance it by well measured, much composed and masterly over-all strides. This means you have to calculate much on your own to make use of our table essays: and then some sweeping training programs derived from them could be of use.
You have to ascertain much to make the programs serve you individually - much needs to be tailored to such as local fare and home conditions as well.
If this disclaimer is not enough for you, it should help to pick up other and perhaps more specifically tailored disclaiming statements as they are interspersed on the many pages.
We advocate rustic living and a mild Soto Zen related life-style also. Hints in tune with it need to be corraborated and correlated well.
We further suggest: Be judicious and contract one or more experts to apply these teachings in your community as an all right and thinking group.
Linking up
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Here is a corollary: [Co-Disclaimer (of Great Reservations)]
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