Monday, January 30, 2023

AP+

Hedera DLT to provide digital infrastructure for major Australian financial systems. Let's See. 
"Australian Payments Plus (AP+) brings together Australia’s three domestic payment providers, BPAY Group, eftpos and NPP Australia, into one integrated entity.

Bringing these businesses together enables AP+ to create a more competitive and coordinated Australian payments organisation that is strategically placed to respond to the impacts of regulatory and technological change today, and into the future.

Our capabilities include Australia’s domestic debit network, real-time payments infrastructure, secure bill payments, digital identity exchange, QR code payments and experiences, and open wallet solutions."

Centre For Action & Contemplation

"There is much evidence on several levels that there are at least two major tasks to human life. 

The first task is to build a strong “container” or identity; 
the second is to find the contents that the container was meant to hold. 

The first task we take for granted as the very purpose of life, which does not mean we do it well. 
The second task, I am told, is more encountered than sought; few arrive at it with much preplanning, purpose, or passion.

We are a “first-half-of-life culture,” largely concerned about surviving successfully. 

Probably most cultures and individuals across history have been situated in the first half of their own development up to now, because it is all they had time for. 

We all try to do what seems like the task that life first hands us: establishing an identity, a home, relationships, friends, community, security, and building a proper platform for our only life.

But it takes us much longer to discover “the task within the task,” as I like to call it: 

what we are really doing when we are doing what we are doing.…

Problematically, the first task invests so much of our blood, sweat, tears, and years that we often cannot imagine there is a second task, or that anything more could be expected of us. 

“The old wineskins are good enough,” we say, even though according to Jesus they often cannot hold the new wine. According to him, if we do not get some new wineskins, “the wine and the wineskin will both be lost” (Luke 5:37–39). 

The second half of life can hold some new wine because by then there should be some strong wineskins, some tested ways of holding our lives together. 

But that normally means that the container itself has to stretch, 
die in its present form, or even replace itself with something better.

Various traditions have used many metaphors to make this differentiation clear: 

beginner and proficient, novices and initiated, milk and meat, letter and spirit, juniors and seniors, baptized and confirmed, apprentice and master, morning and evening, 

Only when we have begun to live in the second half of life can we see the difference between the two. 

Yet the two halves are cumulative and sequential, and both are very necessary. 
We cannot do a nonstop flight to the second half of life by reading lots of books about it. 

Grace must and will edge us forward.  
 
“God has no grandchildren. God only has children,” as some have said. 
Each generation has to make its own discoveries of Spirit for itself.

No pope, Bible quote, psychological technique, religious formula, book, or guru can do the journey for us. If we try to skip the first journey, we will never receive its real fruits or understand its limitations."

Centre For Action & Contemplation
"The Task Within The Task"
Introducing the first half of life and the necessary journey beyond it. 

"...that normally means that the 
container itself has to stretch, 
die in its present form, 
or even replace itself with 
something better."

The Hedera Community is 

Creating & Building Something Better.  

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"PAY ATTENTION, BE ASTONISHED, TELL ABOUT IT"

Sunday, January 29, 2023

Why By Pass A Whole Life?

Only When Your Actions 
Are Conscious
Will They Become a Process 
of Growth for You
"Raising women to be people pleasers 
makes them more susceptible to abuse,
 manipulation, and coercion. 
We need to support women in setting
 boundaries, saying no, and releasing the idea
 that a “selfless” woman puts everyone else’s
 needs before her own."

Thursday, January 26, 2023

Always Was Always Will Be

 

Tuesday, January 24, 2023

One Creature In Creation

Kind & Aligned = authentic

Open & Potent = integrity

Gracious & Grounded = depth

Whole & Discerning = cores values

From Love, NOT For Love = From Enough, NOT draining and needy

Atma Vidya - simple, undivided, total, creative being, human intelligence. 

Nota Bene: needy gold diggers, vacuous space cadets and insecure enablers, nna. 

Monday, January 23, 2023

Reimagine Those Old School Processes, Innovative Change is Happening Now & It Is Coming For Everyone

"Top 3 Global Law Firm Seizes First Mover Advantage 

to Tokenize Almost Everything with Blockchain. 

Law firm DLA Piper operates in over 40 countries and is one of the three biggest law firms in the world. But just because it's an old school company in an old school industry doesn't mean that it (or any other similarly positioned organization) cannot leverage technology to seize competitive advantage for itself as well as for its customers. 

At World Economic Forum 2023, BlockchainJournal.com editor-in-chief David Berlind met with DLA's Chief Innovation Officer Andy Gastwirth who explained why a global law firm needs a chief innovation officer as well as the significance of using blockchain to tokenize real-world assets; everything from office buildings to race horses. 

Two driving factors have to do with the idea of fractionalizing those assets and optimizing a multitude of complex and legal workflows to involve significantly less people, paper and process-based friction than they do today (think "digital transformation"). 

As Gastwirth says in the interview, it just means you have to reimagine those old school processes as digital processes. In the legal world, blockchain-based tokenization will be key to that reimagination." 


"From within the mandala of the wounded healer, the goal isn’t to never struggle, to wiggle into some state where we permanently transcend our embodied vulnerability and tender sensitivities, but to feel, hold, and integrate the shattered, dissociated, and forgotten.

To be more flexible and supple to feel more, to touch and be touched by the richness, depth, and beauty of the human soul in more subtle and nuanced ways, to discover the meaning within the suffering.
There is a grace and a vision that we can only know from within the more dimly lit areas of psyche, inside the blue spectrum.

There are many rooms within that interior castle that Teresa of Avila invites us to explore, but to enter inside we have to turn the whole thing upside down, shine a light into the unlived life, illuminate the matrices of intergenerational trauma and trance, and open to the possibility that the ally is always nearby.

At times, to slow things way down, and with a passionate, alive, and earthy compassion, come to the ground and tend to the soul-figures who have gathered there, mourn the reassembling of our world, and grieve all that we will inevitably lose as we heal and awaken.

It’s not only a process of manifestation, attraction, and acquisition - what I’ll get from the path - but also the assembling of a sanctuary to hold all that will be dissolved and reorganized. To honor and lament that as we allow the pieces of spirit to move on to what is next for them. This can burn and ache as it tenderizes the inner pathways.

It's an act of wisdom as well as compassion to honor that the transformational process by its very nature is messy, glorious, and full-spectrum. It’s not only the activity of creation, but reorganization as well.
There’s never a final landing place or resolution as the heart itself is endless. As long as there is a body, there is a shadow; as long as there is a body and a shadow, there is the possibility of deeper illumination, new rooms revealed in the secret places within the castle."

Matt Licata

Friday, January 20, 2023

$HBar

just leaving this here... 


hope you are also diligent;

research all bases

pay attention

eyes doubly open 

ears doubly open 

mouth opens when it improves on silence

discern, learn, earn, 

response able, 

don't blame others


do your own due process;

be discerning

Hedera leading minds 

Hedera brilliant learning brains and 

Hedera technically savvy

 

long term depth

solid foundations

built on core values

created with and by a passionate community


sharing life fully

lovers


(Glad you are also following & listening, $HBar friend, Maria Christian...💃💋👅🤣🤣🤣 🐐) 

"Oh, don't worry about that... that's just who I am... a rock solid character" 💖

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, 
not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” 
― Socrates

Huge thanks to Hedera's representative Governing Council Members -
@ServiceNow,
@AveryDennison,
@DLA_Piper,
@IBM,
@sbgroup, &
@UCL - to
@wef 
for hosting, and of course to our ever-growing and incredible community who made this possible.
#FutureNow #FinancialFreedom #DYOR #Simple #Common #Ordinary #PayAttention 

Hedera is a distributed ledger for building and deploying decentralized applications and microservices. You can use Hedera’s network services– Consensus, Tokens, Smart Contracts, and File Service–atop the hashgraph consensus algorithm, to build applications with high throughput, fair ordering, and low-latency consensus finality in seconds without relying on centralized infrastructure. The network is made up of permissioned nodes run by the Hedera Governing Council, a group of term-limited enterprises that lead the network's direction. Over time the network will move to a permissionless modelReady to submit your first transaction to a Hedera network? Visit our Getting Started

Thursday, January 19, 2023

All Leaders Are Readers ~ "Acts of Reckoning"

There is no force equal to the power of the First Nations Matriarchy.

"First Nations Matriarchs are healers, storytellers, keepers of our kids and truth-seekers. I am not referring to this matriarchy as a hierarchy of power like the white patriarchy; rather I recognise the moral force of authority instilled in kinships governed by the First Nations Matriarchy that binds our communities, countries and culture together."

"In my work as a lawyer and advocate for the Uluru Statement from the Heart, the fire and fearlessness of Gladys Tybingoompa has continued to spark within me the courage required to campaign for a referendum to enshrine a First Nations Voice in the Australian Constitution. This is the reckoning, the words meeting action, that our nation so desperately needs – a Voice that has always centred a balance between men and women; a Voice that values Blak women. 

Teela Reid


And our belief that the Australian people 
can change systems must be stronger 
than our lack of faith in politicians.

Despite the growing distance between the nation’s people and the powerful few, we must not lose sight of our own capacity to see change through, as fearlessly as Gladys lived her life. We must be willing to argue our case with graciousness – as my great-grandmother Elsie May would have done. We must collectively care for our kinships circles as my nan Stella May does. And we sure as hell ought to remember that all those of the First Nations Matriarchy stood staunch, like the Warrior Women before them, knowing that all they did always was – and always will be – for the love of Blackfullas.

As we move our nation closer to this crucial referendum process, we cannot be distracted by political rhetoric or empty promises. The mandate embodied by the Uluru Statement from the Heart is clear: 
it carves out a consensus position that articulates the way through the reckoning – as bumpy as that road may seem.

In the spirit of our First Nations Matriarchs, I will continue honouring the reckoning that my ancestors started. As Aunty Pat Anderson AO once said to me on the campaign trail: ‘We fight on!’ ~ Teela Reid

Examining questions of history, truth-telling and decolonisation, 
and revisiting colonial figures and their ongoing legacies, 
Acts of Reckoning reframes the past in order to 
form new futures – 
and celebrates how much work is already underway.

Contributing Editor Teela Reid joins Editor Ashley Hay as 
Griffith Review 76: Acts of Reckoning 
opens a dialogue for diverse voices, opportunities and perspectives 
to be articulated, examined and assessed

Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Margot Anand

 

Monday, January 16, 2023

Hedera Leads at Davos 2023 with POLITICO, will.i.am, Starling Labs and IBM


"Hedera's Chair and President, Brett McDowell, will participate in an xChange Session at the Davos Congress Centre, moderated by Dr Neha Narula, Director of the Digital Currency Initiative at MIT. This panel discussion is the first public event held as part of the WEF Digital ID initiative launched in 2022, exploring how leaders can shape international ID policy to support financial, social and health equity through digitization." 

Full Hedera Haus Program here. 

Thursday, January 12, 2023

Art Remains The Highest Hope

"To all who write, draw, paint, throw pots, play an instrument, sing, act, teach, craft a meal, tend a garden, beautify a home, raise a child, care for the ill or infirm, engage in science, mentor, reach out, listen. A fair and regenerative world starts here." 
- Laura Grace Weldon
People spend lifetimes seeking that which they already have.
All you have to do to have love is be love.
To accept one's own sovereignty is a beautiful thing