BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog – a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. We are all Buddhas in the mud of concepts.

Life Is Designed To Go Wrong

We are fed, or we acquire, false information, day in and day out.
Understanding the confused world in which we dwell
is the path to enlightenment.

The world happens outside.
Our world happens inside.

We experience the world through our senses, which send a message to the brain and then to the mind: that’s how we relate to the world. The way in which the world reflects back our projections – the feedback we receive – dictates the way in which we see ourselves, and this creates a social I. This collective false reality gives rise to mass confusion and suffering. Taking advantage of, and exploiting this confusion gives rise to more confusion and suffering This is the work of Mara. Most of us try to put things right, only to find that ‘someone’ is deliberately cocking it up again, and so we go round in circles.

There is always something lurking around the corner.
We have to look at the causes of suffering
and its perpetuation.

Key facts about Cancer

Cancers figure among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, with approximately 14 million new cases and 8.2 million cancer related deaths in 2012.

The number of new cases is expected to rise by about 70% over the next 2 decades.

Among men, the 5 most common sites of cancer diagnosed in 2012 were lung, prostate, colorectum, stomach, and liver cancer.

Among women the 5 most common sites diagnosed were breast, colorectum, lung, cervix, and stomach cancer.

Around one third of cancer deaths are due to the 5 leading behavioural and dietary risks: high body mass index, low fruit and vegetable intake, lack of physical activity, tobacco use, alcohol use.

Tobacco use is the most important risk factor for cancer causing around 20% of global cancer deaths and around 70% of global lung cancer deaths.

Cancer causing viral infections such as HBV/HCV and HPV are responsible for up to 20% of cancer deaths in low and middle-income countries.

More than 60% of world’s total new annual cases occur in Africa, Asia and Central and South America. These regions account for 70% of the world’s cancer deaths.

It is expected that annual cancer cases will rise from 14 million in 2012 to 22 million within the next 2 decades.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs297/en/

List of wars by death toll with over 1,000,000 deaths

List of wars by death toll with fewer than 1,000,000 deaths

876,000 – English Civil War (1642–1651)

800,000– American Civil War (1861–1865)

770,000 – Second Punic War (218–201 BC)

500,000–1,500,000 – Ethiopian Civil War (1974-1991)

500,000 – Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)

400,000–1,000,000 – Gallic Wars (58–50 BC)

470,000 – Syrian Civil War (2011–present), see Casualties of the Syrian civil war

400,000+ – First Indochina War (1946–1954)

400,000 – Civil war in Afghanistan (1989–92), Civil war in Afghanistan (1992–96) and Civil war in Afghanistan (1996–2001) (1989–2001)

400,000+ War of the Triple Alliance (1864–1870)

350,000–1,500,000 – Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962)

350,000 – Kalinga War (262–261 BC)

350,000 – Third Northern War (1700–1721)[

315,000–735,000 – Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639–1651)

300,000–3,000,000– Bangladesh Liberation War (1971)

300,000 – Second Burundian Civil War (1993–2005)

300,000 (TFG)–500,000+ (AFP) – Somali Civil War

272,000–1,260,009 – War on Terror (2001–present)

234,000 – Philippine–American War (1899–1912)

220,000 – Colombian conflict (1964–present) (1964–present)

200,000–1,000,000 – Albigensian Crusade (1208–1229)

200,000–500,000 — Lord’s Resistance Army insurgency (1987–present)

200,000 – Algerian Civil War (1991–2002)

185,250–3,000,000 – Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453)

178,258–461,520 – War in Darfur (2003–present)

176,913–1,120,000 – Iraq War/Third Persian Gulf War (2003–2011), see Casualties of the Iraq War, part of the War on Terror]

138,800–320,100 – Iraqi–Kurdish conflict (1918–2003)

120,000–384,000 – Great Turkish War (1683–1699) (see Ottoman-Habsburg wars)

120,000–150,000 – Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990)

120,000 – Islamic insurgency in the Philippines (1969–present)

115,311 – Arab–Israeli conflict (1920–present)

106,800+ – Mexican Drug War (2006–present)

100,000–10,000,000[80] – Indian Rebellion of 1857

100,000–500,000 – Ugandan Bush War (1981-1986)

100,000 – Insurgency in Laos (1975–2007)

100,000 – German Peasants’ War (1524–1525)

97,000–107,000 – Aceh War (1873–1914)

97,214–104,732 – Bosnian War (1991–1995)

90,969 – Mahdist War (1881–1889)

90,000+ – Third conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War (1018–1019)

85,000–235,000 – 1991 uprisings in Iraq (1991)

80,000–110,000, Kashmir Conflict – (1947 to present)

80,000–100,000 – Sri Lankan Civil War (1983–2009)

63,500–88,500 – Mozambican War of Independence (1964–1974)

60,000 – Ituri conflict (1999–2007)

47,246–61,603 – War in Afghanistan (2001–present) (2001–present), part of the War on Terror

45,852 – 78,946 – War in North-West Pakistan (2004–present), part of the War on Terror

45,000 – Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1979–2013)

34,000 – Iranian-Kurdish conflict (1918–present)

34,000 – Ethnic conflict in Nagaland (1954–present)

25,000 – Insurgency in Northeast India (1964–present)

25,000 – Shia insurgency in Yemen (2004–present)

20,000 – Ragamuffin War (1835–1845)

18,069–20,069 – First Opium War (1839–1842)

17,200 – First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842)

16,765–17,065 – Balochistan conflict (1948–present)

16,000 – War of the Pacific (1879–1883)

15,000 – Nigerian Sharia conflict (1953–present)

13,929 – Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–1999)

13,812 – Naxalite-Maoist insurgency (1967–present)

10,000+ – Malayan Emergency (1948–1960)

9,400 – Libyan Civil War (2011)

8,136+ – Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal) (2011–present)

5,641 – Sudanese nomadic conflicts (2009–present)

5,469 – South Thailand insurgency (2004–present)

5,000 – Casamance conflict

5,000 – Chilean Civil War of 1891

4,000–10,000 Conflict in the Niger Delta (2004–present)

3,699 – Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen (1992–present)

3,529 – The Northern Ireland Troubles (1969–1998)

3,000–6,000 – Negro Rebellion (1912)

3,000 – Second Ivorian Civil War (2010–2011)

2,781 – Iranian Revolution (1978–1979)

2,751 – Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919)

2,557 – Sudan internal conflict (2011–present) (2011–present)

2,394 – Sinai insurgency

2,198 – Insurgency in the North Caucasus (2009–present)

2,000 – Six-Day War (2000) (2000)

2,000 – 2010 South Kyrgyzstan ethnic clashes (2010)

1,643–2,237 – War of Transnistria (1992)

1,554 – South Yemen insurgency (2009–present)

1300+ – Allied Democratic Forces insurgency (1996–present)

1,229 – Basque conflict (1959–2011)

1,227–5,600 – Kargil War (1999)

1,119 – Political violence in Egypt, 2013 (2013–present)

1,000–1,500 – Cabinda conflict (1994–present)

1,000 – 1991–92 South Ossetia War (1991–1992)

907 – The Falklands War (1982)

846 – 2011 Egyptian revolution (2011)

740 – Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation (1963–1966)

659–2,496 – Russia–Georgia war (2008)

643[163] – 1,500[164] – Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile

391+ – M23 rebellion (2012–present)

174–194 – United States occupation of Veracruz (1914)

95 – 2013 Guinea clashes (2013)

84–134 – Lahad Datu standoff (2013)