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(36) Spiritual Community of The True Followers of The Path Shown by The Awakened One-IV. The Act of Going for Refuge
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View Source Conference: 26 October, 2018 - London

Mozilla invites front-end developers and designers to participate in
this one-day, single-track conference. At View Source, we’ll bring
together visionary speakers to look at the web from technical and design
perspectives, across platforms and devices.

Join us for this great opportunity to network with like-minded people in a collaborative, inclusive environment.

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Join us at this great opportunity to network with like-minded people in a collaborative, inclusive environment.

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Speakers

Saron Yitbarek

Keynote

Saron is a developer and founder of CodeNewbie, the most
supportive community of programmers and people learning to code. She
also hosts the CodeNewbie Podcast, the award-winning Command Line Heroes
podcast from Red Hat, and the basecs podcast with Viadehi Joshi.

Mariko Kosaka

Mariko Kosaka is a Developer Advocate at Google working on the
open web. In this role she helps web developers make the web better for
all. Prior to joining Google, Mariko served as a Software Engineer for
Scripto, an Internal Tools Developer for Percolate Inc. and as a
Platform Innovations Developer for LiveIntent Inc. She’s a graduate of
Temple University and resides in the greater New York City area where
she serves as the co-organizer of BrooklynJS.

Henri Helvetica

Planet Of The APIs: A Tale of Performance & User Experience.

Henri is a freelance developer who has turned his interests to a
potpourri of performance engineering with pinches of user experience. He
has found enjoyment attending and speaking at web conferences, right
down to local meetups to be amongst the community he loves.

When
not reading the deluge of daily research docs and case studies, or
indiscriminately auditing sites in developer tools, Henri can be found
contributing back to the community, co-programming meetups including the
Toronto Web Performance Group or volunteering his time for lunch and
learns at various bootcamps. Otherwise, with near certainty training and
focusing on running the fastest 5k possible and longing the days he
wasn’t lactose intolerant.

Ruth John

Ruth is a creative engineer with a web development background.
She has enjoyed a fifteen year career working on websites, applications
and most recently interactive art projects, especially those featuring
audio. She also educates people and enjoys talking about new web
technologies, inspiring others to try them. Always coming up with
exciting and engaging ways to use them, as well as interesting
integrations into everyday development. As a Google Developer Expert and
founding member of { Live : JS } she’s almost always got a conference
talk lined up, article ready to be published or live show tour date in
the diary.

Bryan Hughes

Bryan Hughes is a technical evangelist at Microsoft and long-time
member of the Node.js and NodeBots communities. Bryan is the creator of
Raspi IO which provides Raspberry Pi support for the Johnny-Five JavaScript robotics library. Bryan also created Raver Lights, a distributed wireless lighting system designed for festivals, and Request Inspector, a Node.js performance diagnostics tool. Outside of tech, Bryan is an amateur photographer, occasional writer, a once upon a time pianist, and a wine aficionado.

Kim Crayton

Kim Crayton is the founder of the #causeascene movement and a
proud multipotentialite and advocate for diversity, inclusion, and safe
spaces in tech, who is committed to facilitating honest conversations
and intentional actions for positive change.

Whether in
the role of strategist, educator, consultant, writer, public speaker,
mentor, organizational anthropologist, trainer or curriculum designer,
Kim is always in search of innovative approaches that enable
individuals, organizations, and communities to intentionally and
skillfully create environments which support the sharing of common
attitudes, interests, and goals in order to build more innovative and
profitable businesses while growing a more inclusive and diverse
technology community. She is also currently pursuing a Doctor’s of
Business Administration – Technology Entrepreneurship.

Mandy Michael

Text Experiments with CSS

Mandy Michael is a community organizer, speaker, and developer
working as a Development Manager at Seven West Media in Western
Australia. She is a co-organizer and Director of Mixin Conf, and the founder and co-organizer of Fenders, a local meetup for front end developers providing events, mentoring and support to the Perth web community.

Mandy’s
passion is CSS, HTML and JS, she has a particular interest in web
typography, accessibility and modern layouts, and hopes to inspire that
passion in others. Mandy loves the supportive and collaborative nature
of the web, her aim is to create a community of web developers who can
share, mentor, learn and grow together.

Hui Jing Chen

Be like water: Applying Bruce Lee’s philosophy to web design

Hui Jing is a self-taught designer and developer with an
inordinate love for CSS. Reducing lines of code in her web projects
makes her extremely happy. She used to play basketball full-time and
launched her web career during downtime between training sessions.

Jen Simmons

Jen Simmons is a Designer and Developer Advocate at Mozilla,
where she advocates for web standards and researches the coming
revolution in graphic design on the web.

Jen launched
her first client website in 1998 and spent years making sites for small
businesses, arts organizations, and creative individuals. Her more
well-known clients include CERN, the W3C, Google, Drupal, Temple
University, and the Annenberg Foundation.

Besides
designing for the web, Jen has years of experience designing for live
performance and for print. Her projection and lighting design work has
shown at theaters including the BAM Next Wave Festival, the National
Theater of Belgrade, The Off Center, and Jump-Start Performance Co. Her
short films toured film festivals around the globe, including RESFEST,
Media That Matters, and on MTV Television. Jen is the host and executive
producer of The Web Ahead. She taught digital media to high school kids
in San Antonio and film production to college students in Philadelphia.
Jen earned a MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University. She
lives in New York City.

Sareh Heidari

View Source MC

Sareh is a web developer at BBC News, based in London. She cares
about web accessibility, internationalisation and how we can make the
web a more inclusive space for the most marginalised.

In her spare time, she’s playing around with mixing Persian calligraphy and carpet-weaving with web typography & layouts.

Schedule

8:00 - Registration, with light breakfast and coffee

9:00 - Keynote - Saron Yitbarek

9:45 - Mariko Kosaka

10:15 - Break

10:45 - Henri Helvetica

Planet Of The APIs: A Tale of Performance & User Experience

A
quarter century has passed since the first browser was released. Tim
Berners-Lee’s pioneering spawned an industry that regaled in loading
structured information onto a screen. We once referred to raw timing
data provided by the browser to measure performance. But the modern
experience soon demanded metrics beyond DOMContentLoaded and Load
events, but more complex measurements such as first paint, meaningful
paint and time to interactive among others. Planet Of The APIs peruses
present-day and even experimental practices employed in measuring web
apps in the on going pursuit of providing stellar and performant user
experiences.

11:15 - Ruth John

A New Soundscape: Developments in the Web Audio API

Shall
we talk about audio? I mean there’s no place for that in a browser
right? Annoying background sound, auto playing videos 🙄… but wait!
What about games, apps, XR, web assembly giving us the power to compile a
whole new world in this environment?

With new policies being
discussed to make it less offensive, and technologies to make it run
smoothly, audio is coming of age. After rocky beginnings back in the
nineties, single thread issue with the birth of the Web Audio API,
things are changing and really it’s here to stay.

Ruth takes us
through the basics, best practises and these changes. Welcome to a whole
new exciting world of sound, a world where the browser suddenly stops
shouting and becomes an adult.

11:45 - Bryan Hughes

12:15 - Lunch

13:30 - Lightning Talks, Moderated by Alex Lakatos

14:15 - Kim Crayton

15:15 - Mandy Michael

Text Experiments with CSS

Interesting
and impactful text is often deemed a “print only option”. But we can
have those effects now in our web projects with real web text.

I’ll
show you how to recreate photoshop effects and bring your own text
effects to life all while maintaining accessible, searchable, and
selectable text using CSS and HTML.

We’ll explore a variety of
techniques combining old and new CSS properties and values including
pseudo-elements, clip-path, blend modes, gradients, transforms, variable
fonts and more to create interesting and inspiring headings and
layouts.

It’s never been a better time to stand out and experiment with the power of CSS.

15:45 - Hui Jing Chen

Be like water: Applying Bruce Lee’s philosophy to web design

The
web is a medium unlike anything we’ve seen before. It is interactive
and dynamic, and we need to embrace its nature instead of fighting it.
Modern CSS allows the same code-base to result in designs that morph and
adapt based on the context in which they are viewed. Since browsers are
being updated and changing all the time, adaptability becomes key. To
change with change is the changeless state, a mindset that is well
suited to designing for the web.

16:15 - Closing Keynote - Jen Simmons

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IV. The Act of Going for Refuge


To enter the door to the teaching of the Buddha for practice it is not enough merely to know the reference of the refuge-objects. The door of entrance to the practice is the going for refuge to the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha. To understand what the refuge-objects mean is one thing, to go to them for refuge is another, and it is the going for refuge alone that constitutes the actual entrance to the dispensation.


But what is the going for refuge? At first glance it would seem to be the formal commitment to the Triple Gem expressed by reciting the formula of refuge, for it is this act which marks the embracing of the Buddha’s practice. Such an understanding, however, would be superficial. The treatises make it clear that the true going for refuge involves much more than the reciting of a pre-established formula. They indicate that beneath the verbal profession of taking refuge there runs concurrently another process that is essentially inward and spiritual. This other process is the mental commitment to the taking of refuge.


The going for refuge, as defined by the commentaries, is in reality an occasion of consciousness: “It is an act of consciousness devoid of defilements, (motivated) by confidence in and reverence for (the Triple Gem), taking (the Triple Gem) as the supreme resort.”3 That the act is said to be “devoid of defilements” stresses the need for sincerity of aim. Refuge is not pure if undertaken with defiled motivation — out of desire for recognition, pride, or fear of blame. The only valid motivation for taking refuge is confidence and reverence directed towards the Triple Gem. The act of consciousness motivated by confidence and reverence occurs “taking the Triple Gem as the supreme resort,” (parayana). That the Triple Gem is taken as the “supreme resort” means that it is perceived as the sole source of deliverance. By turning to the threefold refuge as supreme resort, the going for refuge becomes an act of opening and self-surrender. We drop our defenses before the objects of refuge and open ourselves to their capacity to help. We surrender our ego, our claim to self-sufficiency, and reach out to the refuge-objects in the trust that they can guide us to release from our confusion, turmoil, and pain.


Like any other act of consciousness the going for refuge is a complex process made up of many factors. These factors can be classified by way of three basic faculties: intelligence, volition, and emotion. To bring the act of going for refuge into clearer focus we will take the mental process behind the outer act, divide it by way of these faculties, and see how each contributes to its total character. That is, we will examine the going for refuge as an act of intelligence, will, and emotion.


Before doing this, however, one word of caution is necessary. Any particular phenomenon represents far more than is immediately visible even to a deeply probing inspection. A seed, for example, has a much greater significance than the grain of organic matter that meets the eye. On one side it collects into itself the entire history of the trees that went into its making; on the other it points beyond to the many potential trees locked up in its hull. Similarly the act of consciousness involved in taking refuge represents the crystallization of a vast network of forces extending backwards, forwards, and outwards in all directions. It simultaneously stands for the many lines of experience converging upon its formation out of the dim recesses of the past, and the potential for future lines of development barely adumbrated in its own immediate content. This applies equally to the act of taking refuge as a whole and to each of its constituting factors: both the whole and its parts must be seen as momentary concretions with a vast history, past and future, hidden from our sight. Therefore what emerges out of an analytical scrutiny of the refuge-act should be understood to be only a fraction of what the act implies by way of background and future evolution.


Turning to the act of taking refuge itself, we find in the first place that it is an act of understanding. Though inspired by reverence and trust, it must be guided by vision, by an intelligent perceptivity which protects it from the dangers of blind emotion. The faculty of intelligence steers the act of refuge towards the actualization of its inner urge for liberation. It distinguishes the goal from the distractions, and prevents the aspirant from deviating from his quest for the goal to go in pursuit of futile ends. For this reason we find that in the formulation of the noble eightfold path right view is given first. To follow the path we must see where it leads from, where it goes, and the steps that must be taken to get from the one point to the other.


In its initial form the faculty of intelligence involved in taking refuge comprehends the basic unsatisfactoriness of existence which makes reliance on a refuge necessary. Suffering has to be seen as a pervasive feature infecting our existence at its root, which cannot be eliminated by superficial palliatives but only by a throughgoing treatment. We must come to see further that the causes of our dissatisfaction and unrest lie within ourselves, in our clinging, craving, and delusions, and that to get free from suffering we must follow a course which extinguishes its causes.


The mind also has to grasp the reliability of the refuge-objects. Absolute certainty as to the emancipating power of the teaching can only come later, with the attainment of the path, but already at the outset an intelligent conviction must be established that the refuge-objects are capable of providing help. To this end the Buddha has to be examined by investigating the records of his life and character; his teaching searched for contradictions and irrationalities; and the Sangha approached to see if it is worthy of trust and confidence. Only if they pass these tests can they be considered dependable supports for the achievement of our ultimate aim.


Intelligence comes into play not only with the initial decision to take refuge, but throughout the entire course of practice. The growth of understanding brings a deeper commitment to the refuges, and the deepening of the inner refuge facilitates the growth of understanding. The climax of this process of reciprocal development is the attainment of the supramundane path. When the path arises, penetrating the truth of the teaching, the refuge becomes irreversible, for it has been verified by direct experience.


The going for refuge is also an act of volition. It results from a voluntary decision free from coercion or outside pressures. It is a choice that must be aparappaccaya, “not compelled by others.” This freely chosen act brings about a far-reaching restructuring of volition. Whereas previously the will might have been scattered among a multitude of interests and concerns, when the taking of refuge gains ascendency the will becomes ordered in a unified way determined by the new commitment. The spiritual ideal comes to the center of the inner life, expelling the less crucial concerns and relegating the others to a position subordinate to its own direction. In this way the act of refuge brings to the mind a harmonization of values, which now ascend to and converge upon the fundamental aspiration for deliverance as the guiding purpose of all activity.


The act of taking refuge also effects a deep-seated reversal in the movement of the will. Before refuge is taken the will tends to move in an outward direction, pushing for the extension of its bounds of self-identity. It seeks to gain increasing territory for the self, to widen the range of ownership, control and domination. When refuge is sought in the teaching of the Buddha the ground is laid for this pattern to be undermined and turned around. The Buddha teaches that our drive for self-expansion is the root of our bondage. It is a mode of craving, of grasping and clinging, leading headlong into frustration and despair. When this is understood the danger in egocentric seeking comes to the surface and the will turns in the opposite direction, moving towards renunciation and detachment. The objects of clinging are gradually relinquished, the sense of “I” and “mine” withdrawn from the objects to which it has attached itself. Ultimate deliverance is now seen to lie, not in the extension of the ego to the limits of infinity, but in the utter abolition of the ego-delusion at its base.


The third aspect of going for refuge is the emotional. While going for refuge requires more than emotional fervor, it also cannot come to full fruition without the inspiring upward pull of the emotions. The emotions entering into the refuge act are principally three: confidence, reverence, and love. Confidence (pasada) is a feeling of serene trust in the protective power of the refuge-objects, based on a clear understanding of their qualities and functions. Confidence gives rise to reverence (gaurava), a sense of awe, esteem, and veneration born from a growing awareness of the sublime and lofty nature of the Triple Gem. Yet this reverence does not remain cool, formal, and aloof. As we experience the transforming effect of the Dhamma on our life, reverence awakens (pema). Love adds the element of warmth and vitality to the spiritual life. It kindles the flame of devotion, coming to expression in acts of dedicated service by which we seek to extend the protective and liberative capacity of the threefold refuge to others.

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