Minister(left) and Layperson (or layalter, layhost, ect. if you prefer)(right) alter role flags

Minister - An alter, generally a host or otherwise frequent fronter, that is focused on resolving the system issues cause by the past. This can include; being the primary alter that goes to therapy, being responsible for learning about the system dissociated trauma, bringing alters that are stuck in trauma into the present, figure out and working through the systems or specific alters thought traps, etc.. They work on healing from the past without being distracted by present daily life obligations.

Layperson - An alter, generally a host or otherwise frequent fronter, that is focused on the present and taking of day to day outerworld obligations such; as work school, taking of pets and children, and maintaining needed relationships, are taken care of. They are not necessarily unaware of past pain, however they did not pay much attention to it. They work in the present without being destabilized by the past.

Alternative name for those uncomfortable with the Christian connotation of the terms minister and layperson; Envoy (for minister) and All-Rounder (for layperson)

Symbols are from this website (link).

Colours are chosen because blues and purple are often associated with wisdom and insight, and green is associated with healing. Warm colours are often associated with action and movement.

"…the Lord does not seek the monk or the layperson, the scholar or the simpleton, the rich man or the pauper, but only the heart that thirsts for God, full of a sincere desire to be true to Him and His commandments!"

-Venerable Ephraim the Syrian-

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The Vimilakikrti Nirdesa Sutra tells the storyabout a lay practitioner who exhibits wisdom unlike many of the monks & Bodhisattvas. Where the Bodhisattvas who tried to reply could not when Manjusri asked  how to enter the gate of non-duality, Vimilakirti is famous for his "Thunderous Silence," perfectly describing entry into this gate.

More importantly, Vimilakirti lists what constitutes the great gift of bestowing the Dharma to others. It springs from acts of kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. It springs from generosity, self-discipline, egoless from showing patience, relinquishment of body & mind from by practicing zealously. It springs from practicing contemplation, and from realizing the perfection of wisdom. Teaching the emptiness of all things dependent on causes and conditions, not to reject the mundane worldly activities, not to attach to preferences and non-preferences and to realize their  one-ness, understanding the eradication of troubles, hindrances and evil, and to realize the wisdom and good virtues which lead to awakening. And to do all these things on as skillful a way as possible.

In short, practice the Immeasurables and the Perfections (Paramitas) is to bestow the Dharma. And to bestow the Dharma is to rid ourselves of the nagging clinging to "I," "me," "my." That is true generosity--to do all of this without any notion of ourselves and what benefit they will bring us...even the notion of "enlightenment."

So I ask you, which of these are you incapable of practicing? Not which ones you'd rather not practice, or only want to practice sometimes, but which ones are totally beyond your abilities? I think you'll probably find the total is 0.

     CSC104 is my first computer science course I have ever taken throughout my school years including the high school years. As a person who is not familiar with computer and its function at all (although I have played one of the most famous online games for several years and am capable of fixing bugs), the first thought came into my mind when I was recommended to take computer science course by my wise and friendly friend was “I might no longer be able to be friends with her.” First of all, the term “computer science” reminds me of all kinds of special letters (like” !@%^#$@” these). Second of all, I thought it was my friend’s conspiracy to fail me because she knows that my major has nothing to do with any math, science, and computer. Computer science, in my perspective, is essentially like a snake to a little baby - a baby does not know what snake is; but the baby fears it. Last, I have always thought that I should have profound affection towards math in order to be good and engaging in computer science. I thought that programming was memorizing hundreds of functions and signs like asterisk to make one fancy revolving letters or headers in a website. However, it is not true so far as what I have learned in this course.

     Frankly speaking, just installing DrRacket, and downloading/setting up CSC104 language in the program was really challenging to me. Although it was explained thoroughly on the course website, I was barely figuring out as if I was wearing sunglasses at midnight and had to deal with it for like an hour or two. I would say this was THE MOST frustrating moment ever since I have enrolled in this course. In every lecture, sitting among a number of students looking at overhead projector reflecting what the professor is operating through DrRacket, I was imitating exactly what the professor was doing on her computer. It is like a cliche, but I have to say this: It was not difficult at all like what I have been worried! I didn’t have to memorize all those alien-language like signs and functions; actually, the names of the functions were very logical (”flip-horizontal” would actually make a picture of cat horizontally flipped).The most interesting thing the professor have taught was “steps” function. This was the most brilliant function to get to know because it is considered my savior. Before the professor taught of this function, I was barely getting procedures of functions being carried out on the program. It was manageable in the first few lectures, however, as lectures proceeded, the combination of several functions together in hundreds of brackets drove me a little bit crazy. “Steps” shows all the procedures and literally steps of the functions being carried out like our friendly professor that I could study on my own as if I have my own tutor. 

     I do not find anything specifically difficult yet; it is manageable. I personally think it is hard to find this course difficult because the professor always repeatedly goes over the similar or same functions over and over that I naturally get to review and practice. In case of quizzes, reviewing the practices I have done in classes as well as practicing the lab exercise our teaching staffs post on the portal/course webpage before quizzes make it hard to fail or student feel difficult about the quizzes. I was actually surprised that such a honest and straightforward quiz can exist in this school.