2012 The Online Movie
Carlos Barrios, from the Eagle Clan of the Mam Maya of Guatemala shares in regards to 2012: “The world will not end. It will be transformed… Everything will change…Change is accelerating now, and it will continue to accelerate…If the people of the earth can get to this 2012 date in good shape, without having destroyed too much of the Earth, we will rise to a new, higher level. But to get there we must transform enormously powerful forces that seek to block the way…Humanity will continue, but in a different way. Material structures will change. From this we will have the opportunity to be more human…”
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2012 is not a time of ascension. Nothing is going to magically transform you other than your own dedication and path.
However, 2012 is a time of transition. It is a shift in the atmosphere, a feeling in the air. There are more spiritual teachings available to the world now than there has ever been before.
In the old days, spiritual teachings were kept by masters at ashrams and transmitted directly to disciples. Now it is possible to read nearly anything in books or online. Reincarnated beings like the Dalai Lama are accessible to the world. It is a time unlike any before in history.
Because of this, it will be possible to progress on the path with greater effectiveness. 2012 is a tipping point, spiritually speaking. It is not something that will effect everyone the same or a time when everyone will suddenly become spiritual. The world is the way it is, always. But for those who are inclined toward emerging from delusion, 2012 signals the beginning of an age filled with the opportunity to do so.
from lazyyogi
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Just attended “Embracing the World” event in Tokyo. A bhajan (devotional singing/song) composed for Amma, the hugging saint. Will probably write another post with pictures another time soon. The experience was amazing.
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A scientific perspective of the sacred.
“So if you think your nutritional concerns can be rightfully addressed with food alone, think again. When the real-life requirements of the eight sacred metabolizers are not met, the body withers and weakens, loses integrity, and invites disease upon itself, calling forth whatever symptoms are necessary to alert us to the soul lesson that is hungering for nourishment and attention. We can no longer look exclusively in the biological realm to solve health problems that are but downstream effects of the affairs and tides of the soul.
This is not an antiscientific stance. It is preeminently pro-science, a call to allow the language of the soul, and of the sacred, back into the halls of medicine from whence it has been cast out. It’s high time that we acknowledge the reality of the Divine no matter what our religious beliefs, and invite the sacred to inform our practices of healing, eating, loving, and all our earthly pursuits.”
The Annular Solar Eclipse today, May 21, 2012 could be seen in parts of Japan, including the Tokyo area. I woke up earlier (actually slept very poorly and had weird dreams about the eclipse) than usual today to catch the sun turning from a crescent into a perfect ring of fire. It was around 7:33 am when it became a perfect circle. My first annular eclipse and it was spectacular. It is traditionally believed by some cultures that eclipses are a bad omen for the world. So after viewing it, I lighted an incense, meditated with my singing bowl and prayed to Kuan Yin (Bodhisatva of Compassion) to protect and bless the world. May this solar eclipse be turned into a great blessing.
What do eclipses symbolize in Buddhism?
“During the time of an eclipse the merit in making offerings to the Buddha is increased. It was during eclipses that He was conceived in his Mother’s womb, when He turned the wheel of the Dharma, and when He finally entered parinirvana. These three important times are therefore very famous and great.
During a solar eclipse, the merit of virtuous or negative acts are said to multiply by ten thousand. For example, if one offers a butter lamp, water offering or torma, the virtue of one single offering increases ten thousand times. Just one recitation of the six syllable mantra also becomes ten thousand recitations. The aspiration prayer of Samantabhadra, the Heart Sutra, etc., practiced only once on this day also becomes ten thousand. Negative acts, too, multiply by ten thousand. For example, killing one being would have the same negative karma as killing ten thousand on an ordinary day. During a lunar eclipse, each single virtuous or negative act is multiplied by one thousand. From the oral transmission teachings, it is said that when either solar and lunar eclipses coincide with one of Buddha’s special days, the effect greatly increases many times. During a solar eclipse whatever is done is increased by a hundred thousand million and at the time of the moon eclipse by seven million.
In particular, during sun and moon eclipses, one should offer with one’s body and resources, and roots of virtue will be accomplished excellently. If one does not have that practice, then at least one should not do negative things on that day. This is a very important teaching found throughout the Buddha’s sutras and shastras, and all the vast and profound teachings say this without contradiction.” - excerpts from Special Days of the Tibetan Buddhist Calendar
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Really digging the muffins and bread I’ve been making. If only I knew how simple they were to make and how delicious they were, I’d have started baking months ago! Loving the nutty flavour, dense and moist texture given by the ground almonds.
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A very interesting fact for meditators. Although I wouldn’t call myself an advanced meditator (still a beginner), I’ve found this to be pretty true. I’ve been catching colds quite easily these days, but also recover very quickly, unlike my previous colds that always lasted very long and got worse as time went by.
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I was working at a preschool a couple of years ago and that was when my life began to change drastically - internally and externally - as it started falling apart. It was the toughest and worst job (not about the kids) I’ve ever had.
But there were many important life lessons I got from that place. Young children don’t hide their feelings. They’re not good at that. I was overwhelmed by the range of emotions (joy, happiness, excitement, love, pride, anger, fear, spitefulness, sadness, jealousy, resentment, unfairness, loneliness and many more) that I had to handle every day, even if they weren’t mine. But now, I know they were a reflection of the emotions in me. Some of them that I was hiding and running away from. While growing up, many of us were probably taught to brush our feelings away, especially the negative ones. The thing is we all will come to a point when we have to deal with them squarely (and gently), no matter how ugly they are.
It was also a time for me to reassess the values in my life. I often had to teach my students desirable values like love, kindness, patience, selflessness, confidence and all. But was I true to the values I preached to them? The truth is I wasn’t and it was hard to face that. I felt like a hypocrite and it was then I really started to take a deep long look at myself, the self inside my body.
Then my world started crashing down on me. It was as if life was giving me a second chance: to make things right for myself, to live a life of truth and to live a life that was actually meant for me. When life falls apart for you, don’t despair. A whole new life is waiting for you. You just need a lot of faith, strength and courage to leap towards it.
P.S. During that period, I read “When Things Fall Apart” & “The Wisdom of No Escape” by Pema Chodron, an American Tibetan Buddhist nun. Her teachings of compassion, openness and fearlessness melted and opened my tightly armoured heart, bringing along many tears, as it felt as if she was writing to and for me. She was the first Tibetan Buddhist teacher I learnt a lot from about life and myself.
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