Conscious Life Expo 2018, L.A. (Feb. 9-12)

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Deeply rooted in the Aztec tradition, Xiuhtezcatl shares his personal indigenous wisdom in a special Expo keynote address.

He will share the importance of returning to a sacred way of living with the earth through a rousing PowerPoint presentation plus live music performance. This will be an exhilarating and inspiring event!

We are all indigenous to this sacred Earth.

Our interconnectedness, what we do

in one part of the world, affects all.

In this riveting  presentation, Xiuhtezcatl covers:

• disappearing cultures around the world
• the loss of many of the world's languages
• ancient teachings for turning the tide in our current crisis. 

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is an extraordinary force who shares his connection with the natural world and its influence on him as a young, globally-respected leader. He is an environmental-rapper who will perform "One Day" -- the first single off his debut hip hop album, Break Free -- plus a few other surprises! The journey we are on starts with healing ourselves and staying connected to our cultures.

• KEYNOTE WORKSHOP
  
• Earth and Culture, Saturday, Feb. 10
• 6:00 pm-7:30 pm, La Jolla Room
• Purchase keynote ticket (Sat. Day Pass required)
• View Livestream options

Earth Guardians' Youth Director Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, 17, is a climate activist, hip hop artist, and author. At the early age of 6, Xiuhtezcatl began speaking around the world, from the Rio+20 United Nations Summit in Rio de Janeiro, to addressing the General Assembly at the United Nations in New York City, to being the break-out presenter at the UN Climate Change Conference in 2015 and wowing the assembly with his environmental rapping performance and talk.

Xiuhtezcatl has been educating his generation about the state of the planet they we are all inheriting. His message has inspired youth to join the front lines to combat some of the greatest issues of our times that are impacting our communities and our future.

Earth Guardians has grown to hundreds of youth-led crews and has been featured in National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Upworthy, Aljazeera, The Guardian, Vogue, Bill Maher, The Daily Show, Skavlan, CNN, MSNBC, HBO, VICE, and many more media outlets.

Xiuhtezcatl received the 2013 United States Community Service Award from President Obama, and was the youngest of 24 national change-makers chosen to serve on the U.S. president's youth council. He is the 2015 recipient of the Peace First Prize, recipient of the 2015 Nickelodeon Halo Award, 2016 Captain Planet Award, the 2016 Children's Climate Prize from Sweden, as well as the 2017 Univision Premio’s Ajente de Cambio Award.

Conscious Life Expo L.A., Feb. 9-12, 2018

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Newsflash (S.L.): Meditator Notes Breath

WQ exclusive (2/9/09)

KANDY, Sri Lanka -- Today in a precedented move, a Western meditator living in the vicinity of the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, noted his breath. The sensation was one of plausible expectability.

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However, the noting was undertaken with utter mindfulness and clear comprehension (sati sampajanna) of circumstances and conditions just as they are (or were). There was neither addition nor subtraction from the equation of the direct experience. As meditation improves and insight dawns, the expectation is that advancement towards enlightenment will be made.

WQ editors, however, caution that without the assistance of jhana (meditative absorption) the "dry insight" road of this yogi will be difficult at best and is likely to be unsuccessful altogether. More as the situation develops. Meanwhile, elsewhere on the island...

• PHOTO: Stewart enjoying meditation stateside (robinstewart.com)

Female suicide bomber kills 24 in Sri Lanka
Jean H. Lee (AP, 2/9/09)

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – A suspected Tamil Tiger rebel who pretended to be a war refugee blew herself up Monday as Sri Lankan soldiers frisked her at a checkpoint. Twenty troops and eight civilians died.

• Slideshow: Sri Lanka Unrest

State TV showed the carnage after the suicide bombing in Vishwamadu, a northeastern town where hundreds of civilians had been waiting to be sent to refugee camps: a woman in a blue dress curled up in the fetal position, her face and neck spattered with blood; plastic lawn chairs upended and piled in a jumble from the force of the blast.

A soldier briskly picked up a dead child who was sprawled face down in the dirt, yellow shorts peeping out from beneath her bloodstained pink-and-purple dress. He dropped her rag-doll body on top of another corpse in a truck, leaving their bloodied, bare feet jutting out the back.

The footage, released by the government, did not show the bodies of any soldiers.

Government troops claim to be closing in on the Tamil Tiger rebels in their push to end a 25-year-old war that has killed some 70,000 people. The military has backed the rebels into a strip of land on the northeastern coast, and the Red Cross says some 250,000 civilians are trapped there too. More>>