The 5 most famous Chinese poems

(Skritter) The only Chinese poem [poet] we need to know

(Learn Chinese Now) The 5 Most Famous Chinese Poems of All Time (Explained in English)

Li Bai (Chinese 李白, Pinyin Lǐ Bái) (circa 701-762), who is also known by his courtesy name of Taibai (太白), was a Chinese poet acclaimed as one of the best and most important poets of the Tang dynasty, even the whole of Chinese poetry.

He and his friends such as Du Fu (712–770) were among the prominent figures in the flourishing of Chinese poetry of the Tang dynasty, often called the "Golden Age of Chinese Poetry." The expression "Three Wonders" denotes

1. Li Bai's poetry,
2. Pei Min's swordplay, and
3. Zhang Xu's calligraphy [1].

Around 1,000 poems attributed to Li are extant. His poems have been collected into the most important Tang dynasty collection, Heyue yingling ji [2], compiled in 753 by Yin Fan.

Thirty-four of Li Bai's poems are included in the anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems, which was first published in the 18th century [3].

Around the same time, translations of his poems began to appear in Europe. In Ezra Pound's famous work Cathay (1915), Li Bai's poems enjoy the lion's share (11 out of 19) [4]. Li Bai's poems became models for celebrating the pleasures of... More

• Skritter; Learn Chinese Now; CC Liu, Crystal Quintero, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Village Fall Festival, Pasadena (11/22)

Village Fall Market and Festival, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025 at 12:00 pm | Eventbrite

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WHAT HAPPENED?

Why gather? To build community.

A thousand or so people from the community and far afield gathered on the grounds of Muir High. The main stage moved to the lawn area to accommodate dancing and grooving to live music and DJ Common. The food trucks were barbequing and one maestro of the kitchen had special raw vegan offerings -- three kinds of savory pizza and plantain cinnamon rolls. The most attractive offerings among all the nonprofit stalls and kiosks was the Healing Village with yoga, breathwork, sound baths, reiki, massage, and energy healing under tents. Even visitors from Pacific Palisades enjoyed it. It was six hours of socializing and visiting a booth to go on camera to tell the tale of Altadena and the area before and after the Eaton Fire.

(Rhythms of The Village)

VILLAGE FALL FESTIVAL: The Fall Festival is back at Pasadena's Muir High School, where we’ll host the foothill community for day of healing, joy, and unity! Free. RSVP on EVENTBRITE.

• Village Fall Festival (free, Pasadena's Muir High School), Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup
• Village Fall Festival (FREE, Pasadena's Muir High), Sat, Nov 22, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup
• Village Fall Festival (FREE, Pasadena's Muir High), Sat, Nov 22, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup

Celebrating the vibrant, multicultural spirit of Altadena, let's DANCE together, EAT together, and SHOP together.

Join us for an afternoon of live music and drumming, food, art, and healing vibes as we celebrate commUnity at our traditional Village Fall Festival presented by Rhythms of the Village and LA Commons and Oh Happy Days Vegan Cafe.

• Village Fall Festival (Rhythms of The Village)
• PHOTO GALLERY from Village Spring Festival

Let's dance, eat, laugh, and sing together so our stories get heard! Explore a vibrant marketplace of art, handmade crafts, jewelry, clothing, and more with 50+ vendors, including Altadena artisans displaced by the Eaton Fire.

Live multicultural entertainment goes throughout the day on the big stage, including the Rhythms Family Band, led by the legendary Baba Onochie Chukwurah. There are also activities for children.

Healing individuals and community

Village Fall Market and Festival

Free healing workshops and sessions go on in the "Altadena Healing Village":

• yoga,
• Reiki,
• acupuncture,
• sound healing,
• massage therapy.

NEW Storytelling Booth: Altadena residents can share and record their stories. Delicious food from various cultures.

Vendors: Makers sell handcrafted or vintage items only: Apply here. Sponsorships are still available.

This magical festival and marketplace unites us. Many cultures coming together as ONE Tribe. There are children’s workshops and a magical line up of entertainment throughout the day. Tasty foods... 50+ makers of items handcrafted with love.

Some of these artisans were displaced from Altadena, crafters who create jewelry, art, wearables and more... Vendors apply here. It runs for six hours starting at noon, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025.

• Location: John Muir High School
• 1905 Lincoln Ave.
• Pasadena, CA 91103
• FREE: Nov. 22, 12:00 pm PST
• Village Fall Market & Festival
• Sat., Nov 22, 2025 at 12:00 pm

How to get there? Covered parking. Family friendly event. Why did the location change? Previous site behind the Rhythms of the Village store and Oh Happy Day Vegan Cafe came down during the Eaton Fire. Organized by Emeka Chukwurah. #arts #music #festival #multicultural #musicfestival #Altadena #familyfriendly #Pasadena

• Emeka Chukwurah, Baba Onochie Chukwurah (rhythmsofthevillage.com); Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jen B., Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly

Moon Valley Nurseries: Harvest (10/18)

Moon Valley Nurseries' Harvest Moon

Join Moon Valley Nurseries on Oct. 18th and 19th, 2025, at nearest Moon Valley Nurseries (MVN) to celebrate its 30th anniversary. As a special anniversary gift, MVN wants to give customers the chance to win $5,000 in trees. Enter raffle at all stores this weekend only. As a bonus, MVN will be celebrating the fall season, giving away FREE pumpkins and partying all weekend long! More

For over three decades, MVN has set the standard for excellence in delivering superior trees, plants, and landscaping services... At MVN, the mission is to enhance lives and environments through premium trees, plants, and expert landscaping services. With over 30 years of experience, MVN is dedicated to providing exceptional... More

• Moon Valley Nurseries on YouTube

Summer ends, The Fall begins (9/22)

Row, row, row your board gently on the plane/Merrily, merrily, merrily, life moves to the drain

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Can non-Indians enjoy it, too?

Seasons change, Anicca reigns; it is the way of Samsara. That will be our new saying. What does it mean? "Weather alters, impermanence in all things; that's how it goes in this incessant Cycle." But at least on the Island of California, it's not so bad. We get a reprieve before fall starts in earnest. And it's called "Indian summer." Berkeley, one of the greatest places on the planet, got hit by an earthquake to wake everyone up and keep them agitating for positive change. We know things are changing because Christmas Tree Lane lights are going up in post-Eaton Fire Altadena, a Los Angeles custom.

Berkeley gets a wakeup call

Indian summer

Native Americans enter a Quaker Friends meeting and find them quite nice and peaceful.

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Beware of anicca (constant flux)

An Indian summer is a period of unseasonably warm and dry weather that sometimes occurs in autumn in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. Several sources describe a true Indian summer as not occurring until after the first frost, or more specifically the first "killing frost" [1][2][3].

• Seasons change with the solstices and equinoxes

Etymology (origin)

One last time to the beach before it's too late?

The late 19th-century lexicographer Albert Matthews made an exhaustive search of early American literature in an attempt to discover who coined the expression [4]. The earliest reference he found dated to 1851. He also found the phrase in a letter written in England in 1778 but discounted that as a coincidental use of the phrase.

Later research showed that the earliest known reference to "Indian summer" in its current sense occurs in an essay written in the United States around 1778 by J. Hector St. John de Crevecœur, describing the character of autumn and implying the common usage of the expression:

• Great rains at last replenish the springs, the brooks, the swamp and impregnate the earth. Then a severe frost succeeds which prepares it to receive the voluminous coat of snow which is soon to follow; though it is often preceded by a short interval of smoke and mildness, called the Indian Summer. This is in general the invariable rule: winter is not said properly to begin until those few moderate days & the raising of the water has announced it to Man.

The essay was first published in French around 1788 and remained unavailable in the United States until the 1920s [5].

Although the exact origins of the term are uncertain [6], it was perhaps so-called

• because it was first noted in regions inhabited by Native Americans,
• or because the natives first described it to Europeans [7],
• or it had been based on the warm and hazy conditions in autumn when Native Americans hunted [6].

Buddhist Wheel of Life: Impermanence

John James Audubon wrote about "The Indian Summer that extraordinary phenomenon of North America" in his journal on Nov. 20, 1820. He mentions the "constant Smoky atmosphere" and how the smoke irritates his eyes.

Audubon suspects that the condition of the air was caused by "Indians, firing the Prairies of the West." Audubon also mentions in many other places in his writings the reliance Native Americans had on fire. At no point does Audubon relate an Indian summer to warm temperatures during the cold seasons. More

• The Fall (2006 film)

What is The Fall?

(Like Stories of Old) The Fall, the most beautiful movie you've never seen: Roy tells Alexandria

Filmed in 24 countries

Fall, of course, is a season; every fall is heralded by the autumnal equinox. But The Fall is something else. We can look at fascists in the White House, the Department of War, the Senate, Congress, and police departments across the nation for that sort of toppling or the coming down of the things we all loved and cherished as our birthright under a Constitution.

So long, Cruel Cruel Summer!

But the present administration, like administrations before it on both sides of the aisle, doesn't seem to care about the writing of the Forefathers at the birth of the nation. One is reminded of Hamilton, now out in a three-hour extravaganza of rap, choreographed dancing, and dueling. What is a good example of a Fall that falls upon us like an Indian summer, maybe driving along happily and without a care along PCH. Then BAM! Crash. Eyes covered with a sheet. Coroner's office...more Samsara.

(Movie Monarch) Review of The Fall, one of the greatest films ever

• Jai Wolf, Indian Summer (giphy.com); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Meaning of Autumnal Equinox (9/22)

Autumn Equinox's ancient spiritual meaning | Fall traditions, rituals, celebrations, sites

(Sakro Sawel1) Sept. 19, 2024: Let's take a stunningly deep dive into the traditions, ancient sites, and myths of the fall season, which begins with the autumnal equinox. It is recognized and celebrated around the world. Let's uncover the deeper spiritual meaning of this shift and its relevance today.

• September Equinox 2024

The autumn equinox is when day and night are equal (equi + nox = "night"), after which nights become longer than the daylight hours, and darkness becomes greater than light each day.

It was celebrated by ancient peoples for millennia and is still one of the most celebrated religious times of year. Why is the autumn equinox such an important religious event? What is its spiritual meaning?

The amazing temples of Mexico are aligned

To answer these questions, we delve into its celebration throughout history. We explore the autumn equinox tradition of Durga Puja (devotional ritual dedicated to Ma Durga) in India, which is celebrated by over a billion people, and the Persian festival of Mehregan.

We also look at the meaning of the legend of the Minotaur, the Eleusinian Mysteries (entheogenic drug rituals), the descent to Earth of the feathered serpent (reptilian Nagarajas) at Kukulkan (Quetzalcoatl) in Mexico, the hanging of the Norse god Odin on the World Tree (axis mundi), the journey of the Egyptian sun god Ra, and the crucifixion of Jesus [an element of astrotheology], which are all connected to the fall equinox.

CONTENTS

• Introduction 00:00
• What is the fall/autumn equinox? 01:55
• Symbols of the equinox 02:59
• Journey of the sun god 03:47
• Autumn equinox traditions 06:19
• Sites with fall equinox alignments 10:49
• Great Pyramid symbolism 12:18
• Sphinx Temple meaning 18:18
• Ahu Akivi alignments 21:53
• El Castillo solar serpent 23:45
• Palace of Knossos Significance 27:50
• Death, descent, Jesus, and Odin 34:59
• Meaning and purpose of darkness 39:26
• Conclusion 42:52

We explore the alignments of some of the world's most enigmatic sacred sites to the autumn equinox to interpret their symbolic spiritual meaning, including the Great Pyramid and Sphinx Temple in Egypt, Ahu Akivi on Easter Island, the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent in Mexico (El Castillo at Chichen Itza), and the ancient Greek Palace of Knossos in Crete.

We also explore one of the main themes of the autumn equinox, which is the worship of a great spiritual Mother Goddess (like Ma Durga, Guanyin, Mother Mary, Inanna, and many other names).

We uncover how the beliefs and traditions of the autumn equinox are connected across cultures and how celebrating the equinox was an important component of an ancient religion of the sun that spread to different parts of the world in prehistoric times.

As part of this video, we discuss some original theories I put forward as does my husband Mark Sawel, including:

• How the autumn equinox reveals the important role that darkness plays in life and creation
• How the annual journey of the sun was used in ancient religions to symbolize the path to enlightenment (our Sacred Sun Path Theory)
• The symbolism of autumn equinox alignments at the Great Pyramids and Sphinx Temple in Egypt, Ahu Akivi on Easter Island, Chichen Itza in Mexico, and Knossos in Greece, which encode a spiritual meaning connected to the theme of descent on the path of enlightenment to confront one’s own inner darkness before being spiritually reborn [like Siddhartha did under the Bodhi tree before becoming the Buddha]
• That these ancient sites and traditions were connected as part of a now lost [worldwide] religion we call the Religion of the Sun
• The origin of dragon and serpent (reptilian, naga) slaying myths and how their symbolism was seen by the ancients in the stars
• The deeper meaning in the pattern of descending into the earth, underworld, matter, body, tomb, subconscious, and womb, which can be found in the life of sun gods such as Ra, Rama, Odin, Jesus, and Osiris
• An interpretation of the story of Theseus, Ariadne, the Minotaur, and the labyrinth and how it likely derives from Minoan initiatory rites conducted on the autumn equinox.

We first published these ideas between 2011 and 2016, where more details can be found in our book Ancient Solstice, which discusses the spiritual meaning of the fall/autumn equinox and ancient sites aligned to it, as well as how to celebrate it: sakrosawel.com/ancient-solstice.

NOTE ABOUT ATTRIBUTING OUR WORK

The information in this video is the culmination of years of work and research. It contains our unique interpretations of ancient sites and traditions. If anyone likes it and wants to share it, do so without plagiarizing it, please. Please share the video while giving us due credit as the source (Sakro and Mark Sawel).

This video is part of a series about the spiritual meaning of the solstices and equinoxes. Watch the other videos in this series:

• Winter solstice: • WINTER SOLSTICE Ancient Spiritual Mea...
• Spring equinox: • SPRING EQUINOX Ancient Spiritual Mean...
• Summer solstice: • SUMMER SOLSTICE Ancient Spiritual Mea...

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• Sakro Sawel, (Sakro Sawel1 on YouTube, Sept. 20, 2024); Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Lunar eclipse of full Harvest Moon (live)

• Lunar eclipse of the full Harvest Moon: the best time to see it in major cities in the US

Rahu in Buddhist Thailand

The cause of a lunar eclipses would not seem to be this planet of plane but another celestial body. Let's see, who else could be out there? (Scientists discover mysterious structures hidden in our solar system).

• New study suggests Earth has several HIDDEN MOONS from collision billions of years ago

Miss Venus, Mr. Mars, Pluto Jr., another Ms. Luna (Earth's new 'mini-moon' will orbit our planet for the next 2 moonths), the Twelfth Planet Nibiru? (Twelfth? One or more was obliterated in a collision that led to the Khyber Belt debris field, according to Zecharia Sitchin). There's another body that gets even less respect than Pluto, and that rascal RAHU, downgraded from planet to a "node." A node? But it is this celestial body that is credited with earth's eclipses, lunar and solar, in Buddhist, Vedic/Hindu, and Jain cosmologies.

• A passing star may have kicked the solar system's weirdest moons into place | Live Science
• Earth once wore a Saturn-like ring, study of ancient craters suggests
• The hidden history of the universe BEFORE the Big Bang
• Why Earth photos from the Moon have starless skies [Because they're hard to photoshop in accurately, so it's better and easier to just leave them out and say they do not show up on film?]

Tonight's lunar eclipse is only partial, so Rahu will only take a chunk out of Soma then release.

Tom Brady is a big fan of Jaggi Sadhguru

The ancient Vedas ("Knowledge Books" of India) have much to tell us, particularly the Ayurveda on the topic of health (important in yoga). Here modern Hindu showman Sadhguru ("true guru") claims that in two hours under the eclipse things like food, which is our body post-consumption, will age and rot. So it is better to fast today, not to eat, to bathe away negativity, and never to watch the eclipse directly as so many space-loving Americans are fond of doing. Everyone in India knows to go indoors and be away from the shadow of the eclipses. It is not just Sadhguru warning people. Of course, his method of "dowsing" with (mala beads or any pendulum like device the hand can unconsciously twitch to move in one direction or another, which is good for divining what the mind knows subconsciously better than what is present objectively) the food for the presence of deterioration, aging, fermenting, rotting, and putrefying is a little suspect. But the claim is that this is subtle and therefore it would be hard to substantiate the claim otherwise. Of course, one imagines the food should spoil, rot, grow fungus and black mats of bacteria in two to three hours if it were the case that the body/food are aging 28 days in just the two to three hours of the eclipse. But be that as it may, we are forewarned and can take the appropriate steps if we wish. It is ancient Vedic knowledge. The Buddha did not accept the Vedas nor regard them as ultimate authorities on spirituality, but that is not to say that they are not valuable sacred scriptures. Many truths must be found within their pages, many things the Brahmins memorizing and chanting in Sanskrit thought worthy of preserving from the heavens (akasha loka) from which they were handed down or composed by seers (rishis) capable of discerning subtle truths our world is usually blind to.

• AI Death Spiral: 'Their capacity to emulate human language and thought is immensely powerful': Far from ending the world, AI systems might actually save it | Live Science
• Partial Lunar Eclipse (video); Vasudev Sadhguru (Ayurveda yoga warning); TEXT SUMMARY: Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Autumnal Equinox: summer ends, fall begins

Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Wisdom Quarterly

I like to bring the candles out to focus power.

What is the meaning of "autumn" after a long, strange summer full of rain, springlike conditions, cold snaps, and scorching heat with just a few raging wildfires?

It's time to turn inward because the seasons have psychology (or mimic) psychological states:

"Don't just do something, sit there."

Summer is so extroverted, winter utterly introverted. Spring is a showoff, but what to say of autumn? It's the shy cousin of depressed winter or can be. Indian summer begins soon, with yesterday being "Native American Day" and Indigenous Peoples' Day (Oct. 11th) coming.

There's candy on Halloween and thoughts of mortality for Obon, Samhain, Dia de Los Muertos, Islamic Thursday of the Dead, and the All Saints' Day tagalong holy-day.

The Addams Family cast 1964, featuring the uber coo' kid "Wednesday"

You're no Lily. - You're no Herman.

Maybe Buddhism's greatest claim to American Halloween is the Buddhist American who was the head of The Addams Family (The Munsters knockoff show built around "Wednesday"), husband of "Morticia," the dad "Gomez" (John Astin), real-life vegetarian and Nichiren Buddhist.

It's easy to meditate in the winter. What else is there to do but keep warm and watch the stillness? Spring is a riot, full of sensual triggers. And the way the human world dresses for summer, essentially naked and alluring, has too many distractions.

Let us be mindful of death, hungry ghosts, the departed ones who still cling to this realm.

Just as the departed were, so am I of a nature to fade and pass away. Mindful of this, I strive.

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But for autumn we begin to bake again, keep the hearth, remember traditions, have forethoughts of the death to come, which is winter's chill. It will get so bad that we will need a festival of lights, whether we get it from Irish paganism, Hinduism, Jainism, Judaism,  or Christism, it's all astrotheology, those grand themes that guide religion to align their dates and details of the return of a savior figure (a sun god like Surya or Sol) born of a virgin, a Maitreya/Messiah, a Future-Teacher.

Like Quetzalcoatl, a returning savior-figure may not be coming back any time soon, so it is up to us to "save" ourselves. It's the only person who can, really, whether with help or relying on the Dharma still existing in the world.

• Autumnal equinox 2023 brings fall to the Northern Hemisphere today (Sept. 23) | Space
• COASTAL CLEANUP 2023 - The Watershed Project

Human v alien: Fionn fights Aillen, who burned Tara every Samhain (Irish lore)

Life is beachy in California, and today is COASTAL CLEANUP DAY 2023

Fall Foraging: Wild Foods Useful Plants (9/23)

Christopher Nyerges, SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com (Wild Food Discovery Meetup); Seven, Ananda, Xochitl, Jen B. (Dharma Buddhist Meditation Meetup) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Autumn Foraging: Wild Food and Useful Plants by Season

Guide to Wild Foods, Plants

This series of workshops, one each season, shows nature through the seasons, from a wild plant forager’s perspective.

The essence of this class is to develop seasonal knowledge and observational skills:

• How to look
• Where to look
• What to look for
• Responsible sustainable gathering
• Seed and cutting collection to grow plants in backyard.

Hoe to Survive Anywhere (2nd Ed.)

Learn to identify and collect foods, medicines, soaps, fire-making materials, and other useful parts of wild plants.

Learn to think like foragers of the past, who had to have an intimate knowledge of the seasons and foresight about what was to come in the future. (For example, sometimes no foraging is done in an area if the plant or seed is not yet abundant).

Join us (School of Self-Reliance) each quarter for an insightful walk into a wild area in Los Angeles, with a focus on interpreting what’s available each season. This is a land of abundance, just as it was for the Kizh/Tongva Indians for thousands of years before colonization.

Each session includes demonstrations, hands on practice, and sampling of seasonal foods. Each session includes a list of what is normally available each season.

AUTUMN

Guide Chris Nyerges has over 20 books

In early autumn, it is usually dry, and plants are usually in a dormant phase. It’s typically hot and dehydrated. Streams are usually not flowing or running low. What can be found in these conditions?

Only the hardiest plants for eating, such as many varieties of brightly colored mustards and sages. There might still be some manzanitas left to collect. Acorns will just be starting to mature and fall.

Though it’s early for toyon berries, we’ll be able to observe the sort of harvestable crop to come. We’ll be able to take note of what to look for in the next few months. We’ll also share some bushcrafting skills.

• Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023, 10:00 am
• LOCATION: San Gabriel Mountains
• (Meeting location sent on registration)
• Class fee: $65 (student/senior $45)
• Register prior to class: schoolofself-reliance.com/event/autumn-foraging-wild-food-and-useful-plants-by-the-season

Diwali, Festival of Lights, Los Angeles (11/13)

This post covers five Diwali celebrations in the Los Angeles area, one on Thursday (Oct. 20), one on Saturday, Oct. 22, two on Sunday, Oct. 23, one on Monday, Oct. 24, and the largest on Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022. The first and last are FREE, but the other three request a voluntary donation.

Diwali: Celebrating Oneness Nov. 13, 2022

FREE: Diwali, India's "Festival of Lights" is a celebration of ONENESS or nonduality (advaita), with speakers from various faiths, cultural performances, experiential meditation, and a free vegetarian lunch. More

When and where

• Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM
• Sanatan Dharma ("Eternal Truth") Temple
• 15311 Pioneer Blvd., Norwalk, CA 90650

• Celebrate Diwali, New Moon Meditation, Puja, Healing Fire Ceremony + Eclipse, Monday, Oct 24, 2022, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Art of Living, LA: Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022

Krishna the cowherd loves the flute

All are cordially invited to attend “Diwali: Festival of Lights’’ -- an evening of celebrating joy, music, culture, and peace at the historic Art of Living Dome in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, October 23rd. 

Diwali is an age-old festival of lights traditionally originating in India. It celebrates peace, prosperity, and victory of light over darkness, and harmony for all.

During this event held for the Los Angeles community, coming together to connect, celebrate, and welcome the light of peace and prosperity into our lives, joy will reign above all else.

Diwali? Originating from the Sanskrit word Deepavali, it literally means rows (avali) of lights (deepa). This Festival of Lights symbolizes the vanquishing of ignorance (darkness) by the knowledge (light).

There are four aspects of Diwali:

1. Lighting of lamps. The lights on Diwali are symbolic of spreading knowledge.
2. Firecrackers: When an explosion happens on the outside, the explosion inside is diffused. This is the significance of firecrackers.
3. Distribution of sweets. Sweets dispel bitterness and are symbolic of a renewed friendship.
4. Feeling the abundance. It is a day to feel grateful for all that we have.

The celebration will begin with a short breathing and meditation session to relax the mind and feel the peace and joy within. When true wisdom dawns it gives rise to celebration, and in celebration we may lose focus or awareness.

So let us celebrate this Diwali with knowledge and feel the abundance. For those who have will be given more! This event will have all the aspects of celebration, which includes:

• Laxmi Puja (devotional ceremony to Lakshmi),
• followed by lighting lamps (diyas/tealight candles provided): There is an opportunity to make a personal sankalpa (deep wish) and offering. Sankalpa is a deep intention, since every manifestation has an intention behind it. We have many desires or intentions, however not all intentions come to fruition or manifestation. The process of taking a sankalpa is an ancient Vedic technique that uses mantras to invite the energy of the universe to help strengthen and manifest our intentions.
• Lighting lamps and dance performances
• Meditation
• Dinner (vegetarian Indian cuisine).

All are welcome, and anyone who comes for the event can witness the puja (sacred ceremony). Come celebrate the light of happiness, joy, and SELF. FREE-$51: Tickets (Eventbrite)

Things to do in Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles Festivals, LA Community Festivals, #dance #food #music #musical #india #diwali #lightshow #weekend_activities #diwali2022 #lights_festival

• $0–$51 Tickets
• The Art of Living Rating 5 (3 reviews)
• Diwali, Art of Living Foundation, DTLA, Oct. 23, 7:00 PM

Diwali Festival with Kenwa, Tickets, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite

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ART OF LIVING FOUNDATION

Organizer of Diwali Fest 2022: Festival of Lights operating in 152 countries, The Art of Living Foundation (AOLF) is a non-profit, educational, and humanitarian organization founded in 1981 by the world-renown philanthropist and spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (srisriravishankar.org). All of AOLF’s programs are guided by Sri Sri’s philosophy: “Unless we have a stress-free mind and a violence-free society, we cannot achieve world peace.” The AOLF community is diverse and attracts people from all walks of life backgrounds and religious orientations. AOLF offers numerous highly effective educational and self-development programs and tools that facilitate the elimination of stress and foster deep and profound inner peace, happiness, and well-being for all individuals. These programs, which include breathing techniques, meditation, yoga, and practical wisdom for daily living, have helped millions around the world to completely transform their lives. In addition to these courses offered globally, AOLF, working in collaboration with The International Association for Human Values (IAHV), has successfully implemented numerous humanitarian projects and service initiatives including conflict resolution programs, disaster relief, sustainable rural development, empowerment of women, prisoner rehabilitation, education for all, and environmental sustainability. It has been said of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar that not since Mahatma Gandhi has one person united so many people of different races, religions, traditions, economic and social status, and nationalities, creating a One World spiritual family across the globe. Sri Sri’s message is simple: “Love and wisdom can prevail over hatred and violence.” Happily, this message is not just a slogan but through AOLF has been and continues to be translated into action and results.

• Pasadena: Diwali Festival of Lights, at the Awareness Center with Kenwa, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022 at 6:30 PM

Self-Realization Fellowship "India Night," Saturday, Oct. 22

The Glendale SRF is a jewel of architecture.

(Glendale Temple) SRF is presenting Diwali, the Hindu "Festival of Lights," which signifies the victory of light over darkness, good over evil, knowledge over ignorance. Delicious Indian dinner, followed by "Chai and Chatter," a kirtan (singing), and a shortened version of Glimpses of a Life Divine, a documentary on the life of Paramhansa Yogananda. Doors open at 5:00 pm, dinner served at 5:30 pm. Tickets are $20. To reserve, please call (909) 621-5023. Lots of help needed for this event. Volunteer.

Diwali at Ananda Ashram, Glendale (10/20)

Swami Vivekananda in the US

FREE: Thursday night is the celebration of India's "Festival of Lights" called Diwali. Group meditation, showing connection to all the world's great religions, is the focus of this heartwarming holiday celebration.

“My idea is NOT to bring here a Hindu creed or a Christian creed or a Buddhist creed, but to take the best out of ALL and embody the universal aspect of all. That is my dream.”

-Ananda Ashram Spiritual Center Founder Swami Paramananda

Female gurus are blessings to the world.

"We dedicate a symbol which represents the ideal of unity and oneness of all world Teacher…to place before the people of this country [USA] the wisdom and truth from all lands, classics, and scriptures, in fact, from the whole world, showing their underlying unity and harmony" (1938).

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