National Day of Prayer: 'Space Ghost'

National Day of Prayer

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(FOX Carolina News) Communities across the country are gathering for National Day of Prayer celebrated on May 2, 2024. FOX Carolina's Myra Ruiz is in Pickens County ahead of their prayer service. Like Zorak points his anjali mudra (prayer hands) towards the heavenly deity Space Ghost, many supplicate, petition, and beg a god for favors. Is that really the best way to pray? Not by a long shot. There's a far better way revealed below.

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Zorak knows how to prey, but praying eludes him. He has much to learn from Gregg Braden.

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Pray a better way: The Isaiah Effect

Isaiah Effect: Decoding Lost Science of Prayer

Sadly, prayer as we are taught in Judeo-Christian America is a fool's errand, doing the opposite of what we want it to. We use the word as a synonym for "petition," telling the universe what we don't have and getting it. But getting what? Getting what we say, and what we say is "I don't have" (in the form of "I want" or "Give me"). The Universe surely hears it and responds, "Okay." Ask and it is given. Just as we say, "I don't have," we do not have. Case closed. Order fulfilled. This is what happens. This is the opposite of what we intended. We intended to say, "Give me that" but even if we said it that way, we would get just what we have. What do we have? Not what we want. We want something else.

The Wisdom Codes

So to get it, it might be good to learn what researcher Gregg Braden discovered: the ancient wisdom of another form of prayer he dubbed "The Isaiah Effect" (The Isaiah Effect: Decoding the Lost Science of Prayer and Prophecy). It is based on ancient biblical principles and that of other ancient traditions which have been revived as New Age teachings. The "new" form of prayer is old, very old. A version of it is described on a copper plate housed in Israel's most futuristic and advanced museum, protected in such a way that it can survive a direct nuclear attack. What could be so important? This is what Braden asked, and he presents his answers in his classic book.

They chant, but do Buddhists pray?

Yes, Buddhists pray, but not in the way the West understands the term, not as petitionary prayer to "Buddha" nor to the many deities recognized in Buddhism, which is a nontheistic (nontheistic) teaching. CONTINUED

Event for World Peace 2015 (Hsi Lai Temple)

CC Liu, Amber Larson, Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson, Crystal Quintero, Wisdom Quarterly

Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple, Hacienda Heights, suburban Los Angeles (flickriver.com)

Coming West, Buddha's Light Mountain (Hsi Lai, Fog Guang Shan) Temple (l.facebook)

Honoring the Buddha worldwide (Hsi Lai)

Wisdom Quarterly is taking a field trip to the Heights, Hacienda Heights that is. On Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 9:30 am "Coming West" Temple ("Buddha's Light Mountain" or Fo Guang Shan) is hosting a "Prayer for World Peace" to welcome 2015.

Is the American military-industrial complex listening?

Full Moon, Hsi Lai (WQ)

Governments and corporations are the only makers of industrial-scale war. But it is us they draw from to pull the trigger and shoulder the weight of enormously negative karma that results in tremendous suffering for ourselves and others -- mutilation, PTSD, rape, disfigurement, death, loss, imprisonment, torture, enslavement, oppression, full-spectrum dominance...
 
We say no to war, YES to peace, no to violence, YES to love, no to foolishness, YES to kindness!

Fo Guang Shan pyramid, Buddha Memorial Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (Zosoiv71/flickr)

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Nuns serving tea and starting conversation (WQ)

Coming West Temple says, "Our wish for the coming year [is] that there be no jealousy, only affection,; that there be no hatred, only harmony; that there be no greed [hoarding, clinging, grasping], only generosity; that there be no selfishness, only fulfillment."

Full moon and mooncakes, Hsi Lai (WQ)

Hsi Lai Temple is a marvel on an affluent hillside separating Los Angeles and Orange County (traveling over the hills or heights leads to Anaheim) overlooking the San Gabriel Valley and the distant Angeles Forest mountains and the tallest peak in Los Angeles, snow capped Mt. Baldy.

Theravada monk Bhikkhu Bodhi

It is the largest Buddhist temple in the western hemisphere, running neck and neck with upstate New York's Chaung Yen Monastery (BAUS.org), home of the American scholar-monk and translator Bhikkhu Bodhi. These are Taiwanese Mahayana temples with open arms to Theravada tradition monastics, scholars, and students, particularly nuns of all traditions, such as Sri Lankan and American Theravada and Tibetan Vajrayana bhikshunis.

• FREE, open to all (meet in main shrine)
• 9:30 am, Saturday, January 10, 2015
• Hsi Lai Temple
• 3456 Glenmark Drive
• Hacienda Heights, CA 91745

Interfaith Prayer for World Peace, CYM (BAUS)
Buddhist Association of the United States, Carmel, NY

(BAUS) Part 1 of 12 New Year's Interfaith Prayer for World Peace, New York, Jan. 1, 2015

New Year's Interfaith Prayer for World Peace, Chaung Yen Monastery, NY (BAUS.org)

Tadasana YOGA Festival, LA (video)

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(Tadasana Festival) Yoga teachers voice their philosophies for the upcoming Earth Day weekend yoga fest at the beach in Santa Monica, April 20-22, 2012.

Tadasana (pronounced: tuh-dah sauna) is "Mountain Pose." It is powerful, ready to go, settled and calm, a reservoir of energy. Yogini-activist Seane Corn (shown above) is just back from her appearance at the Wisdom 2.0 Conference with Buddhist luminaries and Silicon Valley tech capitalists from Google, Facebook, and sundry spying agencies. The festival is three days of yoga classes, music (like Radha and Govindas at left), speakers, partying, and FREE LOVE. At least we hope there's free love. Tickets are not a bargain (but cheaper than Burning Man and its STEP fiasco), and science writer William Broad (The Science of Yoga) tells Madeleine Brand that, unlike calisthenics or other stressful exercises, yoga promotes sex drive and vitality. Meditation and the other eight limbs of the Integral or Royal Yoga (Raja Yoga) System would normally handle that and balance one out. So we'd better start our yoga-ayurvedic diet now to get ready. (Find your body type with Dr. Berg).

HK tourist blocked from Tibetan town

Monks debate during the Monlam Chenmo, also known as the "Great Prayer Festival," at Drepung Monastery in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, China, 3/4/09. The Monlam Chenmo, falling on the 4th-11th day of the first Tibetan lunar month, is the greatest religious festival in Tibet and was established in 1409. Tibet's governor insisted Thursday that his region is stable and will remain so ahead of a sensitive anniversary marking the Dalai Lama's flight into exile that last year sparked anti-government protests and riots (AP).

BEIJING – Armed police were stationed throughout the capital of Chinese-controlled Tibet and blocked roads to the eastern part of the region, Hong Kong tourists said Friday, in the latest sign of tensions ahead of next week's anniversary of anti-government riots.

Paramilitary officers were spotted all over Lhasa and the atmosphere was "tense," a 33-year-old Hong Kong traveler told The Associated Press in a phone interview. More>>

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