The Uposatha day is a Buddhist day of observance, in existence since the Buddha's time (600 BCE) and still being kept today by sincere practitioners of Buddhism [1, 2]. The Buddha taught that the Uposatha day is for "the cleansing of the defiled mind (heart)," resulting in inner calm and joy [3]. On this day, both lay and ordained members of the Sangha (spiritual community) intensify their practice, deepen their knowledge of the practice, and express communal commitment through millennia-old acts of lay-monastic reciprocity. On these days, Buddhist lay followers make a conscious effort to keep the Eight Precepts or, as the tradition suggests, the Ten Precepts (or keeping perfectly the everyday Five Precepts). It is a day for putting into intensive practice the Buddha's teachings and meditation. More
CAUTION! JULY 10th FULL MOON will make WISHES come TRUE…but there's a catch! (Eye of Wisdom) The full moon on July 10th is not just a light in the sky, it’s a manifestation magnifier. This moon pulls our desires to the surface, reflects them back at us…and amplifies them into reality.
But there's a catch...
⚠️ This full moon is karmic, magnetic, and emotionally revealing. Our energy, our thoughts, our frequency, all of it is being reflected back at us in high definition.
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Why this Full Moon unlocks manifestation energy (with a twist)
What thoughts and intentions we MUST get clear on now
This is our early warning: July 10 isn’t “just another moon.”
It’s a spiritual amplifier. Whatever we’re broadcasting, this moon is listening.
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Tolle, Eckhardt (1997) — The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment. Namaste Publishing.
It's been hidden for centuries: The truth about Jesus Christ ✨Dolores Cannon
(Wired Mind) Ever wondered about the mysteries surrounding Jesus the "Anointed One" (Kristos or Christ)? Y'know, the enigmatic, possibly make-believe figure who has inspired billions of people across the globe for centuries? Dolores Cannon, a pioneer in the field of hypnosis and past-life regression, embarked on a journey that not only delved into the depths of the human psyche (mind/soul) but also unveiled profound insights about Jesus himself.
Not everyone will break free of the matrix of illusions: Dolores Cannon
CIA classified a book about pole shifts, mass extinctions, and the true Adam and Eve story
(The Why Files) In 1966 a well-known engineer released a book with information that could impact everyone on earth. But before anyone could read it, it was classified as secret by the CIA.
We only learned of its existence a few years ago because of a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request.
Even then the CIA only released 57 pages of the original 284-page manuscript. And those pages have been, in the CIA's own words, "sanitized" [redacted, blacked out, hidden].
Why does the CIA think this book is so dangerous that they had to hide it from the public for 60 years and still so scary that it continues to hide most of it?
It's because the man who wrote it describes the end of the world.
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The Buddha says an amazing thing in the Imprint or Path of the Dharma. Mind (heart) is the forerunner of all conditions. They are mind-made.
If, on the one hand, we think and act with a pure [free of greed, hatred/fear, delusion and instead motivated by the wide categories of nongreed, nonaversion, nondelusion] mind, happiness follows us like a shadow, which is easy to carry no matter how long or wide it grows.
But if, on the other hand, we think or act with an impure mind, sorrow drags behind us like a laden cart that is hard to bear and constantly growing heavier.
Most people will never know what mind is capable of. Find out (MonroeInstitute.org)
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1. Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is
their chief; they are all mind-made. If with an impure mind a person
speaks or acts suffering follows behind like the wheel that follows the
foot of the ox.
2. Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is
their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with a pure mind a person
speaks or acts happiness follows behind like a never-departing shadow. More
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Tonight, Thursday, March 22nd, 2012: Barbara Marx Hubbard, Neale Donald Walsch, Jean Houston, Michael Beckwith, Jack Canfield, Lynne McTaggart, and other top evolutionary leaders offer inspiring wisdom to ignite a shared vision of hope for a positive 2012 breakthrough! (conceptionday2012.com)
Tired of doom and gloom and ready for a 2012 vision that offers profound hope and the promise of positive change? Conception Day 2012 is when we ignite this vision together!
Calling all visionaries, healers, change agents, artists, pioneers, and lovers of humanity to join for an exciting gathering linking locations globally. Who wants to play a role in the Birth 2012 Campaign launching with this event in Los Angeles?
It will be the broadcast hub and center for synergy. There will be many leaders and evolutionary pioneers present, with others offering live or pre-recorded messages for the global broadcast.
(Shiftnetwork) Conception Day is a FREE global virtual leadership event.
Together we are co-creating a powerful experience for Conception Day 2012 -- activating an experience of what Barbara Marx Hubbard calls “supra-sex,” the joining of our genius (rather than our genes) -- for a collective shift. There will also be a fantastic party and celebration.
March 22, 2012 marks the beginning of a nine-month period of preparation that culminates on December 22: our first Planetary Birth Day, which leaders around the world are declaring Day One of a new era for human evolution.
Imagine 100 million gathering on Day One in a shared commitment to give birth to a healthy, sustainable, peaceful, and prosperous world -- with global celebrations, broadcasts, and synchronized events! This can be a “peak” experience putting in motion mass collaboration and positive actions. Who? The world needs YOU to help mobilize this critical mass of change agents by December 22nd, 2012. It begins in Los Angeles, with amazing visionaries and pioneers joining together to envision and activate this beautiful journey. But it moves to every part of the planet.
The Luminaries will provide conscious hip hop and rockin’ dance tunes for the after party.
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“Conscious evolution, a concept that Barbara Marx Hubbard has championed for decades, is one of the best two or three ideas of modern times.” - Ken Wilber, author of The Integral Vision
“This inspired and visionary book offers profound wisdom for how to make the shift in time.” -Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, founder of Institute of Noetic Sciences
THE AQUARIAN SHIFT means... I can't get out of bed. Can't get my dreams out of my sleepy head. I open up my eyes and wonder where you are. And soon I realize that you're not real. And I am. In between a day and dream, life and death are a lazy, crazy stream. I go against the stream. But that, too, is part of the dream. Hello, goodbye, you shifting, starlit screen! I try to seal my mind and get back to where you were. You were that perfect kind. I'm floating down again. And my world is a syrup waterfall. I can't remember when. Or where. Or why. Where is my enlightenment? The world does not shift (revolve, evolve) without a revolution.
The Age of Aquarius is when peace will guide the planet and love will steer the stars.
(Oct. 7, 2011) The banker backlash in the United States is spreading, with major rallies held in the capital, Los Angeles, and other cities. Thousands have joined to express their distress at economic inequalities, war spending, environmental degradation, and high unemployment.
The peace demonstrations began last month when protesters started pitching tents in front of the New York Stock Exchange under the banner "Occupy Wall Street." Heavy-handed police, given financial donations by the banks, were filmed using batons and pepper spray to violently disperse the demonstrators.
The aftermath of years of financial strife is causing people's hope and patience to run out. And they are upset at the banks (foreclosing on homeowners after cheating them with dishonest loans, a credit crisis, and constantly draining the economy with welfare bail outs) for triggering the strife in the first place. Journalists reporting on the campaign, themselves unconstitutionally subjected to arrest and harassment, say the protesters will continue demanding social and economic justice.
The 2012 Enigma: Free full-length documentary film! Is there a miniature stargate in our own brain? Did ancient cultures reverse-engineer it into useable technology that could actually look through – and even travel through – time? Did our secret-government come into possession of this technology? Did they see anything occurring about the year 2012? Dive into this fascinating story! More>>
Quantum Shift in world consciousness The events of this past week weave an incredible tale of a quantum consciousness shift. The old way is groaning and crumbling into ruin as the long-prophesied changes are finally... More>>
Classic Rumor Mill News transcript 2012 cornucopia! David Wilcock's first show on Rumor Mill News was an instant classic -- bursting with amazing new material -- and now you can read the full transcript to study it in greater detail! More>>
David Wilcock (divinecosmos.com) -- visionary author, filmmaker, lecturer, and musician -- the reincarnation of Edgar Cayce -- joins us to discuss his film project "Convergence, the Science of the Divine Cosmos" and his audio CD "The Science of Peace." Topics discussed:
Convergence film project
Science of DNA
Channelers and evidence
Matter and energy
Magnetic fields
Expanding earth
Etheric energy
Gravity
Parallel reality
Time
Cycles
Astrology
Sidereal Time
Synchronicity
Chaos theory
Fear climate
Global warming
2012
Harmonics
Hans Jenni and cymatics
Atlantis in Cuba and much, much more.
This is a continuation of Red Ice Creation's superb interview with Wilcock -- discussing his work with Richard Hoagland, the Enterprise Mission, and what is going on up on the Moon.
Quantum Shift II: Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and the Meta-Message Listen FREE to two new radio shows featuring David, as well as thoughts on the near-simultaneous passage of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. More>>
We may have been looking at this illusion our entire lives unable to "see" it! This (snarky) short video shows you the best optical illusion in the world! For more information:
And remember to pray daily to Jug Almighty. Available at supermarkets everywhere. (Now also in Soy for Buddhists!)
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Buddhists Praying?
The Buddha explained that there are five very desirable things -- longevity, beauty, fame, happiness, and rebirth in better worlds [to which we might add such things as health, wealth, and influence] -- and that individuals frequently resort to "praying" [petitioning to and/or bargaining with God or devas] for these things (Numerical Discourses, Book of Fives, 43).
But he explained, if all it took were prayer, Who would not have them? Who would not pray for them if that's all it took?
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Rather than praying, or at least in addition to praying, one would be wise to follow a course of action (karma) that resulted in these things! These things are the result of deeds. Therefore, whoever desires them can obtain them through right intention, right speech, and right actions.
What is "right" (samma)? Action that is ethical, harmonious, and leads to a pleasant result. Why does it lead to such a result? It does. It accords with the truth. You can argue about what "it" is, but whatever it is, then that is called "right." If praying were "right" and effective, there would be no problem calling it so. In fact, purifying one's mind is a form of mental action. It's also a form of prayer. That's right action. There are the Five Precepts:
Restraint in terms of not taking life
Restraint in terms of not taking what is not given
Restraint in terms of not taking liberties with those involved in committed relationships
Restraint in terms of not taking liberties with the truth
Restraint in terms of not taking intoxicants that result in careless behavior
A simpler way of putting these five ethical forms of conduct would be to say that one avoids all behavior (mental, verbal, or physical) stemming from the Three Unwholesome Roots:
Greed
Hatred
Delusion
An even simpler way of putting all eight of these things is to sum them up in a single word:
Ahimsa (harmlessness or non-harming).
Focusing on a loftier ideal -- first seen (or conceived of) and then moved towards -- is a form of meditation (mental cultivation) just as it is a form of prayer.
But what is prayer? Almost everyone today, and this video in particular, thinks it is merely petitioning. But as Gregg Braden points out in The Isaiah Effect: Decoding the Lost Science of Prayer, there are missing modes of prayer. The most powerful of these modes is "praying" by giving thanks and feeling the feelings as if the desired end had already come to pass. This idea was exploited by the movie The Secret and the wave of self-help gurus, books, and seminars hawking a Universe-as-ATM mentality. The movie left out the initial impetus for its "secret," Esther (Abraham) and Jerry Hicks' Ask And It Is Given interviews on the Law of Attraction.
The next wave of sales will come from "The Shift," a movie by author and PBS-staple Wayne Dyer, and the many copycats waiting to jump on a new bandwagon.
Even this form of mental activity is karma (action, deeds, those things willed and carried out either mentally, verbally, or physically). Therefore, it has the potential to work. But it certainly does not work for the asking. If one wishes to live longer, for example, that is obtained by performing deeds that lead to long life: helping others (and oneself), feeding others, promoting the health of others. Then EVEN WITHOUT WISHING IT, it comes to pass that one becomes long-lived here and now (or, more frequently, hereafter because action takes time to ripen).
Karma, then, is much like the "God-idea" in other religious traditions.
However, in Buddhism it is impersonal and unbiased. Even a "bad person" having done a good thing reaps a positive (and pleasant) result. There is, in fact, no such thing as someone who is ALL bad. It may be said that there are people who are all good, but this is only because they became that way (arhats, "enlightened individuals" no longer capable of falling into unethical ways, purposely harming, liable to be reborn in unfortunate destinations).
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