(ReligionForBreakfast) Feb. 16, 2023. Tibetan Buddhism (a variety of Mahayana known as Vajrayana) is a unique expression of Buddhism that has developed over centuries in the high Himalayan region of Tibet and the surrounding areas.
Massive Himalayan Padmasambhava
[The capital of Tibet, Lhasa, was once the head of a Himalayan empire, and its Potala Palace was a kind of Vatican with its bishops and monks or rinpoches and lamas.]
The Dalai Lama, the current spiritual [and former temporal] leader [or "pope-king"] of the Tibetan people, is perhaps the most well-known figure associated with Tibetan Buddhism.
Goddess of Compassion
This video explores the key teachings and practices of Tibetan Buddhism, including tantric meditation, compassion [Avalokitesvara, the "Lord Who Hears the Cries of the World"/Kwan Yin, who is said to be a manifestation or incarnation/avatar in the person of the 14th Dalai Lama (formerly Mr. Tenzin Gyatso) being reincarnated again and again] and the concept of emptiness [which means impersonal, not-self, or is the understanding that all things are composites dependent for their whole existence on parts and are therefore not separate from those parts yet, in a deeper way, they are not those parts. Those things that seem most personal are, in fact, impersonal.]
[This is explained in The Heart Sutra but largely goes un-understood by most ordinary people and scholars, whereas monastics and meditators may break through to a direct understanding that there is no "self" (no compact or unity) but what there is are the Five Heaps Clung to as Self: form, feeling, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness. This is the unique liberating message of buddhas past, present, and future. The Buddha understood this and by his understanding was liberated, had a great enlightenment, and became the "Awakened One" or Buddha. It is on account of not seeing this, not knowing this, not penetrating this truth that beings carry on -- impersonal, impermanent, and disappointed -- in the long wandering on called samsara, suffering in all kinds of ways, falling into miserable existences, forms of rebirth, re-arising now here, now there, constantly chasing cravings of various sorts -- for eternal existence, for annihilation, for this kind of sense sphere pleasure, or that kind of supersensual pleasure, or this kind of fine material or that kind of immaterial state of being, always instead becoming and beset by dukkha.]
Special thanks to Dr. Connie Kassor for co-writing this episode. Follow her on Twitter at: @constancekassor.
This is one where inner spiritual knowledge is the key to salvation, where women and men have equal standing based on their understanding of the message of the [Messiah/Maitreya] Savior figure, and one where the soul must rise above the demonic gatekeepers of the physical cosmos rather than to believe in credal [creed] formulas or even the salvific power of the death and resurrection of Jesus, the Anointed One.
In this lost Gospel, Mary Magdalene is the true inheritor of the spiritual Gospel of Christ rather than Peter, who attacks her solely based on her gender, despite her profound relationship with the Savior and her understanding of his secret teachings.
In 1969, more than 400,000 people descended on Bethel, New York, headed to a dairy farm owned by Max and Miriam Yasgur, where the Woodstock Music & Art Fair was being held.
The epic event became synonymous with the counterculture movement -- peace, love, sex, drugs, and hippie happiness -- of the 1960s.
Woodstock was a success, but the massive concert didn’t come off without a hitch: Last-minute venue changes, bad weather, and the hordes of attendees caused major headaches.
It's not a headache for us. Some of us are holding tickets, most of us not. No headache.
Still, despite — or because of — a lot of sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, rain, and mud, Woodstock earned its majestic place in American pop culture history.
The Woodstock Music Festival was the brainchild of four men, age 27 or younger, looking for an investment opportunity: John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld, and Michael Lang.
What will people eat? Hey, how about we boil some vegetarian beans and bread?
The four men formed a corporation, Woodstock Ventures, Inc., and decided to host a music festival and tagged on art to fill in the vision.
After many failed attempts to find a location, finally, 49-year-old dairy farmer Max Yasgur offered to rent them part of his land in the White Lake area of Bethel, New York, surrounded by the verdant Catskill Mountains.
We're here now. Entertain us. We're holding and will be dropping acid. Smells like teen butt.
With the event just a month away, the four frantic partners of the corporate board jumped at the opportunity and paid his asking price.
Fencing, entrance gates, and ticket booths needed to be set up, and a performers’ pavilion, concession stands, bathroom facilities, and medical tents needed to be built.
Beatles' fan takes it too far. It's just her and her monkey. When it was asked what it thought of the show, it thought, "Bananas." When it was not asked what it thought of the show, it thought, "Bananas." Either way, it was right.
But by the time people started arriving a couple of days ahead of the concert, the fencing, gates, and ticket booths still weren’t ready. More
Plastic trash is the American way. What would hippie life be without trash? Paradise.
From Psychedelics to Service with Ram Dass | Here and Now Podcast, Ep. 216
(Be Here Now Network) Premiered Dec. 27, 2022. Ram Dass Here and Now: Ram Dass (Harvard's Dr. Richard Alpert) explores how his psychedelic "awakening" and quest to always stay "high" on a path to take the curriculum of being human and use service as a means to get free.
To be part of the discussion about this episode of Here and Now, join the Ram Dass Fellowship virtual meetup on January 3rd at 8:00 pm EST. Sign up for the General Fellowship group to receive more information.
00:00 - A Psychedelic Awakening
15:00 - Take the Curriculum
27:00 - A Path to Service
“That’s the major issue of awakening: You take what was absolutely real and flip it so you see it’s relatively real. And that there are other places you can go that are just as real.” – Ram Dass
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War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraine’s Agricultural Land exposes the financial interests and the dynamics at play leading to further concentration of [rich farm]land [by already very rich oligarchs in Ukraine with the help of war-money supplies from the USA] and finance.
The total amount of land controlled by oligarchs, corrupt individuals, and large agribusinesses is over nine million hectares — exceeding 28 percent of Ukraine’s arable [farmable] land.
The largest landholders are a mix of Ukrainian oligarchs and foreign interests — mostly European and North American as well as the sovereign fund of Saudi Arabia.
Prominent US pension funds, foundations, and university endowments are invested through NCH Capital, a US-based private equity fund.
Several agribusinesses, still largely controlled by oligarchs, have opened up to Western banks and investment funds — including prominent ones such as Kopernik, BNP, or Vanguard — who now control part of their shares.
Most of the large landholders are substantially indebted to Western funds and institutions, notably the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the World Bank.
[U.S. funds corruption and weapons]
Western financing to Ukraine in recent years has been tied to a drastic structural adjustment program that has required austerity and privatization measures, including the creation of a land market for the sale of agricultural land.
Ukraine's Pres. Zelenskyy put the land reform into law in 2020 against the will of the vast majority of the population who feared it would exacerbate corruption and reinforce control by powerful interests in the agricultural sector.
Findings of the report concur with these concerns. While large landholders are securing massive financing from Western financial institutions, Ukrainian farmers — essential for ensuring domestic food supply — receive virtually no support.
With the land market in place, amidst high economic stress and war, this difference of treatment will lead to more land consolidation by large agribusinesses.
The report also sounds the alarm that Ukraine’s crippling debt is being used as a leverage by the financial institutions to drive post-war reconstruction towards further privatization and liberalization reforms in several sectors, including agriculture. Source
CIA works for corporations, not for the USA, and money rules the world
Secret chamber discovered in the Great Pyramid of Cheops
(WQ) Aren't all pyramids in Egypt? No! The world's largest pyramid is in Mexico at Cholula. Moreover, there are suspected to be even larger ones in Indonesia and Bosnia, Luna and Antarctica. There are many pyramids all over, hiding in thick jungle, underground (like the one in Alaska), under snow... What are they (The Smithsonian consortium of institutions and other agencies around the world, particularly the abominable Zahi "the Egyptian Indiana Jones" Hawass) concealing, and why are they lying to us about our world heritage sites? The Pyramid of Cheops, in Giza, is thought to have been built by Khufu (Khéops). This is certainly incorrect as it is much older but may have been embellished, restored, adjusted, or claimed by him.
Researching since 2016: Already in 2016, measurements had given reason to suppose the existence of a hidden hollow space in the vicinity of the chevron blocks -- a heraldic symbol in the shape of a compass - above the entrance. More(from Metroand News 360 via MSN)
(Atlantean Gardens) April 24, 2020. Lucifer means "Light-Bringer" or "the morning star," and is the Latin name for the planet Venus in its morning appearance, often used for mythological and religious figures and goddesses associated with the planet. Due to the unique movements and discontinuous appearances of Venus in the sky, mythology surrounding these figures often involved a fall from the heavens to earth or to the underworld.
[In Buddhism this happens as well with a titan chieftain (asura) named Vepacitti. He is the equivalent of Christianity's Lucifer-cum-Satan figure tossed out of a celestial world by a St. Michael figure named Sakka, King of the Devas. Devas are "shining ones" or "light beings" inhabiting that world, called "the Heaven of the Thirty-Three" (Tavatimsa deva loka). Deva is a general name for many more glorious light beings living on higher planes of existence, similar to angels, archangels, deities, and divinities of higher orders.]
One of the symbols associated with the goddess is called the rose or the pentagram of Venus, because every 8 years it makes a pentagram shape in the sky with its orbit. For every 8 Earth years, Venus goes around the sun 13 times, and the number 13 is also associated to the lunar cycle. The word Satan means adversary...
ABOUT: Robert Sepehr is an anthropologist and author (amazon.com). Interview excerpt: Tau Tia L Dauglass
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Join an approximately 1.5 hour walk to explore the edible, medicinal, and useful qualities of many of the plants found in the urban Los Angeles environment, which has many introduced plants.
Native and invasive (non-native) plants will be seen. This is a leisurely walk with a chance to taste some of the foraged wild plants.
Bring comfortable footwear and drinking water.
This class may be credited towards the School of Self-Reliance's Ethnobotany Certificate.
$45 (seniors and students $30). RSVP. This is a unique urban location, a one-acre site in Highland Park, next to Pasadena west of Figueroa Blvd. at 5835 Burwood Ave., Highland Park, 90024 — or call for details.
ReligionForBreakfast, Feb. 10, 2023; Pat Macpherson, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
The real meaning of yin and yang
(ReligionForBreakfast) Let's explore the concept of yin and yang, the ancient Chinese philosophy that highlights the balance of opposing [complementary] forces in the universe.
Delve into the meaning of yin and yang, how they are represented in the famous Taijitu symbol, and their impact on health, relationships, and the natural world.
From the yin yang balance of light and dark, to hot and cold, and masculine and feminine, this is a comprehensive look at one of the most fundamental beliefs in Chinese philosophy -- that made it into Buddhism from Taoism.
(RealLifeLore) A large portion of the country of Mexico, or the United Mexican States as it's really named, is little populated, whereas most of its population of 128 million is squeezed into a tight band at the center. Why? And why has it been like this for so long? In looking into it, we find out a lot about the USA, too.
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Listening to classical DJ Dianne Nicolini on USC's radio station (KUSC 90.7 FM) afternoons is a treat, leading to many wonderful surprises. One such is Alexander Borodin's symphonic poem In the Steppes of Central Asia and the opera "Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances" performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus led by Sir Georg Solti (Decca,Catalog #460977) at 1:39 pm. The crescendos shoot in out of the sky, like snow all over the nearby hills above Los Angeles. Students chase paper all over campus, working ChatGPT to the breaking point to get their work in on time, and the faculty and researchers ease into the world of knowledge listening to masterpieces. And that's just a piece of jumbled life in Lost Angeles.
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