Battle for $2,000 stimulus checks (Jimmy Dore)

Comedian Jimmy Dore (jimmydorecomedy.com); Editors, Wisdom Quarterly

Zen: Peaceful Miracle Music to Balance Mind

Peaceful Miracle Music to Balance the Mind

(Spirit Tribe Awakening) Dear Precious 💙, “Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart. Here is a healing frequency with instrumental Zen to love self. May this “peace” of music manifest miracles and beauty in listeners' lives today. Infinite love (metta) to all!

It uses the 432Hz healing frequency, which is peaceful, empowering, and soothing by nature to nurture mind (consciousness), body (matter), and soul (spirit/breath). It supports and empowers all on life's journey. ❖ MP3 download: spirittribeawakening.com. The music, tuned to 432Hz, also contains the 528Hz Solfeggio frequency. These frequencies have a specific healing effect on the subconscious mind.

Griffith Park Observatory: Conjunction (12/22)

Watch the Great Conjunction

(Griffith Park Observatory, Hollywood, Webcast Live) On Monday, December 21, 2020, starting at 4:30 pm, the winter solstice, the planets Jupiter and Saturn will appear in the evening sky very close to each other, at about one-fifth of the Moon's diameter apart.

This close approach of the two planets is called a "great conjunction" and occurs when the independent movements of Jupiter and Saturn make them appear close together in the sky. This happens once every 20 years, but they have not been seen this close together since 1226 A.D. More

Astrology: The Great Conjunction (video)

The Great Conjunction is a rare and special astrological event that happens every 20 years or so. It involves the meeting of Jupiter and Saturn at the same degree of the zodiac.

For the last 200 years, the Great Conjunction has occurred almost always in earth signs, but now, on December 21st, 2020, both Jupiter and Saturn will align in the air sign of Aquarius.

As Jupiter and Saturn align in Aquarius, it is going to kickstart a new era. It is also going to usher us deeper into the Age of Aquarius.

Hippies from the musical "Hair," which inspired the "40 Year Old Virgin"

I'm not arguing. I'm an intuitive, and I am right.

There is much debate on when the Age of Aquarius actually begins. Some astrologers believe it has already started; others believe we are still hundreds of years from it. 

Regardless of when the Age of Aquarius officially begins, it seems that this Great Conjunction falling in Aquarius is a sign that we are about to see many Age of Aquarius themes unfold.

It is believed that the Jupiter-Saturn alignment will color and shape the decades to come. 

For the last 200 years, as Jupiter and Saturn have been coming together in earth signs, they have shaped and defined the world we currently live in. 

Earth energy is very tangible. It is all about building things, creating foundations, using the resources of the Earth, and focusing on material possessions.

Author: Tanazz Chubb

Under Earth energy we have achieved a lot, but the time has come for a shift back into balance. We need to move away from material possessions, from [corporations] robbing the Earth of its resources, and away from creating the tangible to manifesting the intangible.

And that is where the air energy of Aquarius comes into play. Aquarius energy is revolutionary... More

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  Don't be square, grow some Hair!

  *A "great conjunction" is a conjunction of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, when the two planets appear closest together in the sky. Great conjunctions, named "great" for being the rarest and one of the brightest and closest on average of the conjunctions between "naked eye" planets (not counting the rarer conjunctions involving the ice giants that were too dim to be discovered until after the invention of the telescope), occur approximately every 20 years when Jupiter "overtakes" Saturn in its orbit.
• Tanaaz Chubb is the creator of ForeverConscious.com. She is an intuitive astrologer who aims to use her writing to heal and inspire. She is the author of several books including The Power of Positive Energy, Messages for the Soul, and My Pocket Mantras. She also runs online courses and in-person retreats.

Tanazz wants you to be forever conscious

"Great" Conjunction? So what? Who cares?

AB; Family Guy; Tubes; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, CC Liu (ed.), OPINION, Wisdom Quarterly

Know what grinds my gears? Space stuff!

My girlfriend is so [silly]! She thinks we're all about to zap out of existence only to reappear on some celestial plane in the Deva World. Why? The Great Conjunction of course! She and her [hippie] friends talk like that, and it [really grinds my gears]. Stare at the moon, Moonchildren, to be moonstruck. But keep your feet on the ground.

Comedian Arj Barker, creator of the "Sickest Buddhist" video, on God

The Old World ruined the New World.

It's like that Harmonic Convergence that came to nothing. Then there was that time when 2012 rolled around and just kept going. The Maya never said the world would end, just that their great calendar would reset. Not the Aztec Calendar; that's different.

Mexico (Mesoamerica) has given us many great civilizations (not to be confused with the colonial mess left behind by invading Europeans from Spain and Portugal 500 years ago).

This will happen again in another 20 years, so big deal! Rube and Co. will drive to Joshua Tree to see the space spectacle after the sun sets (5:30 pm) by a fire. They'll chill and set up telescopes and be back in L.A. before midnight. How woo-woo can you get?

So what? Who cares? Only the strong survive

What is the "Great Conjunction"? (video)

(Astrum, 12/19/20) What will the 2020 Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn really be like? Here's everything anyone could want to know about the "Great Conjunction" of 2020 when Saturn and Jupiter align in the zodiac. Astrum merch teespring.com.

• The great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn (The Hindu)

NASA ("Never A Straight Answer") Science Live gets excited about nada.

How to be a good human

Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven (eds.) based on Ven. Nyanatiloka (Anton Gueth), Wisdom Quarterly

Ma, why does everyone hate you? - Jealousy.

What does it mean to be "good" on the human plane or manussya loka?

The Buddha defined it as the wholesome karma that led us to rebirth here in the first place. A higher morality or virtue (sila) leads by the lawfulness of karma (deeds) to other states and traits.

What led to my rebirth here? It is only possible to be reborn on this plane by virtue of having accrued good karma in the form of maintaining one or more of the Five Precepts, which means abstaining from:

1. taking the lives of living beings
2. taking what is not given
3. taking sexual liberties (with ten types)
4. taking liberties with the truth
5. taking intoxicants that occasion heedlessness.

These may sound like negative acts, but in fact they are broadly worded categories. It is easy to put them in positive terms, though in doing so they seem to lose some of their breadth.

1. preserving the lives of living beings
2. letting go instead of greedily clinging
3. respecting others' relationships
4. being truthful (kind honesty)
5. being sober (to preserve these five).

Virtue is a mode of mind (heart), particularly that of volition, underlying motivation, or intention (cetana) manifested in thought, speech, and bodily action. (See karma).

Virtue is the whole foundation of Buddhist practice. It is the first of the Three Kinds of Training (sikkhā) that form the threefold division of the ennobling Eightfold Path, namely morality, concentration (coherence of mind), and wisdom.

Buddhist morality is not negative, as it may appear from the negative formulations in the sutras. It is quite positive. For it does not consist of merely refraining from committing harmful actions. Rather, in each instance, it is the clearly conscious and intentional restraint from doing harm (bad karma).

Whatever the action in question, restraint corresponds to a simultaneously arising volition (mind moment or citta). The ennobling virtue of the Path or magga is eightfold.

The karma of animals leads to rebirth as one.

Right speech, right action, and right livelihood are together called "genuine or natural morality" (pakati-sīla), as distinguished from the external rules taken on by monastics, lay meditators, and ordinary people wishing to improve themselves, or so-called "prescribed morality" (paññatti-sīla), which, as such, is karmically neutral.

The Buddha asked, "What now is karmically wholesome morality (kusala-sīla)?"

He answered, "It is wholesome bodily action (kāya-karma), wholesome verbal action (vacī-karma), and purity with regard to livelihood I call 'morality'" (MN 78). Compare at magga, 3-5. More

World Meditation: Solstice Great Conjunction

[Gaia Meditation, LIVE Dec. 21, 2020] 🙏🌍 This is a worldwide meditation. Lightworkers from all around the world are welcome to join this mass meditation. It is guided by 🗣️ Stéphane Clément.

Jupiter and Saturn will align so closely in the night sky, which is very rare, that they'll create a radiant point of light some are calling the "Solstice Star," the fabled "Star of Bethlehem," or the "Christmas Star." The event is officially referred to as "The Great Conjunction," marking our entrance into the Age of Aquarius. It's a specious claim to some and to others and obvious event that has been happening for a while now. Look around. This is what transition looks like. The cosmic conjunction occurs roughly every 20 years. But this is the closest these planets will line up in our night sky since the Middle Ages.

🕒 Monday, December 21st, 2020 at 7:00 pm UTC+1 (Paris time). The live guided meditation starts in Los Angeles at 10:00 am, New York at 1:00 pm, London at 6:00 pm, Paris at 7:00 pm, Tel Aviv 8:00 pm, New Delhi at 11:30 pm, and at Tokyo 3:00 am

• Join the Gaia Meditation Community (Facebook): bit.ly/GaiaMeditationCommunity
• 🌍 Let's embrace energies of the New Earth in our hearts and manifest a new paradigm together.

For as Gandhi said, [Let's] "be the change [we] wish to see in the world." This means that if we change our own vibration, we’re going to change our perception of reality and therefore we’re going to see it manifest in the physical world.

Today we’re observing that out of the "chaos" something orderly is emerging, a new vibration, a new energy. People are being forced to look inside instead of outside. LOVE is overtaking fear. The new paradigm emerging is being referred to as the "New Earth," like Eckhart Tolle was hinting at. The intentions for this guided meditation are to:

• Embrace the energies of the New Earth in our hearts.
• Be love and peace in our hearts so that they’ll manifest in the reality we experience.
• Connect to everybody with the same intention, whether they engage in this meditation live or later or take up another meditation style, and so.
• Connect to people with the same intention to raise the collective frequency of the planet.
• The intention of thousands and millions of people is to connect together to amplify individual intention and speed up the collective shift into the new paradigm.

Remember, our spirit (breath, prana, chi, spiritus, lifeforce energy) exists beyond space and time. At a quantum level, there’s only this eternal present moment. Past, present, and future co-exist simultaneously. So if we make our intention to connect with people with the same intention, the same vibration as ours, we’ll instantaneously be connected, whether we do this meditation live or later.

One Planet (Earth), One Race (Human), One Love (Metta)

Winter arrives today: Happy Solstice 2020!

Winter Solstice 2020 Guided Meditation

(Narayanjot Records: Meditation, Relaxing, Sleeping Music) December 21st marks a new beginning with the conjunction of our space neighbors Jupiter and Saturn. Enjoy this winter solstice meditation. Welcome to Age of Aquarius with a guided meditation to enlighten and revive the inner fire and to transform negative energy into positive. Let's let go of old burdens and habits and prepare ourselves for a spiritual rebirth. The background music is composed in the planet tone frequencies for Jupiter and Saturn. These planets have a conjunction on 12/21/20.

Walking in space with NASA? (live video)

NASA (allegedly live from space); Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, CC Liu (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

NASA's fake (CGI) space program from the perspective of 4,000 miles above earth while actually just 20 or 50 miles up, barely in "space" as vaguely defined, with no way to see this kind of curvature of the planet purported to be the size we are told earth is by NASA. But no one questions it, and we believe whatever we see as if Hollywood propaganda did more to sell us our worldview than sanitized textbooks in school.

Scientific American: Can Buddhism save us?

John Horgan (Scientific American, 8/24/17); Pat Macpherson, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

A golden Theravada Buddhist statue of the Buddha (Prowpatareeya Tan/Pixabay)

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A cool book argues that meditation can benefit us individually and globally.

I’m a friend and fan of mega-pundit Robert Wright. We’re obsessed with the same ridiculously big questions:

• What is the meaning of life?
• Does God exist?
• What is human nature?
• How constrained are we by our biology?
• What hope is there for us?

In The Moral Animal, Nonzero and The Evolution of God, Wright explores these riddles with such crisp, assured intelligence that it’s hard figuring out where he goes wrong. But I try to rise to the challenge.

Why Buddhism is True

Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment, which hit the bestseller lists, is Wright’s most ambitious book.

Guided by evolutionary psychology (his intellectual lodestar) and Buddhism, he diagnoses humanity’s ills and prescribes a treatment:

We are prone to excessive emotions, like desire, fear, and anger -- and to self-deception, which were instilled in us by natural selection.

But we can overcome these harmful tendencies through meditation, which helps us gain insight into and control over ourselves.

As Wright says in a Wall Street Journal essay, “The Meditation Cure,” meditation “turns out to be one of the best ways to deal with the anxieties and appetites bequeathed to us by our evolutionary history.” More

Kalel: How Buddhism changed my life (video)

How Buddhism changed my life

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(Nika Run) I'm a Buddhist, and I'm SO glad a big YouTuber like you can spread the Buddhist message like this. I definitely think Buddhism is underrated in this country (USA), and I definitely think that this country will have fewer depressed people if they at least adopt some Buddhist ideas. I've benefited SO much from Buddhism, and I'm grateful EVERYDAY thinking about how much I've changed ever since I became a Buddhist. I really hope more and more people become happier and healthier through any spiritual Way they are interested in. More

I'm a Buddhist priest. Ask me anything: "Evil?"

I'm a Buddhist Priest. Ask Me Anything.

(Erin, Jubilee, 2/28/20) How are you? What do you want to reincarnate as [rearise as, attain rebirth as, become, for "reincarnation" is a misnomer implying an undying soul that moves into dying flesh, which is how rebirth seems but is not at all the way it works in an ultimate sense, according to Buddhist Abhidharma or its "Doctrine in Ultimate Terms."] "Do 'evil' people exist, and can they be forgiven?" Let's ask Zen Buddhist priest Gyokei, a Japanese-American willing to answer some questions.

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