25 February, 2013


Warriors of the Rainbow 
Uploaded on May 15, 2009

I believe this video is extremely suited to our times and is another wake up call for those who are ready!
 
This video is an updated version of the original video.

It is a story and legend from the Native Americans about the Tribe of People that will rise to save the Earth

Credits:
Music: Enigma, Gravity of Love
Text: Freely adapted from Cree and Hopi prophecy, excerpts from Standing Bear Speaks
Graphics: digi_art Fantasy


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24 February, 2013

On The Nature Of Emptiness by Julian Colgan

(From time to time I revisit and browse through the vast treasury of Julian's writings and there are many gems that strike me. This is another of those....LS).

On The Nature Of Emptiness

Emptiness cannot be realized
because there is nothing to realize
that is beyond your own diamond forged mind.

Emptiness cannot be seen
because there is nothing that is intrinsically
representative of formless formlessness.

Emptiness cannot be defined
because the nature of defining something
means that there is something that can be defined.

The middle way is not the middle way
when there is a mind to divide and label
something that appears to be extreme as being extreme.

The lotus is empty of a Buddha
when the buddha renounces his or her buddha nature.

By saying that a buddha is a Buddha,
Buddhahood is lost.

Though losing something is empty of meaning,
making senses of emptiness is a meaningless task.

Working for what does not exist,
what does exist is beyond the mountain range of nirvana.

Sitting in a lotus position,
what you are sitting on
is sitting in you.

Every time an argument is made,
a counter argument is nowhere to be heard.

Seeing a rainbow encircled around your mind,
the rainbow of benedictions
is always there because there is nothing there.

Reading many sutras,
the only sutra that is never read
is the sutra of spontaneous 
relinquishments of all destructive desires.

Never looking into future or past lives,
the eternity of Buddhahood
rings as clear as a silver bell
when placed in a high location or atmosphere.

Nirvana being a stream
and samsara a bridge,
not one step is needed to cross
that bridge of illusory apparitions.

Already there without being there,
the nature of emptiness is no better than samsara,
for samsara points the way to what is in need
of being seen as empty.

Neither found in the dharma or in the sangha,
emptiness is the perception of non-perception.
That which is eternal is always changing
and that which is stable is always fading.

Governed by the karma of no karma,
set yourself free of needless worries.

Anxious over what does not exist,
what does exist is the union
of a particular nature with no particular nature.

A simple and complex puzzle,
the mind is all there is to know.

by Julian Colgan (Copyright)
Awake to Buddhahood
http://emptinessofmind.blogspot.ca/2013/01/on-nature-of-emptiness.html


22 February, 2013

Synchronicity And The Singularity by Zen Gardner

(Please visit this stimulating and soul provocative writer at www.zengardner.com
Some folks are ahead of the wave and we are grateful to them for opening and expanding  our insights as this is a critical time for heart to prevail for the sake of our and future generations. Ed)

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by Zen Gardner
It’s amazing. It’s wonderful. And it’s so significant! I am experiencing and observing the most exponential increase in synchronistic events and communication I have ever witnessed. Writers, posters and internet information sharers are networking at such a consciously connected level it’s just fantastic!
I know for myself, I no sooner write or read or post something on a subject but bam, there’s related stories, videos, articles or personal comments coming into my own and the general information field like a flood! And it continues to increase.

Of Course It Does!

That’s how it works. Especially now as the awakening soars into critical mass like an event horizon. There’s a lot of encouragement to be derived for all of us here. We know we can’t trust the media, we have our hearts to guide us, and favorite sources we each have found and turn to. But the key to all of this is the Source and getting the best connection possible.
It takes time and dedication to try to keep attuned and there are a lot of wonderful tips and advice on this subject. As you get deeper into it you’ll find you have to give up other areas of your life that are holding you back. Do it. Time in this current state could run out quickly if we don’t do our utmost to tune into and help amplify and thus spread this marvelous awakening we are experiencing.
There’s no limitations to the Creative Source, and there’s no blockage to our accessing It except what we individually allow. It’s sometimes big things in our lives, sometimes small, but it’s all built on moment by moment decisions. Do we go here, or do we go here? Do we waste time, or are we not taking enough breaks and relax time? Are we relaxed and loving and having fun or is it all work and no play making for very dull boys and girls. Lots of questions we all deal with but remember, it’s all made up of decisions, big and small, and one builds upon another.
Thankfully with this great creative collective Consciousness it just keeps on and we can get back “on track” any time we want. The thrill is living in that spiritual current as much as possible and having a blast as well as helpful impact at the same time.
We are each others’ amplifiers and the music is turning up!
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Singularity Now…and Always

They talk about this coming singularity when all information reaches a point where it is multiplying at an infinite rate and blip, everything’s over as we know it and perhaps we’re translated into another state of existence. John von Newmann first expounded this idea, defining it as the “ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.”
Pretty profound idea. Trouble is, this concept has since been cleverly hijacked into the transhumanist agenda. Instead of space and time ceasing to exist as in the classic black hole example, it generally now means the time when technological advancements have so accelerated that an artificial super intelligence is formed that will surpass human intelligence, after which the whole game is up for grabs and beyond our human comprehension. Our bodies, minds and civilization would be completely and irreversibly transformed.
Clever bastards. Predictive programming at its best. That’s what they’re shooting for in all of this.
Whichever, I’ve got news for you. The real singularity is already here. It has always existed. Call it eternal consciousness, the creative Source, whatever, it’s always everywhere and always accessible and way beyond anyone’s comprehension.
And it’s definitely not artificial!
Three cyberheads. Artificial intelligence. After Dia Sobin.

Beware the Imitation

We’re in a lower level matrix in this existence as humans on planet earth. What we have about us has already been manipulated to a large degree into an imitation of the original creation, and most of humanity is unfortunately buying into this illusory containment system.  Any sort of singularity on this level therefore is really insignificant in the grand scheme of things, and something to be very suspect of.
In fact, it’s just perfecting the hijack and hope to remove our human-ness altogether. The social engineering and designed collapse we’re experiencing will seem like child’s play. It is, however, what’s leading up to their later plans.
They want us to think of this “singularity” in an innocuous way, like they’re punching a hole in the illusion like that character finding the door in the Truman Show. Nice analogy, but they’re not on our side. They want complete dominion over us and to literally erase our souls and transform us into automatons.
In the real world they’re trying to hide from us, time already doesn’t exist. It’s just a tool here to decode what is already happening all at once. So to get to the point of singularity via accumulated knowledge is not just presumptuous propaganda. It’s another revelation of the method. These big tech boys and science sell-outs are controlled by the Controllers so it’s a load of crap. Just look at the idiots at CERN and what they’re doing to punch a hole in something without regard for the consequences.
Insane. But enough about these soulless charlatans. All they can do is destroy and imitate for control.
Back to beautiful synchronicity.

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Get On Board

It’s wonderful how the information and revelations of Truth are exploding! Hey, surf’s up, grab your board and get in! How? Follow your heart, follow the leads. Keep at it. If it’s on line you’ll notice things that catch your attention. Take time to look at them. Maybe they lead to new websites you’ve never seen, or a concept you’ve never heard of. Follow along. We have the tools at our fingertips.
Sure there are decoys and wrong turns, but they all work in your favor. As long as you keep going. Religions are a good example of people who thought they found something and stopped. Right there. Camped down and became slaves to an ideology. There are lots of things that do that. Stay away from petrified propaganda. It starts off seemingly succulent but soon turns swampy. After a bit it’ll be like trying to swim in the La Brea tar pits.
Then mummification sets in. Behold the world of the unconscious. Stay sharp and don’t get stuck in your tracks.

Tuning In Through Networking

One of your best tools to get into the stream of synchronicity is networking. Sharing. As we each pump into each other Truth and compassion, real knowledge and understanding as best we can, we contribute to this mass awakening and empowerment. It’s a fabulous dynamic and a thrill to be part of. It’s actually simply living a conscious life and it will follow naturally, but understanding the mechanics can really help keep our buns in gear and positively productive during this ridiculous shitstorm smacking humanity right now.
As we give, we get. Universe is amazing in this dynamic. We don’t give to get, it just happens, but it’s good to know it does because we always want to keep learning and growing and gaining in spiritual capabilities. It’s also very important to know that as you share and live a conscious life, Universe will take care of you.  I know I’m preaching to many of the choir here as so many of you know this and are driven like I am; sharing emails, passing on information to researchers you know, and other disseminators of information.  Sharing finds with those who specialize in a certain field can have a tremendous effect. If you find something that strikes you as important in a certain field, say chemtrails or EMF hazards for example, never assume that a seeming “specialist” must know this already.
You could be the prompter through which Universe is working.
Synchronicity is always happening.  As Carl Jung said, “Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.”

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 Conclusion

We live in very exciting times. We’ve been given the tools for this time. We’ve always had them. Humanity has them built in but our Overlords have done everything they can to hide them from us and deny their existence. It’s time we tapped in and let ‘em have it full throttle. As we do and others join in the signal amplifies and the awakening accelerates. It’s that simple.
But we have to take the nudges seriously.
Keep moving, keep loving, keep learning, keep transcending.
Join the buzz…this synchronicity rush is a blast!
Love always, Zen
Factual information alone isn’t sufficient to guide you through life’s labyrinthine tests.  You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation.  One of your inalienable rights as a human being should therefore be to receive a mysteriously useful omen every day of your life. 
-Rob Brezney

17 February, 2013

Failing Economies Take Note: Iceland’s Silent Revolution May Hold the Solution to Financial Woes by C. Wright



12 February 2013

By Carolanne Wright
Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

A surprising twist.
When the world first learned of the economic collapse in Iceland during 2008, many felt it would be yet another exercise in corruption, bailouts and crippling debt. News reports were prolific in those early days when it looked as though this small country would be thrown into a never-ending downward spiral. But something unprecedented occurred: The people rose up in a bloodless revolution and ousted those responsible for the crash — namely, the corrupt banking cartel. And now, the Icelandic economy is stronger than ever. Since Iceland’s recovery is an exceptional model for other struggling nations, the question begs to be asked: Why is the mainstream media eerily silent about Iceland’s victory?
With the economic collapse in 2008, Iceland began a process which:
- Forced the resignation of their entire corrupt government
- Nationalized the banking system
- Created a referendum enabling citizens to determine their own economic system
- Actively supports on-going investigation, prosecution and incarceration of responsible parties, including top banking officials
- Created a new draft of the constitution by utilizing comments and suggestions via Facebook, Twitter and online forms
- Ceased bailouts — defaulting on a staggering $85 billion in debt during 2008
In early 2012, Icelandic banks also forgave home loans that exceeded 110 percent of the home value. This helped alleviate the burden of crushing debt for a quarter of the Icelandic population. Additionally, the Supreme Court ruled in June 2010 “that loans indexed to foreign currencies were legal, which means that Icelandic households were no longer expected to cover krona (the Swedish currency) losses,” according to the article by Madison Rupert, The Silent Revolution: Icelandic Anger, Debt Forgiveness and Activist Triumph. Rupert continues, “The Icelandic government basically left international creditors to deal with their failed loans on their own, removing all responsibility from their own people.”
Incredibly, Iceland decided to put its people before the market — the exact opposite of how other nations handle an economic crisis. According to estimates from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Icelandic economy is set to outperform the EU and the entire developed world. A stunning lesson of how a failing country can thrive after an economic meltdown, Iceland is an example for other nations. So why the silence in American media?

International bankers and other demons

As with all powerful and unethical institutions, it is no surprise that big bankers control and manipulate mainstream media. Teddy Roosevelt observed,
These international bankers and Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government.
The same is true today. Reporting on the Icelandic revolution along with the incarceration of banking executives is bad news for those in power. Indie Media sums it up accurately:
A whole country’s revolution succeeded against powers that created the current global crisis without a shot being fired. A very good reason exists for the apparent failure of television and newspapers to provide any publicity on this unprecedented event: what would happen if the rest of the EU and the United States took this as an example?

100% Renewable Energy

Not only has Iceland rebuilt their economy from the bottom up after the Global Financial Crisis, they also use 100% renewable energy for their entire country. Reneweconomy.com.au states:
Iceland today generates 100% of its electricity with renewables: 75% of that from large hydro, and 25% from geothermal. Equally significant, Iceland provides 87% of its demand for hot water and heat with geothermal energy, primarily through an extensive district heating system.
Altogether, hydro and geothermal sources meet 81% of Iceland’s primary energy requirements for electricity, heat, and transportation. This must be a record in the modern era. Certainly Icelandic politicians think so, because they frequently make reference to it.
Sources for this article include:
http://wakeup-world.com
http://reneweconomy.com.au/2012/iceland-a-100-renewables-example-in-the-modern-era
http://www.greenewave.com
http://www.reuters.com
http://www.theotherschoolofeconomics.org/?p=2499
http://www.bloomberg.com
http://prof77.wordpress.com
http://thinkprogress.org
http://gigaom.com
Previous Articles By Carolanne
About the Author
Carolanne enthusiastically believes if we want to see change in the world, we need to be the change. As a nutritionist, natural foods chef and wellness coach, Carolanne has encouraged others to embrace a healthy lifestyle of organic living, gratefulness and joyful orientation for over 13 years. Through her website Thrive-Living.net she looks forward to connecting with other like-minded people from around the world who share a similar vision. Follow Carolanne on Twitter and Pinterest
Please note this article was first published on Natural News.

Dhammapada - Thousands


(From time to time I revisit and browse through the vast treasury of Julian's writings and there are many gems that strike me. This is one of those that I am delighted to share - LS).


Dhammapada - Thousands




Better than a thousand scriptures
on the nature of Buddhahood
is one realization which brings
about one's own Buddhahood.
Better than a thousand mantric formulas
on the nature of Emptiness
is one recitation of one pure thought.

Better than a thousand rituals
on the nature of Mind
is one's own Mind.
One who gains an insight
into the Mind is greater than
a thousand men who have gained a thousand
insights into the lesser manifestations of Mindfulness.

By gaining insight into one's own Mind,
one inevitably gains insight into everything,
for everything is a projection of the Mind.

Better than living a thousand lifetimes
in a thousand solitary retreats
is one lifetime or even one moment
spent in the company of a Buddha.

Better to live in the deathless state
for one day than to live with death for thousands of years.
Better to live in full freedom
for one day than to live with the oppression of all Ages combined.

Better to live in the Dharma
for one day than to live with the ignorant sufferings
of thousands of neophyte disciples.

One day is all that it takes to realize
the Emptiness of one's Mind,
which is the nature of Buddhahood.

By Julian Colgan (Copyright)

Awake To Buddhahood

http://emptinessofmind.blogspot.ca/2012/11/dhammapada-thousands.html

15 February, 2013

Dhammapada - The World: by Julian Colgan


Avoid being pretentious
by following false laws and false doctrines. 
Avoid being thoughtless by following the minds
that try to indoctrinate and subordinate the mind of enlightenment.
Avoid being worldly by thinking that the world needs more worldly minds.
Awaken! Do not let the drowsiness of intoxicating pleasures 
and concepts close one's eyes to Reality
and to the Truth of Buddhahood.
Follow the heart felt aspirations of one's budding awakening
and one's intuitional faculties.
By being selfless, happiness will abound
in all existences and in all realms.
This bubble like world is bound to burst
upon the puncturing of the illusory nature
of countless lifetimes and countless emotional reactions.
The King of Death is powerless when in the hands
of an Accomplished One.
Look at what is before one's perceptions.
Is it not like one continuous mirage of the senses?
The wise, who are perfect in their perception,
are able to bypass the laws of nature
in order to see the Truth of an Empty Consciousness.
Once as foolish as a working ass,
those who become as great as the wise
in their understanding of selflessness
radiate out into the world 
the knowledge which dissipates the cloud
like conceptions of a built up identity.
As opulent as the moon,
such Accomplished Ones reflect
the contents of the world's mind
as easily and clearly as any celestial body
orbits around its designated area.
In a world where few are able to break
free from Samsara's net,
the way to Nirvana is reached by the swan like
flying of an Opened and Unlimited Mind.
Not verifying the Dharma for themselves
and rejecting the next life to come,
the suffering of the world swallows their minds,
making them only see what they grudgingly want to see.
Better than a thousand rebirths in the realm of the gods
and better than becoming an immortal
is one step taken towards the Buddha and the Buddha Nature.

By Julian Colgan
Awake to Buddhahood
http://emptinessofmind.blogspot.ca/  

Transcending Language and the Leap of Faith by Zen Gardner


(Please visit this amazing "Light Warrior"s' site: www.zengardner.com. His articles are direct, insightful and offer a thought provoking read).

 

Transcending Language and the Leap of Faith


Don’t you love dreams, especially the trippy ones where you’re sure you were there? I just had another one, and it brought up so many significant concepts and emphasized something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately.

Manifesting the next level with all that is in us.

The main impact of the dream concerned communication. Not the message being coveyed, but the more than amazing power of our mode of communication. Both in how it can hamper and contain, or gloriously liberate our spirits.

Something that drastically affects the entire state of humanity.


Into the Library of Light

In the experience I was transcended into this other realm by a series of very touching dream events. It was wonderful. I was transported in that spiritual yet physical kind of way “up” into this other realm. There I was introduced to this modern looking library-ish place with glass walls, and happy people of all kinds and ages. It was hovering over a pristine planet below and filled with awake, beautiful vibrant people, some floating and some walking, with lots of children around this big room with elevated library levels and a hubbub of audibly silent, peaceful activity.

Everyone was effortlessly busy and innately knew what they were supposed to be doing; no pressure, no hurry, and communication was oh so easy and simple.

I was greeted as if I was expected and was immediately accepted and integrated as everyone just kept about their business. I pestered my beautiful “governess” of the outpost guide about contacting my loved ones left behind about what had just happened to me so they wouldn’t worry. I was clearly a novice but even that was accepted blithely and in stride and they were checking out ways of contacting them. If there was “protocol” even that was open for reconsideration.

Cool? It was. But so profoundly, openly communicative.

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Conscious Communication is the Key to Conscious Empowerment

The most profound realization and insight of this experience was how everyone communicated. There were many messages and many personal details involved, but the REAL world of conscious communication is NOTHING like what we experience here. Somehow everyone who needed to know something knew it. There was no useless chatter I could “hear”, and it wasn’t silence in between like something was missing.

It was perfectly orchestrated, but naturally.

What struck me as I thought about this experience is that we are all controlled by our very manner of communication more than the content. Because in this life we have this huge buffer called our ego or false self, this mind and voice box controller, we can formulate what we want the other party to hear. This makes for a huge gap in reality and allows for all these false fabrications of projected truth vs REAL truth that we witness every day.

Hence our screwed up world of lies, phony nuances and easy deception. And anyone stupid enough to tell the honest truth gets trampled on like a bug on a city street. Here. But not there.

There Truth isn’t something to strive for, it’s a simple and glorious matter of fact way of loving, vibrant life.

The Medium IS the Message

I’m reminded of the brilliant mind of Marshall McLuhan. He said the medium IS the message. And exactly right he was! Just imagine using binoculars looking the wrong way while a bear is attacking you from your blind side. That limited medium kept you from getting the full 360 degree view.

It’s much like that.

This limiting means we share that appears so essential needs serious investigation. Oh sure, now we have the internet and pixels and holograms and such, but it’s still all based on this seriously un-attached, separating premise where there is no assumed unity, when we all know there truly is. It’s this mechanistic “…Subject addressing other object…Formulating message accordingly…Sending…Message received…Awaiting input.”

McLuhan said some amazingly insightful things. Anyone who says, “I don’t necessarily agree with everything that I say.”..which he did, is my kinda guy! He’s a great study when you get time. Just go to his quotes for starters, brilliant.

Whether McLuhan got the “full picture” at the time of his visit here I don’t know, as mainstream infojerks used his insights to transform marketing, advertising and mind manipulation into the monster it is today. Totally controlling, misleading and sinister.

As usual.

But McLuhan had a very important message. HOW we communicate is profoundly more important than WHAT we communicate. Sounds messy to the mind but again, it’s profoundly true. And at such an ultimately wonderful simple level is a glorious discovery to be had.

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The Alternative to Lies – Fearless, Loving Honesty

Go to college if you want to get really screwed up, but this subject of real communication is so profound it’s barely touched on. Why?

It leads to the culprits.

Those that manipulate HOW you communicate manipulate YOU! When we’re forced into and restricted by crippling language based channels of communication and think that’s all there is, we are duped into a lower density reality, just as they want. And we all have been at some point because there apparently has been no choice. At least that’s what you’d think from the possibilities we’re given.

Sound paranoid? You bet. And rightfully so. We’re under incessant attack, and our most essential life tools are where they strike the hardest. Our health, mental conditioning, and spiritual state.

What we’re grappling with is a profound idea of how we interact. If it were honest, we’d be in one heck of a different place. When we know what others are thinking the jig is up. The truth is known. While it would wreak havoc if applied in this current world, apparently in this other level it generates natural homeostasis of peaceful, harmonious honesty.

(I know. If you’re like me you’d like to see an online lie detector strapped to every politician and other corporate, media and banking whore out there. Universe knows…)

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The Other World

Communication is a life force. It is a life giving interaction. To constrict or limit it is as wicked as turning the lights off in a dark, dangerous crowded room. Yet that’s exactly what the extra-dimensional controllers have done and audaciously continue to do.

Here in this new realm I visited, everyone simply knew. What was a concern to you, you knew about. Were you introduced to somebody? “Hi, I’m so and so” etc. but not nearly that clumsy, and it’s transmitted with immediate understanding. Something pertinent to your situation? You and whomever needed to be included/involved were in the “conversation” although it’s more like a poetic catalytic information process…with a soul.

That simple, that direct, that loving. No froth needed or phony touch ups. Just the loving truth.

Our current paradigm? What comes at you, or you formulate to fit the outside projection, is all you get. There’s no “shared” information except what the controlled “media” deems to broadcast or you as an individual volunteer. Or are able to dig up. Can you say “ripe for corruption and abuse”?

Central Command?

The really freaky thing is the communication is “moderated” naturally. You don’t worry about how it happens, it just does. If you’re supposed to be in on the conversation, you’ll be in on it. Something comes up and it’s within your ‘jurisdiction”, you’ll be informed.

It’s all natural and normal and cosmically directed in some way, as it should be. You don’t look for the big eye in the sky, it’s the nature of things.

The akashic records could be another level from what I experienced, or a central storage area. Here was a working station but a home at the same time. I wasn’t there very long so these are all from impressions I had there and then analyzing the dynamics as I understood them.

Another thing. In such an honest open medium you can imagine that if someone had bad intentions or was doing something out of synch or had a serious need or problem, those around would know. The fabric would be disturbed and the issue would get immediate attention, and the potential problem could be addressed.

A loving fully open society would therefore heal itself should the need arise, by whatever means necessary.

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It’s Time to Transcend and Trust Our Hearts

This wonderful intuitive power of communication is where our strength lies. If we can develop this “6th sense” and learn to trust it more than the other matrix-driven information channels, we’re on to something! We know we want to bypass the programming but are reluctant to step out and really do it.

There is no other way.

It’s time to trust your heart instinct, your intuition, the conscious understanding you sense. And learn to act on it. Might seem scary at first like ol’ Indy Jones above…..but the payoff is next to supernatural!

Exercising it will bring it into our realm.

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Synchronicity and Intuition are Leading the Way

This “telepathic” communication concept is nothing new. What’s wonderful is how it resonates and how many have had experiences with it. The inspiring synchronistic events I experience and hear about everyday from friends is extraordinary. And that’s good–outside of ordinary. We need more people to see more of these wonderful events and “coincidences” happening around them. And learn to expect and utilize them.

My concern is bringing this into our current paradigm as there are choices to be made. By all of us.

We can do this on a grand scale with intention. We just need to “step out” and get the hang of it. It’s already there and we’re all practicing it to a large degree in all kinds of ways. But we need to see this form of deliverance for what it is. It scrambles their signals, screws up their thinking, freaks out the control boards, and blows up their paradigms! …all while empowering a fledgling Truth community that so desperately needs encouragement.

So why hold back?

The dynamics I feebly attempted to describe here are amazing. When this medium is let loose everything else the manipulators are using just mushes into cosmic jello. It’s like the ultimate enzyme, or the perfect catalyst. One drop and zappo! Ha!

Gotcha!

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Conclusion

I’m very serious about this. Amongst our enlarged community are many great minds and wonderful hearts. Critical mass has occurred on many levels, but we need to keep the attack up. We cannot sit still or space out into all the wonderfulness when we have brothers and sisters that need our help and a paradigm about to implode on the innocent.

That’s how I see it.

Call me semi-conscious and untrusting, but it’s up to us to do everything we can…in peace, in love and with full conscious intensity as the situation warrants…which this does. Within each of us are so many untapped resources we’ll kick ourselves when this is “over” because we didn’t use them. Philosophize this all you want but responding to the call of the Universe is imperative.

That’s all nature does.

Do we?

Go fully conscious, any and every way you can. It’s a life worth living. Hesitation and hanging in the fringes is for cowards in twisted denial.

It’s time to transcend this outdated, manipulated prison matrix muzzle and communicate in Spirit and in Truth.

Time to tap in. And do it with glorious impunity.

Love, Zen

“Whence did the wond’rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?” – Marshall McLuhan

Source: www.zengardner.com

10 February, 2013

The Trials Of Initiation: by Julian Colgan

Frantically running through a bleak and
seemingly unending tunnel
of resentful feelings,
none of what I have accomplished
in terms of spiritual development
is enough to pacify
the raging storm that is samsara.

Lost amidst the crashing waves
of social unrest and cultural dormancy,
it is as if no one can hear
the sorrowful cries of all sentient beings.

Undergoing the trials of initiation,
the masters of the buddha dharma
are hesitant to unleash what
is profoundly wise to
the profoundly ungrateful.

Witnessing all of my erroneous
thoughts, emotions and actions
flashing as quickly
as a thousand thunder bolts,
the only thought that keeps me on
track is the thought of sustained self improvement.

Pushing myself to the limits of existence,
compassion is the healing medicine
needed for all of my past mistakes.

Regressing to the point
of insignificant forms of consciousness,
I was a drop of water
from the Himalayan mountains
and a grain of sand
in the sea of endless confusions.

Eating worms as a bird
and animals while a human,
when will I stop consuming other
sentient beings in order to
fuel my own minute energy levels.

Climbing out of these animalistic propensities,
one day the buddha dharma will be mine.

Engaged in awakening others
from samsara's trance,
the sound of enlightenment
manages to soothe my troubled and tormented mind.

Ringing and vibrating like an avalanche,
my sense of reality crumbles
each time my lama
enunciates the words of the Buddha.

Emanating with the wisdom rays
of sky like liberation,
the intelligence of sincerity
is equal to the blossoming of
the mind of awakening.

By Julian Colgan (Copyright)
Awake to Buddhahood
 http://emptinessofmind.blogspot.ca/2013/02/the-trials-of-initiation.htm
 

On Ego: by Sogyal Rinpoche



Ego is the absence of true knowledge of who we really are, together with its result: a doomed clutching on, at all costs, to a cobbled together and makeshift image of ourselves, an inevitably chameleon charlatan self that keeps changing, and has to, to keep alive the fiction of its existence.
In Tibetan, ego is called dakdzin , which means “grasping to a self.” Ego is then defined as incessant movements of grasping at a delusory notion of “I” and “mine,” self and other, and all the concepts, ideas, desires, and activities that will sustain that false construction.
Such grasping is futile from the start and condemned to frustration, for there is no basis or truth in it, and what we are grasping at is by its very nature ungraspable. The fact that we need to grasp at all and to go on grasping shows that in the depths of our being we know that the self doesn’t inherently exist. From this secret, unnerving knowledge spring all our fundamental insecurities and fears.
Excerpt by Sogyal Rinpoche
Tibetan Book of the Living and Dying

09 February, 2013

The Universality Of Devotion: by Julian Colgan

(Beautiful and soulful, these verses are true gems of wisdom and awareness. Ed)




Truth reverberates throughout the aeons,nudging every lost soul back to the lost word of redemption.

Refusing to repeat the stylized life habits of semi merry men and semi wed women,
this humble human lifetime is the chalice that the Christ drinks from.

Seeing kinsmen live with kinsmen, the true brotherhood of life universal is left unseen by the wandering eyes of the selfish.

Immortality being useless unless used for salvational works, the universality of devotion is comparable to an ocean of stars where everyone is included.

Alive while living and alive while dying, these alms which I offer to you are of the lost word of the Father.

Hearing the babbling of millions of busy mouths, the Father shall silence them when their time is near.

Walking through all of the garbage that is sold by merchants of cheap hearts, there are many who are living but who is blissfully living in the Truth of God’s Grace.

Even if the Savior were to appear among their congregations of mundanely human affairs,

heckles and laughter would be all that they could possibly bear.

Ruled for aeons by the desires of the beasts, the soul of salvation pleads to the Father for less hard labor.

Working with the intelligence of an ox and a shovel, what else is there of life besides struggling for some grains.

Fed up of munching on hay and oats, my animalistic stomach once tied me down to this field of constant rebirths.

Having a cane or walking stick for my wife, how many millions of lives will pass me by before I awaken to the Truth of My Self.

Exploring the infinities of space, all that I saw were isolated jeweled planets absorbed in their own processes of creation and destruction.

Living entities being conveyors of cosmic phenomena, live up to your rights as children of the Most Blessed One.

Leading the blind to love of God, the gospels breathe into my soul a breath of fresh air.

Tragedy upon tragedy, the Father and I have seen it all; for everything becomes the Father when the Father becomes the All.

Giving sight to Joseph as He interpreted the dreams of the lame kings of Egypt, that same Joseph is in you now as you shed new light in the scriptures.

A rabbi and an altar boy, the Lord directs the wanderings of the meek and humble.

Taking special favor on His one and only Son, the lamp of God’s perceptions needs to be handed on over.

On the rooftop of the world, the lost word is vocalized.

Peace be unto the Father, for the Father is in me. Peace be unto the Son, for the Son is All that can be.

Peace be unto the Spirit, for the Spirit is in Love.

In love with all that can be and with all that is in me, the lost word is the call that is heard by Adam, Abraham, and all of the prophets of the three time zones.

Forming a new covenant with each human desire, money, sex, fury, and passion are the bones of my existence that will eventually be thrown to the dogs of savage time.

One on one with the grace that is salvation, why did I wait so long for what I was seeking.

Playing all of the cards that are in my deck, the beauty of the Mother of Intelligence finally lifted Me above the abyss of death.

Placing Me on Her lap, I am called to be a mouthpiece for the One without a conceivable beginning.

Getting out of the soul’s encasings with a thrust of universal devotion, the Truth now reverberates through and by Me.

Julian Colgan (Copyright)


http://iamthemonad.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-universality-of-devotion.html

07 February, 2013

Love after Love by Derek Walcott


Love after Love

The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.


~ Derek Walcott ~
 
 Source: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-after-love/

03 February, 2013

Attraction: Rumi

The Beautiful attracts the beautiful.
Know this for sure.
Recite the text,
"The good women for the good men."
In this world
everything attracts something.
Those of the Fire
attract those of the Fire;
Those of the Light
attract those of the Light.
~Rumi