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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

The Diamond Sutra (Recited)


Just to play and listen to the audio of the Diamond Sutra (i.e., teaching) is to accumulate inconceivable, immeasurable merit for the pacification of one's karma and one's enlightenment. As well, to play and listen to the audio of the Diamond Sutra is to accumulate inconceivable, immeasurable merit for the pacification of the karma of all sentient beings and their enlightenment. This audio makes for an excellent meditation. It is 38 minutes long.

This sutra has a distinct Zen flavor and is a favorite sutra among Zen Buddhists.

"The Diamond Sutra" in Wikipedia

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Friday, June 15, 2007

The Song of the Bodhisattva Ratnapani



Ratnapani, the Bodhisattva and Spiritual
Emanation of the Buddha Ratnasambhava


The musicality of being is the harmonious wind of a warm evening
It is the jewel of contentment, the shining light of happiness.
Like children playing on a seashore, in the fresh summer air,
So do I shine with the joy of sharing, and the wealth of peace

One may strive forever, never satisfied or happy
Struggling, toiling, never at rest
Or he may realize that all which he may possibly want
Awaits him within, and all around him
His vision is swelled, for it is all beautiful
And his heart is radiant

I am the way station of fertile land in the desert
The golden treasure that bids man to stay,
The sunlight which drives away storms
I hold the promise of a warm dinner or a lazy afternoon
A long embrace beneath lilacs
A cat dozing underneath the porch
A long stretch upon awakening

There is no need for violence and vicious refusal
Nor of endless waste and suffering
Call upon me, and I give you the gift
Of peace and satisfaction, and clear smiles
Do not slash yourselves with razors, that only what you like this week may remain
Nor freeze and burn, kill others or yourself
Why take a thousand miserable ways to Emptiness
When my way is full and pleasant, without strife?

Rest and relax, give and receive
Share and be renewed, while the problems of old
Drop as dry leaves in the spring.

"Pentagon Tries to Make a 'Gay Bomb'" (Video)


I wish we lived in an alternative universe and that this was just a bad (albeit incredulously offensive) joke. I keep thinking this video is a spoof, that it must be. What incredibly stupid, homophobic and sad military leadership!

I keep praying that the reasons NOT to be ashamed of being an American will cease! This country is fucked if John Edwards isn't the next President of the United States! Fuck Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. They'll come up with a bomb to kill the American left!







Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Understanding Vibratory Fields




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Understanding Vibratory Fields

SAT NAM
I have dealt recently with several clients who have had the similar problem of being caught in a negative vibratory field after contact with a person or place. This is becoming a more common occurrence and we need to know how to avoid this situation.

We are in a time of great planetary change and these changes are playing out on many levels. A high stakes inter-dimensional battle for survival is being waged by the Dark Energies who have held sway over this planet in the dark age of the Kali Yug. We are inundated with artificially induced bio-electric conditions of depression and dread that are amplified by the media through a series of contrived ominous events designed to keep us in increasing states of fear and worry. This proliferating negativity is intensified by the anxiety that comes from the disorientation caused by the “thinning of the veils” between the various levels of reality. Many of us are experiencing increased psychic abilities as a result of these higher frequency energies, and this is making us more aware of and sensitive to the negative forces.

Everything on the planet has a magnetic frequency. Visualize this as pools of energy, some positive and uplifting, others negative and destructive. As we move through this vast magnetic field we inevitably encounter the lower negative destructive energies. The art of living is to be able to process these energies so the negative forces do not begin to “spin” us and cause our personal realm to move in a destructive painful pattern.

Let us examine the situation where you think you are being drawn into a negative whirlpool of energy when dealing with another person. Yogi Bhajan’s teaching on this is: Remember the central idea of the person you are in contact with. The individual has three basic needs, 1.) To promote selfish interests, 2.) To advance control, 3.) Redress grievances. The person will be angry, rash, or diplomatic. These are the negatives. The only way out is to understand what track the person is on.

Listen patiently. Observe, assess the situation. But distance yourself. The person is living their life, expressing their own energy. Allow them to do so. Be aware of what track they are on. They want to angle this track into us, and we need to know how to change the angle. Remember, we learn the science of angles from Kundalini yoga. The way we get sucked in, entangled, lose our balance, and open ourselves to the negativity, is we get involved with it. Instead of respecting the other person as a human being, as a fellow being having an experience, we relate to what our Connection is with this person: this is where the mistake is made. When we try to connect, we are trying to have our way. We are trying to have OUR relationship with the energy: This is “my way.” My connection with this energy. I can connect with this person because of an aspect of their personality or situation that is similar to my own. Or, I can “heal” them—have them express their energy the way I want them to, the way I would. When we connect in these ways, we do it because we don’t feel whole, complete within ourselves. We have not opened ourselves to the infinite expression of our own energy; so we seek what we feel we lack in the outer world. We become needy. We don’t accept the other person; we want something from them. We want to change them. We don’t open a healing space and allow healing to occur—we want to heal, we want to do something. This neediness creates an imbalance, and this imbalance exposes us to forces, fellow travelers from the dark side, who dilute our light and create pain in our lives.

When we enter into these spaces, and we all do, the mantra that removes the negativity from us and the environments is "Chatr Chatr Vartee."

Play it, especially at night when sleeping, when we are more vulnerable to the dark forces. Drink more water to balance the emotional body. Walk barefoot on the earth to release negative energy, and re-balance and rejuvenate.

The meditation that Yogi Bhajan gave to remove negative vibrations picked up from others and to withdraw physical energy from a situation is:

Sit in easy pose. Presume you are involved with an unhappy problem (anything that has bothered you, even for months). Keep your spine erect. Close your eyes. Now,

Think about how miserable it is making you in relation to your personal existence.
Think about how miserable it is making you in relation to your worldly existence.
Think about how miserable it is making you in relation to your spiritual existence.

If your spiritual existence ceases, your entire life force becomes weak and dim.

Start reversing.

Think that you are an image of the Supreme Consciousness
(God—Divine—Creative Force).

Think that you have universality in relation to this world as your right, and that you are positively protected by this force. (The sign of this force and its existence in you is that you are breathing.) Therefore, there is no way for you to be trapped in negative, unhappy thoughts.

Close your right nostril with your right thumb.
Inhale as deeply as possible through your left nostril.
Exhale as deeply as possible through your left nostril.
Repeat exactly 25 times.

Can you ever now feel the same?

There is a simple logic to the profound wisdom we need to navigate the many challenges in our lives. Amidst the multi-dimensional planetary transformation, the only real protection is to be operating from our own highest frequency, to dwell in an aura of light and love, and to use the tools of Kundalini yoga to move gracefully through the shifting times.

Sat Nam,
Harijiwan

Understanding Vibratory Fields

Thursday, May 31, 2007

The Brothers Crazy-mazov



William Butler Yeats I
and Yeats II


⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Ezra Pound I
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀and Pound II









"In 1913, Yeats met the young American poet Ezra Pound. Pound had traveled to London at least partly to meet the older man, whom he considered "the only poet worthy of serious study". From that year until 1916, the two men wintered in the Stone Cottage at Ashdown Forest, with Pound nominally acting as Yeats' secretary. The relationship got off to a rocky start when Pound arranged for the publication in the magazine Poetry of some of Yeats' verse with Pound's own unauthorised alterations. These changes reflected Pound's distaste for Victorian prosody. In particular, the scholarship on Japanese Noh plays that Pound had obtained from Ernest Fenollosa's widow provided Yeats with a model for the aristocratic drama he intended to write. The first of his plays modeled on Noh was At the Hawk's Well, the first draft of which he dictated to Pound in January 1916."

-- from Wikipedia


I can't imagine two crazy-er people than W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound. Imagine them working together for several years! I have to find out more about this (i.e., reading books instead of the internet). So much for meticulous research.


Pound (second from left) and Yeats (third from left).

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

"the 'certain' Lama"

Khandro Déchen and Ngak'chang Rinpoche
Monterey, California, 1994

"the 'certain' Lama", a transcript of teachings on the five certainties, apprentice retreat – the 19th of March, 1993
by Ngak’chang Rinpoche



The Aro gTér Lineage
The Aro gTér is a stream of Vajrayana Buddhism in which ordination is congruous with romance, marriage, and family life. It focuses on the teaching and practice of the Inner Tantras from the point of view of Dzogchen, an essential non-dual teaching.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Platonic solid fractals and their complements

From the faces of its bounded three-dimensions, this fractal reduces itself infinitely towards an infinite number of empty "centers" contained within this finite three-dimensional space.From the "center" of the boundaries of this finite three-dimensional cube, this fractal expands itself infinitely towards the cube's faces without ever fully reaching them.



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Here is a paradox. Mathematically speaking, these two infinite fractals can reside in each other, occupying the same three-dimensional space, without any space remaining between them, without any overlap or intersection between them, and without any modification to their shapes.

The yellow fractal reduces infinitely. The blue fractal expands infinitely. Yet the sum of these two infinite fractals is a completely solid, finitely bounded cube!

Finity and infinity are one, residing perfectly in each other.

Fractals

Go here to learn about fractals.


By the expression of a simple mathematical formula, a two-dimensional "fractal" is created. This fractal infinitely and indefinitely contracts and expands in an exactly repetitive manner to approximately "reach" an infinite and indefinite number of "emptinesses." The only differences in this fractal are in it sizes of scale, which expand and reduce without end.

Hyperbolic Orthogonal Dodecahedral Honeycomb

Bincuntracated Cubic Tiling

Monday, May 21, 2007

Fourth-Dimensional Hypercube





This is what a fourth-dimensional hypercube looks like as visualized from a three-dimensional perspective.

Hypercubes in other dimensions

The Platonic Solids

The Platonic Solids

Tetrahedron


The exact projection of a Tetrahedron onto a sphere




Hexadron (Cube)


The exact projection of a Hexahedron (Cube) onto a sphere



Octahedron


The exact projection of a Octahedron onto a sphere




Icosahedron


The exact projection of a Icosahedron onto a sphere




Dodecahedredon


The exact projection of a Dodecahedron onto a sphere


Higher Dimensions of the Platonic Solids
In the mid-19th century the Swiss mathematician Ludwig Schläfli discovered the four-dimensional analogues of the Platonic solids, called convex regular 4-polytopes. There are exactly six of these figures; five are analogous to the Platonic solids, while the sixth one, the 24-cell, has no lower-dimensional analogue.

In dimensions higher than four, there are only three convex regular polytopes: the simplex, the hypercube, and the cross-polytope. In three dimensions, these coincide with the tetrahedron, the cube, and the octahedron.

It's not about others


It is not the shortcomings of others, nor what others have done or not done that one should think about, but what one has done or not done oneself.
The Dhammapada, Verse 50

Saturday, May 19, 2007

A prayer for happiness

My all beings have happiness and the causes of happiness.
May all beings be free from suffering and the causes of suffering.
May all beings never be separated from the happiness free from suffering.
May all beings have equanimity, free from attachment and aversion.

Overcoming Death Mandala


from "the art of asia," minneapolis institute of arts:

Yamantaka Mandala (Overcoming Death Mandala)

A mandala, or circle, is a representation of the Buddhist universe. These cosmograms represent in symbolic color, line, and geometric forms, all realms of existence and are used in Tantric meditation and initiation rites. The creation of a mandala, considered a consecrated area, is believed to benefit all beings.

This is the Yamantaka mandala, a cosmic blueprint of the celestial palace of the deity Yamantaka, Conqueror of Death, who is represented at the center by the blue vajra, or thunderbolt. It consists of a series of concentric bands, the outermost representing eight burial grounds with a recognizable landscape and animals symbolizing our earthly plane of existence. Moving inward are a circle of flames, a circle of vajras, and a circle of lotus petals. These bands circumscribe a quadrangle with gates at the four compass points, suggesting the realm of form without desire. The innermost square is divided into triangular quadrants, and an inner circle is subdivided into nine units containing symbols representing various deities. This is the realm of absolute formlessness and perfect bliss. In the four outside corners are the attributes of the five senses (smell, sight, sound, taste, and touch), reminders of the illusory nature of our perceived reality.

All mandalas represent an invitation to enter the Buddha's awakened mind. Tibetan Buddhists believe there is a seed of enlightenment in each person's mind; this is uncovered by visualizing and contemplating a mandala. The complex symbols and exquisite combination of primary colors are considered a pure expression of the principles of wisdom and compassion that underlie Tantric Buddhist philosophy.

This mandala was created to honor the 1.2 million Tibetans who have lost their lives to political/religious persecution during this century.

The museum thanks the Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota for bringing the Gyoto monks to Minnesota and for their efforts to preserve Tibetan cultural traditions.

Friday, May 18, 2007

What is a Seraph?



The following is a mash-up of information I found on the internet:

A seraph (plural, seraphim) is one of a class of divine creatures or celestial beings. The root word comes either from the Hebrew verb saraph ("to burn") or the Hebrew noun saraph ("a fiery flying serpent"). The term saraph appears several times in the Old Testament, with reference to the serpents encountered in the wilderness. It has often been understood to refer to "fiery serpents." From this it has also often been proposed that the seraphim were serpentine in form and in some sense "fiery" creatures or associated with fire.

Seraphim are described as very tall, generally having the figures of men, with six wings and four heads (one for each of the cardinal directions). One pair of wings are for flying, one for covering their eyes (for even they may not look directly at God), and one for covering their feet.

Seraphim serve and are in the direct presence of God. It is said that whoever lays eyes on a seraph would be instantly incinerated due to their immense brightness. [Do you remember the final scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" in which the Nazis were consumed by fire? They foolishly dared to look at the seraphim protecting the Ark of the Covenant.]

Later Jewish imagery perceived seraphim as having human form, and in that way they passed into the ranks of Christian angels. In the Christian angelic hierarchy, seraphim represent the highest rank of angels.

King James Bible, Isaiah 6: 1-2 "In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly."

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