Welcome all Hummingbirds and Winged Friends to the House!

Mitakuye Oyasin

Visioning the Backyard

Touching the Earth Praktis:  Creative Abundance in 2010!

Friends have come through during the holiday season and was able to share about the backyard, monster weeds, and how the goat family we had since the summer helped us to clear the monster weeds by eatin’ them up as part of their diet!  Now, the goats have found a new home in a 10 acre home up the way and I am making aspirations and intentions to begin defining the backyard space so that the ‘weeds’ will not grow again, at least, not grow and be allowed to fully take over, like they did before, because I did not do anything about it.

It’s interesting to see how, because there was no vision, no idea, no inspiration around the backyard space, it just fell to the weeds so easily.  Now, it has been cleared and I am inviting the energy of creative abundant transformation to help the backyard space breathe and come alive again!   We are trying to use as much of the materials there as possible, to use the “scraps and twigs and branches and rocks” and use the materials available to co-create with dear Mother Earth in the backyard, the little piece of peace that we have the fortune to help take care of.

May new ideas and the energy of friends help to manifest something beautiful and communal in the backyard space!  May a nourishing space be constructed back there if that is for the highest good of the land and all others concerned!  Mitakuye Oyasin!  En La Kech!  Isangmahal!  Namaste!

Thanks to E, F, C, J, OneLoveTrust for your presence…your physical and energetic offerings to the backyard.

A Year of Effortless Creative Abundance

SOME OF MY ASPIRATIONS FOR 2010

• Inviting a year of manifesting creative abundance, effortlessly, harmoniously, gracefully, in its own perfect time, for the highest good of all concerned…
• Soul stage emerge(n)see
• Refuge: sangha
• Daily diligence, focus and concentration
• Trusting the moment, receptivity, trusting my intuition

…and 2010 leading us on the Road to 2012 and beyond!

Beginning draft  and initial opening “verse” in this year of creative abundance:

May I tell you my lil’ story

about Deer Park Monastery

a precious mindfulness laboratory

may I tell you my story

about always being in a hurry

about losing myself to worry

learning about habit energy

about finding the light of clarity

about how the dharma rain falls ever so gently

watering the seeds of my  original self discovery

nurturing cultural root recovery

. . .

May I tell you my lil’ story

about Deer Park Monastery

a precious mindfulness laboratory…

BLUE MOON NEW YEAR!

MAY THESE CLOSING DAYS OF 2009 ALLOW US TIME TO REFLECT ON ALL THE GOODNESS THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED FROM LIFE.

WHETHER NEAR OR AFAR, THANK YOU FOR BEING PART OF MY SANGHA, MY SUPPORT, MY JOY, MY FAMILY, MY COMMUNITY…

HAPPY NU YEAR 2010!
NAMASTE UNIVERSE!

Once a blue moon?  A second full moon in December 2009, on New Year’s Eve of all days!

BLUE MOON NEW YEAR 2009-2010!

POTENT NEW YEAR BLESSINGS & INTENTIONS

2010 Message from Archangel Michael (via Doreen Virtue)

Thank you to all the Angels…

May our upcoming year, 2010
be filled with the kind blessings
clear guidance, support and love of
all our inner and outer guides…
and may we step firmly and act
from clarity, giving birth to our authentic self…

Thank you Dear Friends, for allowing me
to walk up the Mountain with you…

Thank you to all the Angels
who accompany us in this Walk

…especially to OneLoveTrust who blesses me

always with kind messages from the Friendly Universe

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Archangel Michael’s Message for 2010 received by Doreen Virtue

Each December, I ask Archangel Michael for guidance concerning our next year. He usually gives me “themes” to expect in the new year, including suggestions for personal growth intentions and actions. The central theme for 2010 involves you taking personal risks which lead to spiritual growth and increased well-being and happiness as you practice, “To thine own self, be true.”

From Archangel Michael:

2010 continues the steady upward progress that you’ve been feeling in recent years. You may feel tired from the climb and the vast changes of recent years, and while you may feel in need of a rest, there’s still more climbing to be done. There will be time to rest and recuperate soon, we promise.

Your feelings of spiritual progress are grounded in reality, as you are now much more sensitive to the subtle energies which have always surrounded you, and which you can now feel. Your next step will be in managing these energies, so that you can know and trust the benevolence of the universe, instead of feeling victimized by outside circumstances.

The energies swirling around you are part of the realignment and adjustments that always occur during shifts and changes. You experience this phenomenon yourself whenever you make a change in your personal life, such as moving, changing jobs, or a change in relationships. The shifts are similar to the earth plate movements of an earthquake, and although it can feel sudden or even harsh, the movement is simply an adjustment to prior activities and nothing more.

You’ve endured many shifts and adjustments since 1995, and although you’d like to take some time to rest, it’s still an upward journey for you for the next two years. By “upward,” we mean that you’ll feel that you’re climbing and making progress; however, there will be a sense often of being a solo climber who is upon cliffs and overhangs. You will take emotional and intellectual risks, and some may take physical risks. Yet, inside you will always be safe, protected, and guided. To feel that sense of safety will require quieting your mind with meditations. Too much noise from overactivity and sensory overload will disconnect you from feeling the presence of your guardians and protectors. Meditate frequently to feel safer and more peaceful.

In 2010 you will find yourself taking these risks toward the freedom of being totally authentic with others. This means revealing yourself in new, previously undreamed of, ways. You will step forward immensely along your path of spiritual growth by revealing your true thoughts and feelings to yourself first, and then to others secondly. We will of course, help you to bathe your communications with love, so they’re truthful and yet kind. Blurting out angry feelings is not the sort of truth-telling which you will feel good about. You will instead prefer the well-being and closeness that occurs when you share your feelings gently and respectfully with others.

In your professional life, you will also take risks. You have found yourself increasingly discontented with work, and craving meaningful activities instead. Many have had the opportunity to put these desires and intentions into action . . . often out of necessity.

The core universal energies are encoded to love, joy, peace, and happiness. They support any activities immersed in these energies. So ANY project in which you are happily humming along because you absolutely love what you’re doing, will be successful for you. Conversely, any project which is done purely for money (without a love of the activity) will not last, and nor will the money which is gained from the loveless project.  Therefore, immediately cease all activities which are engaged in purely for money. Either leave the situation, or bring some love into the activities. This is a necessity.

Taking risks to reveal your authentic self is part of the total alignment that Earth is experiencing. You are a reflection of the path that Earth has taken, wherein she allowed herself to be abused and used, without protest. She tried to pretend that she was strong and could take the abuse without protest. But now she has reached her limit, and so have you. Taking abuse from others is a lethal form of self-abuse, because ultimately you are allowing it to happen when you don’t tell others about your authentic feelings. Saying, “No!” to all forms of abuse is an essential part of spiritual growth for you and for Earth.

You don’t need to be strong in the sense of stuffing down feelings and pretending everything’s okay, when it isn’t. You need to be strong only in the sense of speaking honestly about your true feelings.  Take the risk to tell others how you feel. Take the risk to realign every part of your life so that it mirrors your true likes, passions, and interests.

As you and Earth align yourselves with your inner truth, so do the swirling energies begin to calm and slow down. Right now, in the center core of the swirling energies, this slower and more peaceful energy already exists. You tap into this inner core energy every time that you are true to yourself. And I will help you with this mission in every way.

mmxii: the mark of metta

been considering

a way to remember the

gateway-entering-moment

to mark my hands

with a design

me            ta

a design to help me remember

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attended a poc vipasssana retreat

a couple of years back at spirit rock

and felt really drawn to the metta loving kindess praktis

i wonder how metta is written in sanskrit?

संस्कृत

http://help.berberber.com/forum100/27898-maitri-sanskrit.html

may this 2012 marking intention meet with favorable conditions for manifestation when the time is ripe!  one hand at a time said trueherstory!

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From Wikipedia

Mettā (Pāli: मेत्ता) or maitrī (Sanskrit) has been translated as “loving-kindness,”^[1][2] “friendliness,”^[3][4][5] “benevolence,”^[2][4] “amity,”^[3] “friendship,”^[4] “good will,”^[4] “kindness,”^[6] “love,”^[3] “sympathy,”^[3] and “active interest in others.”^[3] It is one of the ten pāramitās of the Theravāda school of Buddhism, and the first of the four Brahmavihāras. The mettā bhāvanā (“cultivation of mettā“) is a popular form of meditation in Buddhism.

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(Thank you Auspicious Path for showing me the multiple dimensions of metta & me.)

Taurus Astrology ~ May 2009

Good news for my Taurus self this month:

The new moon in Cancer on June 21 is an interesting one, because it will initiate a period of increased travel for you, a theme that is to pick up speed in coming weeks and months.

(HELLO SOUTH+EAST ASIA!) <–my addition

Check out the astrologies of U at astrologyzone.com by Susan Miller.

Namaste Universe…

Touching Happiness,

Jnaseh

Kundun

Some quotes from the film, KUNDUN, the story of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, his birth, his early years, China’s invasion, and his escape to India.

First, one understands that he causes much of his own suffering needlessly.
Second, he looks for the reasons for this in his own life.
To look is to have confidence in one’s own ability to end the suffering.
Finally, a wish arises to find a path to peace. For all beings desire happiness, all wish to find their purest self.

I rejoice in the awakening of the Buddhas and also in the spiritual levels of their sons. With folded hands, I beseech the Buddhas of All Directions to shine the lamp of Dharma for all bewildered in the gloom of misery.

With folded hands, I beseech all the Buddhas who wish to pass away to please remain, for countless aeons, not to leave the world in darkness.

My foes will become nothing, my friends will become nothing, I too will become nothing. Likewise, all will become nothing.

Just like a dream experienced, whatever things I enjoy will become a memory. Whatever has passed will never be seen again.

I will liberate those not liberated. I will release those, not released. I will relieve those, unrelieved. And set living beings in nirvana.

The Buddhas neither wash ill deeds away with water nor remove beings sufferings with their hands, nor transfer their realizations to others. Beings are released through the teachings of the Truth, the Final Reality.

Thus by the virtue that has collected through all that I have done, may the pain of every living creature be completed cleared away.

I think I am the reflection, like the moon on water. When you see me, when I try to be a good man, you see yourself.

The Fruit of One’s Refuge

I celebrate the ripening of your praktis friend

the inner flowers blossoming

the fragrance of freedom and clarity

the flame of inner awareness

and outer action

loving kindness and skillfulness

circulating deep within

your diamantine, indestructible, eternal self

in breath and out breath…

soul self determination realizations and activations

in…

out…

refuge and praktis

love and fearlessness

transformation and offering

three jewels

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Showing the way fearlessly and compassionately, the stream of all our Ancestral Teachers, to whom we bow in gratitude.

Santi,

Jnaseh

Emerge(N)See ~ Commencement Begins Everyday!

“If you bring forth what is within you”, Jesus says in the Gospel of Thomas, “what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is in you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”

I first encountered this quote from Susan Moon and the Manzanita Village writer’s retreat announcement. This year, I’ve been inspired by the idea of EMERGE(N)SEE, a flip-word-play on emergency (so negative our connotation) but also that embedded within this term – language – vibration is the idea of EMERGENCE! YES YES YES to that!

All this to say that I am feeling an urge to more fully explore that which is within me — lest I suppress and allow its under expression to destroy me — as the quote implies.

Really though, simply allowing myself the freedom, self-love and compassion to EMERGE within myself and SEE. SEE it for myself. EMERGE(N)SEE. Let it be revealed. Let it be known.

When I was asked earlier this week by the Tian Gong teacher if I was Buddhist, I was not EMERGIN’ clearly and confidently, fearlessly at that point. My throat chakra was hesitant. And why? Why, I ask myself…

FEAR?

JUST NOT USE TO IT?

PRAKTIS!

PRAKTIS EMERGE(N)SEE!

Praktising emerging, birthing, entering and seeing myself in that new reality, emerged, birthed, entered.

I found the quote above from a different source today:

http://tertiary-education.blogspot.com/

Subheading for this blog:

commencement begins every day

Steppin’

Breathin’

Arrivin’

Comin’ Home

Commencement begins everyday

I graduate every moment

and receive Life fully

in the fullness of myself

I ascend to the depths and heights

and expanses of each moment

capable, spacious, ready, open, receiving, praktising, knowing, being who I am, emerging, offering, contributing

I step, breathe, receive and enter

gratitude fills my being

I enter into the conversation

a conversation with the Universe

a conversation with my Soul

entering the gateway into my True Self

entering into an agreement

a commitment

entering to be present

entering in my entirety

fullness being

completeness

embracing myself

and all that has Emerged for me to See

I AM the I AM

I Achieve Mastery

over my own delusions and fears

all my small living and misperceptions

over my own false habits

Commencement Begins Today!

Commencement Begins Everyday!

REJOICE!