Patience
How do you practice patience?
For many of us, life isn't the stillness found in a monastery, the low chanting of monks melding with the soft twitter of birds in the Zen garden.
For many of us, life isn't the stillness found in a monastery, the low chanting of monks melding with the soft twitter of birds in the Zen garden.
No, for most of us, with work, family, kids, etc., our everyday surroundings are something more like this:
How do you practice Patience?
Sound
"Sound is God.”
in George Harrison: "Living in the Material World," 1971
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| Jack Bradley and depicts the exact moment this boy, Harold Whittles, heard for the very first time ever. The doctor treating him had just placed an earpiece in his left ear |
CUE YOUR SONG:
Alanis Morrisette - "What If God Was One Of Us?"(XTC Cover) - mp3 download
Joy
How do we cultivate the conditions for joy to expand?
We train in staying in the present.
- Pema Chodron
Cue your song:
Yolanda Be Cool - A Baru In New York ft. Gurrumul (Flume Soundtrack Version) - CLICK here to listen
Medicine
There is no I; there is only truth.
The way to the truth is through the heart.
Cue your song:
Daughter - 'Medicine' (Click here to listen)
The way to the truth is through the heart.
Cue your song:
Daughter - 'Medicine' (Click here to listen)
1957
Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them,
the more you will establish good in yourself.
-Paramahansa Yogananda
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Cue Your Song -
Milo Greene - "1957" (CLICK HERE to listen)
Crystalised
More food for thought on the subject of Scorched Earth from the "The Journey Within" (Will "Story" Rivera)* -
"Just because someone is not immediately in our lives ...,
does not mean we cannot keep them in our hearts,
does not mean we cannot spiritually send them love, healing,
and lots of well wishes....
Nothing serves our higher selves better than being a compassionate
thoughtful soul, the kind of person who always has room for unconditional acceptance...."
Cue your song -
Gorillaz - Crystalised (JThunder Mix) - click here* see more on Rivera's great sites via links below:
"Live, Believe, Inspire" and "The Journey Within" FB page HERE
Scorched Earth II
Thank you, followers of karmadogg for all the amazing replies
to the question posed in our post: Scorched Earth (click here to view).
The consensus is:
to the question posed in our post: Scorched Earth (click here to view).
The consensus is:
"Experience is not what happens to you.
It’s what you do with what happens to you.”
-Aldous Huxley
Cue your song:
Aaron Smith - Dancin (Remix by KRONO) - click here
Aaron Smith - Dancin (Remix by KRONO) - click here
She Changes the Weather
The smallest movement, with a sincere heart,
can change everything.
~Manorama
Cue your song -
Swim Deep - "She Changes the Weather" (click here)
Silk
Great video from the recent show at NYC Metropolitan Museum of Art:*
Your song today:
Silk Route Lullaby (artist unknown)- mp3 download
*if video and song not visible on your mobile device; please open karmadogg.net on a PC.*
Your song today:
Silk Route Lullaby (artist unknown)- mp3 download
*if video and song not visible on your mobile device; please open karmadogg.net on a PC.*
Buddhism along the Silk Road
5th - 8th Century
June 2 2012 - February 10, 2013
Drawing together objects from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the western reaches of Central Asia—regions connected in the sixth century A.D. through trade, military conquest, and the diffusion of Buddhism—the exhibition illuminates a remarkable moment of artistic exchange. At the roots of this transnational connection is the empire established the end of the fifth century by the Huns (Hunas or Hephthalites) that extended from Afghanistan to the northern plains of India. Although this political system soon disintegrated into chaos, over the next century trade routes connecting India to the western reaches of the Central Asian Silk Road continued to link these distant communities, facilitating ideological exchange and financing the production of Buddhist imagery of great artistic sophistication.
By the fifth century, Buddhism had been thriving in Gandhara and the Swat Valley (northern Pakistan) for six hundred years, financed by the extensive trade that flowed through the Khyber and Karakorum passes. Trade with the Mediterranean began with an overland route established by Alexander the Great in the fourth century B.C. By 50 B.C. maritime routes allowed merchants to sail down the Red Sea and to take advantage of monsoon winds to cross the Arabian Sea and reach ports along the west coast of India. Trade goods were transported along the Indus River up to Gandhara and then to China via routes passing through Afghanistan or over high Himalayan passes and then through Central Asia.
Between 450 and 520 this trade pattern was disrupted by an invasion of nomadic people from the Central Asian Steppes. They swept through Afghanistan, Gandhara, the Swat Valley, and Kashmir, eventually reaching the plains of north India. The invaders probably comprised several Hun groups known by various names—notably the Hephthalites in Gandhara and the Hunas in India. They ruled briefly in Gandhara and Kashmir and fought battles in north India that destabilized the Gupta Empire. Of great significance, these invasions brought north India in contact with Kashmir, Gandhara, and, ultimately, Afghanistan. As a consequence, the Gupta artistic style of north India pervaded the Buddhist art of Kashmir and the Swat Valley, reaching as far as Afghanistan.
These invasions also appear to have forced Gandharan monks into Afghanistan and western Central Asia, and a corresponding taste for Gandharan classical forms became important at Buddhist centers in these areas. In Central Asia, prosperous Buddhist complexes were established at oases and urban centers that served as way stations for traders crossing the vast deserts. This exhibition focuses on the western regions of Central Asia in the Tarim basin—sites such as Kizil, Turfan, and Khotan—where contact with Afghanistan and, by extension, Gandhara and ultimately north India is evident. The sites around Khotan are especially interesting, as they sit at the mouth of a pass that crossed the high Himalayas to reach Gandhara and the Swat Valley.
The trade systems extending down into India and overland as far as Iran and Iraq affected the lives of nomadic peoples living in the vast expanse of Central Asia. Elite goods such as textiles provide a glimpse into the nature of this trade, and prestige items such as gold ornaments give us a sense of the tastes of these prosperous nomadic communities. These nomads are often overlooked, as they did not build cities or temples, but they were both wealthy and militarily powerful and played an important role in the artistic development of the Central Asian community.
reference:Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sweet Darkness
When yr eyes are tired
the world is tired also.
When yr vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.
Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes to recognize its own.
There you can be sure you are not
beyond love.
You must learn one thing:
the world was made to be free in.
Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness
and the sweet confinment of yr aloneness
to learn anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive is too small for you.
~David Whyte
from House of Belonging
Moby - "In This World"
play song above from computer or click HERE to listen on mobile device
spelling errors intentional to avoid marketing attachments to text
the world is tired also.
When yr vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.
Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes to recognize its own.
There you can be sure you are not
beyond love.
You must learn one thing:
the world was made to be free in.
Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness
and the sweet confinment of yr aloneness
to learn anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive is too small for you.
~David Whyte
from House of Belonging
Moby - "In This World"
play song above from computer or click HERE to listen on mobile device
spelling errors intentional to avoid marketing attachments to text
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| “Transfiguration”Sócrates Magno Torres |
In Memoriam: 12/14/12
Sandy Hook Elementary
Newtown, Connecticut USA
There is a sacredness in tears.
They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.
They are messengers of overwhelming grief
...and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving
Orthodox - "Chants of the Russian North"
Happy Birthday
The rare moment is not the moment when
there is something worth looking at,
but the moment when we are capable of seeing.
there is something worth looking at,
but the moment when we are capable of seeing.
~Joseph Wood Krutch
Cyrus Chestnut and Friendz - "Linus and Lucy"
Martial Art of the Soul
Wise words. Facing off with your ego can be like playing a fast game of pingpong with nunchuks.
And for an idea of what that looks like - watch martial arts legend Bruce Lee in action (click here).
Goloka - "Sleepless in Warsaw" - mp3 download
View this page on computer to play/download song above
Or preview song on mobile devices by clicking *HERE*
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Silence Must Be Heard
"You are a Master of the words you don't say,
and a slave to the ones you do." -unknown
Enigma - "Silence Must Be Heard"
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