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A GATEWAY TO SHAMBHALA PART II

We extend our sympathies far beyond the constraints of our time and place and individuality. Out of solitude and love, the deep bond of our sheer humanness brings us worlds.

NEPAL

Nepal, the fragile beauty of this moment, celebration and mourning dance of what is and what is not, and what is yet to be.

A SONG FROM GUHYAGARBHA TANTRA

The voice is the voice of the awakened state and by singing it you grow closer to being what you fundamentally are. Herein lies a tremendous inspiration and blessing. This is the religion for our times, which transcends cultural limitations.

A GATEWAY TO SHAMBHALA PART I

The vision of Shambhala is not a vision of something seen, but rather a way of seeing and perceiving and acting in the context of the phenomenal world. The Kingdom of Shambhala is an innate and spontaneous longing to realize the freedom of the awakened state within the context of our existing social life.

TAKING PICTURES WITHOUT JUDGEMENT

In this way, photography is part of my spiritual practice, not spiritual in a special way, but in a very ordinary way, just simply being with whatever is. My teacher speaks about meditation not as meditating on something but being with. I find this to be an incredibly helpful instruction.

BUDDING IN BETWEEN

It’s spring here in France, and flower trees have started to bloom. Spring blossoms, a perennial source of metaphor, conjure up associations with new growth. According to a well-received tradition, they might also present a parable for transmission of spiritual realization.

A DISTORTION IN TRANSMISSION – PART TWO

This was fate, for several past lives ago, the Reverend Lo had, out of sheer curiosity, played hooky from his relentless line of virtuous incarnations and had ended up as the Little Ha-to be’s long ago German husband.

MUSIC, MYSTICISM AND HEALING ARE INTERVOVEN

Music, especially the indigenous types, contain a certain element of mysticism, in that music can be used to experience unity with the divine or a higher power. Being a practitioner of Hindustani classical music for many years, I have experienced the healing properties of this music.

THE UNFATHOMABLE EVERYDAY

This makes me appreciate and want to emulate all the more those old brush and ink painters and poets of China, to strip the artistic act down to the most basic elements and to focus on the approach, the attention and, yes, the openness and vastness of life.

A VISIONARY IN PERFORMING ARTS

Introducing Manjari Chaturvedi a visionary classic indian dancer, blending the mysticism of Sufism with the classicism of Kathak to evolve a new kind of dance, Sufi Kathak or as she calls it: The Dance of the Soul.

A DISTORTION IN TRANSMISSION – PART ONE

Douglas J. Penick’s mini-novel begins with: Little Ha was, of course, herself the incarnation of an innumerable succession of beings. She had lived as a number of low ranking deities, the most distinguished of which was a river goddess near Nanjing whose shrine was ground to powder by the Red guards.

PURASATI’S SONG OF REALIZATION

Purasati the Courtesan, in order to realize that all phenomena exist within the profound continuum of the bhaga of the Mother, had a strong yearning to know the essential nature. She requested the meaning of the realized state from Bhashita the Rishi who then bestowed it in full and condensed the meaning for her.

JOHN MC LAUGHLIN & 4TH DIMENSION

Introducing the legendary artist and spiritual artisan John McLaughlin. He is a brilliant guitar guru and plays in beautiful harmony a fusion of jazz and Indian music.

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SONG OF CHOKGYUR LINGPA – WHEN IN NATURAL KNOWING

The Buddhist master Chokgyur Lingpa from 19th century Tibet wrote very few personal scriptures. Mostly his writings were revealed to him in a particular style of divine inspiration known as terma treasure. Tantric poetry by the visionary mystic Chokgyur Lingpa. “When in Natural Knowing”, in English translation with music.

SONG OF FLAWLESS AMBROSIA

One of Vimalamitra’s specialties was alchemy, so it is apt that this excerpt of his beautiful and profound song covers the view of transforming the five poisons, using the alchemy of self-existing awareness.

THE ABORIGINAL ART OF AUSTRALIA

Dreamtime pictures is like a testimony of knowledge in handicraft, with a fascinating array of colors called dot painting. This is aboriginal art from Australia, a unique art form with a mark of storytelling.