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Milarepa & The Heart Sutra

2010-07-12T07:12:20.421Z

Milarepa (Tibetan: Rje-btsun Mi-la-ras-pa. c1052—c1135 CE)
is one of Tibet's most famous yogis and poets, a student of Marpa Lotsawa, and a major figure in the history of the Kagyu (Bka'-brgyud) school of Tibetan Buddhism. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagyu )

The essence of Milarepa lies in his writings rather than the legends that have grown up around him.
These writings, often referred to as the Songs of Milarepa, are canonical Mahayana Buddhist texts and in particular emphasize the temporary nature of the physical body and the need for non-attachment.
In contrast, the legends of Milarepa's life are full of references to magic and lack the same sense of devout non-attachment.

At the age of forty-five, he started to practice at Drakar Taso (White Rock Horse Tooth) cave - 'Milarepa's Cave', as well as becoming a wandering teacher.
Here, he subsisted on 'nettle tea', leading his skin to turn green,
hence the greenish color he is often depicted as having in paintings and sculpture.

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The Heart Sutra (Sanskrit: प्रज्ञापारमिताहृदय Prajñāpāramitā Hṛdaya; thought to have been composed in the 1st century CE ) is a well-known Mahāyāna Buddhist sutra that is very popular among Tibetan Mahayana Buddhists both for its brevity and depth of meaning.

The Heart Sutra is a member of the Perfection of Wisdom (Prajñāpāramitā) class of Mahāyāna Buddhist literature, and along with the Diamond Sutra, is perhaps the most prominent representative of the genre.

Briefly, the sutra describes the experience of liberation of the bodhisattva of compassion, Avalokiteśvara, as a result of insight gained while engaged in deep meditation to awaken the faculty of prajña (wisdom).
( http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/heartsutra.html )

The insight refers to the fundamental emptiness of all phenomena, the five aggregates of human existence (skandhas) -- form (rūpa), feeling (vedanā), volitions (samskārā), perceptions (saṁjñā), and consciousness (vijñāna).
("...in emptiness there is no form, no sensation, ... no attainment and no non-attainment")

Heart Sutra Om Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Soha
Pronunciation: ɡəteː ɡəteː paːɾəɡəteː paːɾəsəŋɡəte boːdʱɪ sʋaːɦaː
Translation; "gone gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond, O what an awakening(enlightenment), hail!"

StoneHenge 2010 (Virtually)

2010-06-26T22:28:12.188Z

Exploring StoneHenge 2010, 'Virtually'.
Stonehenge in Wiltshire, UK, which was erected in stone sometime around 2300 B.C. has an entranceway built so that the stones are aligned with the first rays of light from the Solstice Sunrise and is a popular gathering point for modern Druids, Pagans and others on Midsummer's Morning.

Fairies, Elves and Other spirits are also thought to be abroad on this Solstice, especially in the evening, as celebarted in Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" which presents Oberon and Titania as the fairie King & Queen.
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsum...'s_Dream )

The Celebration of Summer Solstice at Stonehenge is a particularly popular among Contemporary Pagans, Druids and others who believe the Summer Solstice carries deep mystical and religious significance as the Wedding of The Sun & The Earth, and has been a center of dramatic controversy in the recent past.
Whilst celebrations were thought to be held there as long as 10,000 years ago, from 1972 until 1985, the Solstice celebrations at Stonehenge had become free festivals "rife with drugs, alcohol, and celebrants climbing and defacing the stones"...

Archaeologists and Conservationists who regard Stonehenge & similar sites as treasures to be protected and preserved, along with English Heritage, the Government entity responsible for the site, therefore banned all Solstice celebrations at the site in 1985 after the inflammatory confrontation between Pagan/New Age 'celebrants' and Police that came to be known as
the 'Battle of Beanfield'(the place where it occurred).

This 15-year ban was lifted in 2000 and English Heritage who manage access and parking etc for the occassion, estimate that over 20,000 celebrants regularly attended the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge.

Said Arthur Pendragon, a Druid leader...
"We see Stonehenge more as a temple than as a monument... as a living landscape, to be used to celebrate the seasons and quarter days [solstices and equinoxes]. Druids want to use sacred sites as they were originally intended."
( http://celestialelfdanceoflife.blogsp... )

Grateful Thanks to Heritage Key VX for use of their 3D Historical scenarios via their time traveling portal / browser based flash viewer,
( http://heritage-key.com/blogs/jon-him... )

Royalty Free Music via Kevin MacLeod of incompetech.com;
Licensed under Creative Commons;
( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... )
1. Shamanistic.

Sioux chant: Courtesy of the Global Chant circle, Tucson, Arizona.
"Let me be one with the infinite sun, forever and ever and ever.''
( http://www.actonwisdom.com/global-chant/ )

Additional music clips & sound effects c/o Freesound
( http://www.freesound.org/ )

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

2010-06-13T17:12:37.129Z

The Jabberwocky

2010-06-06T18:27:52.894Z

The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll.
Originally featured as a part of his novel Through the Looking-Glass, & What Alice Found There (1872)

The Jabberwocky (Poem);
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
He chortled in his joy.

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
by Lewis Carroll.

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky )

The Druids Dream (in HD).

2010-06-06T18:25:10.411Z

The Druids Dream, caught at Crackle Mountain in Chakryn Forest overnight, the Druid dreams of Elves in a far away land, dancing through the night.....