“How to Discover Your Magic”The 9D Arcturian Council, through Daniel Scranton
We have been watching and waiting for just the right opportunity to deliver to you the following transmission, and we know that now is the perfect time because of how well you are all handling the solstice energies. We want so much for you to acknowledge who you really are that we encourage all of you to make proclamations to this universe about your intentions moving forward in this lifetime, and we want you to expect to see something almost immediately in response to that proclamation.
It is time that you all demonstrated to yourselves once and for all that you, without a doubt, are this universe.
You are not in the universe; the universe is an extension of who and what you are. And therefore, you don’t have to wait for the universe to tell you what to do or to decide when the timing is right for something.
It is time for you to start speaking and acting as if the universe were an extension of you, as if it were a projection of your consciousness outward.
You are the totality of this universe, and more, and that means you don’t just have a say in what happens in your reality and in what you create.
You are having the experience of yourself as everything around you.Everything and everyone is a part of you and wants you to feel that connection, wants you to know the truth of who they are and what they are to you. But you need this to be more than just a platitude, a refrigerator magnet, or a bumper sticker.
You need to start owning that you are the universe and the universe is you.
Start by making statements and taking actions that reflect to you these truths we speak of. Everything is magic. Everything is responding to your every thought, your every word and your every action, because everything is a projection of it.And we are using the word ‘everything’ as a synonym for the word ‘universe.’
We know that you have had moments of understanding this, and perhaps even putting it to the test in your lives, but you have never been where you are right now in your spiritual development, and therefore, you have never been this universe, exactly as it is until this very moment, where you are hearing what you need to hear in order to be more of who and what you really are.
You can be a universe of peace, of trust, of love and of connection, or you can be a universe of fear, resentment, mistrust, and hate.
You can be a universe that integrates or a universe that continues to explore the idea of separation. And again, the choice is yours. We know that if you have stumbled upon this transmission, you are going to choose the loving, peaceful universe that is filled with joy, that is all inclusive, and that wants to explore itself even more as you continue your expansion, your evolution, and your ascension. Go forth and be who you really are in word, thought and action. Be in alignment in all three and discover just how magical you really are.
I saw this and found it inspiring, thought provoking and beautiful.
What is my beautiful self and where is it? Where can I find this?
What is beauty to me? Where is my self? How does my soul look like? What does it want? What does it want in this life? And where is my beautiful self?
“Simply be your own beautiful soul self.
To live life authentically, is the greatest gift you can give yourself.
To be who and what you in truth are – at Soul Level!
To stand fully in your own light – and not in anyone’s shadow.
To live your own truth – and stand unshakably in that truth and wield the Sword of Truth if need be.
To unconditionally love yourself, into the deepest shadow and the highest light, as much as you unconditionally love everyone else.
I was just sharing yesterday, how, all my life I have spent searching for Truth, for the Highest Truth. The Highest Truth, will indeed bring AHA! Moments of deep soul recognition, and indeed moments of deep Knowing! It always brings greater clarity and inner peace and equilibrium. Such Truths can never be taken from you, and indeed, so can the truth of your own soul, also never be taken from you.
Indeed, when I was seven years old, my teacher (who was also my Great-aunt), first introduced us to the Pyramids and indeed the old version of slaves forced built them. I was astounded and indeed told her: “That is untruth! They were not built by slaves, but indeed built in a completely different way!” My teacher was outraged, and indeed phoned my mom, who gave me a severe lecture about never questioning your teachers.
Yet, I never stopped questioning, and indeed, that has stood me in great stead, for when I ended up as Librarian to have access immensely powerful information, my quest deepened. Indeed, I would often ask a question, and then the books would fall off the shelves and land at my feet. I would randomly open the book, and the answers would jump out at me! Indeed, other librarians often commented on how I would read books which no one else ever were interested in – and again, the greatest gold nuggets are so often hidden from sight, exactly because they do not wish people to gain access to such knowledge and truths.
At one stage I worked with the banned books which the Apartheid Regime Publications Board, banned for some or other reason. I always read the books, for I wanted to know why they were banned! Indeed, the minute the books got banned, they had a knack of disappearing off the shelves, as others always wanted to know why they were banned, or they became instant bestsellers – often on the black market!
Since I was born, I always felt like an alien on earth, and for many years wondered what was so drastically wrong me: – until I finally realized there was nothing wrong me, but so much RIGHT with me. I started to embrace all of me, and living authentically, always aspiring to live my soul purpose and calling with unconditional love.
Indeed, the greatest gift of all is to be authentically YOU, and to live your soul calling and purpose with great love.
When you know who you are, you cannot be any other than the truth of who and what you are in truth!
This does not mean that you need to deny your own shadow side, or your light side for that matter, but to realize that BOTH serve you equally, and indeed that they balance each other out. The highest inner equilibrium comes, when we indeed reach balance point and then become as ONE with the Divinity within us, as we BECOME AS ONE with the Divine Source within.
All paths lead within.
The Kingdom of Heaven is within yourself.
And indeed your Soul knows this at the deepest levels.
It is a matter of not allowing anyone, or anything to dim your inner light, and indeed sway you from your living your highest truth and authentically.
The greatest gift you can bring into the world, is YOU. Authentic You. The SOUL you, and indeed live your Soul truth with loving intent.
A medium once said, my love for you might perhaps cause your downfall—- or words to this effect.
Sometimes I see it, but, what really is love in the right measure?
How much is too much?
And how can love be too much?
Don’t we all want to be loved —every so badly?
As I m typing these thoughts down, we are going to move yet again. Last October, we moved out of our flat of 12 years, out of Redhill to Marine Crescent, living just beside grandpa and ah mei ayi. Qinzhi and Huaihao walked in and out straight into grandpa’s and ah yi’s house. Each time I needed eggs, or a pot, Qinzhi would help me race through the door into grandpa’s house. Sometimes we ran out of bread and Qinzhi or Huaihao would have to go next door to ask from Ah Yi. Saturdays after her runs, she would always ask you two if you wanted breakfast, once she waited for 35minutes for breakfast of rice flour rolls for you and Hao.
Though this is a smaller flat and we all had to squeeze into 1 small room, which was where Mommy and Ah yi slept in before I got married—–i told you and Hao little tidbits of my younger days.
In what used to be my room, we had to sleep on a mattress on the floor. And even if we did not have the luxury of space and 2 toilets like we used to, we did not even have TV in the last 9 months, but we had a lot of fun (and our fair share of heated arguments) here
Though this is a smaller flat and we all had to squeeze into 1 small room, we had to sleep on a mattress on the floor. We did not have the luxury of space and 2 toilets like we used to, we did not even have TV in the last 9 months, but we had a lot of fun (and our fair share of heated arguments) here
Every night when grandpa is about to sleep, he would come and hug you and say Huaihao darling/bao bei, gong gon g is going to bed. You picked up lots of chinese here, did raindrop for grandpa when he strained his shoulder, and watched tv with grandpa asking him lots of qns
Every weekend, we ordered in and had lots of food.
Sometimes we had deliveries from hotels and chefs to ah yi, like this gigantic dumpling during the Dumpling Festival, to durians and ice creams that Mommy bought to share with everyone. Its the joy of sharing which made food even better, i hope you felt that too
Most of all, I cooked. Simple organic stuff but brilliant and pure. On father’s day, genyan jiujiu bought wanton noodles, ah hui ayi cooked glutinous rice and bought ang ku kueh, she even made barley drink
All in all, i hope you had fun living in this smaller space but you made so much fun out of it. I hope that in time when you grow up and look back, you will remember this space you lived in, that is my room before mommy got married.
This school holidays, you and qinzhi stayed home most of the time because of SG’s heightened alert phase. You hand squeeze orange slices and took to enjoying orange, which grandpa would share with you after dinner. He would keep 2 slices for you. You would help me “cook” dinner and although you planned for the holidays, in the end, you did not really follow.
And this is one wonderful weekend for the kids, when they stayed over at ah mei ayi’s house. ah yi treated them to a movie night and popcorn! The next morning, her signature eggs on toast huaihao has been raving about!
I saw the movie “The Wisdom of Trauma” and in it Gabor Mate mentioned a child’s need to attach physically
He also mentioned famous writers prescribing letting the babies cry themselves to sleep or adults withdrawing and letting children be on their own until they know they have made a mistake
I thought of when HuaiHao was younger and I too read online on sleep training and how children can be trained to sleep themselves by crying themselves to sleep
A few days after watching the movie, I lie down with HuaiHao on the bed on told him how I read online on sleep training and letting him cry to sleep
The first two days he cried for about 40 minutes then he slept
The third day he went beyond 50 minutes and I decided I cannot do this anymore
And as HuaiHao listened he teared up them choked on his emotions
I apologized to him
I sat up and bowed down to apologize to him
At that moment i recognized that HuaiHao and I are equals
Our souls are as old as time even if he is only an 8 year old
And I asked for his forgiveness
I asked him why he cried
And he told me he felt really sad
I asked if images of himself at the playpen crying zoomed past
And he nodded his head
I tried to make up for my wrongdoing by explaining to him the circumstances then—- that although qinzhi was my first born
Huaihao was the first time I took care of a baby alone and he was wanting to nurse every hour at night
I explained to him that this silly mommy of his googled online as if he would if he wanted to find out something
And then I tried
To which he said, “ but you do not try out on a life “
I asked him if I was foolish and he said no because I decided to stop
And as i explained to HuaiHao , I understood why HuaiHao is still sleeping with me now
And what made qinzhi feel unfair
It was because of this incident I decided I would let HuaiHao sleep with me until he felt confident enough to be on his own
And we were locked into this certain past together —— until just now when we spoke and freed it , and us——-altogether
As much as it hurt, as we went back to that past, we felt something lifted from us
The night before , I was feeling upset and teared at bedtime
Huaihao caressed my face at bedtime and asked why my face is wet
He switched the light on and saw me teary
Obviously affected, he asked me why do I cry
And he was moved and became teary
At that moment I felt something beautiful
And that was the bond we had built up
He could feel my heart
And always, when any of us left home for work, Huaihao would run to the back room’s window to wave and shout goodbye to us. I always saw him do that to daddy, ah mei ayi, I asked him why? and huaihao said, its to let that person have a good day and he is thinking of him/her
I understood what he said but didn’t know how it felt
this time, I felt it myself.
when i heard him, i just felt my heart ‘s urge to search for him and I was using my hp to try and record this down. he makes my heart feel so full and so warm, so loved.
He then called me after finishing his math, and wished me “good day”.
I thought he had a hidden agenda and wanted to play with the computer, i asked him if it were so and he said no, he just wanted to wish me good day
and I felt really bad for second guessing him.
Life and work has taught me to deviate from from simple beautiful moments.
And because of this Huaihao did, I feel like I want to do my best every single minute I step out for work duties and I want to come back to him and share with him all the happy not so happy and unhappy everything that has gone by in the time he was not with me. We will discuss my day his day and what we could have done better. Because of him and Qinzhi. I get a chance to be better.
And talk to him I did—of the happy and unhappy things that I experienced, and we had so many wonderful conversations . Every night at bedtime, Huaihao would wait up for me and we have too many beautiful conversations.
Yesterday, after sleeping at ah Mei ah yi’s for a few nights he came back to sleep with me and hugged and caressed me face as he always did.
and he heaved a relief, “ah this feels so much better!”
and we began speaking.
Asked him what Mommy’s hug feels like and he says, its like the sky, white and blue and there’s protection.
Then, like the sun and grass.
I asked him about leaving work behind at one of the projects which I am working on now and he asked me why? To which I said, because I am not aligned with the management styles of the company.
He says, “but everyone is different, has different feelings”
I took the chance to tell him about what is unique or special and that means you are the only one, “So what do you think is unique in you?or in me?”
He says, “I m huaihao, one and only and you are pinyen”
I spoke to him about whether i should leave the project behind and he says, “follow yourself”
“But i get a few thousand dollars out of this each month, so i should follow my heart and ignore the money? “
“you cant earn money if you are not happy!”
“follow your heart, you are pinyen so follow pinyen’s heart!”
This is hao at our new house, making shields out of cardboards.Now that he is going to get a room, he is still sticky and says, “mom, you must comfort me and make me sleep before you leave the bedroom and go over to yours”
How oddly—would that feel like? He’s always with me, in my tummy, and outside since he was a baby till now.
At this time, Huaihao is enjoying reading lots, and asking lots of questions on how many types of sharks do I know or how heavy is the megladon (?)
This month, Huaihao has been making lots of craft, from daggers to guns and boomerangs. But I still love his drawings lots
That day, he made a father’s day card. And secretly hid the card next to his sleeping dad, checking in so every often to see if his dad had seen it. And after a few rounds of checking, squealed in delight and excitement :”he has seen it he has seen it”
It means too much to him to be acknowledged by his dad.
and when i went to the bedroom, i saw this wonderful surprise.
Qinzhi is a young lady already, taller than me now.
The holidays saw us at home mostly this time due to the Heightened Alert phase the authorities are imposing trying to keep us safe.
So stay at home we did.
To spice things up, we ordered in on weekends, according to what the kids like, burgers, pizza, tze char, satay!
And in my time typing these thoughts down, we are going to move yet again. Last October, we moved out of our flat of 12 years, out of Redhill to Marine Crescent, living just beside grandpa and ah mei ayi
Qinzhi and Huaihao walked in and out straight into grandpa’s and ah yi’s house. Each time I needed eggs, or a pot, Qinzhi would help me race through the door into grandpa’s house. Sometimes we ran out of bread and Qinzhi or Huaihao would have to go next door to ask from Ah Yi. Saturdays after her runs, she would always ask you two if you wanted breakfast, once she waited for 35minutes for breakfast of rice flour rolls for you and Hao.
Though this is a smaller flat and we all had to squeeze into 1 small room, which was where Mommy and Ah yi slept in before I got married—–i told you and Hao little tidbits of my younger days.
In what used to be my room, we had to sleep on a mattress on the floor. And even if we did not have the luxury of space and 2 toilets like we used to, we did not even have TV in the last 9 months, but we had a lot of fun (and our fair share of heated arguments) here
Every night when grandpa is about to sleep, he would come and say to you and Huaihao, gong gong is going to bed. You picked up lots of chinese here, and you picked up manners here, learning to say, grandpa, eat before you started eating, you enjoyed watching tv and chinese dramas grandpa asking him lots of qns
Every weekend, we ordered in and had lots of food.
Sometimes, we had great deliveries from chefs, like this giant dumpling that descended.
But most of all, mommy cooked.
And I tried to get Qinzhi and Huaihao to help too
The beautiful thing is that the durian season is upon us again, these wonderful biodynamic durians from Baosheng Durian Plantation in Penang! So we did durian flights!
But we still found it so hard to motivate Qinzhi to study. Qinzhi is easily angry and explodes. With wifi and computer, Qinzhi is happy, but without it, Qinzhi is not motivated to study or manage time. I guess its a deeper down thing of not knowing what she wants yet in life.
I have been nagging Qinzhi, but it doesn’t work.
We gave Qinzhi what she wanted, 4 hours of computer time each day, at the time she wants, and we just ask for a proper management of time, but still it does not work and she goes beyond and still gets angry.
Why does one not get motivated to wake up? I find myself asking?
I began to find quotes to motivate her and shared with her.
I sent her what John said
“You have the power to shift the reality She’s alright, different pple have different way when handling stress She sometimes will go into this but this is part of growing up and learning to manage finding out what is your strengths, reinforce it and downplay weaknesses: Minimise silly mistake, Play up your strength its about knowing more abt yourself
eg some pple cannot get too tired
Drink rose water Calm down n manage stress She’s much more developed n can mentally handle difficult situations Breathe slowly
DOME every night for 15min— 3min on 3 min off, Dome at 50% vapour Blend Vetiver 2 ml Valor 5ml Rose 1ml Ylang ylang 2ml
Raindrop every alternate nite Use dome blend + Northern Light Black Spruce + Joy + White Angelica
Fun in maths To pass psle well, ten years series Find out answer first then practise 3 times
Feeling others’ emotions: The way to handle: Focus on yourself Practice practice practice focussing on yourself: How I feel abt myself is most important You will only be happy when u live like that Do things that make u happy
QinZhi : Shower joy or WA or NLBS valor Psle: nxr , if too tired: nxr nitro after food not empty stomach”
One weekend, Qinzhi and Huaihao went to ah mei ayi’s house for a staycay
ah yi spoilt them with popcorn and cartoons and the breakfast next morning is eggs on toast, quite a signature of ah yi’s style.
One night we all had a talk and daddy say, “Qinzhi, do you know how beautiful you were when you were young? Go and look at the pictures!”
And then he got emotional.
I looked back at the photo I always had on my desktop
KHANDRO LA did a talk on this topic: The Method to Cultivate Mental Happiness and I took notes on the way. I hope it offers some light to you just as these words did to me.
Countless bodhisattvas have come to teach and some are amongst you
All beings want to be free from suffering
Having good heart and good mind, good action are all good for all, regardless of religion
Mind- subj so vast
what is suffering?
process that doesn’t require to be religious
wish to be happy and free from sufferings naturally abides in everyone
view
behaviour that arises from view
if view is perfect, behaviour is positive
correct view that motivates behaviour
what is correct view?
correct view= correctly understanding nature and entity of reality
wise person who wants to be happy and free from suffering= spends time understanding nature of phenomena
emptiness
we need to lock in this view: in relation to mind
the nature of mind
the mind is distorted or afflicted by delusions attachment anger etc
we grasp onto phenomena as if they were existing in themselves
all these working of mind, is called afflicted wisdom= distorted reality = sufferings to ourselves
Enquire the profound view of emptiness
Distinguish
phenomena is empty of intrinsic existence ?
when we speak about any phenomena
it arises by way of dependence
by nature it is emptiness
at level of conventionality , all phenomena arise because they are dependently related
this is not a concept of religion
this is nature itself!
based on honest ultimate mind and not due to perception of sensory
all phenomena is impermanent
completely unreliable and deceiving , this is what destroys ourselves and all other sentient beings
what is a reliable reality: mid of enlightened and bodhicitta
completely understanding of emptiness
we rely on these undeceiving reality and a stable virtuous mind
correct view—> correct behaviour
whether in family, society, world : we use afflicted wisdom which brings the exact opposite of what we want—>deluded view, brings about more sufferings
if we adopt correct view of phenomena which are that they do not intrinsically exist, and that all beings want to be free of suffering, this brings opposite
the basis of correct view is in us, but we don’t use it, its not even smthg we can buy
peace comes from correct view and behaviour
one needs to educated mind on this subject then we will get real happiness and real blossoming of peace and happiness
qns ourselves
how does reality exist?
is liberation from suffering achievable?
liberation and suffering has to do with the mind, not smtg outside
affliction and liberation has to do with the mind
this is the most precious thing of all
the nature of the mind-which has the potential to achieve enlightenment and bring about universal compassion and correct bahevior of non violence
if u develop qualities of mind based on wisdom of dependent origination= based on reasoning, love, compassion
recognising positive and negative states of mind
sustaining and supporting with right understanding
do not necessarily need religion for a peaceful mind
how to educate children?
supporting the development of children in framework of honest sincere open far sighted etc
bottomline:how parents show and teach children is impt
deeper connection to each other and to understand nature of reality
-so evident now is interconnection of us all in the world and so important
-more honesty more beneficial for us all int he world
-if we have a system of education and future of world depends on us and our interdependence
-not by making prayer and devotional activities but we need education
what is the benefit of having ordained nuns
monks and nuns learn and practice the preservation of teachings of realisation
renunciation
we have the same potential to develop the same qualities as monks and nuns
How to develop authentic faith in one’s mind?
the importance and need of faith, we want to be happy and don’t want to suffer
what is faith?
based on understanding that suffering has causes and can be eliminated
Extremely powerful, beautiful and insightful, powered by Gabor Maté ‘s deep inquiry into his life and soulful voice no less.T
These are some quotes I picked up from the movie. Too much wisdom !
Working with trauma can reveal the beauty of our existence – we have lost sight of
Our job is to learn from our suffering
There’s Wisdom in trauma
Traumatic response is our imprint and not ourselves
We can work them through and become ourselves
Trauma is what happens inside you as a result of what happens outside you
Trauma is a disconnection
Because it’s too painful to be ourselves
It becomes a lifelong dynamic when pple don’t know what to do with emotions
When you feel you withdraw
You don’t follow gut feeling
Create situations of risk for ourselves
Affect mid frontal cortex of brain
⁃ affect how we deal with emotions pple
When pain is there as a child, they don’t know who to share with as a child
They disconnect
Children don’t get traumatized when they are hurt
Children get traumatized because They are alone when they are hurt
They are overwhelmed
Babies need fathers and mothers brain to regulate their brains
They need to be held
When baby isn’t being held he is not attached to
They can be attached only physically
They need to be held
Child is desperate for a relationship
For trauma to happen you just need parents who let child cry
Fear of being abandoned
When you do stuff for other pple what are you doing to yourself
(Abandoning me)
You absorb their pain and manifest it
And your family can’t stand you can’t stand seeing it
Child have 2 fundamental needs
-attachment
-authenticity : connection to ourselves to gut feelings
A survival necessity
What happens when you have to suppress gut and authenticity?
Normal Society doesn’t allow anger
Child disconnects fr anger
Helping child love thru anger to modulate anger and confront anger and not to suppress it
Anger does not have to be destructive
Brutal to push down the rage to judge
The depression was a major success not a failure
⁃ not wanting to get out of bed
Having Pain showed you deeper into yourself how you were abandoning yourself
Addiction
⁃ A behavior pple find relief in Eg eating shopping gaming work etc
⁃ Why the pain
⁃ Choice or inherited : When pple r suffering they want to escape that’s normal
⁃ Huge emptiness inside and Use addiction to complete themselves and cover up using substances
⁃ A response to trauma
⁃ To heal addiction heal the trauma
⁃ Under traumatized persona There’s a healthy individual who has never find expression and relationships where authentic humanic could be expressed
Are we conscious and making decision based on full awareness or driven by unconscious dynamics developed as a response to childhood trauma
Then we are not free
It’s not what’s wrong with us but what happened to us
Rae Mate
It’s got to b my job to heal Hitomi bring out that light
I believe that the Purpose of Marriage is to go back to to original trauma which comes fr the family
I married a man who is so much like my father
I have to be me
I have to be authentic
My nervous system is so wired that if I m not authentic to myself I can’t sleep I m anxious
Gabor mate
My scientific address has to do with my trauma
I woke up fairly late in life
The message I got as a child was that the world didn’t want me so what do you do
You make yourself be needed you go to medical school
That was an addiction
Asthma
⁃ suppressed rage so that lungs are
⁃ steroid
Inflamed joint
⁃ steroid
Inflamed intestine
⁃ steroid
⁃ Stress hormones: cortisol
Illness is when part of organism works against what is designed by nature to protect you
Treatment is always to burn it destroy it
But what if we say, it’s here now: what is the teaching? What does it say of my life my relationships and especially how I treat myself?
Psychedelic
Get the conditioned mind out of the way
And look at exactly, deep into yourself
Cancer
Suppress anger
Not having to disappoint others
Check in with your body when you express yourself and do things that deprive yourself of energy
Feels good to feel
This boy just wants to be loved and accepted unconditionally
And he figures out how to be loved and accepted
If u don’t allow your fear to be there
You gonna be always working to get rid of it and you gonna keep working
Or you could say
Ok the fear is there I let it be there
There’s a shift
Compassion and enquirer
Truth is inside us we just have to ask the right qns
Shame of negative emotions and that you cannot be weak
We don’t respond to what happens
We respond to our perception of what happened
It’s with our minds we create world
And we always choose the worst ones
Brain jumps to automatically
It goes back to childhood -First time we are hurt
Trauma – we don’t respond to the present
We respond to the past
So who’s the one who doesn’t care and respect ourselves ? It’s me
Thats the beauty of healing
the learning when we reframe things n see source within ourselves that’s liberating
If u r feeling this way or that because someone did smtg then u r a victim
But if you see the source
You r the source now you r powerful
Under traumatized persona There’s a healthy individual who has never find expression in his life
If he sees that he is trauma informed
It is not about healing trauma or getting rid of what happened but helping the person expand so there’s space
When we are compassion with ourselves it changes ourselves our community and society
Everybody as a true genuine authentic self can never be destroyed
Spiritual work for us both
Healing and still healing in a relationship
Inspiring how he’s changed
We got older
We got freeier and better and better
Dynamic emergent process of confrontation with truth
Trauma involves lifelong pushing down a tremendous expenditure of energy to not feel pain
As we heal that same energy is liberated for life for being in the present
Energy of trauma can be transformed into energy of life
I find these words from the makers of this film so beautiful:
May this little wave that stirred so many ripples through our shared ocean of awareness give us strength to continue on this journey of learning, investigating, and healing trauma in our bodies, in our social structures and in our tender world. May we continue healing, lest we pass it on to the next generations and to mother Earth.
With this film, we hope to make a small step towards creating a more supportive culture where our challenges don’t need to live in the dark, where vulnerability is seen as healthy and encouraged, where physical and mental health are treated equally, because they are one.
We hold the vision of a world that breaks free of the cycles of trauma and becomes more open and inclusive. It all starts with us, truly. It starts when we allow our wounds to teach us about listening, self-love and compassion and to remind us of the preciousness of life. Then truth opens our hearts and our innate wisdom begins to shine through our wounds.
Healing happens in connection, it happens in community.
At my toughest, most helpless, I called out to Khadro-La
And I always always found something
The echo that came back today was magic
Tara organised a zoom, and seeing her, experiencing her was magic
She just had a way of opening me up, softening me up from the inside and breaking me down—in a good way.
Captured here some important things she brought up
1)emptiness and subtle understanding of dependent arising are 2 key themes
nature of mind as being clear and light
WHAT IS KEEPING US LOCKED IN SAMSARA ?
those that arise on AFFLICTIONS
WHEN WE UNDERSTAND SUBTLE DEPENDENT ARISING, WE CAN BE CLEAR OF WHAT IS GOING ON
WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND EMPTINESS AND DEPENDENT ARISING, YOU SEE BUDDHA NATURE
SEEING AS EMPTY DOESNT MEAN THEY DONT EXIST
2) FAITH OF CONVICTION TO PRACTISE
NO SENTIENT BEING WISHES FOR SUFFERINGS
We don’t want sufferings and others don’t want in the same way, we can develop this for all sentient beings
With view of emptiness as support, compassion can be broad and not one sided,
HAPPINESS IS DEPENDENT ON THE MIND-NOT HOW MUCH MATERIAL POSSESSIONS WE HAVE
3)CORRECT VIEW OF EMPTINESS, THEN OUR COMPASSION IS ONE SIDED, THEN OUR MIND BECOMES TRUTHFUL AND EXPANSIVE AND ACTIONS BECOME UNCONFUSED AND TRUTHFUL
4)TARA MANTRA
-nature of tara mantra, is the congregation of all bodhisattvas and their wisdom and knowledge and ability to benefit others
-representation and manifestation of all buddhas
-union of emptiness and compassion:
-have motivation and strong faith when reciting
-need faith not just reciting mantra
-strong faith, then blessing is powerful; no faith, no blessing at all
-make your mind vast
-unconfused mind, unmistaken, happiness will arise
-confused mind, suffering will arise
-nature of dependent arising
problems are constantly arising, pandemic situation, smtg that proves cause and effect of karma
as a world and collective community, focussing externally and neglected our home, get rid of dissatisfaction and complaining mind,
if we want to create a world that is hospitable, we want to create a host of hospitable conditions or causes or plant the seeds that fulfill these conditions
there are many methods we can rely on to create happiness, use our intelligence to save ourselves
faith in tara should be a faith based in understanding
minds becomes vast, extensive, broad
this is the true meaning of protection and refuge
keep minds happy gentle and calm
SEEING KHADRO LA is healing in itself
She inspires with her very being and presence. How can I be like her?
Just mere presence and it softens one up and opens one up. I think this is a goal I can mindfully work towards.
So inspiring
The very miracle of being
Below, the prayer for Khadro-La, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
SUPPLICATION OF LONG LIFE ENTREATING THE HOLY MIND OF KHADRO BUMKYE TSOMO, CALLED DIVINE MELODIOUS DRUM
The enlightened activity of the victorious mother for the sake of taking care Of all of inferior fortune born at the end of the greatly degenerate time, Taking an ordinary aspect, endowed with the deeds of the conquerors, Venerable Tara, we request you to have a long life
And pray that (your) wishes are spontaneously attained.
Your fame pervades the three worlds. Liberated from the sufferings of bad migrations, attained to enlightenment, Bestowing the dharmakaya of great bliss to supreme Mila Acting as companion and knowledge woman, Trashi Tsheringma A long and stable life, spontaneous achievement of wishes: We make this request. Please bless us: We all make this request from our heart.
The channels, constituents and bodhicitta Are blessed by countless dakinis. Innate great bliss of subtle completion stage is induced And one is established in the supreme state of the dharmakaya. Khadro Bumkye Tsomo, abide long! We pray that (your) wishes are spontaneously attained.
We and all migrators since beginningless times
Have followed the bewilderment of true grasping, coming under the power of others.
By apprehending all mistaken appearances as true
We are oppressed until now by the ocean of sufferings.
Supreme wisdom seeing everything as empty,
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Namsel Drönme, abide in a long life! We pray so that (your) wishes are spontaneously attained.
All the destitute migrators, bound by karma and afflictions: Although it is difficult to subdue them all, you generate greatly The mind of patience and compassion, Jetsün Dagmema. Lama Marpa’s secret consort, holy and supreme,
Abide in a long life! May wishes be spontaneously attained! Thus we pray respectfully from our hearts.
The Indian great pandit, kind to Tibet, The Lotus Born: You blessed him! Bringing to exhaustion the 84,000 afflictions This holy Dharma is like the rays of the sun. Great kindness pervading all the world, Acting as a companion of great bliss: Supreme Yeshe Tshogyäl! Abide in a long life! May wishes be spontaneously attained!
We make this request. Please bless us!
DEDICATION (OF THE MERITS OF HAVING COMPOSED THIS PRAYER)
Having supported me with kindness since beginningless times For all migrators, destitute and oppressed by suffering May venerable Tara act as spiritual master, May they soon come to touch the ground of the four bodies. Followed in Tibetan by a colophon as yet untranslated.
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