Daily Words of the Buddha for October 31, 2023

Ye dhammā hetuppabhavā,
tesaṃ hetuṃ Tathāgato āha
tesañca yo nirodho;
evaṃvādī Mahāsamaṇo.

Those phenomena arising from a cause,
of these the Enlightened One has told the cause
and also their cessation;
this is the “doctrine” of the Great Recluse.

Vinaya 3.60
The Discourse Summaries by S.N. Goenka

Science and Medicine | Gene Therapy Reverses Vision Loss In Primates

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Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Life Biosciences, a Boston-based biotech company, have announced the development of a ​​gene therapy that reversed vision loss in primate models of NAION — by making their eye cells “young” again.⁠

 

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Solving Molecular Mysteries:  How Quantum Light “Hears” Quantum Sound

Scientists from the University of East Anglia have proposed a new way of using quantum light to ‘see’ quantum sound. A recent study recently published in the journal Physical Review Letters reveals the quantum-mechanical interplay between vibrations and particles of light, known as photons, in mo

Source: Solving Molecular Mysteries: How Quantum Light “Hears” Quantum Sound

Science and Philosophy | Quantum Breakthrough: Scientists Rethink the Nature of Reality

Whenever measurement precision nears the uncertainty limit set by quantum mechanics, the results become dependent on the interaction dynamics between the measuring device and the system. This finding may explain why quantum experiments often produce conflicting results and may contradict basic assum [… ]

Source: Quantum Breakthrough: Scientists Rethink the Nature of Reality

Daily Words of the Buddha for October 28, 2023

Yato yato sammasati
khandhānaṃ udayabbayaṃ,
labhatī pītipāmojjaṃ,
amataṃ taṃ vijānataṃ.

Whenever and wherever one encounters
the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure,
one enjoys bliss and delight,
[which lead on to] the deathless stage experienced by the wise.

Dhammapada 25.37
The Discourse Summaries by S.N. Goenka

Daily Words of the Buddha for October 25, 2023

Idha tappati, pecca tappati,
pāpakārī ubhayattha tappati.
“Pāpaṃ me katan”ti tappati,
bhiyyo tappati, duggatiṃ gato.

Idha nandati, pecca nandati,
katapuñño ubhayattha nandati.
“Puññaṃ me katan”ti nandati,
bhiyyo nandati, suggatiṃ gato.

Agony now, agony hereafter,
the wrong-doer suffers agony in both worlds.
Agonized now by the knowledge that one has done wrong,
one suffers more agony, gone to a state of woe.
Rejoicing now, rejoicing hereafter,
the doer of wholesome actions rejoices in both worlds.
Rejoicing now in the knowledge that one has acted rightly,
one rejoices more, gone to a state of bliss.

Dhammapada 1.17, 1.18
The Discourse Summaries by S.N. Goenka

Astrology | Scorpio Sun arrives; Void Moon time arrives and it is long, so complete projects which may be long overdue for being done – stay grounded; A Sun Saturn connection allows for a life review and course correction, if need be

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The Lost Library of Moscow: Uncovering Mystical Knowledge from Russia’s Golden Age — Ultra Unlimited

Explore the lost library of moscow, the mystical ancient repository of occult wisdom amassed by the occultist Tsar Ivan the Terrible. This library was said to contain the ancient world’s largest collection of esoteric wisdom and lore from the eastern and western world making its loss a great tragedy

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Daily Words of the Buddha for October 22, 2023

Tumhehi kiccamātappaṃ;
Akkhātāro Tathāgatā.
Paṭipannā pamokkhanti
jhāyino mārabandhanā.

You have to do your own work;
Enlightened Ones will only show the way.
Those who practise meditation
will free themselves from the chains of death.

Dhammapada 20.276
The Discourse Summaries by S.N. Goenka

About the Human Heart … 

A human heart, showing the fractal arteries and veins that supply blood to the heart muscles.

The heart is much more than just a muscle that pumps blood and its intelligence continues to fascinate us.

Below is some information about the heart that you may not know:

• Did you know that the heart has the ability to generate the largest electromagnetic fields in the body, and that these fields change according to emotions, or that the human heart has a magnetic field that can be measured up to several meters away from the human body?

• Did you know that when we are in a positive/harmonic emotional state, the heart is able to generate a beautifully organized and highly coherent toroidal field that not only affects our own physiology, but also affects others around us?

• Did you know that positive emotions create physiological benefits in your body and that you can stimulate the immune system by evoking positive emotions?

• Did you know that negative emotions can create chaos in the nervous system and that positive emotions do quite the opposite?

• Did you know that the heart has a neuron system with short and long term memory and that the signals sent to the brain can affect our emotional experiences?

• Did you know that in fetal development, the heart forms and begins to beat before the brain develops?

• Did you know that the mother’s brain waves can be synchronized with the baby’s heartbeat?

• Did you know that the heart sends more information to the brain than the other way around?

• Did you know that the heart’s electric field is about 60 times greater in amplitude than brain waves and that the heart’s magnetic field is about 100 times stronger than that produced by the brain?

→ Comment here to let us know: which of these information you didn’t know yet? You can find all of these facts, published research articles and more on the HeartMath Institute website.

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Helen Demetriou | Lifting the Veil of the Sacred Feminine

The ego for many will be the obstacle that blinds them from the truth and blocks them from seeing and believing in the Goddess who has always dwelled within. The holy Sophia, the Shekinah, the Shakti, the Holy Spirit is what we have been trained not to see and so we must observe with clarity and without ego in order to see her. When we discover her existence inside of us, we shall also resurrect the Christ consciousness into our reality.
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HOW SINGING AFFECTS OUR HEALTH

* Singing informs the body the “right” vibrations that increase our vitality;
* During singing, special chemicals are produced in the human brain that help us feel peace and joy;
* Singing improves blood circulation in the throat area, which has a beneficial effect on the vocal cords, plums and numerous lymph nodes in the throat and therefore significantly increases local immunity (in other words, we less often get colds);
* Improving the blood supply while singing leads to an increase in brain activity: it begins to work more intensively, memory improves, any information is easier to perceive;
* Singing is very beneficial for lung diseases, as it works as a breathing gymnastics, which promotes chest development, proper breathing, and significantly reduces the number of acute lung conditions;
* With regular singing, the levels of immunoglobulin and hydrocortizone, which are signs of good immunity, increase in the body;
* Methods have been developed that treat hiccups through singing and help improve diction;
*Singing is even used in the fight against obesity: sometimes it is available to overweight people when they feel hungry instead of eating, sing two or three songs.
Attention, girls! Singing improves blood supply to the head area and generally rejuvenates the body, skin condition improves.
This is why experts recommend singing at least 5 minutes a day, equating singing to physical exercise.

Helen Demetriou | Venus, the Mother of Jerusalem, The Light Bringer

“According to Eusebius, Hadrian built a temple dedicated to the Roman goddess Venus to bury the cave in which Jesus had been buried. The Orthodox Church celebrates the Dedication of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on September 26 (Gregorian), the same date as the ancient Roman festival of Venus.”
Melchizedek was the king of Shalem also known as Shalim. Shalim is a god in the Canaanite religion pantheon, mentioned in inscriptions found in Ugarit (Ras Shamra) in Syria. William F. Albright identified Shalim as the god of dusk, and Shahar as Goddess and sometimes known as god of the dawn. Shalim is also identified as the deity representing Venus or the “Evening Star”, and Shahar, the “Morning Star”.His name derives from the triconsonantal Semitic root S-L-M. Many scholars believe that the name of Shalim is preserved in the name of the city Jerusalem and both Shalim and Shahar were the patrons of Shalim.
This tells us that Melchizedek was the high priest of the most high God Shalim which is Venus yet when we look further back we see that Shalim and Shahar were indeed deities of Venus because they had been birthed from Venus herself whom we know to be Inanna, Ishtar, Aphrodite, Astarte, Asherah, Mary Magdalene, Mother Mary etc So in truth, Jerusalem is the city of Venus.
We call the planet Venus the morning star when it appears in the east at sunrise, and the evening star when it appears in the west at sunset, although the ancients called it Hesperus in the evening and Phosphorus, or Lucifer, in the morning. Because of the distances of the respective orbits of Venus and the Earth from the Sun, Venus is never visible more than three hours before sunrise nor three hours after sunset, and it may also surprise you that Venus can be seen in broad daylight, provided you know where, and when, to look after reference to an almanac.
-Masonic Library
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, asking, “Where is the One who has been born King of the Jews? We saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.”
-Matthew 2:2
The study of Phoenician gods revealed three goddesses to be different aspects of the planet Venus. A similar trilogy exists in the Norse pantheon, but with different names. It is believed that the Phoenicians, or Canaanites carried their beliefs with them when working on the Temple for Solomon and may have affected its ultimate design.
It is said that the first known name for the city of Jerusalem was Urushalim, “Uru’ founded by “Shalem”, the name of the Canaanite god of Venus in its evening setting, but Solomon’s Temple was facing in the opposite direction, towards Venus rising in its role as morning star. We can be certain that King Solomon’s Temple was built by Canaanites who were known to worship Venus, also we can understand that Solomon had no tradition of his own to give him the knowledge of how to build a temple that was properly constructed to interface with the heavens. However it is perplexing that these Venus worshipping Phoenicians were allowed to build the house of God.
Biblical scholars have noted from passages such as I Kings 11.5 that Venus was worshipped by Solomon in her special form as the deity of the Phoenicians and he fell out of favour with God. The official worship of Venus as Astarte, the Queen of Heaven continued in the Kingdom of Judah until circa 600 BCE.
Moses created Princes of the Tabernacle and the initiations took place when the Pentagram, or blazing star was to be seen in the east. A blazing star that is referred to as a Pentagram can only be a reference to Venus which had long been associated with the pentagram because of the planet’s apparent movement around the sun when observed from Earth. It is suggested that when the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple in year 70 of the Christian Era, a number of the Princes of the Tabernacle managed to escape to locations across Europe. It was from these families that the men came, who went on to found the Knights Templar.
-Masonic Library
Venus is represented by the pentagram, hexagram, heptagram and octagram. For a time, a pentagram was the official seal of the city of Jerusalem and it was also the symbol of the Pythagoreans.
In later times, it was used by medieval Christians to symbolize the five wounds of Christ, and figured in the heavily symbolic Arthurian romances. In medieval times, the pentagram represented the proportions of the human body.
In alchemical texts, the four elements (in Latin)- flatus, ignus, aqua, terra, superseded by light, or divine energy- illustrated the process of creation, and the biblical motto Fiat Lux, or, “let there be light.” Venus and the pentagram is the symbol of the Light Bringer, the Morning Star who is also known as Lucifer in Latin and Phosphorus in Greek.
This Venus, this Morning Star, is the same star the Jesus called himself and it is through Venus that all of the elements of Jerusalem, David and Melchizedek are connected. The star that rose out of the House of Jacob is both David and Jesus and that star is Venus and that scepter was passed on as the divine seed from the bloodlines of Jacob, through to David, through to Joseph and then to Jesus himself.
In many icons you will see Mother Mary associated with the star which symbolizes Venus. The church fathers were well aware that Mary manifested from her previous known names of Venus which grew out from ancient mesopotamia. Venus has always been the Queen of Heaven, Earth and the underworld and she has always been known as the mother of the sun, who is the dying and resurrected fertility god which is again, another connection with the original name of Bethlehem.
She is Venus herself who produces the messenger of light who comes to Earth to bring the Christ Logos which is the divine Word. As the Mother of the Mysteries, it is through her son that the world becomes enlightened should they choose to follow his Way which leads straight back to her, which is the soul.

Daily Words of the Buddha for October 16, 2023

Abhittharetha kalyāṇe;
pāpā cittaṃ nivāraye.
Dandhañhi karoto puññaṃ,
pāpasmiṃ ramatī mano.

Hasten to do good;
restrain your mind from evil.
One who is slow in doing good,
that one’s mind delights in evil.

Dhammapada 9.116
The Dhammapada: The Buddha’s Path of Wisdom, translated from Pāli by Acharya Buddharakkhita

Astrology | We’re still off center due to the quincunx aspects – be sure you gather yourself; Void Moon is long, which urges us to ground to allow the flow to move through us; Another quincunx on the 18th – pay attention these days!

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Astrology | Libra season eclipses are here; Mercury and Chiron offer clarification on healing processes; Moon Void time bridges the days; the Sun and Uranus pull us off center – breathe

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Daily Words of the Buddha for October 11, 2023

Udakañhi nayanti nettikā;
usukārā namayanti tejanaṃ;
dāruṃ namayanti tacchakā;
attānaṃ damayanti paṇḍitā.

Irrigators regulate the rivers;
fletchers straighten the arrow shaft;
carpenters shape the wood;
the wise control themselves.

Dhammapada 6.80
The Dhammapada: The Buddha’s Path of Wisdom, translated from Pāli by Acharya Buddharakkhita

Drunvalo Melchizedek | THE TEACHER NUMBERS

A long time ago, the angels taught me that seeing a triple number in Reality has a meaning related to what you are thinking or your environment. It has to do with music and the fact that all notes of an octave are separated from each other by intervals of eleven cycles per second. Therefore, the intervals between the notes are 11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, 77, 88 and 99 cycles per second, or multiple of those numbers, which presents us a harmonic tuning or moment in time, given that all Reality was created through the harmonics of music.

Therefore, when triple or repeated numbers appear more than once in any way, they physically represent a mathematical moment in time that contains the harmonicas of that number value. In human words, 444 could be described as the Mystery School, there where one learns about Reality. Alice Bailey was the first person to write about this meaning of numbers. Briefly, here are the meanings of triple numbers.

111= Energy Flow: any energetic flow, such as electricity, money, water, sexual energy, etc..

222 = New Cycle: the beginning of a new cycle whose nature depends on the next triple number you see.

333 = Decision: You must make a decision, which will lead you to 666, which means you must repeat it in some other way, or 999, which means culmination and you have learned the lesson.

444 = The Mystery School: What is happening in life is a lesson to learn about Reality. In this school it’s about learning, reading books or studying a subject, and not doing.

555 = Unity Consciousness: It is the number of someone who has achieved Unity Consciousness. He’s mastered every level of Mystery School. It’s the highest number. It is the number of Christ.

666 = Earth Consciousness: In the Bible it’s the number of the Beast, so it can represent pure evil, but it’s also the number of humanity and life. Carbon is its base, and this element has six protons, six neutrons, and six electrons. When we see this number, it usually means that we must be alert to the physical events that present themselves at that time, and that we must be careful.

777 = Mystery School: This is the part of school where you’re not just reading books about life, but putting them into practice.

888 = Culmination of a specific lesson in Mystery School.

999 = Culmination of a specific cycle of events.

000 = Lack of Value.

Excerpt from Book: Serpent of Light, Beyond 2012.

The 10/10 Portal is Open Again … 4 Reasons Why You Are Seeing 10:10 – The Meaning of 1010

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When you keep seeing the time 10:10 or 1010, the meaning of 1010 is to align yourself with the Divine energy of the Creator, so you can receive inspiration as the seed of your creation. When you are open to receiving Divine energy, the seeds of good ideas will keep coming. So, the significance of 1010 is to stay focused on the things that your soul desires to experience in this lifetime. Whatever you decide to do, persevere and strive for excellence. Make sure you have a commitment to do it well.  Be a hill if you cannot be a mountain.  If you cannot be an ocean, be a lake. Nevertheless, be your very best because size does not determine your success. To learn more, here is WILLOW SOUL’s list of the spiritual meanings of 1010 and the reasons why you keep seeing angel number 1010 everywhere.  […]

Source: 4 Reasons Why You Are Seeing 10:10 – The Meaning of 1010

Autumn Comfort Foods | Bibimbap (Korean Rice With Mixed Vegetables)

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This bibimbap recipe makes a popular and delicious Korean meal. Meaning mixed rice, bibimbap is a delicious rice bowl topped with vegetables, beef, a whole egg, and gochujang (red chili pepper paste). Traditionally, bibimbap was eaten on the eve of the Lunar New Year, to use up any leftovers before the start of the new year.

Recipe: Bibimbap

The Three Principles of Wabi-Sabi: Embracing Imperfection and Transience – 9creation

9creation 3D visualization specialist If you’ve ever found beauty in the worn, weathered, or rustic, you might be drawn to the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi. This worldview celebrates the The Three Principles of Wabi-Sabi: Embracing Imperfection and Transience […]

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Na Wahine Koa ‘Ikaika | The Woman Warrior

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Artist: Martina Hoffman

Here is a truth you often don’t hear:

Traumatized women have the potential to become the most powerful people in this world.
The most ignorant members of society call this type of woman “damaged.” But she is the most powerful type of woman there is.
What they forget is that survivors have the most dangerous advantage of all: resilience.
When you try and you try but you can never bring a woman down, you’ll know there is no going back.
Don’t fool yourself. You could never defeat her. You never will.
This is the woman who will always rise from the dead; Lady Lazarus, after going through hell and back.
This is the woman who has burned her feet in the flames time and time again and always lives to tell another tale – even if she has to crawl back to life. . . .
When someone tells her, “You can’t do it,” she says, “Watch me.”
She is fiery light birthed out of wintery darkness. Brought into the underworld by Hades, Persephone brings forth spring and rebirth when she reemerges finally from the cold.
She owns her shadows and seamlessly weaves them into the fabric of her freedom, creativity, imagination and independence. . . .
She lived all of her nightmares in high definition. She was given every reason to give up, handed every justification to never believe in herself or anyone.
But, there is raw magic in the ways in which she cultivates a faith in herself, to manifest the dreams her soul was meant to bring forth.
Despite it all, she still conquers.
She still survives and thrives.
The “damaged” woman is capable of immense manifestation not just in spite of, but because of the traumas she has gone through.
There is no one more motivated than a woman who has constantly been told what she cannot do or who she cannot be throughout her lifetime.
There is no one more determined to succeed than someone who has nothing left to lose.
The “damaged” woman doesn’t sign up for the hardships of her journey – but she plays the hell out of the cards she’s been dealt.
The “damaged” woman is not damaged at all – she is wounded, and in channeling and healing her wounds, she becomes the source of incredible energy, the site of unbelievable potential for abundance and change.
She possesses the power to use her wounds for the greater good and her highest good.
She builds her own success and becomes her own rugged hero; tends to her own scraped knees.
She uses every stone thrown at her to build the foundation for her empire.
Brick by brick she builds – and despite every attempt to tear her walls down, she rescues herself again and again.
Despite it all, this type of survivor may still face hatred, envy, greed from those around her. . . .
As a result, she becomes the survivor of countless witch hunts, the target of many persecutors. Yet when they try to burn her at the stake, she does what comes naturally: she resurrects herself. . . .
Now when she creates, she creates new worlds and transforms and manifests on a level that cannot be recreated by someone who never had to struggle to survive.
When you hear the voice of a powerful survivor and the will of a warrior – there is nothing you can do but to stop and listen.
She is the voice of a million lifetimes lived.
She is the voice of the hopeless and the powerless when the fire is brought back to their eyes. She is the harbinger of the justice that the voiceless have longed to hear and feel and touch.
Regardless of how much you try and how it may seem, you can never truly bring a survivor like this to her knees; she already knows the value her scars bring.
She knows how to fill the cracks between her wounds with gold.
She knows how to transform each bitter word cast upon her into an iron-clad will that will set her and other caged birds free.
You can’t ever defeat a “damaged” woman, because she knows exactly how to save herself.
~ Shahida Arabi, excerpts from SHE IS POWERFUL