Author: Hālau ʻĀha Hūi Lanakila

Aloha Ke 'Ākua! Māhālo nūi lōa for visiting Nā Hālau ʻĀha Hūi Lanakila! We established our Sanctuary for the exploration and awakening of consciousness, the unfolding of our collective creative and healing potential and realisation of our essential Unity. Our teachings arise out of direct experience of awakened awareness and emanates the untamable fragrance of freedom whilst radically embracing the mystery and mess of human existence. Our invitation is for you to open to the fullness of life, to say YES to the totality of your experience and to meet reality with radical compassion. Our doors are an open invitation to all who seek authentic freedom and are willing to meet heart to heart in honest and open inquiry. We were taught that the goal of life is to move through life walking up the mountain of experiences with your Aloha, your Bowl of Light. Life is filled with lessons to learn and teaching moments along the way. When you become angry or jealous, you drop those stones into your bowl of light and those rocks cause leaks in your Mana-sacred power. When your bowl becomes filled with stones, you become a stone that cannot grow. No Aloha! The solution is that at any moment, you can turn your bowl upside down emptying these stones out of your bowl to naturally refill it with YOUR golden light -- your natural Aware and Awakened state of Aloha, your natural state of Divinity. This is the power of Pure Aloha: an Awakened Heart Awakens the Mind. Awakening hinges on your genuine desire for the discovery of your true nature. If it is to flower in you, you must truly want liberation from everything that is false in you, you must want to give yourself totally to the inquiry into what is true beyond all inherited concepts, ideas and beliefs. The purpose of our teachings is to ignite this wanting in you. When the flame of this desire becomes an untamable fire, it flips a switch inside of you and the direction of your destiny is irrevocably altered. It’s like turning on the light only to discover that you are this light. This in itself is extra-ordinary: even though you may have heard the words a thousand times, nothing can prepare you for the naked reality that is revealed. And yet the living experience of this revelation is very ordinary: you have simply re-discovered the innocent wholeness of your essential nature. It’s the you that never was and never will be separate from anything at all. This discovery is the end of suffering and the beginning of freedom. But awakening is just the beginning. The adventure begins, not in the rarified atmosphere of transcendence, but in the midst of the chaos of life. And living the truth of awakening has perhaps never been more of an imperative than in today’s rapidly changing world. The invitation is for you to awaken to the pristine perfection of your inner light and then to fully embody and express this light amidst the mystery and mess of human existence. Come join us!

Reflection for November 18, 2015: pure Beatitude.

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FRATER BIA's avatarPrayers and Reflections

The reason why peace of soul is the “most elementary trace”of this holy slumber, induced by prayer, is that “prayer places us in the presence of God, Who is pure Beatitude.” To pray is to give oneself to God; and since God is pure Beatitude, prayer itself is already something of this Beatitude, whether the person praying is conscious of it or not. The awareness of what prayer is, and of what God is, imparts to the very act of prayer the capacity to bestow peace on the soul. Once this peace is “tasted,”and the sense of the sacred is awoken, with the heart rendered receptive to the presence of God—then does metaphysical doctrine begin to take root in our being, conviction deepens into certitude, the “obscure merit of faith” begins to give way to the ineffable verities of gnosis.

FRITHJOF SCHUON AND PRAYER
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Neptune’s Influence On The Rise

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Neptune

Tomorrow Neptune turns direct at 11:31 AM EST.  Neptune is the planet of illusions, dreams, escapism, and psychic energy.  When it goes retrograde, it gives us an opportunity to connect with our inner voice.  The vibe is dreamy + fluid in Pisces – you may have felt that way the last few months.  As it turns direct, it’s time to get out of our navel-gazing mode and do a reality check.  Any illusions that you may have been holding on to may evaporate, leaving you with greater clarity. In fact, if you’ve felt a bit foggy on any issue, you might just see the way forward emerging over the next few days.
On the 26th, pay close attention: Neptune will begin making a square to transiting Saturn and so begins a challenging aspect that will float around in the cosmos for the next year.  Got a dream? This is where the rubber meets the road. If you want to see results, you must do the work for Saturn gives nothing away without serious effort. Disappointments are possible, especially if you are being unrealistic about the effort needed.  Examine your goals carefully and be prepared to get to work, for real.
This aspect can also trigger addiction issues BUT it can help face the music and do a major turnaround.  If you or someone you know is engaging in addictive behavior (not just drugs, alcohol or codependent relationships but addictive mindsets such as fear of failure), this aspect could bring the reality check needed to begin working through the issue.  This is the right time to come clean.
Take responsibility for your work, your intuition, and your habits and you may find that your dreams can come true…with a little more effort.

Just For Today

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WEAVER

When choosing a doctor, be sure to find one that not only listens to your concerns, but also seems to genuinely cares about your welfare.

 

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The term ‘bedside manner’ has long been used to describe a doctor’s ability to connect and empathize with a patient. According to recent studies, the importance of good bedside manners is becoming more and more critical, as patients whose doctors listen and demonstrate an understanding of their concerns not only are more satisfied with their treatment, but also enjoy better health.

 

Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another.

– Alfred Adler

Paris terror attacks timeline: What happened where and when on night of terror and confusion in French capital – Mirror Online

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The series of co-ordinated attacks began shortly after 9pm with gunfire a restaurant in the Bastille area of the city

Source: Paris terror attacks timeline: What happened where and when on night of terror and confusion in French capital – Mirror Online

Alan Watts – Don’t Worry, Don’t Panic! None of This Really Matters Much

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Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British-born philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master’s degree in theology. Watts became an Episcopal priest in 1945, then left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.

Watts gained a large following in the San Francisco Bay Area while working as a volunteer programmer at KPFA, a Pacifica Radio station in Berkeley. Watts wrote more than 25 books and articles on subjects important to Eastern and Western religion, introducing the then-burgeoning youth culture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), Watts proposed that Buddhism could be thought of as a form of psychotherapy and not a religion. He also explored human consciousness, in the essay “The New Alchemy” (1958), and in the book The Joyous Cosmology (1962).

Towards the end of his life, he divided his time between a houseboat in Sausalito and a cabin on Mount Tamalpais. His legacy has been kept alive by his son, Mark Watts, and many of his recorded talks and lectures are available on the Internet. According to the critic Erik Davis, his “writings and recorded talks still shimmer with a profound and galvanizing lucidity.”

astroinsight’s podcast:  Forecast for Nov. 16 – 22, 2015

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Show of hands: Who got chomped on last week? Now comes clarity. And gotta-have-it desires pressuring for change with a force that could create diamonds. After which the philosopher-fool struts in. and tosses off wisdom disguised as joking.Forecast for the week of November 16 – 22, 2015. 7:50 minutes.

Please do not forward w/o copyright notice intact, which is: Text and recording © Kathy Biehl 2015. All Rights Reserved.

Listen to my podcast on your iPhone, iPad, iPod, Android, and Windows 8 Phone. My podcast app host has transitioned to a new app called The Podcast Source. You can download that app (and from it, my Astro-Insight app) from the iTunes store  and from Google Play. You can also subscribe to my podcasts through the iTunes store and get them delivered straight to your email box! Visit the astroinsight page to sign up. And please give them lots of stars!!For the Windows 8 Phone,  go to the Windows 8 App store and search for astroinsight.You can also subscribe to my podcasts through the iTunes store and get them delivered straight to your email box! Visit the astroinsight page to sign up. And please give them lots of stars!

Source: astroinsight’s podcast: Forecast for Nov. 16 – 22, 2015