There is a great reason that this is unfolding before me now.
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!
JUST FOR TODAY …
We must try to experience and understand how nature sustains life and learn how to live accordingly.
“People who don’t have a concept of the whole, can do very unfortunate things.” ~ Joseph Campbell
Daily Words of the Buddha ~ July 05, 2014
Atītaṃ nānusocanti,
nappajappanti nāgataṃ,
paccuppannena yāpenti,
tena vaṇṇo pasīdati.
They do not lament over the past,
they yearn not for what is to come,
they maintain themselves in the present,
thus their complexion is serene.
Saṃyutta Nikāya 1.10
Gemstones of the Good Dhamma,
compiled and translated by Ven. S. Dhammika
Pāli Word a Day ~ July 05, 2014
tāṇa — shelter, protection, refuge, esp. of shelter & peace offered by the dhamma
Recipe ~ Meltable Vegan Mozzarella Cheese
Chef Miyoko Shinner gives us a first hand approach on making an incredible vegan mozzarella that is tasty and very versatile. This recipe is from her cookbook Artisan Vegan Cheese and can be downloaded at http://www.artisanveganlife.com/ .
Recipe ~ Vegan Butter
San Francisco Vegan Chef Miyoko Shinner has been making vegan butter substitutes of various sorts for a couple of decades. This one is true perfection. Try it and see. Go to http://www.artisanveganlife.com/ to get the latest recipe.
Black Sesame Seed Reduces High Blood Pressure
Affirmations …
I judge myself to be both good and great at all times of day and night.
Pāli Word a Day ~ July 04, 2014
taranga — a wave
Daily Words of the Buddha ~ July 04, 2014
Yo ca mettaṃ bhāvayati
Appamāṇaṃ paṭissato
Tanū saṃyojanā honti,
Passato upadhikkhayaṃ.
For one who mindfully develops
Boundless loving-kindness
Seeing the destruction of clinging,
The fetters are worn away.
Itivuttaka 1.27
The Udāna and the Itivuttaka, trans. John D. Ireland
Lao Tzu ~ Two Kinds of Blessings
“There are two kinds of blessings. The first are worldly blessings, which are won by doing good deeds. These concern the mind, and thus are confined in time and space. The second is the integral blessing, which falls on those who achieve awareness of the Great Oneness. This awareness liberates you from the bondage of mind, time, and space to fly freely through the boundless harmony of the Tao. Similarly, there are two kinds of wisdom. The first is worldly wisdom, which is a conceptual understanding of your experiences. Because it follows after the events themselves, it necessarily inhibits your direct understanding of truth. The second kind, integral wisdom, involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness, and no mental concepts or attitudes are present to dim that light. The blessings and wisdom that accrue to those who practice the Integral Way and lead others to it are a billion times greater than all worldly blessings and wisdom combined.”
~ Lao Tzu
Lee Holden ~ Qi Gong Restores Your Life
An Ancient Technique That Helps Your Body Heal Faster,
Eliminates Fatigue And Feeds Your Energy
For An Entire Lifetime In Only Minutes A Day
For over 40 centuries, men and woman from the Far East practiced a self-healing method that was effortless, practical, and required very little time.
In fact, try this basic exercise below to see how incredibly easy it is. It takes less than five minutes to do.
Try this:
1. Rub your palms vigorously until your hands feel warm (like you are creating a fire)
2. Bring your hands down to your side and shake your lowers arms and wrists like an athlete would before an event. Shake for 30 seconds to 1 minute.
3. Completely relax with your hands by your side and feel the energy circulating down your arms and into your fingertips.
Simple, easy, and effective. Could you feel your Qi?
Without even breaking a sweat or changing into your workout clothes, you’ve already started to heal your body. When you do this exercise and others like it, this is what happens deep inside you:
Your life force energy circulates through your body, activating each cell. As you feel your life force energy, your mind connects to the present moment and you slip into total relaxation and calmness.
While all this happens you are actually meditating – it’s called Moving Meditation – with your mind and body.
As you become aware of your life force energy, it moves through your cells, travels through your nervous system and nourishes everything inside you. You will even feel the tingling and radiant sensations in your fingertips.
The Chinese Ancestors Called This Mysterious Life Force Energy… “Qi”
Qi is invisible. You cannot see it, but you feel its existence.
As It travels through your meridians—energy highways within your body. It beats with your heart, nourishes your muscles, and even gives rise to your consciousness.
The rest of the exercises are just as easy. The only “difficult” thing you’ll do is to relax and move slowly. No balancing on your head or standing on one foot.
Let your body move gracefully and fluidly – there’s no pressure on the joints – and your Qi flows and tones your vital organs. That’s how it revitalizes your body and builds your energy reserves.
Best of all, you don’t need any special equipment or place to practice. No Yoga mats, no exercise machines, no special safety equipment, and no fancy gym clothes necessary. You can do the slow exercise movements in any comfortable clothes and you don’t even have to sweat.
This is Qi Gong – “Qi” meaning energy and “Gong” meaning cultivation.
It’s easily the most cost-effective yet potent self-healing practice that exists today. Yet, so little is known about this breakthrough practice in the West. In order to appreciate the full potential of Qi Gong, I set out to study everything there is to know about this practice.
What you will discover will change everything you believe about alternative health and modern medicine.
Your biggest epiphany might be this — your Qi flows faster and deeper when your mind and body are relaxed.
It’s never about stretching the furthest, enduring the most pain, or performing every move to its minute perfection. In fact, the sole purpose of all the ancient practices is to circulate your Qi flow so your body can heal naturally.
Three Steps that Immediately Reduce Stress
Synchronizing your mind.
Synchronizing your body.
Synchronizing your breathing.
When all 3 are aligned you get your body into it’s optimal state of flow — and THIS is where your natural healing abilities begin to kick in.
Daily Affirmation …
All that I need will come to me at the right time and place in this life.
Just For Today …
Develop a habit of choosing the hard right over the easy wrong. Become an advocate for goodness within your community.
“Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.” ~ Jack Kornfield
Pāli Word a Day ~ July 03, 2014
tappara — quite given to or intent upon, diligent, devoted
Daily Words of the Buddha ~ July 03, 2014
Kāyena saṃvaro sādhu; sādhu vācāya saṃvaro;
manasā saṃvaro sādhu. Sādhu sabbattha saṃvaro.
Sabbattha saṃvuto bhikkhu
sabbadukkhā pamuccati.
Good is restraint in the body; good is restraint in speech;
good is restraint in thought. Restraint everywhere is good.
The monk restrained in every way
is freed from all suffering.
Dhammapada 25.361
The Dhammapada: The Buddha’s Path of Wisdom,
translated from the Pali by Acharya Buddharakkhita
Lana Broadcasting on Achieve Radio with Ann Marie O’Dell
Catch me on Ann Marie O’Dell‘s Tarot Joy Radio Show TODAY, July 2nd, at 3pm PST/6pm EST on AchieveRadio.com … We’ll be taking calls, doing some readings and discussing the Journey as it relates to Aging and I’ll be sharing one of my meditations about our Powers of Choice. Join us … or if you miss us live, you can still catch the show here: http://achieveradio.com/ann-marie
Discussion ~ “The Nature of Consciousness”, by Alan Watts
“To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane.” ~Alan Watts
In order to come to your senses, Alan Watts often said, you sometimes need to go out of your mind. Perhaps more than any other teacher in the West, this celebrated author, former Anglican priest, and self-described spiritual entertainer was responsible for igniting the passion of countless wisdom seekers to the spiritual and philosophical delights of Asia and India.
JUST FOR TODAY …
Spend some time with someone you look to as an elder.
As life-prolonging technologies continue to lengthen our stay on earth, we still are learning how to confront the challenges of longer lives. How do we preserve human dignity and joy as our bodies struggle with the inevitable decline of age?
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.” ~ Mark Twain
Seeds for Meditation …
It’s time to let go of anything you no longer need in your life, and trust that you are about to begin manifesting dreams you’d almost given up on. No regrets, it’s all been an important part of the journey, and what you are bringing with you is more important than what you’ll leave behind.
DAILY CHABAD … On High Souls
To one whose self is his body, death of the body is death of the self. But for one whose self is his love, awe and faith, there is no death, only a passing. From a state of confinement in the body, he makes the passage to liberation. He continues to work within this world, and even more so than before.
The Talmud says that Jacob, our father, never died. Moses, also, never died. Neither did Rabbi Judah the Prince. They were very high souls who were one with Truth in an ultimate bond—and since Truth can never die, neither could they.
Yes, in our eyes we see death. A body is buried in the ground, and we must mourn the loss. But this is only part of the falseness of our world. In the World of Truth, they are still here as before.
And the proof: We are still here. For if these high souls would not be with us in our world, all that we know would cease to exist.
Pāli Word a Day ~ July 02, 2014
anuvicarita — reflected, pondered over, thought out
Daily Words of the Buddha ~ July 02, 2014
Cakkhumā,
visamānīva,
vijjamāne parakkame.
Paṇḍito jīvalokasmiṃ,
pāpāni parivajjaye.
A person with good eyes,
encountering a treacherous, uneven place,
would try hard to avoid it.
A wise person, in the world of life,
should avoid evil deeds.
Udāna 5.43
Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Recipe ~ Spicey Whole Roasted Cauliflower
Makes 6 servings
- Start to Finish: 1 hour
Ingredients
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 head cauliflower
1½ cups plain Greek yogurt
1 lime, zested and juiced
2 tablespoons chile powder
1 tablespoon cumin
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon curry powder
2 teaspoons kosher salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
Directions
1. Preheat the oven to 400° and lightly grease a small baking sheet with vegetable oil. Set aside.
2. Trim the base of the cauliflower to remove any green leaves and the woody stem.
3. In a medium bowl, combine the yogurt with the lime zest and juice, chile powder, cumin, garlic powder, curry powder, salt and pepper.
4. Dunk the cauliflower into the bowl and use a brush or your hands to smear the marinade evenly over its surface. (Excess marinade can be stored in the refrigerator in an airtight container for up to three days and used with meat, fish or other veggies.)
5. Place the cauliflower on the prepared baking sheet and roast until the surface is dry and lightly browned, 30 to 40 minutes. The marinade will make a crust on the surface of the cauliflower.
6. Let the cauliflower cool for 10 minutes before cutting it into wedges and serving alongside a big green salad.
Recipe ~ Blue Cheese & Walnut Stuffed Belgian Endive
Ingredients:
- 2/3 cup chopped walnuts
- 4 tablespoons honey, divided
- 2/3 cup dried cranberries
- 1/2 cup of balsamic vinegar
- 6 tablespoons orange juice
- 32 Belgian endive leaves
- 2/3 cup crumbled blue cheese, such as Roquefort cheese
- 2 tablespoon minced chives
Directions:
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a bowl mix together the walnuts, 2 tablespoons honey and 1/4 teaspoon of sea salt.
- Spread the mixture onto a baking sheet lined with parchment or aluminum foil.
- Pop the walnuts into the oven and allow to bake for 5 minutes, then stir and allow to continue to bake for another 5 minutes, for a total of 10 minutes, or until they are gold brown.
- While those are cooling combine your remaining 2 tablespoons of honey, balsamic vinegar, and orange juice in a small saucepan.
- Bring the mixture to a rolling boil, and then reduce the heat to a simmer.
- Allow this to cook until it has reduced down to 6 tablespoons.
- This will take from 7-10 minutes.
- Fill each endive leaf with 1 teaspoon each of the following: blue cheese, candied walnuts, dried cranberries.
- Arrange in a circular pattern on a tray.
- Now time for some abstract art fun; drizzle the reduced vinegar/honey/orange juice mixture over the endive leaves, and finish it with a sprinkling of chives and black pepper.
Recipe ~ Fourth of July “Mounds” Bars
Ingredients:
(1) 7 oz bag sweetened shredded coconut
7 oz sweetened condensed milk
(1) 12 oz bag dark chocolate chips
Food Coloring
Directions:
1. Combine one 7 oz bag of sweetened shredded coconut with 7 oz of condensed milk. Mix well.
2. Separate your mixture into 3 different bowls. Put the same amount in each bowl and add red food coloring to one bowl and blue to the other. The white obviously stays as is. The blue will only need about 2 drops but the red will require more otherwise it will be pink. If you have food coloring gels these work well. Refrigerate all the mixtures for 1 hour.
3. Remove your bowls from the refrigerator and start preparing 2 inch mounds on a lined baking sheet. I think it’s best to use a Silpat but if you do not have a Silpat, use wax paper. I did one color at a time then washed my hands and moved on to the next color so the colors did not bleed together.
4. Using a damp paper towel, cover your bars and shape them with your hands. Refrigerate for another 2 hours.
5. Once your bars are completely cold you need to melt your dark chocolate chips in a double boiler or in the microwave. Now there are two ways to melt your chocolate. If you melt your chocolate in the microwave at 30 second intervals (stirring in between) like I normally tell you to do, your chocolate will be more soft and malleable; meaning, if you leave these these candies out all day, the chocolate will start to melt a bit and it will get all over your hands. If you want your chocolate to be hard (like when you buy a box of candy) you will need to temper your chocolate. Once your chocolate is melted you will want to dip your bars into the melted chocolate and place back on the lined tray. This is totally messy and there is no other way to do it. Refrigerate for another 2 hours.
Tip: If you want your bars to look smoother you can dip them again and do a second coating of chocolate and then refrigerate once again. The bars pictured here were double-dipped. Enjoy!
Follow The Magic Of Your Own Creation
This is a time of great learning for humanity. We are being confronted by our truths
There is no sidestepping the learning – we planned for these events to happen. Some events may bring great highs and some deep lows.
These events redirect you on your destiny path for you are meant to learn your power in this reality
Listen to your heart for it is the consciousness of divinity.
Ascension = love = change
I love you
We are one
On Connecting …
A true master of life never leaves this world
—he transcends it, but he is still within it.
He is still there to assist those who are bonded with him with blessing and advice, just as before, and even more so.
Even those who did not know him in his corporeal lifetime can still create with him an essential bond.
The only difference is in us:
Now we must work harder to connect.
Daily Words of the Buddha ~ July 01, 2014
Muñca pure, muñca pacchato,
majjhe muñca, bhavassa pāragū.
Sabbattha vimuttamānaso,
na punaṃ jātijaraṃ upehisi.
Let go of the past, let go of the future,
let go of the present, and cross over to the farther shore of existence.
With mind wholly liberated,
you shall come no more to birth and death.
Dhammapada 24.348
The Dhammapada: The Buddha’s Path of Wisdom,
translated from the Pali by Acharya Buddharakkhita
SEEDS FOR MEDITATION …
“The Soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.
The Soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.”
~ Kahlil Gibran
Just For Today …
Learn to be quiet enough
to hear the genuine within yourself
so that you can hear it in others.
David Icke ~ Breaking The Spell & The Full Magnitude of Who We Are!
I Ching ~ Week of June 30, 2014
#30 ~ Li ~ Radiance; Omens Shine Bright
Above: Li Glowing light, the power of consciousness
Below : Li Glowing light, the power of consciousness
The Wisdom:
Lights burn bright all around you
You are illuminated
Words are without value
The voice of the heart is heard and is gentle
You are illuminated
Words are without value
The voice of the heart is heard and is gentle
We exist between lighting and thunder. You are illuminated by the light and woken up by the thunder. There is no foundation familiar that you have counted on in the past to make you feel safe. There is no way you could have planned for a change like this that is nothing less than transformation. The timing of this present situation where heart meets soul is so dynamic and clear that the hope you had lost has returned and stands before you and opens to the heart of the matter. The lingering doubts are lies that the ego is throwing at you like poison darts, but they have no effect. You have become tempered by the suffering and are able to quell the fears with the antidote of risk. Risk will set you free. You are returning to the knowing of why you have incarnated at this moment in time and an aspect of your life’s purpose is being revealed.
You are now in the sacred geometry of the grand alchemical design.Your are now in the process of your own sacred mission in your tribe, community and in all your relationships…..there is great power to be had to effect change for the better and greater good starting with you.. It is on this personal journey where love and abundance arrive on time so you can serve your and the greater good of Gaia and all sentient beings.
You have been met by spirit, have no doubt, and it has ignited a fire in the heart. You have been close to this awakening before, but the circumstances were not fortuitous, they were dangerous. You flirted with the danger and were burned and then hid your trust and your true heart from view. This time the bridge to what you thought was safety, is burning and you can feel the heat. If you try to turn back you may get to an aspect of freedoam, but you will be scarred at the very place you want liberation, the place of love and your true purpose.This present time is an omen shining so bright you are illuminated and seen, finally seen. You are feeling the power of love of self, which opens to the knowing of your purpose and will open to your allowing yourself to be loved. You need no special gifts to see yourself in the light of truth because your light, Li, is doubled at this time. You can see and feel everything clearly now. Trust what you see and trust what you feel, it is real. Affirm that you will destroy old, negative patterns, and when you do they will no longer have any power over you. You will be released to revel in a new freedom of thought, feeling, spirit, and loving light.You have worked and worried hard on this last leg of the journey. Now use every tool you have gained and held in your virtual and very real medicine bag, the place where you keep your power totems. Using these tools of spirit, examine your habitual, patterned behavior and change your way of thinking. Change the words from the past playing in your head, the words that stopped you from loving and from being loved. Convert the negative to the positive; this is the gift of the human process. You are in the mode of learning to receive, learning that receiving does not hurt, it inspires. Embrace and rededicate what works, but destroy and burn what doesn’t, and be ruthless about it.
You are moving into the space of making the alchemical mix of true love and your true purpose. Once it is found and recognized, it will need tending, like the fire in your belly and heart. What will allow you to cultivate this loving light are diligence, dignity, kindness, grace, honesty, fearlessness, and compassion.
Integrity and compassion will open the doorway to trust, to accepting your greatness and strength. Using the proper fuel will allow you to create a fire that can spread clarity to your tribe and family who also yearn for the light. Be assured that you are the one—and at this time the only one—who can deliver this light in all its fullness. By increasing the light by using the proper fuels, the intensity of the flames cause no damage; it becomes a healing light, the light of love, creativity, health, and passion.
You will find that along with old ways and preprogrammed behaviors you will be leaving the worn-out and painful alliances of family, friends, and associates, breaking the unsaid contracts that have bound you to old ways, the ways that did not leave room for you to remember your truth. You will again find the beauty of what was etched in the original canvas of your heart, the memory of who you truly are and for what purpose you came to Earth at this time. Joyous spirit now just needs an invitation to dance, not an insistence but a graceful poetic invitation. Your spirit companions have been waiting just off stage for you to make the move…now make it, shake loose the fear for there can be no failure in this dance, all you have to do is….do it. You will not dance alone.
The feeling that is stirring within you is the power that allows you to remember who you truly are in all your magnificence as you step out from behind the veils in your glorious garb of light for all to see. You are at last safe! Enjoy the ride and bring a friend, a child, a lover. Recognize the loving beings of spirit that have been standing with you, waiting for you to step forward into the light of truth, beauty, and goodness.
Have no fear—he, she or the offer at hand is an omen, a good omen. The image of a clinging fire is represented in the original ideograms that comprise Li. It is a fire that clings to the heart and makes way for the new as it burns away old doubts, beliefs, and patterns that have kept you in bondage for a lifetime. Beliefs formed in childhood and ingrained societal patterns are the fuel for the fire that illuminates the jewels of life that have been shadowed by doubt and shame.
All is in the right place at the right time…. look with a discerning eye at where you sit or stand. This is the right place.
The unexpected is here, bringing together what belongs together.
Give it all of your heart, body, and soul.
Be the love you desire and that you will receive. This is the magical inner alchemy you have been preparing for.
In lak’ech
BobbyK
AFFIRMATIONS …
I live a healthy, positive lifestyle.
