The Ancient Aliens of Egypt (David Wilcock)

Amber Larson, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly; David Wilcock (DivineCosmos.com)

David Wilcock (2012) was, in a past life, America's "Sleeping Prophet," Edgar Cayce (1910)

(HH) David Wilcock (Edgar Cayce) on ancient Egyptian aliens, Great Seal, the White House dome. Listen to full lecture on evidence of visitors from the past.

The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce? details the intriguing connection between Edgar Cayce and David Wilcock and presents the case for both having the same source for their prophetic information.

Through the inspirational, life-transforming words from Wilcock's "higher self," part of a group known as soul readers, can learn how the present Earth changes are energetic increases also occurring on the Sun and all other planets in our solar system in scientifically measurable ways.

(Reba Ann Karp)

Breathtaking new evidence indicates how this energy can transform DNA, potentially making ESP, telekinesis, levitation, and other paranormal capacities as common as breathing, ushering in the promise of a "Golden Age" promise... More

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News of the World: Earth Changes (video)

Pfc. Sandoval, Pat Macpherson, Crystal Quintero, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; CBS

Summer 2014: All concerts free and open to the public (levittla.org/KPFK.org)

(LIP TV) Documentary of "Code Black" about the first modern emergency room, C Booth, a trauma bay concept invented in Los Angeles' County-USC Medical Center, our "General Hospital"

  

Taking meds to feel normal?

LOS ANGELES, California - A notorious trauma bay in an inner-city ER earns its keep as the "hurt locker of medicine" as new, idealistic, and adrenaline-seeking doctors train in an environment akin to a war-zone.

When the hospital moves to a swank, new building the rush fades, and a bad bureaucracy gridlocks the state-of-the-art facility.

The doctors are faced with the unexpected realities of life and death in a safety-net health care system at the brink of overload. Now playing. Don't worry. "Nothing Bad Can Happen"...and if it does, there's always C Booth:

"Christian torture porn" from Germany, now showing in L.A.

• Saturday, June 28, Rose Bowl, L.A. Street Food Fest
• First Daughter Malia Obama prefers UC Berkeley over Stanford (USC, or the East Coast's Ivy League schools)
• Census Shows California’s Asian, Latino populations growing 
• VIDEO: Jen Lawrence is the new Goddess Diana (and funny)
• How to celebrate the Fourth of July
• Best stores in the Bay Area for 4th of July paraphernalia
• Is 2016 the right year for marijuana legalization?
• AUDIO: Paranormal Podcasts 161 with Linda Howe
• Suicide prevention nets for Golden Gate Bridge?
• War in Waziristan: The Final Solution (dawn.com)
• Man trapped in German cave rescued after 12 days
• Minnesota alleged burglar traced with Facebook acct
• Pet dog scares off bear to save Japan boy from attack
• FilmWeek: Transformers 4: Age of Extinction, more

There are no such things as UFOs
Google Earth Map catches image of UFO with passenger

• Ohio witnesses say UFO cloaked itself then vanished
• VIDEO: UFO caught live, Silverstone Racetrack (Huff Po)
• UFO spotted buzzing, landing over farm in Canada
• Rare white whale spotted off Sydney, Australia

Don't forget to watch the soccer/football match! But first take a shower, Hattiesburg, to wipe the stench of near-defeat off you as we were ready to rejoice.

 
EARTH FILES (@ earthfiles.com)

Moon (Chandra) seen from atop Earth (Bhumi)

Subscribe to Real X-Files and Archive - Books and DVDsConferences: Earthfiles' Linda Moulton Howe speaking about 12,000-year-old Gobekli Tepe, Turkey, and whistleblowers' leaks about ET self-activating technologies at MUFON Int'l. Conference (July 18-20, 2014), Cherry Hills, New Jersey. Contact in the Desert (August 8-10, 2014), Joshua Tree Retreat Center, California

• AUDIO: Most of the water on Earth not in oceans but in mantle rocks 400 miles below crust (MP3) See lab-grown crystals of ringwoodite contain 1st% of H2O (Steve Jacobsen, Ph.D., Geophysicist, Northwestern University)
• AUDIO: Eerie metallic scraping sounds heard from Michigan to Alaska: “If you had a snowplow going down a dry street and you had this loud sound of scraping metal against concrete, almost like a squealing as it's scraping.” - Pattie, Resident, Ann Arbor, MI, sound heard June 18, 2014. “All of a sudden I heard an extremely loud screeching noise. It sounded like a 10,000-gallon steel drum being drug over a bed or rocks.” - Gordon, Construction, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska 2011
• AUDIO: Another “Dragonfly Drone” Sighting and Isaac Whistleblower, but the Year Was 1981. One of a dozen photos of dragonfly drone taken in Big Basin, Redwoods State Park northwest of Santa Cruz, California, on June 5, 2007. See 061707 Earthfiles.
• CIA's “Anonymous Kewper” briefed Eisenhower and Nixon in 1959 About UFOs, Human Abductions and Animal Mutilations. Pres. Dwight Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961, with his VP Richard Nixon in White House. “Anonymous Kewper Stein” briefed them both in Washington, D.C., along with his CIA boss, Anthony, about German discs, extraterrestrial craft, human abductions and animal mutilations in 1959.
• June 21, 2014 - Summer Solstice: Today at 6:51 AM EDT, the Sun was shining directly above the Tropic of Cancer marking this as the longest day of 2014 for the Northern Hemisphere and beginning of summer. This same day marks the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere where winter begins. These seasons happen because Earth is tilted on its axis at a 23.5-degree angle.
• June 20, 2014 - Earth's Core Changes Are Changing Magnetic Fields. Swarm satellite (ESA) measurements made the last 6 months show a dramatic decline over North and South America with a strengthening of the Earth's magnetic field over the southern Indian Ocean. June 2014 image by ESA's Swarm Satellite. Magnetic North continues to move towards Siberia where a large magma rise under the crust has been occurring for the past three decades. This new picture reinforces the concept that the Earth's magnetic poles are building up to a switch. Over the last 200 years, the magnetic field has weakened by about 15%. Over the last 20 million years, the poles have reversed on average about every 200,000 to 300,000 years. But the last pole reversal was 780,000 years ago, so Earth is long overdue for a pole change. What exactly happens to Earth life at such pole reversals is unknown. See 020111 Earthfiles.
• June 20, 2014 - Labyrinth Crop Formation in Celle, France. See: video and ground shots, Cropcircleconnector. First reported on June 12, 2014. Aerial © 2014 by Yannick Pezeu. High altitude aerial of wheat labyrinth near Celle and Savigny-sur-Braye, Loir-et-Cher, France. Wheat pattern reported June 12, 2014. Vendome is 108 miles southwest of Paris, France, and only 19 miles east of Besse-sur-Braye and Celle, Loir-et-Cher, France.
• June 17, 2014 - Puzzling Swarm of 5.7 Magnitude Quakes in Alaska since April 18th. “At this point, we don't really understand the nature of these earthquakes.” - Natasha Ruppert, Seismologist, Alaska Earthquake Center. Monday, June 16, 2014, at 4:01 AM, the fifth 5.7 magnitude earthquake since April 18th in same Alaska region northeast of Noatak, an Eskimo village of 560. Residents are not used to having the ground shake. There are no active faults in the region. The earth keeps moving miles below the Earth's surface, so human activities such as surface mining are ruled out as the cause. See: Alaska Earthquake Center.
• June 15, 2014 - 1953 to 1981: Project AQUARIUS — 16 Volumes About UFOs and IACs. Click for Real X-File. “In the 1976 MJ3 report, it was estimated the Alien's technology was many thousands of years ahead of United States technology.” - Alleged historic MJ12 TOP SECRET Executive Briefing
• June 12, 2014 - AUDIO: The Unexplained - Interview UK broadcaster Howard Hughes with Linda Moulton Howe. Bizarre MH370 disappearance; phenomenal Human-E.T. hybrids
• June 10, 2014 - Illinois Is First State to Ban Microbeads. Click for report. “I'm optimistic that we've started a nationwide movement to protect not just the Great Lakes, but other bodies of water with high concentrations of microbeads.” - Illinois State Senator Heather Steans (D-Chicago), Bill Co-Sponsor.

The Make Music Festival (FREE)

Seth Auberon, Amber Larson, Ashley Wellls, Wisdom Quarterly; MakeMusicPasadena.org; Key of Awesome; Katy Perry "Dark Horse"; Bart Baker

(Key of Awesome #85) Katy Perry, "Dark Horse PARODY," not featuring Juicy J.

Katy is awesome, but this parody is more awesome. And seeing 100+ bands in a day for free is also way awesome. While Dev and a half million others march for gay pride on June 7th, we'll be at the Make Music Pasadena day from 11:00 am to 11:00 pm. The next Kitty Purry is sure to be there. If only we can find her!

We found a teacher! (Issrasai/flickr)

While the Buddha did not have a lot to say about giant festivals, his two chief male disciples sure did (See Hilltop Festival of Rajagaha). Ven. Sariputra and Ven. Maha Moggallana used just such entertainment-overkill to launch their careers renunciants as wandering ascetics in search of truth and liberation form the round of rebirth/disappointment. After days of excess, one turned to the other and said, "These people are all without exception going to be dead in 100 years. What is the point of it all?" The other answered, "That's just what I was thinking, friend." They renounced with all their friends as their retinues and went in search of an enlightened teacher. The surfeit of that cloying concert/celebration inspired them to find answers to the ultimate questions.

 

(MakeMusicPasadena.org) (Facebook) (PDF Program)

• KROQ FM Saturday: Santa Anita Racetrack micro brew fest featuring New Found Glory ($5)
• VIDEO: Singing nun wins Italy's "The Voice"
• Top 10 most violent video games (Ask Men)
• Did Catholic Church dump 796 babies into an Irish mass grave? (Tuam)

Bart Baker as hybrid-devi Avril Lavigne (and Taylor Swift)

UN: Is America "the land of the free"?

Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Kevin Uhrich (pasadenaweekly.com, 4-8-14)

The Mirror Turns: UN Human Rights Committee says...

This Modern World (Tom Tomorrow)

Despite our government’s many military entanglements and abuses of authority at home, most Americans still maintain a pretty high opinion of our country and the way our government treats its citizens and others around the world. 

  

The thing is, the unquestioning zeal regularly expressed for “our way of life” by cheerleading mainstream media personalities and politicians isn’t something that’s universally shared, according to a recent report issued by the United Nations Human Rights Committee.

What's America really like? This map shows some snapshot traits (koalogist.tumblr.com)

 

Whereas it is usually the United States that stands in judgment of other countries, and has traditionally used the UN to justify the wars it’s waged since the Korean Conflict, the script has been flipped in this case, with America now being portrayed as a bully and a villain, not only abroad, but at home as well. 

Uncle Sam (Big Brother) is watching

“The committee’s recommendations highlight the gaps between US human rights obligations and current laws and practices,” said ACLU Human Rights Program Director Jamil Dakwar in a statement issued last week by the organization’s national office. “The Human Rights Committee rightly called out the United States for setting dangerous examples from counterterrorism operations to an unfair criminal justice system to inhumane treatment of migrants.”

Local reactions to the report released on March 27 were no less critical of the United States, as well as the American media, few of which gave much play to the committee’s findings.

Heads or Tails, Lesser Evil vs. Greater Evil...

“It is shocking that media in Los Angeles [capital of the world] -- print, broadcast, and social -- have nearly entirely ignored what can only be called a factual but nevertheless horrifying, detailed indictment of violations of human rights in our country,” said local civil rights activist Marvin Schachter. Schachter is a longtime member of the ACLU, both its Southern California and Pasadena Foothills chapters. He is also a member of the Pasadena United Nations Association. More

THRIVE: What On Earth Will It Take? (video)

Pat Macpherson, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; ThriveMovement.com

The world is waking up, but what on Earth will it take to finally THRIVE?

Surviving the Apocalypse (video)

Pfc. Sandoval, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly

(Paranormal Interests) Bigfoot (Yeti, Yowie, Sasquatch, Almasty) and the Military

Stormfront US neo-Nazis (splcenter.org)

There is apocalyptic literature in Buddhism, and although that "uncovering" is far off, it seems Judeo-Christians are intent on bringing it on to fulfill their prophetic interpretations. The CIA and other organizations frame key dates and events they engineer as "acts of God," as interpreted by some in the field of biblical studies. Now with "signs in the sky " like the tetrad of blood moon eclipses, the Western world is primed for any massive event the Powers That Be want to foist on us. Planes go missing out of the sky, bombs don't go off at 42 K runs but a police state is nevertheless set up to ensure they don't, boats capsize, people die, the NSA/CIA is exposed, planted bombs go off to terrorize, lone gunman shoot up their perceived foes, cryptid creatures come out of the woods.

Wikipedia as News A Korean ferry carrying 450 capsizes near Jindo Island off South Korea, leaving at least 289 dead or missing. The Supreme Court of India recognizes a legal third gender for hijra and transgender individuals. A total lunar eclipse (pictured) is visible across the Pacific Ocean and the Americas. The Washington Post and The Guardian share the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, for coverage of the NSA illegal, unconstitutional spying and surveillance disclosures. Twin Nigerian bomb blasts in Abuja kill at least 75 people and injure more than 140 and terrorize countless others.

"Free energy" heat engine machines already exist, invented with Nitinol (nickel/titanium)

VIDEO: Capitalism's Invisible Army and Gov't BAN free energy

• VIDEO: Free home heating source
• VIDEO: Woman evicted for living off the grid
• VIDEO/PHOTOS: Human Barbie sans makeup
• Saving Native American Los Angeles (JPL)
• How to go from 26 beers to 26 miles running
• VIDEO: Drugs themselves aren't the drug problem
• Frazier G. Cross named as white supremacist shooter
• Russian documentary: The Nazis had UFO saucers
• What's wrong with bicyclists getting in my way?!
• "Stormfront" is a racist organization
• VIDEO: Finding an illegal cabin in the woods
• VIDEO: Supernatural monsters in Iceland
• VIDEO: Secrets of magic, sorcery, "science"
• America is police state under NDAA 2014

Contemplate Pussy Riot (Masha Gessen in L.A.)

CC Liu, Irma Quintero, Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; LFLA; Johnny Whiteside (laweekly.com)

Balaclava-clad Pussy Riot portraiture (theguardian.com)

 

Pussy Rioting at Mark Taper (C.D. Sinyakov)

When rebel collective Pussy Riot took its court-banned "Punk Prayer"* into Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior two years ago, it was not a gimmicky stunt but a legitimate act of revolution.

Prompted by Pres. Vladimir Putin's cynical, ongoing, and deeply manipulative embrace of the church and its national congregation -- essentially and outrageously reducing the culture of Eastern Orthodox Christianity to a propaganda wing for his oppressive regime -- Pussy Riot was compelled to protest.

 

Nadezhda Nadia Tolokonnikova, the young mother who became the face of Pussy Riot

American Pussy Riot supporters (P.J. Richards)

Rarely have art and agitation collided so memorably. This visit from Russian-born journalist-author Masha Gessen, discussing her new book, Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot, should be a profoundly, mmm, arresting affair. The Pussy Riot phenom is far more complex and genuinely radical than the facile carnival of DayGlo balaclavas and whip-wielding Cossacks that the mainstream media gleefully serve up.

• The feminists of Pussy Riot and Femen stand up to Putin
• FEMEN: Topless protesting for attention and change!
• Defending Putin's Propagandists [on the RT media outlet]

Anti-Putin protest (blog.foreignpolicy.com)

And the outspoken, openly gay Gessen (author of 2012's scorching The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin) is the ideal voice to place the subject in its proper sociopolitical context [with the American losses in Sochi, the liberation of Ukraine, and the tug-of-war over Crimea].

Pussy Riot supporters, Germany (AFP)

Gessen is joined in conversation by St. Mary's College Professor Suzi Weissman. Expect a thorough and illuminating dissection of this ardent, fearless, and endlessly admirable gang of stink stirrers. 

 

[Remember anyone with a balaclava -- a colorful knitted ski mask -- can be a Pussy Riot activist. "Riot," according to Nadia, means an uprising, "upstart," a putsch as seen in Ukraine.]

TONIGHT: Los Angeles Central Library, Mark Taper Auditorium, 630 W. Fifth St., downtown.; Wed., March 12, 2014, 7:15 p.m.; free, reservation required. (213) 228-7025, lfla.org.

*PUNK PRAYER: Saint Maria, Virg Yin, drive away Putin/Drive away! Drive away Putin!//Black robe, golden epaulets/All parishioners are crawling and bowing/The ghost of freedom is in heaven/Gay pride sent to Siberia in chains//The head of the KGB is their chief saint/Leads protesters to prison under escort/In order not to offend the Holy/Women have to give birth and to love//Holy shit, shit, Lord's shit!/Holy shit, shit, Lord's shit!//Saint Maria, Virgin, become a feminist/Become a feminist, Become a feminist//Church praises the rotten dictators/The cross-bearer procession of black limousines/In school you are going to meet with a teacher-preacher/Go to class -- bring him money!//Patriarch Gundyaev believes in Putin/Bitch, you better believe in God/Belt of the Virgin is no substitute for mass-meetings/In protest of our Ever-Virgin Mary!//Saint Maria, Virgin, drive away Putin!

 

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Hidden Truth, Knowledge of ETs (video)

Dr. Steven Greer, M.D. (disclosureproject.org); Pfc. Sandoval and Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; X-Conference (UFOTVStudios video)

Causing FEAR of ET visitations is a long running FALSE FLAG operation by the "permanent government," explains Dr. Greer, as recommended by Doreen Virtue on the Aware Show.

(UT) "Hidden Truth, Forbidden Knowledge" at the X-Conference

The "Disclosure Project" is a research endeavor headed by Dr. Steven Greer, M.D., working to fully disclose the facts about ETVs (extraterrestrial vehicles), extraterrestrial intelligences, and classified advanced free energy and propulsion systems.

The project has over 500 government, military, and intelligence community witnesses testifying to their direct, personal, first hand experience with ETVs, ETs, ET technology, and the cover-up that keeps this information secret. Dr. Greer discloses the forbidden knowledge at the X-Conference. 

I'm getting the same info as Greer

He teamed up with filmmaker Amardeep Kaleka and together, they produced the Disclosure documentary, Sirius (2013). It connects the dots concerning secrecy and spirituality. The film includes witnesses who undo the secrecy, explains the connection to free energy, and provides the vision of contact with ET civilizations as witnessed by CE-5 contact teams. Never before has Dr. Greer's wealth of understanding, personal contact information, and insight been connected to such a talented filmmaker.

The Nun and the Libertine - Better than Sex

Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly, based on Ven. Thanissaro translation Subha Jivakambavanika, Psalms of the Sisters (Therigatha 14.1)

What's a beautiful, enlightened, celibate nun to do? (sodahead.com)

 

The delightful grove by day

As the Buddhist nun (theri) Subha was wandering through Jivaka's delightful mango grove, some libertine (a goldsmith's son) blocked her path. She said to him:

 

"What wrong have I done you that you stand in my way? It is not proper, friend, that a man should touch a woman who has gone forth [entered upon the spiritual life of renunciation]. I respect the Master's message, the training pointed out by the Well-gone One. I am pure and without blemish:
 

"Why do you stand in my way? You -- your mind/heart agitated, and I -- unagitated; you -- impassioned, I -- unimpassioned, unblemished, with a mind everywhere released: Why do you stand in my way?" 

 

Wait says the Libertine (Bighead4144/flickr)

[He answered:] "You are young and good looking, so what need have you of going forth? Throw off your saffron robe. Come, let's delight in the flowering forest! A sweetness they exude from all around, the blossoming trees with their pollen. The beginning of spring is a pleasant season.

 

"Come, let's delight in the flowering forest! The trees with their blossoming tips moan in the breeze: What delight will you have if you plunge into the forest alone? Frequented by herds of wild beasts, disturbed by elephants rutting and aroused, you want to go unaccompanied into the great, lonely, frightening forest?

 

The forest grows scary in the dark with its unseen creatures and wild beasts

 
"Like a doll made of gold, you will go about like a goddess (devi) in the gardens of heaven. With fine and delicate Kasi fabrics, you will shine, O beauty without equal! I would be under your power if we were to dwell in the woods. For there is no creature dearer to me than you, O nymph with languid regard. If you'll do as I ask, happy, come live in my house! Dwelling in the calm of a palace, have women wait on you, wear delicate Kasi fabrics, adorn yourself with garlands and creams. I will make you many and varied ornaments of gold, jewels, and pearls."
 

This wig looks great on you.

"Climb onto a costly bed, scented with carved sandalwood, with a beautiful, well-washed coverlet, spread with a new woolen quilt. Like a blue lotus rising from the water, where there dwell spirits, you will go to old age with your limbs unseen, if you stay as you are in the renounced life."

 

[She said:] "What do you assume of any essence, here in this cemetery grower, filled with corpses, this body destined to break up? What do you see when you look at me, you who are out of your mind?"

 

[He said:] "Your eyes are like those of a fawn, like those of a nymph in the mountains. Seeing your eyes, my sensual delight grows all the more. Like the tips of blue lotuses are they in your golden face -- spotless: Seeing your eyes, my sensual delight grows all the more. Even if you should go far away, I will think only of your sparkling, long-lashed gaze, for there is nothing dearer to me than your eyes, O nymph with languid regard."

 

Golden white Buddha (sukhothai-tourism)

[She said:] "You want to stray from the road! You want the Moon as a plaything! You want to jump over Mount Sineru -- you who have designs on one born of the Buddha [Enlightened One]. For there is nothing anywhere at all in the world with its devasthat would be an object of passion for me. I do not even know what that passion would be, for it has been undone, root and all, by the Path. Like embers from a fire pit -- scattered, like a bowl of poison -- evaporated, I do not so much as see what that passion would be, for it has been undone, root and all, by the Path. Try to seduce one who has not reflected on this, or whom the Master has not instructed. But try it with this one who knows, and you do yourself harm! For whether insulted or worshiped, in pleasure or pain, my mindfulness stands firm. Knowing the unattractiveness of compounded things, my heart adheres nowhere at all. I am a follower of the Well-gone One, riding the vehicle of the Noble Eightfold Way: My arrow removed, canker-free, I delight, having gone to an empty dwelling. For I have seen well-painted puppets, hitched up with sticks and strings, made to dance in various ways. When the sticks and strings are removed, thrown away, scattered, shredded, smashed to pieces, not to be found, in what will the mind there make its home? This body of mine, which is just like that, when devoid of phenomena, does not function. When, devoid of phenomena, it does not function, in what will the mind there make its home?

 

"Like a mural seen painted on a wall, smeared with yellow pigment, there your vision has been distorted, meaningless your human perception! Like an evaporated mirage, like a tree of gold in a dream, like a magic show in the midst of a crowd -- you run blind after what is unreal. Resembling a ball of sealing wax, set in a hollow, with a bubble in the middle and bathed with tears, eye secretions are born there too: The parts of the eye are rolled all together in various ways." 

 

Oh, no, Lisa! What have you done? That's gross. I'm sorry I was hitting on you!

 
Plucking out her lovely eye, with mind unattached she felt no regret. "Here, take this eye. It is yours." Straightaway [dispassionately] she gave it to him. His passion shriveled right then and there, and he begged for her forgiveness. "Be safe, follower of the renounced life. This sort of thing will not happen again! Harming a person like you is like embracing a blazing fire. It is as if I have seized a poisonous snake. So may you be safe! Forgive me."
 
And freed from there, the nun went to the unexcelled Buddha's presence. And when she saw the mark of his excellent merit, her eye became as it was before.

KOAN: Shuzan's Three Phrases

Wisdom Quarterly, Roshi Jeff Albrizze (pasadharma.org), Book of Equanimity, Case 76

PREFACE TO THE ASSEMBLY

One phrase clarifies three phrases.

Three phrases clarify one phrase.

Three and one do not interact.

Clear and obvious is the path of the utmost.

Tell me: Which phrase is first?

MAIN CASE

Attention!

Shuzan addressed the assembly: "When you are awakened by the first phrase,  

You become a teacher of buddhas and ancestors.

When you are awakened by the second phrase, you become a teacher of humans and devas [advanced beings from space].

When you are awakened by the third phrase, you can't even save yourself."

A monk asked, "Osho, by which phrase were you awakened?"

Shuzan replied, "After the Moon sets in the third watch, one penetrates through the city."     

 

APPRECIATORY VERSE

Withered skulls of buddhas and ancestors skewered on one stick.

The water clock's drop after drop moves the pointer minutely.

Essential activity of devas and humans.

Firing a thousand pounds by catapult.

Thunderheads glistening and glowing swiftly shoot down lightning.

You, over here! See the transformations. 

When meeting the humble, be noble. 

When meeting the noble, be humble.

Leaving the finding of the jewel to Mosho, the ultimate Way stretches endlessly. 

Letting the butcher's knife sort freely in the dead ox, there's implicit trust each moment.

MEANING?

A koan (Zen riddle, puzzle, aphorism -- a question or statement meant to provoke "great doubt") is a means of stopping discursive thought, not of instigating it. For when the mind stills, it may be possible to know-and-see. So long as it is moving (vibrating like Patanjali's vrittis), there are distortions. The way to know, the way to see is to sit (zazen), and to walk (kinhin), and to wash dishes and so on (zen). A koan study group and meditation is available every Thursday night, FREE, in Pasadena, California at PasaDharma.org.