Give me meditation or give me mantra (video)

Crystal Quintero, Seven, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Jeanne Heileman (YogaVibes.com)

Seated meditation (Tess Photo/naturealmom.com)

 
Mantra and meditation may seem mysterious, even overwhelming. But yoga instructor Jeanne Heileman dissolves any anxiety related to the mystery. Experience yoga online. “The biggest thing is to experience it,” says Heileman.

The uses of mantra (yogavibes.com)

She discusses the uses and importance of mantra, as well as the many different kinds and options. To practice mantra, follow up this discussion up with the following online yoga videos.

Online Vinyasa Yoga class with Jeanne Heileman (youtube.com/yogavibes.com)

Finding Our Voice

Explore the use of mantra with a practice that focuses on aspects of the fifth chakra, which is connected to sound and vibration. Students in a class vocalize the mantra "So Hum" while moving through Sun Salutations and other yoga poses. At times, things get quiet when silently repeating the mantra. This is when one feels the vibrational quality the mantra provides. This class leads to Sarvangasana (Shoulder Stand) and Matseyasana (Fish Pose). It may seem simple on the outside, but the students reported that the experience was very powerful on the inside. Follow up this transformative experience with try Heileman's Mantra for Meditation (55 minutes).

The energetic throat chakra gives us our voice  (youtube.com/yogavibes.com)

Meditation and yoga with Jeanne Heileman and Tara (yogavibes.com)

 

Mantra for Meditation

Spiritual mothering (naturealmom.com)

Everything vibrates, either on a slow, dull level or a faster, lighter frequency. The vibration of our speech comes from the vibrations of our respiratory system, which are a result of the vibrations from our thoughts. If we can begin to control (restrain) the vibrations in our mind, it can eventually ripple outward past our speech and into our actions and karmic destiny.

Mantra can be powerful. In this online meditation class, the mantra "So Hum" is offered, after some Pranayama (Breath Control) to help establish a focused environment. It is a simple, safe, and extremely powerful mantra that works in alignment with any spiritual/religious perspective. It can also help fill the void if no perspective exists. This meditation is a wonderful option for a mind that is racing and difficult to concentrate. It is also wonderful for low self-esteem when we feel we lack outer support. The effects of the mantra in time after many, many repetitions (24 mins).

Mantra is yet another amazing tool to get our limited conscious mind out of the way -- so as to re-pattern and re-wire it out of negativity and harmful habits in a subtle and effective way. Tap into your grace, goodness, and divinity, while transforming and raise one's vibration. More

 

"Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds" (film)

Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; InnerWorldsMovie; AwakenTheWorldFilm 

(ATWF) Part 1: Akasha. See all four parts at innerworldsmovie.com. Music from spiritlegend.com. Sacred geometry posters and products at: zazzle.com/awakentheworld. Donations and purchases help support the "Awaken the World Initiative" to make future films free for the benefit of humanity. (Help translate and caption the film at amara.org).

 

"Form is full of potential."

This is Part 1 of the film "Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds" (REM Publishing Ltd.).

Akasha (space, Buddhist kalapas particle-wavelets, aether, etheric field, primordial stuff, primary substance, the yin to prana's yang) is the unmanifested, the nothing ("no thing") or emptiness which fills the vacuum of space.

Vedic deities (Clio7/flickr)

As Einstein realized, empty space is not really empty. Saints, sages, and yogis who have looked within themselves have also realized that within the emptiness is unfathomable power, a web of information or energy which connects all things. 

 

This matrix or web has been called the Logos (the "Word," "I say"), the Higgs Field, the primordial OM, and has been known by a thousand other names throughout history.

• Particle physics (kalapas), Caltech
• Buddhist Physics: Why the LHC Matters

Yogi meditating on Brahma(n)

The first part of "Inner Worlds" explores the one vibratory source that extends through all things, through the science of cymatics, the concept of the Logos, and the Vedic concept of Nada Brahma (the universe as sound or vibration). 

 

Once we realize that there is one vibratory source that is the root of all scientific and spiritual investigation, how can anyone say "my religion," "my God," "my discovery," or ["my film"]?

About the makers

The Buddha, Sakka (Indra), and Brahma

Several people have already tried to re-upload the film and monetize their channel and/or make a profit from selling the film without permission or to build subscribers. It is hard to know people's true motivation, which is sometimes something even they do not know.

The Awaken The World Film channel contains closed captions in many languages so that versions of the film do not spread in the absence of professional translations.

When users subscribe to the ATWF channel they can be provided with future films as they are released. This is just the first of many films to come; the second is already in the works.

  

Brahma the "supreme," Hindu art (sagarworld)

The channel also provides links to the Website and Facebook page and the opportunity for viewers to donate to the Awaken the World initiative. Support is needed to make these films. For while they may be made available for free, donations are really appreciated. Viewers may also offer their translation skills or other support.
 

Proof of contact? Massive Vedic "crop circle" Sri Yantra covering 13 miles uniformly carved into bed of dry lake that is too hard for us to etch in Oregon, USA (Bill Witherspoon)

• Workshops, meditation retreat, and more (facebook)
• Google community page discusses awakening

Join the Om Healing Circle of Los Angeles

Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly; Kaustubhi (omhealingcircle@gmail.com)

"OM" (aum) is the primordial or cosmic "sound of the universe" (Didi/esotericonline.net)

 

Everyone is invited to visit and join the Om Healing Circle in Los Angeles. It meets every first and third Saturday of the month at 1:00 pm. Together, participants seek to heal themselves, humanity, and Mother Earth (Bhumi, Gaia, Pachamama...). Om is a seed (bija) mantra with powerful resonant effects.

• Kaustubhi: (323) 423-3371
• omhealingcircle@gmail.com
• Protective Chanting in Buddhism
• The Book of Protection (Paritta)
• Recommended CDs from SoundsTrue: Mantras for Meditation and Healing Mantras by Thomas Ashley-Farrand
• See the World, my Children. It's big!

Healing Mantras

Enrico Galvini (CEO of Bodhisattva Music) and his faithful dog recommend Healing Mantras by Thomas Ashley-Farrand holding the German version in the jungles of Costa Rica.

Thomas Ashley-Farrand explains the Vedic origins, meanings, and uses of mantra.

Enter the Mandala: Cosmic Mind Maps

Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; Assistant Curator Dr. Jeff Durham (SFAAM)

Buddha icon in Tawang district, Arunachal Pradesh, India (Appaji/flickr.com)

A mandala in Tibetan Vajrayana meditation serves as a kasina (indiebookevent.com)

Buddhist and Hindu hallway, Norton Simon, Pasadena (Christian DeLao/judasmaiden15/flickr)

Enter the Mandala: Mental Maps and Cosmic Centers in Himalayan Buddhism

Jaws of Samsara, Bhavacakra (thangka-mandala)

Dr. Jeff Durham, Assistant Curator of Himalayan Art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, will explore the possibility of re-creating a Buddhist experience without years of meditative discipline:

Mandalas are geometric maps of Vajrayana Buddhist visionary worlds [planes of existence in Buddhist cosmology]. Appearing in both painting and sculpture, mandalas typically consist of nested squares and circles.

These geometric forms define the center of the cosmos and the four cardinal directions in the sky/space (akasha). Minutely detailed and saturated with philosophical meaning, mandalas are a feast for the eyes and mind.

For Buddhist meditators, however, they are not just images to view, but also worlds to enter. To work with a mandala, practitioners first re-create it in their mind’s eye then imaginatively enter its world.

• Lecture: Norton Simon Museum
• Date: Saturday, April 19, 2014
• Time: 4:00 pm-5:00 pm

Free with admission (limited seating). Member seating 3:30 pm; general seating at 3:45 pm.
  
Rise of Shramanic tradition
Wisdom Quarterly edit of Dharmic Religions (7th to 5th centuries BCE)

The Buddha taught mostly in Magadha

Buddhism and Jainism belong to the "wandering ascetic" (sramana) tradition as distinct from the Brahminical (temple priest) tradition.

They rose to prominence in 700-500 BCE (Svarghese 2008, pp. 259-60; Jain 2008, p. 210; Mallinson 2007, pp. 17-8, 32-33) in Magadha (Magadha Kingdom), reflecting "the cosmology and anthropology of a much older, pre-Aryan upper class of northeastern India" (Heinrich Zimmer, 1989, p. 217) and were responsible for the related concepts of the cycle of birth and death (saṃsāra) and liberation from that cycle (moksha) (Flood, 2003, pp. 273-4, n. 9].

 

The wandering ascetic movements challenged the orthodoxy of Brahminical rituals (Gavin D. Flood, 1996, An Introduction to Hinduism, Cambridge Univ. Press, p. 82) inherited by Hinduism. The shamans (shramanas) were wanderers as distinct from orthodox Vedic Brahmin priests. Mahavira, founder of Jainism, and the Buddha, founder of Buddhism, were the most prominent and long lived icons of this ancient Indian movement. More

Secret underground worlds (video)

Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; David Wilcock, Giorgio Tsoukalos, David Hatcher Childress (C2C), Linda Moulton Howe... (History.com)

(History Channel) documentary: ANCIENT MAN MADE TUNNELS: Underground Civilizations

Buddhist stone carved caves of Ellora, India

The first stop is Turkey's underground city of Derinkkuyu in Cappadocia. Then onto the origins of U.S. DUMBS (Deep Underground Military Bases) in the American Southwest (and elsewhere), built by aliens and once inhabited by various Puebloan and other Native peoples or "Indians." See Minute 9:45 for the Native Americans and civilizations in the Southwestern United States: Navajo, Zuni, Pueblo, Hopi, and Apache tribes. These First Nations people all share a common creation "myth" of emerging from the ground rather than coming across the Bering Straits and down from Alaska as modern anthropologist try to explain. By their own account, they got help from the "Snake People" (nagas) and "Ant People" -- subterranean humanoid dwellers.

• Right beneath our feet: the reality of underground bases
• VIDEO: Lost Cities: Archeological Cover ups like the Egyptian-Buddhist caves of the Grand Canyon, USA (David Hatcher Childress)
• Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries of the Southwest
• Was the carved "installation" in the Grand Canyon a Buddhist temple? -- Discovered by American anthropologists and buried by the Smithsonian
• A look inside the storybook architecture unique to L.A.

Origin of Universe (Buddhism and Einstein)

Wisdom Quarterly; Andreas Mamet, 2013

The Origin of the Universe through the eyes of Gautama Buddha and Albert Einstein (Part 1) in English with French translation. Continues in Part 2

Native American Buddhism and Tibet

Ashley Wells, Xochitl, Maya, Wisdom Quarterly; Hendon Harris  ASK MAYA

Pueblo/Gompa Lamayuru high in India's Himalayas, Ladakh (DietmarTemps.com)

  

See that pueblo? - Yes, pa. - It's Tibetan. (CM)

In response to Buddhism among the Pueblo Indians, USA, Hendon Harris (Chinese Discover America) writes: Thank you, Wisdom Quarterly, for your kind words regarding my work on Native Americans and Tibetan Buddhism. 

The more research I do, the more I am convinced that Hwui Shan and his four fellow Buddhist clerics from Gandhara (Indo-Pakistan/Afghanistan) actually made it to North America (Fu Sang) in 458 CE as he reported.

• Inglorious Columbus; or, Evidence that Hwui Shan and a Party of Buddhist Monks from Afghanistan Discovered America in the Fifth Century, A.D. (Edward P. Vining, 1885)
• Why Afghanistan? The Buddha was born in Afghanistan

Native American (SuperG82/flickr)

I understand your objection to my use of the [portmanteau] term "Vedic Buddhism." You are technically correct.

The reason I have used those words together is to make a point. Buddhism began in a Vedic environment and as a result shares much in common even to this day with Hinduism and the other Dharmic religions of ancient India. 

A proper understanding of the cultural connections between these religions, particularly in ancient times, is essential for understanding the mix of symbols and customs that show up today dating from ancient times here.

Tibetan dancer, monk (CD)

[Well, Hendon, it is certainly true that Buddhism/Jainism and Hinduism share many themes, symbols, motifs, and cultural roots, yoga being the result of the influence of shramanic religions (Buddhism and Jainism being the two most popular and long-lived) on Brahminical Vedantic "Hinduism" (all of the traditions of the Indus River area taken by the British who coined the term "Indus-ism" as one post-Indus Valley Civilization conglomerate no matter how different they are) -- taking it from temple priesthood and intermediaries between people and God(s) into a forest tradition and direct personal experience. May we suggest "Indian Buddhism" or "Buddhistic Hinduistic"?]

Buddhism went "West" from Gandhara!

The Native American Seven Step Seven Vow Wedding Ceremony is a Hindu tradition. Phallic symbols (lingam) are common to ancient India's Dharmic religions as are mandalas, mantras, and manjis (swastikas) [-- not to mention the very name "Indian" referring to both disparate populations]. I have to be able to explain the cross section of evidence.

REPLY: Hendon, as for your central question -- "Did the Chinese discover America?" -- the answer is yes: Buddhism In America, Part 1, Buddhism in Mexico before Christianity, Mexican Buddhists (BBC)... It is all laid out by Rick Fields in How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America (Shambhala.com), which could have been titled how Chinese Buddhist monks stumbled onto the American continent (Mesoamerica) a thousand years ago, centuries before Columbus brought conquest and Catholicism or the British sent pilgrims and capitalism. Who really discovered America? According to historians, the Chinese were here before Columbus.

Chinese discover America (in 1421) long before Europeans

Siberian Vajrayana Buddhist animist in teepee, Tsaatan wigwam, Mongolia (Hamid Sardar)