Science and the Mysteries of TIBET (video)

Dhr. Seven, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; David Wilcock/Edgar Cayce (DivineCosmos.com, WisdomTeachings.com, Gaiam TV.com); Disclosure Truth TV; VAJRAYANA BUDDHISM

Guru Rimpoche Padmasambhava, six fingered mystery figure in Tibetan Buddhism (wiki)

 

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Wisdom Teachings with David Wilcock (#69)
The transfiguration into a rainbow body of light has long been shunted to the realms of mystical experience and Eastern philosophy.

However, there are Western scientific concepts, which we have already learned about in previous episodes, to validate the reality of this ascension [transmogrification] process.

David Wilcock, who formerly existed as Edgar Cayce, begins to weave together the science and philosophy of the rainbow body transformation before presenting physical examples of Padmasambhava’s ascension in this presentation originally webcast July 7, 2014.  

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(Disclosure Truth TV, June 7, 2014) In "The Hidden Science of Lost Civilizations" David Wilcock exposes some of the greatest scientific secrets of our time -- from DNA transformation to multidimensional time -- to unlock the mysteries humankind have always struggled to answer: Who are we? How did we get here? And where are we going? 

In his book The Synchronicity Key, he goes beyond this new understanding to investigate how our universe works. Using history and astrology, as well as new research into fractals, spiritual geometry, and quantum physics, Wilcock demonstrates that there is a hidden architecture within time which guides individuals and nations through a system of "enlightenment" (which Joseph Campbell called the "Hero's Journey" or Heroine's Journey, as we all go through it).

What is it? Historical events occur in shockingly precise and repeating cycles of time. And once the hidden laws governing our "fate" our destinies, which we influence all along the way, through seemingly random events Jung termed "synchronicities," are identified, we are left with a remarkable blueprint of how to lead our lives in an uncertain world.

Synchronicity is more than a happy accident. It is an effect of the connectivity of the universe. It is proof that everything is a part of a unified, connected whole.

It is an affirmation of life. Wilcock's understanding of the living fabric that binds the universe together is behind his knowledge of synchronicity, the Law of One, and how we are guided by it.

 
Synchronicity is a means to awaken us to our true identity, the thoughts we think, and the actions we take (karma) are being guided by hidden cycles that repeat, as our guide to this new world of knowledge explains.

David Wilcock and Wynn Free co-authored the book The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce? in 2004. He is also the author of the 2011 book The Source Field Investigations, which debuted at No. 18 on the New York Times Best Sellers list on Sept. 11, 2011. His second book, The Synchronicity Key, debuted at No. 8 on the same list on Sept. 4, 2013.

Wilcock has appeared on several radio programs, including semi-regular appearances, and he had a role in the Syfy documentary "2012." He was a proponent of the theory that a large segment of humanity would undergo ascension in the year 2012. He also appeared in several episodes of the History Channel series "Ancient Aliens." Beginning in early 2013, he began hosting a weekly program entitled "Wisdom Teachings with David Wilcock" on Gaiam TV.

ZEN: "The Void," "Sex in the Church" (video)

Seth Auberon, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; Alan Watts (alanwatts); P. Examined Life

"Thou Shalt Have Great Sex" (July/Aug 2013 issue, spiritualityhealth.com)

Brad Warner (Hardcore Zen)

British Zen Buddhist, Taoist, Episcopalian teacher Alan Watts is an inspiration to Californians, where his show continues to air on Los Angeles' Pacifica Radio (KPFA.org) thanks to Roy of Hollywood Tuckman (8:00 am Sundays, midnight Thursdays).

This video is the fourth episode of Alan Watts' 1959 KQED TV series "Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life." (DVDs available at alanwatts.com/collections).

Alan Watts was an unabashed lover

A native of England, Watts attended the King's School near Canterbury Cathedral. At 14 he became fascinated with the philosophies of the Far East. By 16 he regularly attended the Buddhist Lodge in London, where he met Zen scholars Christmas Humphries and D.T. Suzuki. As a speaker and contributor to the Lodge's journal, The Middle Way, he wrote a series of philosophical commentaries and published his first book on Eastern thought, The Spirit of Zen, at age 21. In the late thirties he moved to New York, and a few years later he became an Episcopalian priest. In 1942 he moved to Illinois and spent the wartime years as chaplain of Northwestern University.

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Square to hippie (ianmack.com)

In 1950 he left the church, and his life took a turn away from organized religion back toward Eastern ways and expanding horizons. After meeting author and mythologist Joseph Campbell and composer John Cage in New York he headed to California and began teaching at the American Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco.

There his popular lectures spilled over into coffehouse talks and appearances with the well-known beat writers Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, and Allen Ginsberg. In late 1953 he began what would become the longest-running series of Sunday morning public radio talks, which continue to this day with programs from the Alan Watts Tape Archives.

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In 1957 he published the bestselling The Way of Zen, beginning a prolific ten-year period during which he wrote Nature, Man and Woman; Beat Zen, Square Zen and Zen; This Is It; Psychotherapy East and West; The Two Hands of God; The Joyous Cosmology; and The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are.

By 1960 Watts' radio series "Way Beyond the West" on Berkeley's KPFA.org had an avid following on the West Coast, and NET TV began national broadcasts of the series "Eastern Wisdom in Modern Life." The first season, recorded in the studios of KQED, a San Francisco TV station, focused on the relevance of Buddhism, and the second on Zen and the arts.

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What is reality? Zen with Alan Watts (audio)

Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; Alan Watts (Pacifica Radio, L.A., KPFK.org, Jan. 26, 2014)

Pondering human origins and existence in a Zen garden in California (desktopc.com)

  

A portrait of  Alan Watts (ianmack.com)

What is reality? "I came into this world," I say. "You didn't; you came out of it," insists British philosopher and Zen teacher Alan Watts. We bounce between a ceramic (that we created out of clay) and an automatic theory of the universe. So beginning with a Big Bang view, assuming that's how it happened, how we came to be, Watts follows that view to its logical conclusion. We are way out in space, way out in time, and now here we are: Who am I? I am the Bang, not something that came out of it. It is an entirely different and very Mahayana/Hindu way at looking at the question. Are we the primordial energy of the universe defining ourselves separately from it? "There are no such things as things, at least no such things as separate things. We are wiggly goo imagining a world of thorny lines. LISTEN NOW: AUDIO 

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The Lotus Sutra (Chapter 2)

Dhr. Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; based on Burton Watson translation

Chapter II: Expedient Means

At that time the World-Honored One calmly arose from his meditative-absorption (samadhi) and addressed Sariputra, saying: "The wisdom of the buddhas is infinitely profound and immeasurable. 

The door to this profound wisdom is difficult to understand and difficult to enter. Not one of the hearers (shravakas) or nonteaching-buddhas (pratyekabuddhas) is able to comprehend it.

 

"What is the reason for this? A [supremely enlightened samma-sam-] Buddha has personally attended [on] a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, a million, a countless number of buddhas and has fully carried out an immeasurable number of religious practices. He has exerted himself bravely and vigorously, and his name is universally known. He has realized the Dharma that is profound and never known before, and preaches it in accordance with what is appropriate, yet his intention is difficult to understand.

 

"Sariputra, ever since I attained buddhahood, I have through various causes and various similes widely expounded my teachings and have used countless expedient means to guide living beings and cause them to renounce attachments. Why is this? 

It is because the Thus Come One (Tathagata) is fully possessed by both expedient means and the perfection of wisdom.

A lotus, its beauty and fragrance, arise from mud.

 

"Sariputra, the wisdom of the Thus Come One is expansive and profound. He has immeasurable [mercy], unlimited [eloquence], power, fearlessness, concentration, emancipation, and meditative-absorptions, and has deeply entered the boundless and awakened to the Dharma never before attained.

 

"Sariputra, the Thus Come One knows how to make various kinds of distinctions and to expound the teachings skillfully. His words are soft and gentle and delight the hearts of the assembly.

 

"Sariputra, to sum it up: the Buddha has fully realized the Dharma that is limitless, boundless, never attained before.

"But stop, Sariputra, I will say no more. Why? It is because what the Buddha has achieved is the rarest and most difficult-to-understand Dharma [truth]. The true entity of all phenomena can only be understood and shared between buddhas. This reality consists of the appearance, nature, entity, power, influence, inherent cause, relation, latent effect, manifest effect, and their consistency from beginning to end."

 

At that time the World-Honored One, wishing to state his meaning once more, spoke in verse, saying:

The great hero of the world is unfathomable. Among heavenly beings or the people of the world, among all living beings, none can understand the Buddha. The Buddha's power, fearlessness, emancipation, and meditative-absorptions, and the Buddha's other attributes -- no one can reckon or fathom.

 

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Earlier, under the guidance of countless buddhas, he fully acquired and practiced various ways, profound, subtle, and wonderful doctrines that are hard to see and hard to understand.

 

For immeasurable millions of aeons (kalpas) he has been practicing these ways until in the place of practice he achieved the goal. I have already come to know-and-see completely this great goal and recompense, the meaning of these various natures and characteristics.

I and the other buddhas of the ten directions can now understand these things. This Dharma cannot be described, words fall silent before it. Among the other kinds of living beings there are none who can comprehend it, except the... More

Dharma and Yoga Fest: Vivekananda (video)

Wisdom Quarterly; Pearl S. Driver (India-West, Sept. 19, 2013)

A group of young tabla students thrills the audience with a high-powered performance at the Dharma and Yoga Fest, Sept. 14, Pleasanton, CA (Pearl Driver/IndiaWest.com).

 

PLEASANTON, California - A gathering of nearly 5,000 people converged on the Alameda Fairgrounds on September 14th to attend the Dharma and Yoga Fest.

 

It was organized by the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS). It was also celebrated on the same day at Mission College in Santa Clara. These events were two of several such celebrations being held at 25 venues across the United States through the fall to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.

 

American Indian girls dressed in traditional saris with colorful ornaments

 

The event here was jointly supported by the Sri Datta Sai Mandir in San Ramon, CA, Shea Homes, Geeta Society, and by Art of Living. The Santa Clara event was jointly hosted by Sunnyvale and Fremont Hindu temples.

 

“This event has brought together members of diverse communities under the HSS banner,” Mani Keertan, an HSS volunteer, told India-West. “We are thrilled to have nearly 500 people of non-Indian origin interested in dharma and yoga with us today.” 

The event was meticulously and thoughtfully organized, right down to the well-posted signs that guided one to a dedicated parking lot. The crowd spanned the generations, ranging from toddlers to grandparents, and several small businesses and local non-profits set up booths in the reception area.
 

A courtyard of sorts was the center of all the action, with all of the activities developed around the core teachings of Swami Vivekananda, the 19th century Indian saint who played a pivotal role in introducing the concepts of dharma (truth, teaching; duty, social obligation) and yoga (means of yoking to the divine) to the Western world and emphasized the importance of interfaith awareness. More

Swami Vivekananda became famous in the West after coming to America and delivering a rousing speech on the timeless  dharma at the Parliament of Religion in Chicago in 1893: