Magnificent
The Amazing Monasteries of Bhutan
via kuriositas.com
From the Taktsang Dzong to the Lhuentse Dzong...
The Kingdom of Bhutan is sometimes overlooked, locked between Tibet and India, but the Land of the Dragon as the Bhutanese call it is home to some of the most exquisite Buddhist monasteries in the word. Here, we take a fleeting visit to some of the over forty monasteries in Bhutan – quite a number considering the population of the entire country is only around 700,000.
The Sacred Tree
by ~Industrial-Forest
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I stood still and was a tree amid the wood,
Knowing the truth of things unseen before;
Of Daphne and the laurel bow
And that god-feasting couple old
that grew elm-oak amid the wold.
'Twas not until the gods had been
Kindly entreated, and been brought within
Unto the hearth of their heart's home
That they might do this wonder thing;
Nathless I have been a tree amid the wood
And many a new thing understood
That was rank folly to my head before.
I stood still and was a tree amid the wood,
Knowing the truth of things unseen before;
Of Daphne and the laurel bow
And that god-feasting couple old
that grew elm-oak amid the wold.
'Twas not until the gods had been
Kindly entreated, and been brought within
Unto the hearth of their heart's home
That they might do this wonder thing;
Nathless I have been a tree amid the wood
And many a new thing understood
That was rank folly to my head before.
Ezra Pound - The Tree
Chief Arvol Looking Horse
via wolakota.org
The leader of the Lakota Dakota Nakota Oyate, the Great Souix nation, Chief Arvol Looking Horse said, "A man or woman without SPIRIT is very dangerous. The absence of SPIRIT is causing suffering everywhere. We don't want to believe we are in a time of survival because we have forgotten our spirits. The absence of spirit is causing suffering everywhere. We have forgotten that Grandmother Earth has a spirit. Disconnected souls are hurting others without even knowing they are hurting others – those hurt include animals, trees and waterways."
Bless
via opertura.org
by Overture
music: Bless by KiraKira from her album Our Map to the Monster Olympics
An old man confronts his fears, traveling across a personal landscape to realize and accept his path.
The Voice of Being
David Karchere writes...
I am the voice of Being,
Speaking in human hearts and minds.
I am the living Word,
Creative vibration born in the highest heaven.
I am the sacred presence
Which lives at the heart of all creation.
I have more faces than there are rocks in the desert,
Or stones on the ocean beach.
I have been here many lifetimes
Through all history and before.
I am born again with each baby who comes into the world,
With each inspired thought,
Every longing for home.
And I am present with each one as they leave.
I am the voice of Being,
The sacred presence of the One Who Dwells.
I call all people,
All lands,
All kingdoms,
To my spirit.
I invite all hearts to melt,
All consciousness to turn
To face me and know me as I am.
I am heard by the innocent,
By the open hearted,
By the one who is not too proud,
Nor too humble to see my face.
I am heard by those who know
That human effort,
Human belief,
Human feeling
Alone is futile.
And that all understanding,
All compassion,
All power,
And life itself
Abide in me.
I am your voice,
And the true voice of every man,
Every woman,
Of all human being.
Hear me,
Know me,
Embrace my spirit,
Your spirit, now.
Be me in human flesh.
I am the voice of Being,
The sacred presence of the Living God.
The Calling
From the star-lit inner realms of being,
I speak of unfolding beauty,
Timeless reality,
And the opportunity which arrives new born with the morning sun.
I evoke remembrance
Of your deepest calling,
Your truest reality,
And your cosmic place
Here and now,
Holding this cycle of creation.
From out of the whirlwind,
At the center of creation,
I speak.
I am the peaceful center of being.
I am stillness in the midst of the turning world,
At rest and assured,
In the middle of the human drama.
I am your strength because I am constant and unmoving in my love.
I am your wisdom because I am the reality you seek.
I am your blessing, to be received by you and given to your world.
I am calling to you even now
From the Unseen.
Closer to you than the breath you take.
In dreams and thoughts I come,
In your restless urge
That will never settle for the trinkets
Of the world.
Hear me now as I say this one thing to you.
Take your place.
Take your place.
Be where you belong
In thought,
In feeling,
In awareness,
In answering the calling of your life,
The calling of the Reality you are,
And which you serve.
Join me, dear one,
At the center of the storm,
Inside the clamor and the noise,
Cloaked in my love,
Bathed in my peace,
Overflowing with my joy.
You belong here.
And from here
You may bring
The transforming, uplifting power
Of the whirlwind
Into the phenomenal world.
Remember now,
Remember now,
Your place in this home among the stars,
You were not put here by accident
On this blue-green orb,
The third planet from the sun.
You and your friends made her,
And are restoring her now,
Beginning with her crowning creation,
Man and woman
Made in the image and likeness of who you are.
The morning stars shout for joy!
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