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Death: What No One Wishes to Discuss

TRUTH BE TOLD pt 3

The continuing interview, may it spread the news far and wide, may it stem the comming tide. May all those who see it become the view and enter into the one state.

TRUTH BE TOLD pt 2

Here's more of the previous interview. I do hope these don't "disappear" off the web.

TRUTH BE TOLD

This all makes sense don't you agree? Here follows Project Camelot's interview with Richard Hoagland. (http://www.enterprisemission.com/)

Love Beyond Time

A moment of happiness,

you and I sitting on the veranda,

apparently two, but one in soul, you and I.

We feel the flowing water of life here,

and the birds singing.

The stars will be watching us,

and we will show them

what it is to be a thin crescent moon.

You and I unselfed, will be together,

indifferent to idle speculation, you and I.

The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar

as we laugh together, you and I.

In one form upon this earth,

and in another form in a timeless sweet land. ~Rumi~

Starflights

She kissed the flower and fell into his arms, he caught her against his heart and they tumbled together falling up towards the stars...as one they became the new star born from the heart of dark fire.

Timelessness Reborn

Sometimes images and music work just as well as words

Expansion

∞

When ever you feel that your problems in life are overwhelming this is a good film to watch to gain some "perspective" on the situation...

Solar

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The Test of Time

Questions abound...

It appears that when we observe things, experiences and so on they are experiencing changes which we mark with measurements or increments of time. Yet exploring the notion of time we have yet to find that it exists beyond a relative framework. For that matter, all of what we term the world has no real existence beyond our conceptions of it. Examining each thing we encounter including our own thoughts will readily show us this. So if there is no time beyond our relative experience of it...and still it is a concept....the fading of a flower is only a comparison of our memory of that flower and its faded form in the moment of perception. Exploring the notion of the past we can see that the past does not exist anywhere in that it is not an arbitrary location that we can travel to except within the framework of our perceptions of it. Examine your experiences of the past. It is all memory. Even if you were to present me with a receipt stating the date and time of a purchase made a month ago, that is NOT the past, that is not the collection of moments in which I spent shopping for those items. Indeed, those moments and only a fraction of them are available to the conscious mind are trapped like flies in amber. Like the amber which has hardened from its once pliable form, these moments are still pictures or at best short vignettes of that experience. And the images, the thoughts are NOT that experience. Which brings me to a question...do we truly experience time? Given that my impressions of it are that its nature is illusory and that I am told that I experience time by calendars, watches, clocks and so forth, can I truly say that time itself is fact, is truth? Yes I can, and have watched the movements of the stars, the sun and the moon. Their great slow procession across my perception of the sky. Yet in the moment of watching fully there is no movement, and yet much movement. I'm questioning a notion upon which civilizations are built and I realize that may be uncomfortable for some. Many are secure in the idea that the sun rises and sets even though its not really doing so. I am venturing to the cliffs though, in search of truth. The truth that the present moment is. That appearances are like bubbles or dreams. More musings later...

Lost

You left our warm home one winter's night,

Venturing down to the icy water, silently drifting,

Flown there with the netherbirds which must roam.

You'd left faint prints in the snow, I thought,

To show me where I must go.

I tried to reach you, ran quite fast,

But you'd gone where I cannot follow:

The waves are deep and the boat long gone

From its roost in shoreline's shallows.

You floated away in the thin row boat,

Hardly a shelter on such a sea, no oars you took,

On Hades' bark, no look behind, you followed

Blythely some phantom empty shadow.

I called to you, but your eyes

Slid from mine to over yonder, what's

that he sees I wonder,and

as your mouth chattered some inane moonlit blather,

I realized you couldn't hear my cries.

Your giggles,far from happy, were

filled with the empty drifting on endless seas,

Alone and confused and without help,

with no land in sight for eternities.

Your line to here and now grew taught and thin

And snapped eventually so tight it pulled,

You venturing to that place where darkness

reigns supreme, the vast desert of no man's land,

that has no king nor queen.

My heart is heavy now with grief,

For I cannot help you nor even offer

Temporary relief for you who cannot hear me.

Like a beautiful silk tapestry that has come

undone, you've left me far behind and now

you've gone and lost your Mind.

Ruach Elohim

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Destinations

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Dewachen

THE QUALITIES OF DÉWACHEN
In general, to enter a buddha-realm, one must have removed even the most subtle of obscurations, kept very pure samaya, and have attained the first bodhisattva level. So, for ordinary beings, it is very difficult to enter a buddha-realm. However, due to Amitabha's strong wishing-prayers, anyone who makes a sincere wishing-prayer to go to Déwachen can be reborn there, even though one has not purified unvirtuous karma nor liberated oneself from the disturbing emotions.
In this present Superior Aeon, the Bodhisattvas Manjushri, Chenrezig, and Vajrapani, as well as deities, nagas and humans, requested Shakyamuni to teach "The Sutra of the Pure Realm of Déwachen". This sutra describes the qualities of Déwachen. In brief, these qualities are that the earth is made of precious substances, the ground being as flat as the palm of a hand, not uneven like our world of mountains and valleys. It is vast and spacious, and the light shining from the body of Amitabha, and from the jewels and precious substances, makes it very clear. The ground is not rough, solid or stony, but soft, smooth and comfortable. If one were to press down on the ground, it would give way and spring back like foam rubber.
In Déwachen, the trees are made of 7 precious gems: all the roots are of gold, the trunks are silver, the branches lapis-lazuli; the large leaves are crystal and the small ones are pyrites; the blossoms are pearls and the fruits are diamonds. Whatever one wishes for appears from these trees. Jewels, tassels and adornments loop from one tree to another. Birds and animals, unlike those of our world, are manifestations of Buddhas and bodhisattvas. Some are the colours of conches, turquoises and corals, and their bird-calls are very enchanting, like the sound of a lute. Within those sounds are taught the vast and deep teachings of the Dharma.
The rivers flow softly and gently, carrying the fragrance of camphor and white and red sandalwood. This water has 8 qualities: its essence is very cool, its taste delicious, its outer appearance light, soft to the touch, very clear and unsullied by stones or pebbles; if drunk, it gives no harm to the throat or stomach. On the water are buddha-manifestations of geese, ducks and cranes. One can bathe in the many pools, reached by descending flights of 7 steps made of precious stones.
Although these pools are deep, as one enters, the depth of the water adapts itself to the size of one's body. Surrounding these bathing-pools are fragrant utpala and lotus blooms, emanating light-rays. At the tips of the light-rays appear innumerable Buddhas, each surrounded by Arhats.
Within this buddha-realm resides Amitabha, known in Tibetan as 'Öpamé', meaning 'Immeasurable Light' or 'Limitless Radiance' because light-rays from his body pervade every buddha-realm, illuminating them all. He is also known as Buddha Amitayus, or in Tibetan 'Tsépamé', meaning 'Immeasurable Life', because the extent of his life cannot be calculated. His body is as red as ruby, which symbolises the warmth of his compassion extending to all beings.

Having taken birth in Déwachen, one does not hear any more even the mere names of the 8 unfavourable states, or of the lower existences . In Déwachen, there are no ordinary women with anger, pride or desire. In this world, sometimes men love women, and at other times they are angry with them and quarrel, yet feel great suffering when they die. However, in Déwachen there are only goddesses, 3000 emanated to serve each individual.
If someone in Déwachen wishes to visit the other pure realms of, for example, Vairochana, Ratnasambhava, Tara or the Glorious Copper-Coloured Mountain of Guru Rinpoche, one can simply go there, receive empowerments and teachings from those particular Buddhas, and return again to Déwachen. Having been born in Déwachen, one possesses unobscured clairvoyant powers, including the ability to see other beings in their particular worlds and give them protection and blessings, or, at the time of their death, to go to the bardo to meet them and bring them to Déwachen.

ILLUSION

i fell in love with this guy
he was deep like the woods
intense and mellow as the river
vast and lovely like the sky.
he loved me like no other,
in mind and soul but as for
body he never was my lover.
in my mind we communed,
in my heart we touched
in my essence we were one.
i fell in love with this guy
intense like lightening and soft
as a morning sky.
i turned a blue marble i found along
the road over and over examining
for cracks and flaws, and kept it,finding none.
i turned my new love i found along the path
over and over looking for its beauty
and finding only illusion and sorrow,
i left it there where hope couldn't follow.
in my mind we communed,
in my heart we touched
in my essence were we one...

yet all along there was no one.