Ascension Symptoms

Feeling as though you are in a pressure cooker or in intense energy; feeling stress. Remember, you are adjusting to a higher vibration and you will eventually adjust. Old patterns, behaviours and beliefs are also being pushed to the surface. There is a lot going on inside of you.

-Waking at night between 2 and 4 a.m. Much is going on in your dream state. You can't be there for long lengths of time and need a break. This is also the 'cleansing and releasing' hour.

-'Seeing' and 'hearing' things. You are experiencing different dimensions as you transition, all according to how sensitive you are and how you are wired.

-Heightened sensitivities to your surroundings. Crowds, noise, foods, TV, other human voices and various other stimulations are barely tolerable. You also overwhelm very easily and become easily overstimulated. You are tuning up. Know that this will eventually pass.

-You don't feel like doing anything. You are in a rest period, 'rebooting'. Your body knows what it needs. In addition, when you begin reaching the higher realms, 'doing' and 'making things happen' becomes obsolete as the New energies support the feminine of basking, receiving, creating, self-care and nurturing. Ask the Universe to 'bring' you what you want while you are enjoying yourself and having fun.

-An intolerance for lower vibrational things of the 3D, reflected in conversations, attitudes, societal structures, healing modalities, etc. They literally make you feel 'sick' inside. You are in a higher vibration and your energies are no longer in alignment. You are being 'pushed, to move forward; to 'be' and create the New.

-A loss of desire for food. Your body is adjusting to a new, higher state of being. Also, part of you does not want to be here anymore in the Old.

-A sudden disappearance of friends, activities, habits, jobs and residences. You are evolving beyond what you used to be, and these people and surroundings no longer match your vibration.

-Days of extreme fatigue. Your body is losing density and going through intense restructuring.

-A need to eat often along with what feels like attacks of low blood sugar. Weight gain, especially in the abdominal area. A craving for protein. You are requiring an enormous amount of fuel for this ascension process. Weight gain with an inability to loose it no matter what you do is one of the most typical experiences. Trust that your body knows what it is doing.

-Experiencing emotional ups and downs; weeping. Our emotions are our outlet for release, and we are releasing a lot.

-A wanting to go Home, as if everything is over and you don't belong here anymore. We are returning to Source. Everything is over, but many of us are staying to experience and create the New World. Also, our old plans for coming have been completed.

-Anxiety and panic. Your ego is losing much of itself and is afraid. Your system is also on overload. Things are happening to you that you may not understand. You are also losing behaviour patterns of a lower vibration that you developed for survival in 3D. This may make you feel vulnerable and powerless. These patterns and behaviours you are losing are not needed in the higher realms.

-Depression. The outer world may not be in alignment with the New, higher vibrational you. It doesn't feel so good out there. You are also releasing lower, darker energies and you are 'seeing' through them. Hang in there.

-Vivid, wild and sometimes violent dreams. You are releasing many, many lifetimes of lower vibrational energy. Many are now reporting that they are experiencing beautiful dreams. Your dream state will eventually improve and you will enjoy it again. Some experience this releasing while awake. My mother commented one day that she believed I was having nightmares in the daytime.

-Night sweats and hot flashes. Your body is 'heating' up as it burns off residue.

-Your plans suddenly change in mid-stream and go in a completely different direction. Your soul is balancing out your energy. It usually feels great in this new direction, as your soul knows more than you do. It is breaking your 'rut' choices and vibration.

-You have created a situation that seems like your worst nightmare, with many 'worst nightmare' aspects to it. Your soul is guiding you into 'stretching' into aspects of yourself where you were lacking, or into 'toning down' aspects where you had an overabundance. Your energy is just balancing itself. Finding your way to peace through this situation is the test you have set up for yourself. This is your journey, and your soul would not have set it up if you weren't ready. You are the one who finds your way out and you will. Looking back, you will have gratitude for the experience and be a different person.

The Dalai Lama's 18 Rules For Living

Buddhism  is not a religion that causes harm but the people themselves. All religions are based on moral lessons of right and wrong. Generally speaking eating meat is against Buddhist teaching because it harms other sentient beings. Having said that there is nothing absolute in Buddhism. Right and wrong is all determined by motivation and purpose and negation. For example nobody wants to loose fingers but if you have to loose it to save your life then it is the right thing to do.

At the start of the new millennium the Dalai Lama issued eighteen rules for living.

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs: 1. Respect for self 2. Respect for others 3. Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.e the gun? I chose to pull the trigger and kill, no one made me do it, I have my own will. It is wrong to make generalizations on things you don't really understand. Humans commit crimes against each other and use religion as a justification because they believe that gives them the 'divine' right to practice their evil. Religion is not the cause.

Where Science and Buddhism Meet: Emptiness

My very first YouTube video, can't bear to watch it, but I thought I'd bring it back !:)

A few key points:

Buddha said that reality was a manifestation of mind, very similar if not exactly like a dream. Mind creates reality, this is what he called the true nature of reality, or emptiness. Nothing exists separate from the mind. "Reality" is an illusion of mind.

Science has found that:
1. Unless being observed reality exists in superposition, or infinite possibility, its not until things are observed that they become "material"ized. There's an inseparable tie between mind and matter.
2. Particles flash in and out of existence from a void. We don't know where they come from or where they go, and we can only predict where they might arise.
3. We cannot know a particles position and velocity at the same time.
4. Atoms consist of 99.9999 empty space.
5. Particles simultaneously exist as waves. The wave/particle duality.

These all point to a very illusory nature to reality. I personally believe there two sides of the same coin.

Thank you for being patient with the video quality, and thanks for watching! :D

Response to comment/question:
Roberto1988:
how can you *flash* in to existence and out of existence? if you are out of existence, then you do not exist. thus, you coming back into existence is in violation if energy laws. one cannot create something out of nothing. i think you exist but undergo some sort of transformation, all the while existing.
Response:

Well particles disappear and reappear in rapid succession, our mind is what "solidifies" and "smooths" out reality. Similar to how our mind turns a movie (many single pictures) into on free flowing series of events. Its not nothingness, but its infinite possibility, "reappearing" randomly when measured, it can be better understood as non material potential. Material reality is a construct of the mind, nothing ever exists or ceases to exist. This is what quantum physics has told us, its very counterintuative, but nevertheless, is the true nature of our reality.

Two sides of the same Coin: Buddhism meets Science.

Contemporary orthodox quantum physics and early Buddhism contains crucially converging and parallel core concepts:

1: Wholeness, oneness, and unity in the sense that all is interdependent and forever entangled. Changing any part entails changing the entire universe!

2: Emptiness and insubstantiality denoting that materiality is a potential of many possible manifestations and not a solid substance or entity.

3: Mind over matter: That expels the fact that mind selects which aspects of many in a probability distribution should manifest during observation.

Thanx to Gerald Penilla, California, USA, innerprisms.com for excellence of presentation. Sorry if infringing any copyright issues.

More on Quantum Buddhism and Participatory Observation:

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/ontology.htm

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Some_Clues.htm

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Discrete_States.htm

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Quantum_Buddhism.htm

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Omniscient_Quantum_Mind.htm

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/No_Substance_'Out_There'.htm

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/pdfs/wheeler_law_without_law.pdf

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Coincident_Cross-Consistency.htm

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The_Fact_of_No-Self_Anatta.htm

Teachings of the Dali Lama on the Middle Way

The Dalai Lama, a formidable teacher, presents a way that is the middle way, but not necessarily the easy way. Because the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism has a natural gift as well as the translating and publishing resources that makes his teachings accessible, it is easy to forget the rigor and depth of those teachings. Too, Buddhism so often appears in the West as a system of daily behavior and practice that it is also easy to overlook the compelling intellectual challenge it presents to the Western understanding of reality.

His Holiness starts on familiar Buddhist ground (morality of action, suffering, compassion) and chapter by chapter adds doctrine and complexity until teachings from the heights of imaginative Tantra and Tibetan deity yoga are being explicated. For the uninitiated the climb is steep, and those seeking general ethical guidance would do better with an easier text (His Holiness has written those, too). For the serious, however, the Dalai Lama offers elegant clarity about the paradoxes at the heart of Buddhism including the central Heart Sutra itself, the teaching of form-is-emptiness and about the intellectual intricacy of Buddhist teachings. Tibetan Buddhism is considered the esoteric wing of Buddhism; this slice shows some layers of its complexity while whetting the spiritual appetite for more understanding, or what Buddhists would call the intention for enlightenment.


How To Practice: The Way To A Meaningful Life - Dalai Lama - AudioBook Mixed With Music From The Artist Bonobo www.bonobomusic.com

As a primer on living the good life, few books compete with How to Practice, another profound offering from the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Westerners may be confused by the book's title, assuming that it focuses solely on Buddhist meditation and prayer techniques. Though it does address meditation and prayer, at its core this is a book that demonstrates how day-to-day living can be a spiritual practice. There are two ways to create happiness:

The first is external. By obtaining better clothes, better shelter, and better friends we can find a certain measure of happiness and satisfaction. The second is through mental development, which yields inner happiness. However, these two approaches are not equally viable. External happiness cannot last long without its counterpart.... However, if you have peace of mind you can find happiness even under the most difficult circumstances.

Yogis Of Tibet (2002)- Full Movie

Yogis Of Tibet (2002)- Full Movie


For the first time, the reclusive and secretive Tibetan monks agree to discuss aspects of their philosophy and allow themselves to be filmed while performing their ancient practices.

Directed by
Jeffrey M. Pill

Famous Buddhist Quotes & Sayings

•             Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.

•             You only lose what you cling to.

•             Fill your mind with compassion.

•             We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.

•             The Four Reliance's. All who comprise the great assemblage of Bodhisattva are equally powerful and equally beneficial to countless beings, so that all things seem to be at their command. Sometimes beautiful lotuses and lotus trees are caused by them to grow from the middle of the ocean, or a teardrop is transformed into an ocean.  

You are all Buddhas. There is nothing you need to achieve. Just open your eyes."

The goal of Buddhism, like any self-respecting spiritual path, is not to have titles or to make distinctions between degrees of holiness; it is to wake up.

Buddha~A Documentary on the Teachings and His Life

One of his students asked Buddha,

"Are you the messiah?"

"No", answered Buddha.

"Then are you a healer?"

"No", Buddha replied.

"Then are you a teacher?" the student persisted.

"No, I am not a teacher."

"Then what are you?" asked the student, exasperated.

"I am awake," Buddha replied

..

Well, "Buddha" means "the awakened one"--that is, someone who has woken up from the dream of being a separate ego in a material universe.

Gautama Siddhartha taught for forty-five years. In all those years, and in the hundreds of thousands of teaching words that he uttered, his message was simply this:

"You are all Buddhas. There is nothing you need to achieve. Just open your eyes."

The goal of Buddhism, like any self-respecting spiritual path, is not to have titles or to make distinctions between degrees of holiness; it is to wake up.

Dalai Lama

Fear is faith that it won’t work out.

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Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.

Thich Nhat Hanh

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Karma Theory in Buddhism

by Hoang through Professor Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Powell II, opensourcebuddhism.org


This clear explanation of the complex notion of karma as the ethical undergirding for Buddhist ethics will aid the beginner to enter an understanding of Buddhism in a general way.


Once you become enlightened, you wake up one day and "get it" and realize: Oh my, how have I been living my life? You want to make a change. You find it will become easier for you. However, you also notice the people in your life and there way of thinking.

You realize, WOW you are on a totally different level of awareness and you find you have no need for some people in your life any longer...... the people whom you have attached cords too that were not serving you well suddenly seem to fade and those attachments seem to snap like a rubber band.
You may find it hard to imagine living the same life any longer. Spirit has filled your soul with energy of the light and from that moment forward your journey has only just begun. ♥

May the long time sun shine upon you. All Love surround you. And the pure LIGHT within you. Guide your way on!

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Living in a grateful world

Be grateful to those who have hurted or harmed you,
For they have reinforced your determination.

Be grateful to those who have deceived you,
For they have deepened your sight.

Be grateful to those who have hit you,
For they have reduced your karmic obstacles.

Be grateful to those who have abandoned you,
For they have taught you to be independent.

Be grateful to those who have made you stumble,
For they have strengthened your ability.

Be grateful to those who have denounced you,
For they have increased your wisdom & concentration.

Be grateful to those who have made you firm  and resolute
While helping  in your achievement.

Buddhist Chant - Heart Sutra (Sanskrit) by Imee Ooi

The Heart Sutra appears to refer to the use of perfect wisdom (prajnaparamita) to cleanse error from the heart (hridaya).

The Heart Sutra (Prajnaparamita) is one of the most universal Buddhist chants in the world. It is a classic chant recited among both the Mahayana, Zen and Vajrayana/Tibetan Buddhists.

 This is powerful chants, especially when played/chanted around the full moon, new moon and for uplifting the heart. Available in Sanskrit, Mandarin or Cantonese.

Bodhisattva The Great Compassionate One

NAMO RATNA TRAYAYA / NAMO ARYA JNANA SAGARA, VAIROCHANA / BYUHARA JARA TATHAGATAYA / ARAHATE SAMYAKSAM BUDDHAYA / NAMO SARWA TATHAGATE BHYAY ARHATA BHYAH / SAMVAKSAM BUDDHE BHVAH / NAMO AVALOKITE / SHORAYA BODHISATTVAYA / MAHA SATTVAYA / MAHA KARUNIKAYA / TADYATA / OM DARA DARA / DIRI DIRI / DURU DURU / ITTE WE / ITTE CHALE CHALE / PURACHALE PURACHALE KUSUME KUSUMA WA RE / ILI MILLI CHITI JVALAM / APANAVE SHOHA


General Translation:
1. Adoration the noble Avalokitesvara, bodhisattva, the great compassionate one.
2. Having paid adoration to One who Dispels all Fears, O noble Avalokitesvara, to You adoration, O Nilakantha.
3. I shall enunciate the 'heart' dharani which ensures all purposes, is pure and invincible for all beings, and which purifies the path of existence.
4. Thus: Lord of Effulgence, the World-Transcending One. Come, come, great bodhisattva, descend, descend. Bear in mind my heart-dharani. Do do the work. Hold fast, oh Victor, oh Great Victor. Hold on, hold on, oh Lord of the Dharani. Move, move oh my immaculate image, come come.
Destroy every poison. Quick, bear in mind, quick, quick, descend, descend. Being enlightened, being enlightened, enlighten me, enlighten me. Oh merciful
Nilakantha appear unto me. To you who eyes us, hail. To the Great Siddha hail. To the Great Siddha in Yoga hail. To Nilakantha hail. To the Boar-feaced hail.
5. Adoration to the Triple Gem. Adoration to the noble Avalokitesvara bodhisattva, hail.
http://www.thdl.org/texts/reprints/kailash/kailash_07_01_01.pdf


Avalokitesvara [Sanskrit, India] Bodhisattva of Compassion in the Lotus Sutra became known as Kuan Yin. The Chinese found it easier to think of Compassion in terms of a Loving and Compassionate goddess. [Also known as Chenrezig and also as Kannon in Japan].


"Reciting the Great Compassion Mantra can prevent and cure the eighty-four thousand kinds of diseases are covered, including AIDS and pneumonia .This Mantra can prevent and cure all kind of illness and diseases if recite with utmost sincerity". - The Venerable Master Hsuan Hua.

"To recite it a full five times in one evening is to wipe away your heavy offenses of hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands,tens of thousands of millions of aeons of birth and death". - The Dharani Sutra
- http://www.megaoneresources.com/great_compassion_mantra.htm


Benefits in reciting:

People and gods who recite and hold the Great Compassion Mantra will obtain fifteen kinds of good birth and will not suffer fifteen kinds of bad death.
The bad deaths are:
1. They will not die of starvation or privation.
2. They will not die from having been yoked, imprisoned, caned or otherwise beaten.
3. They will not die at the hands of hostile enemies.
4. They will not be killed in military battle.
5. They will not be killed by tigers, wolves, or other evil beasts.
6. They will not die from the venom of poisonous snakes, black serpents, or scorpions.
7. They will not drown or be burned to death.
8. They will not be poisoned to death.
9. They will not die as a result of sorcery.
10. They will not die of madness or insanity.
11. They will not be killed by landslides or falling trees.
12. They will not die of nightmares sent by evil people.
13. They will not be killed by deviant spirits or evil ghosts.
14. They will not die of evil illnesses which bind the body.
15. They will not commit suicide.
Those who recite and hold the spiritual Mantra of Great Compassion will not suffer any of these fifteen kinds of bad death and will obtain the following fifteen kinds of good birth:
1. Their place of birth will always have a good king.
2. They will always be born in a good country.
3. They will always be born at a good time.
4. They will always meet good friends.
5. The organs of their body will always be complete.
6. Their heart will be pure and full in the way.
7. They will not violate the prohibitive precepts.
8. Their family will be kind and harmonious.
9. They will always have the necessary wealth and goods in abundance.
10. They will always obtain the respect and help of others.
11. Their riches will not be plundered.
12. They will obtain everything they seek.
13. Dragons, gods, and good spirits will always protect them.
14. In the place where they are born they will see the Buddha and hear the Dharma.
15. They will awaken to the profound meaning of that Proper Dharma which they hear.
Those who recite and hold the Great Compassion Mantra will obtain these fifteen kinds of good birth. All gods and people should constantly recite and hold it, without carelessness.


This video features the China Disabled People's Performing Art Troupe performing the Thousand-hand Bodhisattva dance; the members are all deaf.

Music can be downloaded here (bottom of the page, second link):

http://fortuneangel.com/GuanYin/MyMusic.htm

Buddhist Quotations

First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words; Second, rely on the teachings, not on the personality of the teacher;
Third, rely on real wisdom, not superficial interpretation;
And fourth, rely on the essence of your pure Wisdom Mind, not on judgmental perceptions.
• We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.
• To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
• Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
• Pay no attention to the faults of others,
things done or left undone by others.
Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.
• What we think, we become.
• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
• Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
• He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
• An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind
• Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.

• Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
• Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
• On life's journey Faith is nourishment,
Virtuous deeds are a shelter,
Wisdom is the light by day and Right mindfulness is the protection by night.
If a man lives a pure life nothing can destroy him;
If he has conquered greed nothing can limit his freedom.

• One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the messiah?"
"No", answered Buddha.
"Then are you a healer?"
"No", Buddha replied.
"Then are you a teacher?" the student persisted.
"No, I am not a teacher."
"Then what are you?" asked the student, exasperated.
"I am awake", Buddha replied.

Spirtual Paths...Buddhism and the path of the Bodhisattva

We created this video because we have respect for and strive  to live with the  heart-centered love of the Bodhisattva. They are those  who are able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this.

Buddhism provides pragmatic, effective, and experiential information for spiritual development rather than being theoretical or doctrinal. it provides spiritual teachings that are simple, direct and demystified in nonsectarian, integrated pathways to wisdom, personal transformation, and enlightenment for modern men and women actively engaged with life.

Zen in the Garden

Zen" means "to think about anything" and "arrive at the contemplation of" The purpose of the mini-garden of Zen - give you the "feel the moment", freeing up time from life's troubles and fleeting domestic troubles.
According to Eastern philosophy of Zen Buddhism is quintessence. Garden symbolizes the excitement and serenity that can instill a sense of grandeur to the owner and the balance through the contemplation of stones and sculptures.

It is believed that Zen meditation promotes relaxation and in the modern world is fleeting. Your movements become serene, freeing the mind, giving inspiration and creativity. When contemplating a mini-garden of Zen it is possible to feel a new kind of relaxation that allows you to draw upon the harmony and splendor - and in my heart and in mind.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_rock_garden