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Truths To Learn About Life

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Truths To Learn About Life

Alanna Ketler – Do you want to be a better person? Do you believe you aren’t reaching your full potential, and know you can do better? What’s stopping you? Is it anxiety? A lack of drive or ambition? Or are you a procrastinator?

Whatever the case may be, one thing is for sure: You can always do better. Perhaps all you really need is some tough love. I mean, someone has to tell you the truth if you aren’t getting it, so allow me.

Here are five brutally honest truths you need to hear in order to get your shit together. Continue reading →

Under the Light of the Buddha’s Moon

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Astrology Forecast May 12th – 19th 2019

full moonLorna Bevan – Last week Mercury was alchemised by Awakener Uranus just as Venus collided with Awakener Eris and aligned with Saturn/Pluto and the South Node of Fate. Mercury/Uranus brought revelation after revelation, hidden truth after hidden truth into the light of day whilst Venus/Eris/Pluto exposed issues of right and wrong politically, globally and collectively in what is just the start of a huge karmic re-balancing through to 2022 when the USA has its first ever Pluto Return since the constitution was founded.

This week on Wednesday May 15th Venus conjuncts Uranus in Taurus while Mercury opposes the Full Moon in Scorpio -expect some emotional and physical jolts. No more comfort zone, no hiding place, this is reality road. Keep in mind that this is a Year for Grace and Grit and for seeing things as they are, not as you want them to be; for going deeper not wider by switching off your addiction to more, new, bigger, better; for showing up + refusing to feel powerless. Continue reading →

The Oakland Buddha – How One Buddha Statue Brought Neighborhood Crime Down by 82%

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Ruth Kenny – A non-religious man in Oakland managed to virtually eliminate neighborhood crime with nothing more than a statue of Buddha bought from a local hardware store.

The neighborhood of 11th Avenue and East 19th Street was formerly a rough part of Oakland, riddled with a variety of illegal activities ranging from littering and vandalization to drug dealing, robberies, prostitution, and assaults. That is until one local, Dan Stevenson, purchased a 60-cm-tall stone statue of Buddha and placed it on the street corner opposite his home. People were constantly dumping mattresses, couches and other junk there, and all kind of shady characters would hang around, so he figured the statue would be an improvement. But, in this case, calling the effect of the statue an improvement would be a gross understatement.

“I would have stuck Christ up there if he would have kept the mattresses off,” Stevenson jokingly told Oakland North. “Except Christ is so controversial with people. Buddha is a neutral dude.” Continue reading →

Recalibration

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wesakGillian MacBeth Louthan – As these energies push and pull us in every direction we are recalibrated into a higher alertness. this cosmic re-sculpting can have a great wear and tear on the human body, electrical system, mind and spirit.

Like a million piece puzzle we seek to see a picture of the new us, but alas the puzzle box has no portrait to help us find our lost pieces. We are all looking a little strewn about as the command is ‘change now! Or get caught up in the whirlwind of this cosmic shift.‘

Humanity is no longer driving the holy car thru the heavenly configurations. We stand on the edge of the future, scraping ourselves from the past like barnacles on a boat in the shipyard. Not seeing in totality that which is birthing itself right in front of our eyes.

This powerful bull-fed month gives us the stamina ti move out of the confusion into a place a momentary peace, and in that moment we can remember and embrace all layers of our light as it is issued thru time, seeing the fullness of ourselves.   Continue reading →

Awesome Zen Stories That Teach Important Life Lessons

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zenMatt Valentine – Zen has a rich tradition of storytelling. Actually, just about the entire human race has a rich history of storytelling. Why do we like stories so much? Because we can identify with them. Stories, whether real or not, pull and tug at our emotions. We connect personally with stories.

Whereas someone can tell us that it’s important for us to appreciate and care for our parents, another person can tell us a story about the life of a daughter and her mother, and about how neither could ever see eye-to-eye all the way up until the day that the mother passed away.

Even if you aren’t a daughter, but a son, or if it was your father whom you had that type of relationship with, or even if you just feel like you don’t appreciate your mother or father (or both) enough, regardless, a story like that can touch you in a way that someone simply telling you, “hey, it’s important that you appreciate your parents”, could never do.

We need to experience something directly in order to really learn what it’s about. This is wisdom, as opposed to knowledge much like you’d acquire in a class at school, a parrot-like type of learning that serves as a nice basis for establishing the necessary foundation for certain larger tasks, but which can serve little real use elsewhere particularly in advancing your well-being. Continue reading →