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Stole this video from @fenwizard :star_struck:

The visuals are so surreal, its a masterpiece!

A+ lyrics:
To your crystalline waters, divine spirit
A tus aguas cristalinas, espíritu divino

Carrying your feminine healing blessing
Llevando tu bendición curandera femenina

Blood of the earth, water is life
Sangre de la tierra, agua es la vida

Flowing, flowing, flowing
Fluyendo, fluyendo, fluyendo

Singing your mysterious song
Cantando tu canción misteriosa

Celebrating, rejoicing, teaching with movement
Celebrando, alegrando, enseñando con movimiento

Dancing the cycles of life
Bailando los ciclos de la vida

I will be like water, like water
Yo seré como el agua, como el agua

Transparent like water, like water
Transparente como el agua, como el agua

Water, listening to your voice
Agua, escuchando tu voz

Speaking in the language of creation
Hablando en la lengua de la creación

Mother teach me, guide my path
Madre enséñame, guía mi camino

To flow with confidence, be like the river
A fluir con confianza, ser como el río

Flowing, flowing, flowing
Fluyendo, fluyendo, fluyendo

Singing your mysterious song
Cantando tu canción misteriosa

Celebrating, rejoicing, teaching with movement
Celebrando, alegrando, enseñando con movimiento

Dancing the cycles of life
Bailando los ciclos de la vida

I will be like water, like water
Yo seré como el agua, como el agua

Transparent like water, like water
Transparente como el agua, como el agua

fluid
Fluida

Like water, like water
Como el agua, como el agua

clear and pure
Clara y pura

Like water, like water
Como el agua, como el agua

I come to listen to the secrets of water
Vengo a escuchar los secretos del agua

I come to sing with the mystery of water
Vengo a cantar con el misterio del agua

I come to listen to the secrets of water
Vengo a escuchar los secretos del agua

I come to sing with the mystery of water
Vengo a cantar con el misterio del agua

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it starts with a permission:

agua hermosa permisso para orar
(beautiful water, permission to pray)

that’s how great things happen - with connection to a gate keeper, or a request, or asking for permission :heart_eyes:

lovely song. it’s already in several playlists of mine :heart_eyes: :pray:t3:

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Peter Makela Land Painting 114

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This is a good occasion to share that I LOVE the art in money :star_struck: and share a story with you…
Yesterday my mother found a hundred dollar bill on the street. It was wet. She thought of leaving it at the nearest cafe, but when she put the note on the counter the lady said “Take the note from there… it’s wet…” She did so, and took it home.
My father didn’t even care, he said it must be from a rare country.

As soon as I looked at her, I felt her energy. I looked at her back and read “IN GOD WE TRUST”. I was deeply moved by this message.
Went to a currency exchange store and it was exchanged into euros.
The money helped someone today, in a delicious synchronicity.

I took two inspirations from this:
Trust in God and
value what is in front of us.

Thank you Life.

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Terrific experience for your mother!

When I traveled a bit I was always fascinated by the money used in different countries. American paper currency is green and white with black outlining, same-sized and has a definite feel because of the special paper used, hard to counterfeit—at least it used to be. Basically, boring. Canadian currency was so much prettier and elegant! In pre-Euro Europe I remember having pockets full of multi-colored, different sized bills with all sorts of great pictures and numbers assigned to them. Ditto for the different sized coins, some with holes and some with geometric edges. In Asia it was a similar Bardo. I remember being a millionaire in Bali where the exchange rate was something like 6k to one dollar and when I was in Thailand in the late 1960s the largest bill was a Loi Baht, 100 Baht, roughly US $20. In some countries the King and Queen are on most bills, all sizes and colors, and in Nepal, the 1000 rupee note was a particular scene from a village not far from where we lived—so when we visited there we held up the bill to the scene and marveled.

I was in London in 2002 for Christmas with my daughter when I exchanged some money for pounds, was given some old Five Pound notes no longer in circulation, worthless! When I was living in Argentina on assignment in the late 1960s we were paid in US dollars. Well the exchange rate doubled during our stay, in effect doubling my salary. On the other side, I was living in Japan in 1971, where the exchange rate was 360 yen to the US dollar but when the US went off the gold standard the rate immediately fell to 340 to the dollar and eventually under 300 by the time I left. That’s how inflation works, in reverse. Quite an amazing Bardo to be in! The best thing that ever happened to me was flipping a Five Paisa coin in Nepal, used to determine where I would be posted— it came out mountains, and there I went. Changed the vector my life!

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Amen Sister :cowboy_hat_face:

Great story and even better teaching!

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It has arrived… I am deeply moved, lovingly touched by so much beauty. Deep beauty. Our Nina was painted by a very special artist.

The painter shared with me that “what moves her to do these portraits is to honor the love these wonderful soul companions and be with them”.

Because of the time spent painting, I reminded the budhist traditions of singing and reading the book of the dead for a 49 days period, blessing people’s passage. This is what I felt - a heartfelt, creative way of accompanying Nina making her ways to the other side.

She sure has earned this for being so sweet and strong, compassionate and graceful, infinitely noble and generous.

Thank you life for such a divine piece of art.

Thank you for sharing this also with you.

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Peter Makela • Sky Painting #382 (Bhutan Sky #1) 12” x 12” • Acrylic on canvas • 1/25/24

Sky Painting #383 (Bhutan Sky #2) 12” x 12” • Acrylic on canvas • 1/25/24

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“Healing” by Autumn Sky Morrison.

Harmonic Transformation

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Spoiler alert:

TRON: Legacy - Recovering the Disc - (Open Matte - HDR - 4K - 5.1)

Tron Legacy - I Flight

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Mark Schebell

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Alex and Allison Grey on their Chapel of Sacred Mirrors,
now open in Wappinger, NY.

Alex Grey on Sacred Geometry

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Peter Makela

As humans collectively work at an unprecedented rate to destroy our one and only earth, the veneration of nature and the natural world has never been more timely and necessary. I choose to do this through painting. Painting for me is not just a way to share metaphors through symbols but is also a practice of focused prayer.

For the last two years, I have lived in the Himalayas of Nepal and the Kingdom of Bhutan. I came to Nepal in 2022 on a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue a series of Sky Paintings in relation to my study and practice of Vajrayana Buddhism, particularly Madhyamaka Philosophy which investigates emptiness and innate luminosity. During this time while working on the Sky Paintings a series of Land Paintings started to develop simultaneously.

The visual language of these pieces has developed significantly in the last year. Snakes, Sky Spaciousness, spontaneously arising hybrid forms, rainbow light, and multi-layered spatial structures are reappearing themes of this body of work. All of these elements are greatly informed by my immersion in the culture, landscape, and religions of the roof of the world.

All throughout the Himalayas is an all pervasive belief in and veneration of powerful semi divine serpent spirits called Nagas or Lu in Tibetan. In Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Tibet, Buddhists, Hindus, animists and a plethora of different shamanic traditions respect, believe in and make offerings to these spirits. Nagas are primarily considered water spirits but are also seen as the guardians and protectors of Nature and the natural world. If one pollutes the land, contaminates a water source, engages in mining or deforestation this will severely upset the local nagas who will then unleash punishment through disease and calamity on the local human population. Vajrayana Buddhists have many specific prayers and ritual practices to ask forgiveness from these beings. Nagas have the ability to heal and balance nature and through prayer and communion with them humans can play a key collaborating role in this process.

As we face unprecedented global disasters, the Naga and mutually beneficial relationships with them both as a metaphor and applied practice are absolutely essential.

Nagas and interlinked knotwork forms have become a reoccurring theme in my work. My art is both a metaphor and offering, made with the aspiration that we may all realize interdependence and return to older understandings of living in harmony with the natural world and all those who we share this precious planet with.

Lu Language #4

38 x 27 cm

Ink, watercolor and colored pencil on paper

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Peter Makela Land Painting #115 • 62 x 46 cm • Ink, watercolor and colored pencil on Arches

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Peter Makela, I paint sky’s in the morning so I can paint snakes at night • Land Painting #116 • 27 x 19 cm • Ink, watercolor and colored pencil on paper

Peter Makela is at Bumthang Valley.

7 h · Jakar, Bhutan ·

Namo Lokeshvaraya, If but a single drop of the nectar of your name were to fall upon my ears, They would be filled with the sound of Dharma for countless lives. Wondrous Three Jewels, may the brilliance of your renown. Bring perfect happiness everywhere!

  • Patrul Rinpoche

Sky Painting #392 (Bhutan Sky #12) • 12” x 12” • Acrylic on canvas • 2/19/24

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“Eternal Voyage”

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