The tui is a wonderful bird that makes incredible sounds.
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That’s a huge agave - wow, so impressive with the top part. Thank you for that pic. And that’s you…? The standing Buddha… 
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indeed… thank you for sharing beloved 
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`Not me, borrowed it from the internet lol
Loved the tu video
I am hoping with the advancement of AI , bringing plants and animals back to their natural equilibriums will be a strong possibiity.
A man can dream…
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Amen
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thank you so much @Kalabasis for transcribing some parts of our Pure Lands Pilgrimage:
“So part of what the practice of meditation is about is negation and cessation. Mopping up. So these teachings in a certain way are teachings that are the addition of a tool that is designed for subtraction.
So this is like a snow shovel a mop or a sponge. These are teachings are designed to sponge away, to remove the dust and thereby uncover/dis-cover these truths.
The logic here is straightforward… If the ultimate Pure Land is right here, right now, always all ready here, what is obscuring it?”
This has inspired me to share this video:
Loved it and made some notes. The story in the end about the bus driver is absolutely delicious and somehow answers your question about what might be obscuring it:
High self-awareness
What are you feeling?
Self-management
What do you do when you are feeling?
Social Awareness
Practicing empathy and caring about people - being a good listener.
Relationship Management
Handle conflicts well and keep calm. Being an effective communicator and feel you can work with and trust someone
EI is a learned and learnable set of abilities.
Neuroplasticity - how the brain changes through repeated experience - HABIT CHANGE, being uncomfortable in the beginning.
A leader with. Hight EI makes you feel supported, guided, inspired and motivated. You feel clear about what’s expected from you.
You act from an optimal state, not desperate.
The leader is the one with the most contagious emotions.
Positive mood, I feel good, enthusiastic, has a ripple effect.
From grumpy to upbeat."
And Yes, I also love EI or EQ and Daniel Goldman’s work!
I was not familiar with the work of Viktor Frankl… a bit too complex for my simple mind frame… but thanks for sharing this very interesting article about it:
Loved the quote from AH’s interview with Ken Wilber:
“There are actually several different meanings to the word wholeness…there is waking up growing up, cleaning up, opening up and showing up and each one of those gives us a different type of wholeness.”
LOVED this. Being fully responsible 
( incidentally, the overlap of two circles, which can be symbols of two dimensions, results in the shape of a fish! A psychic Christian spiritualist once taught me that this is the real ( secret) meaning of the archetypal fish in Christian theology!)
Thank you also for transcribing another gem from our Pure Lands Workshop with Andrew on Friday, May 24, where he states;
**“**So threefold non-purity is samsara, That’s Duality. That is Dukkhavati. That is where we live. Subject object self other inside outside right wrong. The Consequence of that is suffering. Samsara. We want to transform this threefold non-purity into threefold purity. And purify even consciousness itself. And so in doing this we are going to bring appearance back into harmony with reality. Another way to talk about why we suffer. We suffer because appearance is not in harmony with reality. “
I will watch this video in this week…
sounds SO interesting.
thank you for sharing.
and thank you for caring.
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this article came into my lap today…
reminded me of AH’s Pure Lands Pilgrimage:
"So, in a way, it is our experiment, the question we are asking, that determines the physical nature of light. This introduces a new element into physics: the observer’s interaction with the observed. In more extreme interpretations, we could almost say that the intention of the experimenter determines the physical nature of what is being observed.
(…)
For the electron, the standing waves appear for the same reason, but now the electron wave closes on itself like an ouroboros, the mythic serpent that swallows its own tail. When we shake our rope more vigorously, the pattern of standing waves displays more peaks. An electron at higher orbits corresponds to a standing wave with more peaks.
With Einstein’s enthusiastic support, de Broglie boldly extended the notion of wave-particle duality from light to electrons and, by extension, to every moving material object. Not only light, but matter of any kind was associated with waves. "
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Thank you my friend for doing this! You are not the first person to recommend this class, summer is the worst time for me to get schooled, so much is going on, but hoping to wet my beak in this class soon, if not in the fall or winter for sure.
Thank you
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This information just fell into my lap a few weeks ago… when I received it, I felt it was a Spiritual Jackpot!..
I feel to share it now here:
The first bhūmi, the Very Joyous. (Skt. pramuditā), in which one rejoices at realizing a partial aspect of the truth;
The second bhūmi, the Stainless. (Skt. vimalā), in which one is free from all defilement;
The third bhūmi, the Light-Maker. (Skt. prabhākarī), in which one radiates the light of wisdom;
The fourth bhūmi, the Radiant Intellect. (Skt. arciṣmatī), in which the radiant flame of wisdom burns away earthly desires;
The fifth bhūmi, the Difficult to Master. (Skt. sudurjayā), in which one surmounts the illusions of darkness, or ignorance as the Middle Way;
The sixth bhūmi, the Manifest. (Skt. abhimukhī) in which supreme wisdom begins to manifest;
The seventh bhūmi, the Gone Afar. (Skt. dūraṃgamā), in which one rises above the states of the Two vehicles;
The eighth bhūmi, the Immovable. (Skt. acalā), in which one dwells firmly in the truth of the Middle Way and cannot be perturbed by anything;
The ninth bhūmi, the Good Intelligence. (Skt. sādhumatī), in which one preaches the Law freely and without restriction;
The tenth bhūmi, the Cloud of Doctrine. (Skt. dharmameghā), in which one benefits all sentient beings with the Law (Dharma), just as a cloud sends down rain impartially on all things.
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Yesterday it arrived unexpectedly…
finally…
What the Bleep Do We Know
in a version also for USA and with high resolution:
enjoy
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Will have to search for it . . .
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oooohhh… I really thought this one was also available in the USA…
oh well, next time that I go to the USA, if I remember, I will look for it! 
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I learned this dedication of Merit with our beloved AH and today, inspired in @Bucket and his dear dog friend Pan, decided to make a recording:
@Andrew mentioned that this song happened spontaneously after a journey of him with a Lama (don’t recall his name - do you @Kalabasis ?), where the car driving them was killing a lot of mosquitos. So they decided to sing together after, and… it worked! Since the Pure Lands Pilgrimage I have been singing it every day, most of the times, before going to bed.
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Beautiful 
It’s like a lullaby. Very soothing. Thank you so much for sharing and dedicating it to Pan. May it help calm any fear or anxiety he may be feeling.
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AMEN
LOVED it! This was really nice of you to do. Your voice is heavenly, total Heart opener!
Its so important, Master Holecek also taught me about how significant this practice is.
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thank you @Kalabasis for this gold…
“With the pledges of friendship in this life – brief as a dream – to guide us, we tie the bonds for meeting before enlightenment in the coming life. If I am behind, I will be guided by others; If I go first, I will guide others. Becoming true friends through many lives, we bring each other to the practice of the Buddha-way, and as true teachers in each life, we will together sunder all delusion and attachment.”
and for this pure faith…
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Beloved @Kalabasis … thank you also SO much for this gem…
https://shinranworks.com/related-works-by-other-authors/essentials-of-faith-alone/
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Hi kids! I mean all beloved sojourners here in the NCC Community Sangha, hello!
Just an occasional visitor here sending light and love your ways, although not quite habituated to hanging here on a regular basis!
So happy to share however when drawn here, especially with the regulars, @BlessingsDeers @_Barry @mbready @NightHawk999 @Michele1. Salutations!
This day I’m very glad to share with you from the Heart this offering from a dear friend of mine, James Daniel Mctague, a luminated Los Angelian and founder of The Love Foundry.
See https://thelovefoundry.com/
This offering coming thru him is entitled “The Bonfire Of Love”.
Enjoy dear ones! Blessings! 
The Bonfire of Love.pdf (71.9 KB)
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