Some complain, others conquer…
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October 31, 2024
Dharma Protector Day is the monthly day we honour our guardian angels, or protectors, with puja practices or tea offerings. This special day, celebrated on the 29th day of each lunar month (the day before the New Moon), is our way of saying thanks and requesting ongoing helpful activities to support the Dharma.
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Also a great practice for enhancing one’s sleep, often cited within the Dream Yoga teachings, particularly regarding nightmares and bad dreams.
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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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@BlessingsDeers You asked a while ago about the Taoist text “The Secret of the Golden Flower” that Jung wrote a commentary on. Here is a summary of the book and the meditation practice that it teaches.
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I LOVE it thank you so much for sharing this here 
A-ha! thank you so much for sharing 
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You’ll hear Daniel and Rinpoche discuss:
- Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche’s dual role in Rinpoche’s life as parent and teacher;
- Rinpoche’s handshake method, and his unique style of teaching;
- the most valuable teaching and advice that Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche gave to Rinpoche; and
- much more!
Mentioned in this episode:
- Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s course A New Website for the Fully Being Course by Tsoknyi Rinpoche - Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Be sure to come back next week for episode four in our Blazing Splendor Podcast Series with special guest Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.
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Brought up in Mia Lux’s course last night:
Debate Between Waking and Dream
Advice Songs and Poems Tibetan Masters Mipham Rinpoche
An Illusory Symphony
A Song of Debate Between Waking and Dream States
by Mipham Rinpoche
Oṃ svasti. I bow from the crown of my head to the noble deity Mañjushri! I shall now share the following discourse.
When it comes to the appearances of last night’s good dream and the direct experience of today’s waking state, they are similar in that both can produce attachment and similar in that both come to an end.
The dream state holds that what appears in dreams truly exists; the waking state holds that what appears while awake right now truly exists. Now Awake and Dreaming shall debate on who is right.
The overly exaggerating daytime state, Awake, declares, “Last night’s dream, you are the appearance of delusion.” To which, the magically displaying dream state, Dreaming, replies, “Not only I, but you too are the appearance of delusion.”
Awake continues, “Right now is not a delusion, but truly exists. The proof itself is that objects of perception actually appear.” To which, Dreaming replies, “But at night they actually appear too, so that is not conclusive.”
Awake says, “But right now they are not here, so it is conclusive.” To which Dreaming replies, “Today’s appearances are not here tomorrow, so it is not conclusive.”
Awake says, “I directly perceive with the senses, so it is conclusive.” To which Dreaming replies, “But I too directly perceive, so it is not conclusive.”
Awake says, “My appearances have a lengthy duration and are stable, so they are conclusive!” To which Dreaming replies, “But everything has a duration, whether short or long, in both our states!”
Awake says, “When you dream about rock mountains, you can walk unimpededly right through them! I will accept that you are true if this can be done while awake.” To which Dreaming replies, “This could be done while awake under the right conditions as well, but even while asleep, without conditions it isn’t possible.”
Awake says, “But this can happen without conditions in a dream!” To which Dreaming replies, “If that were the case, why is it not always possible?”
Awake says, “You dream of deceased loved ones with affection, or of the birth of children and grandchildren that you do not have! I don’t have such things.” To which Dreaming replies, “I do happen to have such things.”
Awake says, “If their presence does not establish their actual existence, how are children and so forth existent for you? The dead can come back to life and what doesn’t exist can appear. Even though it exists for you, it’s the same as if it were non-existent.” To which Dreaming replies, “What has ceased for you, I do see; and what is non-existent for you, is born for me. So even though it does not exist for you, it’s the same as if it were existent.”
Awake says, “Although you enjoyed a feast of delicious food and drink last night, it doesn’t ease your hunger or quench your thirst in the morning.” To which Dreaming replies, “During the day, you may nap in a mansion, but this does not protect you from the rain in the following night’s dream.”
Awake says, “That has no significance because it’s your own deluded projections!” To which Dreaming replies, “But feelings of thirst and so on are also based on deluded projections.”
Awake says, “During the day you know that nighttime’s dreams are false. How could dreaming establish that what is seen in the daytime is false?” To which Dreaming replies, “Nighttime experiences expose the falsehoods of the waking state. How could waking experiences disprove dream experiences?”
At this, Jñana,[1] the chief justice intervened, commissioning Profound Wisdom to arbitrate this topic of knowledge.
Then Profound Wisdom addressed the two debating parties like this, “Now, if you continue arguing in this way, many more details could be provided, but the evidence is already sufficient. I shall cross-examine what you have said.
"Both of you are true, and both false. If left unexamined, you each appear as if you truly exist. But when investigated, the hidden flaw of one exposes that of the other. In reality, you are the same.
"Both of you lack true existence. However, the dreamer admits that its delusion is delusion. So Dreaming is genuinely honest. Whereas you, Awake, are also delusional, but you deny being so. Still being attached to your position, you have not won your case.
"Even though Dreaming is more dull-witted, it has become more insightful. Even though Awake is brighter, it has become more ignorant.
"The difference of constancy or inconstancy is due to habituation. Further, there is no difference between your two results.
“Now, Awake, follow the example of Dreaming and merge your view and conduct to become the same as his.”
Having thus spoken, Supreme Wisdom bound Awake with the rope of mindfulness and handed it to Dreaming, saying, “You two should not argue. Coexist harmoniously. If you are in conflict, it will bring the demon of calamity to the three-thousandfold universe; whereas if you are harmonious, you will serve as guides[2] throughout the three times. If you understand this, both of you will reap the benefits.”
From then onward, both Awake and Dreaming understood that there was no difference between them, no one versus another. Treating everything that is seen and everything that is encountered equally, their dispute was resolved, and their perceptions became the same.
Together, Awake and Dreaming sang this slightly convoluted and nonsensical, improvised song:
To those who say we are dissimilar and different:
You are mistaken! We are similar and the same.
As few speak of this likeness, even fewer actually understand it.
If during the day, you know the waking state to be similar and equal [to a dream],
And if during the night, you do not mistake the dream to be a dream,
It will serve a very important purpose. Those who are confused about it, perceive [waking and dreaming] as distinct and alternating.
If one examines this carefully through the oral instructions of the King of Illusions[3] and does not merely pay lip service to the words,
Then from the joyful friendship between us,
They can taste the sweetness of honey without eating it,
Enjoy intoxicating playfulness without drinking,
And watch an amazing performance without preparations.
There is no key point of greater significance.
So everyone, keep this in your heart.
Then, both the waking and dream state became one. This oneness, moreover, merged with space. The mediator, Profound Wisdom [Prajña], presented the outcome to the Timeless Knowing King [Jñana] who was delighted, declaring, "Your counsel is very wise. From now on, may you gain freedom reaching to the ends of space, like the flight of the great garuda. I confer on you this royal means of indestructible space. Now, uphold it!
“There, the flowers in the garden of space bow and quiver with sweet nectar. Go and partake of it again and again; its source will never be depleted. There, the daughter of a barren woman contentedly plays in her perfect, beautiful form. I offer you this ageless queen consort to join in union and delight in. Like nectar compared to vomit, the joy of being in her company will release all grasping and desire towards the pleasures of existence.”
It is said that then Profound Wisdom followed this instruction and eventually merged and dissolved into the Timeless Knowing King.
These symbolic words, ornamentally composed in rhythm, are easily understood with careful examination, but hard to understand without examination. They have great significance when they are contemplated, but hold little significance without contemplation.
This was written at Dechen Gawa Khyil by the one called Dhi.[4]
| Translated by Paloma Lopez Landry based on the oral explanation of Khentrul Lodro Thaye Rinpoche, 2023.
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Beloveds, very amazing synch with this!!!
Never heard of GOLDEN (lotus?) Flower before.
Loved this synch!:
I planted seeds to a flower late this year, around mid july, early aug.
The flower opened fully this morning, revealing its golden center and golden petals. I thought in my mind this morning as I cradled it in my hand to feel its weight, its size was nearly identical to a Lotus flower, smaller petals, but larger center. 
It was a sun flower, that bloomed on Halloween
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AMAZING…! 
another kind of sync 
two days ago I took a rose from a neighbor (asked for it). It started opening yesterday, and today it was a full bloom!
I shared it today on a story, along with a music I got from you, that I ADORE:
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also a full NEW moon
also:
must all just be coincidences…
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The Secret Of The Golden Flower - Wilhelm and CG Jung - Chinese Inner Alchemy Audiobook
here is the full audio book my friend
Thank you for this powerful gift dear brother!
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43min mark:
" The Golden Flower is the Elixir of Life
Gin tan. Literally:
Golden Ball ( 
?), golden pill
All changes in Spiritual Consciousness depend upon the Heart. (Heart/Mind)"
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2 more Golden Lotuses bloomed today (November 5), making a total of 3 Jewels
I take this Trinity, on this sacred day, to mean Great things are on the Horizon:
Peace and Prosperity
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