Dream-Awake Spiritual Practice: Keep the Mind to the rhyme. Let the Heart do its part. So beyond either mode, the Soul shows the road. Life Purpose: Help free Spirits of my fellow creatures & myself. See Beauty, others & me. Reduce suffering. Help bring Light to Shadow & vice-versa. Life plan: All’s welcome. Follow Light & Love. Be a team. Pay it forward. Cultivate calm. Breathe. Forgive. Let Go.
Nataraja - The Dancing Shiva
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Aldous Huxley - The Dancing Shiva by revolutionloveevolve
from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1kmKpjk_8E
The Symbolism of Siva (Shiva) Nataraja
is religion, art and science merged as one. In God's endless dance of creation, preservation, destruction, and paired graces is hidden a deep understanding of our universe. Aum Namah Sivaya.
Bhashya Nataraja, the King of Dance, has four arms. The upper right hand holds the drum from which creation issues forth. The lower right hand is raised in blessing, betokening preservation. The upper left hand holds a flame, which is destruction, the dissolution of form. The right leg, representing obscuring grace, stands upon Apasmarapurusha, a soul temporarily earth-bound by its own sloth, confusion and forgetfulness. The uplifted left leg is revealing grace, which releases the mature soul from bondage. The lower left hand gestures toward that holy foot in assurance that Siva's grace is the refuge for everyone, the way to liberation. The circle of fire represents the cosmos and especially consciousness. The all-devouring form looming above is Mahakala, "Great Time." The cobra around Nataraja's waist is kundalini shakti, the soul-impelling cosmic power resident within all.
Nataraja's dance is not just a symbol. It is taking place within each of us, at the atomic level, this very moment. The Agamas proclaim, "The birth of the world, its maintenance, its destruction, the soul's obscuration and liberation are the five acts of His dance."
By Steven Bancard - Atheism tells us that when we die, we don’t go anywhere except the dirt. Naturalism tell us that our consciousness is created by the brain and when the brain dies our experience ends. Religion tells us that we are either going to heaven or hell based on our belief system. But is there a fourth option that we are missing here?
In our culture, we tend to think of the afterlife as either religious superstition or a heaven/hell dichotomy, when in reality there are so many different ways of understanding death from a place of consciousness. By consciousness, I mean taking into account scientific evidence, personal experiences and revelations, intuitions, ancient wisdom, anecdotal testimonies, logic, and combine these things with how the universe operates as an organism.
So what really happens to us when we die, and how are we to understand death from a place of spiritual awareness? Here are 5 ways that spiritually enlightened people view death:
1) Death is creativity
Death is not the end, nor is it the beginning. It is simply part of a universal ongoing creative process of regeneration. When a cell in your body dies, it is immediately replaced with a new cell. We wouldn’t really call the process of cell regeneration cellular death because death is only 50% of the creative process in the body.
When the physical body dies, it decays into the earth to be recycled, while the consciousness (or matrix of memory) goes on to be recycled into a new body.
Death is part of a Nature’s process of recycling matter and consciousness. Here is Deepak Chopra explaining more clearly what this view of death really means.
Deepak Chopra - Death is part of a Nature’s process of recycling matter and consciousness.
This view of death believes the very concept of death to be fundamentally flawed. There is no such thing as death, there is only a shift from one dimension of reality to another. From the physical to the spiritual, from the material to the immaterial. As a soul, you retain your sense of self, your memory, and even some personality traits.
Your consciousness detaches from your body when the physical brain shuts off, and you peel away from your empty vessel as a soul to go back home. So why call it death when YOU don’t even die? This view of death is compatible with many different spiritual philosophies and religious ideologies, and it’s what most people believe about the afterlife. We are only visiting right now, and what we call “death” is really just a crossing-over back to where we came from.
3) Death is rebirth
Death is rebirth
It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings. – Buddha
4) Death is impersonal. Ego death.
Death is impersonal. Ego death.
Death is the moment at which you shed everything you take to be “you”. Your conditionings, your history, your sense of identity, your thoughts about who and what you are, your beliefs, your values, and anything else that belongs to you as a personal being.
Your ego, your goals, your memories, and your physical body all get dissolved after physical death and you return to your identity as a soul before it became identified with thought and form. Who you are right now is something much more grand than your job title, your past experiences, and your minds thoughts about who you are. You are Infinity experience itself as as infinity of roles, and the skin-encapsulated ego you are right now is just one of many roles it plays.
Your consciousness then rejoins into the universal field of consciousness where it loses individuality and awaits fragmentation to begin a new life. Death is not the end of your consciousness but it is the end of subjective self-identity.
5) Death is waking up
Are you awake right now? You feel awake. Your senses are awake. You know your body isn’t asleep. But just because your body isn’t sleeping doesn’t mean that you aren’t sleeping. How can you even be sure that you are alive right now?
What if this life is all just one big simulation and you are living within some kind of Intelligent Matrix that has been created to give souls the ability to evolve and experience duality? Death is only “death” if you believe that you are actually alive. Medically speaking, you are a alive. But metaphysically speaking, life is just a dream, and when you die you wake up realizing the whole thing was just a play in your consciousness. You are just asleep in life’s waiting room:
Pat, a beautiful and grand Spirit like her beloved mountain, Mt. Shasta
Dear Pat, you’re a beautiful and grand Spirit like your beloved mountain. Please, my beloved Friend: feel the Love and Care returned you have so abundantly shared.... Please find the Peace and Rest you so assuredly deserve.... Please know how much you have touched, moved and made a difference in so many lives.... and Please see, hear, feel - and finally - be One with the eternal One. Thank you a million times. All my Love, p 22 May 2015
Obituary: Pat Look Posted Jun. 10, 2015 at 11:10 AM from MTSHASTANEWS.COM
Lake Shastina, Calif.
Pat Look, 74, passed on May 22, 2015 at her home in Weed, California. She was a strong woman who fought a courageous fight against cancer.
She is survived by her three children: Jeff, Julie and Cathy; two children-in-law, Nicole and Andy; her six grandchildren: Sam, Drew, Peyton, Nicki, Jake, Aidan; and many loving friends.
Born and raised in Chicago, Pat received her Bachelor’s in Psychology at the age of 32; and after moving to Florida, she obtained a Master’s in Computer Science while working full-time and raising three children.
Pat worked a myriad of careers in Florida and California including school teacher, computer programmer, pottery artist, massage therapist, and counselor.
Location change – We will gather at Hoy Park on Lakeside Drive in Weed to remember Pat. Her memorial service will be on Sunday, June 14 at 9 a.m.
One of Pat’s favorite song was “Hallelujah” by Lee DeWyze. These were a few of Pat’s mantras: “Listen to everyone and everything, including animals and the wind” “Feed people” “Show up. Pay attention” and “Learn everything you can.”
Hallelujah - Lee Dewyze (from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXxqWkJIUnQ)
English-French Translation by (Traduction anglais-français par) Google Translate
Dedicated to Pat Look - who is, has been, and will be forever - my truly loved, Real Life Hero(ine).
Real Life Hero
Love Cures
My beloved and wise friend Pat taught me so many things .... like what true "friendship" really means......On Pat's wall was a beautiful and inspirational quote that always touched my heart: " "Friendship is the commitment to each other's health and well-being in the adventure of life. " Last stanza from "Love Cures" : What does "friendship" really mean? Commitment to our health & well-being In the adventure of life. With real friends, Love cures hurt lives. Thank you Universe for true heros and heroines, and true friends.... and thank you Pat for all you have meant and will always mean to me.
Love Cures
Fill up the void with fancy things.
Hope to avoid what lonely brings.
Buy new house, new car, new clothes.
Fly far to vacation shores.
Stay in 5 star hotels fine.
Delay pain of heart with mind.
Fancy food, best restaurants.
Dancing's good if forget haunts.
Ghosts which haunt and chase in night
With their chants can't face, for fright.
I must always run away.
Never trust what Soul would say
On the last day of my life.
When all's lost and way's end's nigh;
What is valuable then?
Was it all valuable friends?
Those that were really fidel.
Those that held though I gave hell.
Stood by me through thick and thin.
Understood. Forgave me then.
What does "friendship" really mean?
Commitment to our health & well-being
In the adventure of life.
With real friends, Love cures hurt lives.
Music for Love Cures video: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op. 43, Variation 18 Composer: Rachmaninov Pianist: Arthur Rubenstein Album: Rubenstein Adagios - Romantic Reveries for Piano and Orchestra
Love Cures Animation by Loveson G. Flower using Apple iMac, Apple's iTunes and Quicktime Pro, Time Machine OSX Screensaver, FlipText OSX Screensaver, iSquint and Snappy Pro. "Love Cures" heart song by Loveson G. (Gabrielle) Flower 17 April 2008
"Real Life Hero" www.Thaigoodstories.com & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FkG-Bh9J9c
"Love Cures" by lgflower from http://sunflowermultimedia.blogspot.com/2009/03/univere-cure.html
English-French Translation by (Traduction anglais-français par) Google Translate