A friend sent me the link to an Indo-Japanese traditional animation film from 1992, based on the ancient Sanskrit epic The Ramayana. The hero of the epic by sage Valmiki is Lord Rama, venerated as the seventh avatar of Vishnu. According to Indian tradition, the Ramayana takes place during a period of time known as Treta Yuga, the second of the four ages, a long time before our present age.
It is the English-dubbed version with Hindi songs. Even if you don’t have time to see the entire story, you might like to go through the videos.
Once Buddha showed a flower to his disciples and asked them to say something about that beautiful flower.
For a while the disciples observed the miracle of nature in silence. Then one of them gave a whole philosophy lecture on the flower. Another one recited a poem about the flower. A third one gave a metaphor for this flower. Each of them tried to surpass the others with his eloquence. The youngest of them, however, looked at the flower; he smiled and said nothing.
Only he had seen it.
Buddha Padmapani holding a flower – from Ajanta Caves, India
A fantastic short animal film by Jean Jacques Annaud about a fight of a little bear with a cougar. The difficult way to survive in a dangerous world – and the protection of motherly love – or was the helping bear just a friendly helper? A comment said, “It’s a movie, not a documentary.” But the story is very well done, even if it’s an arranged film.
We have just entered into the full moon phase of Taurus, which culminates tomorrow at 05:36 CEST. This full moon is considered to be of a particular importance in spiritual circles, being called the Vaisakh (Wesak) Full Moon of Buddha Purnima, the full moon, where Buddha found enlightenment. It is also worshipped as the full moon of Spiritual Hierarchy, the Masters of Wisdom, which are the guiding Light for humanity. I tried to illustrate these central ideas in a painting I did last year, called “Taurus – Receiving the Milk of Wisdom”:
In the Vedas Taurus, the Bull, represents the sound principle. Creation is also called the roar of the bull whose sound fertilises consciousness.The roar, the influx of energy into our system, is coming from Rohini or Aldebaran in Taurus. The bull thus also symbolises the Divine Word which is received by Spiritual Hierarchy in the month of Taurus as the Plan for the year. Allegorically the bull is represented as Nandi, the vehicle of Lord Shiva. Incessantly he looks at Lord Shiva who sits there in the form of a lingam.
So for the picture I took a photo of the constellation of Aldebaran in the constellation of Taurus, then placed the head of the bull, from an Indian temple, in the upper centre and on the head of the Bull a picture of Buddha. I made a photo of a lingam and arranged a waterfall on it. Then I placed around it many pictures of the great Masters of Wisdom, with Lord Maitreya, the head of the Hierarchy, and his team of co-workers in the middle. All is done on the background of deep blue, symbolising the energy of Love and Wisdom. The cosmic wisdom is regarded as the milk of the Divine Cow, the universe, and here it is flowing down from the cosmic heights.
You can read hear some inspiring texts from Sri Kumar about the Vaisakh Festival, as a help for your full moon meditation. And the following video shows scenes of the festival in a valley near Mount Kailash, where it is celebrated since times immemorial. So it substantiates that it is not, as has been supposed for a long time, a fanciful idea of esotericists.
If you want to read more about the spiritual significance of Taurus, see here the Letters on Spiritual Astrology. You can also download here the painting in a high resolution.
This is actually pretty scary stuff..They hate each other…..
This is how the border between India and Pakistan is closed every evening!!
This is not a Monty Python comedy skit, but it sure does resemble one.
Keep in mind that each of us have nuclear weapons…
Read more about this “Wagah border ceremony” of the evening border closing of the only road connection between India and Pakistan on Wikipedia.
May the energies of the New Age blow away the pomp and show of separatism and overcome rituals.
If you would like to see some outstanding magical performances, have a look at the following videos from Dynamo, a British magician. Excellent, how he performs them at the outside.
But at the same you might realise how they differ from “miracles” done by Masters like Master CVV resurrecting people from death etc. The magical show is just showing phenomena, but the real miracle is the transformation and upliftment of other souls.
In the first video you see Dynamo walking on water and the people are looking aghast. When miracles happened with Jesus, the people told him, you are God. But he used to tell them that he is not God, but a son of God, and that all the people are sons of God. The priests were very much scared and angry about him… The people gathered to see his miracles but not to experiencing his love and his teachings – just very few were interested in the essence. Master CVV said, “Expect not miracles from me. Accept patience and work out every step.”
A friend sent me the link to a video showing cities found deep before the Western coast of India. One of the city traces in the ocean is from Dwaraka, the city which submerged after the death of Lord Krishna. You might like to read about it in the fascinating book of Master EK: Man Sacrifice. Parts of the video are a bit sensation-seeking and fanciful, but the facts found are interesting.
You might not have the time or money to travel all around our planet, but you now can have very beautiful panorama views of many wonders of beauty all around the world. The Russian website airpano.com offers fantastic 360 degrees aerial panoramas of the following places and more (the sequence is from an e-mail a friend sent to me):
About 2 weeks ago I started publishing the “Images of Synthesis” on Facebook and Flickr, commenting how they were done (you find them on the Good-Will website up to the recent month, I try to keep a rhythm of publish one new picture per month).
These images started in November 2009, after a painting pause of 19 years, after the end of the “Early Paintings” in 1990, where I thought I would never paint again. You can read here how the Images of Synthesis started from out of an inner opening during a deep crisis. I will go on re-publishing the pictures on Flickr and Facebook with comments over the next months.
“The Hidden Flower – Born Nine Months Later”, 18 Dec. 2009. You can read here and here more about the origin of this painting.
Last Saturday evening there was a beautiful light over the mountains. I took some pictures from our balcony – a bright space opening up towards the sky, looking like one of Nicholas Roerich‘s paintings.
When you zoom out it’s like unbound space becoming more concretized – seeing the chimneys of the nearby food factory and the neighbour’s house.
And finally the picture shows the house which is nearly covering the view and the trees of the nearby church.
So when you focus your look more to the details you might miss the beauty of the vastness around.
I took some more pictures where you see the beauty in the close-up view: three pictures taken from our kitchen window showing greenfinches enjoying their meal. Little visitors, messengers of the deva world.
