Do not believe

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. 

Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. 

Do not believe in anything because it is found written in your religious books. 

Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. 

Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. 

But after observation and analysis, when you find anything that agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. 

(Siddhartha Gautama)

(The Buddha)

563-483 B.C.

Não acredite em nada simplesmente porque você ouviu.

Não acredite em nada simplesmente porque é falado por muitos e é rumor.

Não acredite em nada porque é encontrado escrito nos seus livros religiosos.

Não acredite em qualquer coisa meramente na autoridade de seus professores e anciãos.

Não acredite em tradições porque foram transmitidas por muitas gerações.

Mas depois de observação e análise, quando você encontra algo que concorda com a razão e é propício para o bem e benefício de um e todos, então aceite isso e viva de acordo com isso.

(Siddhartha Gautama)

(O Buda)

563-483 B.C.

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How have worldly and spiritual happiness?

EGO means the “I” or self of any person.

A person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.

In Psychoanalysis, ego means the part of the psychic apparatus that experiences and reacts to the outside world and thus mediates between the primitive drives of the id and the demands of the social and physicalenvironment.

The ego is the organized part of the personality structure that includes defensive, perceptual, intellectual-cognitive, and executive functions. Conscious awareness resides in the ego, although not all of the operations of the ego are conscious.

Freud used the word ego to mean a sense of self, but later revised it to mean a set of psychic functions such as judgment, tolerance, reality testing, control, planning, defense, synthesis of information, intellectual functioning, and memory.

"The ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world. ... The ego represents what may be called reason and common sense, in contrast to the id, which contains the passions ... in its relation to the id it is like a man on horseback, who has to hold in check the superior strength of the horse; with this difference, that the rider tries to do so with his own strength, while the ego uses borrowed forces." (Freud,The Ego and the Id, On Metapsychology)

Ego defense mechanisms are often used by the ego when id behavior conflicts with reality and either society's morals, norms, and taboos or the individual's expectations as a result of the internalization of these morals, norms, and their taboos.

From a spiritual perspective, ego means considering oneself to be distinct from others and God due to identification with the physical body and impressions in various centres of the subtle body.

In short ego is leading our life as per the thinking that our existence is limited to our 5 senses, mind, and intellect and identifying with them to various degrees.

As per the science of Spirituality, our true state of existence is identification with the Soul or God-principle within us and living our day to day life with this consciousness.

As the one and same God-principle exists within all, from a spiritual perspective there is unity in all Creation. However, depending on the level of our ego, we identify with the God-principle within us.

Ego is a major obstacle in the path of man’s worldly and spiritual happiness. If our ego is high, we identify less with the Soul or the God-principle within us.

By doing spiritual practice and making conscious efforts to learn how to reduce ego, this will help us make rapid spiritual progress.

Prayer is an important part of spiritual practice that helps in reducing ego.

So ... Let's praying ...

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Woman

"I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore" 

~ Georgia O'Keeffe ~

"Eu sinto que há algo inexplorado sobre a mulher que só uma mulher pode explorar" 

~ Georgia O'Keeffe ~

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Supermoon

A supermoon is the coincidence of a full moon or a new moon with the closest approach the Moon makes to the Earth on its elliptical orbit, resulting in the largest apparent size of the lunar disk as seen from Earth.

By Richard Nolle’s definition, the new moon or full moon has to come within 361,836 kilometers (224,834 miles) of our planet, as measured from the centers of the moon and Earth, in order to be considered a supermoon.

By that definition, the year 2015 has a total of six supermoons. The first supermoon, for 2015, came with the January 20 new moon. The new moons on February 18 and March 20 were also considered supermoons, according to Nolle’s definition, and that same definition dictates that the full moons of August, September and October will be supermoons, too. Thus, the full moon supermoons – aka near-perigee full moons – in 2015:

Full moon of August 29 at 18:35 UTC

Full moon of September 28 at 2:50 UTC

Full moon of October 27 at 12:05 UTC

The full moon on September 28, 2015, will present the closest supermoon of the year (356,896 kilometers or 221,754 miles). What’s more, this September 28, 2015 full moon will stage a total lunar eclipse, concluding a series of Blood Moon eclipses that started with the total lunar eclipse of April 15, 2014.

More often than not, the one day of the year that the full moon and perigee align also brings about the year’s closest perigee (also called proxigee). Because the moon has recurring cycles, we can count on the full moon and perigee to come in concert in periods of about one year, one month and 18 days.

Dates of closest full supermoons in future years:

Therefore, the full moon and perigee realign in periods of about one year and 48 days. So we can figure the dates of the closest full moons in recent and future years as:

September 28, 2015

November 14, 2016

January 2, 2018.

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Life Introducing Itself

"Your life has strength. It has energy.

It has a will all its own.

If you stopped doing all the things you do today, if you stopped worrying, if you stopped rationalizing and being controlling, you would notice something phenomenal.

A phenomenon that few people witness, precisely because they are unable to stop doing the things they do, unable to stop worrying, rationalizing, and trying to be in control.

And if you can do this, you will finally be able to see life introducing itself. You will realize that life moves on its own. It moves forward by itself. Life moves on its own accord, filled with energetic gravity.

You will be only where you need to be.

You will do only what you need to do.

This is an unbending universal law.

And everything that contradicts this will only attract pain, loss, and suffering. And who knows where you should be now and what you should be doing now? Who? you ask. You? Your ego? No. Life.

Only life knows where to go, which way to go, and how to get there. Only life. And if you stop thinking that you know, that you can, and that you have to, you will allow life to carry you. You will put life first. You will recognize that it is right.

And life—light and free; such is its nature—will meet the demands of your journey and lead you to success. And everything will be in its rightful place. And at the end, we will meet up here to commemorate your life. ~ Jesus"

                From: The Book of Light – Ask and Heaven Will Answer
                                                             by Alexandra Solnado

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THANK YOU FATHER

I'm grateful and thankful for my dear father, not only in this day but all days of the year.... He is my father, my brother, my friend, my buddy, my teacher....my hero... THANK YOU 

Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. 

Many countries celebrate it on the March 19 or on the third Sunday of June, but it is also celebrated widely on other days.

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Native American Christmas

«Looks for Buffalo, an Oglala Sioux spiritual leader, the full-blood Oglala grandson of Chief Red Cloud and White Cow Killer, and a Cheyenne Oglala leader, explains the meaning of Christmas to the traditional Indian people of the Americas:

“Traditional American Indians are raised to respect the Christian Star and the birth of the first Indian Spiritual Leader. He was a Star Person and Avatar. His name was Jesus. He was a Hebrew, a Red Man. He received his education from the wilderness. John the Baptist, Moses, and other excellent teachers that came before Jesus provided an educational foundation with the Holistic Method.”

“Everyday is our Christmas. Every meal is our Christmas. At every meal we take a little portion of the food we are eating, and we offer it to the spirit world on behalf of the four legged, and the winged, and the two legged. We pray–not the way most Christians pray– but we thank the Grandfathers, the Spirit, and the Guardian Angel.”

“The Indian Culture is actually grounded in the traditions of a Roving Angel. The life-ways of Roving Angels are actually the way Indian People live. They hold out their hands and help the sick and the needy. They feed and clothe the poor. We have high respect for the avatar because we believe that it is in giving that we receive.”

“We are taught as Traditional children that we have abundance. The Creator has given us everything: the water, the air we breathe, the earth as our flesh, and our energy force: our heart. We are thankful every day. We pray early in the morning, before sunrise, to the morning star, and the evening star. We pray for our relatives who are in the universe that someday they will come. We also pray that the Great Spirit’s son will live again.” 

“To the Indian People Christmas is everyday and they don’t believe in taking without asking. Herbs are prayed over before being gathered by asking the plant for permission to take some cuttings. An offer of tobacco is made to the plant in gratitude. We do not pull the herb out by its roots, but cut the plant even with the surface of the earth, so that another generation will be born its place.”

“It is really important that these ways never be lost. And to this day we feed the elders, we feed the family on Christmas day, we honor Saint Nicholas. We explain to the little children that to receive a gift is to enjoy it, and when the enjoyment is gone, they are pass it on to the another child, so that they, too, can enjoy it. If a child gets a doll, that doll will change hands about eight times in a year, from one child to another.”

“Everyday is Christmas in Indian Country. Daily living is centered around the spirit of giving and walking the Red Road. Walking the Red Road means making everything you do a spiritual act. If your neighbor, John Running Deer, needs a potato masher; and you have one that you are not using, you offer him yours in the spirit of giving. It doesn’t matter if it is Christmas or not.”


“If neighbors or strangers stop over to visit at your house, we offer them dinner. We bring out the T-Bone steak, not the cabbage. If we don’t have enough, we send someone in the family out to get some more and mention nothing of the inconvenience to our guests. The more one gives, the more spiritual we become. The Christ Consciousness, the same spirit of giving that is present at Christmas, is present everyday in Indian Country.”»

From the site Backpackingcountry's Blog

Thank you for the example Indian People, God Bless You All

SUPERMOON

Photographs or other instruments can tell the difference between a supermoon and ordinary full moon. The supermoon of March 19, 2011 (right), compared to an average moon of December 20, 2010 (left). Image by Marco Langbroek of the Netherlands via Wikimedia Commons.

Moon is Earth’s only natural satellite and the second brightest object in the sky after the sun.

The moon’s gravity can cause small ebbs and flows in the continents called land tides or solid Earth tides. These are greatest during the full and new moons because the sun and moon are aligned on the same or opposite sides of the Earth.

Image and caption via NOAA. * a)

A full moon is the opposite of a new moon. At both the new and full phases, the moon is on a line with the Earth and sun. At new moon, the moon is in the middle position along the line. At full moon, Earth is in the middle. Full moon always comes about two weeks after new moon, when the moon is midway around in its orbit of Earth, as measured from one new moon to the next.
* a) About three or four times a year, the new or full moon coincides closely in time with the perigee of the moon—the point when the moon is closest to the Earth. These occurrences are often called ‘perigean spring tides.’ The difference between ‘perigean spring tide’ and normal tidal ranges for all areas of the coast is small. In most cases, the difference is only a couple of inches above normal spring tides. 

So, the moon is full, or opposite Earth from the sun, once each month. It’s new, or more or less between the Earth and sun, once each month.

Every month, as the moon orbits Earth, it comes closest to Earth - that point is called perigee.

The moon always swings farthest away once each month - that point is called apogee.

The astrologer Richard Nolle coined the term supermoon over 30 years ago. The term has only recently come into popular usage. 

Richard Nolle has defined a supermoon as:
… a new or full moon which occurs with the moon at or near (within 90% of) its closest approach to Earth in a given orbit.

That’s a pretty generous definition and allows for many supermoons. By this definition, according to Nolle there are 4-6 supermoons a year on average.

In the year 2011 the media used the label "supermoon" to describe the full moon of March 19, 2011.and this label became familiar. 

On that date, the full moon aligned with proxigee – the closest perigee of the year – to stage the closest, largest full moon of 2011.

Conclusion:

Supermoons are full moons that coincide with "lunar perigee," when the moon's orbit brings it closest to Earth. This moon appears bigger and brighter than a typical full moon.

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Global Tea Etiquette

Tea is commonly consumed at social events, and many cultures have created intricate formal ceremonies for these events...

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Ramadan

The word Ramadan comes from the Arabic root ramiḍa or ar-ramaḍ, which means scorching heat or dryness. 
Ramadan, as a month name, is of Muslim origin. Ramadan  is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. Muslims worldwide observe this as a month of fasting. 

The predominant practice in Ramadan is fasting from dawn to sunset. The pre-dawn meal before the fast is called the suhoor, while the meal at sunset that breaks the fast is the iftar. Considering the high diversity of the global Muslim population, it is impossible to describe typical suhoor or iftar meals.

Fasting is fard ("obligatory") for adult Muslims, except those who are suffering from an illness, travelling, pregnant,breastfeeding, diabetic or going through menstrual bleeding.

While fasting from dawn until sunset, Muslims refrain from consuming food, drinking liquids, smoking, and engaging in sexual relations. Food and drink is served daily, before sunrise and after sunset. 
According to Islam, the thawab (rewards) of fasting are many, but in this month they are believed to be multiplied. 
It has been suggested that fasting during Ramadan has numerous health benefits, including: improved brain function and alertness due to greater brain cell production, greatly reduced stress levels due to a reduction in cortisol, reduction of cholesterol and blood pressure.

Fasting for Muslims during Ramadan typically includes the increased offering of salat (prayers) and recitation of the Quran.

Woman Prayer - Qassioun (Reuters)

Ramadan is a time of spiritual reflection, improvement and increased devotion and worship. Muslims are expected to put more effort into following the teachings of Islam. Muslims also engage in increased prayer and charity during Ramadan.

The act of fasting is said to redirect the heart away from worldly activities, its purpose being to cleanse the soul by freeing it from harmful impurities. Ramadan also teaches Muslims how to better practice self-discipline, self-control, sacrifice, and empathy for those who are less fortunate; thus encouraging actions of generosity and compulsory charity.

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We have indeed revealed this (Message) in the Night of Power:

And what will explain to thee what the night of power is?

The Night of Power is better than a thousand months.

Therein come down the angels and the Spirit by Allah's permission,

on every errand:

Peace!...This until the rise of dawn!

~ Sura 97 (Al-Qadr), 1-5, Quran

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The Triskele (Celtic Talisman)

The Triskele, also called the spiral of life, the triple spiral and the triple goddess, is three equal spirals radiating from a common center. It is an ancient symbol with versions that have been found in a number of cultures around the world.

The Triskele expresses and represents divinity, the beginning and the end, everlasting evolution, movement, vibration and perpetual learning.

  Stone of Turoe, Co. Galway, Ireland - Dirk Huth

Represented with three spiral motion, which are the manifestation of divine energy. 
Transporting this Druidic symbol, is like take gods with you. 
It's also a symbol of the doors opening to enter the energy plan of the gods.
But the Triskele can have different meanings: the triple manifestation of divine energy - Force, Wisdom and Love - that relates to the 3 social classes of ancient Celts: Warriors, Druids and Producers.

Can also represent Water, Heaven and Earth, with her  movement gather all on the 4th element, Fire, represented by the circle surrounding them, can also represent the three events that make possible human evolution: Body, Soul and Mind.
In short, those who have a triskele can choose the representation that best  adjustement of  your inner self. 
As talisman can cure fevers and wounds, facilitates the balance of body, mind and spirit.
The Feng Shui used to neutralize the cosmic, terrestrial and human aggression, and to generate peace, love and abundance.

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FATHER'S DAY

Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. Many countries celebrate it on the March 19 or on the third Sunday of June, but it is also celebrated widely on other days.

In the Roman Catholic tradition, Fathers are celebrated on Saint Joseph's Day, commonly called Feast of Saint  Joseph (Step-father of Jesus of Nazareth/Jesus Christ), March 19, though in certain countries Father's Day has become a secular celebration. It is also common for Catholics to honor their "spiritual father," their parish priest, on Father's Day.

Though Father's Day is not an Indian tradition, it is celebrated in India on the third Sunday of June. However, Pitru Amavasya is the day when Hindus honour their familial elders during Pitru Paksha (fortnight of the ancestors).

Father's day in Iran is celebrated on the 13th of Rajab, on the birth anniversary of Imam Ali, the first Imam of Shia Muslims; which looks more like a Muslim religious day than ancient Persia founded by real Persian ancestors. It is an occasion to complement mother's day and to celebrate fatherhood.

In Haiti, Father's Day (Fête des peres) is celebrated on the last Sunday of June. Fathers are recognized and celebrated on this day with cards, gifts,breakfast, lunch brunch or early Sunday dinner; whether enjoying the day at the beach or mountains, spending family time or doing activities that make Dad happiest, its all about Dad. Children exclaim "Bonne Fête Papa!", while everyone wishes all fathers "Bonne fête des Pères" (Happy Father's Day).

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